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Have you ever been embarrassed when collecting your medication, with the pharmacist openly discussing your private medical condition, within earshot of others? Can you identify your own predicament in...
Due to having nasal issues for the past decade, I have forgotten what normal nasal passages feel like. I feel bothered by my nose even at times when I can breath through it. I am wondering if part of...
I have a few questions if you wouldn’t mind answering What were your first symptoms? How was it diagnosed? How long have you had it? Has it progressed fairly quickly or not? What treatment do you...
yo I realized i have knock knees few years ago and trying to fix it. but no result what so ever. i am demotivated. I have knock knee on both of my legs but my right one has more than left, so i focus...
I have hypermobility so im used to weird pains & twinges & stuff, but this on is pure agony today. at a certain point when i move my neck, a pain shoots down my arm - i liken it to the feeling you get...
Hello there! I couldn't find a more suitable category to ask this question, so here we go. A few nights ago I had a dream about visiting my parents' house. I went to my childhood bedroom and felt a...
I'm currently getting severe pain in my shoulders and upper arms. After ruling out polymyalgia rheumatic and two frozen shoulders, it's been diagnosed as a worsening of my already existing arthritis....
Cramp got me in the night - left calf. Jumped out of bed to stretch it out and now have a pain behind my left me. Hurts when I put weight on it. Is it likely to be a pulled muscle or something else?...
Anyone know how to find experienced retired self-employed private carers who may want to earn a bit extra looking after an elderly MiL for a few hours a day?
Does anyone have experience of an elderly relative in hospital with a fracture after a fall and about to be discharged. Occupational therapist at hospital put in application for care assistance at...
If a CT scan shows that your nasal septum ‘deviates to the right’, does this mean that the left or right nostril is narrower? I’m not sure if say the left side on a scan is the same as your left side...
A month ago I bent down quickly in bathroom(don’t ask lol) and managed to head but the sink! Spectacular lump above left eye and massive black eye for about 6 days. Scroll forward a month, the black...
Before Covid, I walked in for a blood test with no appointment, took a numbered ticket and sat and waited my turn. Now appointments are necessary. Fair enough.... but the first appointment I can get...
Red Bus Illiteracy Disorder. A strange disease it seems only to afflict remoaners. When they read writing on a red bus, they suffer a rare and complex form of dyslexia. What normal people see as a...
My stiffness and mobility seem to be getting worse, I cannot bend to cut my toenails and am having a job getting out of the bath, I put the not being able to bend down to my hips, but xrays show...
I don't know where to start. I am near to tears a lot of the time and so angry. I first posted at the beginning of April and we are no further forward. We were hoping that the next appt. at Jimmy's...
Is anyone clued up on the risks of radiation from medical imaging? I am a bit concerned as I have the following diagnostic imaging scans done over the past year 2x chest x-rays Barium swallow (they...
Although in this case I'm the Grandparent, my Grandaughter stays with me from a Friday until Monday, she is friends with 3 other girls, one of these girls tries to exclude my Grandaughter from the...