On Thursday March 19, 2009 I started to experience pain and tenderness in the area of my right testicle. About a week to week and a half before this I had experienced the same thing, but it had gone away within a couple of days. Anyway, I also noticed a slight heaviness to my scrotum [...]
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Scrotal pain and other symptoms
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009What’s in a ‘KISS’?
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Posted by: Maria/MD Health Forum.com Team
It’s quite funny how people see things differently. Try to ask their opinion about something very simple, and I bet that you will get varied responses. Like how did famous writers define kiss? According to Edward Estlin Cummings, kisses are a better fate than wisdom. Oscar Wilde’s [...]
Continue readingVery low cholesterol
Sunday, March 29th, 2009I am a 33 year old female who weighs over 280lbs and is 5′8″. I have a cholesterol of 123, HDL-53, LDL-63, Triglycerides-35, and Chol/HDL ratio of 2.3. For the past year I have dealt with severe hair loss, brittle/dry hair, brittle nails, dry skin, low iron, and niacin sensitivity. My doctor doesn’t know [...]
Continue readingSTITCH: A “keep-it-simple” approach to managing hypertension
Saturday, March 28th, 2009Posted by: Maria/MD Health Forum.com Team
Uncontrolled high blood pressure increases one’s risk to develop serious health problems such as heart diseases, kidney damage and stroke. Hypertension is considered as a major public health challenge worldwide. In 2000, it was estimated that the total number of adults with hypertension worldwide was 972 million, this number [...]
Green vaginal discharge
Wednesday, March 25th, 200923/f have a white/ clear stretchy discharge sometimes if there is a lot its green. i had a baby 10 months ago and was having this after birth i asked the ob about it they told me it was normal but it hasn’t stopped. I know its not an STD cause i was tested while [...]
Continue readingArachnoid cyst
Friday, March 20th, 2009 My 14 yr old son recently underwent a CT scan of his sinuses due to a diagnosis of chronic sinusitis. Haller Cells were evident bilaterally, with bilateral maxillary and ethmoid sinus inflammation (mild to moderate) with suggested small underlying polyps and a septum deviated to the left.
An incidental finding on the axial images of [...]
Meckel’s diverticulum
Monday, March 16th, 2009When my husband needs to have a bowel movement or urinate, he feels the urge to vomit. When he was a baby he had Meckel’s Diverticulum and our family doctor told him the urge to vomit when having to go to the washroom is normal!?! I don’t know if the Meckel’s can or has returned, [...]
Continue readingTachycardia
Thursday, March 12th, 2009I had an echocardiogram and it showed that I have SEVERE ATRIAL DILATION. I am 38 and at age 10 had rheumatic fever. I now have heart palpitations and tachycardia and am on medication for the tachycardia (Toprol XL).
What exactly does the Atrial Dilation mean and can it be the reason for the palpitations and [...]
Unpleasant urine odor and other symptoms
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009I have blood in the urine on and off and extreme kidney and bladder pain, also urine has a very
strong odor like the smell of fecal matter but most of the time a strong odor of sulfur (the smell of a burn match kinda but stronger)
Posted by: Maria/MD Health Forum.com Team
There are various factors that [...]
