Other - General Health Care - April 2007

Hi! I am so confused right now. I am a 21 year old female student who works full time bartending. I missed a week of work (Last week) and visited my doctor at the Walk In Clinic I go to *TWICE* in 3 days. He wrote me a note "excusing" my days missed at work due to a case of vertigo in my right ear. Now I am not a rich girl, I do not have health insurance (I know, I know, I am looking into it when I get my next 2 paychecks! lol) and everytime I go to visit the doctor its $70 office visit PLUS meds/tests so it totals out to be at least $150-250 each time I visit. My question is : I returned to work with my 2 doctors notes (got one each visit why not that's why I paid $70) everything was fine and I worked this past Friday Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday at work I got a very bad dizzy spell from my vertigo and had to go home. My boss told me I needed to go back to my doctor and get a note releasing me to go back to work. I am feeling better I just got a really random dizzy/nauseated spell at work and I don't have $70 for another office visit just to get a NOTE!

What do I do? Do I call the office instead of going in there and having other patients "listen in" ? If I call what do I say? I am so bad at these types of things. Please help me out. I need to go back to work on Friday, I am a starving student and I need to work :(

2007-04-18 10:16:02 · 12 answers · asked by Skinny Blonde 3

2007-04-18 07:14:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

My mom takes them everyday, and my little boy wanted one, so she gave him one. I just wondered if it was good for him or not. Thank You

2007-04-18 07:10:19 · 10 answers · asked by baseball man 2

For about 15 minutes I could not make out where I was. I went little further and then I could remember the road back home. How did this sudden lapse of memory take place? I am 40 years old.

2007-04-18 06:45:24 · 9 answers · asked by Justanian 1

i can sleep up to 12 hours easy but the hard part is to fall asleep i can be trying to fall asleep for up to two hours

2007-04-18 06:37:23 · 13 answers · asked by HEIDY 3

2007-04-17 16:12:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why am I able to fall asleep at 11 or so, then wake up at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and totally be asleep at 20 mins before my alarm goes off at 6:30? I am SO tired then...

2007-04-17 16:05:04 · 8 answers · asked by KJ480 3

My brother-in-law was being seen in his local hospital's ER hallway (as all the rooms were full). A portable x-ray was taken of the bed beside him in the open hallway. That is illegal since it's ionizing radiation in the air and it scatters to whatever it can find to absorb into. He also had to get a CT scan and the tech said "oh this'll kill all your little swimmers." This hospital obviously has very poor radiation practices and they are unprofessional. She wants to know who she can contact to report this to, and I don't have any idea. I suggested OSHA (since they also regulate radiation in a hospital) but i don't even know how to do that. Any suggestions?

2007-04-17 15:03:03 · 4 answers · asked by sarahsmurfette 3

2007-04-17 11:05:31 · 1 answers · asked by annette565 1

Every time i have to give blood for a test or something (which is often now that i am pregnant) , i bruise almost immediately and it's a big bruise that lasts for over a week. Initially i thought maybe the nurse i had was just too rough with me but this last time i hardly felt pain at all and she was able to get it on the first try but within an hour i was black and blue. I know i know, ask my doctor, and of course i will but i wanted to know if anyone else experiences this or knows what the cause could be. Anemia maybe? i have been taking my prenatal vitamins so i didnt think it would be due to an iron deficiency. My veins are very small and difficult to find, which i let them know right away and they usually take from the same vein because it is the only one that cooperates. Does anyone know what could be causing this and if i should be concerned? i would have them use a different vein but then they have to try 3 or 4 times to get it going and that most definitely bruises.

2007-04-17 10:38:33 · 1 answers · asked by theburlaces 3

2007-04-17 10:33:04 · 3 answers · asked by annette565 1

I'm seeing my period(at least i think it is) and i'm bleeding like crazy, i mean squash of blood like.... as if i'm pee-ing, is this normal. it never happen before. and the thing is i just end my previous period like a week and a half ago which lasted for about three weeks and some days... HELP!!

2007-04-17 05:38:20 · 1 answers · asked by mess 1

2007-04-17 03:06:20 · 2 answers · asked by rk 1

My insurance company United Behavorior Health has denied my claim first because I wasn't covered ... When I proved it was covered they want to say it has not been filed in a timely manner It has been a year now? I live in NC. I will to persue this in a legal matter if nessessary as the clain is over 10K

2007-04-17 01:34:21 · 3 answers · asked by Sandra D 2

transcultural nursing

2007-04-17 01:30:41 · 1 answers · asked by viki m 1

I have a question about sleep. Basically, it seems that for my body, when I stay awake till 3AM or so, I wake up the next morning and feel loopy and not really awake for several hours later. However, when I go to sleep around 12:30 or so, I wake up and feel rested. In both cases, I get the same amount of actual sleep hours. Does the time of night I am going to bed having an impact on me feeling tired? If so - please explain (and if possible provide sources/articles.) Thanks a bunch! :)

2007-04-16 19:43:46 · 3 answers · asked by Jason 2

Why is it when I have 6-8 hours sleep or less I wake up fine but when I sleep over 8 hours I wake up more tired and my body aches??Can you have tooo much sleep?

2007-04-16 09:55:31 · 6 answers · asked by Tabitha 3

its for a debate we have and we dont know too much. so plzzzzzzz help!! ><

2007-04-16 04:44:22 · 20 answers · asked by kyo_cat4ever 1

okay, everytime i kneel, my bones crack, 100% of the time. The last time I've cracked my knuckles was in the 7th grade. I'm in grade 11, and I am worried that I may have arthritis, my mom has arthritis I think, but it's very minimal. Like it's not that serious, but I'm already having problems at such a young age. My hips are mildly cracking and feeling stiff and I feel weak whenever I walk up the stairs (at school, they have small steps) and I get anemia often (especially when period time comes!! >.<) Is there a problem?? Am I going to get arthritis?? !! I need help! and my BACK is the worse of all!! If I stand/walk for a while (5-7 hours) my back will seriously start to hurt A LOT!!!!

2007-04-16 02:56:56 · 9 answers · asked by chopzsite 2

im sorry i meant that i would constantly have this burning sensations ( feeling) on my tongue

2007-04-16 00:01:41 · 2 answers · asked by wendy o 1

i would like to know if there is any school teaching eye glasses design. also, If anybody knows, other than dispensing optician, is there any other eye related jobs or corresponding institution?

2007-04-15 22:54:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is a Neurologist here in town, Dr. P.D. Patel (the neurologist who worked on Christopher Reeves).

My husband has been referred to him, but we are trying to figure out why he is listed in the phone book under "Physicians & Surgeons-Neurology (Nervous System) It says under this ad for him Neurology & Psychiatry-- E.M.G & E.E.G.
**AND** he is also listed in the phone book under "Physicians & Surgeons-Psychiatry" It says under this ad P.D. Patel, MD. Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Medicine.

What we can't figure out is: is he is a psychiatrist and he is going to try and say that all the medical problems are caused by psychiatric problems/issues (which my husband has none, except for a little bit of depression-- but he's been disabled for over 10 years and can't work-his disability is getting worse-so a little depression would be normal) but I dont get it, does it just mean that he is a psychiatrist too?
I know this sounds like a dumb question.

2007-04-15 17:11:40 · 10 answers · asked by brown eyes 3

2007-04-15 17:05:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok well right now i have a stuffy nose..and last night it was so stuffy that i couldnt breath through my nose. Also my thoart hurts and recently i have been getting warm and really cold....all of a sudden,,,,..i checked my tempeartue and it was 97.7 i think im getting a fever..but im not sure..please tell me what wrong with me...should i go to school tommorrow? and howlong does it take to get better?

2007-04-15 15:40:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im writing a speech about sunscreen and i was wondering if you still tan with sunscreen on and how does it affect the tanning process(i not sure what category to ask it in =/)

2007-04-15 15:26:44 · 4 answers · asked by Coonsie 2

I'm asking this because I don't want to be paraniod so... when you turn your head as if you're looking over your shoulder and and run your hand down the back/middle of your neck (opposite side from the way your head is turned), do you encounter a straight slope or a slope, then a bump and then a continuation of the slope. I'm asking because I've noticed slight bumps before on both sides of my neck but thought that it was normal or muscle or something. After a few months one of them is very small but the other is quite big/bigger than it was before. I hate going to the doctors so wanted to get advice and normality ratings before getting too concerned. Also, I've been having days where my neck feels like my head is way too heavy for it to support and starts aching, which could be completely unrelated.

2007-04-15 15:24:52 · 9 answers · asked by erghblah 2

I just got a trial pair of contacts on Friday. I have two very different prescriptions, my left eye is way worse then my right but my right has an astigmatism. So in the process of getting used to my contacts I will get these killer headache because the right swivles so much I can't focus. So tonight I have had them in the 8 hours I was supposed to and go to take them out. The right eye, with the thicker lens pops right out no problem, but I have now been trying for an hour to get the thinner left eye out. I have tried flushing it, lifting my lid, scrunching it in the corner, rolling my eyes around, and of course the normal way my doc told me to. My eye hurts horribly and I just want it out. I am so frustrated I was able to cry for about 20 minutes and that STILL didn't do it. I don't know what to do and my doctor's office isn't open again until tomorrow.

2007-04-15 14:21:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

when i was 13 i got a cartelidge piercing and a keloid had formed. i'm 18 1/2 now and i just decided to let the piercing heal (if it will ever close, i don't really care). but will the keloid ever go away? if not, maybe i'll just put an earring back in there so i don't think about it and feel it.

2007-04-15 14:13:27 · 6 answers · asked by *princess* 4

to wrap your knee with an ace wrap so that its supportive and protective.?

2007-04-15 13:54:56 · 1 answers · asked by manda.dances 5

I work with the public and although we are separated by a glass partition, I pass paperwork back and forth under the window. Aside from the fact that I look like I've been crying uncontrollably for a week, I wonder about the health factor for the public. If I am just passing paperwork back and forth is it still contagious?

2007-04-15 13:01:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous