I have been having shoulder problems for many years. For the last couple of months, the top of my shoulder blade hurts. I can push in between the joints and feel the pain. But, the last couple of days the pain runs from my shoulder to by elbow and into the joints [...]
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Monday, December 4th, 2006Stomach Pain After Eating
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006Every time I eat I have a bad stomach ache. It’s in a strange spot higher up than most stomach pain and it is very sharp. It is very different from gas pain so I already know it isn’t that. It happens EVERY time I eat and it has been going on [...]
Continue readingChest Pain and Back Pain
Thursday, November 30th, 2006I am a 39 year old male. I am a smoker (trying to quit) and are a little overweight. Recently I have had sharp pains in my chest and between my shoulder blades in my back. The pain is worse in my back and when it happens I get short of breath. It doesn’t matter [...]
Continue readingChild headache and vomiting
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006My daughter will be 3 in Dec, however she has been experiencing strange illnesses for over a yr.Last yr she woke “zoning” out, but awake,put in bath to pep her up and I noticed her feet and legs were blue.I dressed her,assuming she was cold,brought her down to her high chair when I noticed her [...]
Continue readingNeck Pain - Stiff Neck, Cracking
Monday, November 27th, 2006For the last few weeks I’ve noticed that my neck has been extremely stiff, and usually once a day or sometimes twice I’ll tilt my neck as far as I can to the left and something will crack/shift. It doesn’t crack when I tilt it to the right. Also, for the last few weeks I’ve [...]
Continue readingUpper Back Pain, Stomach Pain, Tingling
Monday, November 27th, 2006Last night I came home from a dinner out with this pulling like pain in my upper left back, under the ribcage. I went to bed thinking maybe that I just sat oddly during dinner, straining my back or something. I woke up several times during the night due to the pain. [...]
Continue readingShortness of Breath, Bloating, Hot Flashes
Monday, November 27th, 2006I have been ill for a few weeks. I had mono about 5 yrs ago. I had blood transfusions about 10 yrs ago. Im a 27 yr old female. I have been bloated so bad you’d swear im 4 months pregnant but Im not and I have gotten my period 3 times [...]
Continue readingHigh Cholesterol - Role of Hepatitis?
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Dear Doctor,
I am a 34 yr old male who recently came back from the doctor with some not so good news. It turns our that my cholesterol is a very high 292 with an extremely high LDL count, a 219. I am relatively healthy and active; I am 6 ft tall and weigh [...]
Shingles - Contagious?
Saturday, November 25th, 2006I have recently been diagnosed with shingles. They are not yet in an open blister state (merely contained red blisters) with no discharge. I have a couple of questions:
1. Can it (herpes zoster virus) be spread any other way other than direct contact with the discharge from the blisters?
2. Can my wife and children be [...]
Paternity and Blood Type
Saturday, November 18th, 2006I have been wondering this question for the last fourteen years and have finally decided to ask it and just live with the consequences. So here goes my question: what is the likelihood of an ab neg. Blood type male and b positive blood type female producing an ab negative male child? [...]
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