Coping with Chronic Health Conditions: Tips

Coping with Chronic Health Conditions: Tips

  • 3 Lipid Management Tips For Healthy Cholesterol Levels

    Lipid management is very important, because it is a lifestyle change that controls your cholesterol. In this regard, you will be able to lower your blood pressure and manage your risk of heart disease and heart attack. Some 74 million adults have high cholesterol levels, so if you find yourself in this boat, it is very critical that you do your best to get it under control. In this regard, follow these tips and use them in order to make the most out of your health on your terms.

  • Hip Arthritis: What You Can Do If It's Not A Good Time To Consider Surgery

    Do you have hip arthritis? If so, you likely find the condition an uncomfortable nuisance. Perhaps you are worried about whether or not you will need surgery. The following points will help you to understand what non-surgical options may be available to you. Medications Many over-the-counter medications are effective in the treatment of hip arthritis. If an over-the-counter pain medication does not appear to be working on its own, check to see if is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) pain reliever such as ibuprofen or naproxen.

  • Consider Having Your Follicle Stimulating Hormone Tested When Trying To Have Children

    For many people trying to have a baby is frustrating. It seems that everyone around them is having a child, but they just are not able to become pregnant. This can be a tough time in life, but there are different things that can be done to help. One of the things that you need to do is to find out what is going on. It could be that something is going on with your hormones, or maybe something is going on with your partner's hormones.

  • Having Headaches With Foot And Back Pain? See An Orthotics Specialist

    There are many people that deal with headaches and even extreme migraines, that don't realize the problem could be coming from their feet. If you have been fighting headaches and you also have pain in your feet, legs, hips and back or neck, then you may want to see if there is something wrong with your foot bones and skeletal alignment. You could even have a problem as severe as scoliosis which could be causing the pain that you feel in your feet.

  • 4 Tips for Easing Your Stress When You Have an MRI Scheduled

    When you have an MRI scheduled and it is your first one, it is useful to know a bit about MRIs and how they are done. If you are nervous about the testing, this is pretty common. Some people have difficulty with small spaces, while others simply get nervous about medical testing in general. If you have an MRI coming soon and you are feeling nervous, there are a number of things you can do to ease your anxiety.

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Coping with Chronic Health Conditions: Tips

Ever since I was a young girl, I have had bad asthma and allergies. I had to stay in the hospital several times when I was in elementary school just to help get my asthma under control and it seemed like I was trying medication after medication with little success. I don't remember all of my childhood health details, since I was so young, but my mother has "filled in the blanks" for me. Thanks to modern medicine and a natural remedy, my health conditions are currently under control and have been for a few years now. I am very grateful for my good health, and I want to "pay it back" to others by creating a blog where I will post my health tips. I hope I can help you learn how to achieve good health!