Health - 22 October 2007

I'm not convinced it will prevent me from getting the flu. I hear the vaccine uses the previous year's flu but each year the virus changes so what good is it? Also hear of people getting sick after getting the shot too. What do you think?

2007-10-22 18:39:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Infectious Diseases

why are there so many people who are dealing with depression? why are there so many people trying to kill themselves?

what the hell did the human race do to itself to turn out this way?
why would a father of 2 children under the age of 5 step onto a railroad track as a train approached?
why is that teenagers these day walk through schools with their heads hung to the ground and when some punk pushes their button they end up shooting up the school and themselves?

god must hate us so so badly since he is constantly driving so many of us to our graves early....

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i am just hoping for some input from other people on my feelings right now

2007-10-22 18:39:31 · 9 answers · asked by EeE 4 in Mental Health

2007-10-22 18:31:15 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

So they need my blood, but its been like 3 months maybe longer scents I smoked pot. Never to do it again. I did shrooms a long long time ago. Just want to know if all be ok. Also tell me why all be ok for full points. I just have no idea what some one can tell about you if they have your blood.

2007-10-22 18:28:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Health

i just bought a oral b vitality sonic and when i used it it seems pretty pointless...it just vibrates from left and right, is it actually doing anything?

2007-10-22 18:18:46 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dental

do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions ... while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front of the store.”

Thought this was an interesting quote. Either it says a lot about our priorities or proves how truly powerful the drug pushing tobacco companies really are.

Either way ... I think it's pretty pathetic.

You?

2007-10-22 18:16:59 · 11 answers · asked by ? 7 in Other - Health

2007-10-22 18:12:18 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mental Health

I have been disabled since birth and also have mild to moderate depression. I've been able to cope with the depression through attending school and working hard and staying busy. I didn't consider it a disability until it ran me over like a truck in early 2002. However, since July 2001, my mother whom I loved dearly died on my living room floor, my father became increasingly distant, my other disability and the depression have become worse to the point where I am now on disability and not working, due to my stupidity and my wife's grief over HER mother's death our children were taken away by child welfare and our parental rights were terminated last month, I was just told by my wife that she has begun an affair over the internet with some guy she met on a sex chat site which she blames on me for not paying enough attention to her and not having sex often enough because of my antidepressants which kill my sex drive.

I have nothing left. No job, kids, health, marriage or Faith.

2007-10-22 18:10:20 · 29 answers · asked by Marc 2 in Mental Health

I am 22 and married. I am a 40FFF I am only 5'2 and have had large boobs since I was 12 or so. Due to weight gain and problems with being on the pill, my boobs have grown significantly since then. Most of the time wearing a bra hurts a lot. My bras ware out really fast so I have to buy new ones regularly. I buy 40DDD's because that is all they sale at regular stores. I'm tired of not being able to fit into clothes, buying a wedding dress was a disaster for me and there is no way I can wear a bikini even when I was thin. I'm always in pain and so self conscious. I tried to get a breast reduction about a year before my wedding but insurance wouldn't pay for it at the time. I want to have kids though. I want to breast feed too. I don't know if I should wait to get it done or what I should do. So many people have discouraged me from getting it done at my age before having kids. Any ideas, suggestions, experience with this. I'll take any thing at this point.

2007-10-22 18:09:55 · 7 answers · asked by Aimee's Mommy 4 in Women's Health

What role does this element play in popular culture??

2007-10-22 18:08:39 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

I've been on Microgynon 20ED for 3 months now with menorrhagia and bad period pain. If i stop taking the Pill when will i next get my period, and will it be back to being painful and heavy straight away? Cheers

2007-10-22 18:05:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

my friend was asking me a question. i couldnt answer him he was seeing this woman who told him she hadnt slept with her husband or hadnt had sex with her husband in over.3. years hhe. my friend took it as a joke . well yes he had sex with her. right in her own home she was in her.40.s he was. in his.teen.s now he has after .3.week.s noticed a discharge from his penis. and he told me that he noticed a green substance in her panties . and at times he. has a driping from his penis he stated as well

2007-10-22 17:49:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in STDs

My bedspread is the most comfortable thing ever and I love to sleep with it. If my doctor told me that I might be alergic to the goose feathers inside the bedspread and I will sneeze a lot, should i keep it on or take it off????

2007-10-22 17:48:30 · 20 answers · asked by Chaz H 1 in Allergies

Okay well just so you know the history. I have had sharp pain maybe three or four times over the course of a few years not in my vagina but deeper almost my core kind of. But it only had lasted a few minutes then goes away. I dont think its anything. But just recently I thought I might have a hernia cause my lower abdomen on the right side hurts but just last night I realized in the crease between my lower abdomen and leg that I have a very tender lump. The other side is also a little tender but nothing like my right side. It feels like a lump but I dont know if it is or if its just a gland that hurts or something. I dont know my exact question I guess I just want to know if its normal to have a lump there? And do women ever get sharp pains like that? I had an abortion last week so I dont know if maybe the swollen lump is a symptom of an infection or what?

2007-10-22 17:47:58 · 3 answers · asked by Bedhead 2 in Other - Diseases

I've had a really dramatic time lately, with my lying friends, my frusterated parents, angry teachers, poor grades due to incomplete homework, problems with friends who want to be more, my art and writing suffering from all this, my constant emotional burden, missing church too often, money problems, knowing I'm about to move away from my best friends, and much more, I can't seem to find anything that actually cheers me up instead of getting my mind off things. Once I'm done with the activity that is making me forget all my problems (not drugs. It usually has to do with my reading some sort of romance manga or fantasy novel or expressing myself through art.) I go back to my depression. I've been like this since school started this year. I usually just asked my friends for advice that I knew would never work, but that ended recently. I've been crying my self to sleep at midnight after a heartfelt prayer. Also recently cried during every class and was sent home two periods early for it.

2007-10-22 17:39:57 · 8 answers · asked by Spikey Paws 2 in Mental Health

i had to leave town to help my dying grandma this weekend, but i couldn't bring my baby so i had to let the only person who i know in my town watch her, her estranged father and well when i came back to get her from his house she was really pale white and her lips were purple and she was coughing and sneezing really horribly and she looked so sick. she threw up many times and would eat anything she also had an ear infection and was really cold. i asked him what happened and he said he left he in the backyard to play in the snow for a while and forgot he said she was out side in the icy snow FOR 4 HOURS!!! i tried to keep her really warm and feed her soup but she wasn't getting any better i tried to take her to the clinic because we can't arrord the hostpitle but we dont have any way of payment, i also tried to get her some medicine from the store but i could only afford to get her some cough medicine and it didn't work, what is wrong with her and what can i do to get her better???

2007-10-22 17:39:08 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Health

What do you think?

2007-10-22 17:33:56 · 4 answers · asked by • Jen • 2 in Dental

2007-10-22 17:32:39 · 2 answers · asked by Atul S 1 in Heart Diseases

but i can only do stationary bikes .this probably is stupid; but a)is stationary bike good for getting big?
b)if not,what modifications i can do to it to get what i want?

bc i can't affrd gym,got a stationary bike for free,not enugh spce for anythng else

2007-10-22 17:28:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

I am a 16 year old boy 5ft 6 in (yea short) I used to weigh like 124 lbs last year...during the month of like jun or may of this year i weighed 130...now today I weigh like 138. I don't want to be fat because after looking at my dad and everything who isn't really fat but thick with no muscle just fat and a huge stomach...I don't want to be like that. I never exercise either....right now I am slim and I want to keep it that way. How? also...my father who likes to eat...has a bbq every week and every week I eat a lot of that and a lot of pork....i should stop?

2007-10-22 17:26:57 · 4 answers · asked by ludaman14 1 in Diet & Fitness

2007-10-22 17:18:03 · 2 answers · asked by Javy 2 in Other - Diseases

does smoking weed make your boobs bigger? honestly someone look this up or somethin, it would help ahha thanks its easy points

2007-10-22 17:16:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Men's Health

2007-10-22 17:15:06 · 9 answers · asked by jm3825 1 in Diabetes

I am really depressed and I have issues with anxiety and anger, so today I went to the campus health center and filled out the preliminary paperwork so that I can go in when they have a free space.

Their website and brochures say that most people are better within 1 or 2 visits, and that 90% of people are finished in 7. But between the aforementioned problems and my issues with gender identity, assertiveness, and severe homesickness, I really don't think I'd be done in 7.

So, is it weird to go to so many appointments? I feel like I shouldn't even go because I have six different issues and I'd use up too much of the counselors' time. I went to a counselor for almost two years before I moved up here, and while that helped a lot, many of the problems are cyclical and the gender and homesickness are both new. I feel like I went too much back home, and I don't want to monopolize it up here in college either.

Am I weird? Do you have any advice?

2007-10-22 17:05:08 · 8 answers · asked by Rat 7 in Mental Health

Why are my elbowshard dry and sometimes they turn gray its very fustrating and uncomfortable to want to hide my elbows all the time.I have tried lotion and it dries in 10 minutes.Same problem with my knees.PLEASE HELP!!!!

2007-10-22 17:04:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Skin Conditions

I contemplate suicide all the time. I can't help it. I feel so bad inside and people don't make it any better. I hate myself. Who can love me when I don't?

2007-10-22 17:02:39 · 6 answers · asked by Brandy U 2 in Mental Health

Im on depo so spotting is normal for me but lately anything that gets me a LITTLE anxious makes me spot. Anyone ever heard of this or had anything like it?

2007-10-22 17:01:59 · 1 answers · asked by leslies850 1 in Women's Health

My hubby has very bad back. We are looking at temperpudic. There are 9 to choose from. Wonder if you have one which one and how do you like it? Also did you buy their foundation or what did you use?

2007-10-22 16:59:09 · 2 answers · asked by Cyn H 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I met a man who was so kind and sweet 6 yrs ago. He would move a mountain for me and he is very warm and goodhearted
His problem is he is an alcoholic. He drinks so much I expect to come home one day and find him dead. He drinks at home and never goes out.
Last evening he told me he had 2 glasses of wine, but he threw up all over my bed and in the sink in my bathroom and everywhere you could smell vomit.
I am so disappointed. I cannot do anything about it, but I need him to quit lying to me about how much he has drank and trying to make this my problem. I have told him to stay away from me when he is on a binge. He doesnt seem to get it. I will not file a restraining order, but I feel like he needs to understand I am not going to put up with it.
Right now, I am home from a 12 hour shift and washing the sheets he thew up all over last evening.
What do I do? Its soo sad.

2007-10-22 16:58:23 · 5 answers · asked by happydawg 6 in Mental Health

So ive read and heard on tv that taking multivitamins more than twicw a week can cause cancer????....i thought taking them was supposed to be good not bad??...Can someone clear this up for me please?

2007-10-22 16:55:46 · 9 answers · asked by 98transam 1 in Alternative Medicine