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    anti depressant

    I've recently been prescribed it and it is really helping x
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    anti depressant

    amitriptylline is one of the "old fashioned" tri-cyclic anti-depressants but can be very useful in treating neuropathic pain especially at night.
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    is neuropathy making me clumsy?

    Can my neuropathy in my feet and legs be making me clumsy as in tripping and falling over? I have also started suffering from vertigo and my nurse has suggested that could be related too because of nerve damage in the inner ear (semi-circular canals and scillia she mentioned)
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    Just being nosey - where is everyone from

    Chester Cheshire
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    Good news, sorry if i'm bragging :)

    I'm really pleased for you. Well done !! x
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    infected thumb

    Finally got my BG down to aa more "normal" level and my thumb has, to all intents and purposes, healed ie: no open wounds or swelling etc. but I now have an area of numbness over the top and side of my thumb, not at the exact position of the wound site, that hasn't gone away. I do suffer from...
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    Flu jab appears to equal Flu

    Had my seasonal flu jab a few weeks ago with no side effects, had my swine flu jab on Monday morning and have felt achey with a headache and sore arm. Feeling much better today but arm still aching at the top. In our surgery everyone was sent to sit down for 10 minutes in the waiting room after...
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    infected thumb

    I did battle with a cheese grater 8 days ago now and I have never had such pain from a relatively small injury. The worrying thing was that I saw the blood long before I felt it and that despite being on 500mg Flucloxacillin three times a day it is still very, very painful and refusing to heal...