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what's your most recent medical or mental issue?
headache. :| 6%  6%  [ 4 ]
toothache. :| 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
backache. :| 6%  6%  [ 4 ]
joint ache. :| 6%  6%  [ 4 ]
stomach ache. :| 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
cold sore. :| 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
nasal/sinus issue. :| 5%  5%  [ 3 ]
sore throat. :| 5%  5%  [ 3 ]
fatigue. :| 13%  13%  [ 8 ]
hot/cold/fever :pale: 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
other medical issue :| 10%  10%  [ 6 ]
mental confusion :| 6%  6%  [ 4 ]
sadness/depression :| 13%  13%  [ 8 ]
mania :| 5%  5%  [ 3 ]
anger :x 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
transient psychosis :pale: 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
one track mind :bounce: 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
other mental issue :| 5%  5%  [ 3 ]
no issues mental/physical :D 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
where's my ice cream? :chef: 8%  8%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 62

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26 Nov 2019, 8:48 pm

Juliette wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
blinkin' cold sore. :|


Do you get onto it with a cold sore cream, or use any specific remedy, AB? I get these now and again due to stress, and find rubbing a bit of cold sore cream on the area gets rid of them fairly quickly, thankfully. Just used to let them heal on their own, which would take a fair while... Hope yours is gone soon. 8) For me, it's hot/cold feverishness for the past 7 days(throat infection).

i hafta use denivir/pencyclovir cream, that accelerates the cure within a week. without the stuff, the nasty hangs around for 2 weeks minimum, and over a month if on the corner of my mouth.



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26 Nov 2019, 8:49 pm

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The best "cure" for a cold sore is to just leave it alone.

not for me, the acyclovir-derived cream cuts to 4 days or so, the length of oozing pus from the sores.



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26 Nov 2019, 8:51 pm

Juliette wrote:
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The best "cure" for a cold sore is to just leave it alone.


I used to feel that way, KK. Until I tried a £4 small tube of zovirax. I found that if I got onto it early on, I was able to prevent it from spreading and becoming more painful by the day. It cleared it up much more quickly, in a matter of days, rather than weeks.

you are fortunate to live in an enlightened nation that treats health care as a citizen's basic human right, the cream here costs $900/tube for those without Cadillac plan insurance. most amuuurican insurance plans won't cover it for that reason.



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26 Nov 2019, 8:58 pm

Backache, joint aches, and fatigue - just part of my daily life at this age.

Also sliced deeply into my finger while cutting up a chicken recently. Then managed to re-open the wound by banging the same finger into a shelf edge at the grocery store, and had to go fishing through my purse for a tissue to stop the bleeding, causing the security guard to come see what I was doing and then follow me around the store the rest of the time I was in there.



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26 Nov 2019, 9:00 pm

^^ :o OUCH!! i hope you could keep it antiseptic.



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26 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm

Thought I was getting a cold today, but seemed to be a false alarm. Anyways, got a piece of food embedded in my gums a few weeks ago and panicked thinking my impacted wisdom tooth was infected. Thought I needed emergency antibiotics/surgery. Went to the dentist and he just told me to get some special mouthwash. *palm on face*



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26 Nov 2019, 9:02 pm

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Thought I was getting a cold today, but seemed to be a false alarm. Anyways, got a piece of food embedded in my gums a few weeks ago and panicked thinking my impacted wisdom tooth was infected. Thought I needed emergency antibiotics/surgery. Went to the dentist and he just told me to get some special mouthwash. *palm on face*

if i were you i'd invest in a Waterpik device, fill it with dilute hydrogen peroxide, blast those dental margins with it.



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27 Nov 2019, 1:05 am

Chronic Urticaria, an awful hellish disease. Feels like I have an entire colony of fire ants and fleas crawling over my body biting me for 3 years now. Sensory hell.



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27 Nov 2019, 1:17 am

^^^gosh, that sounds AWFUL- are there any treatments or even palliatives for it?



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27 Nov 2019, 2:42 am

I had a coworker once who had urticaria. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.

And thankfully I've never had a cold sore.

My most recent malady has been reflux. I was prescribed esomeprazole and the problem is gone. Just have to remember to take the tablet every second day. I don't need it every day.



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27 Nov 2019, 8:28 am

I hit myself on the head with a 12 kg kettlebell last week and I've been having some weird issues possibly stemming from that. Having that looked at today.


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28 Nov 2019, 9:13 am

...apparently gave myself a concussion. yay.


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29 Nov 2019, 12:41 am

feeling the weather in my joints due to the cold dry weather. am having to take more palliatives.



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29 Nov 2019, 2:29 pm

possible asthma attack

Every inhaler they give me just makes it worse or does jack


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29 Nov 2019, 6:30 pm

A cold that has come with ear pain (and difficulty swallowing), clogged ear and distorted hearing, eye infection, head ache, coughing, poor sleep and over sleeping, sore throat and stuffy nose. It started Monday over a week ago, and the symptoms keep recycling. Slept through most of last week, and still not past it. Getting tired of this one.


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29 Nov 2019, 11:16 pm

i have had some luck deterring some nasty bugs with either "Airborne" or "EmergenC" which are two preparations containing a megadose of vitamin C and Echinacea.