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• acetaminophen: caution
• Allergies: treatment with Kenalog.
• Anemia: Care, Treatment & Diet for Pernicious Anemia.
• Angina: attacks & nitro overuse
  • Imdur and dizziness
• Antibiotics: When should they be discontinued?
• Apthous (oral) ulcers
  • Cause and prevention
• Artherosclerosis: diet and treatment
• Arthritis Treatment: chicken collagen
  • golden raisins in gin?
  • cytotek, voltaren, acetaminophen (Tylenol)
  • "Devil's Claw" treatment
  • proof of "Devil's Claw" treatment?
  • Devil's Claw: side effects
  • Treated with hydroxychloroquine.
  • What is "Propolis"?
    • Propolis (Bee Bread) Arthritis treatment?
    • Is propolis a dangerous medicine for a 2 year old with asthma?
  • Glucosamine Sulfate
• Aspartame & Nutrasweet?
• Asthma and prednisone
  • More Asthma and prednisone
• Asthma and Tilade (nedocromil sodium).
• Attention Deficit Disorder: alternate to ritalin
  • More ADD and Ritalin
• Avascular Necrosis.
• Behcets Disease
• Blood Types
• Bursitis: My neighbor is 71 and is taking Propacet
• Cardiac arrythmia treated with inderal, ( propranolol)
• Chitosan for Weight Loss.
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • What are my chances of repairing damage caused by smoking?
• Coating on the Tongue - what's the cause?
• Crohn's Disease
  • About Crohn's: regional enteritis
• Depresssion: unable to take any antidepression drugs
  • Nardil's effectiveness versus newer medications.
  • Decreasing effectiveness of Nardil.
  • Nardil and weight gain
  • Paxel: effects
  • Should I suggest Paxel to my Doctor?
  • Antidepressants and sexual dysfunction
  • non-drowsy antidepressant?
  • Nardil and foods to avoid
  • Nardil and food and drug restrictions.
  • Nardil: Long term effects.
  • Xanax, Nardil, and memory loss
  • At what point is Xanax toxic and dangerous?
  • Depression and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  • Imipramine side effects
  • Imipramine with Ritalin side effects
  • Depression and RSD
  • Eldepryl for my depression
  • Nortriptyline
    • Nortriptyline and weight gain.
  • Prozac and Surmontil with herb Yohimbe bark extract?
  • treatment with St. John's Wort
• Diabetes, Type 2 : and Metformin
  • Diabetes, Type 2: Prednisone
  • Diabetes, Type 2: Insulin and Kidney Function
• Diverticulitus: cause and symptoms?
  • Recommended diet.
  • More on causes and symptoms.
  • Coupled with rectal bleeding.
  • Nature of pain
  • ..and SED Rate
  • related to stress?
  • Hereditary?..what can I do to prevent it?
  • not related to cancer
  • ...with gout/cause and treatment
  • What does Augmentin contain?
  • Diverticulitus treated with Zantac and Metamusil
  • introduction of new diet, constipation
  • diet for diverticulitus?
  • DIVERTICULITIS: Can you give me a Net address for proper diet?
  • How is the Diverticulosis Disease surgery done?
  • What are the results after rem l of parts of the decending colon?
  • Post surgical treatment
• Drug Combinations: Lorcet, Neurontin, Elavil, Prilosec
  • Acebutolol, Alprazolam, Buspar, Serzone, Synthroid, and Propacet.
  • Side effects of Ambien
  • Procardia, Tenormin, Baby ASA, Prednisone, Centrum vitamin, Fosamax, Tylenol prn and Restoril
  • Atenolol, albuterol, lanoxin, cimetedine, sulfamethoxazole, metaclopramide, klonopin, cardizem, triamterene, carafate, amitriptyline ETC.
  • Tenormin, Adalat, Diovan, Lasiux, K dur 10, Synthroid & now Prozac.
  • Pravachol, Zocor and Impotence?
  • Restoril - reaction to.
  • Theodure, Servent, Proventil, Aerobid
  • Testosterone
  • Zoloft
  • Pilocarpine
  • Propacet,what is it?
  • Tenormin, Cardizen
  • Tenormin, Nitroglycerin, and Lipitor.
  • Antimalarials with Hytrin, Zocor, Fosamax
  • Tegretol & Neurontin
  • Imdur - how does it work?
  • Lo-Ovral contraceptives.
  • Neurontin side effects.
  • Neurontin, Klonopin, and Pamelor.
  • More side effects.
  • Indications for Neurontin
  • Neurontin for pain
  • Neurontin for back pain.
  • Prozac and St. John's Wort.
  • Remeron side effects
  • More Remeron side effects
  • Does Remeron slow down the metabolism?
  • Amantadine
  • Hytrin - possible relationship to levels of serotonin.
  • Vancomycin and Morphine
  • Zoloft - effects in combination with Neurontin and Depakote
  • Zoloft - in combination with Zyrtec.
  • I've taken Inderal, then Calan for 12 years - What for?
  • Voltaren (Diclofenac) and high blood serum levels?
  • Wellbutrin and St John's Wort.
  • Ziac what special advantages has it over other drugs?
• Dysplasia re: tissue biopsy of the male bladder?
• Emphysema: prednisone/theophylline/ salbutamol and depression
  • can salbutamol induce hairloss?
• Erythromelalgia causes and management.
• Essential Tremors.
• Estrogen: Tiredness/estrogen levels
  • Estrogen: Soreness
  • Estrogen imbalance caused by body fat?
• Familial Tremor. What is the treatment?
• Fibromyalsia: diagnosed with
  • Treatment and Allergies?
  • "Natural Medicine?"
  • Neurontin and depression? Ambien, supportive measures
  • FM: request for info 1
  • FM: request for info 2
  • What age group is affected by FM?
  • Severe Pain.
  • Is there a new drug that might help?
• Fingernail Damage
• Flushing: most common causes.
• Gastroesophageal reflux: Zantac and Gaviscon.
• Gingko biloba
  • ...with prozac
• Gout ... what makes urine turn color of tea?
• Guinea Worm
• Hair Loss: what would cause a loss of body hair in a man?
  • side effect of plaquenil?
• Headaches treatment with Imipramine.
• Hepatitis B vaccine and arthralgia.
• High Blood Pressure Can I discontinue blood pressure medication?
• High Cholesterol::
  no change in the level with Pravachol
  • What are effects of Pravachol?
  • Zocor and safe combination?
  • Salt Substitute: Pan Salt
  • Measuring Cholesterol
  • and hypertension, Calan/Hytrin/Zocor/K-dur
  • relationship of cholesterol in foods and the blood
  • High Cholesterol: Adjunctive therapy to Provachol
  • Simple diet for high cholesterol.
  • Lipidil: new treatment for high cholesterol.
  • Could it be caused by St. John's wort, ginko or valerian root?
  • Which is the best drug for treatment?
• High protein and albumin blood levels
  an indication of?
• Hyperhidrosis
  • Suggested treatment.
  • Hyperhidrosis and Robinul.
  • excessive sweating
  • sweaty armpits: help.
  • Sweaty palms and Aluminum Chloride Hexahydrate
  • What is the surgery that everyone is talking about?
  • and Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy
• Hypoglycemia could it cause head aches and leg pains?
• Hypothyroidism....could this be my problem?
• Hypotension: Neurally Mediated or Orthostatic
  • Unexplained dizziness
  • dizziness explained?
  • diagnosed with neurogenic dysautonomia, suffers from severe orthostatic hypotension
• Hypothermia
• Hytrin vs Saw Palmetto
• Ibuprophen:does it cause kidney problems?
• Impotence: caverject
  • could it be caused by tylenol pm or excederin pm?
• Insomnia, an alternative to Surmontil?
  • trouble getting a good night's sleep, have started taking melatonin
  • Sleep: Interaction of Restoril and Melatonin
  • Abdominal pain at night
  • Sleep: Restoril and tinnitus
  • Restoril overdose
  • I'm addicted, and getting no results.
• Intestinal gas
  what could cause someone to have gas all the time?
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
  • With mitral valve syndrome?
  • Treatment with Equalactin
  • More on Equalactin.
• Lichen Planus: Cause and Treatment
  • Medical Treatment
• Lichen Sclerosus: diagnosed with
  • About treatment
  • Associated complaints?
  • Treatment AND Depo-Provera
  • LS explained, Cobetasol,Temovate, testosterone propionate
  • Lichen Sclerosus: cortisone, temovate, testosterone propionate
  • info on "Lichen Sclerosus" and "Squamous cell hyperplasia"
  • Lichen Sclerosus: Treatment with Temovate
  • had vulvodynia for 14 years, the vulvar skin where it hurts the most looks like lichen sclerosus
  • Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus: what are the dangers in pregnancy?
  • Recurring cysts
  • Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus
• Lichen Simplex Chronica: Treatment
  • Treating itchiness
• Lupus. and iron level deterioration.
• Macular Degeneration: Nutritional therapy
• Menstruation:and surgery
• Metalic taste in mouth caused by Vasotec.
• Migraine
  • Treated with Neurontin
• Multiple Sclerosis how can I confirm my diagnosis?
• Multiple Systemic Atrophy.
• Nasal Polyps
• Neurogenic meditated Syncopy.
• Night Sweats: what's the cause?
• Nitroglycerin Ointment: Anal Fissures
  • Could childbirth cause anal fissures?
• Osteoporosis: Prevention.
• Onychoschizia: fingernail problems
• Pain killers: Morphine, Amantadine, diazepam
  • Leg pain: Naproxen, pentoxifylline
  • Peyronies Disease
  • Pain killers: Source of info on the NET
  • acetylsalicylic acid, morphine, fentanyl
  • Morphine management
    • morphine pumps
  • allergy to Naproxen
  • Side effects of Naproxen.
  • Reaction to triamcinolone acetonide Kenalog
  • Does Ibuprofin affect the Kidneys or Liver?
  • Voltaren side effects
  • Voltaren and stomach irritation
  • Voltaren and gastrointestinal irritation
• Parkinsons: Imdur, Sinemet, Xantac, Tenormin, Prozac
  • Weight loss on Siminet, hallucinating on Amantidine.
  • Effect on voice
  • Could a Sinemet overdose could be lethal?
• Paxil and resulting constipation.
• Peripheral Neuropathy.
• Pick's Disease
• Plantar Fasciitis: heel spurs
• PMS
• Polycystic Ovary Disease: PCOS
  • Increase risk of diabetes, heart attack, stroke?
  • Defined, re: pregnancy
  • What can I expect? Do I need to worry?
• Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)?
  • PMR: related to dental work,silicone, DMSO?
  • Test for PMR?
  • Diagnosis of PMR?
  • More on Polymyalgia Rheumatica?
  • Giant Cell Arteritis\Polymyalgia Rheumatica
  • PMR and exercise?
  • relationship of sed rate and pain?
  • more on SED, PMR and pain.
    • About SED rate
    • What is SED rate?
  • Effects, and Eyeritis
  • Prednisone and PMR
  • PMR, Prednisone, and Diabetes
  • PMR: Continued use of Prednisone
  • PMR: long term use of Prednisone
  • PMR and emphysema: prednisone side effects
  • alternate to prednisone?
  • PMR and Adrenals
  • safety of methotrexate , its side effects for PMR relief?
• Prednisone: drug combinations
  • "Effects of cutback?"
  • More on effects of cutback
  • Side Effects
  • Side Effects 2
  • More Side Effects
  • ...and Appetite
  • Treatment for sarcoid meningitis.
  • relative safety
  • relation to osteoporosis
  • Possible long term side effects.
  • Prednisone during pregnancy.
  • Prednisone and breast feeding.
  • Prednisone and GVHD (graft-versus-host-disease).
  • Prednisone and hip replacement
  • Alternate to Prednisone
  • Is there any research condemning the use of Prednisone?
  • Alternate day prednisone dosage?
  • more on "Alternate day prednisone dosage"
  • tapering off of Prednisone, any naturopathic remedies?
  • alternates to prednisone for iritis
  • is Osteoporosis a side effect of Prednisone?
  • Prednisone and Ulcers?
  • Prednisone and Heartburn.
  • diagnosis due to prednisone response?
  • Nasal polyps and Prednisone
  • Prednisone and Melitonin?
  • Prednisone, Vertigo, and mood swings.
  • What effect will prednisone(deltasone) have on glucose levels?
• Prilosec: concern about long term affects
• Propolis....allergic reaction.
• Prostate Surgery: Impotence
  • Surgery: questions answered
• Prostate tumour and Mexican Clinics.
• Proteinuria: What does "spilling protein" mean?
  • What should be done?
• Provera: for large ovarian cyst, is surgery an option?
• RASH: some treatments
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)?
  • Dibenzyline (phenoxybenzamine)
  • Pain control: MS Contin, Baclofen, Doxepin, Zoloft, Miacalcin
    • need for exercise, Neurontin, surgical or chemical sympathectomy, TENS
  • role of surgical sympathectomy in the treatment
    of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
  • Is Surgical Sympathectomy advisable?
  • Neurontin, is this an effective drug
  • bad RSD, discussing an implanted morphine pump, what drugs can be mixed with morphine?
  • finally been diagnosed RSD, what is your opinion on an endo-thoracic sympathectomy?
• Scoliosis general information.
• Senile Dementia
• Shingles and relief from post-herpatic neuralgia
• Sialorrhea: excess saliva
  • In association with Parkinson treatment.
  • Treated with atropine sulphate
• Sjogren's Syndrome?
  • Medications for Sjorgen's Syndrome?
  • depression caused by Sjogren's Syndrome?
  • Is plaquenil the correct medicine for this disease?
• Sore Throat: salt water gargle.
• Syphilis: what can you tell me?
• Tachycardia explained.
• Temovate: postinflammatory hypopigmentation'
  • as corticosteroid preparation
• Temporal Arteritis: diagnosed with
  • generational factors?
  • TA with PMR? energy, hair, weight loss due to prednisone?
  • Enderal to treat TA with PMR
  • suspected Temporal Arteritis and steroid treatment?
  • TA and blood clots
  • Causes
  • What is the long term prognosis for patients with TA?
  • diagnosis confirmed with "Biopsy" vs "Ultrasonography"
  • Temporal Ateritis: Reducing dosage of Prednisone
• Varicose veins: injection treatment
• Vaso-vagal syncopal episodes, any information concerning this disease"
• Vertigo
• Vitiligo?
  • and St. John's Wart?
• Voltaren emugel cream for muscular pain
• Wellbutrin (bupropion)
  • ...and Paxil side effects
  • ...and Methedrine (methamphetamine)
  • ...and hives?
  • side effects
• What are the causes of older people's legs turning brown?
• Williams Syndrome?
• Zantac: Are there any long term side effects?

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