Hello 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 [...]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006Metal 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 readingMigraines and Fatigue After Aneurysm Surgery
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006I had a ruptured aneurysm clipped in Oct. 2005 and I am still not feeling like myself. I will try to make this as brief as possible:
Since the surgery I now suffer from extremely painful migraines (worse than the headache I had the day my aneurysm was found). My neurologist states that it [...]
Eye Pain after Aneurysm Embolization
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Last year I had three unruptured aneurysms successfully embolised (I have never had an SAH my aneuryms were found completely by accident during an MRI scan which was carried out as I had had an episode of Bells Palsy from which I made a full recovery and also some ear pain and my ENT [...]
Continue readingTightness in the Chest During Exercise in an MS Patient
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006I am a patient of MS, but I don’t believe that the symptoms that I have, have to do anything with that.I have a strange feeling of tidiness around my chest & back. I have started going to the gym and we exercise our upper body a lot, I don’t know if that [...]
Continue readingBrain MRI, Pituitary Gland
Thursday, May 25th, 2006I had an MRI recently and i don’t understand what the radiology report means and the Internet is not being very helpful this time. here goes:
Findings: this is a focused examination of the pituitary gland, however axial t2, flair, t1, gradient and t1 post contrast images were obtained through the entire brain. additional dedicated sequences [...]
Young Man with Memory Loss
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006I have severe memory related problems where no longer can retain the learned information well. That is my brain just can’t recall what read few minutes ago. Lately it has been getting worse and worse. Sometimes it now makes writing such letter as this difficult because [...]
Continue readingTingling and Numbness in Fingers
Saturday, April 1st, 2006about four months ago i took a hard fall down a flight of stairs besides a large hematoma that had to be drained i have experienced long periods of loose stools which i have had testing for… that all came back fine. But more recently i have been experiencing numbness and tingling down my arms [...]
Continue readingSubdural hematoma, stroke, CT scan findings, terminology, cholesteatoma
Saturday, April 1st, 2006I am very desperate for your response, no one else wants to help me. To make a long story short, this question is regarding my father. He had a ct scan and this was the result. The patient has had a left frontoparietal and a right frontal craniotomy. A subdural drain [...]
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