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You don’t have to live with pain. In fact, you owe it to yourself to make sure your pain is treated. Pain can make it hard for you to be active and take good care of yourself. Untreated pain may cause sleep problems. It may also lead to depression. There are things you can do and medicines you can use to help you find relief.

Cardiomyopathy means that your heart is not functioning normally. It can make it more difficult to do things that may have been easy for you in the past.

Your health care provider performed a procedure called cardioversion. Your provider used medicines or a controlled electric shock. This helped restore your heart's normal rhythm. Here are some instructions to follow while you recover.

Instructions for caring for yourself after laminectomy.

An open appendectomy is a surgery to remove your appendix. Here are guidelines to follow once you are home.

If you have hyperkalemia, you will need to make some dietary changes to reduce your intake of potassium.

Hyperkalemia means there is too much potassium in the blood. Potassium affects the nerve and muscle cells including those in the heart.

Instructions for taking care of yourself after carpal tunnel release surgery.

You had a procedure called a needle biopsy on a lung. In this procedure, a hollow needle is used to take 1 or more samples of your lung tissue. The tissue is then looked at under a microscope. There are several different types of needle biopsies.