flashjet

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Pakistan • Age 45

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dysmenorrhea!!! what to do?help, i can't take medicine i have some allergies

ylla_reese @ylla_reese (4) • Philippines 1 Aug 07

i am suffering from dysmenorrhea but the thing is i can't take medicine such as mefenamic, i got an allergy to it :-(

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flashjet Allergy (or hypersensitivity reaction as it is accurately called) occurs when an individual's body reacts to some foreign substance being introduced into the body. That foreign substance can be any thing and varies from individual to individual but requires at...

2 Aug 07

dysmenorrhea!!! what to do?help, i can't take medicine i have some allergies

ylla_reese @ylla_reese (4) • Philippines 1 Aug 07

i am suffering from dysmenorrhea but the thing is i can't take medicine such as mefenamic, i got an allergy to it :-(

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flashjet Hot compresses may do you good. And in that effect any thing that relieves your pain may be helpful. But the reason why drugs in the NSAID class are recommended for dysmenorrhea compared to any other class of analgesic is not so much in its ability to relieve...

2 Aug 07

Heres to Health.

GBGFREEDOM @GBGFREEDOM (29) • United States 1 Jul 07

What motivates people to take vitamins?

vitamins

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flashjet You are funny. What is more funny is that you think you are witty. Any way every one to his own understanding.

2 Aug 07

can you really make it to drink 8-12 glasses of water everyday?

wraithstriderwife @wraithstriderwife (938) • Philippines 25 Jan 07

i really try to incorporate the habit of drinking 8-12 glasses of water everyday, but sometimes i just can't do it. when i wake up in the morning, i drink 2 glasses or more. and in around 9:00 in the morning, i take another glass,...

morning

water

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flashjet How can any one forget to drink water? You drink water when you are thirsty, that is all you should care about. By the way I do not have a drinking habit (as in drinking alcohol). In fact I do not drink. You are funny you know.

2 Aug 07

what is antibiotic?

kilayko @kilayko (170) • Philippines 9 Jun 07

what are the antibiotic?give an example and what is the side effect for those pregnant women and children in taking this called antibiotic?is people can take antibiotic without the prescription of the doctor or without the...

antibiotic

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flashjet If you can take cocaine without a prescription, I see no reason why you should not be able to take antibiotics without prescription too.

1 Aug 07

can you really make it to drink 8-12 glasses of water everyday?

wraithstriderwife @wraithstriderwife (938) • Philippines 25 Jan 07

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flashjet It is comical to read that so many people can bear with the nuisance of counting glass full of water they drink every day. What a waste of time.

1 Aug 07

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do you suffer from the dreaded monthly monster called "DYSMENORRHEA"?

pinkdelyt @pinkdelyt (192) • Philippines 14 Nov 06

a huge number of females suffer from this pain - and it's no joke...share your thoughts here. I feel yah, girl...

discomfort

dysmenorrhea

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flashjet I checked a few threads here, entitled "Dysmenorrhea". I felt concerned to note that some of the descriptions in the various posts did not seem to support a diagnosis of dysmenorrhea at all. In the best interest of the ladies concerned with this condition I...

1 Aug 07

Experiencing "DYSMENORRHEA".........

shekaina24 @shekaina24 (161) • Philippines 18 Mar 07

It's not been too easy having a "Dysmenorrhea", like me and other girls out there likewise my experience..... I have my regular menstruation but it has been painful during my first and its second day. I always take my painful...

dysmenorrhea

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flashjet I think your doctor was cutting out a joke on you by suggesting you to get married and pregnant to relieve the pain. The problem underlying dysmenorrhea is an imbalance of the the estrogen to progesterone ratio. The hormonal system may be some what imbalanced...

1 Aug 07

Experiencing "DYSMENORRHEA".........

shekaina24 @shekaina24 (161) • Philippines 18 Mar 07

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flashjet That is because your wife has what you say she has i.e. irregular menstruation. The medical term for irregular menses is "Metrorrhagia". This girl is suffering from dysmenorrhia which refers to a syndrome of painful menstruation. Please do not try to judge...

1 Aug 07

dysmenorrhea!!! what to do?help, i can't take medicine i have some allergies

ylla_reese @ylla_reese (4) • Philippines 1 Aug 07

i am suffering from dysmenorrhea but the thing is i can't take medicine such as mefenamic, i got an allergy to it :-(

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flashjet It might be helpful to know if you have a cross-allergic reaction with other drugs in the NSAID class. In that case drugs from the COX-2 Inhibitor class may be prescribed. Check with your doctor for alternate medications.

1 Aug 07

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are psychiatrist/pharmacie companies trying to profit from illnesses

slboller @slboller (13) • Canada 20 Jun 07

my husband has been on lithium for many years now to treat bipolar disorder..there has been many times though that we have attended his doctors appointments and they have asked him if it is good timing to try out repiradal... so...

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flashjet The drugs available in the US market are regulated under the FDA. A drug passes through three phases of testing before it is allowed to appear in the market. That should answer your question. Though it is silly to assume that people are being used as guinea...

1 Aug 07

Why do we have to buy branded medicines when it is cheaper to buy generic ones?

Jeanniebugs @jeanbug23 (992) • Philippines 22 Jun 07

Do generic and branded medicines have the same content and works effectively the same? So why do we still buy the branded names?

biogesic

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flashjet Can any body explain what they mean by a generic drug as opposed to a branded drug?

1 Aug 07

Heres to Health.

GBGFREEDOM @GBGFREEDOM (29) • United States 1 Jul 07

What motivates people to take vitamins?

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flashjet Silly advertisements.

1 Aug 07

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Centrum Power

snopkitty @snopkitty (74) • Saudi Arabia 11 Jul 07

Multivitamins is a suppliment source of nutrients and minerals and for me i am taking Centrum. I used to have one tablet in the morning after the breakfast but after sometime, i feel something in my stomach so i move it to after...

medicine

vitamins

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flashjet Multivitamin tablets are a source of multiple vitamins not of nutrients or minerals. This is precisely the reason why they are called multivitamins. It is unclear how you are getting boosts of energy by taking vitamins. No I do not supplement my diet with...

1 Aug 07

acne dietry modification

decent07 @decent07 (232) • India 14 Jul 07

1-eliminate sugar 2-eat a high fiber diet eg fruit vegetable and wholle grain legume. acne clear very fast when fiber was increased in diet3-reduce consumption of fats and junk food4- avoid food high in transfatty acid eg milk and...

acne food to avoid

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flashjet I have not read the book you mentioned. Neither was I able to access it online. Though I did discover a lot of similarly titled books and even websites. I did not bother going through any of those, however. I can not therefore say if the excerpt for the (so...

1 Aug 07

what drs dont tell u & u need 2 know

yeewong @yeewong (73) • United States 8 Jul 07

venders goes into dr offices and tells the doc, "i have this new pill out and 4 ever prescription u give out, i will give ur office a percentage of what they make off that pill." therefore, i was told that only 1 out of 10 drs...

drs

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flashjet First of all vendors do not go up to doctors offices in order to sell off their drugs, rather medical representatives of pharmaceutical companies do that. Like every other sales-men the medical representatives or reps for short try to be genuinely nice to the...

1 Aug 07