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breathing difficulty by Gertrude Patient Expert

Posted Wed 20 May 2009 12:29pm I have been running a special on breathing difficulties that aren't lately. They all have been dispatched as breathing difficulty but have ranged from cardiac arrest to "I shut my foot in the car door". Where do callers come up with breathing difficulty?? I have had so few true respiratory patients lately. It is odd. Read on »

First aid tips for breathing difficulties : Must know by rajesh moganti

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Posted Mon 16 Nov 2009 10:01pm Post details: first aid tips and procedures during breathing difficulties and problems. First aid is very important and essential skill which everyone must know. This can... methods and tips for breathing difficulty situations which is a very common problem faced by people of all ages. If you find a person who stopped breathing, just touch his shoulder Read on »

mission: exert minimum effort by Anne Posted Mon 02 Nov 2009 12:00am I’m really unenthusiastic about cooking this week. I think it’s mostly because so many of the things I tried last week totally flopped. I’m much more encouraged to try new recipes when they are a success rather than a total disaster. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but the crockpot meal I made did not turn out. It was a recipe for cheesy ... Read on »

Orthopnea - Difficulty Breathing When Lying Down by Karen Bastille Health Maven

Posted Mon 14 Feb 2011 5:44pm Discovery Health People with some types of heart or lung problems often complain about difficulty breathing while lying down. For many with this condition, this trouble breathing or sensation of breathlessness is relieved only by sitting up straight or standing. Sometimes a person realizes that sleep is more comfortable when Read on »

Post-Exertional Malaise - Complete Series by Sue J. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 20 Sep 2010 5:25am There was such a wonderful response to my posting of Jennie Spotilla's article series on Post-Exertional Malaise last week! Glad you found her articles as valuable and informative as I did. Jennie let me know over the weekend that there was a fourth article that I missed, so here's a link to the full 4-part series on Post-Exertional Malaise Read on »

Ratings of Perceived Exertion by Tara Posted Fri 11 Feb 2011 7:00am Sounds fancy, doesn't it? In reality, it happens to be quite the opposite. Determining your rating of perceived exertion is actually an easy way to gauge the intensity... of perceived exertion. All you have to do is assess how hard you're working based on the Scale itself How does it work? Ratings of perceived exertion taken into account just about Read on »

Monitoring Heart Rate to Avoid Post-Exertional Crashes by Sue J. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 10 Nov 2010 6:19am Fellow CFS blogger Lee Lee alerted me to this excellent article about how to monitor your heart rate in order to help stay within your limits and avoid post-exertional crashes. Although I have long understood the importance of avoiding aerobic exercise with CFS, this article provides some very specific tips about how to figure out where your Read on »

Excellent Articles on Post-Exertional Malaise by Sue J. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 17 Sep 2010 7:29am , I thought I'd share some really excellent articles on Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) by Jennie Spotilla a former CFS blogger and member of the CFIDS Association's Board of Directors. Jennie is a wonderful writer and did a fabulous job researching, interviewing, and writing this 3-part article series Part 1: Unraveling Post-exertional Malaise Part 2 Read on »

"Post-exertional Malaise" aka feeling really crap by Jozephine Posted Fri 19 Jun 2009 5:42pm before this post-exertional crap feeling sets in. After all, exercise is supposed to be good for you right? The only explanation I can think of for the delay is that it takes... One thing that's good about the term 'post-exertional malaise' is that it doesn't contain the word 'fatigue'. The day before yesterday I chased my dog up a steep incline Read on »

A 58 year old women presents with episodes of "greying out" with exertion by JASON WINTER Posted Mon 14 Jun 2010 6:33am Here's great case submitted by Dr John M A 58 year old women presents with episodes of "greying out" with exertion. She has had a slightly higher than usual heart rate for a few days, but of late, any exertion brings on near syncopal episodes. Past history includes long-standing atrial fibrillation. In the past two years, she has had two left Read on »