General Health Care - January 2007

Has anyone tried trigger point injections?
I broke my back in 8 places a few years ago and have chronic pain and my pain clinic specialist has recommended "Trigger point injections". Has anyone tried these and if so what has your experience been?

2007-01-26 08:01:50 · 6 answers · asked by Big Daddy Cool 3 in Pain & Pain Management

Has anyone tried trigger point injections? I broke my back in 8 places a few years ago and have chronic pain and my pain clinic specialist has recommended "Trigger point injections". Has anyone tried these and if so what has your experience been?

2007-01-26 08:01:04 · 1 answers · asked by Big Daddy Cool 3 in Injuries

Has anyone tried trigger point injections? I broke my back in 8 places a few years ago and have chronic pain and my pain clinic specialist has recommended "Trigger point injections". Has anyone tried these and if so what has your experience been?

2007-01-26 07:54:17 · 1 answers · asked by Big Daddy Cool 3 in Injuries

Has anyone tried trigger point injections? I broke my back in 8 places a few years ago and have chronic pain and my pain clinic specialist has recommended "Trigger point injections". Has anyone tried these and if so what has your experience been?

2007-01-26 07:52:45 · 1 answers · asked by Big Daddy Cool 3 in Injuries

For the past three or four weeks, I've been having some gas, and it's been vile. It's normal to get some really foul smelling gas after eating something bad, but this has been constant. My stools have been looking pretty soft and different as well. I keep looking online and I keep seeing Irritable Bowel Syndrome as the diagnosis. But IBS seems a little extreme for what I am experiencing. I don't have any cramping, diarrhea, or constipation. I feel totally normal and fine. Has anyone experienced this? Could it be that I need to flush out my intestines with some good ol' fashioned All Bran with psyllium fibre? or maybe some cabbage stew? Any suggestions?

2007-01-26 07:40:55 · 17 answers · asked by Mirko F 1 in Other - General Health Care

2007-01-26 07:31:53 · 12 answers · asked by Chris 1 in Pain & Pain Management

I have sore elbows all the time now and have not changed my lifestyle. I noticed that it happens real bad before my period and my ankles will also hurt. Is there a hormonal reason this could be happening?

2007-01-26 07:20:03 · 2 answers · asked by JACQUELINE T 6 in Other - General Health Care

In Germany a pack of 17 cigarettes cost 4€. Thats 6,64 AUD.

2007-01-26 07:17:03 · 1 answers · asked by POMPE 3 in Other - General Health Care

For people who cannot afford costly UV and RO systems, what is the most basic and economical kind of a filter system that they should adopt to avoid at least chlorine and suspended soluable/inslouable particals ? (With the belief of "something is better than nothing".)

2007-01-26 07:06:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

2007-01-26 07:06:49 · 4 answers · asked by B 1 in Injuries

2007-01-26 06:48:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

2007-01-26 06:43:24 · 2 answers · asked by random l 2 in Injuries

2007-01-26 06:43:06 · 8 answers · asked by akgurl92 1 in Pain & Pain Management

I sprained my ankle a few days ago.... and theres two bruises on my ankle that really stand out. I know that bruises are common with sprains, but these two are literrally diagonal lines that go straight across my ankle. They dont really hurt... but i was wondering if there is a reason for the exact placement and shape of the bruises??

2007-01-26 06:42:13 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

I have amazingly dry skin all of a sudden, to the point that my knees are cracking. Right now I've been using St. Ives. Any suggestions about what's the best brand to use? Preferably something I can find in a drug store.

2007-01-26 06:10:23 · 21 answers · asked by beshi33 2 in Other - General Health Care

where can I buy Metatarsal work boots in or around the portland oregon area? Can you give me names of stores, I've already tried on-line but I would rather go and "try on" the boots. Thanks for any information.

2007-01-26 06:05:51 · 2 answers · asked by Oregon_Rose 2 in Injuries

2007-01-26 05:59:18 · 4 answers · asked by test 1 in Other - General Health Care

I have woken up the past 2 mornings with excruciating lower back pain...i can barely walk, i definitely can't bend down and i have to sit at a computer all day for work.....about mid afternoon, it starts feeling better though....has anyone heard of this or experienced this and know what it might be and/or if it will go away? I really don't want to go to the doc if I don't have to, they usually give some strong muscle relaxers and/or pain pills and I'm just not a big fan of those.......

2007-01-26 05:56:56 · 14 answers · asked by Lori W 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I like jogging a lot. Everytime I have been running 5-10 kilometres, my knee seems to be filled with water and swallows up a little.
What is that? Should I really continue running twice a week? Is it "dangerous" for my knee?

2007-01-26 05:55:08 · 7 answers · asked by viking_65_se 2 in Other - General Health Care

This morning I woke up at 5:30-ish with some heartburn. I immediately took a zantac 75 and went back to sleep. I woke up maybe an hour later, and the heartburn was back, so I took another zantac... but this time it did absolutely nothing.

A little back-story... starting about two years ago, every now and then I get absolutely EXCRUCIATING heartburn (though I didn't know it was heartburn the first time it happened--I thought I was dying). I don't have an ulcer, and the doctors don't know what it is, but my mom described the same symptoms and said she had a pre-ulcerous lesion, so I figure that's what I have. She told me to take antacids and I'd be fine, and that has worked for me for two years.

Until this morning. This morning, I ended up taking 3 zantacs and 2 of these herbal supplement things my stepmom gave me that worked before, and I was STILL up for 2 hours pleading with god to make it stop.

...Should I go back to the hospital and see if they can figure it out now?

2007-01-26 05:48:47 · 8 answers · asked by PopeJaimie 4 in Pain & Pain Management

I'm in the Army and we do a lot of running and marching, and it hurts a lot. It bothers me not knowing what it is that hurts, especially since it's not a sprain or stress fracture.

2007-01-26 05:46:57 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

2007-01-26 05:39:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

Just because its not immediatley happening was the climate when it happened, it just seem there must be more we could place our attention on to wage a more unique an different war that has finally reached our soil.

2007-01-26 05:38:03 · 1 answers · asked by jigadee 4 in Other - General Health Care

2007-01-26 05:32:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

I have SIckle Cell and one thing that ticks me off is when I tell Dr.'s that the pain meds they give me don't work and they're like well we'll just up the dosage (like I haven't already when in enough pain) or they're like take it in conjunction with something else (like I haven't already). The pills still don't work and it's like they won't prescribe anything else. I'm like come on I'm 24 and you have been giving me the same meds for YEARS, does it occur to you that my body is so used to them that they no longer have any effect?? Tylenol w/ codine, prescription ibuprofen 600mg, even oral morpine, they are all jokes to me. Even percasets won't effect me. What in the he-zee can I do?

2007-01-26 05:28:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

does the pain from an appendicitis feel excruciating or just annoying or distracting?

2007-01-26 05:24:36 · 5 answers · asked by jerome c 1 in Pain & Pain Management

I don't know what caused my insomnia. Every time I go somewhere new, I can't sleep the first night in the hotel. But this is a first for me, being up for 24 hrs straight PLUS I have to work for the next 9 hours. What will help?

2007-01-26 04:56:33 · 12 answers · asked by FavoredbyU 5 in Other - General Health Care

2007-01-26 04:56:16 · 3 answers · asked by riaz b 1 in Other - General Health Care

I don't know if it's my spine or my tailbone, but something's not right now there. I can't sit on hard surfaces without it hurting like mad above my butt. I have this urge to have someone pull my torso one way and someone else wrap their arms around my hips and pull the other way to stretch my back out. I have an apt. with my Dr. next week on Thursday, but that's a long time from now. Are there any exercises or stretches I can do to help this pain ease up?

2007-01-26 04:55:40 · 7 answers · asked by Heidi 2 in Pain & Pain Management

My bf works outside (in ny) and its been 15 degrees out... we think he has frost bite. it looks like blisters on his fingers, and he says its sore. is there a home remedy we can do until he goes to the doctor?

2007-01-26 04:55:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in First Aid