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health problems in dogs? hi, i was researching dogs and their diseases yesterday to see if my dog had any symptoms (even though he has a vet app in 4 days) and i wanted to know what are the causes. i couldnt find a site that listed the causes??? any one know a good site for the diseases dogs can get? or could you tell my what causes kidney disease and things like it? oh. i have a lab pit mix

My Dog is having a health problem any ideas? My Yellow Lab (5yrs) is having some kind of issue, wonder if anyone has any ideas. Here are some symptoms that occur: 1. Licking lips continuously 2. Dry Heaving motion (forward and back head movement) 3. Weird Snorting/Breathing issue This goes on for maybe 30 secs to a minute then he seems fine. There's no change in diet, or weight, or temperament.

How can I help my dad who has mental health problems? My parents have been married for years but have always had problems together. They just were completley different people I guess and got married very young. For the most part though they always seemed very happy and content with their lives. I think that my dad might have some serious mental health problems. I haven't talked to him about it yet but even if I do he probably won't listen to me.I think he may be Bipolar. The reason is because he has a lot of the symptoms and it ran in his mother's side of the family.I know some of his aunts and uncles had it as well. And since it is a genetic thing I think he needs to get some help.He used to be a very funny guy, always made me laugh and smile. Now,I just want him to move it and leave everyone alone sometimes.He acts depressed one minute and can become the happiest person alive the next. Not to mention the fact that he was always great at this job and always worked hard(at least that is what I thought) well his boss didn't give him a very good review at work.He doesn't do much either.(I mean I know some guys are like this but this is quite different) he watchs tv,rents a movie everyday,walks his dog, and thats really about it besides work I'd say.He's lucky my mom hasn't left him already. What can I do about helping him out and finding someone to possibly dignose him? It's quite obvious that he has some major problems,it's completley abnormal and he has so many symptoms and is only 43 years old. My e-mail is drangela911@yahoo.com

What might be causing these health problems? Symptoms: upper abdominal pain (right side), stomach pain & no appetite , constipation, chest pain (both sides and center - "heat pain"), back, neck, and shoulder pain, throbbing headaches, "tingly" numb sensations, bad breath, and the feeling that your throat is constricted, muscle aches and joint pain, teeth grinding, drooling while sleeping, and excessive weakness? A parasite? What kind? A bacterial infection? A disease of some sort? My doctor thought it was stress, but did some tests for my piece of mind & found a cyst approximately 9 mm in diameter in my brain. But then he dismissed it as "congenial" and said he didn't think it necessary to address at this time. Meanwhile, my mother is getting very upset because I keep getting worse and she says I "smell sick." I asked the doctor if I might have contracted a parasite, as suggested by the vet since my dog was EXTREMELY ill, and he said no b/c I haven't traveled outside the states. Any suggestions??? I am in a LOT of pain! I have called a psychologist, and while I should probably be seeing one for anger and stress issues, they were also concerned about the cyst the MRI found. Otherwise, yes, I am addressing "mental" issues as well. It has been basically determined, however, that the physical ailments have little to do with the emotional aspect of it all (minus causing stress over my poor health).

My dog has what I think is candida (spelled right?) What can I do about this? Shes terribly itchy all the time, she has skin and fur discoloration, and she smells like a dead fish when she gets hot. She burps a lot too, though that might be cause shes a dog... She has no health problems, no stress in her life, and for the last three months I have been feeding her "wolf king" grain free food (she dosent like the grain free foods much, and wolf king smells like oregano or something, I dont reccomend it -and neither does she!) She has no fleas, and any allergens that might have been around have been taken care of - unless she's alergic to people I guess. None of this has helped. The stupid Vet has been giving her prednisone and antibiotics since she was a puppy. I almost punched him in the eye when I found out about this, because shes not sick, nor has she ever been! He said it was "good preventative maintenace" I assume that she has candida, since she has all the symptoms and has been on steroids and antibiotics for two years. What do I do? OK, more info here... I feed her yougurt, 2 tbsp of plain every day. Wolf king was recommended for her problems. the three main ingredients are elk, venison, and sweet potatoes. it has 6 types of yougurt cultures and trace minerals and lots of veggies in it as well. (still smells like herbs though...) I bathe her every other day or so with sulfodene (vet recommendation) As far as the vet goes, he's history. Ill never take her back to him. Funny thing though, I took her to a different vet friday and he wanted to give her antibiotics and prednisone. (I think most vets are like most doctors - they give you whatever the drug companies tell them to give you, regardless of the symptoms.)

What tests should I do to determine if my dog has a health problem? I have a small, 7-10 years old shih tzu who has had a fairly sudden change in behavior. She hasn't been the most active dog, but now all she does is sleep. All day and all night. She stopped eating for about 2 weeks. She ate a little during this time but only if I hand fed her. We were going to take her to the vet, but she started eating again. I'm still worried about her because she's sleeping all the time and doesn't enjoy going for walks anymore. She just walks slowly and does her business. The most disturbing change is her aggression. She has attacked my husband and I each one time in the past month. With my husband she attacked his shoe, but with me she attacked my hand and bit me causing blood. I don't mean just a bite. I mean full out attacks for at least 5 seconds. Both times involved us trying to take food from her that she found while on her walk. If there is no medical problem, this aggression may very well make her lose her home. We're taking her to the vet but since there are no huge symptoms, what are some tests that we should get done? Money isn't too big of an issue, but it is a little of an issue so we don't want to just get every test known to man done. All of these changes happened within the past 2 1/2 months. Thanks everyone. I will look into getting these tests done. I am serious about her losing her home. I can't have a dog attacking me for no apparent reason. We are taking her to a vet. If there's nothing medically wrong, I see no other option. It isn't a predictable behavior that you can use training to correct. It is very sudden and violent. If she were a big dog, I would be seriously injured instead of just having one puncture wound and a few scrapes. We have 2 other dogs but she was the last to join our family, so there are no new additions.

Are these symptoms dog allergies or am I just getting a cold? A few months ago my husband and I took in a stray dog(a pomeranian) and a few days after we got him i started to get sick. I went to the dr and she put me on antibiotics but it didn't help I went back 2 weeks later to a different dr and this one said I had fluid in my lungs, gave me a different antibiotic and steroid pills and that made me better. It also coincided with the dog's owner coming to claim him. Well now her it is about 2 months later and I seem to be having the same problems. We just adopted an new dog (a puggle) 3 days ago. Day one I was fine, day two i had a little stuffiness, day three I'm miserable again My symptoms are: sneezing(like crazy), stuffy nose, watery eyes, coughing, and when I sneeze or cough my upper back and neck get really itchy(weird I know), shortness of breath, and i can hear a crackling sound when I breath(fluid in my lungs again?) I am planning on going to the doctor again but, I don't have health insurance so it make be a few weeks until i hae the extra money. Are there any things I can do, rather than getting ride of the dog, that can help me. I don't want it to get as bad as last time. I lost a lot of sleep for about a month because I couldn't breath, and here it is 4:30 am, I woke up around 3 and I can't sleep cause every time i lay down i fell like i can't breath.

i need a lawyer: I bought a puppy in the internet and then he died? Hello my name is Loreyda. I am from New York but I recently purchased a puppy over the internet from Missouri. The dog breeder seems to be very respectable and had a lot of positive feedback so I decided to purchase this puppy. The puppy was then shipped to the nearest airport where I pick him up. When I got him, he seemed to be in a healthy condition however; about a week later the puppy began to get sick. I took him to the vet but the doctors did not had a diagnostic of what was causing the dogs health problems. His health deteriorated to the point that the doctors recommended to put him to sleep, so we did so. During the whole period of his health problem, I spent over 2000 dollars and bought the dog for 690 dollars. The policies of the seller were as follow: We work very hard to produce happy, healthy, well socialized puppies so you can be comfortable knowing you will have a loving pet for your family. All our puppies receive vaccinations, deworming, and any other veterinary care on schedule with proper documentation. All our puppies come with a written health guarantee. We guarantee our puppies to be free from any life threatning, non-treatable communicable disease at time of purchase and we allow 3 days for the buyer to have the puppy examined by a licensed veterinarian. You may receive a replacement puppy if there is any life threatening, non-treatable communicable disease diagnosed by the Veterinarian at that time or if puppy dies from any communicable disease within 3 days of purchase as determined by an autopsy performed by a licensed Veterinarian. The puppy (or autopsy results from your Veterinarian) may be returned immediately to Teras Pups To Pals where you may exchange for puppy of equal or lesser value. If no puppy is available, we will replace as soon as one becomes available, no cash refunds. Any shipping costs will be paid by purchaser. Teras Pups To Pals will not be responsible for any Veterinary costs incurred after purchase of any puppy.Please understand we make no claim or guarantee as to the disposition, size, color, compatibility, physical conformation, or breeding ability of any puppy at maturity. Our puppies sole purpose is as a household pet. http://teraspupstopals.com/Policies.php In addition, The puppy came with an AKC registration paper and a health certificate however he was not vaccinated and she stated that all puppies were to receive vaccinations and deworming as stated in the policies above. My doctor stated that most likely the dog came from a puppy mill, which explains why someone will ship a dog without proper vaccinations. The dog died and the doctors couldn’t find what was causing the problem, however he show symptoms of pneumonia, anemia and the common cold, he also had neurological symptoms. Anyway, I will like to know if there is any possible way that I can get a refund, the vets cost or maybe a new puppy, since he died a month after he purchased him. I am not quite familiar with Missouri animal laws but in New York the buyer is entitled to compensation. Is there anything worth considering here?

Very concerned about my dog's health? I just adopted a 1yr old female beagle mix from an animal shelter. All was fine the first day I brought her home (Monday). Tuesday night she began to show the following symptoms: did not want to eat after about 2 pm... hard breathing and then began to make a "hacking/ coughing" sound as if she was going to throw up but nothing came out. Wednesday, symptoms got worse. She ate very little and hacking/coughing symptoms became worse and when she pooped, it was watery (brownish) but had blood only when she finished. Thursday (today, thanksgiving) hacking coughing gets worse when she stands up. she breaths hard (stomach puffs up down) before coughing/ hacking begins... tries to throw up but nothing comes out. There are no vets where I live...but finally got a hold of one 50 miles away...will take her ASAP. Not that I will wait for a response before I take her to the vet but anyone have any ideas what is going on with this dog? For the record, I called the Shelter and they said it was "probably" the change in diet (food) or seperation anxiety/depression. No previous medical problems reported. Please help

Veterinarian help? - My dog's health? I have a 2 year old female Corgi. Every month or two, she gets into this state, where she has the following symptoms : bloody tears (this is the weird one) mild appetite loss lethargy irritability Could there be any correlation between these symptoms? She had has a tear duct problem her whole life, but just recently with the bloody tears. My vet can't figure it out. Any one have any suggestions of things I could get her tested for? Thanks!

What caused the dog's death? MY COUSIN HAS HAD HER CHIHUAHUA FOR 8 YEARS. THE DOG HAS NEVER HAD ANY HEALTH PROBLEMS. THEN ON SATURDAY THE DOG STARTED SCRATCHING REALLY BAD. MY COUSIN GAVE HER A BATH THINKING SHE HAD GOTTEN INTO SOMETHING IN THE GRASS THAT WAS IRRITATING HER. THE BATH DID NOT HELP. ON SUNDAY WHEN SHE WOKE UP THE DOG WAS LITERALLY PANTING FROM WEARING HER SELF OUT SCRATCHING SO BAD. WHEN MY COUSIN RETURNED HOME FROM CHURCH THE DOG WAS DEAD. THE ONLY SYMPTOM WAS HER SCRATCHING. CAN YOU GIVE ANY ADVICE AS TO WHAT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THIS? THANK YOU

My Dog's Health? my dog has recently been throwing up a lot (maybe once a day for the past 3 days) and just threw up again about 30 minutes ago. he has no other symptoms but we called the vet just to be safe. he told us to keep an eye on him and to bring him in tomorrow as it didnt seem urgent. we have had this problem and found that his intestines had something caught in them and it had to be surgically removed. im afraid that this has happened again. my vet told us last time that this was a one time surgery and if it happened again he would need to be put down. is there any truth to this. he hasnt had any problems since the last surgery (march 2006) but one day about a week ago we came home to find him out of his crate (brother forgot to put him back in) and he had been in the laundry room (we brought down our dirty clothes the night before) im afraid this is starting all over again. we are taking him to the vet tomorrow. but is there any truth to the statement that this surgery is a one time thing? i hope so to Stina. it just scares me. i raised this dog from a baby. i saved him from a terrible home. and now because my brother was so irresponsible, i might be losing him oh and he is only 2 (almost 3) so its not that he cant handle it. my vet says he is a very healthy dog. other than his wanting to eat things that are unappropriate for him to eat ~^v^dont kill the metal^v^~- it is a surgery that involves opening him up and opening the spot where the object is stuck and getting it out. will do Vet Tech: thanks for the advice. this dog means the world to me. i always trusted this vet. the problem is he is the best of the three vets in town. i am considering taking him to the vet that we take our cats to. but i have no say in it my parents still trust this guy. this is the same guy that told us to put our cat to sleep because he had gross looking eyes. but i have no say in it. he is normally a very good vet for checkups and shots but he isnt good for much else. but my parents chose him because he is cheap

What, if any, health issues do Bengal cats have as a breed? Many purebred dogs and cats have particular problems that are common for that breed. Do Bengal cats have any common health issues? What are they, and what symptoms should I look out for? The exotic breed of domestic cats, not the tigers, and not the football team.

my dog is very sick. ?'s about breeders and vets and my rights? bought boxer 16mo's ago $700 health problems incl. but not limited to bladder, eye, foot yeast, ear infections, puppy strangles disease, massive allergic reactions, thyroid problems and now a tumor. the vet couldn't get a sample from the mass. he removed it. the results came back great as benign hysticytoma. 2 days later he went from being his happy self to lethargic & whimpering. his sutures began pussing and opening. his abdomen developed huge pockets of fluid. breathing is like hyperventilating. i've been to the vet's 4x in 24hrs. 2x to reg 2x to ER. he's there until monday. REALLY sick. the exact same symptoms, much more advanced and bruised. very sad. the wound is massive and gaping. we are not vets! he needed their care. we have spent $2400 in one week on willis. i am upset with the breeder for giving me such a sick dog and not refunding. with the vet for not being agressive with treatment. what else could we do?? do i have any rights? he's 1.5yrs old! i'm v poor & sad. i did do research and called 2 people that owned pups they sold. he is on a special diet... natures recipe- venison and rice. only treats are carrots and rice cakes. it has helped a lot. i have papers... they say i can get a trade within one year. but i am not going to trade my dog! he is my baby. i will put him down if there is no hope. but he has been healthy for a few months. he is so sweet and playful and brings us joy. all of my prior animals have been rescues. no purebreds. my first cat died at 6yrs after $4000 of surgeries,chemo, cryogenics. her playmate died 6mos later (also 6yrs) from a vacuum cleaner induced heart attack. she was chunky and middle aged according to the vet. i did the research on the breeder prepurchase, breed post. it was a req (and i suprised him) by my fiance. i thought stupidly they would be healthy considering the payment. i don't think these people are backyard breeders. and i know vets do the best they can. he seems inexperienced however. and this seems like bad business by the breeder, by not refunding, considering the investment i have made. i have an animal curse. the day i took the dog in for a tumor they told me my kitten has a heart murmur 4-5 on a scale of 1-6. she's 2 yrs old. the only healthy animal is my fiancees cat. he has only been showing signs of pain for 2 days. extreme pain, yes. he was on 2 antibiotics and 2 pain pills. none of the vets have even hinted at doing that. until today they led me to believe he'd be fine soon. i think he will be now that he is in the care of the ER' vets. my concern is the infection has possibly given him inner tissue damage, which would mean he would need skin removal. i worry about his recovery. i never want to see him hurt like this again. BUT the ER vet said that we as owners have acted agressively enough where she thinks there is a good chance this won't be a problem. i took willis to the vet the morning after i bought him. i was suprised that the vet told me the number of shots he needed was more than what the breeders had told me. but at that point had fallen head first in love with him. i just called the ER.. they are working on him right now and she's calling me in 1-2hrs. my fingers and toes are crossed. they ran a series of tests... bloodwork looks good. hooked him up to an IV. draing and flushing... snipping his infected stitches and redoing... figuring out the problem. we sent him there in january. he was vommitting profusely.. i live in chicago and someone in the neighborhood says dogs have been poisoned. and he tries to eat everything. i think that was the prob, but they pumped him full of fluids and fixed him up great. i feel much better than i did, just knowing he is in hands i trust.

Does anyone else absolutly love this website for pet health questions? I came across this site a while ago and really it has proved to be the greatest resource on pet health information I have been able to find online. I use it all the time to help friends and family and myself answer questions about pet problems that our vets have no answered adequately, or just to get a second opinion on treatments or symptoms etc. Its called Marvista Vet Pet Web Library.. http://www.marvistavet.com/html/the_pet_web_library.html If you havent checked it out before I suggest you do it is very helpful and informative resource for pet owners. Thanks to this site I have been able to find out many things and when my dog got an Aural Hematoma I was able to know all the options, treatments, causes etc and I was able to walk into the vet office informed and knowledgeable about my dogs problem. Anyone else use this site and love it? I say kudos to the people who made it its the best thing I have found to help me keep involved and informed about my pets health.

Older Dog with Very Dry, Flaky nose? I have an unneutered german shepherd who is about 10 years old. He's been in great shape up until this and does not look or act like an old dog at all. He has started to get an extremely dry nose. It's so bad that parts of his nose start to flake off. He is not dehydrated as they always have fresh water. My other dog is not showing any symptoms. Last month he also got a sore on his hindquarters. I am not sure if it started out as a sore or as very dry, cracked skin though. In any case, he bit it until it was an oozing sore, and that's when I noticed it. His fur is long enough for it to stay hidden before that. I squeezed vitamin e oil onto it for 3 days, and it cleared up. All his fur grew back pretty quickly. I don't know if these things are related, but they are both recent, and he did not have any health problems before. I haven't tried anything to soothe the nose yet, but a moisturising oil and vitamin e would be my first guess. Could this be a serious condition? I have an unneutered german shepherd who is about 10 years old. He's been in great shape up until this and does not look or act like an old dog at all. He has started to get an extremely dry nose. It's so bad that parts of his nose start to flake off. He is not dehydrated as they always have fresh water. My other dog is not showing any symptoms. Last month he also got a sore on his hindquarters. I am not sure if it started out as a sore or as very dry, cracked skin though. In any case, he bit it until it was an oozing sore, and that's when I noticed it. His fur is long enough for it to stay hidden before that. I squeezed vitamin e oil onto it for 3 days, and it cleared up. All his fur grew back pretty quickly. I don't know if these things are related, but they are both recent, and he did not have any health problems before. I haven't tried anything to soothe the nose yet, but a moisturising oil and vitamin e would be my first guess. Could this be a serious condition? If so, what?

Ideas for causes of bloody diarrhea and vomiting in a dog? Ok, first things first: THE DOG IS CURRENTLY AT THE VET!!!! Please don't tell me to take him to a vet, because he's already been rushed there and is on a fluid and electrolyte IV right now. I'm not an idiot and I know what to do when my pet is ill. However, he's now hospitalized and I'm stuck at work and am panicking, and could use some reassurance. Jack, my 3 year old GSD, started vomiting and having diarrhea yesterday. It was fairly mild, so we figured that he just ate something funky and that it would clear up. However, it got worse over night, and by 7:00 this morning he had thrown up 6-12 times, and was almost projectile vomiting water. I called the vet and they told me to bring him in, figuring it was pancreatitis. However, the vet has done blood tests and an x-ray to rule out a bowel obstruction, but now has no idea what is wrong with him. We received a call 30 minutes ago, saying that he passed a lot of bloody diarrhea, and they were doing further tests. I am sitting here at work, absolutely freaking out right now. I know that Yahoo Answers is not the bastion of knowledge and that no one here can diagnose my dog over the Internet, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen symptoms like this in their dog and what the diagnosis ended up being. Jack is current on all his shots and hasn't shown any evidence of health problems before yesterday. I lost my 13 year old sheltie to cancer earlier this month, and I can't lose Jack, as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for the responses; I am leaning more towards it being a bacterial infection, although I really don't know for sure, obviously. I talked with the vet, and still nothing has come up in the tests, but they're still working on him. Parvo is not a possibility. Jack has been completely vaccinated, and had his yearly boosters in the last 12 months. It's also doubtful that he ate anything toxic. We live in an apartment and so he is never unsupervised when outdoors. He does, however, play in the dog park next to my fiance's work.... so he could have picked up something bacterial.

Should I buy a dog if it has a inguinal hernia? I'm looking at getting a Westie puppy. However, the current owners have infromed me that the pup has an inguinal hernia and will need surgery to repair it. The asking price is $275 and I've been told the surgery will cost around $400 and will happen at the same time the dog gets neutered. Ignoring the cost of the neutering itself, is $675 a good deal? This is all in Cdn funds btw. How well do Westie's recover from this type of hernia? I did some research and it seems that the symptoms of this type of hernia are very minor if it is not strangulated. I'm just worried that as the dog grows older it may run in to other health problems.

Mini Poodle acting different after being neutered. Is it just one of post-neuter symptoms or permanent change? Hi Guys! My mini poodle (Cooper) was Mr. hyper, taking away napkins, running around like crazy for no reason and just being a happy go lucky guy. He is 10 months neuteredi just got him neutered. Its fifth day today. He is still really excited to see me when I come home and still is super excited to have car rides (although i am not taking him yet because i want him to heal properly). He is healing well. But it seems like he has gotten a lot more clingy than before. First he used to barely sit next to me or near my lap, now that is all he wants to do-sleep next to me, sit next to me..and he falls asleep right away. He has no interest in his toys anymore. Is this just an after symptom of being neutered? Or is he just going to be like this now? So far I really had no issues with him behavioral wise, other than eating my rug and furniture...which stopped after a while...and i just recently saw him humping his toy (twice) ..but overall he has been a great dog. I really hope neutering him was a good choice considering future health problems. Your feed back is appreciated! Please share your experiences! thank you New Update: I guess i was getting too worried for no reason. My happy go lucky dog is just like before...he went out in the backyard today like he used to always...picked up an apple and asked me to play with him...(he did that with the cone on his head..pretty impressive lol). I am happy that he is the same crazy dog..and he is stealing napkins still. I gotta stop that..but other than that i am very happy!..thank you all for your feed back i was getting very nervous...but glad that he is back to his crazy self. I am trying hard to to have him NOT run or jump around so much though...since he is not completely healed. thank you all!

Elderly dog please help? We have a 15 year old fox terrier who has lived a full and happy life and always been energetic and a bit mad. She had a health problem when she was a puppy which means she only has one kidney and what the vet describes as a fairly serious heart murmur but other than that she has always been fine and shown no symptoms. In the last few years her age has become apparent. She has gone very thin despite eating lots, she trembles alot, is deaf and i think her sight is not great. She sometimes gets very agitated and i think is a bit senile but has always been hyperactive. For the last few months she has been weeing much more and wetting her bed. This week she has developed a bowel problem, which means she has diarrohea but also strains to have a bowel movement as if she has constipation. From reading this i know it seems she is on her last legs and maybe i should have her put to sleep, but she is still very very happy. She is not in pain and looks fragile but fine. Should i wait for her to deteriorate and i will know when she has had enough or should i think about putting her to sleep now? It is difficult at the moment, but is that a good enough reason to have her put to sleep? She is happy sleeping in the garden and gets up to greet me and still begs for food, but we wake up every morning to awful mess and i don't know what i would do if i couldnt put her outside in the nice weather. The vet knows she has done very well for age but would not help me make the decision. She is too old to go through any intervention or treatment so i don't want them to start looking for diseases now as she couldnt get throught it. Do old dogs just lose control of their bowels like this? I am not afraid of losing her, i just want to be sure its her time and not too soon. I am sure because of her happy and slightly nutty nature she will just carry on regardless despite the physical problems she may be suffering. I hope this isnt an awful question, but i could do with some guidance on this. Thank you so much.

Question about vets and manners.? I was wondering if anyone else has run into a vet like the one I recently met. I live in a pretty nice little town where a lot of people are very well off. Our local vet is very overpriced so I usually bring my dogs a couple towns away to an older, more expeirenced though less "lavish" vet. Anyway, my dog- Chloe is a BC mix that I got from a shelter in NC, she's a great dog but is obviously from a very poor breeder as she has a lot of health problems and is obviously not the product of careful breeding. I knew this when I adopted her 5 years ago and I have no problem keeping up with her many health issues-including severe alleries, early onset arthritis and dental issues to name a few. Since she has been with me her teeth have greatly improved, her allergies have been relatively under control(still working on it w her primary vet) and she has had surgery to fix a torn acl. I feel that I have given her proper medical care and done my job as her owner but a few months ago I had to bring her into the expensive vet bc I couldn't get an appointment fast enough with her main vet. She needed more frontline and steriods/anntibiotics for her flee allergies. She did not miss a dose of her flee preventitive but we had just made a trip down south and her allergies were really acting up- I brought her to the vet expecting to be able to explain this and hopefully have him give her the med. she usually takes the help ease the symptoms- instead I was borderline yelled at by this vet-he told me that there was "more required out of me as an owner then just loving my dog" I was speechless. My life revolves around my dogs- at any given time I have at least one rescue pit bull, I have them treated by my main vet, work with them to be able to go into a good home and then find homes for them with no adoption fee-obviously this vet has no idea what I do in dog rescue but I was horribly offended by the way he talked to me. It made me wonder how many well-meaning pet owners have been turned off of bringing pets to vets because of things like this. I don't know what I would do if he were the only vet around, I can't even imagine what he would say if I brought one of the skinny, chewed up rescue dogs in there-he'd probably call the cops on me! Has anyone else been unrightfully critizised by their dogs vet? Or do you think he was right and I am being irresponsible with my dogs health? I'm 22 so I'm sure he sees bad college owners all the time but I was shocked by how he acted towards me. Thank you all for your input- I greatly appriciate it. I think I might make comment on his judgemental tactics to my rescue contacts. I don't think he's a bad vet- just too quick to jump to conclutions. As for our resident PI "Bobbie" just what do you think I left out? I gave a 2 page explanation on what happened- he jumped to conclutions because she has a missing K9 tooth and had chewed herself raw from exposure to fleas, what exactly do you think I'm hiding? And thanks for the spelling lesson...

Should I keep my dog or return him to the shelter due to cost of vet bills? I adopted a mixed dog from the Humane Society on May 20. I was told he was heartworm positive, but otherwise he was healthy. 2 days later my dog developed Kennel Cough and I found traces of intestinal worms in his stool. I took him to the vet and they charged me $231.51 to treat these problems and to do bloodwork for his upcoming heartworm treatment. I was told heartworm treatment would cost $600 to $1000, which is way more than I thought it would be. I had to wait for his cough to go away before scheduling his first heartworm treatment. When I took him in it cost $321.61 for part 1 of treatment, but in the x-rays a foreign object showed up. Now, I've been home with the dog constantly or he's been in a crate so I doubt he swallowed something at my home. He was severely underweight when I took him home and he has had a lack of appetite since I got him. It's been a struggle to get him to eat, sometimes I have to feed him by hand to get him interested. Now the vet says it'll cost me $176 to bring him in and induce vomiting to see if the object will come up. If not, then the dog will need stomach surgery, plus his second part of heartworm treatment which will cost another $400. I don't know how much surgery will cost. I still have a week and a half to return the dog to the shelter and get a refund, return all of his belongings to Petco, and get a refund on the pet insurance that I bought but won't cover because these conditions are pre-existing. I was willing to cough up the $800 heartworm cost because even though I was mistaken about the cost (I thought it would be $200-$300) I knew that my dog had this problem. I am irritated about the other problems that the Humane Society didn't tell me about, although they probably didn't know cause he didn't show any symptoms. My mom and my fiance think I should return the dog since they think it's ridiculous that I might have to pay for surgery. I've already spent $600 on vet bills and I really love the dog, so I don't want to take him back. However, I only saved up enough money to get a dog and cover any minor health issues; I just graduated from college and I have to pay back my loans in 6 months so I shouldn't empty out my savings account to care for the dog. I'm really torn about what to do. I can't stop crying when I think about it. I know the reasonable thing to do would be to return the dog since I was under the impression he was healthy and wouldn't cost too much. But I have really enjoyed spending the last 2.5 weeks with my dog and he's the sweetest thing. What should I do? Yes I should have researched how much heartworm treatment cost, but I could only put the dog on hold for 24 hrs, my family was visiting in town, and I had to get supplies and clean house to make it ready for the dog. I AM WILLING TO PAY for the heartworm treatment, but can't pay for the surgery too. He has shown NO symptoms for the ingested object aside from being underweight with a low appetite, which he already had when I got him. It has not created a blockage, he poops 3 times a day. It's unlikely that he ate it at my house since he hasn't been left alone. I have pet insurance just for situations like this one. BUT it doesn't cover this because it happened during the policy waiting period. Turns out he didn't swallow anything. Additional x rays show that he has a BB embedded in his skin and the object near his stomach is a pellet from a gun. Somebody shot him twice.

My dog just ate a butterfly? my dog, a german shepherd 1 year old dog just captured a tiny plain white butterfly and i think he just ate it..would that be a health problem? what will happen? has anyone had this same experiecne with their dogs?what should we do? so far, he has not shown any weird symptom of any kind of disease..he ate it about 10 mins ago. he did not chew it because its so tiny..

My dog is very ill and we are at a point of loss to why.? 3 days ago my Maltese cross fell ill and we took her to the vet. She is 7 years old and had always been a very healthy dog. Her symptoms are as follows: 1. Very week 2. Not eating 3. Heart rate of 42 4. Oxygenation level of 89 5. Not parsing any poo 6. Vomiting a yellow mucus She has been at the veterinarian clinic for three days on a drip to keep her hydrated and in some form of health. A blood test indicated there is no organ failure, an xray and ultra sound to check for a blockage in her intestine which has shown a clear passage. She has had another blood test today which will either eliminate or confirm thyroid problems. We love Peigi as part of the family and I would be very appreciative if anyone has any ideas on what this could be. She is running out of time. Thanks.

21 yrs old with heart and digestive problems...? Before your read a few sentences and then tell me to go and see a doctor, please keep in mind that I just came back from the ER last night, and they were useless. Especially the one I went to. The docs spend more time joking in the lobby then dealing with patients and they assume a blood pressure test and a 2 minute EKG is enough to detect anything. Then they send you off and tell you to "follow up", after they have looked at you like you're a lunatic for having health problems at 21. I even heard them joking on me hysterically for bringing a stool sample in a tupperware container. They act like a bunch of kids honestly. The stool I brought them was completely black, and the "doctor" had the nerve to tell me that "it doesn't look like any human stool she's ever seen"... basically insinuating I brought dog feces in a tupperware container!.. It is a shame and they should all be fired.. anyways.. I know I need to schedule a real docs appointment.. I will..but I am here looking for input... not criticism! Okay, for the past six months I have been suffering with gallbladder problems that have made it nearly impossible to consume a normal diet. The docs say this problem is very rare for someone my age, and out of the 8 or so hospitals I went to, only ONE had the courtesy to do an ultrasound and find out what was wrong with me. Due to these gallbladder problems, I am CONSTANTLY constipated and not a single bowel movement comes with ease, EVEN THOUGH IT COULD BE STRAIGHT LIQUID DIARRHEA.. IT JUST WON'T COME OUT! It is like my anus is contracted to the point where nothing will escape.. even liquid! Now, I have been eating like a health nut, consuming nothing but fish, fruits and veggies for the past couple of months and drinking nothing but water, apple juice and grape juice. ( I don't smoke don't drink.. not even coffee dammit).. I have even been using lemon juice on my food and all of the other recommended natural therapies. Finally within the past week I have passed a few gallstones, but the feces that the gallstones were in was complete liquid, and it was DARK BLACK.. in fact it looked like lint from someones pocket, soil, or coffee grinds. That is the only way to describe it really. now.. here is where it gets messed up.. I have been dealing with heart palpitations for a few years now, but it has gotten SEVERE over the past few days. I mean it has gotten to the point where I am experiencing pains in my left shoulder, arm and even down to my wrist and on the left side of my neck and face. When I get up to walk around my heart murmurs a lot, so much that it simply can't be ignored, and it gets worse upon taking a deep breathe. I am experiencing pains in literally every organ in my body, even my left testicle! I burp violently even when I only drink water! I get light headed suddenly and my heart starts racing out of nowhere. And I am also experiencing tightness in the chest from time to time on the left side. I am also having pains under my mouth between my chin and my neck. Externally I feel relatively healthy musculature wise, and that is probably why docs don't pay me much attention, but INTERNALLY I am a wreck! Name a symptom and I have probably experienced it in the past few weeks. The only thing I haven't been doing is vomiting or running a fever, which will probably come soon if something isn't done! Just in the time I have written this I've had SEVERAL heart murmurs.. no joke..Now a little background history. I have an abscess tooth on my left side, and it bleeds when I brush. I have had it for a year, and the infection has kept returning even after 3 full courses of antibiotics. I have a suspicion that this is what is causing my problems, but I am not sure. Anyone have any useful suggestions or input as to what could be happening to me. Please tell me something.. someone. :(

What could possibly be wrong with my dog? She is 2 years old. For the past year now I've been having problems with her...she got Lyme disease and was treated for it but ever since she has had health problems. First she started chewing herself till she would bleed. Vet suggested that it was a food allergy and to try different foods. I tried many different foods.Her skin cleared up and her hair grew back when she was eating Blue Wilderness. 3 months later she starts getting sick. She will go a week or two with normal poop and then she goes thru a day with diarrhea. Then she's fine again for another week or two before it happens again. I've made sure she doesn't get into anything and she never picks up any thing from the ground outside. She has been checked for worms and all other internal parasites and she doesn't have either. The vet did say when she had lyme that she did have it very bad. She did have full blown symptoms of Lyme. I only found that one tick on her even tho she had frontline on. What could possibly be wrong so I have an idea of what the vet will end up doing to treat her insted of running unnesicary tests that cost a fortune.

What's causing my joint and muscle stiffness/ache? ? My old health problem has re-surfaced since I've been around my flat-mates new dog. Are these symptoms of an allergy? I feel that my joints are inflamed for some reason. Is it diet..or food allergy. Please help. Been to doc before...he did not offer any useful cause or advice.

What do you think could be wrong with my dog? I have a 2 year old female westie. She is overall healthy and up to date on her vaccinations, etc. No health problems besides normal allergies. For the past few weeks, she has been acting a little different. My husband says he doesn't notice anything different about her, so I've waited before I take her to the vet. She's been sleeping a little more than usual but still plays like normal when she's awake. I've noticed she dreams quite a bit as well. Like, she'll move her legs and breath heavy and bat her eyes, etc. while she's sleeping. She also is shivering quite a bit. I know it's cold outside, but she'll shiver and I'll feel her skin and she's warm. Even her ears and nose will be warm. She also has been licking her female private parts quite a bit. I looked at that area the other day and it seems to be a little redder than normal. So I wonder could it be some kind of infection possibly? Should I take her by the vet in the morning you think? I just hated to take her and the veterinarian think I'm crazy for bringing her for such small symptoms. Thanks in advance for any answers. I'm not relying on answers here. I'm simply asking suggestions, as it's not a life or death situation right this second. I plan on taking her at 9am but until then, I'm just curious. I'm not that irresponsible. She has been fixed since she was about 7 months. Thanks for the answers everyone. I don't feel so stupid calling/stopping by the vet in the morning now.

What are signs of pet grief? My sister just had to put her dog down on Friday. It was a 13 year old lab with many health problems. Since then her cat has been very needy and seeking constant attention. Is she imagining it or is her cat displaying symptoms of grief?

This may be a matter of life and death for my dog.. HELP QUICK! Bloody, blistery looking butt hole...? I had come home just a few hours earlier and noticed all the sudden my dogs anus is reed, swollen, bloody. . he's licking it and rubbing it on the floor. My question is, should I be calling a vet 911 or just bring him first thing in the morning. I was checking online and the symptom could be part of fatal diseases. PLEASE HELP, I've had him for 10 years NO health problems. I need this soon. AND WHAT SHOULD I DO FOR NOW IF I DON'T NEED TO CALL FOR HELP? BABY WIPES? ALCOHOL? OH MY GOD IM SO SCARED!! I NEED A NUMBER FOR THE EMERGENCY VET!!!! AND I DONT HAVE A LICENSE, IT'S SUSPENDED, ITS 3AM AND EVERY ONE HERE IS SLEEPING. I HAVE NO ONE TO CALL. i HAVE no MONEY. NOT FOR TAXI, NOT THE EMERGENCY ROOM. I AM SCREWED. I DID THE EPSOM SALT BATH THING AND IT SEEMS TO HAVE GONE DOWN HE'S NOT ACTING WEIRD, YOU CAN JUST TELL IT BOTHERS HIM ONLY WHEN IM LOOKING AT IT OR HE LICKS IT BUT ITS NOT AS OFTEN.

I think my pug is sick or depressed? New dog, less than one year old, no known health problems. Is lethargic all the time. eats his food, drinks water and uses bathroom fine. Just cant seem to wake up, like this yesterday, and this morning has a slight shiver. No other symptoms, no red eyes, no runny nose or loose stool.

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dog inbreeding risks? hi, i have the cutest little Scottish terrier. but id like to know, what are the risks of inbreeding. 1. what is percentage of inbred Scotties having a health problem 2. what is the age that you should recognize these symptoms 3. what are the symptoms Scottish terriers get from inbreeding

My mom was kicked out of a grocery store because she had a service dog? My mom has very bad type 2 Diabetes, she is on insulin and pills but it's still uncontrolled. Her blood sugar drops down into the 30s often. At this point, it has happened so many times that she no longer has symptoms alerting her that it's going too low before it's too late. She has a small dog that will let her know that her blood sugar is dropping, by licking her and nudging her. She talked to her Dr about it and he gave her a letter stating her condition and that the dog is essential for her health and safety, and is a service dog. She has not had any problems until today. She was in a grocery store and an employee told her to leave the store. My mom told her that it's a service dog and the lady said "No it's not, it's a companion. There's a difference. You need to leave the store" She then proceeded to show my mom something from the health dept about not allowing animals in the store. My mom showed her the letter stating it's a service dog, and the employee still told her it was a companion dog and told her to leave. My mom is so upset, and embarrassed. Isn't this against the law? This dog saved my moms life a few months ago when she woke her up in the middle of the night, my mom then checked her glucose and it was 34.

Mystery health problem- Doctors aren't any help. *revised*? Symptoms: * Vaginal odor * after sex watery discharge (causes chapping) * chapping causes tissue paper thin labia *in turn causes tears, bleeds. *swells *itches * Small rounded bumps, with what seems like tissue or skin inside (when popped, does not hurt, barely bleeds, heals fast, does not spread as result of popping, nor does the same one come back) * Abdominal discomfort * Abdominal bloating *Not sensative during sex *Can urniate ok, sometimes have reoccuring UT infections though. None on my bum. My mouth Symptoms *Bad breath (even after brushing) * tiny tiny red bumps on tounge * sticky spit * small rounded bumps in mouth like moucosa (SP), filled with sticky spit. * roof of mouth is whitish pink * tonsils not white nor have any spots on them Body Symptoms: * Shortness of breath ( Can't get good deep or normal breath) *Bruises easily (Black and Blue, just by dog jumping up on me *Constant pimples popping up *No Itching on skin, or mood swings * VERY lethargic. * Jaw pain and cracking (Like TMJ) * Joint pain Does anyone have any ideas, no matter how small. Please no rude comments, I come seeking an answer not scrutainy. One doctor thought might be thrush. ( I have not recieved anything for thrush oral - or otherwise, just meds for BV) All of my other Gynos stated that it is just BV - I was seen last week, again. BV medication does take it away, but days/weeks later it returns. (Be it by masturbation (No use of toys), oral or sex.) I have a normal white blood count. I do not have night sweats. I do have tremors (I don't know if this is hereditary) Sometimes have small ticks (Might be from anti-depressants.)

help! dog bite promblems!? my friend got bit by a dog the other day on her leg. the owner said the dog had all his shots & that there shouldn't be a problem. animal control took the dog away and still hasn't contacted her back telling her if the dog has any health issues. since the dog bite (two days ago) shes been very dizzy & cant walk from the dizziness. she also has a fever. are these symptoms that the bite is infected or that something is wrong with the dog? or is this all normal? thank you.

mental health problem? hi was wondering if you could help me. I'm 22 years old and I think I have a mental illness. I'm still unsure on some of my symptoms. but this is what I know. I always find it hard to concentrate in eg; in college watching a movie etc. I always make up excuses so I cant socialise with people after college I get really nervous about what could happen. I'm the class clown in college and was still in school some would call me weird because I say silly things. this may have something to do with my sister who's ADHD and according to my mother my father who i never knew also had a mental illness. roughly for the past 8 months I feel like I'm talking to myself out loud because in my head i might think I'm having a normal conversation in another place. I dont know if i beleive its real or not, I just imagine myself doing it and it seems I cant control it. doing chores like cleaning my room and taking the dog a walk feels a much bigger task to me than it actually is. when strangers try and talk to me in the street. i get nervous and dontknow what to say. i mumble quite a lot when talking. i see myself as an outcast and very different to everyone else. i get hyper and take things over the top. and then eventually get depressed I used to take cocaine and speed for about 2 years when i stayed with some people who were violent I havnt touched any drug for about a year now. I've had most of these symptoms since i was young

Border Collie Dog, Illness possibly a urine problem or leg/back problem? Yesterday my four year old border collie was taken to an emergency vet, he is generally in very good health and is very very active, he went to bed perfectly well but in the morning could not walk! he looked like he was in a lot of pain on his back end ..we rushed him to an emergency vet who also was none the wiser about his problem! She says his symptoms don't seem to match a gut problem as he has no Temperature or vomiting, she lifted and poked around his back end and he has no immediate pain.... HOW EVER... he still could not walk or when he DID he was very very tucked up like we would if we had stomach ache!! She has given him an anti-inflamatory which seems to have helped, today he is up and about .. not 100% but much much better.... Im worried as to what caused this? would this sound like a kidney problem? Now I think about it, he often cocks his leg for ages but no wee comes out! OR could it be a back problem? a month or so a go his back foot swelled right up and he couldn't walk on it! we do live on a farm so we just put it down to treading on some thing..... either way its great that he seems on the mend, but he is a real up and comer for dog agility and im worried that what ever this is, is going to stop him or worse! Thanks for the answers!, No the vet didnt take any blood or ex-rays which is really what I wanted to have done (especially after paying the EMERGENCY fee of a sunday appointment lol) To answer the question below, about the "gut" problem, we thought may be he could have eaten some poisen, or maybe have some thing stuck that he cant pass? but today he seems pretty much fine! either way I think I would like to have more tests as SOME thing was VERY wrong yesterday so bad that we had to CARRY him and he is a BIG collie haha! and im worried it could get worse if not treated! Luckily we have insurance so fingers crossed all the above will be covered! and yes he is entire! and yes I think she did check every thing there!

I have a german shepard female dog who is nearly 2 years old, she has always been in good health.? but about a week ago became ill, she occasionally gets ear trouble but a course of ear drops sorts that out. I took her to the vet and he prescribed a steroid shot and antibiotics and kept her in as she had a temperature and was dehydrated..i have recently got her home but she is no better, i am taking her back to the vets today...the symptoms are she is very lethargic and looks like she is in pain it takes her a while to lay down and get up...and she generally looks miserable and unwell, although she is eating and drinking..she is normally so full of life and happy...i was wondering if any body else has had a problem like this with there gsd..as the vet cant say what is wrong..and at the moment it is trial with antibiotics and anti inflammatory pills...but she doesn't seem to be getting any better, she has been like this for over a week now. she is a family pet who is very loved and it is really upsetting for us..i am just clutching at straws but some1 may have had a similar problem??

Why do people think you're a bad person, just because you have a mental illness, like OCD & depression? Why did the mental health nurse pop up @ my house unexpectedly JUST to try to tell me to clean my house & then just left? I'm 24, & I have a college degree. She gave me NO warning that she was coming over. Plus, all I was doing was reorganizing papers. I was in the middle of cleaning, so OF COURSE papers will be all over the place! It's routine for her to see me every month. But she just pops up with out calling or warning. & today, she pissed me off by telling me about the condition of my house, when I didn't ask for her opinion. But why did she do this? Why are mental health professionals so intrusive in my life? I can't even get a boyfriend. They think that just because I have a mental illness, then that means I'm too stupid to know left from right. Why can't I live like a normal human being? & these "professionals" don't give a fuck about me b/c when I see them @ WalMart, they turn their noses up @ me & roll their eyes like I'm the most grotesque being on this Earth. They just wanna have somebody to CONTROL! They're greedy for control, & they're making my life & mental health symptoms worse. I'm about to say to hell with mental health services, & all those greedy dogs do is make your God damn mental health symptoms WORSE! ***I don't mean to sound like I'm ranting, but I'm very angry & need advice. I asked this before, & everyone kept saying, "I don't believe you. There's more to this story. There was something you did to warrant this visit." Quite naturally, you're going to be MORE angry if you are upset & people just keep adding fuel to the fire. 1 lady on here went as far as saying that I'm crazy & coo-coo for cocoa puffs. NO. I didn't do anything wrong. & people think I must be on some sort of probation because I have a case manager & psych nurse. No, that's just the policy of the clinic to have these workers with us. I'm not suicidal, I don't hallucinate or have delusions or psychosis or anything. I'm not out of my head b/c I have OCD, anxiety, depression, & Tourette's. & even my case manager & psych nurse are ignorant of my problems & think I'm making up excuses for my disorders. No I'm not! Please help me! I'm very angry & about to have a panic attack & cry. I don't mean to appear to blow this out of proportion, but I am TIRED of being bossed around & told what to do & how to live my life! ***Sorry this is so long, & thanks for reading & trying to help out.

What is wrong with my Collie? Our Collie has been acting odd for the last week or so. He's almost 9 years old and has never had any health problems. The 3 potential symptoms that I have noticed are: 1.) Random Shaking: He doesn't loose control like a seizure, but shakes almost like a vibration. Sometimes it seems to focus on his head (to the extent that his teeth start to chatter), other times it seems to be resonating from his back legs. He's primarily an indoor dog, a medium sized long haired breed (Collie), and the temperature hasn't changed much so I don't think his shaking is because he is cold. 2.) Acting Very Clingy: Usually he will sleep a lot and just hang out around the house, but lately it seems like he wants to be nearby at all times and have constant attention. 3.) Excessive Panting: Normally he would breathe through his nose when relaxed. Now he has been panting like he is exhausted even though he is just sitting around. These symptoms are NOT present at all times, but all 3 seem to come at the same time. His nose is not dry or warm and he doesn't seem to be in any pain. Does anyone know what might be wrong with him?

Trying to understand a beloved dog's sudden death? Last night as I was leaving work, I received a call from home that our 8 year old miniature schnauzer and suddenly passed away. We were very diligent about his health. He had a clean bill of health, in fact, from the vet. All his shots were up to date. He ate as usual. Showed no signs of any problems. He was laying in his crate, barking due to a visitor that had just arrived. My mother heard him stop barking, heard the crate make an odd, unexpected rattle and by the time she got to him, just a few feet away, he gave out a few short breaths and was gone. We've ruled out poisoning because there were no other symptoms. I've had experience with dogs who've gotten into poison and there are usually some other signs. We're guessing it was a heart problem or perhaps really catastrophic like a stroke. It's just so hard to deal with not know what happened and that there was nothing we could do to help him. If anyone has any experience with this or are vets, please reply.Ty. Just wanted to thank everyone who's posted. This has been a very hard loss to accept and deal with. I'm not going to have a necropsy performed. He's at rest now and I'd just rather not go through that. It means I'll never know for sure, but I think in time, I'll come to terms with that. To whoever posted the Rainbow Bridge site, thank you so, so, so much.

i have a 4 yr. old miniature poodle who is in good health. he has had Lyme disease since he was 6 mos. old? he was given antibiotics a few times when he refused to eat (sign that lyme is acting up). the past month or so, he has been having diarrhea. took him to the vet and they prescribed metronidazole. i gave it to him for 10 days and he was fine. a few days off of the medication, he started having diarrhea again. the vet put him on another 10 days. (through all this he has been acting fine, eating, playing, etc) how long can a dog stay on this medication ? my vet said that some dogs have to stay on this for a couple of months before the symptoms disappear. any dog owner have a similar problem >? i'm getting worried .

9 year old FEMALE DOG (?) always hungry and thirsty,any cure? My spaniel has developed a great hunger and thirst recently,she has been to the Vet,no kidney problems,in good health and very active still,suffers from "leakage" also,any ideas on how to control these symptoms with natural products?,I am reluctant to try a lot of pills that may be prescribed and not work. Yes diabetis and worms checked

My Dog Loves To Eat Grass? My small dog eats good and is in general good health, but she loves to eat grass. My husband had just layed out new grass soder and it is beautiful. But my dog is ruining sections of the grass by eating it. Can anyone here tell me why she is doing this? Is something missing in her diet. We feed her once a day, pedigree can and dry food. She looks a little over weight and other than taking her for walks (which sometimes we do not have the time to do) we have her go on the threadmill. She seems to really enjoy this. She apprears happy and in good health and other than her eating grass there does not appear to be any other problems. Please advise if her eating grass is a symptom of more problems.

Cavalier king charles heart disease? i own a cavalier king charles and she is 5 years old. she is extremely active, super sweet and has never really had any serious health problems. today, i took her to the vet because she needed a shot, he did the exam on her and told me that she has a grade 5 heart murmur. he then went on to explain to me that a grade 6 is the worst. of course i was completely devastated, and i just have a few questions. 1. she goes to the vet all of the time, probably once every 5-6 months, if she was developing a heart murmur, wouldn't he have noticed this before? 2. he gave her absolutley no medicine he just said that if she starts to cough, to bring her in. 3. i was reading about it online and it shows that cavaliers are prone to this disease, but at a grade 5 they have definte and noticable symptoms, yet my dog shows NO signs of being sick whatsoever. could it be that he was wrong and its only a lower grade? i raised my concerns to him but he blew me off with i know what i'm talking about attitude. thanks!

my dog has a problem...? my dog has recently been acting weird...he got home from a camping trip 3 days ago.....his symptoms are: he is constantly licking his nose and mouth(im interpreting this has stress), he is showing signs of aggression(he has growled and attempted to bite me when he has never shown aggression before this)...my family and i are concerned for his health...he seems to be avoiding contact with his head...we are taking him to the vet ASAP! we would appreciate any previous warnings about his health until we can get him to the doctor...Professional or veterinarian advice is recommended, but help from anyone would be appreciated. thank you.

DR's PLEASE HELP!! Medical Problems MY Dr.s are no help? I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. I have been told I have IBS due to many digestive problems.but I have so many other symptoms that are not IBS. My Doctors do not take me seriously...they call everything anxiety even when I'm not feeling anxiety. The staff at my Dr's office is terrible you can never get a phone call through...they are rude and hang up on you and (I have an hmo and need referals to see specialists) Take forever for referals....for example I was refered to a pulminologist about 2 months ago, she wanted to do some tests which I needed referals for...i called once a week for a month and was told the referals had not been Processed. I finaly gave up and have not had the tests. I know I need to find a new Doctor but it's going to have to wait until January...In the meantime the only way to get through to my doctor seems to be to walk into her office and take a walk in appointment even if it's just to ask a question or follow up on something With all that said I would love some advice from someone who has experienced this or a dr. who has a clue. I went to my Dr. a couple of weeks ago because I had anal irritation...burning and itching and a feeling like there was unusal moisture in the area...like I would have episodes where I would suddenly start sweating there. I have had this on and off many times and I know it can be fairly common, especialy with the irregularity of IBS. She said I was irritated but it looked normal gave me a perscription cream and said if it was not gone to call her in 2 weeks. 2 weeks (I have called my dr's office 3 times and left 3 msgs with no return call) later all of the surounding areas had cleared but my anus was still a bit irritated, the feeling is almost as if it is cut up at the bottom and on one side of the middle...burns durring a BM and for sometime after. Also durring this 2 week period I had these quick spells of dizziness/vertigo...(which does seem to be less when I am wearing glasses instead of contacts)..short quick (10-20 mins) bouts of naussea which is not normal for my IBS..and a slightly deceased appetite with on and off watery diarhea ...also not common for my IBS pattern. The Dizziness did casue a few panic attacks (not the other way around) Last Week I had watery diarrhea all day long, and suddenly on my way home began to feel fever and extreme chills...I got home and took my temp which was 101. THe next day the fever/chills was less but still preasent with diarrhea..The following day I felt better but still had a feeling of low grade fever with none preasent and cold sweats...My stools were firm but very pale...almost white. Since my stools have gone back to normal or at least what I consider normal but I woke up the thrid day with about 10-15 mouth ulcers that healed abotu 3 days later. I am better but still have a burning in my abdomin, slight rectal discomfort and the occasional dizziness....now I am having the sweating(anal) feeling again. If anyone can shed some light I would appreciate it. I know I have anxiety...I am in therapy and working on it but I am still not comfortable ignoring these feeliongs. Stats 33..male Occasional smoker-commited ltr, no std and do not recieve anal sex(never have) tests Blood Work-including fasting tests thyroid and cholesteral-all ok (5mnths ago) Abdominal- cine esophogram, upper GI barrium series, stool testing, ultrasound Cardio-EKG, Electrocardiogram and stress test Allergies-Cat and Dog All tests have come back negative, my Drs assure me I am in perfect health Thanks for all the response, I really appreciate so many of you taking this seriously even those of you who feel it is anxiety related...my Dr does not I did see a GI for all of the gastro testing..he was the one who diagnosed IBS. He suggested not doing a colonoscopy....he said he was sure it was not necessary but I could do it to ease anxiety, but he would not recommend it...so I didn't do it They were looking for parasites and blood in the stool tests and saw nothing. I do have a friend who had a parasite a while back...any way I could have gotten it from her? I've had a ton of blood work...the gi took blood to test for parasites and autoimmunity my DR has run a CBC twice in the last year, I'm assuming she checked thyroid and Diabetis( I come from a diabetic family) but I cannot reach her to check on that The Cardiologist ran fasting blood which showed a low HD cholesterol, 3 months later when my Dr. Ran my blood again that had returned to normal Thanks again

Veterinary Thieves Or The Practice Of Money. Do Vets Rip People Off? You Decide.? Veterinary Thieves Or The Practice Of Money. Do Vets Rip People Off? You Decide.? My dog had a three day episode of vomiting and diarrhea. She has never had any health problems before so we didn't have a regular Vet (per se) with the exception for the immunizations (she's only 2 1/2 years old) and an indoor dog (with the exception of the outside front yard trips to go potty) Here's the deal, How is it that one trip to the Vet for vomiting & diarrhea turns into a a now ongoing nightmare of "Kennel Cough" and $661.00 later in a matter of two days, still no real answers with three different opinions and one disagreement on treatment? Answer? Just like Allopathic People Medicine, with all of it's technology... there is still the thievery that exists within the Health Care Industry, That's how! I have a Chihuahua that has been very healthy. She's 2 1/2. A very active Chihuahua all of the time! About 4 days ago, she developed a diarrhea & vomiting thing. She refused to eat or drink. Of course, I took her to a Vet within two days since the episodes were still happening but not as much or as often as before. Figuring that this might be a viral thing, a gave it a day before going to Vet #1. In the early morning on Friday, We (My wife and I) took her to a Vet in Clearwater, Florida a few miles from where we live who came "recommended" by my wife's family members. This Vet took her temperature & listened to her chest asked us a couple of questions and checked her for parasites which was negative and then said "it's probably some viral thing" or "it could be Pancreatitis" but i'm going to give her three injections.... one antibiotic... one for nausea... and one for diarrhea and some Flagyl tablets to take home just in case it's bacterial... That sounded logical so $130.00 and out the door we went. The diarrhea and vomiting subsided the next morning, however the dog hasn't really eaten except for some Ham (she refuses everything else) so not much of anything or drank much so nothing in and nothing out obviously. Resolved? maybe.... except for the fact that about 4 hours after leaving Vet #1's office the SAME DAY... she developed a cough. A hacking dry cough. So, I made a call to the Vet the very same day when the cough started and they said "uhhh... hmmm.... well if it don't get better bring her back". The next day (which was yesterday) the cough was worse and they were closed (they close at 3 pm and I got home to my scared wife... and a coughing dog at 3:30pm. as I work ... by the way.... in Health Care... (so i've seen first hand the nonsense that happens with human beings) By 4:00pm we were at Vet #2..... at what used to be a reputable place where we took another dog that we had some years ago that had health issues (she's now in doggie heaven) and where there was a great Vet that we really trusted and thought highly of.... whom was an older man with many years of experience... unfortunately, he's no longer there and the place has been really "remodeled" and beautified and probably sold off .... (someone's really doing well financially!) and of course the basic visit fee is $49.95 to walk in the door! So, what happened? we saw a young Vet.... with two earrings and a wigger beard that had to be less than 30 years old who asked a few questions.... auscultated her chest with a stethoscope and pressed an the Trachea and determined this to be "Kennel Cough". She's not around any other dogs except for my brother in law's dog that is symptom free and immunized against Kennel Cough.... but whatever. This Vet (whom is Vet #2) prescribed Doxycycline and Hycodan (Hydrocodone) syrup for the coughing jags and said "If she doesn't get better then take her back to Vet #1." The cost..... $103.00! Ka Ching!.... Well, later last night.... which is still in the same day and a few hours later after giving her the Hycodan Syrup and Doxycycline ... she started breathing very hard & rapid and still was coughing and looked worse than before. By 11:00pm, we were back at SAME Vet hospital as Vet #2) because my wife and I were afraid that she was worsening and don't want her to get to the point of dying and they stay open 24 hours a day. Anyways, we saw Vet #3..... since there was a shift change.....& here comes a young Czech female DVM that asked some questions (we told her the whole scenario) pressed on her belly... auscultated the chest again with a stethoscope and said.... "The labored breathing is no doubt because of abdominal pain" We should do X rays.... and the cough was probably something she caught at Vet #1's office.... when I asked how could a virus incubate so fast... she replied "oh they can develop in 2 hours". I'm educated.... and have had advanced courses in Microbiology and Virology years ago in Collage along with Pathology and although I'm not a Vet.... I've never heard of this ever in my life. I deal with people medicine for a living. Most all viruses and Bacterial infections have an incubation period Zellparis wrote: "the only thing i have decided is you are a sad and sick person to mock the president of the united states" My answer, Excuse me? What's your trip? Don't like my Icon? Too frickin' bad!!!! I don't particularly like your icon either. I've decided that you're a sad and sick person to try to look like a thug! Not everyone in the world likes Messiah Obama..... so, when our health care turns into that same nonsense of what i've dealt with from Vets in the past few days... just remember, you love Obama! PS: To everyone else..... My dog is showing signs of improvement! :) Still, Vets are wayyyy toooo expensive for their services nowadays!

what are the physical affects of abuse? im 25 years old and was healthy till recently. i got into a car crash and broke alot of bones and i have walking problems and am disfigured and have bone desnity issues and heart problems from the injury i had a hematoma on my heart. i was fine i was doing well getting by each day with enough energy and hope for the future. the main problem was my pain and mobility problem. i have trouble walking. i walk slow like a senior but now i have new symptoms., im normally a strong girl but recently my sister became abusive to me for the last 5 months non stops shes been hitting me every day sometimes with sticks or metal sticks or heavy objects or throwing things at me she lunges at me daily and scares me and screams at me and makes threats and says odd stuff. her speech slurs. she does things to try to sabotage me like she dosnt let me sleep at night. i need to stay up sometimes because i have a hard time getting food because i cant lift stuff or move my arms in certain directions. so i was waiting till a certain time to go into the kitchen to get food and she began to block the kitchen and wouldnt let me get any and i couldnt go to bed without food because i was dizzy and i cant lie down if i feel faint and didnt eat in almost 24 hours also the emotional abuse causes alot of pain she used to be nice to me. im going to a preist about this because some of the stuff she says is odd and i think it might be religous related im a religous person and this abuse seems more than criminal especially a sudden personality change and the stuff she says also i have tried cops in the past because other family members abused me and they didnt help. i tried social services too. but right now shes the one who brought this new abuse and i reAlIZED IN THE LAST LIKE MONTH i lost energey. i feel very depressed and hopeless. i have no energey maybe its from always fending for myself and not eating. or the beating? im not young now i used to get beat like that when i was 12. i was a kid and would run around all day now im in my 20s with health problems maybe its heart related? but new symptoms or maybe abuse related? anyways she is moving away soon. but im worried, we had a relationship.a cool sister sister relationship we used to be friends and now shes attacking me but ill talk to the preist about that and yes shes been mental health screened and came out negative her shrinks think she has social anxiety im so week now all the time and careless. i stopped caring about myself and ive been depressed before and wasnt week. so its probably not from depression i just feel bad that others take me down and try to harm me when im trying to care for my well being and raise myself to a level where i can function i want to go back to school and walk down a hall with a backpack but i cant. i cant barely walk or bend and i have pain and no arm strength also i noticed our house in infested with fleas. a neighbor brought their dog over when they dropped something off and since then everyones been bitten and i have bites all over my legs. like polka dots on the bottom of my legs maybe the fleas bite and make people lethargic? mo0squitos dont do that but fleas maybe? i dont know i just need to take care of my health and then get the heck out of this tangled mess. and get to a preist and fix whatever might be happening. or family counseling or whatever if the preist dosnt know

possible skin infection for my dog? Last Monday my sharpei oliver got loose and came home with a small forhead abrassion that was red, bleeding and raw. Of course he is one of my babies and thus I rushed him immediately to the animal hospital in town. Their dignosis was he was hit by a car. His neck had three large bumps on it (they said swelling from the hit) They kept him overnight and when we came back to get him the bumps had gone down except the bigger two, one down a little and one up by the abbrassion. We were pleased to see Oliver looking so much better and alert and playful. It satisfied us, we paid them $380 and went home. This all but broke us but as our duty as parents to him, we paid, thankful to still have him. Last night he was in the house all day, never went out except on his leash to be walked for potty time, and we went swimming in the lake (me him and our lab mix Izzy) Izzy has NONE of these abbrassions on her, but Oliver got ANOTHER one sometime yesterday, and then there is ANOTHER forming on the back of his neck. It's gooy with green slime coming from it, and as of right now I'm freaking out. Something is really wrong with my dog and the vet just seems to not listen at all. They keep saying its more abbrassions that weren't noticeable when he first got hit and now the skin is dying and falling off. But when the skin falls off them it has a raw red patch on it. They think it just needs to be cleaned, which I did clean it, but now what when they keep coming and coming like this? I'm really worried for his health. This is the only vet in town...the only other ones are 45 minutes away. Should I wait this out or is this something that I should just drive for a vet who knows what they are talking about? He shakes his head a lot but i never see him scratching. I've read about sharpeis having skin problems is this a symptom of one of them? The hair and top layer of skin are coming off together, I hope someone out there might have some info on what this could possibly be, so I can maybe give a vet insight on what to look for. I just don't think its from being hit by a car and I love love LOVE this little guy a lot. Don't know what I'd do without him and very worried right now.

My dog needs to visit the vet... Need vet/vet tech advice. And holistic or conventional? First of all, I'm poor. I've got a part-time job and am in grad school. I'm a big fan of holistic medicine and have often given my dog (and myself) herbs and homeopathy and things that have made a big difference in his health. He's 13 years old and recently he's developed some bladder problems. Yesterday he actually started peeing in the house, which is really unusual for him. He gets a number of kidney supporting herbs/supplements (such as cranberry). When I started giving this to him, it seemed to improve a lot, but now it's gotten bad again. So my dilemma: I'd really like to take him to a holistic vet. From my preliminary research, the holistic vets in the area are expensive and don't have immediate openings... One I found that sounded good I'd need to wait about 2 weeks for an appointment. 1. Do you think that, given the symptoms I described, it would be OK to wait a couple weeks to have him seen by a vet? (more...) 2. Do you think that a holistic vet would be a good match for his symptoms? 3. Do you think that I should get blood work, urine tests or whatever other tests needs to be done at our regular vet (immediately) and then go to the holistic vet when they have an opening? I really don't want to do this because that would mean two office visits to two vets and just stepping into a vet's office is expensive. But holistic vets can check for all of the things (kidney stones, diabetes, etc.) that conventional vets can, right? And the vet I'm looking at also uses conventional medicine. It just seems to me like I've got more options with a holistic vet. It isn't the problem of money that makes me wait 2 weeks. It's the problem that the earliest appointment I can get with a holistic vet is in 2 weeks. Majestikmoose: I don't know where you live, but where I live there seems to be far more people wanting holistic care than doctors to provide it (even though there are a dozen doctors in my area). So, as much as I don't like it, the law of supply and demand says that they should be more expensive than a regular vet. One place that I called that had both holistic and conventional vets charged about twice as much for an office visit wtih the holistic vet.

should my dogs previous owners have to pay for her vet bill? i adopted an english bulldog a week ago. when i went to look at her i asked the owners if she was healthy and i explained to them that if she had any health problems i could not take her because i cant afford any vet bills. i am a single mother of two. they assured me that she is in perfect health and i took her home. after spending time with her i started noticing that there were some problems though. she wouldnt eat, she was very congested, she had problems going up and down stairs, she was caughing and sneezing alot. after the second day i called the previous owners back and they explained to me that "thats just how english bulldogs are" but told me that if i was concerned i should take her to the vet. after a week her symptoms only got worse. and now she is throwing up everytime she trys to eat or drink. so i took her to the vet. turns out she has severe ear infections, eye infections, hip dispashia and advanced Pnemonia. now she is at the vet for at least a week with an iv. she is on multiple meds and is getting a series of injections daily. the vet gave me an estamate of $800 for the final bill. the previous owner refuse to help me with the bill. they said "its not like you bought a car with a waranty" THE VET TOLD ME THAT ALL OF HER MEDICAL PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN PREASANT FOR WELL OVER A WEEK. SO THEY SOLD ME A SICK DOG AND THEY HAD TO HAVE KNOWN IT. $800!! isnt there anything i can do?

should my new dogs previous owners have to pay for her vet bill? i adopted an english bulldog a week ago. when i went to look at her i asked the owners if she was healthy and i explained to them that if she had any health problems i could not take her because i cant afford any vet bills. i am a single mother of two. they assured me that she is in perfect health and i took her home. after spending time with her i started noticing that there were some problems though. she wouldnt eat, she was very congested, she had problems going up and down stairs, she was caughing and sneezing alot. after the second day i called the previous owners back and they explained to me that "thats just how english bulldogs are" but told me that if i was concerned i should take her to the vet. after a week her symptoms only got worse. and now she is throwing up everytime she trys to eat or drink. so i took her to the vet. turns out she has severe ear infections, eye infections, hip dispashia and advanced Pnemonia. now she is at the vet for at least a week with an iv. she is on multiple meds and is getting a series of injections daily. the vet gave me an estamate of $800 for the final bill. the previous owner refuse to help me with the bill. they said "its not like you bought a car with a waranty" THE VET TOLD ME THAT ALL OF HER MEDICAL PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN PREASANT FOR WELL OVER A WEEK. SO THEY SOLD ME A SICK DOG AND THEY HAD TO HAVE KNOWN IT. $800!! isnt there anything i can do?

How much is a heartworm test? If positive, how much are we looking to spend on treatment? I don't want to sound terrible. I want to do everything we can do help our dog. But we have already shelled out thousands on his health problems and he is only 2 years old. We've hit hard times and we are so scared we aren't going to be able to treat him. If we have to we will take out a loan. I'm not working due to the pregnancy and my husband was laid off about 3 weeks ago. Hopefully he will have a new job soon. My dog is sick and I suspect heartworms. He has been on preventative his whole life, but never tested (I'm looking at his records now) The old vet didn't test unless the dog missed a dose or something. New vet tests yearly and he is due for a test in January but his symptoms scream heartworms so I am going to take him this week. My husband would like to know how much a heartworm test is? And I want to be prepared if it comes back positive for heartworms how much we are looking at spending for treatment. So i can get things organized. Also what are the chances for recovery? Can it be cured? He has always been sick with something or other. He suffered with gastrointestinal problems that almost took him from us twice. He does have a compromised immune system. We are scared. Thanks Again I don't want to sound horrible, but I have to find away to take care of him and I have to think about the money too. I may have to borry from my parents for treatment or something. ADD: Rehoming him is not an option, I don't care that times are hard we will find a way to care for him. We may be in debt over him but we love him bonnie, he didn't come from a breeder. Well not a real one atleast I will have had him for 2 years this halloween and i wouldn't trade him for the world Also even though he was on preventative he was exposed to 3 dogs that had heartworms. Is it possible with his compromised immune system that he could have caught it from them. He is going to the doc tomorrow

should i feel guilty? I am on the verge on leaving my boyfriend. Its not so much him but its our living arrangement. It is us my 3yr old and 3 big dogs that are not house broken. They are constantly going to the bathroom in the house and I have told him i refuse to clean up after his mutts! He wanted all these animals in this house he needs to clean up after them. He considers cleaning up throwing a towel over it and picking it up a week later. We have had to rip up all the carpet in the living room and hallway because the puppy he bought me could not stop going to the br on the carpet. I wanted to crate train her but no he didnt want to leave her in a cage all day. So therefore everyday is a new adventure to see what kind of mess she ahs made, emptying the water dish all over the floor or his other dog knocking over the food dish all over the floor. He is so lazy! We have to walk around with shoes on 24/7 because of the dogs. One pees everytime she lays down just about, one has her spot in the kitchen and the other goes right in front of the kitchen. Its not just that. We just dont see eye to eye on the kids. I am more laid back when it comes to the kids, well mine anyway. he is 3 he is going to play and crash his cars and just be a boy. Not while he is around. I dont know, maybe its just me but I just want more out of life! I am constantly broke cant even afford to go to the grocery half the time! I am overweight because i cant afford to buy the foods i like to lose weight to eat right. I had to file bankruptcy 3 months after moving in with him. Here it is 3 yrs later and I am still not happy! I love him but I want more for my son and myself. I want to be able to provide for my son and have money to do for me sometime. Is that being selfish? Now that I am seriouly thinking of leaving I feel guilty. Why should I feel guilty for wanting to be happy? I am scared to death to even say anything to him about it. I dont know how he will react. He will blame it on me like everything else. I am no angel by any means but I am not a horrible person like he makes me out to be. Every problem we have ever had is my fault! I have health problems I need to get to the dr about and cannot afford it. I think I have endometreosis. I have constant pain in my lower back in in my lower abdomen which I know are symptoms. Took 2 yrs to get preg lost that pregnancy after a month. Every woman in my family has had it and had full historectomies ( however u spell it) by the age of 30. I am 27. If there is something wrong with me I need to know before my chances of having another baby is gone! In his defense I will say he has changed somewhat he is doing things he wasnt doing before, but its like its 3 yrs too late. Am I wrong for feeling this way? Should I feel guilty for wanting to leave to make a better life for me and my son? Thank you to who ever reads this whole thing and responds. Just dont know what to do. _________________ BTW - He always told me I would be gone before the dogs would be! I have a place to go. My parents have said we can come live w/ them! I am so blessed to have them!!!!

My dog loves to get high, should I let him? Every time we get high he wakes up and tries to be around the smoke as much as possible. He'll even follow a joint or bong around the room as it passed between friends in a rotation, allowing everyone's smoke to settle around his head for him to get a second inhalation of. He has cancer and I'm wondering if the marijuana is helping him with his symptoms. I also know he has some vision problems, but I don't know the extent of them other than if I throw his ball too quickly or too far, he is almost incapable of finding out where it is, or even which direction it was thrown into. He also loses things that are in his peripheral, rather than direct, vision. I'll be honest, right now I've been getting him high as hell every time, because he seems so much happier afterward. But I'm curious how others feel about me possibly sacrificing his health as a trade for significantly treating his symptoms and quality of life.

DEMONOLOGIST AND GHOST HUNTERS I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!? i have ben having paranormal activity to a very strong degree in one area. we have identified three apparitions seen is an infrared convertion cam. the system that captured these images has many automatic triggers. it has acelarometers, sudden motion detectors, infared motion detectors, an infared convertion camera (turns infared image into a cgi photograph), a standard camera, a relativity sesnsor (detects destance for auto focusing) and ambeint light, and emp moniter. this device we made can be triggerd by any one of these sensors. when tripped all the built in ir cams and such start capturing images. using the images captured and running them through some very expensive software and after cunsulting with many experts. they have ben identified as demons from ancient litiature. the third image is very clear but still not ben identified. if you ever seen the movie evolution the weird creature that came out of the ladies closet that they though was a dog. if i had to compare this image to anything i seen before that creatre from that movie would be it. but this is a huminoid not a quadraped like in that movie but the faces of each look almost identical. the concensous form the people that been looking at this stuff. belive the large forward image to be that of asmodeus. and in the back ground if you digitaly zoom in on the image it is an extreamly clear image of a female face with the left side disfigured. the only enhancment made to bring out this image was a simple change in color saturation. this is without a doubt the face of lilith the first women. the mate of asmodeus ect. many diffrent tales about who she is. i want to know why in a bulding with high paranormal activity would we find a being as powerful as asmodeus and in the same image behind him we see lilith. now based on what ive reserched about these two. im thinking this is very bad. but we still cant identify the third image. so i was hoping if sombody a demonologist or fellow ghost hunter. would be able to puzzle this third being in. and maybe give some theorys on why all these powerful infamous demons are haunting this place. people are involved. the main person that seems to be connected is very ill. used to be a very very healthy person. not the slightest history of health problems. about 3 months after the activity started his health started do decline. very slowly. he is now to sick to get out of the bed. and he has ovious health problems such as blood in urine. racing heart. heart attack like events and severe weakness. mucus is stool and urine and top layers of skin just see, to fall off like dandruff from a persons head. all kinds of very strong symptoms. whats strange about that is after seeing 23 diffrent doctors over the course of a year. the doctors see these things. but they see nothing in any test wrong. blood in urine seems to have no source. despite the extream weakness no lab test show any reason for the weakness. it is not pshychological. thare are abvious phisical issues but nuthing shows any source of a problem medicly. he takes a deep breath you can hear his ribs poping and crackling. like cracking your knuckles. all that and doctors cant find anything? i find that very odd. i found one article about lilith. in one rendition she is said to be the baerer of illness,desise, and death. considering the paranormal activity seems to get worse around the same time his symptoms flare up is intresting to me given thses facts. he dose not appare possesed in any way just ill. can any of you guys have any ideas as to why asmodeus and lilith seem to be haunting this boy? and who is this third one in the image? sorry i dont have links to these images yet i know that would help. but im working on it. they wont stay in the same resolution when trying to upload them to photobucket. 1440x900 pixels. we are building a website right now we will house these pictures thare. so they will be available soon. in the mean time. you fellas got any thoughts on this one???? reading about the two that are identified im thinking this cant be good.

Can you review my article on depression? This is to submit to the school newspaper...? This doesn't look as long when formatted in a newspaper style. Thanks if you actually read it! Depression is an ocean of all-consuming emotions, submurging its drowning victim with feelings of hopelessness, sadness, and anger as if the sufferer is trying to swim away while being weighed down by an anchor. The sufferer can only see the ominous murky presence around them, but if they reach out they will find that hundreds of thousands of people young and old are also drowning in depression. Recognizing the symptoms of depression and learning how to help someone cope with it can not only relieve the sufferer's pain but can also save lives. Casey* first felt her depression in middle school. After moving to a new town and school she found it hard to fit in while trying to cope with leaving her old friends behind. She joined many social clubs but her peers were not welcoming and accepting of her. She found this hard to deal with. Casey's problems worsened as she first entered SRHS. Her grades went from A's and B's to D's and F's. She always came home crying and would blame her friends and family for not understanding her. Casey would argue with them, many times over small or silly reasons. She felt like a loser, so she turned to alcohol and physical harm to make her feel "normal" and to get rid of the pain and anger. Casey felt scared and alone, but luckily she wasn't the only one who noticed something was wrong. James* and Jessica* are two friends of hers who listened when she needed them to. They convinced her to open up to her parents about how she was feeling and what she was doing to herself. Her parents were shocked and upset, but they agreed to help her and decided that counseling would help her the most. At first Casey was embarrassed about going to counseling. She was doubtful that it would help her, but her counselor taught her to deal with emotions and problems that she didn't know how to deal with before. Over time her grades raised back up to A's and B's, and her relationships with her friends and family became stronger and happier. She learned new ways to deal with depression and how not to let depression control her. We have all felt depressed at one time or another. High school is hard with peer pressure, homework, sports, clubs, and everything else in between. But like Casey, if depression seems to linger and hurts your personal, social, or school life, you may have depression. It's hard to talk about depression, especially if you or someone you know is depressed. But it's important not to let feelings bottle up inside. Like shaking an unopened can of soda, if you try to open up after you've let your feelings bubble over, it's going to explode and you're going to have a breakdown. Peer Counseling is a great way to talk about your feelings. It's a free, one-on-one talk with a student counselor at (school) where you can talk about what's on your mind. Even if you're not ready to talk, there are many ways to deal with depression: You may not believe it, but a healthy diet, which includes plenty of water, fruits, and vegetables, is one of the most important factors in fighting depression. It stabilizes hormones in your body and keeps your emotions in check, plus countless other health benefits. Drugs and alcohol trigger depression and can also cause many other health problems and disorders. (school) has an Alateen program on Tuesdays during 5th period in the basement; a place where teens can talk about and deal with alcoholism in their family, friends, or themselves. Excerise does more than help keep keep you in shape, it releases stress and other negative feelings. Walking your dog, dancing to your iPod, cleaning, swimming, and playing sports on a team or with your friends are great ways to clear your mind and stay fit. If you notice that a friend is feeling sad or depressed, the best thing you can do is to listen--without giving advice, without criticizing or blaming, and without taking sides--and be there for them if they need someone to talk to or a shoulder to cry on. If you or a friend is feeling suicidal, are using drugs, alcohol or resorting to physical harm, then you or a friend will need more than a friend's support to deal with those issues. You can call a hotline or talk to a parent, teacher, counselor, or other trusted adult for help. Call 911 if you or a friend is seriously considering or attempting suicide or have had an overdose on any drugs or alcohol. Depression has affected hundreds of thousands of people across the US and many students at SRHS. One out of eight teens are suffering from depression, so imagine if 250 out of 2000 SRHS students are also suffering from depression. If you can help fight depression, you can save a life. Thank you, I wrote it on an online double-page spread (as if it were on a newspaper) and I didn't have enough room for all the details. Also, there is a little section on the double-page spread where I write about some of the other symptoms you mentioned. I forgot about mood swings (I get them all the time as well!)

Question about my potentially expecting Yorkie/Schnauzer? On June 4, my now 10 month old pup was accidently let out of the house and bred with our aunts small dog. The signs had stopped so I let her out a few minutes to use the bathroom, and was watching her from my window to make sure she was okay like I had before. I looked up and saw it happening and immediately seperated the two, so their was no time for them to "tie" but I guess long enough for her to conceive. It was during the end of her second week in heat, and we are thinking because of her age, it was her first cycle although there was period a few months prior she was "spotting"-the vet said it could've been "puppy heat" and not the real deal-Anyways, she's since developed all the symptoms of pregnancy. However, I've been really careful about what she eats because she's very prone to getting bacterial infections from certain dog foods (she got it twice from eating Caesars). We gave her the vet recommending Science Diet, which she gobbled up for a little while. But since her potential pregnancy, she hasn't touched the stuff. I went a week keeping both the dry and moist Science Diet out and she would nibble here and there, but I was afraid she wasn't eating near enough for both her and the pups. Also she would go into periods where she would drink very little water some days, then others she'd be lapping up the entire bowl in one sitting. I was afraid she was just tired of Science Diet so I began to alternate her food to Purina "One" and Ol Roy and she eats it up. But within this past week, I guess bw 28-36 days of being bred, she's been throwing up a couple of times, won't let us pick her up(even if we're careful not to touch her stomach, and being far too calm and sluggish for her usual energetic behavior. So my questions are these: 1. Could she have gotten the bacterial infection from my changing her food from Science diet or Purina and Ol Roy and this could be causing the vomiting, sluggishness, and irritablility? Or are these common signs of a normal pregnancy? 2. Will they be able to treat an infection if she is pregnant? 3. We're afraid she was bred during her first heat, so if this isn't an infection causing such strange symptoms, could it be a result of a bad pregnancy (I've heard if they get pregnant during first heat, she's less likely to carry them full term and could easily miscarriage causing infections and other health problems for her. I realize it was my poor ownership that allowed this to happen. I was informed that their heating cycle only lasted at most a week and a half, and since she stopped showing signs by the end of the second, we didn't question it. And I know spaying directly after was an option but, I didn't have the heart to after I found out that she may be carrying pups. I called the vet first thing this morning, but they couldn't fit her in until late this afternoon and I guess I'm just worried and impatient to find out what's wrong. If you are an owner, a breeder, or work in a vet clinic and have honest, sincere answers, I would very much appreciate the help. Thank you very much Thank you for your help and opinions. Like I said before, I know it was my fault this happened, and I'm not blaming anyone else but myself and I know that the vet, who I am seeing today at 2:15 btw, is the one I should wholeheartedly rely on. But I posted the question on here for others who may have had pets in this situation or have seen it. It was a stupid mistake to not get eduated on the subject beforehand, but the fact is, as wrong as it was of me, what's done is done and I have to consentrate on my dog now. So those who feel compelled to include a lecture in the answer, that's ok, but keep in mind that we as loving dog owners are on here to help others concerning their dog, not searching for someone to chew out for something that can't be fixed. It's not about me, it's about her and her health, so that's the kind of answers that's needed. And I'm aware of the euthanization problem, trust me, these puppies will be taken care of.

Why dont people read the details of questions? Poop-eating (coprophagia) is generally a natural behaviour in dogs but unfortunately one that can be more than a little disgusting. Let’s face it, dogs are renowned for their flexible palates, and to them, poop is just another taste sensation. Frozen feces, or poopsicles, are an especially alluring snack. Puppies are the most frequent culprits, and owners take heart, they will usually grow out of this habit with a few precautionary measures. Dogs over one year old that have developed this habit can be a little harder to discourage. Why do they do it? Dogs are hard-wired to explore any and all potential food resources in their environment. This is especially true of puppies. Feces is very similar in texture to the regurgitated food they got from mom. Breeding females, as well, are naturally inclined to do their own "scooping" as they would normally clean up after their pups in the den. In addition, most dogs feel some urge to keep their territory or den clean, especially if they have been scolded for leaving a mess before. For some dogs, it is also a way to garner attention from an owner or to alleviate stress. A poor quality diet or one that a dog is unable to digest easily might encourage your dog to give his poop a second round. In households where both dogs and cats are present, dogs may eat cat feces. Cat feces is more nutritious than dog feces, since cats are less efficient at digesting their food. Cat food is also higher in protein than dog food and so cat poop contains many extra nutrients. That being said, there are some cases when coprophagia indicates a greater health problem, such as pancreatic insufficiency, specific nutrient deficiencies, or plain old starvation. A dog that is eating a lot of food can still starve if the food is missing important nutrients. In these cases the dog will lose weight or develop other symptoms over time. Is it harmful? On the whole, the biggest consequence of coprophagia is that we humans find it revolting. A dog eating its own poop is unlikely to have any harmful effects. Many owners worry about infectious diseases, but most healthy, vaccinated dogs are at a low risk for picking up illnesses this way. Snacking indiscriminately on neighbourhood poop does increase a dog’s chances of picking up worms (especially if there are cats that hunt in the area), but a standard preventative and treatment program will keep this from affecting your dog’s health. For example, many heartworm medications will also kill some types of intestinal worms, and fecal screening for intestinal parasites should be done twice a year at your vet’s office. Keep in mind that your dog will probably be exposed to most parasites in your community whether he is actually taste-testing or just sniffing around. Something that is of concern when dogs eat cat poop is that they might end up regularly swallowing a side of kitty litter, which is serious in large quantities, especially if the absorbent (clumping) litter expands in the gut. A dog with a belly full of kitty litter can sometimes become severely ill and might end up at the vet with vomiting or diarrhea. The consumed cat litter can be difficult to remove even with surgery, as it can scatter throughout the digestive tract. How do I stop it? In all cases, reducing temptation is the quickest solution. Scoop your yard frequently, keep Fido on a short leash in that poop-riddled park, and put the cat box out of reach. The kitty litter may need to be moved onto a higher surface or put in a room with a baby gate. A covered cat box might be all that is needed if the dog is much larger than the cat. Quite often, a change to a high quality, high protein, low carbohydrate and low fat diet will do the trick. Commercially available additives are sold in pet stores that claim to make poop less palatable. Many owners find that a teaspoon of canned spinach, pineapple, or a little meat tenderizer works equally well. Some owners will sprinkle hot sauce or pepper onto the poop in the yard (not on the food!). Keep in mind that Fido can easily sniff out which poops are booby-trapped, so this method might not work as well for dogs that prefer to "eat out" while on walks. Of course it makes sense to get advice from your veterinarian or trainer for help in solving this issue if you cannot. Although you may wish to train your dog not to use some areas of your house or yard as a toilet, never scold your dog for defecating. Promptly remove him to an appropriate location and praise him when he gets it right. Don’t scold him for poop-eating, either, as even negative attention can be seen as a reward. If stress is the reason for your dog’s new habit, hopefully an end to the stress will result in an end to the habit. Omg i dont know why you're still reading this... heh, but its pretty ironic. lawl. Above all, remember that your dog is performing a behaviour that is natural, and even rewarding to him: to a dog, potentially delicious. Punishme

Pet store puppys! I just felt I had to!!!? PET STORES: THE NEW LIE Pet stores are out to make money. Period. The salespeople they hire will say practically anything to get you to pay an obscene amount of money for a puppy that is likely defective. That being said, here's the real scoop on the poop pet stores will try to feed you. Reality The majority of the puppies sold in pet stores come from breeding farms called puppy mills. These dog farms typically keep dozens or hundreds of dogs in tiny, filthy pest and feces infested crates their entire lives, producing litter after litter. They rarely receive veterinary care, exercise, or attention. Most will be shot when they stop producing puppies. Many of the puppies produced by these places have genetic defects and health problems related to the conditions they are raised in. Most of them will die young. Click below for more information and photos on puppy mills: Puppy Mills BUT THEY SAID... Of course pet store owners don't want you to know all of this, because if you did, there's no way you'd ever pay thousands of dollars for one of their puppies. So here are some of the lies and misleading statement's I've heard: The pet store said: Our puppies don't come from puppy mills. We get them from responsible breeders. Truth: A responsible breeder would NEVER sell a puppy to a pet store. NO EXCEPTIONS. The first rule of responsible breeding is to do everything in your power to make sure your puppies are properly cared for and find new owners that will care for them as well as you did. A responsible breeder will want to meet and interview prospective owners, have a contract, and keep in touch throughout the puppy's life to make sure everything is OK. They won't pass this responsibility off to a 16-yr old pet store employee. The pet store said: Our puppies are better quality because they come from other states. They're not inbred like the dogs you can get from a breeder around here. Truth: Just because a dog comes from another state doesn't mean it's not inbred. In fact, most puppy mills are located in states like Arkansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and a good portion of the dogs produced by them are inbred. Ask to see a copy of the puppy's pedigree - this will list the last 4 generations of your puppy's bloodline. Write down the name of the breeding kennel and investigate. How many litters does the kennel produce? Do they do genetic testing? Do they show their dogs and breed only healthy dogs that are good examples of the breed in order to improve the quality of future generations? How many times does the same dog appear on the puppy's pedigree? Your best bet is to get a puppy directly from a responsible breeder that will be there to support you, cares about the quality of their dogs above any costs, and stands behind the quality of their line. The pet store said: Our puppies have a lifetime guarantee. You won't get that from a breeder. Truth: Ask what happens if you buy a puppy from a pet store and 3 years from now it develops debilitating hip dysplasia. They will likely tell you that you can return the dog and they'll give you a new one. What??? So your dog, that is now a member of your family, continues to live in pain or is euthanized, and you start over with a new puppy...only to have the same thing happen again? Prevention is the key here. A responsible breeder will not breed a dog with major health issues, and will always screen the parents for any diseases common to that particular breed prior to breeding. Ask what tests have been done (ie: OFA Hips, Thyroid, Eyes, Elbows, Heart, etc) and ask to see copies of the results. Chances are, if your puppy's parents are healthy, your pup is more likely to be healthy too. Most responsible breeders will guarantee their puppies for a period of time that will allow you to take the pup to your vet for a screening. The pet store said: All of our puppies are healthy. Just look at them. Truth: What you don't see is the puppy with mange in the back room, or the one with parvo that the owner brought to his house. (I've actually seen these things...) Not to mention, just because a puppy looks cute and fluffy doesn't mean it's healthy. A lot of problems can arise later in life, or a puppy might not show any symptoms of a disease until he reaches a certain age. The pet store said: We offer a payment plan. You'll have to pay up front from a breeder. Truth: They have to offer a payment plan because they charge 3-5 times the amount of a typical responsible breeder. Buying from a breeder is usually equivalent to the cost of the first payment at a pet store. If you're seriously low on cash and want a pet, look into adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue organization - it's cheaper, and the dogs are already spayed/neutered and up to date on shots. By purchasing a dog from a pet store, you are creating a demand for puppy millers to supply and your dollars are supporting their cruelty and mistreatment of AFTER READING THIS WOULD YOU BUY FROM A PET STORE???????

Veterinary Thieves Or The Practice Of Money. Do Vets Rip People Off? You Decide.? My dog had a three day episode of vomiting and diarrhea. She has never had any health problems before so we didn't have a regular Vet (per se) with the exception for the immunizations (she's only 2 1/2 years old) and an indoor dog (with the exception of the outside front yard trips to go potty) Here's the deal, How is it that one trip to the Vet for vomiting & diarrhea turns into a a now ongoing nightmare of "Kennel Cough" and $661.00 later in a matter of two days, still no real answers with three different opinions and one disagreement on treatment? Answer? Just like Allopathic People Medicine, with all of it's technology... there is still the thievery that exists within the Health Care Industry, That's how! I have a Chihuahua that has been very healthy. She's 2 1/2. A very active Chihuahua all of the time! About 4 days ago, she developed a diarrhea & vomiting thing. She refused to eat or drink. Of course, I took her to a Vet within two days since the episodes were still happening but not as much or as often as before. Figuring that this might be a viral thing, a gave it a day before going to Vet #1. In the early morning on Friday, We (My wife and I) took her to a Vet in Clearwater, Florida a few miles from where we live who came "recommended" by my wife's family members. This Vet took her temperature & listened to her chest asked us a couple of questions and checked her for parasites which was negative and then said "it's probably some viral thing" or "it could be Pancreatitis" but i'm going to give her three injections.... one antibiotic... one for nausea... and one for diarrhea and some Flagyl tablets to take home just in case it's bacterial... That sounded logical so $130.00 and out the door we went. The diarrhea and vomiting subsided the next morning, however the dog hasn't really eaten except for some Ham (she refuses everything else) so not much of anything or drank much so nothing in and nothing out obviously. Resolved? maybe.... except for the fact that about 4 hours after leaving Vet #1's office the SAME DAY... she developed a cough. A hacking dry cough. So, I made a call to the Vet the very same day when the cough started and they said "uhhh... hmmm.... well if it don't get better bring her back". The next day (which was yesterday) the cough was worse and they were closed (they close at 3 pm and I got home to my scared wife... and a coughing dog at 3:30pm. as I work ... by the way.... in Health Care... (so i've seen first hand the nonsense that happens with human beings) By 4:00pm we were at Vet #2..... at what used to be a reputable place where we took another dog that we had some years ago that had health issues (she's now in doggie heaven) and where there was a great Vet that we really trusted and thought highly of.... whom was an older man with many years of experience... unfortunately, he's no longer there and the place has been really "remodeled" and beautified and probably sold off .... (someone's really doing well financially!) and of course the basic visit fee is $49.95 to walk in the door! So, what happened? we saw a young Vet.... with two earrings and a wigger beard that had to be less than 30 years old who asked a few questions.... auscultated her chest with a stethoscope and pressed an the Trachea and determined this to be "Kennel Cough". She's not around any other dogs except for my brother in law's dog that is symptom free and immunized against Kennel Cough.... but whatever. This Vet (whom is Vet #2) prescribed Doxycycline and Hycodan (Hydrocodone) syrup for the coughing jags and said "If she doesn't get better then take her back to Vet #1." The cost..... $103.00! Ka Ching!.... Well, later last night.... which is still in the same day and a few hours later after giving her the Hycodan Syrup and Doxycycline ... she started breathing very hard & rapid and still was coughing and looked worse than before. By 11:00pm, we were back at SAME Vet hospital as Vet #2) because my wife and I were afraid that she was worsening and don't want her to get to the point of dying and they stay open 24 hours a day. Anyways, we saw Vet #3..... since there was a shift change.....& here comes a young Czech female DVM that asked some questions (we told her the whole scenario) pressed on her belly... auscultated the chest again with a stethoscope and said.... "The labored breathing is no doubt because of abdominal pain" We should do X rays.... and the cough was probably something she caught at Vet #1's office.... when I asked how could a virus incubate so fast... she replied "oh they can develop in 2 hours". I'm educated.... and have had advanced courses in Microbiology and Virology years ago in Collage along with Pathology and although I'm not a Vet.... I've never heard of this ever in my life. I deal with people medicine for a living. Most all viruses and Bacterial infections have an incubation period before becoming numerous enough in oops... a typo in the question.... it should read "A narcotic cough syrup that Vet #3 said she wouldn't use from Vet #2 even though they both work for the same place" in the closing remarks. Sorry! Anyways, what did I get for $660.00 in two days? Two bottles of antibiotics... Flagyl and Doxycycline that one Vet says the Flagyl won't work and some Hydrocodone Cough Syrup that another Vet says causes labored breathing. I still have an ill animal!

Very stinky dachshund? I have a three-year-old mini dachshund who seems to have developed a very distinct smell. It's hard to describe, somewhere between a sweaty child and a wet dog. I don't remember her always having this. She gets baths often, but the smell always returns withing a couple of hours. She is an inside and outside dog, but our other dog (a black lab) is also an inside-outside dog and doesn't ever have this smell when she comes back inside. The smell itself doesn't really bother me (although it is quite strong, the whole house smells of it) but I am worried that it may be a symptom of an underlying health problem. Does anyone know what this may be?

should my dogs previous owners have to pay for her vet bill? i adopted an english bulldog a week ago. when i went to look at her i asked the owners if she was healthy and i explained to them that if she had any health problems i could not take her because i cant afford any vet bills. i am a single mother of two. they assured me that she is in perfect health and i took her home. after spending time with her i started noticing that there were some problems though. she wouldnt eat, she was very congested, she had problems going up and down stairs, she was caughing and sneezing alot. after the second day i called the previous owners back and they explained to me that "thats just how english bulldogs are" but told me that if i was concerned i should take her to the vet. after a week her symptoms only got worse. and now she is throwing up everytime she trys to eat or drink. so i took her to the vet. turns out she has severe ear infections, eye infections, hip dispashia and advanced Pnemonia. now she is at the vet for at least a week with an iv. she is on multiple meds and is getting a series of injections daily. the vet gave me an estamate of $800 for the final bill. the previous owner refuse to help me with the bill. they said "its not like you bought a car with a waranty" THE VET TOLD ME THAT ALL OF HER MEDICAL PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN PREASANT FOR WELL OVER A WEEK. SO THEY SOLD ME A SICK DOG AND THEY HAD TO HAVE KNOWN IT. $800!! isnt there anything i can do?

Lyme disease in dogs (I desperately need help)? I have a pekingese dog who is 6 years old. The symptoms started to show, so I took him to the vet. What his last vet did was, he had us going back and forth for all kinds of things. And he was working on some illusional health problem, that later on turns out it had nothing to do with what he's suffering. His new vet diagnosed him with lyme disease. And we've been on antibiotics for 8 days now, 6 more to go. He's not improving, in fact he's getting worse. Now in Lyme disease, early diagnoses is the most important thing. And the longer it takes to start the treatment, the higher the chance of it causing the dog a permanent damage. I wasted over a month with the other vet, and there' nothing to do about it now. I really need some suggestions.. Thank you for your time

has anyone in So Ariz noticed their cat losing weight fast and not eating-i'm about to lose one -symptoms? I've been feeding 11 cats and 4 dogs a combo of wet/dry food from Frys and WalMart for 5 yrs; have found 3 cats in the desert and now have 2 more very lethargic, losing weight very rapidly, no eatingor drinking and can barely walk. Onset was very fast-playing one day and legs were unable to support them the next. These cats are not all from the same family-they were rescued-but I've never had a problem with their individual health. Don't want to accuse anyone, but, I spend an average of 150.00 per month on pet food and don't want to continue buying a product that may kill them! any info...PLEASE!! Thanks...Sharon

Can you review my article on depression? This is to submit to the school newspaper...? This doesn't look as long when its in newspaper format. Thanks if you actually read it! Depression is an ocean of all-consuming emotions, submurging its drowning victim with feelings of hopelessness, sadness, and anger as if the sufferer is trying to swim away while being weighed down by an anchor. The sufferer can only see the ominous murky presence around them, but if they reach out they will find that hundreds of thousands of people young and old are also drowning in depression. Recognizing the symptoms of depression and learning how to help someone cope with it can not only relieve the sufferer's pain but can also save lives. Casey* first felt her depression in middle school. After moving to a new town and school she found it hard to fit in while trying to cope with leaving her old friends behind. She joined many social clubs but her peers were not welcoming and accepting of her. She found this hard to deal with. Casey's problems worsened as she first entered SRHS. Her grades went from A's and B's to D's and F's. She always came home crying and would blame her friends and family for not understanding her. Casey would argue with them, many times over small or silly reasons. She felt like a loser, so she turned to alcohol and physical harm to make her feel "normal" and to get rid of the pain and anger. Casey felt scared and alone, but luckily she wasn't the only one who noticed something was wrong. James* and Jessica* are two friends of hers who listened when she needed them to. They convinced her to open up to her parents about how she was feeling and what she was doing to herself. Her parents were shocked and upset, but they agreed to help her and decided that counseling would help her the most. At first Casey was embarrassed about going to counseling. She was doubtful that it would help her, but her counselor taught her to deal with emotions and problems that she didn't know how to deal with before. Over time her grades raised back up to A's and B's, and her relationships with her friends and family became stronger and happier. She learned new ways to deal with depression and how not to let depression control her. We have all felt depressed at one time or another. High school is hard with peer pressure, homework, sports, clubs, and everything else in between. But like Casey, if depression seems to linger and hurts your personal, social, or school life, you may have depression. It's hard to talk about depression, especially if you or someone you know is depressed. But it's important not to let feelings bottle up inside. Like shaking an unopened can of soda, if you try to open up after you've let your feelings bubble over, it's going to explode and you're going to have a breakdown. Peer Counseling is a great way to talk about your feelings. It's a free, one-on-one talk with a student counselor at (school) where you can talk about what's on your mind. Even if you're not ready to talk, there are many ways to deal with depression: You may not believe it, but a healthy diet, which includes plenty of water, fruits, and vegetables, is one of the most important factors in fighting depression. It stabilizes hormones in your body and keeps your emotions in check, plus countless other health benefits. Drugs and alcohol trigger depression and can also cause many other health problems and disorders. (school) has an Alateen program on Tuesdays during 5th period in the basement; a place where teens can talk about and deal with alcoholism in their family, friends, or themselves. Excerise does more than help keep keep you in shape, it releases stress and other negative feelings. Walking your dog, dancing to your iPod, cleaning, swimming, and playing sports on a team or with your friends are great ways to clear your mind and stay fit. If you notice that a friend is feeling sad or depressed, the best thing you can do is to listen--without giving advice, without criticizing or blaming, and without taking sides--and be there for them if they need someone to talk to or a shoulder to cry on. If you or a friend is feeling suicidal, are using drugs, alcohol or resorting to physical harm, then you or a friend will need more than a friend's support to deal with those issues. You can call a hotline or talk to a parent, teacher, counselor, or other trusted adult for help. Call 911 if you or a friend is seriously considering or attempting suicide or have had an overdose on any drugs or alcohol. Depression has affected hundreds of thousands of people across the US and many students at SRHS. One out of eight teens are suffering from depression, so imagine if 250 out of 2000 SRHS students are also suffering from depression. If you can help fight depression, you can save a life.

Need help PLEASE, lab/chow-mix is sick, has bloody stools, and won't eat?!? Quick details: I'm at my mother's home taking care of the pets b/c she needs someone to feed and watch them while she's on the holiday trip. We've had this dog since I was a kid so he's around 11 or 12 years old and he's had some health problems over the course of his life; heartworms, kennel cough...but he's a tough guy and he's always gotten better. But right now I'm very worried because I haven't got a way to contact his vet and my mother won't be arriving back until Saturday. These are the symptoms: -He won't eat. He'll eat treats, he'll eat the extra bacon I fry in the morning, he'll eat the pizza crust that's left over...but he won't eat the regular kibble. (but he IS drinking water like normal) -When I let him out to go to the bathroom, he takes a VERY long time walking around trying to position himself...but he poops very little and there is BLOOD coming out, too. - His legs are a little shaky. I know he's old but could anyone at least point me in the right direction about what might be ailing him, and what I can do for the next day or so? I have only fed him those table snacks in the past day because he WILL NOT eat anything else and I don't want him to starve to death. Kthx.

Is it possible to have Addisons Disease without the hyperpigmentation? If you have every other symptom, including the hormonal test results and low cortisol levels, hyponatremia, and muscle weakness, could a person have addisons? I have had years of health problems, many a result of a pituitary tumor treatment that led to what is diagnosed as hemi-dystonia, along with depression, long periods of hospitalization (up to one month at a time) with adrenal failure and hyponatremia. Then it takes months to build back up to being my baseline healthy. I wouldn't have ever thought of this, but my sister just had a dog diagnosed with addisons, and she said its almost exactly like what has been happening with me on and off over the past twenty years. One more detail...when I have prednisone treatments for ear infections, my whole body feels better, stronger, and my mind is clearer. It is also the treatment I have had following the adrenal failure.

dog having seizures ? our 8yrs old poodle has been having seizures the 1st one about 4 weeks ago it was really shocking as we didnt know what it was we thought it was a heart problem it was so horrible to watch :( i suspected a seizure after reading on the web about it, all the symptoms fitted. we took him to vet who said it could have been a seizure, to keep an eye on him . well now i know it definately was a seizure cos it just happend again. this time we knew what to do, we just left him, kept him calm, and comforted him. we're still worried as to why he's suddently getting these. i read it may be caused by food. earlier on today he was greedy and jumped up on the kitchen counter and store a whole packet of bakewell tarts! we gave him into trouble, so we're wondering was it caused by them? his health check last time @ vet came back healthy, fine. im worried if its a brain problem obviously we'd need to get a ct scan/mri scan. he has a tumour in his bottom, beside his tail that the vet said is small, i dont know if that would be causing anything, we dont know if the tumor has grown inside. could it be something more serious? help ? the vets said they did a whole health check which included a blood test, which supposedly tested the liver, etc etc.

Collie cross Labrador throwing up....? I have a collie cross Lab, Brin, who we rescued from a dogs home when he was just 2 years old, he is now getting on at 11 years old. He has always enjoyed good health (just the usual doggy problems) until recently he seems to be throwing up yellow bile. He is eating ok, nothing has really changed in his diet. He seems a bit down in himself (I have put it down to age as he is getting a little stiff). I have taken him 3 times to the vet with my concern. They have done heart tests, blood tests questioned us about his diet/behaviour etc and the vet just says nothing is wrong. I have spent over £800 on tests and they are all negative - for which I am grateful - naturally. However, he still continues to get down and throw up yellow bile, just bile, no consistancy at all just liquid. I have asked the vet if it could be a refulx action (I suffer with this and know how down it can make you feel and the horrendous burning sensation). The vet just dismisses this every time and has never done any tests to verify that this is NOT the cause with Brin. Has anyone out there got a dog with a reflux problem that perhaps could advise me of the symptoms and I can do a few checks on my elderly dog and see if they match. I am NOT opposed to going to the vet again for more tests, it is just that this time, after spending over £800 on tests, I would like to try and go in with a little knowledge that what I think may be wrong with my dog, could indeed be the case. It does get kind of disheartening parting with money to be told all the time the dog is fine - when clearly he is not. Any answers much appreciated. thanks :) Hi MamaB, thank you so much for your advice, can you buy Burns Holistic from Jolley's pet store? Or is it just online? I am going to gently try to change his food and I have been on the internet site, which looks fantastic. Thank you very much for all your advice. All of you have been so helpful and suggest a diet change. A million thanks, our pets are our children and I hate to think of any animal in pain. Can't thank you enough. Thank you fallen angel - may you be uplifted! :)

These are the symptoms, what's wrong with me? 1. Excessive tiredness. (Even though I sleep very well for 6-8 hours a night) And when I say tiredness, I mean to the point I am falling asleep at work, on the bus etc. I mean exhausted!!! 2. No energy (as a result from being so tired). Along with this comes a total lack of concentration, can't focus, trembling hands. 3. Really dark wee, like very concentrated. (I drink around 3-4 litres of water a day and it's not normally this colour at all, usually it's very light) And fairly light poo (sorry to be gross!) 5. (This might not make sense, but I will try!) When I wee, just as I have finished and I go to pull my pants up, I need to wee again. And a trickle will come out. This process repeats until I ignore the urge to wee and just pull my pants up and have done! 6. Headaches 7. Lack of appetite. No hunger, not interested in food. I eat because I know I have to, not because my body wants it... If that makes sense. 8. Itchy little lumps on the back of my thighs. Tons of them. Tiredness is the main problem, it's killing me. Ok, a little info about me. I'm fairly healthy, have a BMI of 24.5. I don't drink fizzy drinks, tea, coffee or alcohol. Diet is good EXCEPT I have a ridiculously sweet tooth, and I will have a biscuit or two at least every day. I don't do as much exercise as I should, but I have to walk a mile to work every day, and I walk my dog. I'm 20 years old. I am on acne meds along with the contraceptive pill. No vitamins or anything because I can't have iron, zinc, selenium or magnesium with the acne meds. (Been on them about 14-15 months) My dad has coeliacs disease (gluten free diet), my mom is lactose intolerant and I have irritable bowel syndrome. (Not been tested for coeliacs) Reason I ask is because I don't want to go to my doctor as I am trying to get into the RAF and I don't want anything on my medical records. However, if it could be something serious I won't risk my health and I will go to the docs, but only if it could be something serious. Any ideas of what is wrong with me???

More Canine Brucellosis in Washington info from craigslist? http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/CanineRepro-PuppyCare/post?postID=570i_-y0j8_xfSr4-5RoaIO4q4nZ66E_vr3xSXJpOdiv_wUgW3AP9oQABakA-zqFn0DSSFoFQ1JhAJ0QMxur8g>; *City Government and Health reporter* The Lewis County Health Department is warning anyone who has purchased or adopted a dog from a rural Lewis County woman, to have that dog tested for canine brucellosis, a dangerous bacterial infection. According to the health department, a dog owned by a dog breeder and rescuer tested positive for the disease earlier this week. A total of four dogs are believed to have the disease, as of this morning. Because the infected dogs were in close contact with more than 110 dogs, it is very likely more dogs are infected with the disease. And, because the breeder kept no records, there is no way to predict how many more dogs with the disease have been sold. This breeder, who lives in the Ethel-Toledo area, sells several breeds of purebred and "designer" mixed breeds, including pugles (beagle-pug mix) and terrier-Chihuahua mixes. In addition, she rescues dogs of all breeds and adopts them out. All of the 110 dogs on her property have been tested for the disease, but the health department is advising anyone who may have bought or adopted a dog since mid-February to have the animal tested by a veterinarian. At-risk dogs were sold along state Route 508 near Mary's Corner, on U.S. Highway 12 at or near the Ethel Market, or from a parking lot at Interstate 5 exit 79 in Chehalis. The breeder's identity is confidential, as she has done nothing illegal. She is described as a woman in her 20's or 30's. She sells the dogs out of a red car. The Department of Agriculture has quarantined the breeder's property and she is forbidden to sell, give away, or otherwise remove any of the animals now there, said Kathleen Eussen, health department director. Canine brucellosis is a bacterial infection that causes abortions and infertility in females, and reproductive problems and infertility in males. Because treatment is rarely successful in dogs, it is recommended that dogs with the disease be euthanized. Symptoms may be unnoticed in females, but males may have testicular swelling and infections. Other possible symptoms include lethargy, loss of libido, premature aging and swollen lymph nodes, according to the International Veterinary Information Service. The disease, which may be transmitted to humans, is very rare in Washington. For information, telephone a veterinarian or the health department at 740-1222.

gallbladder issues? herbal remedies?? HELP ME PLEASE!!!? So, I have had a gallbladder problem for a while now. HOWEVER, the ultrasounds never show anything, but I have all the SYMPTOMS. I have tried a flush of my gallbladder, using olive oil, vitamin c, and lemon juice and I was SICK AS A DOG!! My gallbladder problems are ONLY GETTING WORSE. I have no health insurance and are uninsurable. Has anyone had any sucess with any other gallbladder treatment. PLEASE HELP ME!!! It is ruining my life!!! I have also found 2 websites with products that work. Who knows if they do, but I am posting the link. If you have tried any of these remedies, let me know as well! http://www.naturalhealthlibrarian.com/ebook.asp?page=Dissolve%20Gallstones http://www.organichealthandbeauty.com/Liver-Gallbladder-Formula_p_130-61.html?source=google&gclid=CKDEvMi6yI0CFQE6gQodGm4URQ

Anything I eat, every single day, feels like it's getting stuck in my throat.? I have been having the following problem for the past 9 months. I am 25 years old and a female in good health besides this problem. Any solid food I eat such as chicken, french fries, hot dog etc... gets stuck on the upper right side of my throat. It isn't painful but, it feels very annoying and feels as if I will choke on it. I drink liquids to try and get it down but, it just sits there. Sometimes I feel it move toward the bottom of my neck or to the upper left side of my neck. Liquids don't help push down the food and I do not not choke on the liquid. I am constantly annoyed every day and night with this problem. It is hard for me to sleep at night because I am scard I will choke on the food in my throat. Then, I try not to speak because I am scared when I talk I will choke on the food. This problem is only getting worse and no doctors can figure out what my problem is. I have had two barrium swallows, PH Motility Test, and an endoscopy and all that was found was a hiatial hernia which doesn't explain the food stuck in my throat. I am always touching my throat to try and push the food down but, no it doesn't work. I don't know how much longer I can live with this problem. I had an thyroid ultrasound and I am waiting for the resaults. I am working on getting an MRI done. The insurance just won't pay for my MRI for some reason..... Please help me out. If you know what this could be...Please let me know... I am begging you...... It has come to a point where not only do I feel like I'm not going to last much longer, it's completely affecting both my life + my husbands. I can't talk to my husband at night after work, mainly because my throat feels like it's got food stuck in it. I worry that I will end up choking on any possible food that could be stuck. I am taking Prevacid Solutabs 30 mg twice a day...... They don't seem to help. I have taken Zegerid in the past with no luck of helping either.... I've seen at least 5 doctors about this already (so please don't reply "You should see a doctor"). None of them had a solid definitive answer. I just feel like I'm getting the old run-around by a guy who needs to make money too and is wasting both of our time. ** Do these symptoms sound familiar to anyone? If you have something similar or the same, I think it would be comforting to know that I won't live the rest of my life DAY AFTER DAY like this.

Home treatment for watery eyes and flaky skin? My youngest cat (around 5 yo) has watery eyes today. The discharge is clear, just like tears. She is behaving as usual, eating as usual, etc. I also noticed that her skin is getting a little flaky for the past month or so. Nothing major, but I notice a little bit of the whitish flakes when I brush her. The other cat does not share any of the symptoms. We recently got a new dog from a shelter and he has allergies with dry skin, itching, eye discharges, the works. Would it be ok to give the cat a tiny little dose of the dog's Omega 3 supplement for her skin? What about the eye discharge, would it be ok to give her Benadryl like I give the dog? If so, what is the dosage for a 14.5 pound cat? I would take her to the vet if this was a serious condition, but I spent lots of cash with the dog's issues (he came from the shelter with really poor health) and I would rather try to remedy these minor problems at home if possible. Thanks!

Chronic Hives? My roommate has been living in my house since August 2007. I have an indoor dog, jack russell and beagle mix, who just got back from the vet with a clean bill of health, no ticks or fleas in sight. She started getting chronic hives about 2-3 months ago. She thought they were stress related, but on a recent trip to New York she said they went away two days into the trip. The night she came back she woke up with them back in full force. I am convinced it's something in the house, but I can't figure it out! I clean religiously, sweep and dust and the house is almost exclusively hardwood floors. I have had no symptoms and she had no problems until recently, so I don't know how it could be the dog. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Hit my head hard but seem to be ok - help?!? About 12 hours ago I was playing with my dog on the floor (lying down) and was close to a door frame and my dog jumped at me and I moved back really hard and hit the back of my head on the left side on the door frame. I remember what happened before and after the hit, and I haven't had any crazy symptoms such as vomiting or personality change or vision blurriness, but I have a dull headache. I have taken a nap since then as well and have been able to be woke up without any problems. The only thing is the dull headache and just alittle sensation of heaviness. I have no health insurance right now but I do have Medicaid as I am six months pregnant. Would Medicaid cover a trip to the ER or a CT Scan? I doubt it. It's a shame that I have to worry about dying all because I can't afford an ER visit. I know head trauma is nothing to play around with... but I don't seem to have any crazy symptoms yet. Help??

Do i have hypchrondria? sorry for such a long question but if you dont mind reading it: Ok, hi everyone, I am 13 and I think I may have hypochondria, now the reason I say this is because I constantly worry about my health, it started 2 years ago, I was about 12 and I had my first migraine which lasted 7 days. I was convinced it was a brain tumour, so each day, more than 1 times, I would research about brain tumours and the symptoms and how I might have it, I read it was very rare and mostly older people got it. That relived me. for a little, then I thought well what if I am not the luck one, what if imp one of THOSE kids who gets it for no reason, my time to go, then I thought about my death and I was crying and depressed for many days scared for my life. This cycle went until I convinced my mom to take me to the doctor’s office, I told him my symptoms and he said I was developing and it was a migraine and my mom gets them so I will too. Then I was okay. then I had to dog-sit this dog of a family friend, I didt know dogs rolled around in dead things because they thought it smelled good, so that dog one day rolled around in a dead squirrel and I was walking it. I ran home with it lagging behind me and washed it-with human shampoo. I thought It had rabies-I thought rabies was like a flea, but I found out that it was a deadly disease and had no survival rate, so I was panicked I had rabies, I even marked the days I would most likely die, I actually did that. I told my parents and they took it easily like oh you don’t shes vaccinated, and she was the dog, I even asked a vet if dogs can get rabies from dead animals they rolled on-she said no-and I still worried. Once my day of mortality passed I felt better. This happened a few weeks after the migraine. Then I watched Moulin rough and wondered what consumption was, tuberculosis, my mom had a cold and was coughing and I though she had TB, I was so scared I avoided my own MOM! So this list goes on, trust me when I hear or a disease I think I have to, like cancer I hear about it and I have no symptoms and I tell my mom-well what if its so early I don’t have symptoms, if I get checked ill live. Even when I have a cold and I cough I think it’s a cold what ever, wait coughing what if I have lung cancer? I used a cell phone and thought I had brain cancer, and I cry over these things for a long time, and once the symptoms go away or nothing happens im okay, until the next disease. I go to the doctors frequently, more than I should, I always tell him about random pains and I expect him to give me tests and MRI’s but he says its nothing. I got okay and when I get home I think, well what about THIS pain, I never told him I forgot what if it’s serious because of this??? Currently im stuck up on the brain killing amoeba, the neagleri floweri bug the one when inhaled eats your brain, you can go to my profile and see like 10 questions I posted, and even if people say I don’t, I cant get out of my head that I do. I get sad and at school when im happy and distracted I think well im not going to be here its so sad, I feel like crying. I thought I got HIV AIDS from a condom wrapper in my locker I picked up with a piece of paper and I told my mom and she laughed but as good as people make me feel and I feel better-those thoughts haunt me, I cant sleep, im tired, angry depressed at times, miserable. I also was bulimic for 3 months and am falling into anorexic patterns, when I had the flu and my heart rate was increased I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I am so scared about this naegleria floweri thing, just go to my profile and read one of the questions with the word” brain eating amoeba” and please answer there or here im so scared, but for the ones left out with it, can I get this brain eating amoeba from the soil dust around my house that my dad put in the pots me got, and the bucket in my room filled with water. see-I have nose problems, with dry air I get nosebleeds and mom keeps a bucket of water in my room and like never changes it, I convinced her to do it everyday, but can the neagleria floweri bug evaporate and get in me somehow, cuz its water from the tap in a bucket near a heater getting warm and stagnant!!1 I live in hamilton Ontario Canada by the way So what should I do im sick of being so scared of germs and disease, at school I have a special way of washing my hands before lunch if I cant wash my hands I wont eat, im not kidding. if you can answer this question im dead scared about please: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqLIblABdvuywApoZZLX0K_AFQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20090110122449AAUUrKm

Do I have hypochondria?? sorry for such a long question but if you dont mind reading it: Ok, hi everyone, I am 13 and I think I may have hypochondria, now the reason I say this is because I constantly worry about my health, it started 2 years ago, I was about 12 and I had my first migraine which lasted 7 days. I was convinced it was a brain tumour, so each day, more than 1 times, I would research about brain tumours and the symptoms and how I might have it, I read it was very rare and mostly older people got it. That relived me. for a little, then I thought well what if I am not the luck one, what if imp one of THOSE kids who gets it for no reason, my time to go, then I thought about my death and I was crying and depressed for many days scared for my life. This cycle went until I convinced my mom to take me to the doctor’s office, I told him my symptoms and he said I was developing and it was a migraine and my mom gets them so I will too. Then I was okay. then I had to dog-sit this dog of a family friend, I didt know dogs rolled around in dead things because they thought it smelled good, so that dog one day rolled around in a dead squirrel and I was walking it. I ran home with it lagging behind me and washed it-with human shampoo. I thought It had rabies-I thought rabies was like a flea, but I found out that it was a deadly disease and had no survival rate, so I was panicked I had rabies, I even marked the days I would most likely die, I actually did that. I told my parents and they took it easily like oh you don’t shes vaccinated, and she was the dog, I even asked a vet if dogs can get rabies from dead animals they rolled on-she said no-and I still worried. Once my day of mortality passed I felt better. This happened a few weeks after the migraine. Then I watched Moulin rough and wondered what consumption was, tuberculosis, my mom had a cold and was coughing and I though she had TB, I was so scared I avoided my own MOM! So this list goes on, trust me when I hear or a disease I think I have to, like cancer I hear about it and I have no symptoms and I tell my mom-well what if its so early I don’t have symptoms, if I get checked ill live. Even when I have a cold and I cough I think it’s a cold what ever, wait coughing what if I have lung cancer? I used a cell phone and thought I had brain cancer, and I cry over these things for a long time, and once the symptoms go away or nothing happens im okay, until the next disease. I go to the doctors frequently, more than I should, I always tell him about random pains and I expect him to give me tests and MRI’s but he says its nothing. I got okay and when I get home I think, well what about THIS pain, I never told him I forgot what if it’s serious because of this??? Currently im stuck up on the brain killing amoeba, the neagleri floweri bug the one when inhaled eats your brain, you can go to my profile and see like 10 questions I posted, and even if people say I don’t, I cant get out of my head that I do. I get sad and at school when im happy and distracted I think well im not going to be here its so sad, I feel like crying. I thought I got HIV AIDS from a condom wrapper in my locker I picked up with a piece of paper and I told my mom and she laughed but as good as people make me feel and I feel better-those thoughts haunt me, I cant sleep, im tired, angry depressed at times, miserable. I also was bulimic for 3 months and am falling into anorexic patterns, when I had the flu and my heart rate was increased I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I am so scared about this naegleria floweri thing, just go to my profile and read one of the questions with the word” brain eating amoeba” and please answer there or here im so scared, but for the ones left out with it, can I get this brain eating amoeba from the soil dust around my house that my dad put in the pots me got, and the bucket in my room filled with water. see-I have nose problems, with dry air I get nosebleeds and mom keeps a bucket of water in my room and like never changes it, I convinced her to do it everyday, but can the neagleria floweri bug evaporate and get in me somehow, cuz its water from the tap in a bucket near a heater getting warm and stagnant!!1 I live in hamilton Ontario Canada by the way So what should I do im sick of being so scared of germs and disease, at school I have a special way of washing my hands before lunch if I cant wash my hands I wont eat, im not kidding.

Do i have hypochondria?? Please help!? sorry for such a long question but if you dont mind reading it: Ok, hi everyone, I am 13 and I think I may have hypochondria, now the reason I say this is because I constantly worry about my health, it started 2 years ago, I was about 12 and I had my first migraine which lasted 7 days. I was convinced it was a brain tumour, so each day, more than 1 times, I would research about brain tumours and the symptoms and how I might have it, I read it was very rare and mostly older people got it. That relived me. for a little, then I thought well what if I am not the luck one, what if imp one of THOSE kids who gets it for no reason, my time to go, then I thought about my death and I was crying and depressed for many days scared for my life. This cycle went until I convinced my mom to take me to the doctor’s office, I told him my symptoms and he said I was developing and it was a migraine and my mom gets them so I will too. Then I was okay. then I had to dog-sit this dog of a family friend, I didt know dogs rolled around in dead things because they thought it smelled good, so that dog one day rolled around in a dead squirrel and I was walking it. I ran home with it lagging behind me and washed it-with human shampoo. I thought It had rabies-I thought rabies was like a flea, but I found out that it was a deadly disease and had no survival rate, so I was panicked I had rabies, I even marked the days I would most likely die, I actually did that. I told my parents and they took it easily like oh you don’t shes vaccinated, and she was the dog, I even asked a vet if dogs can get rabies from dead animals they rolled on-she said no-and I still worried. Once my day of mortality passed I felt better. This happened a few weeks after the migraine. Then I watched Moulin rough and wondered what consumption was, tuberculosis, my mom had a cold and was coughing and I though she had TB, I was so scared I avoided my own MOM! So this list goes on, trust me when I hear or a disease I think I have to, like cancer I hear about it and I have no symptoms and I tell my mom-well what if its so early I don’t have symptoms, if I get checked ill live. Even when I have a cold and I cough I think it’s a cold what ever, wait coughing what if I have lung cancer? I used a cell phone and thought I had brain cancer, and I cry over these things for a long time, and once the symptoms go away or nothing happens im okay, until the next disease. I go to the doctors frequently, more than I should, I always tell him about random pains and I expect him to give me tests and MRI’s but he says its nothing. I got okay and when I get home I think, well what about THIS pain, I never told him I forgot what if it’s serious because of this??? Currently im stuck up on the brain killing amoeba, the neagleri floweri bug the one when inhaled eats your brain, you can go to my profile and see like 10 questions I posted, and even if people say I don’t, I cant get out of my head that I do. I get sad and at school when im happy and distracted I think well im not going to be here its so sad, I feel like crying. I thought I got HIV AIDS from a condom wrapper in my locker I picked up with a piece of paper and I told my mom and she laughed but as good as people make me feel and I feel better-those thoughts haunt me, I cant sleep, im tired, angry depressed at times, miserable. I also was bulimic for 3 months and am falling into anorexic patterns, when I had the flu and my heart rate was increased I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I am so scared about this naegleria floweri thing, just go to my profile and read one of the questions with the word” brain eating amoeba” and please answer there or here im so scared, but for the ones left out with it, can I get this brain eating amoeba from the soil dust around my house that my dad put in the pots me got, and the bucket in my room filled with water. see-I have nose problems, with dry air I get nosebleeds and mom keeps a bucket of water in my room and like never changes it, I convinced her to do it everyday, but can the neagleria floweri bug evaporate and get in me somehow, cuz its water from the tap in a bucket near a heater getting warm and stagnant!!1 I live in hamilton Ontario Canada by the way So what should I do im sick of being so scared of germs and disease, at school I have a special way of washing my hands before lunch if I cant wash my hands I wont eat, im not kidding. if you can answer this question im dead scared about please: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Trying to figure out my mentality, This is LONG. ANY help is appreciated. Please answer 1 question? Desperate? I've been really obsessive about things. Everything. I'm not sure when it started and I could probably categorize myself under several disorders (without doctor's diagnosis) but I don't know many of the symptoms of them. I don't want to go to a therapist unless it's serious because the cost. In one way or more, many of these things apply somewhat to each other. If you can try to help explain why I feel this way, please tell me whatever you can. I just want to understand what this is or if I am able to get some help. Please give me an actual answer not "get help", "you hvae a problem, i don't know what". Say what you think I could have, or something you could relate any of these... problems to. -I hate when people spell words wrong, especially middle schoolstudents because they should have learned a majority of the spelling during that time. -I always procrastinate as much as possible, without realising it. I procrastinate waking up and going to bed, because it's not late enough. I procrastinate watering my plants for no reason; I procrastinate eating because my parents would make dinner at 7 after coming home from work; I procrastinate with homework simply because I don't want to do it. -I can't stand when something is crooked and always get the urge to correct it, even if I can't and it bugs me. -I am one of the worst perfectionists ever. I will clean my room for 7 hours with no breaks until it is spotless. (because I'm not allowed to clean anything else because my parents are packrats) I feel if I'm going to do something it can always be better; people usually think that's a good thing -- in my case it's annoying as shit to others. But in terms of being a perfectionist I can go without doing soemthing for as long as possible until I freak out. -I see everything as an "all or nothing" situation. Do my homework perfect, or don't do it at all. Clean my room till it's spotless or leave it as a mess for a few more weeks. Take 5 minutes to go out or take 3 hours to be okay with my appearance. -For no reason, when my friends wanted to hang out with me I agree at the time, and then lie and say I'm sick or have an appointment or just "forget" to avoid being with them, although I always have fun with them. Now they're not my friends. -I hate telling people things to their face because I'm afraid they'll get mad at me or judge me, so I vent behind their backs. -I take 30 minutes to shower. But disgusting enough, I can go without showers for 3 days (or longer) over summer unless I go out, because usually I don't "need" to take them if I don't go out in public. -I haven't been to drivers ed. yet and I'm turning 18 in December. I'm afraid of the thought of driving. Or getting into a wreck. My sister took me out for the first time ever a month ago and I didn't want to press on the gas. -I generally make spasmodic, jerking movements in stupid situations. If a pencil is rolling off my desk, I don't calmly reach for it, it actually scares me if it drops or something. I'm afraid this might hurt me in driving literally, if I think anything's wrong I'll probably break and get into a crash. -I hate being embarrassed. I feel like when I talk just to answer a question my cheeks are flushed. But even thinking about something embarrassing flushes my cheeks. -I have extremely sensitive hearing. When our TV malfunctions and the "ext" screen shows up, the frequency actually causes my ears to ring which tends to make my family think I'm psychic when it does it while I'm in another room and they don't notice. -I have extremely sensitive sense of smell as well -- I could smell a box of Cheerios being open from a floor above while I just stepped out of the shower and my sister was in shock or something. -I take longer than average to do everything which makes me feel as though I'm actually mentally challenged and my parents haven't told me. I wasn't fully potty trained before kindergarten. I learned how to ride a bike in 4th grade. Shower, eating (sometimes), sleeping, etc. Reading, writing, art projects have actually caused me to fail classes and I am excelled in those three activities of everything. -I actually have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, but I feel the medicine doesn't do anything except cause me to eat less. -If I see one thing out of place --a freckle, an eyebrow hair, a bruise -- I obsess over it for too long, where it actually bugs my sister. -I have terrible hygiene issues when I don't have to be around anyone. I don't think I want to share them but I can go without doing certain things longer than anyone should. -I can't stand certain things that are too sensitive for my ears. My parents turn up the TV so loud. And when my dog barks for no reason it actually pisses me off. Bass carrying through cars. -I can't stand the door being cracked open. I will go out of my way to shut the basement door. And always have to hear it click before I go away. -I am obsessed with pain. I do not want to kill myself, and I don't think it could be maochism because I'm not into it sexually, if that's the only way you could be into it. In 8th grade I cut myself because I wanted to experiment. But I didn't know much about it then, so *graphic* I used a scissors. Then, I somehow hid it for almost 6 weeks around parents and friends until I turned myself in for some reason to my health teacher. I hate talking about it and sometimes I get this teeny feeling that I want to do it, but haven't given in. However, one night I saw a screwdriver sitting in my room with a large thick handle on it and started hitting my whole forearm with it. Then did the same with the metal part. I bruised badly within 10 minutes, and the next day I told people who asked that I had my arm caught twice in a heavy door at school and they believed me. -I'm overly clumsy at everything. Can't do any sport right, because I'm not athletic and I feel awkward running. I couldn't balance a on wooden board maze that was 2 inches wide in front of my entire gym class, and he wouldn't let me quit until I finished -- 10minutes after everyone else was finished. I trip over nothing, and I run into things more than I should. I slipped down two flights of stairs once in front of my entire 6th grade class (35 kids), which I found funny for once. -I smile too long apparently, because I was smiling at someone I knew from school when I saw him at the movie theater and he told some coworker I talk to that I was a creep. So now I either smile too long or avert looking at them. -I always forget simple words. I forgot the word "diving board" today. And it makes me sound like an idiot to use small words when I can't think of the words I actually do know. -I like to pick at things. My nails peel into layers, and I pick anything I can. It's addicting. I have scars from picking and I still can't stop. -I'm never photogenic when it's candid, so I have pictures from family gatherings that I am embarrassed of so I hide them just because of my severe acne. -I have this huge load of annoyance towards my dad who is stubborn. He bitches about how much he hated school and had no friends and was fat, and one day told me he got a card for a high school reunion out of nowhere, so I asked if he was going to go. And he scoffed and was saying no because no one would like him. I think he's embarrassed of his life. I found a card of his to my mom and it said "this isn't how I saw the future, and I don't like it." or something like that. And I feel like he is bringing me down with him. I don't want to be the person I hate most. I think he's fucking up my life. I'm afraid of him, in this way where he makes me feel shitty for doing nothing and lies to make me feel guilty. He once thought it'd be funny to make me watch bugs being eaten on TV while I was eating. Then when he told me they're hard to see and my mom responded with, no they aren't he told her to "shush". -I talk a lot when I don't know what to talk about which backed my friends away from ever talking. But it's just because I don't know what to say and I'm waiting for them to come up with something but they never do. So I talk forever about how cold I am or about how something on me hurts, which they get annoyed with. -I am greedy. I spend hundreds of dollars on clothes of my mother's money and I feel like I'm going to put her in debt or that she won't have enough money if I go to college, but I can't stop myself. -I feel guilty for things that aren't my fault. And I always give in and apologize for something that I was actually the victim of. My "friends" called me, and I didn't look at the caller ID and she said (other friends listening) she had something to tell me, and she was crying (actually holding in laughs) that she was a lesbian. I didn't know what to say because I believed her. Then she was like "I can't tell ____ or my parents" and I told her she could tell my best friend ____ because I came out to her saying I was bi (i was curious at the time, but i don't consider myself bi anymore) not realising there were 5 other people listening. so she got awkward and said she had to go and didn't tell me it was a joke. So then told my best guy friend in turn told me and I got so pissed off and then apologized for it and they were probably the few people I even talked to. Now we're not friends because I didn't want to hang out with them so THEY ditched me. We were all friends with the same friends. And the people who talked to my best friend didn't know why she wasn't talking to me, so they stopped talking to me. And the last time I hung out with an actual friend. I can't even remember. But I keep making excuses. -I have excuses for everything. -I'm a compulsive liar. Even if my mom asks if I do my homework, automatic response: Yes. I don't know how to stop lying about the dumbest things. -I am a hypochondriac. I think. Which is something a hypochondriac would do... think they're ____. Well. I get this feeling like. Restless leg syndrome, I had that feeling before the commercials started, but no one never noticed it till then so they think I'm making it up. I always think I have appendicitis or that I'm going to get skin cancer. I can feel sick after saying it and believing myself. But nothing serious has ever happened to me in terms of contracting a disease. -The only person I feel comfortable doing things with is my sister. If she asks me to do something I will. If I'm by myself or with my friends or mom I probably won't. She got me to walk 5 miles without complaining in the heat, or getting out of breath when I can barely run a mile without feeling like I might pass out. -I have no gag reflex. I used to be able to put kleenex or cotton in my mouth and automatically gag. Now I can clean out the roof of my mouth when I get a gross feeling and there's no reaction. I haven't thrown up since 4th grade. I can watch something and feel sick, and sometimes you get that feeling where you need to throw up but I can't. I don't try unless I feel so sick I just want it out of me. -There is this feeling I get where I get sick trying to put in tampons, and I feel like I can't breathe and that if I could throw up I would so I don't know how I'm ever planning on having sex. I put it in right, and I'm sorry if that's too graphic. But it's the same feeling I get when I feel guilt for something that I'd want to do but my body is literally telling me not to, in any situation and it is the worst feeling. -I want to see a therapist but I feel like my mom is struggling with money from me already (she's being really emotional lately with menopause) just because I feel like they could be someone to talk to because no one else will listen. But I'm too afraid they will tell my mom something. Or think I need to go to seek help from a higher facility or make me feel as though I can't talk with them, like I wish they would be sort of a friend enthusiastic and help me get past all of this. -I'm so afraid that I've become this complete failure and I'm almost 18. I don't have a license, I don't have a job, I've failed almost half my classes in high school but still can graduate because I'm not credit deficient. I'm going to an alternative online-schooling program because I feel embarrassed at school. I have a 1.4 GPA and this program doesn't affect it unfortunately. And I don't know what my parents are proud of me for NOW, instead of things that happened over 5 years ago. -I think of my friends all the time. I don't know why I distanced myself and still do to the ones remaining. I was actually afraid I'd lose my friends so I bought them tickets to a comedian's show and I'm the one actually pushing them away, trying to force us to hang out when nothing was wrong. I have dreams we hang out and I'm happy and when I wake up I'm confused and so disappointed but angry at them. I don't know how to feel towards them. -I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I think I have social anxiety, anxiety on the road, because I'm afraid like.. If I hold the steering wheel or hold a gun in my hands it will control me and kill someone. I would never want to kill someone. But I always have nightmares that something like that could happen. -When I was 10 my family was driving on the highway, to go to visit relatives in a different state. There was an ice cream truck on this highway in the middle of nowhere and my parents joked we should pull next to it during a standstill if it happens and then we drove past it and my dad looked in his rear-view mirror and it was on fire. And I wanted them to pull over and help this man who 6 minutes ago we could have been talking to, and the ice cream truck drove into the ditch and all I can remember is staring out the back window and being so mad at my parents for not pulling over. And I don't know what happened to the man but I think I witnessed a death that day and I'm now afraid of ice cream trucks. -later that year, on the fourth of july we were lighting some in the front of our house. i have always been afraid of firecrackers. and this wasn't any different. so i was sort of hiding behind a tree next to our door, wanting to go inside because my parents told me it was okay. My dad lit it and something happened, it was a 3x3 fire cracker thing. and they shot everywhere, straight at us. And I was running behind my dad's car in the parking lot trying to get away from them when one hit me in the wrist and I was screaming. And my sister thought I got hit in the face, so she got hit in the ankle trying to run and help me. If she didn't come over me, and if I didn't put my hands in front of my eyes I would probably have been burned severely in the face. And I am still afraid of fireworks. I always stay home on the fourth of July now, and we stopped lighting them at our house after that year. I will watch them from a far distance if I'm in a car. At Disney World the cardboard was literally falling from the sky we were so close, and I freaked out. And I feel like I'm ruining it for everyone because I try to get over it and I can't. -I haven't hung out with anyone in over a year. I don't go to bed on a schedule, I don't eat regularly. But it's always been normal. But when I try hanging out with a guy my parents won't let me because they think I'll do something. I have guy friends because girls hate me. I still don't believe I'm depressed but I spend everyday inside, unless I'm tanning or with my sister. And I don't do anything. It's a daily routine. -I am not motivational. At all. I did okay on my first semester, I didn't fail any classes. I had D's, a B', C's and an A. My aunt told me she'd give me 300 dollars if I got all As and Bs second semester. My mom said the same thing. My grandma was basically saying she'd let me go anywhere on a trip. And my mom said she'd let me go to Washington to see my favorite band play. And second semester, I passed two classes out of 6. I worked really hard two years ago to go on a trip with a friend to Mexico for spring break, so I worked my ass off. Everything was going good. Then my friend decided to wait to late to get HER passport and we didn't go. I said "let's go to disney world" because i decided instead of visiting my sister at disney i'd ditch her and go to Mexico. Well, my friend decided to take her "friend" who she hated for 3 months and didn't talk to at all to disney world. Karma is a bitch. -I hate making plans, I never plan things because something always happens. If they don't cancel it I will. I hate telling people my ideas about things to do because they don't understand that when I say "wouldn't it be cool if..." I mean I want to do it. Not just think about how fun it'd be. Then people turn around and do them without me after not wanting to do them with me. They are so hypocritical that it feels like I'm not allowed to run my life around and if I'm not doing one thing they like I'm the guilty one, who is suffering and they just don't give a shit. So I stopped doing things. I wake up. I eat, I take a shower some days. I watch TV. I go to bed for 5 hours and do the same thing everyday. But when I want to hang out with people all they want to do is get drunk. And the people who don't get drunk don't know what to do for fun so I don't hang out with them even though it'd be fun. And when they promise that we'll get to do something, it never happens. -I'm afraid of everything I'm obsessed with. The future is what worries me the most. School, boyfriend, family, money, happiness. I feel like I haven't gotten anywhere because it just happens. I don't know how I was raised but I never realised when I was little you had to work for it to get something you want. Between me being spoiled and my mother giving in all the time, I have always been an exception to something. And as much as people love being spoiled, I think it has ruined me as a person. So what the heck is wrong with me? Any actual disorders to pinpoint?

would this situation make you feel insecure? im 31 now , had a very tough life, was diagnosed with borderline personality years ago, have ptsd symptoms to, been chasing help, trying to better myself............unfortunatley ive missed out on a normal life of building friendships , being employed , getting qualifications. everything right now , at an aged looking 31 , is about me starting from scratch with everything. have a criminal record 8 years ago, trying to put that behind me now, been trying to better myself. for 5 years ive lived in an apartment on my own, with few material possessions, claiming disability.. about 2 years ago i had a young teenager in the apartment below me, a neighbor from hell, he was antisocial , hang around in a gang....drove fast cars recklessley.......was very intimidating.....used to blast music everynight........i made complaints after, complaint....record it in a diary his behavior......i had to put up with it for 10 months, everynight.....complete hell.....especially living with my disorders , and severe anxiety problems...nightmares and anger. after 10 months he was evicted. then a drunk moved in above me, who argued, shouting everynight....dog barking...slamming doors.....he even tried to open the doors with his kep a few times.......since a warning he has stopped this behavior.. 3 / 4 months ago, a respectable guy moved in below, seemed ok, works a lot in day.....has kids.....said hello few times...chatted on stairwell.. however 3 times now he has told me about my base on my sound system is too loud , he said not exessively , but the base echos in his apartment......i dont really think i have my music that loud . i have an internet, with desktop logitec speakers and listen to music and chatshows... he posted a note through my door last night saying '' your base is to loud , turn it down '' i went down to speak about it, i explained ive never blasted my music and from inside my apartment , it dont sound too loud at all... i let him into my apartment to see my equipment, i played an example of the music and shows i listend to, we then went back down to his apartment, to listen to see if you could hear it......and you can hardly hear my music at all ! except faintley. so we agreed everything was ok, that i dont blast my music and would try to be careful, we then shook hands and he went away.. tonight again, he posted another note saying '' your base is too loud again , i dont want to keep knocking , can you lower it, please dont knock on my door as my kids are here '' im thinking wtf ? is this guy trying to get rid of me ? im all paranoid now and are wondering whether i should speak to the manger of the housing trust about it on monday ? i feel very insecure , not only that but months back , i asked a caretaker of the apartment building if they could help me install a light fitting.. i was going through a rough time with depression and my apartment was a real mess......struggling to tidy up. the caretaker went back and reported my messy ap[artment to housing management , ( the housing trust ) then the housing officer , who im on talking terms with about other issure s, especially the antisocial neighbors - the housing officer phones my mental health team to voice concern about my untidy apartment.. i wouldnt of known about this, if i hadnt of rung up the housing officer last week over a different issue.. she told me the caretakers had reported my untidy apartment and she was '' concerned '' im really paranoid and insecure about all this, because im thinking are people invading my privacy ? are they trying to get rid of me ? or get something to use against me ? for 5 years ive been a real good tenant , mind my own buisness , work on bettering my life.. ive took a dislike to the man below me now and feel quite threatened. im distrustful anyway in general because of the hard life i suffered with abuse.. what move do i make next from here ? could they the housing trust , or that new neighbor try to be finding things to get me in trouble ? i feel very insecure......what moves do i make next ? ring the housing trust monday ? i feel worried people are trying to get me in trouble, invading my privacy or trying to get rid of me.

how do i deal with this situation? im 31 now , had a very tough life, was diagnosed with borderline personality years ago, have ptsd symptoms to, been chasing help, trying to better myself............unfortunatley ive missed out on a normal life of building friendships , being employed , getting qualifications. everything right now , at an aged looking 31 , is about me starting from scratch with everything. have a criminal record 8 years ago, trying to put that behind me now, been trying to better myself. for 5 years ive lived in an apartment on my own, with few material possessions, claiming disability.. about 2 years ago i had a young teenager in the apartment below me, a neighbor from hell, he was antisocial , hang around in a gang....drove fast cars recklessley.......was very intimidating.....used to blast music everynight........i made complaints after, complaint....record it in a diary his behavior......i had to put up with it for 10 months, everynight.....complete hell.....especially living with my disorders , and severe anxiety problems...nightmares and anger. after 10 months he was evicted. then a drunk moved in above me, who argued, shouting everynight....dog barking...slamming doors.....he even tried to open the doors with his kep a few times.......since a warning he has stopped this behavior.. 3 / 4 months ago, a respectable guy moved in below, seemed ok, works a lot in day.....has kids.....said hello few times...chatted on stairwell.. however 3 times now he has told me about my base on my sound system is too loud , he said not exessively , but the base echos in his apartment......i dont really think i have my music that loud . i have an internet, with desktop logitec speakers and listen to music and chatshows... he posted a note through my door last night saying '' your base is to loud , turn it down '' i went down to speak about it, i explained ive never blasted my music and from inside my apartment , it dont sound too loud at all... i let him into my apartment to see my equipment, i played an example of the music and shows i listend to, we then went back down to his apartment, to listen to see if you could hear it......and you can hardly hear my music at all ! except faintley. so we agreed everything was ok, that i dont blast my music and would try to be careful, we then shook hands and he went away.. tonight again, he posted another note saying '' your base is too loud again , i dont want to keep knocking , can you lower it, please dont knock on my door as my kids are here '' im thinking wtf ? is this guy trying to get rid of me ? im all paranoid now and are wondering whether i should speak to the manger of the housing trust about it on monday ? i feel very insecure , not only that but months back , i asked a caretaker of the apartment building if they could help me install a light fitting.. i was going through a rough time with depression and my apartment was a real mess......struggling to tidy up. the caretaker went back and reported my messy ap[artment to housing management , ( the housing trust ) then the housing officer , who im on talking terms with about other issure s, especially the antisocial neighbors - the housing officer phones my mental health team to voice concern about my untidy apartment.. i wouldnt of known about this, if i hadnt of rung up the housing officer last week over a different issue.. she told me the caretakers had reported my untidy apartment and she was '' concerned '' im really paranoid and insecure about all this, because im thinking are people invading my privacy ? are they trying to get rid of me ? or get something to use against me ? for 5 years ive been a real good tenant , mind my own buisness , work on bettering my life.. ive took a dislike to the man below me now and feel quite threatened. im distrustful anyway in general because of the hard life i suffered with abuse.. what move do i make next from here ? could they the housing trust , or that new neighbor try to be finding things to get me in trouble ? i feel very insecure......what moves do i make next ? ring the housing trust monday ?

if you ever lived in an apartment, did you ever get times where you felt ' insecure '? im 31 now , had a very tough life, was diagnosed with borderline personality years ago, have ptsd symptoms to, been chasing help, trying to better myself............unfortunatley ive missed out on a normal life of building friendships , being employed , getting qualifications. everything right now , at an aged looking 31 , is about me starting from scratch with everything. have a criminal record 8 years ago, trying to put that behind me now, been trying to better myself. for 5 years ive lived in an apartment on my own, with few material possessions, claiming disability.. about 2 years ago i had a young teenager in the apartment below me, a neighbor from hell, he was antisocial , hang around in a gang....drove fast cars recklessley.......was very intimidating.....used to blast music everynight........i made complaints after, complaint....record it in a diary his behavior......i had to put up with it for 10 months, everynight.....complete hell.....especially living with my disorders , and severe anxiety problems...nightmares and anger. after 10 months he was evicted. then a drunk moved in above me, who argued, shouting everynight....dog barking...slamming doors.....he even tried to open the doors with his kep a few times.......since a warning he has stopped this behavior.. 3 / 4 months ago, a respectable guy moved in below, seemed ok, works a lot in day.....has kids.....said hello few times...chatted on stairwell.. however 3 times now he has told me about my base on my sound system is too loud , he said not exessively , but the base echos in his apartment......i dont really think i have my music that loud . i have an internet, with desktop logitec speakers and listen to music and chatshows... he posted a note through my door last night saying '' your base is to loud , turn it down '' i went down to speak about it, i explained ive never blasted my music and from inside my apartment , it dont sound too loud at all... i let him into my apartment to see my equipment, i played an example of the music and shows i listend to, we then went back down to his apartment, to listen to see if you could hear it......and you can hardly hear my music at all ! except faintley. so we agreed everything was ok, that i dont blast my music and would try to be careful, we then shook hands and he went away.. tonight again, he posted another note saying '' your base is too loud again , i dont want to keep knocking , can you lower it, please dont knock on my door as my kids are here '' im thinking wtf ? is this guy trying to get rid of me ? im all paranoid now and are wondering whether i should speak to the manger of the housing trust about it on monday ? i feel very insecure , not only that but months back , i asked a caretaker of the apartment building if they could help me install a light fitting.. i was going through a rough time with depression and my apartment was a real mess......struggling to tidy up. the caretaker went back and reported my messy ap[artment to housing management , ( the housing trust ) then the housing officer , who im on talking terms with about other issure s, especially the antisocial neighbors - the housing officer phones my mental health team to voice concern about my untidy apartment.. i wouldnt of known about this, if i hadnt of rung up the housing officer last week over a different issue.. she told me the caretakers had reported my untidy apartment and she was '' concerned '' im really paranoid and insecure about all this, because im thinking are people invading my privacy ? are they trying to get rid of me ? or get something to use against me ? for 5 years ive been a real good tenant , mind my own buisness , work on bettering my life.. ive took a dislike to the man below me now and feel quite threatened. im distrustful anyway in general because of the hard life i suffered with abuse.. what move do i make next from here ? could they the housing trust , or that new neighbor try to be finding things to get me in trouble ? i feel very insecure......what moves do i make next ? ring the housing trust monday ?

i think i've found a cure for the common cold.? a doctor committed malpractice against me. and his colleagues perpetuated it, almost killing me. i now have copd. from malpractice. when i catch a cold it never stays a cold. it always turns into bronchitis or pneumonia. i was a patient at world renowned national jewish center for respiratory and immunological disorders in denver, colorado for four years, as an outpatient.they thoroughly educate all their patients about their medical problems. but i still would get pneumonia or bronchitis from every cold. i started learning about vitamins and supplements. for most of my life i pooh poohed it. but , after all, modern medicine is only 200 years old. people have been healing with plants, vitamins and herbs since prehistory.. after seven years of trials i first had to get the candida albicans out of my system the doctor put into me with an injection. i listened to doug kaufmann of the your health channel. i did what he suggested. it took two bottles of caprylic acid,which i bought from the vitamin catalog. from the doctor i got a two week supply of diflucan and a month supply of nystatin. i added probiotic acidophilus, multi enzyme formula, psyllium husk caps, chickweed, all to cleanse my colon and restabilize the ph levelthat too many antibiotics knocked out of shape. i'm immune to many antibiotics now including power hitter antibiotics. because of the candida albicans in my system, when i caught a cold it would linger, ane i would suffer. it took two super power hitters of antibiotics at the same time to begin helping me. i had to go around wearing a pick line in my arm, in case i needed emergency steriod i'v's. finally i got the idea to ask my doctor about the possibility that candida albicans was the cause. i talked him into diflucan. within two days i began to heal. this was a few years before i began experimenting with vitamins and herbs. after i got rid of the candida albicans, i started the regimen to cleanse my colon. but i got tired of having to go to the emergency ward every time i got a cold. and the $50.00 copays were murder on my finances. within the last four years i think i've got the cure. here it is: 4,500mg. vitamin c 2- 400 i.u of vitamin e. 2- 8,000 iu of vitamin a 3- 200mcgs. selenium. a potent 75 vitamin with chelated minerals do this in the morning, but must be done as soon as you feel the first symptoms of a cold. drink plenty of water abd stay away from caffeine. it is a diuretic. in the evening take another 4,500 mgs of vitamin c. i will not promise this to work on every cold, but given my history, it should help a good many people. but you must take these as soon as you feel a cold coming on. if you wait until the cold get a firmer hold on you, you must take this regimen every day until the cold is gone. IT DOESN NOT WORK ON THE FLU but i stock up in august, during the dog days of summer. also key to knocking out the cold, with this regimen, you should, ideally, shut down and stay in bed for the day, if you can. if you cannot, on cold days bundle up well. stay away from chills. and avoid stress as much as possible. drink plenty of water. nothing better has come around for me. when you can't breathe, nothing matters. i simply got tired of felling like that. i hope this can help some people. maybe not all, as everyone's systems are different, but it should help many others. i agree! a cold is not a disease. it is a virus before i found the vitamins, i had pneumonia or bronchitis three times each year. these vitamins are immune boosters. this is why you need to start taking them as soon as you feel the cold coming on. and no, it is not a known cure. i discovered it out of necessity to keep from sinking into bronchitis or pneumonia. bronchitis and pneumonia can be either bacterial or viral. the vitamins will knock the bejesus out of your cold when you first feel the symptoms. because it gives you a strong group of immune boosters. if it is viral, it will help you. if it is bacterial you will know, if you get sicker fast, and coufgh up green sickly sweet mucous. you will get sicker and cough up more and more green stuff. go to the doctor to get antibiotics only if it is bacterial, not viral. after tantibiotics you will need probiotics to restabilze your ph level. most doctors only know about pharmaceuticals. drugs control disease vitamins cure. i think i'd rather believe the good doctors at national jewish who diagnosed mer. yes you can get copd from malpractice you have no idea how long i was sick from that malpractice. long enough to damage the airsacs in my lungs. a high resolution lung ct, found the beginnings of emplysema in my lungs. and i saw the ct.and they explained it to me very well. there is also anotyher another way you can get emphysema. the hereditary form of it, but only one percent of one percent of all emphasemics have the hereditary form. you know, if someone is fed poisonous chemicals over a long enough period of time, they can develop leukermia. you cannot find emphysema with an exray until 50-60% of the lungs are gone. i high resolution lung ct found the beginning traces of emphysema in my lungs. my brother in law is a surtgeon. he looked at the ct and told me it would take 15-20 years for the emphysema to show up in an exray. i get winded walking short distances now. i use a hepa air purifier to help clean my air and hopefully slow down the destruction from emphysema. if my brother in law was right, in about 10 more years i will be on oxygen. Nlvag, yes!!! my point exactly. colds do mutate fast. that is why i say you must take these vitamins as soon as you start to feel it first symptoms. if you wait long enough for the cold to kick you in the behind and you take these every day as long as you feel symptoms, it will minimize your suffering, ,because you are taking some powerful immune boosters. it is a cure if it makes the symptoms go away.. one thing to remember, though the fda won't like it?: drugs control and illness. naturalpathic meds will heal. Nlvag, yes!!! my point exactly. colds do mutate fast. that is why i say you must take these vitamins as soon as you start to feel it first symptoms. if you wait long enough for the cold to kick you in the behind and you take these every day as long as you feel symptoms, it will minimize your suffering, ,because you are taking some powerful immune boosters. it is a cure if it makes the symptoms go away.. one thing to remember, though the fda won't like it?: drugs control and illness. naturalpathic meds heal. it has been my experience over and over again Nlvag, yes!!! my point exactly. colds do mutate fast. that is why i say you must take these vitamins as soon as you start to feel it first symptoms. if you wait long enough for the cold to kick you in the behind and you take these every day as long as you feel symptoms, it will minimize your suffering, ,because you are taking some powerful immune boosters. it is a cure if it makes the symptoms go away.. one thing to remember, though the fda won't like it?: drugs control and illness. naturalpathic meds heal. it has been my experience over and over again sparta, i get colds from touching something that a sick person has touched. i started to get sick the other day. my mobility scooter broke down while i went to pick up my paycheck. the store is down the row from crest food store. i had to get my electric bill paid that day, and i was 1 1/2 miles from home. i got he scooter into crest food store, hopped on a store scooter and paid my bill. i had to pay medride to come get me and my broken scooter home. that evening i felt a sore throat starting.i started drowning in rhinitis. and coughing. bang!. i immediately took the vitamins and here i am two days later. i was well yesterday. vitamins and herbs cure. pharmaceutical drugs control. those scooters in grocery stores are ridden by every tom, dick and harry and their dogs. every time i use one of those storte scooters i get sick. every time. but for the last two years, sick, no more. if i pick up a bacterial infection i'm screwed. but still i take the vitsmins for the immune boost to help with some of the symptoms. i get my antibiotics. while i take the antibiotics i double up on my probiotics. after i finish the antibiotics i return to normal on the probiotics. those scooters in grocery stores are ridden by every tom, dick and harry and their dogs. every time i use one of those storte scooters i get sick. every time. but for the last two years, sick, no more. if i pick up a bacterial infection i'm screwed. but still i take the vitsmins for the immune boost to help with some of the symptoms. i get my antibiotics. while i take the antibiotics i double up on my probiotics. after i finish the antibiotics i return to normal on the probiotics. nadia, i can tell you are not a doctor, because you do not know what you are talking about. any prolonged damage to the alviola sacs in the lungs can cause emphysema, as it did in my case. the high resolution ct that found it doesn't lie. but you did.. prolonged exposure to heavy air pollutants can cause emphysema. and then, ask any doctor about the 1% of 1% of emphysemics whose disease is hereditary. talk to my aunt vitina whose emplysema is in the advances stages, even though she never smoked a single puff. but her husband smoked cigars for years around her in people, who claim thery never smoke around their kids, national jewish center researchers found a byproduct of nicotene in the kid's urine,called cotinine. if you smoke around your children they will have a 50% increased chance of developing childhood asthma before the age of five. this comes from the american lung association. both my parents were heavy smokers. my brother developed childhood.i, chronic bronchitis. because my parents were heavy smokers, my brother developed childhood asthma, and i developed chronic bronchitis. i missed quite a few days of school because of chronic bronchitis. my brother outgrew his. i did not. so it wasn't a far leap for doctors who kepy me ill with severe upper respiratory infections,(for twoyears) i went through enogh of doctors defending the one who committed malpractice on me.they almost killed me.they left me with the beginnings of emphysema, as shows in the high resolution lung ct. i do not need to hear from one who doesn't even know what she's talking about, in defense of those charlatans. nadia.. Chi du jour, hmmmmm. better go back to nursing school. if any agent completely removes all symptoms that is a cure. but if you were trained in pharmaceutics, unless you got training in homeopathic cures you know nothing about homeopathic cures. many medical people resist homeopathics. do you want to know why? for one thing, most doctors are only trained in pharmaceutical medicine. the most inportant thing to remember, pharmaceutical drugs do not cure anything. they control disease. homeopathic, , natural cures cure. most importantly, doctors know if cures were found for every illness they'd be put out of business. the fda knows natural drugs, if they did't control the homeopathic industry with threats, alot of pharmaceutical companies would be put out of business.

Most doctors suck??? Okay, definitely not all doctors suck, my sports medicine doctor is great, but just about every other doctor I've been to has just been plain horrible... You end up sitting in a lobby for an hour because they cram appointments at all times to maximize profits... After chillin for about an hour, you finally get into an office where you wait for another half an hour After that, some nurse comes in and you are supposed to explain to them what your problem is. Now I'm not dogging on nurses here, but what exactly qualifies them to hear all of your symptoms and then re-communicate them to the physician (anyone heard of the telephone game???) And how is that in any way efficient? Certainly there is a considerable loss of detail when this occurs... shouldn't I be communicating with the doctor directly? After that, the doctor finally comes in and doesn't even look you in the eye. They act more like they are fixing a car than a person. They quickly try to match your symptoms with a very short list of common things they encounter and then prescribe you something without even bothering to explain to you what exactly is happening. (I know someone who was misdiagnosed 11 times before finally finding out they had a potentially debilitating disease) They seem so certain of their quick diagnosis that its the most hubris I've ever seen Not everybody is some idiot that goes into the doctor without any knowledge of what they may already have or how the human body and certain medications work... After this 5 second ordeal, you try to ask them questions, while each time they take a step closer and closer to the door trying to leave with a very annoyed look on their face because they have a receptionist they have to go skull f*ck... which is way more important If you've been misdiagnosed, improperly treated, or not even helped at all then there is absolutely nothing you can do... you gotta pay up What other industry can people get away with this in??? Would you expect a sales representative, attorney, or appliance repairman to act in such a manner? They get away with it because health is the most precious thing, and most people will tolerate whatever they can until they are healthy again... and not to mention because health insurance companies dictate who you can see half the time Anyone care to defend these people?