Health - 20 November 2007

My mother found out she has breast cancer. The one type of cancer that there is a cure for, unless you get to it way too late. She announces it to everyone she sees and has already quit her job when it is even necessary yet. She will be getting surgery soon to have the lump removed and doctors believe she has found it early enough. She has two friends that has already been through this who is living strong and happy lives and working in the school that she worked in. I do care and am very concerned, but I don't think we should all be moping around, with our heads down thinking that it is the end of her life or the end of the world. This may sound rude, selfish, cruel: but I think she is wanting too much pitty and to be babied. My father just went through cancer in three diferent areas in his body and it is now cured. He wanted no pitty he held in strong. Do you think I should feel sad, feel pitty, and mope around? Do you think I am cruel and don't care? How do you think I should feel?

2007-11-20 04:27:48 · 19 answers · asked by bigmama35 3 in Cancer

Why do we continue to do wrong only fall to under conviction and feel genuinely remorseful of what we've done?

2007-11-20 04:24:36 · 2 answers · asked by Dirt E. Deeds 3 in Mental Health

2007-11-20 04:18:27 · 3 answers · asked by thispersonlol 2 in Women's Health

Mine have started to erupt a few months ago but it's only now that the pain is completely bugging me. :(

2007-11-20 04:12:15 · 10 answers · asked by kOOkie 1 in Dental

2007-11-20 04:07:02 · 3 answers · asked by colin w 1 in Optical

I have been going to the gym for the past 10 months now, i did grow after about 2-3 months.
My problem is that i haven't seen a difference for the past couple of months.
If it helps, im 23, about 150 pounds. i don't drink any of those PROTEINS and not planning to take any.
What should i do?

2007-11-20 04:04:49 · 8 answers · asked by big_body 2 in Diet & Fitness

2007-11-20 04:04:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

Ok, so my dad has a plaque in his right colonary artery. Besides food and excersize, If I kept him absolutely happy, would he be alright? does it have anything to do with stress?

2007-11-20 04:03:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Heart Diseases

I found a writeup from Dr. Dean Ornish at http://www.rd.com/content/dr-dean-ornish-column/ that says it was essentially useless/misleading because they didn't change their diet enough. It apparently muddied the waters even more because they concluded that a "low-fat diet does not cut health risks."

That's exactly the opposite of what Dr. Ornish found. He says on page 2 from data collected in their own controlled trials, "that the more people changed their diet and lifestyle, the more improvement we measured. In order to reverse disease, people needed to make much bigger changes than most doctors had been recommending. If you can reverse disease, then it's even easier to prevent it."

I believe this was in the October, 2007 issue of Reader's Digest.

2007-11-20 04:01:20 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cancer

Can alchohal cause a plaque in your colonary artery? What are the reasons? and also, what can be done

2007-11-20 03:58:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Heart Diseases

2007-11-20 03:52:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Medicine

I want something everlasting. somthing that will make me happy for a long period of time.

2007-11-20 03:48:38 · 11 answers · asked by ADENOSE O 2 in Mental Health

As you know the holiday season is comming and those fantastic holiday foods are creaping up quick, i have only been off for 3 days and my "fat" jeans are tight

is it really that unhealthy to gain a few pounds during the holiday season?

2007-11-20 03:44:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

2007-11-20 03:41:43 · 4 answers · asked by mary 1 in Diet & Fitness

to achieve a bigger back? aslo i do alot of shoulder exercises but my shoulders are still relativly small?

2007-11-20 03:38:28 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

maybe im allergic to something that i drank to cure my flu?
they look like cloud marks-kinda like rashes. it happened to me before but never had i had my eyes swollen (only the tip near my nose).
they sort of look like baby rashes.
what should i take?

2007-11-20 03:36:59 · 20 answers · asked by kamie 1 in Skin Conditions

2007-11-20 03:34:35 · 29 answers · asked by zoomraker 1 in Men's Health

2007-11-20 03:34:25 · 5 answers · asked by antigha e 1 in Allergies

2007-11-20 03:33:34 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Men's Health

I have Strabismus, had 5 surgeries that fixed it enough to where it's not "so" obvious, but because it wasn't corrected in time, I am forced to "choose" which eye I want to look out of. I don't have the ability to look out of both eyes at the same time, I have to choose one. So is this why I can never see the 3-D imagine on those "Magic Eye" pictures? Do you have to use 2 eyes together to see the imagine? Also, I am unable to see 3D images in movies (ie: Jaws) with those plastic glasse- I can only choose if I want to watch the movie with a red tint or a blue tint! Also, I am 28... Can I train my brain to use both eyes at the same time? It seems so impossible. Thanks for any advice!!

2007-11-20 03:32:35 · 6 answers · asked by WorldPeace 4 in Optical

I’m not sure how to ask this, but my daughter is 2 ½ years old and she has been getting UTI’s since she was 6mos. And we recently had VCUG and a NVCUG. The VCUG showed that she had reflux of a grade 2 and the NVCUG confirmed the results, she also has scarring on her right kidney and is smaller than the left so we have her on an antibiotic for now but the Urologist is suggesting surgery. Is this in your opinion the only way to resolve her problem or will the antibiotic over time be something we should consider, please help.

2007-11-20 03:29:42 · 2 answers · asked by Sean 1 in Other - Diseases

I have been running and I haven’t been drinking any water but I am not dehydrated at all, or at least I don’t feel that way. I drink mostly diet pop but only 5 cans a day and then maybe one glass of water. I have been sweating but just to the point of my hair being soaked in sweat and maybe my shirt a little. When I was running in the summer and drinking more water I was sweating more. I also remember last winter when I ran I sweated a whole bunch. I have been running the same distance and speed so I should be sweating the same amount. I am sad that I am not sweating, I don’t feel like I get a goon enough workout when I don’t sweat allot.

2007-11-20 03:28:51 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

I do an hour of cardio daily for one hour. afterwards, I am always hungry, I go to college, so it isn't unusual to find pineapple cups-real pineapple with no sugar added prepackaged, at the deli by the university gym. i find myself always eating them after a workout. my dad, who had lost a lot of weight in his twenties told me that it is very bad to eat such sugary foods after exercising. is this true? or does the fact that pineapple is a fruit, and happens to speed up your metabolism cancel-out the fact that it is so sugary?

2007-11-20 03:28:21 · 7 answers · asked by lushaa 2 in Diet & Fitness

My doctor told me to put a small amount of Vick Vaporub on a cotton swab (like a Q-tip) on the inside of my nose to help clear my head but on the jar it says not to put near any mucus membranes so what should I do?

2007-11-20 03:17:13 · 6 answers · asked by gameplaywarrior 3 in Other - Health

Okay I just got my first tampon in (finally) and i can feel it when i move so i tried pushing it in further but it wont go in any further and now i dont know what do to

Shall I pull it out or just leave it??????
Will it damage me if its not in properly?

2007-11-20 03:12:41 · 12 answers · asked by prettypinkcupcakes 1 in Women's Health

2007-11-20 03:08:35 · 5 answers · asked by Tandu 1 in Women's Health

2007-11-20 03:05:32 · 23 answers · asked by Mr-Kay 7 in Mental Health

My son is 3 and a half, at that age they give them the flu shot in 2 half doses 1 month apart. After BOTH shots, he got a nasty, lingering bug, with cold like symptoms (runny nose, congestion, and cough). The nurse told us that there is no way for the shot to make him sick because there is nolive virus contained in the shot. My aunt also got sick the same way, and her nirse/doctor said the same thing to her. So are they lying? Why are they both sick, and can anything be done to prevent this short of avoiding the flu shot in the future? What exactly IS in the flu shot?

2007-11-20 03:05:05 · 8 answers · asked by john k 4 in Infectious Diseases

I recently made an effort to ensure that I drank 8 glasses of water a day and was shocked at how short I fell.

Can eight glasses per day promote weight loss? Could it be a factor in whether or not one loses weight, when coupled with diet and exercise?

This may be silly, but does coffee count was glasses of water? Coffee is only water with some caffiene soaked in.

Thanks!

2007-11-20 03:04:23 · 35 answers · asked by Surf Forever 5 in Diet & Fitness

can you get aids from oral sex?

2007-11-20 03:02:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in STDs