Tonya's Health and Beauty

08/22/2025

07/22/2025

Fish and veggies so healthy! My favorite meal!

07/22/2025

I always get so happy after a dental cleaning at the dentist. And I had a floride treatment. She said that my mouth, teeth and gums looked really healthy and to keep up the good work. And they are so nice here at Northland Smiles in Deerwood. I get to get cleanings twice a year now that I'm older to help preserve my teeth better. Now off to work in Aitkin.

07/15/2025

Attention allergy sufferers. Especially with the fire smog going on again this year allergies for many people have been bad. Well I have to take a lot of allergy medicine for my allergies but recently last month I received a drug interaction from dipihydramin sleep aid liquid the same ingredient as benedryl and taking it with Zinc supplement caused me two stomach ulcers in a row. It was awful and I highly recommend not taking zinc around the same time as dipihydramin benedryl so it doesn't happen to other people . So then I tried taking the Zinc out and my stomach got better but my allergies got worse. But now I take Zinc instead of Benedryl in the evening and my sleep aid liquid later at night. That seems to be working well. I just thought I would share this interaction to help someone else if it happened to them.

06/13/2025

I tried something different for supper tonight. Grilled chicken and rice with green collard and carrots. I was skeptical about trying the green collard but it is so delicious to me. And even doctors say that dark greens are so good for you and full of nutrients. I think it's just what I needed today.

06/13/2025

06/13/2025

This Dr. Teals body wash with Epsom salt, Eucalyptus, Spearmint, Vitamin E, and Aloe. It is so awesome! It's really helping me with my injuries and osteoarthritis a lot! It's even helping me with my rib pains I've been getting lately from my allergies. What a miracle! I'm so grateful to be feeling a lot better.

04/17/2025

So a few days ago I rolled my ankle into a very large dip in the parking lot and sprained my ankle. And it couldn't have happened at a worse time because I was just starting to get more hours at my jobs. So I went to the ER that night because I was in severe pain and they gave me a long ankle brace which will help me a lot at work. I iced it for two days straight and rescheduled some work for next week. So I had a couple days to rest and recover. Then when I went back to work my ankle was hurting then I had an arthritis spell. So after work I took a bath in Dr. Teals soap and Epsom salt. It worked so good! It took away all the pain! And the next day I was able to go for a short walk pain free! Amazing!!!!

04/08/2025

Last week I fell getting dressed. Luckily it was onto my bed but I pinned my arms down so my husband had to help me up. Then this Saturday as I was doing errands, I tripped on the wheel of the shopping cart and hurt my foot, ankle, and knee in my left leg. Then from walking funny putting most of my weight on my right side. Then my hip and other knee started hurting too. I got a foot, ankle, and knee exray today at orthopedics. Nothing's broken thank God. Just muscle sprains and it acted up my arthritis in my knees. Today I got cortisone injections in both knees. So hopefully I will be getting better very soon. I also got these compression socks, and new slippers and inserts from Temu to help with swelling and pain. It works really good. And they came the day before my birthday 🎊🎈.

01/25/2025

I'm going to order these heating devices for my osteoarthritis soon.

01/24/2025

Lately I've been going through a hard time. My lab showed really high chloresterol so my doctor put me on Crestor a chloresterol medication. I was taking it at night and it interacted with one of my other meds trazadone and I was getting headaches and nightmares that are the side effects. So I tried taking it in the morning. It's working a lot better less headaches and dreams but I get tired in the morning from it and another side effect is joint pains. Both of my knees and foot and elbow were hurting lately. I'm going to try walking more and see if that helps and if it gets worse then I'm going to have to stop taking it. I have a doctors appointment in two weeks to consult my doctor about the side effects. Plus my husband had a cold again bit I didn't ge5 very sick from him just a little this time. So we both went to Urgent care last night to get checked out. They gave my husband an antibiotic hopefully that helps him. I'm worried because he gets sick a lot from working outside in the cold. And I don't want to get sick because I'm starting another job in a week and I want to be healthy for that. We take vitamin c and zinc daily. I added a multivitamin to my husband's meds too so he doesn't get sick so much.

01/08/2025

I stumbled upon some good information. About a week or so ago I forgot to take my vitamin B12 dissolve tablet i normally take at night that helps me sleep better. Well the next day I had more energy than before and no headaches. I have been struggling a long time with headaches every morning and tiredness in the afternoons where I would need a nap. Since I stopped taking the B12 I have been less tired and has helped me to not get a lot of headaches. But I started having bad nightmares and not sleeping well without vit. B at night. So I normally would take vit B6 at 5pm but I switched that to before bed to help me sleep better. It's helping me a lot. See headaches and tiredness and nightmares are also symptoms of sleep apnea which I have a CPAP for but I was still getting those symptoms and I think it was from the vit B12. Switching to vit B6 is really helping me a lot with tiredness and headaches.