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Archive for May, 2006

Adult Bedwetting

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Im 19 and female. I havent “wet the bed” since I was young, obviously. But recently it’s happened again. I’m not really embarrassed like most people would think you “should” be. I’m just confused.
It usually happens when I dream about going to the bathroom. Its happened about 3 times [...]

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Brain MRI, Pituitary Gland

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

I had an MRI recently and i don’t understand what the radiology report means and the Internet is not being very helpful this time. here goes:
Findings: this is a focused examination of the pituitary gland, however axial t2, flair, t1, gradient and t1 post contrast images were obtained through the entire brain. additional dedicated sequences [...]

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Underage Alcohol Use Big Business

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Underage Alcohol Use Means Big Bucks for Alcohol Industry
-by Dr. Joshua
A recent study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reveals that illegal underage drinking as well as adult pathological drinking is a major source of profit for the alcohol industry.
The authors report that the combined value of the above mentioned problem [...]

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Synthroid, Weight Gain, Hot, Thirsty, Hypothyroidism, Thyroxine

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I am a 52 year old woman in menapause. I have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Over the past year, I have gained weight while being on Synthroid. But what really concerns me is that I am hot most of the time, and this is a different kind of ‘hot’. I have had ‘hot flashes’ since [...]

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Young Man with Memory Loss

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I have severe memory related problems where no longer can retain the learned information well. That is my brain just can’t recall what read few minutes ago. Lately it has been getting worse and worse. Sometimes it now makes writing such letter as this difficult because [...]

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Fatigue, Indifference, Back Pain, Blood in Stool, Depression?

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

here is a list of my symptoms..all beginning around January 3rdish.
1. chronic fatigue- i could sleep the entire day. i am often tired
when i wake up.
2. intolerance to alcohol - i used to drink pretty much every day and
now even the smell makes me nauseous.
3. chronic back pain - it is primarily in [...]

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Rotator Cuff Surgery, Chronic Problem, Several Operations

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

My mom has been through rotator cuff repair twice on each shoulder she has just had the third surgery in the past couple of months the doctor said she is able to go back to work 100% she works for an airline doing ramp service where she loads and unloads bags from the planes so [...]

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Pain after Wisdom Tooth Removal Dental Surgery, Complication

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Dear DR
Last November I went to a Dentist to take out a wisdom Tooth, I had about 10 injections in my gum and had to have my gum opened as my wisdom tooth was not Coming up but it was on the side so the dentist had to drill and break it in 6 pieces [...]

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Nausea in the Morning, Anxiety, Depression, Medication, Vomiting

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

i am suffering from this decease since 1997…….this started like this……..initially i suffered from a strong nausea feeling for some days continously…….and started to vomit what ever i used to eat……this was during my graduation days…….i use to remain very tensed due to this……after so many gastro tests the doctors could not stop the vomiting…….they [...]

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Pituitary microadenoma, prolactinoma, surgery or medical treatment?

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

I have got my MRI done recently and want a second advice from you :-
the report is : The pituitary gland appears rounded in apearance and measures 12×11×10 mm. A 9×8×9 mm ill defined mass leison is seen within the centre of the pituitary gland which apears isointense on T1W1 and T2w1 with delayed hetrageneous [...]

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