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I have just used a dry powder inhaler for the first time. Can anyone tell me if I should have felt the powder being released when I inhaled, as I didn't? I don't want to try it again and end up...
Hi, I've always had a really crap immune system- I tend to get a cold every couple of weeks and they seem to linger on for ages so looking for anything I can do to improve it's function if I can! I...
Last of the 12 th course of chem finished last week,how long does it take to get back to normal.i.e. fingers and toes not numb,taste comes back with food and no more tiredness. Thanks
I have spondylosis with facet syndrome and impingement affecting my shoulder/arm. A series of steroid injections do not seem to be helping and surgery looks like a probable next step. Can anyone...
FAO Sqad if you're out there! Been for a blood test to docs, can you tell me if osteoarthritis shows in a blood test, or is it just rheumatoid. This is the second blood test as the first one showed I...
We occasionally have questions and discussions on here about miracle vitamin supplements and new, radical, supposedly helpful diets - but does anyone out in AB land make use of Nutritional Therapists?...
56 m smoker chronic lower back pain getting worse.Wonder if any advice?Bedrest only exacerbates problem,relief temporary-lifting leg lying on left side-? cocodamol paracetamol and ibuprofen not at...
Hi all, I have seen these adverts in the newspapers about claiming for deafness caused by noisy environment in the work place. I had a ear drum burst due to excessive noise in the 1970,s. is there a...
I am in the market for a yoga dvd - am a complete beginner (well I went to 3 classes about 8 years ago - but have had 2 children since then!) There aren't any suitable classes in my area, so a dvd I...
Sqad,not sure if you remember but for a while towards the end of last year i was having problems with one ear infection after the other. Went to docs on numerous occasions and was given a vast array...
My Mum takes Warfarin as she suffers from AF. She has just undergone her annual MOT and is a little anaemic; which surprised me as we have always, as a family, eaten the sort of foodstuffs which ought...
I have just been discharged from hospital following a stroke (bleed as opposed to clot). I must have a MRI scan in about 4/6 weeks and am worried because I suffer from claustrophobia (particularly if...
Atm, i fall asleep bout 12-01 and wake up bout 07-08 in the morning...but after messing bout for a while i started to get a headache, calmed down for a bit and it went away. I was thinking theres...
I thought I had arthritus in my big toe as sometimes I cant bend it without it causing pain. When I wear heeled shoes for a long time, my toe hurts, but then when I wear flat shoes afterwards I get a...
I find that as im getting older (now54) I find if I eat anything that has a high salt content like takeaway food, kebabs Etc, or if I eat bacon or ham in the evenings im waking up regularly through...
I have had this terrible bug over Christmas and New Year which lasted 5 weeks in all. Part of the problem was heavy head cold, mucus in sinuses, sore throat and a tickly cough which went on for 2...
Hi all I had a total hip replacement last Thursday and came home on Saturday I had to change dressing yesterday as wound was seaping mixture blood and gunk, I was told to put ice pack on wound and get...