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Okay, I'll try to make this post as "non-TMI" as possible. I had my first-ever sinus infection a few weeks ago, and the PA at my doctor's office prescribed Omnicef for me for 10 days. It did a ...

Have you ever had that sensation that your foot has fallen asleep? Sometimes it’s easy to determine why this happens, like when you are sitting in an odd position or something. But if your hand ...

It’s been over 25 years now, but I can still picture it as clear as day: my Dad lying down on the living room floor every single night performing a series of exercises that a local physician told ...

When I was little, if I scraped my knees, my Mom was at my side pretty quickly with some hugs and maybe even a Popsicle. But if I was running a 102-degree fever and couldn’t keep anything down, ...

I was trying to get some work done at my desk when the phone rang. It was January of 2007 and caller ID showed that my Dad was calling. It wasn’t Thursday, his usual day to phone me, so I knew ...

You can totally see it in the photo. My Mom is standing next to my two sons at the Oregon coast. Because it was warm that day, she is wearing flip flops. And right there in the picture, clear ...

Finally, the two hours of waiting in the lobby were over, and I got to go back into an exam room and get poked again for some more blood work. Then I headed home and ate a big lunch. I spent the ...

When we last left off, I had just drank a bottle of super sweet orange soda pop at a Sonora Quest laboratory as part of my two-hour glucose tolerance test to check to see if I had Type 2 diabetes, ...

On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, I got up, drank a nice cup of strong black coffee (with no cream, according to the rules the nurse at my doctor’s office told me the previous day), got my older son off ...

Hello everyone! Tonight after dinner my mother-in-law and I got to chatting once everyone else cleared away from the table, and somehow the subject of breast implants came up (you all know how ...

On Monday, April 7, 2008, I summoned up my courage, picked up the phone, and made an appointment to see a physician’s assistant later that morning at my regular doctor’s office. I told the ...

Having a dry mouth is really not a lot of fun. It’s like feeling sort of thirsty, but in a different, cotton-mouthed sort of way. I was never dying of thirst or anything, but in spite of the ...

When we last left off, I was telling you about the day I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. As I had mentioned before, my symptoms had started a bit earlier. Nine days earlier, to be ...

April 11, 2008 is a date I will always remember. It’s the day when a nurse came into the exam room at my doctor’s office and announced “You have Type 2 diabetes.” (In case you are wondering, ...

First, the good news: I've lost about 45 pounds since last Spring. Now, the bad news: Mother Nature has a cheeky sense of humor at times. While I'm pretty darn proud of my weight loss ...

I've been using Zicam a lot lately to try to ward off the various colds and bugs that are flying around, and I've also been having a lot more migraines than usual. In fact, I've been having a lot ...

I hope someone can help me with a health issue I'm dealing with right now. I've never been a wheezy person and I don't have asthma, but I'm doing it now and it's driving me nuts. I've been ...

Hello there! Does anyone know of a good ophthalmologist in the Phoenix, AZ area? My endocrinologist suggested I get a full eye exam but I'm not familiar with any eye docs. Thanks!!

Hi there! I was just wondering if anyone on here has tried this new "Ped Egg" thing I keep hearing about. It sounded sort of interesting and I was reading a lot of positive feedback on it, but ...

The other day I went in for my annual exam. During the breast exam, the nurse practitioner noted 2 flat moles on the side of my left breast that she felt I should get checked out. Both have ...