I went to the doctor Wednesday and they did a biopsy to check the lining of my uterus for cancer and pre cancer cells (just so you know if you ever do it to someone it feels like contractions when you are having a baby). they had me come back the next day to do [...]
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Archive for June, 2006
Gynecologic Laparoscopic Surgery
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Loss of Vision
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006This is a question concerning my father who is 74. He was he said accidentally elbowed in the side of the head when 2 of my younger brothers got into a fight. Since that time (over a year he wouldn’t admit he had a problem but it is getting worse) he has almost [...]
Continue readingInsomnia and OTC medication
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006I am a 32 year old female who has suffered from Insomnia most of my life (on and off). I’ve had doctors prescribe Ambien as well as other RX sleep meds over the years. They worked, but I hated the groggy feeling in the morning and didn’t want to get addicted. About [...]
Continue readingIncontinence in Children
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006My sister has twins a boy and a girl ten year olds, born by invitro fertilisation. Both have incontinence problems, not always though, increased frequency needing frequent visits to the toilet during schoolhours and not being able to hold leading to accidental leakages and urgency. Ultrasound is normal, a contrast study of bladder was normal [...]
Continue readingWhite Patches on Skin
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006I started getting white dots on my legs and sometimes on my arms about four or five years ago. I went to a dermatologist and he said that was the way my skin was. Wouldn’t this have been going on all of my life then? He said that if I get [...]
Continue readingNumbness and Fatigue
Sunday, June 18th, 2006Hello Dr. Joshua, ? ? Over the years, I’ve had some problems with numbness. There is a spot on my right leg right above my knee, about the size of a baseball that has never returned feeling. Nothing went wrong for it to go numb, it just did. Also, there is some numbness between my [...]
Continue readingMetal and MRI
Sunday, June 18th, 2006My mother had a procedure done in 1960-61 to correct for calcium deposits in the ear. the doctor used a metal wire & some skin from hear earlobe and inserted into the ear after removing the calcium deposits. My question is was/is there a particular type of metal that has always been used. She needa a MRI of her neck [...]
Continue readingPineal Cyst and Visual Disturbance
Friday, June 16th, 2006Question: I had an mri scan two weeks ago to diagnose a visual disturbance (blurring of my right eye) I’ve experienced for five weeks now. The report indicated that there was no evidence of abnormal enhancement of my optic nerves, however, it found a large lobulated cyst in the pineal region (1.8 cm sagittal oblique [...]
Continue readingBirth Control Pills and Spotting
Friday, June 16th, 2006just recently started taking birth control, I had taken it previously and had no side effects or anything but I went off of it for several months. In order to skip my period this month, I took the first 3 sets of pills and skipped the placebo pills and started taking a new [...]
Continue readingMysterious Urethritis and Dysuria
Thursday, June 15th, 2006Please should you be so kind to help me out in this difficult and frustrating time. I am 25 years of age, male and have been experiencing Dysuria for the past four years or so. There is inflammation on the internal opening of the urethra with some very small red inflammed “bumps” which seem to [...]
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