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Welcome Dr. Daliah - love catching your show

My husband and I have had GBS (RNY) and are now healthier than we have been in YEARS... however due to a long story, we have no health insurance, but need to get labs drawn (vit deficiency testing)... we got the order, but when we went to the lab the cost was going to be over a couple THOUSAND dollars... do you know of any place that wouldn't charge us quite so much?

 

THANK YOU!!

 

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Hello Doctor Daliah,
I have a question for you. I am pretty worried about DVt. As you know our job requires us to sit for long hours and I would like to stay healthy as long as I can. No health = no work = no $. I found this device online and I am wondering if you know about it. Is it a scam or do you think it would actually help with preventing DVT? I am thinking about buying it. Please let me know what you think.

http://www.venowave.com/dvt-prevention.php

 

Thanks for your reply Dr. Daliah! I'm so glad your at the forums now. If you can let me know what you find out that would be great!

 

I quit smoking 12 years ago using the nicotine inhaler. I was in a hospital trial (University of Nebraska Medical Center), and cut down gradually and finally quit. I think a person has to want to quit, has to commit himself to it, and really work hard at it. Nicotine inhalers, whether they have fake smoke effects or not, act as a placebo while the lungs heal from all that tar and nicotine. Believe me, I was hacking up yellow stuff for a year. Thought I would die, but did not give up. After 10 years I was officially a "non-smoker" again.