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Patient Empowerment in Medicine - An Idea Whose Time Has Definitely Come

It wasn’t too long ago that getting sick meant going to the doctor, listening to your physician tell you what was wrong with you, and then obediently taking your prescription to the pharmacy to be filled. For anyone to even think about questioning the “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” advice was just unheard of. The doctors went to medical school and know everything, and we as patients didn’t need to educate ourselves about our own bodies or question their diagnoses, right?

Alison Beaver -- Roseola: Fever and Rash in Toddlers

I had never heard of this disease before, and wanted to share what I learned this past week...because it is a disease that (typically) is not serious, but during the week-long infection...it is extrem

Sexy Foods That Put You on the Mood

According to Jennifer Berman, MD, Director of the Berman Women's Wellness Center in Beverly Hills, California, there's a growing body of evidence that some of the vitamins and components in foods can

Menopausal Eyesight, I've given in to bifocals all the time!

My menopausal eyes are now 100% in corrective lenses With Bifocals!
My eyes are too dry to wear my contacts. They stick to my eyeballs and no amount of drops is helping me get them out easily.

SottoPelle

Thank you Michelle for your story in Paradise Mag. I like you have been tearing my hair out wondering what is going on with me. I finally put my foot down and demanded answers. I am 49 yrs old and was just told I am in menopause! I am reseaching the product SottoPelle the Bio Equivalent Hormonal Replacement Therapy. If anyone has some insite to the use of SottoPelle I would love to hear about it.Thank you Barbara

Muscle weakness and loss. Elevated liver enzymes, no hepatitis or hiv detected?

I was bit by a Brown Recluse spider in Nov of 2007,shortly after started feeling achy and weak. The weakness continued but had no insurance to go to a Dr. until April 15th 2008. Dr.

Michael Jackson: Anorexia, over-medication, and heart failure

I have to say how sad I am at the death of MJ. I have one of his CDs in my car CD player right now and I work out to at least 3 of his songs.

About Me My Mirena IUD Nightmare

Hello,nice to meet you all.

I had my thyroids removed just over a year a go,I have had trouble getting the meds right but slowly getting there.
I had Mirena IUD removed a few months ago after having it over 4 years,(I had it to control heavy bleeding)I found out it was the cause of a lot of my medical problems,weight gain,cysts on my left ovary,breast lump,and my thyroid being removed,now I am trying to get my hormones sorted out after Mirena mucked them up totally.

Lower Abdominal Cramping

For about 3 or 4 weeks now I have had this cramping pain in my lower abdomen. I finally went to the gyn about a week and a 1/2 and she said that my uterus is slightly enlarged and to come back in 3 weeks for a sonogram. Well in the mean time my period has started and the pain is worse than ever. Yesterday I doubled over in pain and took some tylenol which dulled it enough to make it through the day. My period is really heavy and I have even had to start taking iron because I was anemic for a while. I just keep taking tylenol to help me through the day but that is getting old.

Help! My bladder hurts and I have to pee all the time

I'm sorry to tell you, but your daughter has interstitial cystitis. Inter what? By the time we could actually say the two words together - we had discovered that we were in for a loooong haul.

Generally considered an older lady's disease - my 19 year old daughter had won the lottery without even buying a ticket. How do you get Interstitial Cystitis (IC) and why do you get it? Questions we posed to our general practitioner and to the urologist we were referred to.