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I’ve heard about glucosamine but don’t really know all about it. My guess is, from the word glucose, it’s some kind of sugar compound.  So today, I’m taking my break (I do take breaks too apart from coffee and lunch breaks) and reading about glucosamine sulphate and what it does to our body.

Click here to read about  what Mister Wiki has to say about it.

I’ve also read an article from about.com saying ” Glucosamine is a compound found naturally in the body, made from glucose and the amino acid glutamine.” Continue reading that here.

Besides, the two posts I mentioned above, I found  a couple more articles online with  glucosamine as subject. Here’s one (which is more like a FAQ sheet) from National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and another one from National Institutes of Health. Both are good reads, although reading them, I suddenly found my head swimming in an ocean of medical terminology. But insightful, nonetheless.

There’s blood. Oh, God blood. B-L-O-O-D.

And I felt a chill in my veins – the kind that not even the thickest Berghaus fleece jackets could warm!

There’s really blood on the tissue that I used to dab my nose with. Spots of blood. It’s not a lot but enough to freak the soul out me. As far as I can remember, I never had a nosebleed before. Language nosebleed, yes; but a real nosebleed, never. And so I worked in a daze yesterday, wondering about what could possibly be wrong. And if you know me well, you will understand that I don’t have a problem with my imagination and could pretty work it up in a huff. *smile* And so expect me to come up with numerous worse could-be’s.

I did. A hundred-and-one of them. And when I googled the word “nosebleed”, I came up with so much more – about a million more which I will not enumerate anymore because they are so maddeningly scary, if not also embarrassingly ridiculous.

So anyway, I went to visit the doctor first thing today –because if I’d wait too long I’m afraid I’d drive myself crazy from thinking of the could-be’s. The check up, where the doctor discovered an inflamed part of my nose, was short and smooth. And when Doctor Nice-and-Smooth put together the symptoms I volunteered, he summed it up as nothing but allergic rhinitis. *thanks God!*

Finally, I could rest my imagination now, it’s worked overtime over the last 24 hours y’know.