General Health Care - June 2007

I just got one for meningitis if that helps...

2007-06-12 12:01:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

I fell on May 14th down a few steps and hurt the small of my back and really hurt my tailbone.My back is fine.But my tailbone is still very sore.I was on my honeymoon in Jamaica when it happened so i did not see a doctor about it.Here it is a month later and still in pain.I figured there is nothing you can do for a tailbone.Just wondering if anyone else has ever had their tailbone area sore for this long.

2007-06-12 11:38:25 · 2 answers · asked by Angela b 1 in Injuries

I'm 14 and I was wondering, can you throw up if you dont eat enough food. Because yesterday at school I threw-up and the school sent me home and than I felt better at the end of the day and than today I felt perfect. I didnt eat that much yesterday because I didnt feel good and eating made it worse. So could that be it because I did eat yesterday but I didnt feel the best after but than it went away. And i didnt feel that great after lunch but could that just be after effects. Could it be from not eating that much or like a 24 hour thing. Because I didnt feel that good on Saturday morning when I woke up. and than it went away when I got up. oh and I'm not anorexic I'm actually a little overweight but not really.(just so that you dont think that)
what do you guys think

2007-06-12 10:11:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

During basketball, the past few days at open gym.
After 1 game of constant up and down the court 5 on 5, i started to get very dizzy, legs weakened, and just couldn't play good anymore. Which isn't good in the eyes of the coaches, even though they know i can play good. Then i can barely make it through the 3 or 4th game and i play horrible. I feel horrible, when i play bad. Coaches are on my a** cause im sucking. But i couldn't go anymore, i was so dizzy, legs weakened to where i can barely walk!, and feel qweasy. I don't know why this is happening, its like the first time out of my many years of playing basketball. Im a sophomore. So i don't know, this didn't happen the past 3 weeks. All of sudden.. it came up.

2007-06-12 09:59:29 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

He is a 7 year old chi. He started crying one night and panting, racing around the house, would not sit down...Long story short, I too him to the vet. They did blood work, xrays, anal gland check up and expression..etc. They found nothing wrong, except for the fact my dog acts like he's on crack and in pain. He has taken prednisone for a week now but that makes it worse. Is it pain he is in? Perhaps his legs, knee patella luxation, spinal injury?? AHHH..I don't know what to do. It already has cost me $350 at the vet for all the tests. Help. Give me ideas to at least google and research. I hope it's not neurological.

2007-06-12 09:18:03 · 3 answers · asked by rebecca s 2 in Pain & Pain Management

He was working on his truck and ripped it open on the windsheild wiper. it's pretty deep, and a huge chunk of skin is ripped (but still connected enough to heal back or whatever) but we think part of the muscle was also ripped and is hanging out... we're putting anti-ifection stuff on it and putting a bandage on it. Is there anything else we should do? Like, put the muscle back inside, or something? Help, please. (And don't just say "go to the doctor!" Duh...)

2007-06-12 08:50:31 · 8 answers · asked by Cami 2 in Injuries

2007-06-12 08:46:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

My back burns when I'm trying to lift weights.

2007-06-12 08:21:27 · 7 answers · asked by Serious Asker 1 in First Aid

I have had this killer headache for days, but every time I try to buy any kind of Tylenol or Motrin or anything, the darn bottles always say not to use if the seal is broken. How do I get the pills out without breaking the seal???? I would try to cut the bottom off, but I allready broke 2 pocket knives and dont want to risk any more. Please Help!!!!!

2007-06-12 07:29:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

My Aunt is coming off of a addiction to Vicodin. Her DR has prescribed her something called Ultram. Is Ultram okay to take for pain when you are going through Vicodin withdrawal or will it make it worse?

2007-06-12 07:11:15 · 0 answers · asked by TropyWife 1 in Pain & Pain Management

Its puzzling. I have 40+ bites, all on my ankles. any ideas?


bonus question:
if i smoke weed, does the mosquito get high off my blood?
what about if i drink alcohol?

2007-06-12 07:03:35 · 8 answers · asked by lmnopmc@sbcglobal.net 2 in First Aid

I suck on ice from time to time and I went to take a cube out of the ice tray, and like an idiot, stuck it directly on my tounge. Well, I guess it was too cold because after that, it stuck to my tounge. Without thinking, I just grabbed the cube and pulled hard. Well you can only imagine the pain. It felt like parts of the skin on my tounge had came off along with the ice cube. It really hurts. I looked at my tounge and all I saw was a bit of blood but it feels like the worst tounge burn ever. I ran warm water on my tounge but don't know what else to do, since i've never had anything wrong with my tounge before. Any suggestions on what to try?

2007-06-12 06:12:01 · 12 answers · asked by Shannon83 1 in Injuries

I am worried that I am having an ectopic preg cuz of my shoulder hurting. However as explained above my neck cracks when I turn my head to the left. It has been hurting for a couple of weeks. Could it be possible that I just strained it lifting my boys and always using my right arm?

2007-06-12 05:50:47 · 4 answers · asked by kj 2 in Pain & Pain Management

Have been denied opiates due to potential for abuse. I have found sites for foreign scripts, but since it is a question of legality in the states, I prefer not to use this as my first choice.

2007-06-12 05:45:37 · 5 answers · asked by houseofpain 1 in Pain & Pain Management

My soon to be wife works for a corrective chiropactic care office that means they correct the body with chiropactic use and no medicine. I want to hear anyones real stories if this use of medicine worked before i take the plunge into this.

2007-06-12 04:45:18 · 5 answers · asked by Married Soon 2 in Pain & Pain Management

Surgery performed: Lumbar discectomy
Epidural injections for pain relief
Facet joint injections

2007-06-12 04:35:58 · 2 answers · asked by Jini 1 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-06-12 04:26:56 · 5 answers · asked by tkwilliams44 1 in Other - General Health Care

i do not have a sore throat but it feels like my tongue and neck are swollen and i have patches of white on the roof of my mouth and my body hurts really bad espically in my mid lower back and abdomenen

2007-06-12 04:11:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

ive got this sore throat, it aint scratchy its like a muscular pain, worse in the morning and the evenings, and hurts when i swallow, talk or yawn. How can i get it to go away quickly!?!

2007-06-12 03:40:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

I get kidney stones regularly and I know the drill, just drink lots of water and take strong pain meds. Only Oxycodeine, Demeral or morphene work. But I need to get a prescription to get those. I hear that people get addicted from pain meds. Why? That makes no sense. But that is another issue. There should be an easy and cheap way for people to take care of their medical problems.

2007-06-12 03:20:22 · 11 answers · asked by sklemetti 3 in Pain & Pain Management

We caught someone outside peeping at us having sex, and my BF shoved a thumb deep in each of his eyes. He was bleeding from both eyes afterwards. What kind of damage might this cause?

2007-06-12 03:18:12 · 8 answers · asked by Alice M 1 in Injuries

2007-06-12 02:47:09 · 5 answers · asked by postal_game 2 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-06-12 02:09:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

the precautions to be taken

2007-06-12 01:03:42 · 4 answers · asked by arahula13 1 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-06-12 00:54:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

Is it okay to take Excedrin Migraine while taking birth control pills?

2007-06-12 00:10:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

Have someone been taking codeine for a long time and stopped it gradually? How have you done it and is it severe? I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and it is more severe now after the birth of my son 7 months ago. I have been constantly on different OTC pain meds since. A rumatologist prescribed me to take 30-60mg codeine with aspirin every 6 hours as needed. I have pain everyday, so I take Nurofen every second day to avoid my body getting used to codeine. I am afraid it will build an immune against the codeine if I take it everyday and will not relieve the pain effectively. Do you think my pain is worse because of an rebound of all the pain meds or is it extra strain of the baby. On Effexor XR 150mg as well that helps for depression.

2007-06-12 00:03:31 · 4 answers · asked by 007butterfly 2 in Pain & Pain Management

The past week ive been getting mild headaches.This mornin i got up with a boster.Cant do anything i feel so crap.My eyes are hurting to.
I havent a hang over and drink plenty of water also im not detoxing.Any ideas.Even taking tablets havent helped .

2007-06-11 22:52:13 · 14 answers · asked by clutterbuk 2 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-06-11 21:12:24 · 2 answers · asked by domyuji28 2 in Other - General Health Care

I started wearing contact lenses and realized I can't sleep with them else my eyes are bloodshot, because not enough oxgyen reaches them.

I can only think of one answer: when we close our eyes blood vessels in our eyelids supply the oxygen needed.

2007-06-11 21:09:49 · 7 answers · asked by Nicodemus C 2 in Other - General Health Care