I know the best way to find a doctor is through word-of-mouth. But I don't know anyone here and I really need to talk to someone about my mental health. I think I have the symptoms of depression ...
June 13, 2009 - 5:34pm
I have had severe migraines for probably 10 years now. They began when I started into perimenopause, so my doctors and I believe that they are partly hormonal in nature.
I have tried many ...
May 12, 2009 - 10:07am
I have migraine headaches and I have heard of people keeping a migraine diary. I was wondering how detailed it needs to be to actually help a doctor figure out what might be causing them?
April 22, 2009 - 10:21am
I had a bad itch on my scalp and as I scratched it, I must have inadvertently scratched it too hard -- because now I have a small scab there! It made me realize that our scalp skin is so much ...
March 27, 2009 - 10:19am
I know that part of the new administration's stimulus bill is money to be spent on computerizing all medical records. What will that mean to an ordinary person? And we've all seen people at our ...
February 17, 2009 - 10:27am
Do you fidget?
I'm just now becoming aware of how often I'm fidgeting. I move things on my desk. I change position in my chair while waiting for a web page to load. I think about getting a ...
February 10, 2009 - 11:16am
Like many couples, my husband and I have tried to have children for a while now. We have not done in-vitro fertilization, because of the cost, but we may try. However, it's been really hard to see ...
February 4, 2009 - 11:27am
Sweet and Low. Nutrasweet. Equal. Splenda. And now there's Truvia. (So many brands that the little packets-container on the restaurant tables are taking on the look of a rainbow!)
Who can make ...
January 23, 2009 - 10:33am
My niece, who is in college, is 20 and is almost 21. She has a longtime boyfriend and they are sexually active.
Here's my question: Why am I uncomfortable when they stay together in our home? ...
January 12, 2009 - 11:11am
I use the birth control patch that is good for 30 days. I love the convenience but I have noticed that I seem to get migraines around the time when I switch them out. I figure it must be due to ...
January 9, 2009 - 2:46pm
I never seem to get quite enough sleep, and so many of my friends and co-workers are the same way. With family, work and the world competing
for our attention span and all our waking hours, we ...
December 25, 2008 - 7:35pm
I am getting ready to fly home for the holidays. It's a long flight and I'm reminded what happened last year. I boarded the plane and found my seat and settled in. When the woman arrived to sit ...
December 22, 2008 - 11:41am
My doctor says that I should have a colonoscopy (I am 54) and I know she's right, but I keep putting it off just because it makes me squeamish to think about. If you have had one, could you write ...
December 11, 2008 - 10:22am
A Swedish study has found that it may be your heart that pays the price for dealing with a boss who causes you high amounts of stress. The research found that the workers who reported working for ...
November 25, 2008 - 6:41pm
I have heard about people traveling more and more often to other countries to have surgical procedures because they cost so much less than they do in this country. Sometimes they are for cosmetic ...
November 25, 2008 - 9:24am
Today is the Great American Smokeout, a day when people are encouraged to try to give it up for a day -- so that maybe they'll find it easier to quit completely. Are you quitting for the day? How ...
November 20, 2008 - 10:11am
I'm confused about the differences between normal heartburn, acid reflux and GERD. Are they the same thing? Are they caused by the same things?
How do I tell whether what I have is ok to just ...
November 18, 2008 - 9:58am
Do you get enough sleep?
It seems like nearly every health condition and every mental health condition benefits from the proper amount of sleep, and we hear about it frequently in news reports. ...
November 12, 2008 - 10:08am
I've been hearing a lot about inflammation when it comes to health and health news. Reports tell me what to eat to avoid inflammation;
scientists talk about it as being a key to arthritis and ...
November 11, 2008 - 10:26am
My friend is pregnant, and before she realized it, her wedding ring got stuck on her finger from the swelling going on in her body.
She really doesn't want to have her ring cut off if she can ...
November 5, 2008 - 10:30am
I hear so much about fish oil and flax seed oil. I know that they are good for us but they seem to be a lot alike in the health benefits they are said to offer.
What's the difference between ...
October 30, 2008 - 9:37am
There are dozens of things that occur nearly simultaneously when a woman learns she has breast cancer. Some have to do with physical aspects of the disease: surgery, chemotherapy and the resulting ...
October 28, 2008 - 6:08pm
Do you have a space to call your own somewhere in your home?
Maybe it's an entire room set aside as a studio, where you paint, or sew, or work on the novel you've thought about your entire ...
October 28, 2008 - 10:05am
Seems like all my life I've been unable to leave things alone on my skin to let them heal. It's almost a subconscious thing -- I might be watching TV and I catch myself picking at a hangnail, a ...
October 27, 2008 - 9:50am
After discussion with my doctor, we have decided that I will start a minimal-dose hormone replacement therapy.
I'm very aware that these are hormones, and not medicines. I forgot to ask -- ...
October 24, 2008 - 9:15am
We are getting ready for a move to Dallas, where we don't really know anyone. How does a person find a great new doctor in a new city? I hate to start canvassing co-workers or neighbors before I ...
October 22, 2008 - 10:12am
A friend has said that there are things about the structure of some people's ear lobes that actually can be indicators of later problems with heart disease. Has anyone else heard about this? Is ...
October 21, 2008 - 10:09am
For most of my life, I have had cholesterol that has been under 200. Recently, however, after a routine cholesterol test (it did include fasting) as part of an annual exam, I learned my ...
October 20, 2008 - 9:08am
My sister, at 42, just had her first mammogram. She knew she was overdue for it, and she's a nurse!
After she had it, however, she said it was no big deal, and that if she hadn't heard all the ...
October 17, 2008 - 10:19am
We all have them. Days in which you start out on the wrong side of the bed, or people at work are in a bad mood, or you have tons more to do than you have hours in the day and you're feeling the ...
October 15, 2008 - 9:35am
My mom had thyroid issues for years and ultimately had it removed and is on thyroid medicine now for the rest of her life.
Are thyroid conditions genetic? Do I need to be worried, or learn what ...
October 14, 2008 - 8:53am
I can already tell that my moods are changing, and it's not a coincidence that the days are getting shorter and the summer's bright sunlight is often giving way to gray or cloudy skies.
I also ...
October 13, 2008 - 10:05am
My niece, who is in college, is 20 and is almost 21. She has a longtime boyfriend and they are sexually active. Here's my question: Why am I uncomfortable when they stay together in our home? ...
Anne commented on Anne's post Sexually active -- but under whose roof?