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Taylor Swift's Attitude of Gratitude

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Time to Break Up with Your Makeup?

Do you hold on to your makeup for months and months or even (ulp) years? That might not be so healthy...

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Viola Davis: "You Can Still Thrive"

The Help actress Viola Davis stars in a new film this month, Won't Back Down . In our September issue ...

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Kyra Sedgwick's Happy Marriage

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Health Regrets?

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I LIKE CAN READ MOM IS ON MISION FOR SARAH JESSICA PARKER IN SPANISH PLEASE SHE IS A WOMAN VERY IMPORTANT...

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What is considered Prescription Drug Abuse?

I am the husband of a beautiful woman who not only suffers from Fibromyalgia but was in a 100 MPH head on...

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I am the husband of a beautiful woman who not only suffers from Fibromyalgia but was in a 100 MPH head on collision in 2003 which exacerbated her chronic pain condition to the max.
It took me four years and two doctors, after the accident, to get her where she was moderately free from pain. Because what really worked for her was narcotic pain medications, I had two doctors prescribing MS Contin and Hydrocodone. They say this is wrong, but I cannot find any where in any law or regulation that this is illegal in anyway.
The problem was neither one was willing to give her what was needed. So I used them both. The total medications were: 160 MG MS Contin Twice a day and Eight (

Hydrocodone 7.5/500 MG and 3-10 mg Diazepam. (I know that the 4000 MG of Aceteminephine is at the very max. someone should take daily.
This is what worked for her and she was very close to being totally pain free.
What happened was this one doctor decided to check the Az state website that monitors narcotic prescriptions. He decided that because my wife was getting prescriptions from another doctor she was abusing narcotics. He immedialtely stopped prescribing the Rx's. Which wouldn't have been all that bad but he faxed the information to her other doctor who also immediately cancelled all her presciptions. This doctor nor the other doctor ever talked to me or my wife. They had their office managers tell us what they were doing. The first doctor also faxed this information to every pharmacy in our area.
The web site the state has is to monitor the use of narcotic prescriptions and is to be used for the patients care and evaluation, not to label them abusers as this doctor has done. As you can see the amount of the medications she received was about what one doctor would normally prescribe for her condition. I have read what other patients have been prescribed and my wifes is no more or less that what they are prescribed. We were originally under the assumption that the other doctor knew what the first doctor was prescribing. That was why she gave us the exact same prescription that we were getting from the first doctor. If not, what was the point?
I have filed a complaint with the D.O. board in Arizona for the misuse of the information the CSPMP site makes available. The manager of the site told me that the way he used the information is a class 6 felony. I am also filing a civil complaint against him for the invasion of privacy, slander and libel. I would like some input about what is considered abuse. Is there a limit to a prescription that a doctor can prescribe? Am I wrong in filing the complaint and the civil action and will I win or lose? Anyone with the same problem please let me know. My e-mail is Jgundelach@msn.com .View Thread

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DIY Beauty Healthy Start Challenge

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What's your favorite?

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I enjoy reading WebMD in my doctor's office, but I don't take it very seriously. I think of it more as the...

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I enjoy reading WebMD in my doctor's office, but I don't take it very seriously. I think of it more as the "People" magazine version of health publications.

Why is that the case? It's because nearly every time I read an issue I find at least one incorrect piece of information or a nonsensical statement. Most of the time I just shut the magazine and forget about it, but recently I decided to bring up the subject.

Following two couple of examples that popped out at me when I browsed the January/February issue. I didn't read the rest of the magazine.

1. The article "Your Top Snooze Q's" contained the following sentence: "There's even data to show that people who sleep more than 10 hours or less than 5 hours in each 24 hour period have double the mortality rate."
What does this sentence mean? We all die once and only once, therefore we have a 100% mortality rate. So how could anyone's mortality rate be doubled? This is bad writing, bad logic, and bad editing.

If the sentence said "In a 20 year study at XXX university which followed 5000 subjects who were age 40-45 at the beginning of the study, those participants who slept more than 10 hours or less than 5 hours in each 24 hour period were twice as likely to die during the course of the study than the rest of the participants in the study" and also had a link to the published article, then I'd be more likely to take it seriously. In an age where the quality of medical research is being called into question, articles such as "Your Top Snooze Q's" exacerbate the problem with poor reporting of research findings.

2. The article "Late Bloomer" states that "Your makeup grinds into your skin all night, causing breakouts and even stretching out pores, which makes your skin look older."

Most of us know by now that "pores" are "clogged" and made to appear larger by sebum produced from the inside, not from anything that is applied topically, so why would webmd magazine publish this type of statement?

Why doesn't WebMD do a better job of reviewing and editing prior to publishing?View Thread

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Food & the body

Read where different foods cause problems. 66 yrs old here & I discovered while in high school. Graduated...

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Smoothies! The latest Healthy Start Challenge!

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Protein Smoothie

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