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If one was to ask a selection of females to reflect back to before they started their periods and comment on their expectations on beginning the menstruation cycle, one would be very surprised as to the range of answers they would receive. 'Red letter day' or 'P day' is approached by young girls in a variety of ways. There are those who are fully prepared and excited to enter 'womanhood', others totally ignorant about this day and the future changes of her body and some are nervous about how w … read more

To people living with a life-threatening disease such as cancer, life becomes precious. Therefore it becomes disheartening and actually erosive to quality of life, when pain becomes a part of each valuable day.Cancer pain can result from the pressure of a tumor on bone, muscle or nerves or as result from radiation or chemotherapy. Treatments such as these can also irritate healthy tissue, causing pain, inflammation and sensitive nerves.Cancer pain can weaken your ability to fight the cancer. … read more

What does Fibromyalgia feel like? Or should I really be asking, what doesn’t it feel like? Fibromyalgia sufferers seem to suffer from pain in just about every place imaginable as well as suffering from a whole range of side-effects resulting from all-over body pain.Does this sound similar to your life?...And there I find myself once more, lying in bed again, missing yet another morning of work (contemplating when they'll fire me due to so many days off sick) due to those "flu-like", "coming dow … read more

Upper back pain often occurs as a result of trauma, sudden injury or constant strain from poor posture or carrying heavy loads. Do any of these scenarios echo with you?The car grinds to an alarming halt, everyone jerks forward, thankfully saved by their protective seat belts. The passengers scramble out of the vehicle to check that they are actually all in one piece. They are, however, you're struggling to move your neck without extraordinary electric twinges shooting down your upper back. Y … read more

Have you ever experienced lower back pain? I don't mean the odd twinge after you've tripped over a rock or something on the pavement...I mean real back pain?For those of you who have, you will know how debilitating it can be. Nights are spent tossing and turning trying to find a position that doesn't hurt and once you finally do find that golden position (which you have been in a thousand times before, during that same night) you sleep for an hour then the alarm goes for you to get up and go to … read more