I am 53 years old and have been a smoker for 6 years. I just recently noticed a deep pain in my throat. It’s not like any sore throat I’ve ever had. It comes and goes and shoots down into my upper chest area a little. My Lymph glands are swollen and my throat is [...]
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Throat Pain, Scratchy Throat, Swollen Lymph Nodes, Shooting Pain, Allergies, Smoker
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006Wine Migraine, Allergy
Sunday, March 12th, 2006I get a lot of questions from my customers asking me why they get headaches from wine. I have done some probing and found out that a lot of these customers have other environmental allergies and I believe wine has a high level of histamines could this be a reason for some headaches. If so [...]
Continue readingAccutane, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Sunday, March 12th, 2006I am a 31 year old female who was Diagnosed about 5 years ago with Ulcerative Colitis. I have terrible acne and have tried everything on the market I could possibly find that claimed to help. I have heard a lot about Accutane and I wanted to know if there are any other choices maybe [...]
Continue readingAllergy the Cause of Tongue Swelling?
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006Allergy?
It seems like my tounge swells somewhat and is very sore. The middle of my tounge appears to have various splits on the top and the back close to the throat has bumps that are visible. What can cause this? It lasts about a week and then goes away. It only has happened three or [...]
Tick Bite
Friday, December 9th, 2005i was doing my work on the computer as i do every day. my arm wrist was hurting. the more i used the mouse i noteced it more. my fingers were tingling then got a numing and hurting effict. my fingers on my right had got really cold. after several hours it got worse, i [...]
Continue readingSmall Pimples on Husband and Wife
Friday, December 9th, 2005I have recently noticed what appear to be small pimples (that have not gotten bigger over a week) on my husbands back and on my stomach and face, It looks like some of the pimples on my husbands back have started to look a little black where the normal white tip is (not like a [...]
Continue readingAllergic to the Cold
Friday, December 9th, 2005I think Im allergic to the cold. Ive been getting hives on my face and legs for a while and was not sure why. Until recently i was out in the cold for a long period of time, and a few hours after i had come in and warmed up, I got red, itchy welts [...]
Continue readingBody Hair Color
Thursday, July 21st, 2005Hi Dr. Joshua,
I’m a male in my early 20s and I think I’m pretty healthy. I have a question about body hair. Is it normal for hair to be dramatically different colors on different parts of the body? I have dark brown hair on my head, pubic region, legs, and arms, but blonde hair on [...]
Acne and Doxycycline
Thursday, July 21st, 2005Hi,
it would be great if you can answer my problem!!! i ‘m 20. I never had any acne problem before my clear was clear all the
time. Then suddenly i got a few cystic acne which are so painful and leave scars. I am so scared i went to see the doctor and she prescribed me [...]
Diarrhoea, skin, risk of HIV?
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005I have smoked for 15 years and drink quite alot of alcohol. I smoke canabis and that has been increasing in the last 4 years since travelling. I have recently returned from Asia where I smoked it constantly and heavily for the last 2 1/2 months. I also took ectasy quite alot in the last [...]
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