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"HYPOKALEMIA OR LOW POTASSIUM"

mandyblue
  • By mandyblue · New reply 12:18 pm
  • Journal · 32 replies
  • I want to share this research information in "My Journal". This is a very long collection of articles, that explains in great detail, about Hypokalemia or Low Potassium. It is for anyone who needs help ...

Ahhhh....I LOVE my bed!

onward
  • By onward · New reply 12:16 pm
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • It's cold and rainy out this morning and I am having a hot cup of tea. The last two days I have spent mostly in bed with a flare up and extreme fatigue. All of this had been brought on by stress, and ...

I spilled my coffee all over the computer table!

deebelle
  • By deebelle · New reply 10:29 am
  • Journal · 11 replies
  • Every morning I get up and fix a big mug of coffee and then sit down at the table and read my emails, Inspire etc. Today I spilled the whole mug and fortunately had a full box of tissues to immediately ...

Which autoimmune disease(s) do you have?

sport
  • By sport · New reply 10:09 am
  • Discussion in Living with an autoimmune disease · 174 replies
  • Since there are at least 80 distinct autoimmune diseases, I'm asking which one(s) people here have ...

H1N1 Vaccine...yes or no

mmarino
  • By mmarino · New reply 8:28 am
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • I would like to hear what you all are thinking about risks and benefit of the vaccine, and concerns of potentially aggravating an already disruptive immune process ...

Day Four

noella5088
  • By noella5088 · Posted yesterday at 5:05 pm
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Today, I've had an issue with being too hot. So, if I'm too hot, I'll scratch my neck. I started to scratch and pick today for the first time since using my shampoo. I feel relief when I use it every ...

Learn to Live with it (just telling my story).

BBWWPeaches
  • By BBWWPeaches · New reply yesterday at 2:07 pm
  • Journal · 19 replies
  • I have had problems with my knees since I was about 8 years old. In my mid twenties, I was diagnosed as having inherited Chondromalacia, along with having knee caps that were displaced so that they rubbed ...

Dentist appt.....Are you kidding me??!!!!!!

Terri9967
  • By Terri9967 · New reply yesterday at 12:34 pm
  • Journal · 21 replies
  • Ok.....went to my new dentist yesterday. After sitting there for 45 min and not being called, I approached the front desk and ask how much longer it was going to be? She told me that the phone repair ...

Somebody PLEASE HELP!!! ={

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · New reply yesterday at 10:54 am
  • Journal · 81 replies
  • Well, I'm now 2 years into a disease that is sucking the life out of me. If I had a nickel for every time I've balled my eyes out & said my famous quote "I can't take this anymore" I'd be a very rich ...

To: Pain From: Me

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply yesterday at 12:37 am
  • Journal · 9 replies
  • To: Pain From: Me Well hello pain, you might not want to hear this but you have out-stayed your welcome here in my body. You are the most annoying, agitating, distracting, way to needy, company that I ...

strange taste

carolAnn2
  • By carolAnn2 · New reply yesterday at 12:30 am
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • Has anyone ever gotten strange tastes in your mouth? i keep getting this the past few days,and its driving me crazy!! Ive been almost constantly chewing gum just to get rid of it. Is this a sarc symptom....or ...

I am doing better!

Jody-C
  • By Jody-C · New reply November 6, 2009
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • Thanks to all the positive thoughts and prayers from my friends, I am doing better! I am so glad as this has been a very rough time. This is day four back in my apartment and I am so very happy and thankful ...

School = feeling horrible. need advice

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply November 6, 2009
  • Journal · 12 replies
  • I go to the University of New Mexico it’s been about a month since I have started my classes and it is HARD I am taking 14 credit hours. I am always worried I will pass out on campus as I almost did ...

pots/dysautonomia

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply November 6, 2009
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...

SO excited to share what I have found!

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · New reply November 6, 2009
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • I have received TONS of wonderful support from this amazing community of people just like myself. All that struggle with debilitating symptoms, wrong diagnosis, less than quality doctors etc... I wish ...

Calcium deposits??? Please help!

donna_untamed
  • By donna_untamed · New reply November 6, 2009
  • Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 1 reply
  • I am desperately searching for some advise. If anyone would please take a minute to reply with any, I would be forever grateful! About three years ago I started getting sick. It is at the point now where ...

Plaquenil

ptcbelle
  • By ptcbelle · New reply November 5, 2009
  • Discussion in Treatment · 2 replies
  • Wanting some advice please. My doc wants me to start on Plaquenil and I am so afraid. I have no definitive diagnosis at this point. Started out as parvovirus....that has cleared up but i continue to have ...

Dermatomyositis w calcinosis

Holli
  • By Holli · New reply November 5, 2009
  • Discussion in Treatment · 6 replies
  • I suffer with extremely painful calcium deposits that break through my skin. I am desperately searching for someone that can give me knowledge of what to do. They are too large for surgery, not to mention ...

Doctors visit

Meema
  • By Meema · New reply November 5, 2009
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • I went to see my primary Yesterday. He did some more blood work and took some ex-rays. He wants an EGD then a MRI of my stomach and he has sent me back to the rummy today. So another Doctor visit. He ...

Using Baby Lotion

noella5088
  • By noella5088 · Posted November 4, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Using baby lotion seems to help. I've found the combination of shampoo from White Rain Lavender and Vanilla helps with smoothing out hair and washing the scales easier to handle. So far, I have very little ...

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