I'm suffering from moderate tendonitis in my right shoulder. Since anything involving tendons and ligaments freaks me out to no end and I'm paranoid about this developing into something much worse, possibly requiring surgery, I'm curtailing normal activity severly til the end of the week (or until I go stark raving batty -- I give it til 7 tonight ( Read more... )

CDC warns of mutating bacterium, found in alarming rates in US hospitals and healthcare centers

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Never having had to take more than two/week, I've never bothered to delve too deeply into the uncommon side effects of my sleeping pills before -- I know my doctor went over them, he always does, but frankly, I've had a bottle of Restoril in my possession as long as I've had any migraine meds around, which has been more than long enough to forget ( Read more... )

According to a recent Bloomberg report, health insurance isn't enough to insure that medical costs won't send Americans into debt and financial despair.Speaking as someone with chronic health problems, I can absolutely say this is true. In my entire life, there has only been a six week period when I didn't have health insurance, and it was an ( Read more... )

Migraine is mostly gone, enough so that I'm not going to the hospital. It's down to a two, which is annoying, but not much else. I don't really consider that much, except that it's day seven now. Oh, and I found out yesterday that when I got my fioricet refilled last and they gave it to me without codeine, that was a mistake at the pharmacy -- ( Read more... )

Saw my doctor today -- as I figured, I have had a pretty bad sinus infection for a few weeks now. It was worse than I thought despite the lack of a major symptom: it had already moved into my left ear, and I'm glad I got in to see him today since I'm on day six of a triptan non-responsive migraine caused by the congestion pressure and I ran out of ( Read more... )

Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If we mistreated our bodies as badly as we do our minds then everyone would be dead, and yet there they go complaining all the time. Someone needs to get all our bodies together, sit them down, and give them a good talking to ( Read more... )

I need to find a new endocrinologist. This upsets me greatly as my old doc was super cool-- unfortunately, not cool enough to take my new insurance ( Read more... )

Cause damn, I have too much. And it makes me feel shitty ( Read more... )