Dear Dr. Joshua, I’m 34 years old. I’ve been experiencing tingling/ pins and needles in my hands - pinky and ring fingers, and a bit up the forearm. It started about 3 years ago, while I was pregnant, and just came on if I fell asleep on my back. The tingling is now constant, worse [...]
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006Movement disorder or something else?
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006My mother is 53 years of age, has diabetes, a non smoker, (recently stopped in Feb of 06). She suffers from sever shaking in her hands/arms/neck. Pain in her lower back/neck and now is moving to her legs and feet. She is unable to complete simple house work i.e. dishes/mopping etc. [...]
Continue readingNumbness followed by headache
Friday, July 28th, 2006First of all I have no health insurance and that is why I am asking for advice online before I go to the doctor for nothing. Today as I was sitting on the couch my left arm went numb as well as my hand and fingers only on the left side. Later I noticed the [...]
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Friday, July 28th, 2006Fibromyalgia, possible multiple sclerosis symptoms?
I am a 36 year old female diagnosed with fibromyalgia, degenertive disc disease, and osteoarthritis. I have had tingling and numbness from my right knee down through my toes. The numbness is so bad I can not walk or drive a car. I have also has muscle twitching (it looks like [...]
Loss of Taste
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006Since having a hernia operation and heart, lungs and kidneys failing during the operation and spending 2 months in CCU and a month in Rehab to wean me off the ventilator—I am at home now with no tastebuds and I always loved to eat. Why no tastebuds?
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
Sometimes loss of taste is actually [...]
Left Hand Weakness after Head Injury
Friday, July 7th, 2006I have a friend who is reluctant to see a doctor.? ? Up until recently, she was left-handed. Then all of a sudden, over the course of a few days, she was unable to write with this hand anymore, and has since almost completely switched to her write hand. It is as if her dominant [...]
Continue readingLung Cancer Brain Metastasis
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006Dear Doctor, I am from Bangalore, India. My mother, 67 years old, had a lesion on her left lung which was operated. After 6 months we found that she had a 2 cm tumor in the left lobe of her brain. Had radiation, SRT, chemo,temodal etc but it did not shrink. The last was surgery. The [...]
Continue readingAneurysm Bleed Prognosis?
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006I came across your website while researching brain aneurysms. My aunt suffered from one 2 weeks ago and we are extremely concerned for her. I would really appreciate your opinion on her case:? ? Fri, June 2, 2006 - aneurysm ruptured (we believe the location was left front, don’t know the size of the [...]
Continue readingNeuropathy or Spinal Stenosis?
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006Dear Dr. Joshua,? ? My uncle is residing in India, he is 67 years old and in 2001 was diagnosed with a type of myopathy in his lower back spine. He does not have pain but has lost the strengh to get up from a bed or chair. He was told that this a rare [...]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006Tnank you for taking the time to read this. I realize you are a very busy person and am grateful for this service you provide. I am writing because I don’t know what to do from here and need some advice. Please forgive my wordy post.? ? 10 years ago I began having neurological issues [...]
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