Posts Tagged by pain
AJ’s advice – various
| June 23, 2012 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
So this week, I’m going to answer a few questions as best as I can. It’s hard to believe how quickly the weeks are going by and I hate dumping suggestions that I get given, so in a compilation of questions and answers we’ll cover a few topics from teeth to university. Here we go! Q: I just got braces. How can I stop my teeth hurting? A: Ah. The dreaded brace-induced pain is actually pretty bad. I have experienced this horror first-hand and I’m glad that it’s over! The braces are putting pressure on your teeth, so they’ll hurt for a few days – I usually found that they stopped feeling tight and painful after two or three days, but… more
Black Hole
| February 9, 2012 | Posted by Jess Kadow under creative writing |
A dark room appears from behind the slow, creaking swing of the door. Dull, yellow light illuminates a small portion of the wall on one side, emanating weakly from a faded lampshade, the original colour of which is unknown. Dirty, bare walls. No nostalgic, framed photographs of old memories or beloved family members. No cork boards littered with scraps of the past, no mirrors to reflect light around the room. Darkness prevails. In defiance, the ground lies cluttered with slivers of faded white: pages from ragged books, smashed glass glittering in the corners, splinters of white-washed wood. Scattered paper, torn at the edges, floats ghost-like across the dusty floor, disturbed by the breeze of fresh air from the outside. It… more
AJ’s advice – migraines
| December 31, 2011 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
Okay, so my sister gets migraines, sometimes quite regularly. I’m lucky enough to have never had one, but they can really knock my sister out – sometimes for days. So I thought I’d do some research into them and look into some treatments, and hopefully if any of you guys get migraines you’ll find it useful. So to the NHS online we go; I love the NHS online website. It’s helped me understand my PCOS a lot better. Migraines affect one in four women and one in twelve men in the UK. This means three times more women experience migraines than men, and this could be to do with hormonal variation. So a woman might experience migraines around the time… more
