General Health Care - September 2007

its like a little shock, its weird! lol

2007-09-21 01:13:01 · 5 answers · asked by Louise N 2 in Other - General Health Care

I have had a cast on my lower leg for the fracture of a small bone in the base of my toe.
The cast has now broken and is of absolutely no use at all as it no longer immobilizing my foot.
I can't get an appointment to have it removed for 3 weeks and so I was hoping that someone could give me some tips on how to remove this, now cumbersome and totally useless , fiberglass cast ... (not to mention extremely uncomfortable) myself?
There is obviously a safety issue here, so without anything too drastic, like the possibility of sawing off my leg, is there a safe way of removing this cast? Perhaps soaking it in water for a long period of time?
Please help! I need this cast removed! I live alone and have no family or friend support system in place, so I obviously need to be more mobile! As my cast is no longer giving me any healing benefits I want to get it off!
Help?! Please? :-)

2007-09-21 00:56:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Injuries

Please help me, I woke up this morning and it sounded like my neck popped really loudly, and I can't turn my head to the right at all, if I do it hurts very extremely badly. I am having to sit right now with my body facing forward and my head to the left. I am in intense pain and I am supposed to be at work at 9. Do you think it is a pinched nerve or what? Again, please please please help me, I'm in pain.

2007-09-21 00:26:39 · 14 answers · asked by MCR<3 1 in Pain & Pain Management

I was coaching Special Olympic Bowling . I demonstrated the foot slide but wore street shoes. Later in the day my knee was major pain. I figured exercise would help it. One month later I still hobble.

2007-09-21 00:02:50 · 3 answers · asked by itsmyopinionsothere 7 in Injuries

has anyone had the problem of slugs in their home? they only seem to come out at night after we've turned out the downstairs lights.
going downstairs for a late night snack or drink is not for the squeamish. there will be at least 6-12 slugs on the kitchen floor, worktops and sink. i've tried 2 different brands of slug pellets and checked for any obvious holes in the skirting board.
mostly now i drench the worktops and sink with salt each night to save having to disinfect everything each morning.
is there any easy solution ?

2007-09-20 21:46:40 · 8 answers · asked by jack 2 in Pain & Pain Management

Anyone else suffered from tendonitis in thearm - how did you deal with it? Any advice to ease pain etc., ? thank you

2007-09-20 21:05:48 · 7 answers · asked by tkf57 3 in Injuries

2007-09-20 20:31:17 · 21 answers · asked by jammys 3 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-09-20 20:27:01 · 2 answers · asked by jugnu a 1 in Pain & Pain Management

I usually get terrible headache when I starve or move around in sun for long time. This is always a partial headache i.e on the left side, some said it is migrane, is it something seroius?

2007-09-20 20:24:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

For the past two months or so, I've been getting the runs 3 - 4 times a week....sometimes more than once a day. I'm not real health conscious, but I don't eat lot of fried or fatty foods and I think I'm drinking enough water. Can someone please help as I'm really getting a sore bottom.

2007-09-20 20:00:52 · 5 answers · asked by Mom of One in Wisconsin 6 in Other - General Health Care

About four weeks ago I fell and hit my forehead on corner of a piece of furniture. I had a black eye afterwards and large bruise on my temple and below the eye on the cheek as well. The doctor said I was okay and sent me home. He took an x-ray and said that it didn't show any damage. While the black eye is healed I have a noticable ridge in my skull that runs from just under my hair line down through the temple to my eye sockett as well as from the lower part of the eye sockett to the middle of my cheek bone. Is it possible that the doc was wrong? It is really sore and I have occasional headaches in that temple area but nothing over whelming. Since so much time has passed, is it worth it to go somewhere else and have another doc look at it?

2007-09-20 19:47:25 · 5 answers · asked by Praire Crone 7 in Injuries

For the past few weeks I have been experiencing a growing pain in my wrist. The pain originated under the ball portion of my wrist on the pinky side of my hand. If I bent it downward or turned the steering wheel or even use it to support me when I croutch it would send a sharp pain in that joint of my wrist. It feels as though it is enflamed and I am not sure if it is a tendon, carpal tunnel or what? The pain grows with each day and I am not seeing any physical signs (yet). Can anyone give me a diagonsis and if identified any remedies? Thank you kindly.

2007-09-20 19:28:54 · 2 answers · asked by oftheangels25 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I have trouble sleeping. I feel tired, but when I go to bed, I just lay there. I do not have health insurance, so I cannot go to a doctor. Any suggestions as to what I might be able to do to help me get to sleep without the use of medications or doctors?

2007-09-20 18:30:21 · 9 answers · asked by jessereczek 3 in Other - General Health Care

I am getting excessive sleep in the day and it's a poor quality sleep in the night. This is giving me lot of problems to even work in office.I would be greateful if this day time sleep come in night.
Please help urgently.

2007-09-20 18:26:24 · 8 answers · asked by arvind g 2 in Other - General Health Care

2007-09-20 18:13:27 · 12 answers · asked by footcrampmassage 1 in Pain & Pain Management

My son broke his femur a couple of weeks ago. As a result he was given a pin in his leg and it was set. He is home now and doing some movement after being in bed for most of the days after his surgery. He now hears a swueeking or rubbing in the area where he received the pin. Is this from over exerting it to early after surgery or is this normal, he feels no pain in the area but he is just concerned is all.

2007-09-20 18:02:31 · 3 answers · asked by Bruno H 1 in Injuries

ok so when i put something in my mouth i get this really strong tingling thats like a sharp pain in my mouth. but its like where my jaws and cheeks are like on the sides of my mouth. now it only happens sometimes but when it does happen it will like happen for 2 days n then not for a whole month. but it hurts my mouth soo much and its only for like 1 minute max. but omg its such a painful, tingling, sharp pain on the side of my mouth. its not when i put only sour stuff in my mouth or ne thing like that...its jus the randomests food. wat is it? and is ther sumtin i can do to prevent it?? help PLEASE.

2007-09-20 17:58:17 · 7 answers · asked by browneyedbeauty5 2 in Pain & Pain Management

I did this afternoon at school and it was embarrassing!-_-..curse those stairs.But the kids in my school were nice...they asked if i was ok..how bout u...do u trip UP the stairs?

2007-09-20 17:31:13 · 9 answers · asked by pd5119 5 in Injuries

ok..So I had a mental breakdown and crying my eyes out, and I was trying to kill myself slowly.
I was being stupid, I am fifteen.
I took like eight more..god knows
the next day...I threw up EVERY HOUR
I couldn't digest anything

so is this normal? i use to abuse tyelnol in the past but it wasnt this bad.

2007-09-20 16:17:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

It comes in a white capsule form and has been used as a pain
medication

2007-09-20 15:35:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

If u have tape worms and u had diarrea every day for about 5 days would you eventualy see some worms dropping out?

2007-09-20 15:35:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in First Aid

Hi everyone, I had a cramp on my hamstring while sitting in an awkward position almost 2 months ago. I was perfectly fine after that.

Until I first exercised after the cramp, I could feel sharp pain then. The pain was not felt during exercise, but after it.

It's at the back of my knee and a 2 or 3 cm up to the direction of my thigh. Whenever I bend or squat cos of visiting the loo, I get the sharp pain. The pain is felt greatest when my leg is in bend position, and I place the calf away from my thigh. (usually when u squat, your calf touches your thigh).

And whenever I try to recover from squat or just a bend of my knee(occurs for a period), I feel strain on that pain area, it's like a muscle tear and I have to stretch a few times to ease off the 'muscle tear' like pain.

Any idea what has happened to me? I had stopped exercising for quite awhile, but the pain was still there, it doesn't seem to go away.

2007-09-20 15:23:34 · 2 answers · asked by Adel 2 in Injuries

and i have tramadol from a minor surgery last year can i take 1 old tramadol? its about 6 monthd has exp date!

2007-09-20 15:19:56 · 9 answers · asked by notsurewhatyourelookingfo' 1 in Pain & Pain Management

Hi, I'm concerned about my back pain, because it never stops. I mean it literally never stops hurting, no matter what I do. I'm under a lot of stress, so do you think that's why? My boyfriend causes me a lot of stress, my family, my work, things like that... and it just hurts all the time. What should I do?

2007-09-20 15:17:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

lately I have been having some attacks at night were my upper stomach starts hurting really badly and i start sweating and gasp for air for about 1 -2 hours every other night! I drink some tea to keep my stomach warm and take advil so the pain can go away sooner but I would like to know why this happens? and if there is any over the counter pills that I can take to make it go away.

2007-09-20 15:03:56 · 3 answers · asked by Victoria 3 in Pain & Pain Management

but my head still hurts .. the shots were about 5 hours ago .. can anyone offer some advice

2007-09-20 15:01:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

By back has really been paining me lately and I'd love to get any tips. (Back problems run in my family, but it's nothing serious.) Carrying a bookbag around school all day really makes it worse and I have no locker. Any tips on that? Thanks if you can help!

2007-09-20 14:49:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

Last night, I woke up to a very bad pain in my right calf. I guess it's a cramp, but I just want to make sure because of how it happened while I was asleep. All day today my calf felt weird, like putting pressure on my right leg would cause another pain like that or something. Cramp? Or what is it?

2007-09-20 14:45:10 · 11 answers · asked by Luis M 2 in Pain & Pain Management

for the past couple days, i've had a sort of soar throat. it's soar but a constant throbing like. when i bend down it feels worse, its on the right side of my body. to be super specific its kind of towards my color bone and into the back of my throat. what could this be :( and what medication would work forit because TYLENOL doesn't

2007-09-20 14:44:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

I have a sprained ankle and I hated crutches so I stopped using them and now I'm playing around like usual and I'm even playing volleyball.

2007-09-20 14:21:23 · 7 answers · asked by LilMsDetroit313 1 in Injuries