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Allergic to EVERYTHING
- By ladybugger14 · New reply yesterday at 8:36 am
- Discussion in Creating a safe environment · 2 replies
- I finally stayed off Zyrtec long enough to have my prick test done and come to find out I am allergic to everything but the buffer solution. I have cats. I have dust. I have mold. I have trees and grass ...
BAD FALL
- By DLTS · New reply August 31, 2010
- Journal · 3 replies
- ON SATURDAY AUG 21, I WAS GOING FOR ANOTHER TEST WHEN I FELL DOWN THE LAST THREE FRONT STAIRS ON TO THE CEMENT. GOT HURT VERY BAD I ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL THAT DAY AND DID NOT GET OUT TIL LATE TUESDAY ...
STRAIGHT AND NARROW
- By NaniGirl · Posted August 30, 2010
- Journal · 0 replies
- It has been a great week. I have stayed so focused on eating right. I have been weighing and measuring my food to avoid portion distorion. My 10 weight loss really boosts my enthusiasm to eat right. I ...
My doctor is out of town
- By ladybugger14 · New reply August 30, 2010
- Discussion in Asthma · 7 replies
- I was just diagnosed with asthma two weeks ago and given Asmanex and Omnaris. I go for allergy testing next week, so I had to stop taking Zyrtec. The past two days, I have been sitting in the office unable ...
Toxic Cleaner Linked to the Asthma Epidemic
A Step Further on the King's Highway
- By Great-gram · New reply August 28, 2010
- Journal · 3 replies
- Greetings: A few things need to be or I want to be done before the heart surgery. Get a few more questions for the folks at Penn Health. Assess risk factors (I've found out there is no such thing as this ...
A few more words about privacy
- By Brian · New reply August 27, 2010
- Journal · 76 replies
- All of us at Inspire care a great deal about your privacy and work hard to ensure the information you trust us with is kept safe. We designed Inspire so that you have complete control over how your personal ...
Bumpy Road on the King's Highway - Getting tired - so complicated
- By Great-gram · New reply August 26, 2010
- Journal · 4 replies
- Greetings all! Just an update of the last several days - Was at the Penn Health Center on Monday (Hosp. of University of Penn). Met with numerous heart staff - was able to get the appt within a week's ...
Things don't go the way you would like them too.
- By Nikkis · New reply August 26, 2010
- Journal · 11 replies
- I went to have my 3 month PFT and then up to see my pulm. I thought I had done a very good job at blowing into that stupid machine. I was wrong about that. Once I got to the pulm's office I was told that ...
Needing heart surgery - need information re doctors at U of PA
- By Great-gram · New reply August 24, 2010
- Journal · 19 replies
- Greetings! The King's HIghway is getting more complicated. I don't even know what everything on my las TEE means, and I have a nursing background. Maybe through all this I'll be able to find out if the ...
It's pretty self explainatory...or you'd think so anyways...
- By ImJusMe1983 · New reply August 24, 2010
- Journal · 48 replies
- Ok...YEARS of BS and new symptoms and not ONE doc can tell me for sure what's up!!! 7 doctors are on the job and another one comes into play soon and no one is getting anywhere. I am doing my own research ...
NEW MINDSET
- By NaniGirl · Posted August 24, 2010
- Journal · 0 replies
- I am feeling great! I have managed to drop 5 pounds in about a week's time. I know that it is because of my mindset. I usually strive to do everything I can because I am the kind of woman who accomplishes ...
Vacationing with asthma & allergies
Traveling with Allergies and Asthma
- By suitcaseallergist · Posted August 22, 2010
- Discussion in Indoor allergies · 0 replies
- New site making it easier for allergic travelers to find hypoallergenic accomodations. AllerPassMD is an allergist managed site, listing and rating hotel rooms as a function of their suitability to particular ...
switching from elecare with milk protein colitis
- By mommaE · New reply August 21, 2010
- Journal · 4 replies
- We got the ok to slowly try nutramigen again. My LO has been on elecare for 4 months now and his GI doctor said we need to start to try to transition him to nutramigen. I am worried that once on nutramigen ...
Is this a pennies from heaven thing?
- By Great-gram · New reply August 21, 2010
- Journal · 6 replies
- HI! Back from vacation. See the cardiac surgeon on Monday for our first appointment. He is at The University of Pennsylvania Hospital. The paperwork was there when I got home. There was also something ...
Just diagnosed with asthma
- By ladybugger14 · New reply August 21, 2010
- Discussion in Newly diagnosed with asthma or allergies · 10 replies
- Hi, I'm new to this site. Last week, I went to see an specialist to get tested for allergies so I can break my Zyrtec-D addiction. While I was there, he diagnosed me with asthma, which I have likely had ...
Chaga extract for Asthma/Allergies
- By backpackerno1 · New reply August 20, 2010
- Discussion in Asthma · 1 reply
- Hi guys, Anyone out there use Chaga extract for Asthma/Allergies? My friend with asthma swears it's worked miracles for her - I want to order some but want to see if anyone else has used it. It's by Sayan ...
chronic sinus infections
- By nurse1946 · New reply August 18, 2010
- Discussion in Seasonal allergies · 1 reply
- I have allergies and asthma. Asthma usually only flares in the spring time but I have nasal problems all year with sinus infection 4-5 times a year always given antibiotics for 10days or so and within ...
MIND STILL IN TACK
- By NaniGirl · Posted August 17, 2010
- Journal · 0 replies
- Yesterday could have been a disaster, but I managed to pull it back together without diverting to old habits. Thank you Lord!!! I ate good foods yesterday and did not overindulge even when my emotions ...
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