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Prolonged exposure to high levels of radon can potentially increase the risk of lung cancer. However, the risk is generally associated with long-term exposure and higher concentrations than what might typically occur in most homes.
While your concern is valid, it's important to consider that a short period of sealed windows and doors in your room is unlikely to significantly increase radon levels to a harmful extent. If you're worried about radon levels, you might consider testing your livin...more

Dear patient, i'm sorry to hear that you're going through this. Experiencing an abortion can lead to a mix of emotions and it's not uncommon to feel the way you're feeling. First of all, it's important to understand that there's no right or wrong way to feel after an abortion. Feelings of sadness, guilt, relief, or depression are all normal reactions. From a psychological perspective, if you're feeling depressed, it might be beneficial to seek support from a mental health professional. Cognitive...more

Oliza can be mixed with food, better get olimelt which disperses easily, as far as epiford is concerned they are controlled release tablet and breaking them down and mixing with food can have some changes in efficacy and duration of action. All these are best decided by the treating psychiatrist. Good luck.

It would be better if you could explain why you are avoiding work, out of what fear that is. And the medicine will take around 3 to 4 weeks to work fully. In case it's been long, I advise you follow up with your psychiatrist. You might need an augmentation with another medicine or an increase in dose. You can also seek psychotherapy to help you deal with unwanted thoughts.

If your anxiety is better managed with these medicines, you can take it. For complete management of anxiety symptoms, it is usually recommended to take anti-anxiety medicine for a period of 3 months, then gradually tapering and stopping it. But it is better to not continue clonotril for more than 1 month, and use it only on sos basis after that. This is because it is a habit forming drug. You fear will come down if you take the medicines regularly and follow your psychiatrist's advise.

For your anxiety, you have to continue the medicines for atleast 3 months. Otherwise if you stop it suddenly, your anxiety may recur. If you are facing any side effects with medicines, you should consult your psychiatrist. The medicines are not likely to cause pain in legs, it is better if you consult your general physician for evaluating that.

Kindly take the medicine only if a doctor has prescribed it. The point is that the medicine you take for depression only works on calming the symptoms. We call them nuerosuppresents. What they do is they basically calm you down until another dose is required. They never help you solve the underlying problem. The thing is that only therapy can do that. There are a lot of underlying thoughts or even trauma that needs to be resolved that will itself resolve the issue. The issues like sugar and high...more

Hi lybrate-user,
kindly take the medicine only if a doctor has prescribed it. In addition t that the point is that the medicine you take for depression only works on calming the symptoms. We call them nuerosuppresents. What they do is they basically calm you down until another dose is required. They never help you solve the underlying problem. The thing is that only therapy can do that. There are a lot of underlying thoughts or even trauma that needs to be resolved that will itself resolve t...more

Nexito (escitalopram) normalises the serotonin levels (transmission) in your mind (brain). If you stop and get the symptoms back, it implies the serotonin produced in your mind is less and you need to continue the medication for long time. There are many having similar symptoms like yours. Do not have stigma about taking the medication, Good luck.

Dear Sameeksha,
Etilaam may not be addicting or causing sleepiness. But that is not the only treatment for GAD. You can go for therapy, Jacobson's deep muscle relaxation, yoga pranayama, etc. to manage your anxiety.