Forum: Medical Matters

I tried sleeping propped up and it worked for a while but that was before I started wheezing. The breath was whistling down my tubes and disturbed Eileen's snoring. I had a better night last night and only had to use the inhaler twice. The three doctors I've seen so far all think it's a...

Steve, I've had an eventful couple of years. I succumbed to what appears to be the CIS UKForums curse! In Nov 2007, I had a road accident which severed my spinal cord at T4 level - essentially nothing works below nipple level, & I'm paraplegic now, and thus I now come on wheels! I was flown...

Hi all, May as well mention Swine Flu as it is the major news item every day at present. If anyone on here gets the illness please say, it will give you something to do while you work on beating it...:) A lot of people we know now have it and it is pretty widespread in West London. ...

What do you think? See what a charity is saying about how awful it is that you may be able to buy the odd brand of beer at 99p a pint: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7810263.stm My personal view, as someone who doesn't even like beer.. is that it should be sold at what it costs to make plus...

Hi all, The front page of ukexpert today links to a BBC news story about Statins.. it seems they are thinking of giving them to the totally well now. The BBC Story on why you may be prescribed them is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7715707.stm However, are you aware of other...

Erm, I have an interest in heart transplants, as Harefield tried to arrange one for me some years back, and put me through a mass of testing so they could match one up for me etc... so I was interested in this news story... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7662865.stm ...so.....

Not directly related to your thread subject, but maybe relevant is my recent experience: I've had mild asthma all my life, and my doctor (who is usually very good) asked me to have some breathing throughput tests. The idea is that you check the rate, then administer a drug that is supposed to...

If there are any questions about skin cancers, mouth cancer, and.... ehem... cosmetic surgery, then I'm happy to answer them!

Hi all, I see in the news today that a 13 year old girl has decided that she doesn't want a heart transplant and that the medical profession, after talk of forcing it on her, has decided that it has no right to do that and so she will be 'allowed to die' as the BBC story puts it. The story...

Hi all, Just a line to say welcome to this new forum. We'll see how much interest there is in discussing medical matters over the coming months and then decide where to go with this new discussion area. I hope you find it useful.. Steve