My 17.5 yo son had Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) 3.5 years ago. 2 weeks ago he had a cold and immediately afterwards developed severe joint pain, so bad he can hardly walk & occasionally abdominal pain & nausea. no rash.
Is it possible that this is a recurrence of hsp without the rash? How can we check out what’s going on?
Blood test seems normal, no blood in urine. protein in urine is 10 mg/dl.
Will appreciate your advice. Thanks a lot.
Nearly a year ago, (where I suffered a head injury) I was in a bad car accident.. since then, I commonly feel completely different. I often feel like a completely person than I was before the wreck. I have horrible headaches commonly, as well as a shift of attitude and mood changes. I also struggle from short term memory loss. I feel so depressed, I’ve never been like this before.
I am currently 8 months pregnant and taking Valtrex for suppression of herpes. I want to breastfeed after my baby is born, is this safe or how long should I wait after I stop taking Valtrex to nurse?
I am 27 years old, white and female. I am 5’9 and 215lbs. No prior history of surger. History of 2 vaginal births with epidural both times. Family History of Lung cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, CHF, diabetes, heart attack, COPD, degenerative back disease, and color cancer. I began suffering with tailbone pain without injury approximately 5 months ago. I cannot sit for long periods of time. I have no pain when standing, walking or while lying down. I do have the mirena and it was placed approximately 2 1/2 years ago. I have also experienced fatigue, increased appetite, and memory fog since having the mirena placed. Could my mirena be causing my back pain?
After 1 week living again here in davao, when i woke up in the morning i have this soar throat and a dry cough, then after that i had a fever for 3 days because i just use a home treatment style. i use strepsils to take off my soar throat and when my fever and soar throat has gone my dry cough remained. then after 1 week i just noticed that after i coughed and spit my saliva i saw or observed a small amount of blood like a 1 droplet of blood then i continues observing it by coughing then spitting it and when i drank more water because i got nervous of having that kind of symptoms the blood on my spit had gone when i cough again and spit. Then in the next morning again it repeated the same, that’s why in the next morning i visit my doctor here in davao together with an xray and suptum test there were all normals. But the give me the first kind of antibiotics to take off my cough, it was CO-AMOXICLAV for 7 days twice a day and a medicine for tkaing out the phlegm but i forgot the name of that medicine, and it was for 5 days twice a day. After taking all those recommended medicines my cough did’t gone. That’s why i visit again my doctor after 1 week training, and again they recommended me another kind of antibiotics and it AZITHROMYCIN for 3 days once a day, and for disolning phlegm for 5 days. And jsut like the same i finished taking those medicines but my cough still remained, that’s why my mother decided to bring me to the hospital because it was almost a month of having a cough then they adviceme to take another xray and sputum test and recommend me to take IMMUNOMAX and CETEREZINE i think. And after the result of the xray it was a bad result because i had a bilateral pneumonia and it can also be a tubercolosis ( TB ) but when they forward me to the TBDC department they told me that it was a pneumonia coz my sputum test is normal. That’s why they ddnt recommended me for another medicine and my father advice me to take a morning jogging and walking for about one hour and drink boiled ginger with calamansi for every taking meals. And he forwarded me to the organic doctors and the doctor recommended me to take virgin coconut oil and a droplets of combination of BERBERIS, HEPAR and TRAUMEEL, and she also told me to take 1000mg of vitamin c everyday, then after a week of taking that i my body losses energy or my body got weak and everytime i take a meal i feel like vomiting it but i ddn’t have any head ache that time that’s why my mother bring me to the nearest hospital in our home and that was last friday evening and the doctor recommended me another antibiotics and it was CEFIXIME for 7 days and once a day, and for cough medicine for 7 days twice a day to take, and the doctor told me that my CBC, URINALYSIS, CREA and XRAYS are all normals, and today is my 4th day of taking those medicines and my cough is still remaining , but i also observed that i just had a cough everytime i woke up, and after taking my meal. And i had this chest pain and back pain everytime i cough or breathe big. And another thing is that i dont know if i spitted a mucus coz everytime i cough and spit it out it is just like a saliva.
female age 55, overweight, smoker, colitis, no surgeries, OTC Zantac, Excedrin, multi vitamins, Fish Oil, and for 24 hrs taken garlic and goldenseal by mouth. Slightly warm off and on, headache, backache, nausea, just feel kinda crumby. Third day since scratches on left breast from ferrel cat we had taken in last 2 weeks while she gave birth so shed be safe.Wash it numerous times daily w/soap n water and apply neosporin by day and pure honey by night. Scratches were looking pretty good but tonight very red and several tiny oozing spots with a red blood blister in between the scratches which go up and down my left breast. No insurance or money hate to go to ER but wonder if I should. No tetanus shot for 37 years. have 4 teenage kids. health is fair. allergic to all cillins, keflex, eurethromyasin, codeine. Cellulitis in rt. ankle from tattoo ink last year never healed still large nodule over area despite 10 days of antibiotics.
I’m 34 years old and was treated with radiation and chemo 2 years ago for stage 4b2 cervical and haven’t had a menstrual cycle since as expected. Went through all the changes my gyn/onc explained. Then a week ago I began bleeding again. I just last month a a clean exam and pet scan. Is it possible my ovaries weren’t completely fried and I’m ovulating again?
82 year old male suffers from gastric ulcers since more than thirty years, he was under Zantac tablets for couple of years then he stopped treatment after three years from treatment. Before eight years (2008) his gastric ulcers has been diagnosed by upper gastric endoscopy and biopsy has been taken resulting in positive gastric lymphoma, he went under chemotherapy teatment for eight sessions, Cortisone and Nexium tablets (20mg) has been given after that. He continued till now on Nexium (40mg). He was completely healthy after chemotherapy and practiced his life normally (driving, walking, … etc). Endoscopy has been made after six months of the recovery which resulted in healing sign of fibrosis in the stomach wall. He was regularly following up by making x-Rays, blood tests, endoscopes … etc. He was fine till 2016 January, they made for him endoscopy (fasting 6 hours) but they repeated it three times because always they say that there is indigested food in the stomach, finally after fasting twelve hours they succeeded in the endoscopy and the result was fine showing same healing sign of fibrosis in the stomach wall. After that he started losing weight gradually from 105 kegs to 45 kegs now between the period 2016 January up-to-date.
Last month he suffered from severe hypotension with fluctuated readings (100/60, 90/55, 80/40, 60/20 … ) with lack of knowing the exact reason, doctors told him to eat salty food; it worked fine for short period of time then he suffered again from hypotension, they said he is suffering from adrenal insufficiency (Addison’s disease) and anemia; they gave him blood tonics, parental hydrocortisone, and Florine F 0.1 then continued on tablets of twice daily for couple of days, no improvement. Kidneys tested by specialist and monitored since creatinine was fluctuating from 1.5 – 2.5. After five days from taking Hydrocortisone tablets he collapsed, lost consciousness, his heart stopped for eight minutes and finally rescued. He recovered partially from the problems and now he is taking parental Norepinephrine, Bramox tablets (Midodrine 20 mg x 3 times a day), Hydrocortisone tablets twice daily.
Pacemaker was described for him by cardiologist and it was fixed to regulate the pulse rate and it was done successfully. Cardiologists did echo and moga scans and reported ejection fraction (60%), (Normal).
Whenever Norepinephrine dose is reduced hypotension occurs, the dose varies from (0.25-2-4-10-16mcg). Hemoglobin was down as parallel sign from 14 to 7, blood tonics tablets were given without any improvement, blood units (5 till now) has been given to him and Hemoglobin still fluctuating from (7-10).
In addition to all mentioned he is having lung fusion and liquids are removed on regular basis, cultures shoed no malignancy on cytology testing. CT scan was done and it was clear of any tumor cells. Colorless material was used in CT scan. Culture test for water in the lungs was normal. Total water removed was about 7 liter and still forming.
Also positive Candida albicans in the lungs and he is receiving parental antibiotics. Now he is unconscious from Yesterday, he wakes up few minutes and then sleeps without movements of hands or legs.
Conclusion: The doctors in the hospital have no tentative diagnosis only they say that it is autoimmune neuropathy, and there is no test confirmed abnormality in heart or any other organs, also no confirmation of metastasis or recurrence for tumor. Clinically the patient is in fully conscious, can move his legs, hands, head, and can remember everything but can’t stand
I am a 25-year-old female and rarely have medical issues. However, I have been experiencing bad abdominal pain and constipation for two weeks now. On my third trip to the doctor, they finally did x-rays and determined that I have an ileus- “Erect and supine AP views of the abdomen and pelvis demonstrates no evidence of bowel obstruction or free intraperitoneal gas. There is a mildly dilated single loop of small bowel within the right flank. There is no calcific or osseous abnormality detected. A mild central small bowel ileus is suspected. Constipation is also noted.” My doctor referred me to a GI specialist and told me to go on a liquid diet for two days to clear up the pain. She also recommended taking daily laxatives.
It has been five days and despite the liquid diet and laxatives, the pain and discomfort is persisting. It is especially bad in my lower left abdomen and lower back. The specialist cannot see me until Dec 20th. I cannot continue with a liquid diet and daily laxatives because they make me worse (weak, shaky, tired). What should I do?
Hello, I have a question about results of a Bone Marrow Aspirate and Biopsy to ‘rule out myleoproliferative disorder’.
I am a 61 year old Caucasian female. My ‘Bone Marrow Final Report’ stated ‘suspicious for a myleoproliferative neoplasm’; Flow Cytometry reported ‘no evidence of a lymphoproliferative disorder / suggest clinical morphologic correlation’.
Are “neoplasm” and “disorder” used interchangeably?
Are “myleoproliferative” and “lymphoproliferative” used interchangeably?
Thank You,
Hi doctor,
My name is (…), i have been suffering with high blood pressure, my blood pressure some time elevate to 150/90. i am software engineer by profession, i notice for more then 1 month, i have headache while i am working on front of computer in office, then i go to pharmacy and they check my blood pressure, they told me your blood pressure is 150/90. then i take one pill of capoten to lower my bp, i don’t know why my bp get elevated even if i am doing 5k running daily, eating fruits and vegetables. i am taking low salt in my meal also. i went to doctor. doctor told me in young age as i am 29 there is only reason your blood pressure get elevated that is because of high cholesterol, he told me to test your cholesterol level. next morning in empty stomach i went to laboratory and they take my blood sample and after few hours i get the report my total colestrol level is 133 mg/dl which is in normal range now doctor suggest me to take one pill of lophrin 75mg in morning after breakfast. i wanted to ask here one question that do i need to take lophrin pill in young age or not and also why my blood pressure get elevated to 150/90 even i do lifestyle changes
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62,Female-Hello, I think I may have a condition (muscle spasm) but I’m not sure. I have chronic pain on the left side of my back that spreads to the left side of my stomach. It’s painful (like needles puncturing),itchy,as well as,burns. What’s interesting is that during the day, the pain isn’t as bad as the night as I tend to try to soak up as much sunlight. The nights,however, are pretty bad. I’ve tried heat/icing the area and massages. What also helps is apple cider vinegar (topical) as it is soothing. But the pain is chronic and U don’t know why. Can you help to diagnose my condition,please?
I party alot, drink and smoke weed. I am thinking of taking a hangover prevention pill. Just wondering
if these work. Heard if you take a pill with your first drink, prevents any hangover the next day? I am 21, male. No medical conditions except headaches every so often. especially the morning after parties 🙂
Im 31 year old female , divorced no childern , I have intramural fibroid , 13cm*9 cm , i discovered it accidentally last year it was 11.5 cm * 8 cm , asymptotic . They advise me to follow up only .But for 2 weeks i start have both legs mild pitting edema, more in right leg. With dull pain like legs pain which occur with period . I did renal function and it was normal. What could be the cause???
I am a 29yo female who has had gastric sleeve surgery 2.5yrs ago and I have a some loose tummy skin, not much but enough to bother me. My queues this, is it worthwhile to get a minor tummy tuck when I’ve never had children and do plan on it in the next few yrs?
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