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literature class
Posted Monday January 19 2009, 6:36 pm
hey hey hey. im in this literature class and we are supposed to start writing a short story. i came up with this idea like this girl had it all and then one day she is forced to move to this school across the state and its "in the hood" and stuff. she is depressed and tries to O.D. but i am not like this at all. i would never even think of O.Ding so i have no idea which drug to use...so what would be a believeable drug to have Nicole take?
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a lump in the roof of my mouth
Posted Monday January 19 2009, 4:45 pm
female/16
I have recently found a small lump in the roof of my mouth.
I don't drink and I don't smoke.
I'm really worried because I have done some research and I have found numerous articles on how lumps in the mouth could be mouth cancer.
I went to a party a few days ago and I did drink a bit and I did have a puff of a cigarette but is very rare as I have never been drunk and only smoked once before.
I'm scared to tell my parents because they don't need to have this to worry about.
Just hoping that someone might be able to give me some advice on what I should do or any idea whether it could be cancer or just something else.
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Pet
Posted Monday January 19 2009, 1:43 pm
dog spitting up blood
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something serious?
Posted Monday January 19 2009, 12:12 am
16/f
my nipples are really lumpy. is that normal or should i see a doctor?
ive had my period a little more than 2 years if that matters...
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cold
Posted Saturday January 17 2009, 6:50 pm
i have a cold and i need to get rid of it by tomorrow. ive had the cold for two days, buti have a newly developed dry cough. my nose isnt that bad, but it is a bit stuffed up. any suggestions?
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cold/flu sick for two days straight
Posted Friday January 16 2009, 9:02 am
alright i was fine on monday and tuesday of this week. But I gained weight from winter break, so right on monday i started dieting and exercising for 30min, until wednesday. I think I overdid my exersice on tuesday, i did a bunch of cardio moves. Tuesday night, about two hours after my exercising I remember not feeling to well, so I decided to go to bed. And I didnt go to bed late, i went at 10:30 reading a book. Well I couldnt sleep that night. My body ached EVERYWHERE. My head hurt so badly. I peed three times that night, but I dont remember drinking anything before I went to bed. And when I tried to walk I felt like passing out, I couldnt walk straight, it was dizzy. I was up every hour, I even cried because it hurt so badly. So I stayed...
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Hypoglycemia
Posted Wednesday January 7 2009, 5:03 pm
17/f
i have Idiopathic Reactive Hypoglycemia. Most forms of hypoglycemia is caused by diabetes but IRH is just the blood sugar problems without the diabetes. I was just wondering if anyone on here has this also or knows anyone with it. How do you deal? Because right now it's the biggest annoyance in my life. There's rarely a day that i can go without being completely sick to my stomach. I'd love to be able to go a week without having this effect me but i dont know if that's possible. If you have hypoglycemia do you know any tricks or foods that help the nausea?
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binger
Posted Wednesday December 24 2008, 1:41 pm
I have a horrible problem. I overeat a lot, compulsively, and I think I have binge disorder. It's usually only on days that I'm not doing anything, but I'll go to the freezer and grab a tub of ice cream and take it to my room and eat it all alone. I don't know why either, it's just an impulse I guess. I'm not depressed... I have a lot of friends and a boyfriend, and I'm not overweight, somehow :/ but I always feel awful after I do it, so I just keep eating junk food. How can I stop myself from doing this?? I want to kick the habit before anyone finds out about it, and before it gets worse, to where I start gaining weight.
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my body is shutting down?!
Posted Sunday December 21 2008, 3:14 pm
i had a tab (speed based) friday night around 10 and it was my first time. i didnt go to sleep that night and my jaw all the way up to my temples hurt really bad! is it from chewing gum for many hours? and then saturday night i went to a party and got drunk and my jaw still hurts! it hurts to the point where i cant eat so i havent eaten an actual meal since friday afternoon. i have to be really careful when i shampoo my hair and it hurts when i open my mouth wide. it hurts really bad like sore wise.
why is that? and when will it go away?
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I am sore all over. My mucles and joints ache. Help me, please!
Posted Sunday December 21 2008, 12:31 am
I am really sick but I don't know what is wrong with me. If anyone has ever had anything like this, please tell me!
First it started about 2 and 1/2 to 3 weeks ago. I work as a cashier in the local grocery store and they had put me on the register really close to the entrance. A draft was blowing in and within 20 minutes I had a sore throat.
Well, that sore throat stayed for a few days (~4 days or so). It suddenly had disappeared when I woke up one morning but my voice sounded HORRIBLE. My voice was all scratchy and went in and out all day long. This went on for another 4 days or so, but I had no pain with it. Well, it started to go away about the same time I had some sort of chest congestion happening. ...
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Dizzy, forgetful?
Posted Monday December 15 2008, 5:58 pm
Lately, I have started working out more.
I also have started to get dizzy very often. I forget things that I was told just a few seconds ago. Also, the circulation in my legs have been retarded. Sometimes I forget to eat, so maybe that could effect. I just am not hungry very often anymore.
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MY BUTT
Posted Monday December 8 2008, 11:22 pm
im getting this weird butt pulsing feeling in my right butt cheek:S I know it sounds weird but it feels like its pulsing and i dont know what to do cause its getting annoying:S
thanks and i will rate!
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Anorexia.
Posted Friday December 5 2008, 2:02 am
So I've had an eating disorder for almost 4 years now and I'm trying to recover. I was in the hospital for 9 months this year. Before I left I had like a natural high. I was feeling so good about myself and not worried about my weight and I knew I was healthy. About a month after I got out all of my problems came back. It was really hard because I gained 30 pounds. I'm 5'7 and now weigh 120, which I know is "healthy" but I want to be less. I know I can't lose weight though because I will never lose enough to please myself and I'll just cause myself to relapse. If I don't restrict/purge I harm myself in other ways (cutting, popping pills, etc.). I feel like I have no one to talk to about it, besides my therapist..but I want a friend I can go to at any time and talk to this about.
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Lost my voice
Posted Thursday December 4 2008, 11:04 am
okay so on monday i started to feel a little under the weather, just sniffles and that kind of stuff. It got worse and by the end of tuesday i had started to lose my voice. I dont have my singing voice at all and my talking voice fades in and out and is scratchy. I dont have a sore throat, I dont have a fever, and I really dont even feel very sick besides the runny nose and that I'm tired. When im not talking it doesnt feel like im sick but when I begin to speak it just doesnt work. I need my voice back by monday but I dont know whats wrong with me and I haven't had time to visit a doctor. I was wondering if anyone had lost their voice before and what they did to get it back faster. I've been resting it, trying to speak as little as possible but its not showing any improvement. Thanks!
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Headache
Posted Tuesday November 25 2008, 10:39 am
17/f
I've had these terrible headaches, sometimes migrains, since I was a little kid. I've grown accustom to them,so even if it hurts, I learned how to manage, but sometimes they're so bad they get in the way of my social life. Ibuprofen doesn't work anymore, and tylenol wont either. I get sinus headaches, too, so I grabbed excedrin sinus headache, and it hasn't helped, either.
But all that aside, I was wondering why I get these. Can headaches be linked to depression? And what other remedies do you suggest I try to make these go away?
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What are the symptoms of the flu?
Posted Saturday November 22 2008, 12:20 am
So, I was reading some information on some medication my mom takes and it said something about flu-like symptoms.
What is considered flu-like symptoms? I just need to know what symptoms a person will have when he/she has the flu. I thought about going to Google but the only thing I'd know to type in would be "what are flu symptoms" and that wouldn't cover everything I want to know.
I know when I get the flu I don't feel well. I usually throw up with the flu and run a fever. What else could there be? And if you take this medication and experience flu-like symptoms then how do you know it isn't because you actually caught the flu?
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Breast Cancer.
Posted Friday November 21 2008, 11:35 pm
I have a weird lump in my left breast. But I am only 14. Its been there for about 1 or 2 weeks. Can you get breast cancer when you're only 14? I'm not sure, but I'm scared it might be something. Or are lumps normal? Its in my nipple, but I can't feel it when my nipples are hard..
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grosss
Posted Tuesday November 18 2008, 6:10 pm
Okay, so my lips have been abnormally dry. The like inside of them like not yet my mouth but the end of my lip is all raw. They hurt really bad so i've been putting on chapstick like 24/7. I have to put a lot on for the burning to stop. Now there are like lots of tiny bumps on my lips and i don't know if somethings wrong. Does anyone know? By the way the chapstick i use has never done this before and i use it all the time. I resently got a new one so i don't htink that its old.
THanks a ton!
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Heavy bleeding after abortion
Posted Monday November 17 2008, 9:52 am
Hi,
I underwent an abortion ( MTP) on the 21st October and the doctor has told me that she cleaned everything...No bleeding occured for the first one week, then the bleeding started...it started becoming more and more over the days and then continued till 2 weeks thats when I approached another doctor ( bcoz I moved from India to Sweden)...The doctor has checked and told that its normal and the bleeding could continue between 3 to 4 weeks...On the third week, it started coming down and I was thinking it would over soon...But, all of a sudden from yesterday the bleeding went un controllable and with lots of clots in it...this morning I visited the clinic, they checked, did the ultra and foudn nothing wrong...the doctor prescri...
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My mom can't urinate and is pregnant. What is it and should she seek help?
Posted Saturday November 15 2008, 5:20 pm
My mom is pregnant with a boy (her first boy). She's 36 weeks pregnant now. She's having some really hard problems today and I thought I'd post it on Advicenators to see if someone could help her cope or tell her what is going on.
She says that her vagina hurts a lot and almost feels like it's on fire. This pain is causing her to be unable to pee on her own. My mom said it hurts so much that she feels like she just can't let go of the muscles to go pee. She simply cannot relax.
The more she tries to go, the more it hurts. She says it's not like a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) as she's had them before. There isn't anything to cause the burning like a UTI because she cannot even start.
The ...
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