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Originally Posted by sumannandy One of my relatives (Girl, age 21, otherwise healthy) is suffering from lack of sleep. She hardly gets about 4 hours of sleep per day if at all. What medicine could she take? Some doctor prescribed anxit 0.5mg but did not really work. |
Sleeping pills don't work on me.
I had a similar problem, i just stopped sleeping one day.
I'd get an hour of sleep a day. This continued for about a month.
And i was in bad shape.
Self medicated my self with sleeping pills. didn't work [had 2 ativan 2mgs]
quit smoking. didn't work.
quit cycling at night. didn't work.
I also tried these gymming supplements called ZMA [it's some Zinc Magnesium something] that worked [wouldn't put me to sleep, but when i did finally go to sleep, if i was allowed a good 6 hours of sleep i'd get up fresh], but at 1500 bucks a month and me not having a job was too expensive.
but what did work was a change of environment.
kept my phone on silent and refused to even look at my laptop post 8 pm.
I read my self to sleep everynight.
I currently get about 4 - 5 hours of sleep a day,
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Originally Posted by rock18 I am getting frequent cold/throat infection and most of them it lasts for atleast a week irrespective of the medicines.
In that one week,two days are very severe and i suffer a lot.
Is it advisable to take OTC tablets like coldact,vicks action 500,otrivin,etc?
Any advise on avoiding getting frequent cold and cough? |
I used to have an almost permanent cold. even when i'd take antibiotics like augmentin [prescribed by a doctor] the cold wouldn't work.
started taking a cetrazine and a vitamin C tablet whenever i got the cold.
now i get it sporadically. if i don't get good sleep.
also if i over exert myself for a couple of days and don't get proper sleep i start getting the cold again. but then what more can be expected.
Cetrazine and Vitamin C almost always works for me unless i actually get fever and stuff
Question
I have a constant dull ache in the back. have had it as long as i can remember. fell awkwardly when i was a kid and landed straight on my tail bone. the pain is centered around the lower back about 2 or 3 inches above the tail bone and slightly offset to the left.
Developed a Sciatica problem [sharp pain starting at the tail bone and running along the inner thigh all the way down to the left knee.]
after i fell awkwardly while playing football. It started off as what felt like a groin strain, but didn't give it rest at all. Got fixed randomly again after a bike accident and another football caused herniated disc. took 2 days of complete bed rest and about 8 months of very ginger movement after that for it to get fixed.
Now in addition to the near constant dull ache in the lower back, i sometimes get sharp shooting pains that are very short lived radiating from the tail bone down a couple of inches.
not had an MRI done yet, but planning to get one done after i get surgery on a near complete tear of my ACL and 2 grade 3 cartilage tears in my right knee. Getting the surgery done from Dr. Nicholas Antao. He comes highly recommended from a couple of professional footballer friends.
can anyone recommend a good back doctor in mumbai?
was planning to go to the Behramji hospital opposite central plaza, my friend is getting some alternative treatment [ultrasound, accupressure, accupuncture and some ayurveda] from there.
is it a good place?
In addition to this i had a bike accident and am having problems with my right shoulder.
had an MRI done shortly after the accident because i lost all movement in my Right shoulder for about 3 months.
Here are the remarks from the MRI report:
"The ill-defined soft tissue in the anterior rotator interval, and the thickening of the anterior capsule, are findings, which may be sometimes seen with adhesive capsulitis. No other obvious abnormality is seen. The mild asymmetry of the right AC joint is of uncertain and questionable significance, but may be further investigated, if clinically relevant."
My right shoulder clicks everytime i rotate it.
and the muscles pain [not much, but it's irritating] when i work out and i think because of this my left side is developing slightly better than my right side. my right side was always dominant until the accident.