My sister Debi started feeling sick in early February. She had a fever for a few weeks and felt dizzy and weak. The doctors really didn't do too much to help her at this time. She had to keep going back to the doctors because she knew something was wrong. Finally, they admitted her. They had found that she had lost a lot of blood internally. They ran a whole lot of tests on her.

My daughter (who is now a happy healthy 19 yr old) was in a car accident when she was 9. She was knocked unconscious for about 20 min and had a concussion, which led to severe headaches for over two years. She was put on Amitriptyline for about 6 months or so (hard to remember exactly how long after this time!). It helped, but it did not completely get rid of the headaches.

I was a very obese kid growing up, but extremely intelligent. I didn't get a long with my peers very well and was often considered to be an outcast. Most of high school, I didn't have a very active social life. My mother was an OCD neat freak and made me afraid to go out in the world. Her fears became my fears and I became afraid of the world. My grandmother lived with us and she was emotionally abusive. My mother and step-father were in constant yelling matches with us and each other.

A gout attack is caused when uric acid reaches such high concentration in the blood that it precipitates as monosodium urate crystals which then become deposited in a joint, often causing severe and widespread pain and inflammation in that joint and the area surrounding it.

Hiccups are caused by small bubbles trapped along the lining of the stomach. Hiccups are the body's natural way of trying to shake the stomach to make those small bubbles merge together into a burpable size. In the presence of mucous, these bubbles will not merge together.