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Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness04 Jun 2008 06:43 am

My husband is getting so tired of us having to take taxis home from local parties and clubs because I can't face walking down our main street. There are so many places where people can get drunk and might vomit, that I can't risk it.

If my husband is really firm and insists that we walk home, I make him walk through back streets so as not to encounter someone being sick. Also, I won't visit anyone who is ill and I don't go into work if there is a stomach bug going around. If I discover that someone I know is sick, I worry about it for days. This phobia is making me experience increasing signs of anxiety attacks, and is really affecting my entire life.

'I've never been comfortable around sickness, but I've only been scared of it since 1990, when I was coming around from an anaesthetic (after I had had my hysterectomy) and I heard the woman in the next hospital bed vomiting all through the night. It was awful. I started to feel nauseous and I began to retch so hard that I was convinced that I was going to die. It was one of the worst nights of my life and I made the hospital staff find me a side room for the rest of my stay. The thought of that time makes me feel panicky and I can feel the nausea come over me. I'd rather not even think about it and I certainly never want to go into hospital again.'

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness21 May 2008 08:44 pm

My friend just told me she has Binge Eating Disorder (BED). I don’t know what to do. I was absolutely floored when I found out. What am I supposed to do now? I’m especially concerned about Binge Eating Disorder Compulsive Overeating. I just can’t imagine it. She’s plainly going to need depression medication. I can’t think of anything else to do.

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness10 Apr 2008 01:40 pm

The good news is that it is easy to find articles on mesothelioma cancer. I had an acquaintance who came down with the disease, and he has made every effort to share all the articles on lung cancer he has with his friends. He has actually made it a sort of personal crusade. He figures that, by encouraging more people to read articles on lung cancer, he increases the chance that they will catch it in time if they ever come down with it. He has found out what so many people find out too late: knowledge is power. Lack of the right information is one of the leading contributing factors to an early death. Please, read some articles on lung cancer. They just might save your life.

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness02 Apr 2008 06:40 am

Some diseases do not have any symptoms. The physician has to take a view based on his physical examination, the symptoms described and some test. Colon cancer is one of those diseases. The symptoms are linked to the colon. Passing blood with stool blood, weight loss, chronic anemia, irregular bowels etc. are some of symptoms. When the physician has these symptoms to consider, he may try medication. If the symptoms persist still, a colonoscopy would be done to look at the colon checking for unusual activity taking place. The physician would then advise you on the treatment

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness04 Mar 2008 07:40 am

sterilization reversalThe Infertility & Gynecology Center of Lansing provides an overview on tubal sterilization reversal. The center describes it as a reproductive surgery. There are some tests involved before starting the process. The tests involve semen analysis and taking out X-rays of the tubes and the uterus. There are also some hormone tests involved and in some cases, laparoscopy may as well be conducted.

According to the Center, the process involves a surgery through a 3-4 inch incision. The surgery is done with the help of a microscope. After the surgery, the patient is usually discharged the very next day.

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness02 Jan 2008 10:44 am

 

Sometimes survival after prostate cancer depends on the amount of experience that the surgeon has. The Cancer is less likely to return if it has been treated by a surgeon who has conducted over 250 prostate cancer surgeries.

Information has been researched at Harvard Medical School and Brigham  and Women’s Hospital. There is a protein test that can usually predict who will recover or who will expire from prostate cancer. Cancer has surpassed heart attack in being the number one killer.

Prostate cancer will be found in about 232,000 men this year. About 30.350 of those men will expire rather than survive after prostate cancer.

 

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness30 Dec 2007 07:42 pm

Do you suffer uncomfortable GERD attacks? For many people this is an uncomfortable reality that requires careful attention to diet and lifestyle. During the holiday season you need to be more careful because the range of rich foods is often contrary to good GERD eating practice. Acid reflux diet is an important consideration for sufferers. If you have ever suffered an attack you will be motivated to learn more about the trigger foods. They can vary from person to person but spicy and foods high in fat content are considered foods that should be avoided or eaten in moderation.  

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness29 Nov 2007 07:45 am

It is recommended that you seek the ulcerative colitis treatments as soon as you know that you are afflicted with it. If you delay it, the symptoms of the disease will become severe. In such a situation, surgery will be the only option that can help you get rid of the disease. It will be the only available cure for ulcerative colitis at that juncture.

Surgery for ulcerative colitis involves either all or the affected part of the colon. It may sometimes be needed when the disease is not at all controlled by medications or if the medications have severe side effects on the health of the sufferer.

Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness28 Nov 2007 04:44 pm

Cerebral palsy is in fact not a disease but a disorder, which affects a child’s posture and the way in which they move and has been caused by damage to a particular area of the brain as the child is developing. However, with this particular disorder the damage that has been caused to the child’s brain is not progressive. But even so just because no further damage is caused to the brain the symptoms associated with it do and as they grow older they become more evident.