The other day I was visiting with my friend who had a cold and she made a comment that her cold “wouldn’t go away”.  I asked her how long she’d had it and she told me it was almost a month.  Shocked, I asked her if she considered the possibility that she might have sinusitis.  [...]

I have to admit, the first time I saw a commercial for restless leg syndrome, my first thought, was “what are they going to come up with next to push a medication”?  I remember making fun of the commercial later that day with my friends, and I was shut up very quickly, when one of [...]

There has been so much buzz about the use of capsaicin lately that I felt an article dedicated strictly to its benefits was important.  It happens to be one of my favorite homeopathic ingredients, (garlic is my favorite for just about everything else), and so I’d like to dedicate this week’s article to this little [...]

Just before Christmas I began to get a tickle in my throat and tightness in my chest. Knowing my body the way I do, I knew this couldn’t be good. I rarely get sick, but when I do, it usually comes at me like a locomotive, and then hangs around like a bad [...]

For years, every morning like clockwork, I am greeted with the same ritual day after day; heavy breathing in my face, tail wagging and a wet nose nudging me to get out of bed. I can think of no better way to wake up than have Emma, my black Labrador retriever greet [...]

My friend just sent me a clip from an article she found in the January 2009 issue of the Readers Digest that I found incredibly interesting.   The article is centered on the often misdiagnosed sinus infection, but it wasn’t so much the symptoms that I found interesting, but the acknowledgement that was given once again [...]

Does Nasal Spray Addiction Truly Exist?
As many of my readers know, I have been a hard core allergy and sinus sufferer, since I’m a little girl, and over the years, I’ve figured out how to control them instead of them controlling me. It is this life long battle and my constant use of nasal spray [...]

Every fall, I convince myself that my allergies will be laid to rest until the spring season returns. I actually believe that I’ll get to enjoy my Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and that the stuffing will be inside the turkey and not inside my head, but every year is the same. I still get [...]

How many times have we been warned not to mix drugs and alcohol, because the result can be devastating? So imagine how potentially dangerous it can be mixing two conflicting prescription drugs!  As someone who has taken prescription drugs my entire life, I’m amazed that the risks of mixing prescription drugs, doesn’t sound off [...]

As a lifelong allergy and sinusitis sufferer, I know a thing or two about what prescription drugs and antihistamines can do to your body.  Living life while taking antihistamines is more like sleep walking, you feel drowsy all day and doing even the simplest things causes fatigue.  When I finally said enough was enough, I [...]