I am a thirty-five-year-old female who follows an active and healthy lifestyle. However, over the past year and a half, I have been experiencing some symptoms on the right side of my face that concern me: eye discomfort (sensation of pressure and a feeling that something is in my eye), particularly upon waking; eye twitching; [...]
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Archive for January, 2007
Facial Weakness - Facial Nerve Palsy?
Monday, January 29th, 2007Eye Symptoms a Sign of Brain Aneurysm?
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007By way of brief background, I am young (24 year old male), athletic (former personal trainer), do not smoke, use drugs or drink heavily, and have no medical history of any clinically significant illness or injury. I have been taking low doses of Adderall (10mg or less) occasionally for the last 3 years. [...]
Continue readingTriathlon and Cardiac ECHO findings
Monday, January 22nd, 2007I had an ECHO done about 2 years ago… it found that I had trace/mild pulmonary regurgitation. Cardiologist reports that it is a normal finding and that it will likely never cause me any issues. I am currently training for my first triathlon. Is it possible that this could limit my performance [...]
Continue readingCosmetic Surgery Repair for Craniotomy Defect
Friday, January 19th, 2007Hi Doctor Joshua
please can you give me some advice, Im having a second cranioplasty operation in a few months to fill a defect which I was left with after a tumor removal in 1999 when I was 16. In May last year ( o6) I had a titanium plate fitted to the side of my [...]
Vertigo, dizziness, neck pain, disc degeneration
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Dear Dr. Joshua,
I have been experiencing very severe pain starting in my neck, and radiating across my shoulder, down my arm and into my thumb. This started just before Christmas. I have been seeing my Chiropoactor who suggests that I have a “C6 impingement”, but based on my pain level, he suggested I go to [...]
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras
Sunday, January 14th, 2007…but sometimes, it just might be a zebra!
Our good moderator YankeeBeckham asked on the forum if I could write about some of the more exotic medical cases that I’ve encountered during my career. He asked me to write a bit about “zebras”. By zebras YankeeBeckham refers to this old medical saying: “When you hear hoofbeats, [...]
Trying to Get Pregnant - Causes of Infertility?
Sunday, January 14th, 2007I have been trying to get pregnant for about a year and half and still I have not accomplish that. I talked to my doctor about this problem and my doctor said it was normal because I had a regulated menstrual cycle. Is there anything I can take for my problem I really want a [...]
Continue readingWhiplash injury symptoms?
Sunday, January 14th, 2007I have had neck/back pain since a young child. I am 31 now. I had whiplash from being startled by a spider in June. I started doing Yoga which helped until Sept. when I started having severe muscle cramps in my legs and feet. My hand began to “wobble” back and forth when I would [...]
Continue readingWound Infection and Healing after Car Accident
Sunday, January 14th, 2007My son was in a car accident a few months ago. He had his spleen removed. 6 Broken ribs and puntured lung. Then after a week. His incision got infected. The incision goes past his bellybutton because of exploring the other organs for internal bleeding. So anyway after it was infected they opened the incision [...]
Continue readingFibrocystic Breast and Spinal Hemangioma
Sunday, January 14th, 2007I was wondering if there is any relationship between breast fibroadenomas and spinal hemangiomas. I began having fibrocystic changes and the MRI showed one fibroadenmoa and a second MRI shows two fibroadenomas and a T8 spinal hemangioma. Anything concerning there? There is no follow-up just a mammogram in a year. thanks
Doctor Sinuhe Answers:
Thanks for your [...]
