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My Potassium level has been a bit low the past few months, so my doctor organised a blood test. to be taken every few weeks. The district nurse came yesterday, took a sample, said result should be...
I regularly send reports from various clinics who independently take my blood pressure, do blood analysis, etc., to my GP for her information. And yet she regularly tries to get me to go in to the...
I've sprained my ankle during another long distance walk and don't want to be stopping if I can avoid it.
I believe the NHS charge to replace a lost hearing aid these days. Is this true all over the country?
Going to be pretty hard on anyone who has no means to fund a new one....
There's hardly a numeric counter on their chests...
A close friend gave the news to us last week that after feeling not well for some months and having tests done he has been diagnosed with breast cancer. we are so devastated for him and his partner...
We have been told that a year's supply of Vagifem contains the same HRT as one tablet of HRT. Is this correct? Reading the side effects of Vagifem has put my sister off using them!!...
There was a feature about this on the radio this morning. I have tinnitus. Had it since I was teenager and worked in a weaving shed. If you have never been in a weaving shed, I can tell you it is one...
I have had problems with my left hand for several years (some of you might remember much earlier posts about this) & have had two operations, the last in 2013 both without a successful outcome. I had...
Hello.. I'm taking Metronidazole & Amoxicillin..with no side effects apart from an upset stomach..not all the time, mainly after a larger meal, but needing to dash off to the loo ..some of the time!...
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I'm due to have my dating scan in a couple of weeks and want to finally be able to tell everyone the good news after that, if all goes ok. What I want to know though is, as I'm an older mum (40!) I've...
Until this last year I was able to buy a shampoo by Schwartzkopf called Touch of Silver. On my grey hair it an attractive lilac colour, quite light. Now touch of silver is made by a firm called...
I was given an antibiotic (Nystatin) last week for this but hasn't worked. Is there anything else I can try - perhaps over the counter or homemade remedies before I go back to the GP. I really want to...
Hi Peeps, over the last few days/weeks I have been hard at work redesigning my back garden. I have been moving plants and adding new ones, (mostly Roses) So I have been getting out roots of Ivy &...
A few weeks ago my mum broke her humerus bone. She did nothing more strenuous than turning around to flush the toilet and it snapped. She had an op and spent a couple of weeks in a care home (came...
Any Dr's or nurses out there? I'm desperate for help! Sorry this might be long but hang in there please. Can't sleep. Really don't know what is going on. I admit I don't drink half enough of what I...
Don't feel it warrants a doc appointment tried sudcreme etc but won't heal up? Any advice?
Thanks ali...
Am I the only person who can put a teaspoon of honey in my yogurt on Monday and then find that every surface, every utensil, every cupboard door, is sticky with honey for the rest of the week?
Ok Been on Noriday for a month...began bleeding (slightly) a few days back...it is expected. I've had a UTI and yeah ok my nether regions are a bit grumbly as a result. I also have an enlarged ovary...
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