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Today I had to call in sick for work, because of the diarrhea and the stomach ache… those are side effect I’m having at the moment. I look in my medicine cabinet and found some drugs for diarrhea, they are bacterias that help the intestines with the digestion. I have to take that medicine every [But wait there is more...]

I started taking 10mg one day and 5mg the other day, since last Tuesday 21 April. At the beginning I didn’t have any side effect, I was happy! but starting on Saturday I started to have nausea… I guess my body just find out I was lowering the dose. I still have some nausea, and [But wait there is more...]

Today I’m starting a long journey. Getting off Paxil. After founding a Psychiatry who was willing to help me to get off Paxil, my life have change; and today, I’m finally ready to start with this journey, which might take 3 months if everything goes as plan. My doctor thinks it could be good for [But wait there is more...]

It is not exactly known what causes PMS. Common sense indicates it must somehow be linked to the fluctuating levels of female hormones experienced after ovulation. But the subtleties of why some women are more affected than others are not understood. Normal fluctuations in hormone levels are responsible for some of the symptoms most commonly [But wait there is more...]

Around 90 per cent of menstruating women get advance warning of an approaching period because of physical and/or psychological changes in the days before their period begins. For most women the symptoms are mild, but a small proportion finds their symptoms so severe they dread this time of the month. The terms ‘mild’ and ‘severe’ [But wait there is more...]