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Filterqueen products

filterqueen is a member of ashtma and allergies and mother of asthmatics their air cleaner is fda approved...

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Biopsychosocial model for Asthma

Hello everyone, For one of my college courses, I did research on the Biopsychosocial approach to Asthma. I...

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Get Rid of ASTHMA

I never forget that day when my little angel having asthma attack whole night I hear her wheezing. As...

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Bruising thin skin

Hello, This is in response to cranberry juice as being helpful. I am on warfin blood thinner. It states in...

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Make a Roadmap

Try making a list of items in your home that cause you problems, or that trigger your symptoms. Develop a "road...

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A great resource

Written by an M.D. and Nutritional couselor, "Prescription For Nutritional Healing" is my best go-to book...

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help to ease your asthma

been having asthma for more that 20 years, but it took some time for the right diagnostic, they were trying to...

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Asthma Music to Educate Families

I hope you are having a wonderful beginning to this very promising New Year. My name is Al Keith. I am a...

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thin skin and steroid use

I discovered this by change. For me, the excessive bruising and bleeding under the skin is tremendously...

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Nausea and sneezing...think I know why.

I get an overwhelming feeling of nausea and sneeze from 1 to 6 or 8 times, like clockwork, within 5 minutes...

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I get an overwhelming feeling of nausea and sneeze from 1 to 6 or 8 times, like clockwork, within 5 minutes after taking my medications. I'm an RN, and have studied this for the last few years, because I knew it was related to the medications. I've worked day and night shifts, so my medications are definitely the culprit for me, because due to the change in shifts, I've taken them different times of the day. I've eliminated them one at a time, by not taking a particular one that day with the rest, but instead taking it a little later alone, to see if I get the same symptoms. I've narrowed it down to my women's multivitamin which has an iron supplement in it. I have not concluded yet if it is the iron, or something else in the multivitamin. I do know that when I was pregnant and took pregnancy vitamins with iron and that when I had a surgery and was given an iron supplement to take (due to anemia), it gave me severe nausea and overwhelming, horrible vomiting. Made me wonder if morning sickness isn't made a lot worse due to the iron. Taking it with meals or after meals didn't help me. I am now going to try to find a multivitamin without iron. I was able to get a pregnancy vitamin back then, in 1985, without iron in it. Foods high in iron don't seem to bother me. Could possibly be the form the iron comes in. Hope this helps. Temporarily delaying one of your meds, to eliminate it as the culprit, may, eventually, give you an answer. Pay close attention to what you take, eat, drink, etc. before and after. Write down time taken, and which medication was delayed, what was taken together (ie: multivitamin and blood pressure pill, etc.), time when symptoms start, what the symptoms are, when the symptoms were relieved and what relieved the symptoms, if anything. If you take bedtime medications, you could be waking up with the nausea. Talk to your physician before trying this if you take any medications for heart, blood pressure, diabetes, or any other serious disease or illness, because delaying any of them could be a serious problem, and never stop taking them without your physician telling you to.View Thread

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Some natural things that are helpful to me are magnesium, omega 3, garlic, grapefruit, spicy food (which...

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Been there and do not care to return to that state. I learned the predisone and Rx rob our bodies of minerals. I...

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I had an awful time trying to figure out what my triggers were. Aside from the horrible coughing, runny nose...

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Emergency Preparedness - Don't forget your MEDS

With any chronic illness, your medications are essential. Be prepared. As many of you know, I live in the OKC...

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end... Ye shall seek me, and find [me]

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Wood workers beware

Last night, I learned what I believe to be the primary cause of my recent ten day hospital stay. While...

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I am taking a shot called Xolair. I take the shots every 2 weeks. It is for asthma and allergy. It has help...

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I'm fairly new to asthma and controlling it! I thought i was doing fairly well until I caught the virus going...

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I am with everyone here, except I started on Low dose Prednisone for severe inflammation around my...

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I am with everyone here, except I started on Low dose Prednisone for severe inflammation around my "diseased with everything, spine". My sis in law worked for a Naturalpathic Physician. She brought me a bottle of "Wobenzyme" tablets (you can get these at natural health food stores). They work for all kinds of inflammation, etc. They won't hurt you, and might help for asthma inflammation - worth a shot!

So, I started with about 6 tabs per day, and also took 1000 units of vit E, vit D, calcium, magnesium, vit c. Within a few months I had NOTHING on my arms! I couldn't believe it! My skin looked much healthier also. When I first started to bleed under the skin, the bleeds were large and took forever to go away. This helped.

I was already in horrific chronic pain; and not long after found out I had low thyroid, no addrenal production, epstein barr; then, I had a stroke, and during that testing found out that the pain in my face was from a cancer tumor removed from my forehead that causes extreme face pain (now diagnosed, after 5 yrs as Trigeminal Neuralgia). Add menopause and severe depression to the mix, and I totally forgot what I had used until all of you sparked my memory! This started at age 47 and I'm now 53 next week.

I am going to try this again. My face, arms and legs are so thin and wrinkled, and scarred and discolored. I can't believe my arms and legs are so bad (they look in the 75 yr old catagory). I wish I could stop the Prednisone, but now have addrenal problems, so I'm on it for life. Why can't someone come up with an alternative to Prednisone! They can fly into space!

Do any of you know of a natural alternative to take that would enable me to slowly reduce the prednisone (I'm on 4 mg/day) and my endocrinologist isn't helpful with alternatives at all. Very black and white.

Also, does anyone know the best type diet or supplement for the torso fat caused from no addrenal production? I look 7 mo pregnant and can't even budge the fat. Being in pain really limits exercise, right now I can't walk, but going to a pain center to look into non-invasive procedures. Surgery is not an option - I would need the whole spine done. I was hit with all of this within a 2-3 year period and had to stop my career in its tracks. There were too many different and life long illnesses that hit around the same time that the pain became so bad.

Well....that's my suggested help. If anyone knows anything about getting prednisone reduced, that would be great!

Sherry in Prescott, AZView Thread

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Baffling happening w/asthma

I have had the flu/cold the last few days. I cannot believe that I do not have my asthma w/flu. What has...

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COULD YOU HAVE PTSD ot hypothyroid

I have both asthma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. When I get too stressed, I can get either or both...

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Steroid problems

Using an inhaler with a steroid makes my asthma worse. It makes my congestion bad and my coughing spasms get...

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How to avoid or reduce occurrences of asthma attac...

Try eliminating canola oil from your diet. In my case, my asthma has disappeared after I stop eating food...

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Exercise Induced Asthma and Omega 3 = Treatment?

I've ready some interesting studies that link EIA to an imbalance of Omega 6 and Omega 3 fatty acids. I believe...

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Home Oxygen System

If you are new to using your home oxygen system, this article does a great job of explaining one type of...

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Medication Savings Plans

April 30, 2010 2:31 PM CT Yes, I am copying the idea from the Xopenex post. I hope this is a more...

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