Health - 22 October 2007

I consider myself robust and HEALTHY.

I'm 5'10, 133 lbs, and for my age (18) that's the upper-range of a normal weight (of couse 30 year old women will weigh more, esp. if they have kids).

But everyone comments on how I look "skinny", and more than one person compared me to Paris Hilton (yuck!).

I don't get it. As a society, are our standards so skewed that now, overweight is the norm?

Any other normal-weight people with the same problem? How does this reflect on our emerging lipidophilic (I invented that word) culture?

2007-10-22 09:57:42 · 9 answers · asked by . 2 in Diet & Fitness

For us girls?

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2007-10-22 09:56:46 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

2007-10-22 09:56:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dental

2007-10-22 09:54:14 · 4 answers · asked by sam 1 in Women's Health

I was eating at a sandwich place and I had roast beef on my sandwich and it turned my bread a pinkish/reddish color in some spots and it had some reddish pinkish juice on my cheese and I was just wondering if it was just the juice from the roast beef or was it like...someone's blood on there?

I am 19 years old and I suffer from hypochondria and a phobia of HIV. I am worried that this red stuff is blood from someone infected with HIV and that now I have it.

Is there something to worry with?

Please help me out!

2007-10-22 09:54:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Infectious Diseases

1. Two days ago I posted a question about why I get so wet during sex and it was taken off before I could read the responses, any ideas why? I didn't use inapropriate launguage either if that has something to do with it.

2. I really do want to know the answer to this question, so i'm going to try it again. I am a teenager and whenever I have intercourse with my boyfriend I get RIDICULOUSLY wet before and during it. He says he doesn't mind it, but I think it gets a little too out of control. Does this have something to do with my age, and is there anything i can take to reduce this?

2007-10-22 09:54:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

i have had braces for 2 years now and yes, i have chewed gum. my ortho told me not to but why? it doesnt do anything

2007-10-22 09:48:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dental

there is nothing wrong with little girl but her mom thinks she need meds. How do i tell her she is wrong?

2007-10-22 09:48:57 · 9 answers · asked by Happy? 1 in Other - Health

All the muscles in my body hurt.

2007-10-22 09:48:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

my first period was early by about 5 days. My second was full on like never before. My third just came again. All in the space of 3 weeks anyone know what this might be?

2007-10-22 09:48:38 · 14 answers · asked by Lady Love 2 in Women's Health

I have Blood sugar (fastign) 96
cholesterol- 235
Triglycerides - 643
HDL Cholesterol - 29
LDL Cholesterol - Direct - 128
Cholesterol/HDL Raito - 8.1
Please give to me right Answer.

2007-10-22 09:47:28 · 10 answers · asked by ramji 2 in Diet & Fitness

ok is this normal!!! i think i have something wrong with me but im not sure....My discharge is kind of yellow,orange and it kind of smells a lil. is that normal... i know i use to have like a white dischare but know its like the color of my pee...Help please

2007-10-22 09:45:34 · 17 answers · asked by cici 2 in Women's Health

Im 18 years old male 5ft 7 9 stone and ive been put on a 3 month course of sustanon 100mg every month because i have some elements of my puberty delayed eg a growth spurt, my doc said i should expect to grow even at 18 because i havent had one and also to start getting more muscle mass and facial body hair which I am lacking, im like a week after my first injection and there is no different feeling or looks does anyone know when to expect major changes?

2007-10-22 09:45:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Men's Health

2007-10-22 09:44:14 · 9 answers · asked by chiruda2005 1 in Heart Diseases

My friend was recently in a car accident and has broken her neck and fractured her skull. She is currently in a coma right now and her sister was the one driving the car so she is in emotional trauma with minimal injury (cuts and bruises). How do I help them and deal with the impact it has had on me? anyone had a loved one in the hospital, how did you deal with it?

2007-10-22 09:43:51 · 3 answers · asked by Care 3 in Respiratory Diseases

knew he had bad teeth?

I'm 13 and thinking about wanting to become a dentist, and in my other post, you see that I am not exactly cavity free...

2007-10-22 09:43:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dental

my mom says
because i eat a lot
chile

n that supposedly
i have gastritis

but i dont think so

2007-10-22 09:42:32 · 42 answers · asked by xAxGIRLxCALLxKILLx 3 in Other - Diseases

I have to go to the gynecologist tomorrow and am dreading it because I know they are going to ask me what form of birth control im using and I am using the pull out method. I have been with my bf for 2 years, i'm a grown woman, and I know the risks of using this method so please no comments about that. It has been successful for us because my bf is good at timing (and yes i know guys can have pre-***) and also wathc when I ovulate. I can not take birth control pills because of bad side effects i've had with them. I do want to be honest with my doctor and tell hre that I do use this method but I feel stupid for saying it and I know she would pressure me to use something else. Please any advice on what I should expect her to say or do???

2007-10-22 09:41:09 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

Spent 6 hours at the hospital. My eye flipped out on me for over an hour, twice.
To describe what happened you need to picture this:
I had a line start to wave in the upper eye. Like looking under water. Then it also went diagonal and because like looking though a prism. With all the rainbow of colours. I lost prepfial (sp) vision on the right side. It was like looking in a triangle with blinders.
Sharp pain lasted for a few hours after that.
Today it is all pain. Not going away

The doc at emerg says they is no tear and it doesn't sound like ON ( Optic neurtsis) and the nerve looked okay. He called an ophthalmologist and asked it was ON. Never heard of the symptoms I talked about .
I am really afraid now of losing my vision … this is the third different symptom that no doctors can explain.

2007-10-22 09:40:59 · 3 answers · asked by minkoala 2 in Optical

He doesnt listen, he gets angry and laughs when he doesnt obey , he makes everyone around him not like him. It has gotten to the point his mom is at wits end.

2007-10-22 09:39:43 · 7 answers · asked by Terra N 1 in Mental Health

Is there a strict diet I can do for a month? I have a wedding to go to and I want to look better than I do now. I want to lose at least 10 pounds by the end of november. What would be a good diet plan. Plus I can go to the gym 2 to 3 times a week.
Thanks!

2007-10-22 09:39:11 · 3 answers · asked by Katelynn 2 in Diet & Fitness

Hi! I had my two bottom wisdom teeth cut out 2 weeks and 3 days ago. They did suture and everything looks pretty good. I only have a concern with one side. It was a partially erupted tooth and the extraction hole is almost perfectly horizontal going back into the jaw. It looks like although slowly it is in fact healing pretty well. It was VERY deep to begin with so I expect longer healing time. It looks like a little black underneath the new white tissue developing in the "bottom". Is that okay? Am I out of the woods for dry socket now? And IF mouth gunk or whatever got in there but it wasn't infected would it heal anyway? Can anything stop the healing process? I think because of it's horizontal position it is staying clean very easily... and I am a worry wart and I am ALWAYS worrying about what MIGHT be. I just want to be careful and want everything to continue along it's track. I don't have any pain anymore except for maybe a tiny bit of jaw soreness. Not bad at all! Thanks!

2007-10-22 09:37:33 · 3 answers · asked by cari_co26 2 in Dental

I am currently taking this antibiotic and am wondering what side effects are common. I am dizzy and vomiting. Don't know if that is normal or not or if I should consult my doctor.

2007-10-22 09:37:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Health

like on the cakes you get at walmart

2007-10-22 09:37:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

I went to the doctor today and talked about how irregular my period has been. They suggested birth control to regulate it, but my mom wants me to go on the regular one, that gives you no fewer periods. I'd like to go on one with fewer periods, because I honestly hate being on my period. My mom said they just don't have enough research done on it for me to go on it. Does anyone know if a) this is true b) there are any BC pills that will give me fewer periods but are safe c) if you know a way to talk to my doctor about it

2007-10-22 09:36:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

I read somewhere that brushing your teeth with warm or hot water gives you bad breath. But don't warm or hot water kill more germs & bacteria?

2007-10-22 09:35:28 · 6 answers · asked by Miss independent 4 in Dental

I have been constipated for at least 3 weeks. I have tried fiber laxatives, elax, and even tried store bought enemas. But nothing seems to work. Can someone tell me how to get quick relief?

2007-10-22 09:34:44 · 18 answers · asked by lepanto_gurl 1 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-10-22 09:34:30 · 17 answers · asked by alexvoshell 1 in Other - Diseases

i had a really bad time last time a had a sedative , i think i am allergic, and i am due a colonscopy soon as i have ulcerative coltis , and i said i didnt want a sedative but the doctor was very reluctant to let me have one with sedation , i was just wondering could you have one without a sedative ?

2007-10-22 09:33:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Diseases

2007-10-22 09:33:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diabetes