General Health Care - March 2007

I have a very bad sinus cold. I have been sleeping with my mouth open cause I cant breathe thru my nose and my toungue is so sore from being dried out. Any suggestions on how to get releif?
It is mostly just the tip and i have tried warm liquids. Thanks

2007-03-05 00:53:18 · 4 answers · asked by dinkylynn 4 in Other - General Health Care

how long does it take for the swelling to go down? i had my operation 2 weeks ago, and either my minds going or they aint actually went down much!! i know i'll swell and that but swelling from what was meant to be a c cup to little off my natural size ff is that not lets say just a tad too much??

2007-03-05 00:48:41 · 3 answers · asked by lauren loughran 2 in Other - General Health Care

how long does it take for the swelling to go down? i had my operation 2 weeks ago, and either my minds going or they aint actually went down much!! i know i'll swell and that but swelling from what was meant to be a c cup to little off my natural size ff is that not lets say just a tad too much??

2007-03-05 00:48:01 · 4 answers · asked by lauren loughran 2 in Other - General Health Care

how long does it take for the swelling to go down? i had my operation 2 weeks ago, and either my minds going or they aint actually went down much!! i know i'll swell and that but swelling from what was meant to be a c cup to little off my natural size ff is that not lets say just a tad too much??

2007-03-05 00:40:42 · 3 answers · asked by lauren loughran 2 in Other - General Health Care

How easy is it for someone to break an elbow?....Also if you break an elbow is that the same thing as breaking an arm?

2007-03-05 00:30:45 · 5 answers · asked by pnkrockerkid 1 in Injuries

can you claim industrial injury for carpal tunnel disease

2007-03-05 00:12:05 · 8 answers · asked by reem2 3 in Injuries

I'm an EMT student and just recently I started working in the emergency room for the clinical part of the course....we need 25 patient contacts and with each patient, we need to fill out a paper on what the condition/treatment was.
So, we had a 93 yr old female come in with a femur fracture (broke right in half), no traction splint was applied, and she wasn't c/o any pain. They took her upstairs to admit and I missed the rest!!!! What is going to be the treatment for this lady? Please help...

2007-03-05 00:10:05 · 4 answers · asked by tracymcdiarmid 3 in Injuries

I been waking up the last for or five weeks with my left eye almost swollen shut. but the past the past few days I have woken up with almost both eyes swollen shut. I can't drive so I can't take my self to the eye doctor. MY mom put me on some left over eye drops eye had when i had pink eye a year ago but they symptoms still persits swollen eyes,clear stuff coming out and sometime itchy. what could be . also I wear contacts. the kind you change on a monthly basis latley though I forget there and fall asleep in them. please help me. what could I do what is it.

2007-03-05 00:06:24 · 9 answers · asked by purplepurp21 1 in Other - General Health Care

My boyfriend was in an accident and got stitches in his forehead and bit threw his lip, but what's really killing him is his neck and shoulders. There were no broken bones but just major stiffness; he can barely move and can't fall asleep. Ive been giving him 3 motrins and rubbing muscle rub but he's still miserable... what can I do?

2007-03-05 00:00:28 · 7 answers · asked by littlepeanut 2 in Injuries

organising an ambulance service

2007-03-05 00:00:07 · 4 answers · asked by akonpi 1 in First Aid

Ok real simple, if you have a headache tickle the skin on the back of your ear. Try both ears but I think the best will be to tickle or stimulate the ear opposite to the side of your headache. Where I am going with this is the stimulation of the vegus nerve. There are vegus stimulators implanted for the use in sever epilepsy which have been shown to reduce headaches also. So even if you suffer from epilepsy tickeling or stimulating the skin behind the ear may in fact stop that seizure or reduce it. Even possibly keep it from turning in to a full blown grand mal. I would say this is worth trying and with your input I think we may be on to something. I also suspect this to help headaches caused by trigeminal neuralgia. Seems to simple you say... well lets prove it wrong. Maybe a feather would work better? Its really up to you but the chances are someone out there has a head ache right now and when you have a head ache anything is worth trying. Try this out and get back with me.

2007-03-04 23:52:05 · 3 answers · asked by bdat40oz 2 in Pain & Pain Management

it was aobut 2 days ago, and my knee still hurts. i was walking home, and i was pulling myself up with my leg, because through the woods on the way home from my friends house, there is a place like that and, iwent forward to much, and my leg instead of bending back, it bent forward, and it went forward pretty hard. what can i do to make it feel better? i've been taking ibuprofen, and putting ice on it for aobut 1 hour a day. would ace bandage around my knee help? or maybe a knee brace

2007-03-04 23:48:24 · 1 answers · asked by Jake 3 in Injuries

if lets say the metal part of the razor broke of, like a little bit of it, less then your pinky nail and went into your cut that was bleeding.

I cut myself four times on accident in a row and then I looked at the razor and saw a little bit of the metal chipped off, and i'm not for sure if it was like that before.

2007-03-04 23:39:56 · 6 answers · asked by Faithfull_music 1 in Injuries

2007-03-04 23:28:59 · 12 answers · asked by ADRIAN B 1 in Pain & Pain Management

i have to get surgery on my ear drum because it has a hole in it and i dont know what they have to do that is why im asking will it hurt

2007-03-04 23:28:07 · 6 answers · asked by LOLLERSKATEZ 2 in Injuries

I have recently started having fairly bad heel pain. It hurts jus above the heel in the softs area. I recently began working out (flag football/running) however the injury didn't start hurting till about a week after my first workout so im not sure if that was the cause. I also purchased a new pair of Addidas running shoes for running, they have more arch support than Im used to but I thought this might be good. The heel portion does feel padded or soft though. Now I don't know if it is my new shoes causing the problem or whether I actually injured it working out. The pain subsides if I take Ibuprofrin. I read about Plantar Fascitis do you think this is the problem, how do I remedy this I can't hardly run. It has been about a week now.

2007-03-04 23:24:22 · 3 answers · asked by spkmyer 3 in Injuries

Starting Wed. I have slept 15 hours during the day. I work third shift since january and have a first shift job. Wed, Thurs, Frid, Sat, I have slept about 15 hours and still feel exhausted. I fall asleep everytime I sit down at work, church, at home. I have missed appointments and work becuase I sleep so hard noone can wake me up and I dont hear my phone ring and my alarms go off. My mom seems to think that i'm just catching up to alot of sleep that I have missed. By the way I am 20 years old. I don't think i'm catching up but i don't know whats wrong. I don't think i'm anemic but i'm not a doctor. I don't have health insurance and don't have a doctor so going is very expensive at the hospital. So do you have any suggestions on whats wrong or what I should try? i have tried drinking a 2 liter of soda to keep me awake but that doesn't work either. or maybe you could give me a good website that would say whats wrong with me or something, pretty much anything would help. thanks!

2007-03-04 23:15:48 · 10 answers · asked by THE 3 in Other - General Health Care

i also suffer from scoliosis,and get a lot of stiff necks.

2007-03-04 22:57:41 · 5 answers · asked by SPUD 1 in Other - General Health Care

2007-03-04 22:48:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

Some people seem like they're on a schedule and I wish I was. How can you train your body to start a schedule?

2007-03-04 22:43:05 · 6 answers · asked by Pinkerton 3 in Other - General Health Care

I’m not even sure whether these things exist, but I’m (on appearance) a relatively fit and healthy 30-year-old man, but a bodged knee operation has left me so that every now and again my knee pops out leaving me unable to walk.

When I go out I don’t want to drag around a crutch just in case, so I was wondering if there is such a thing as a discreet (extendable?) walking stick type device I could carry with me in case I need it.

2007-03-04 22:15:57 · 8 answers · asked by John Conway 3 in Injuries

All day yesterday I experenced light headness and about mid way through the day my tooth started hurting. It didnt start hurt real bad until about 2 hours ago, but now my face has swollen and my left arm started to feel numb. I have had this tooth hurt before but it has been a few month since it last hurt. But this is the first time I have ever been light headed all day and had it hurt. Any ideas about what it could be.

2007-03-04 21:45:11 · 6 answers · asked by ? 2 in Pain & Pain Management

it has been 2+ weeks since i met a car accident. my forehead smashed into the glass. had a total of 8 stitches & lots of wound. things are finally getting better when i discovered there's alot of broken little glasses still in my wounds area. alot are in my skins.

how am i suppose to noe if there's undiscovered onces? how am i suppose to noe some were already in my skin? or is it normal & will b fine later on?

cos my bro told me tat e muscle healing will eventually push those little glasses out.

BUT WHAT IF IT WONT?

2007-03-04 21:33:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

2007-03-04 21:23:29 · 3 answers · asked by melissagldfsh 1 in Pain & Pain Management

Please help. This raccoon with foam coming from its mouth attacked me. It chewed my finger off. I put the finger in the fridge. Should I go to the doctor now, or wait till I have some free time on Wednesday to get it checked out?


Okay, so I really didn't get my finger chewed off. What I am worried about are all the people with bad injuries who want to know if they should go to the doctor. You shot your foot and it's bleeding profusely? A dog bit you and it's weeping green pus? Someone shot an arrow into your hand? Gee, I don't know if you should go to the doctor, better wait and see...

Okay, so I exaggerate a little. But if you look at some of these questions (and answers too), it's pretty obvious that some people on here are a bit cranially challenged. I guess my question is this: Does it frighten anybody else that people that so clearly don't have common sense could be answering my own questions?

2007-03-04 21:06:20 · 8 answers · asked by Megan 3 in First Aid

I like go on travelling using bus. and usually i take long hours trip like above 3 hours from 1 region to other. my bus is a luxury bus. i dont worry about too exhausted on the trip
the problem is my right Knee starting to feel discomfortable after 1 hour trip and i barely can not move my RIGHT leg at the end of the trip. luckily the bus stops every stations for relaxing but still i dont feel any ease on my right the knee .

can anyone know y? it is particulary on the RIGHT kneecaps, like sometimes very numb feeling, while y LEFT knee is just ok ok

2007-03-04 20:54:47 · 3 answers · asked by simplelife76 2 in Other - General Health Care

i took tempra tablet, sometimes it help sometimes no.

2007-03-04 20:52:19 · 7 answers · asked by mangkot 1 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-03-04 20:00:11 · 9 answers · asked by lei_427 1 in First Aid

For the last 2 weeks I have been getting terrible headaches. They became more intense in the last week with pain in my right eye. Also pain in the cheek area, forehead and eye socket. I've been to the doctor 3 times. Fortunately I've been getting better but every day I still need to take excedrin. I was given 2 migraine meds and ketorolac.
I am wondering if I need to NOT take any pain meds at all in order to 'tame the beast'????? The reason being is maybe I'm getting rebound headaches?????
I had a sinus x-ray and don't know the results yet.
The tooth where I had a root canal has been aching. I had the root canal done in November 2006.
I had an eye exam on Friday and my eyes are good. My optomitrist is referring me to an Internist because of the numbness and slight 'droopy' features of my right eye and that side of the face.

2007-03-04 19:58:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

What can you do with a broken foot ? What can you do with one foot ? ?? My son broke his foot in sleding Accident. He did not do to much before this accident and now he does nothing.. Just another excuse.No School, no work,no chores. Can you tell him what he can do with a broken foot and how. What kind of work,chores he can do and how????

2007-03-04 19:49:35 · 13 answers · asked by Francis K 1 in Injuries