General Health Care - December 2006

I punched a wall about 2 weeks ago. I was swollen for a couple of days. swellin has gone down, had X-ray done, told there were no breaks....I still feel some pain on the middle top of my hand and towards the pinky side. Painful to make a grip. does anyone know about bone bruising, tendons, joints, or anything else it could be? Or am I ok and it's just be slow healing

2006-12-07 08:30:01 · 9 answers · asked by cacaca13 1 in Injuries

2006-12-07 07:45:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

I had acl reconstructive surgery a few months ago and I'm already lifting weights after the physical therapist approved of it, would glucosamine help my recovery?

2006-12-07 07:37:56 · 4 answers · asked by eoin 1 in Injuries

2006-12-07 07:37:27 · 5 answers · asked by dan_schneider2001 2 in Pain & Pain Management

2006-12-07 07:36:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

do u work with the pain or did you switch jobs?

2006-12-07 07:35:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

what could it be? sighhhhh IT HURTS!!!!!!!

2006-12-07 07:30:58 · 9 answers · asked by yuuhhuhuh 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I type on my job but have only left wrist pain, with NO numbness or tingling in hand. This is the first si tdown job i have had in my life and i gained 15 lbs in a year and i was wonderinfg if anyone knew the correlation with weight gain and pain in wrist .

2006-12-07 07:24:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

Without the obvious, stop smoking.

2006-12-07 07:18:52 · 21 answers · asked by Me xx 2 in Other - General Health Care

please whats the side effect if someone has an ulner nerve injury and still has not done the surgery on the nerves after 11 yrs but has the flesh stitched up and has partial feelings on some parts of the fingers affected?

2006-12-07 07:05:58 · 1 answers · asked by deoapril 1 in Other - General Health Care

2006-12-07 06:58:39 · 10 answers · asked by Justina 3 in Injuries

my back is killing me and im taking tylenol. i have a doctors appt next week. is there any thing better over the counter than tylenol for my bad back?

2006-12-07 06:49:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

Last week I had two hemmoroids banded. Something went terribly wrong. The tissue around the band swelled up so badly, I have been in severe pain ever since. The Doctor tried to remove the band, but I was too swollen and tender for him to be able to get it off. When ever I have a BM I feel like I am going to split open down there, I am in so much pain. I am taking pain pills That helps a little.
I need more help. Can anyone tell me anything else I can do topically to relieve the pain? In addition to pain killers, I am taking stool softeners, using hemmorioid cream on bottom after sitz baths, and using a lidocaine jelly in between. Doctor has not been very helpful, most help I have gotten from others, and online. I have already been off of work a week, and I can't see that I am going to be able to go back any time soon short of a mircle. (I need to go back to work). PLEASE HELP!

2006-12-07 06:38:03 · 6 answers · asked by vyk 2 in Pain & Pain Management

have a slipped disc and the physio has said that acupuncture is the next step forward. slightly scared because i'm not sure what the theory behind it is and not sure whether it will work. no fear of needles though so that's 1 less worry! anyone no anything about how it works or had any experiences with acupuncture?

2006-12-07 06:24:27 · 7 answers · asked by JoM 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I´ve tried to quit eating my nails for years, I´m 28.When I was a child my family put me garlic, chili, they hit me but I just felt angry and didn´t leave this habit.

2006-12-07 06:21:57 · 8 answers · asked by Tere 6 in Other - General Health Care

i had sinsus surgery 6 months ago and my nose still aches like crazy, is this normal, any one out there been through the same

2006-12-07 06:17:12 · 4 answers · asked by jdthfoy 1 in Injuries

I got pushed off an edge of swimming pool and knocked my wrist on the edge of the pool and its really sore

2006-12-07 05:54:01 · 7 answers · asked by Sarah L 1 in Injuries

2006-12-07 05:26:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

..But is there anything you can do or take that stops you weeing? Not for good you understand, just long enough so I can sit through a cold English football match.

2006-12-07 05:24:22 · 12 answers · asked by bigt 2 in Other - General Health Care

2006-12-07 05:20:33 · 11 answers · asked by Roman 2 in Pain & Pain Management

A friend of mine had been having problems with her hand. she couldn't hold things anymore and it was feeling numb all the time. She went to her doctor and they tested her for carpal tunnel and it was positive. She has a physical job, so the doctor told her to go through her jobs insurance so she could get workmans comp because she may need surgury and so on. When she went to the doctor for the insurance company, they tested her hand for CP and it was positive. The doctor said that cant be right and wanted to test her again. He had her hold her hand under hot water for several minutes, I believe 2 or 3, and then tested her again, this time showing no carpal tunnel. What happened there? Is that a trick so the insurance companies dont have to pay for work comp and so on? And how does she go about making a complaint about this and getting re-tested or filing a new claim cuz the womans' hand is pretty bad and I don't want to see her cheated and forced to work like this. Please, I need help.

2006-12-07 05:11:01 · 5 answers · asked by Whisper 1 in Injuries

2006-12-07 05:00:22 · 10 answers · asked by BE P 2 in Pain & Pain Management

2006-12-07 04:53:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

2006-12-07 04:46:21 · 6 answers · asked by bird 1 in Pain & Pain Management

my boyfriend is a construction worker and about a month ago he accidently got hit in the head with a crowbar and it took a good chunck of skin out. he went to get stiches and got a tetanus shot then. well yesterday he stepped on a nail... it didnt go all the way through his foot but it punctured it and it bleed only a little bit. does he need to get another tetanus shot or does the one he got a few months ago last for awhile?

2006-12-07 04:37:56 · 12 answers · asked by megan 2 in Injuries

I've always written with my right hand but i have AWFUL handwritting. then i was told that there might be a chance that i am left-handed and i was switch to write with my right hand, in school, because i went to a catholic school and they thought that ppl who wrote with their left-hand were devil's children or something.
anyway, the thing is how can i know whether i really am left-handed or right-handed? i do a lot of things with my left-hand eg. stir, grab things, reach etc. but i also do stuff with my right hand. also, i can "attempt" to write with my left hand-its not totally impossible to me, unlike to others.
nevertheless, there is a chance that i learnt to use my left-hand through observational learing at a young age because my nanny, who was with well into the age of 12-13, was left-handed!
any suggestions anyone?
thank you in advance!

2006-12-07 04:18:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

such as norco. people go out of town to clinics and its ok

2006-12-07 04:11:03 · 4 answers · asked by Bernice S 1 in Pain & Pain Management

i don't know why but all of a sudden about a week or two ago i started getting TONS of static shocks from EVERYTHING! i probably am averageing about 10-12 shocks every hour! i don't know why i am so static-y but i haven't changed any thing that i can think of that would cause this...

any ideas on what i can do to avoid getting shocked so often?

2006-12-07 04:09:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

2006-12-07 04:01:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

2006-12-07 03:08:02 · 14 answers · asked by The Warden 1 in First Aid