General Health Care - May 2007

I know I grind my teeth. I have strange headaches around the back of my ears. It hurts to press on that area. Sometimes the temples hurt too. Is this from grinding my teeth at night or something else? Does that mouthgard thingy help to avoid the headaches?

2007-05-06 14:48:19 · 7 answers · asked by sillyputty 2 in Pain & Pain Management

my friend sprained her ankle pretty bad a few days ago and now she said it feels better but its itching really bad.

2007-05-06 14:38:59 · 5 answers · asked by brneyedgrrl80 3 in Injuries

2007-05-06 13:43:37 · 5 answers · asked by joycelguest 1 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-05-06 13:39:34 · 3 answers · asked by trevorcjoseph 1 in Other - General Health Care

Sometimes when i bend my left knee it hurts on the bottom. About once a week, it jams and I fall on the floor, unable to move because it hurts so badly. When this happens, it takes like 4 minutes to unjam and hurts all the way. I dont know what happened, as I am only 13. I have only hurt my leg once, when I was 8, because I fell out of my window. My mom (who used to be a nurse) said that I would have started expieriencing pain earlier then 13 if it had to do with falling out of my window. I dont know what to do, do you have any ideas of what is up with my knee? I have stress related problems, like bruxism (i grind my teeth in my sleep) but I dont know if that is related. Thank you.

2007-05-06 13:33:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

2007-05-06 12:48:16 · 13 answers · asked by puddinskitz 3 in First Aid

A wasp sting I received less than 24 hours ago has caused my hand to swell up like a baseball mitt, with a good deal of pain in the extended swelling region. A 24-hour ready-care doctor told me to keep taking benadryll and gave me an Rx for cephalexin (500mg), an antibiotic.

OK. I'm not a biological genius (I'm actually an environmental engineer), but I know that sting poison works by injecting heavy poisons that your body reacts to. This is not bacteria, so I do not understand why he would give me an antibiotic. There are NO open wounds or sores, so I just can't see how the swelling is a bacterial infection.

Is this guy a quack or what? Shouldn't he have given me some steroid or something to control the swellng?

2007-05-06 12:41:56 · 23 answers · asked by fluvial_shell 2 in Other - General Health Care

Ive been having backpain and stomach pain on and off for the past year what can i do about it? (im going to see a doctor on tue but until then i need to survive my life. lol)

2007-05-06 12:37:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

How do you get rid of a migraine headache?

2007-05-06 12:30:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

I can't seem to open my mouth wide enough to eat anything( like it's stuck) and my jaw hurts like hell, ...what should I do?

2007-05-06 12:08:02 · 2 answers · asked by alyshaleah 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I got the shot yesterday afternoon, but my shoulder still hurts to move or touch. How long should this last? Is there any reason for concern?

2007-05-06 12:01:19 · 8 answers · asked by Frannie 4 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-05-06 12:01:18 · 3 answers · asked by Linda S 2 in Pain & Pain Management

Does anyone have any helpful tips on getting the residue left from hospital bandaid off my arm? Its very sore, and I dont really want to srub it...

2007-05-06 11:50:22 · 7 answers · asked by kelly 2 in Other - General Health Care

lately, i have been getting sharp pains in the left back side of my head. I reaaly don't know what may be causing it and I really do hope that it is not a tumor or anything serious.

2007-05-06 11:14:33 · 5 answers · asked by kyotomexicanrolls 1 in Pain & Pain Management

is this drug like lortabs does it get u hie / what does it do i know its for pain

2007-05-06 11:04:48 · 4 answers · asked by brit_mar16 1 in Pain & Pain Management

i have a problem called sciatica nerve damage. it runs from the back to the right leg. i have had this for over 1 year. i have done physical therapy and living off pain killers. i tried to look for a job that requires only sitting down but can't find one. keep in mind im only 18 years old and attending college. i havea very hard time getting around. i cant stand on my leg for more than 1 hour. but my doctor wont sign a form that says im disable. dont you think i should have the right to be disabled. i can't work and need to support my brother. i lost my mother last year and its just me and my brother living together but i need income which i cant get becuase of this problem. please help me

2007-05-06 10:47:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

When I was in high school I dropped a weight bar on my thighs while standing and rolled off my kneecaps, and it didn't injure me that badly or hurt that badly, but since then my knees seem to grind when squatting or climbing stairs. Is there anything to do to take care of your joints?

2007-05-06 10:43:32 · 1 answers · asked by mikewz82 1 in Injuries

2007-05-06 10:25:25 · 4 answers · asked by Missinglink 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I want to use physical therapy or other effective alternative treatments to surgery

2007-05-06 10:13:12 · 0 answers · asked by Molly 1 in Pain & Pain Management

someone told me i need orthopedic surgery to remove it, it is a bumb on the tendon in my wrist about the size of the bone on your wrist? someone also told me it could be injected with steroids to go away? has anyone else had this they say it is common...

2007-05-06 09:58:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

People have never treated me the same since I hit myself in the head with that pole...

2007-05-06 09:57:16 · 5 answers · asked by Nijg 6 in Injuries

I have been in alot of pain and can still hardly walk. Workers comp has almost sent me to the poor house. I can't even walk a block with out extreme pain.

2007-05-06 09:45:17 · 17 answers · asked by blunomore 1 in Pain & Pain Management

In January my foot started hurting pretty bad. I was limping and everything. I went to the Doctor and they sent me for an x-ray and it showed nothing. So they sent me to Podiatrist. He sent me for an x-ray and nothing showed. He sent me for another x-ray and nothing showed. Well then he sent me for an MRI and it showed a stress fracture on the 2nd metatarsal.

All of this happened from February through April. I forgot to mention though that about 3 weeks after it started hurting so much I noticed a red sore appeared on the top of my foot, right above where it was hurting. It scabbed over and the scab fell off about a week later (this is like beg-mid february) well I can still see where the sore was. Also, the pain went down by quite a bit. I could walk without limping but it still hurt to move my toes. I told the Podiatrist and he said that was a little unusual but that it was probably just a blood clot the burst and came to the top.

Well when the MRI showed a stress fracture he put me in an Air Boot and now I have been in it for 4 weeks. Also, the other day I had another one of those red sores appear. I go back to the doc on tuesday.

Is a stress fracture supposed to take this long to heal? Do you think the doctor is doing the right thing?

All this time it has been swollen too. I am starting to get a little worried that it is taking too long. Thanks for any advise or help you can give me.

2007-05-06 09:32:20 · 1 answers · asked by David B 1 in Injuries

2007-05-06 08:43:55 · 5 answers · asked by lbessone3 1 in Pain & Pain Management

I have had this problem for the past few months. My left hip goes to sleep within 15 minutes when I lay on my left side. My right hip never goes to sleep, but it is always the left. Anyone know what I can do for it?

2007-05-06 08:41:51 · 2 answers · asked by pawpaw72329@sbcglobal.net 1 in Pain & Pain Management

i have had sciatica for over a year. you wont believe how painful this is. one time i cryed in pain because of this. im completley disabled i cant work because i cant stand on my leg for more than 1 hour. 1 have been to physical therapy and it still hasnt gone away. i have had xrays, mri done. i have a few loose discs. the doctor said the only way to fix it is through back surgery but im afraid of that becuase one wrong move can paralyze me for life. i have been on pain killers, sucha s tramodol(currently taken), vicodin, ibeoprofen 800mg, and nexproxen what should i do anyone else have this problem thanks

2007-05-06 08:06:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

and pills for vomiting day 5 of headach my neck stared to hurt as long as i am laying down i am ok some pain not as much when up walking around, i dont feel much like eating eather. have CT in one day but family wont me to go to the E R scare not sure what to do never had a headache like this one. had back suergery 3 weeks ago.

2007-05-06 07:49:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

okay sotoday i was screwing around wiht my soccer ball and i slammed my foot down and i felt acrack in my metatarsal region (that part of my right foot on the very right side of it) and now it hurts to walk on....i feel tinglingin my toesand like the shaftofmy foot...but no swelling...or redness...or bruising....what the hell happened....

2007-05-06 06:58:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

what hospital should is accepting kaiser permanente health insurance

2007-05-06 04:46:11 · 1 answers · asked by berrykindme 1 in Other - General Health Care

I woke up with it hurting.

2007-05-06 04:43:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management