erikexodus asked:


I received treatment for an infection today, and my left arm (my writing, cooking, cleaning, do-everything arm) is too sore to move. I am trying to work it anyway, but it hurts to much to be useful. Will tylenol, cold compress, hacksaw be effective in easing the pain? I have work to do and would hate to stay up all night trying to finish with only my off-hand.

John

Katlyn ♥ Disney asked:


At the end of May I got a bad cold. After two weeks with no relief I finally went to the doctors. They told me I probably had bronchitis and gave me prednisone, cough syrup with codine, and an inhaler. The prednisone messed me up… I couldn’t eat and it made me go into rages. The cough syrup gave temporary relief to my sore throat, and the inhaler gave temporary relief to the scratchiness. However, when I finished the entire treatment, I was no better and even got worse. Another two weeks later I went back. They gave me azithromycin.

It’s been three months and my symptoms are not going away. I have a sore throat half the time, occasionally I get a fever… as high as 102. But the worst part is the coughing. I can’t stop coughing. And I’m constantly coughing up disgusting phlegm. I’m coughing so much that it’s starting to cause serious muscle pain in my shoulders, upper and lower back, and sometimes abdominal region. A couple times I’ve gotten really bad stomach aches. These symptoms just won’t go away. Every other week or so I have a day where I think I might be starting to get a little better, but then a couple days later I feel worse than I did before.

I think I need to go to the doctors again, but I don’t want it to be a waste of time because they didn’t do much help for me before. They assume that if I don’t have a raging fever every day, there can’t possibly be anything wrong. I just want to be able to breathe, not cough phlegm up every 30 seconds, literally, and not have these back and shoulder pains.

Anybody know what could be causing these symptoms that seem to be ever-lasting?

Thanks!

Charles

mann54 asked:


mouth wash for oral hygiene in this codition. I have the second recurrence of small mouth ulcers under the tounge, on the gum and also inside mouth on the right side during last 4 months.They are small sizes, shallow and white. Very painful on eating and during drinking hot and cold liquid.My dentist calls it canker sores condition. I am 60+. Should I cosult my dentist or a dermatologist for treatment. Any herbal cure for these painful ulcers?

Alicia

b8erxwt asked:


I don’t know if it is a sore throat but I can feel that my throat is having a little pain whenever I swallow. I started to have this when I got a cold and the sneezing has also hurt my throat. Does this have a connection to it?

I feel that I will get sick as soon as Saturday. I sometimes only get sick on Saturday and Sunday. It pisses me off to lose those school break days…

What should I do in order to prevent my throat from getting worse? And what is the best way of treating it well?

Willie

Sarah K asked:


okay, so basically i dont feel too well ill list the symptoms and medical treatment/medicine im on:
painkillers, (used before)
had a broken leg operation 9 weeks ago (plate and 6 screws)
feeling sick
diareoha
a cold
sore throat
night sweats
NO FEVER
body generally aching,
Please i really need advice as this has been going on for weeks!!!

Arthur

Chariot asked:


I got a cold, and we have no actual cold medicine. We have allergy medicine (Reactine), which is made to treat the symptoms I currently have. If the symptoms are the same, are the treatments interchangeable? Or would it be completely ineffective since the cause of a cold is completely different from the cause of an allergic reaction?

Additionally, we have cough medicine (Buckley’s), which treats all the cold symptoms I don’t currently have. (coughing, sore throat – don’t have those. I’ve got sneezing, eyes watering, a stuffed nose, and headaches.) Would there be any merit in taking that?

Laura

Dan M asked:


I think I got herpes from masturbating when I had a cold sore on the left end of my mouth.

Now I have a bunch of sores on my penis and it is very painful to touch myself.

Do you think I got the herpes that never goes away?

What do you think is the best prescription treatment for herpes?

What can I buy in the mean time to help the sores heal faster?

It’s been almost a week and the sores still arent gone yet.

Laurie

CpDT asked:


A little over two weeks ago I had a cold sore. It has healed since then, but yesterday i noticed a small blister forming on the side of my index finger about an inch below where the nail is.The blister is pretty small ( a lot smaller than the pictures I have seen of herpes whitlow), there is a red base around it, and there is only one blister right now. The area is fairly sore as well. I was wondering if this sounds at all like Herpes Whitlow or if there are other possibilities to what this could be. I washed my hands as much as possible after i put treatment on my cold sore, but it is possible that I didnt do a good enough job with that. I never noticed any cuts on my hand either while I had the cold sore.
Also this morning i used a pin to put a small hole in the blister. I squeezed the area and a red looking fluid came out.

Darlene

Lilly asked:


Friday the 23rd I started feeling like I was getting a cold, sore dry scratchy throat. So I rested up that weekend to start a new job Monday. Sunday and Monday I had no voice at all, but overall, didn’t feel bad. I started work with no voice. Tuesday I felt worse, but voice was coming back some, started working night shift at the jail. Wednesday night I woke up prior to going to my third night at work, and couldn’t breathe, my chest was so tight, and burning. I went to ER and called out sick. The ER gave me breathing treatment, did lung x-ray and said I had some congestion behind my heart. So she prescribed z-pak antibiotics, inhaler, prednisone, and gave me some Tylenol w/codeine for cough. Next day I started running a temp of 100. So went back to ER, and she just said everything was the same, continue with treatment.
So I called my regular Dr and went to see her on Friday. She advised to continue with medications, and told me I shouldn’t be at work. However, I am concerned about my new job! I called my boss and she asked me to bring in my medical notes, which I did. But I haven’t heard anything further, if this is going to impact my ability to continue working. My regular Dr told me to come back on Monday if I wasn’t feeling better. So over the weekend, I tried to rest, and developed more wheezing. My chest makes gurgling sounds and feels like a sponge being squeezed, but never gets dried out. I am not coughing up a lot of much, or having much of a runny nose. Just sound bad when breathing, and if I do too much I start getting light headed, coughing, and can’t catch my breath. I went back on Monday, as I haven’t been able to sleep much, and still having hard time breathing. The Dr gave me another inhaler, more prednisone, more antibiotics, and said I have “asthmatic bronchitis”. I have had seasonal allergies that cause asthma symptoms in the spring, like hay fever, but never had actual asthma.
I have no idea how this came on or what caused it. It is dry here in Colorado, and been cold, but not too cold. Monday the Dr said “no way” when I asked if I should try going back to work. She was concerned this would get worse, or I would end up in the hospital. So I don’t know what to think about my job? I called my boss again, Monday, and told her my Dr advised I stay home till Wednesday and go back to see her again. All I got was voice mail. My Dr said she would be happy to fax documentation to my work if they need something else.
Dr decided to have a home nebulizer sent to me yesterday (Monday) to do breathing treatments every 4-6 hours at home. That was basically all the hospital, and Dr’s were doing anyway and you can rent the nebulizer by the month for cheap.
Today is Tuesday, Feb 3rd. It has been about six days since I started having the wheezing symptoms. I haven’t had any more of a fever, but I do notice that my face gets red, and feels hot yesterday and today. I am tired, but I can’t sleep, when I lay down I just feel like my chest is tickling, and have to cough. I still sound wheezy, even with the breathing treatments today. Does anyone know how long this takes to get over? Do you get over it? Will my chest sound normal again? Is there anything that helps or that I can do to keep it from getting worse?
What about working? I don’t think this is contagious from what I read, but I also don’t want to pick up some new germ from someone, and make it worse.

Ruby

Q&A guru asked:


It’s right underneath my nose and it is definitely NOT a cold sore. Anyway, it is really painful so I have to pop it so puss can come out and give me some relief. But after I pop it, it gets like….re-filled with puss the next day! And then I pop it again. It’s a cycle. But if I don’t pop it, it hurts really bad and is very irritating. How can I make it go away completely? Any easy treatments?
I do squeeze it when it’s only white

Charlene