I am writing you on behalf of my fiance, she is 37. Her medical history includes a long bout with insomnia, thyroid problems, digestion problems, her gallbladder was removed in june, and recently she has had trouble with low potassium and magnesium levels. On oct. 26th she went into the hospital for stomach issues and came out wit no use of her legs, they gradually weakened over a period of about a week until one day they were useless. She describes a numbness combined with what she calls painful pinpoint fireworks all over her body. She was diagnosed with giallam barret syndrome. The hospital began treatment for it. After the 1st day of treatment she was transferred to UNC, within 2 days they determined she did not have giallim barret, they tested her and the test came back negative. So they sent her back to cape fear valley hospital where they continued treatment even though she tested negative for it at UNC. They never told us what was wrong with her, or why she could no longer walk. On Friday nov. 18th they discharged her. And now I’ve had to stop working to take full 24 hr care. And the numbness is spreading up throughout her body. Her arms and hands are going now, she can barely use them, and her entire body is in pain, her back, neck, legs, feet, ache constantly and intensely, she describes her body as one big exposed tingling nerve. We have returned to 2 separate hospitals since then, only to be sent home with no explanation oh any help. Her inability to use her legs has been going on for over 3 weeks now. Her normal medications are ambien, seriquill, trazidone, also a senthoid, symbalta, and the hospital gave her gabapenton which seems to do nothing for her.
I have a 35 years old lady who is a patient of mine, she has been having pitting oedema in and off for 13 which is not painful but after a while resolves itself..cardiac echo, urinalysis, liver and kidney function tests, full blood count, abd uss are normal with the exception that her Hb is 9.8g/dl. No family or previous hx of bp or diabetes. We cant figure out what’s wrong with her..any help would be appreciated.
45 yr old female, no medications. About four weeks ago I noticed a rash on my inner thigh. It doesn’t itch or burn. I thought it might be some type of fungus so I put Athletes foot cream on it but it go worse. I went to the doctor and they said its ringworm and told me to put the same athletes foot medication on it but now it’s spreading. Do you know what this could be?
I received the following report from a chest CT scan: There is evidence of a 3.2 cm x 1.6 cm x 2.5 cm irregular infiltration in the peripheral aspect of the superior segment of the left lower lobe. Air bronchograms are seen within this. This may represent a focal pulmonary infiltrate. Underlying mass lesion can not be ruled out. There is no demonstrated pleural abnormality.
What does this mean? The nurse said the my (primary care provider) PCP thinks it is fluid or an infection and not likely to be malignant. I am still worried. This seems very large and I don’t have symptoms of pneumonia. How concerned should I be that this is cancer? I am a 40 yo, female with no smoking history. This was initially found on a routine work x-ray. How should I proceed?
Hi there, I am facing a laparoscopic mastectomy in a few months to take out one 12cm fibroid that is sitting at the lowest part of my uterus. I am okay about having the surgery, I welcome it. I very hesitant about the medication that my doctor has prescribed to me leading up to the surgery – Lapron. From everything that I have read and all of the videos I have watched and websites I have read – it sounds very scary and the side effects are not something I am interested in. I am 32 years old, married, never had a child and don’t want children. I would like to preserve my uterus if possible, but wonder if this surgery can be done without taking Lapron? I understand it helps shrink the fibroid, yet I have a lot of stress at work right now and I worry that it will very negatively affect my mood/ruin my sometimes strained marriage, I don’t want to lose my hair or gain more weight. I don’t have unbearable periods, so is it possible to speak with my surgeon and let her know how uncomfortable I am taking this drug? Are there any alternatives? Can this surgery be done without taking Lapron? I am in Canada too, not too sure if that affects your answer. Thank you.
My 12th week scan showed everything is o.k during pregnancy. Things were the way round when the radiologist suggested that there is caudal regression syndrome.
I was refereed to maternity doctor for termination option?
Should I rely one scan report or do i Need to do further investigation?
Hi, I’m hoping some one can help me as the problem I have I have seen many doctors but still no answers, I’m 37 year old woman and since my early 20,s I began to suffer from pain in my left shoulder when I left school I worked in a care home lifting constantly a lot of heavy patients! I had to leave as my pain was constant I then had surgery on the left shoulder I think they shaved the bone, from then on the pain I was able to tolerate but it was always there and would increase if I done anything such as lifting etc. I now work as a technician in a pharmacy and have been there 15 years I spend most of my working day standing at a computer , then 3 years ago for about a week at work I was in a lot of pain starting at my neck and traveling down my arm when I finished my shift at the end of the week I had a funny turn where the pain was so bad my whole left side just went numb and my left side of my face just dropped I was with my Mam at the time and she thought I was having a stroke, I was admitted into hospital for a few days but the doctors were baffled as I had a mri scan and nothing showed up so they couldn’t explain my symptoms i was discharged and put on baclofen tablets and had physio after about 3 months I was back to normal though the pain remained in the neck and shoulder, i returned to work only for it to happen again, however what was happening was when the pain got so bad in my neck my face would droop again and it was like a spasm my whole left side just goes, I got sent to a neurologist who said he didn’t believe it’s anything neurological then got refered to the pain clinic in this time I keep telling the docs that the spasms and my face only drops when I’m in serious pain but they just keep dismissing this as they say it’s not connected! The consultant at the pain clinic also sent me for a mri scan and X-ray yet nothing is showing up, one weekend I was in so much pain I paid to go to see a osteopath on examination he said I have no muscle in my left side it’s worn away and which I already know when u look at me from the front there is a big difference in my shoulders my left one is lower down. When I went back to the consultant I told him what the osteopath said and he then examined me and said yes u have a droop in your left shoulder and your spine is curved, he is going to try me on some new tablets called tapentadol other then that he can’t do anything for me! He’s done what he can and I appreciate that but I’m still left in pain and having these spasms and I have no answers! The physio I once saw said its just arthritis another doc suggested focal dystonia, I just feel like the surely has to be an explanation for my symptoms I hope u can help thank you
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
My grandpa is on a whole bunch of drugs already. One being Mirtazapine for his constant worry. A week ago his doctor gave him Budeprion XL to enhance the Mirtazapine. Immediately with in a couple days it had side effects and he called in the middle of the night not knowing where he was. 2 nights ago he called at 11:30 at night looking for my grandmother that passed 2 years ago and last night when we called saying we were coming over, he said he was getting ready for breakfast. We called his doctor yesterday and he suggested that he continue with his new medicine for a few weeks to see if it starts to help with his anxiety, but I feel this is much more important to get him off of it. We pulled the pills from his pill tray last night and feel it is doing more harm than good. Please tell me what your opinion is.
I am 23 yrs male , I am having ruptured eardrum. A big hole in one ear and small in other one due to excessive use of earbuds.
One doctor suggested to have surgery and other suggested to wait for 3 months to let the eardrum heal itself.
Will waiting cause any long term effect on my hearing power or should I go for Surgery.
My partner is a 47 year old female who had major abdominal surgery (mesh repair of failed linea alba) just under 6 weeks ago. Prophylactic Clexane wasn’t give first 2 days by mistake then given for four days thereafter. She developed a small blue lump under the second toe on the right foot the day after the op. 2 weeks after the op, she developed distended veins in the left side of the neck – external jugular, anterior jugular, some small veins joining the two. A few days later she also showed distended veins up into the temple and between her eye and the bridge of her nose. Coincident with the veins becoming obvious, she started suffering pre-syncope when exercising (e.g. 10 minutes walking) culminating in a full syncope episode at 4 weeks post op. She was re-admitted to hospital at this point. d-Dimer significantly raised (more than would be expected from prior surgery). No other markers for inflammation or infection – surgical wound site appears infection free. Chest X-ray clear. CT Angiogram also clear. ECG clear. Monitoring shows BP is high (at least for this patient) and does not drop during syncope events. Pulse also high (100-110 resting and pushing 150 with low level exercise). Patient feels OK when lying down but gradually develops pre-syncope over 5-10 minutes when upright and walking. Has now developed pea-sized lump in back of left leg around 1.5cm above knee and slightly lateral to the centre line. There is a 2cm diameter bruise adjacent to this and oedema distal to it. We are told Doppler ultrasound of the neck area was clear but weren’t massively impressed by the skill/knowledge of the ultrasonographer. She has now been in hospital 7 days (on a gastroenterology ward under the care of a gastroenterologist!). They have admitted they haven’t a clue what is wrong with her. She has been given a cursory exam by a vascular surgeon who seemed uninterested because the Doppler of the neck was clear. I’d really appreciate suggestions for what possible diagnoses might fit this pattern. To me there’s one obvious suggestion (which I won’t mention because I want to confirm whether I’m going mad or not) but I’m also interested in possible alternatives so we can try to guide the staff into doing something about this. Many thanks in advance for your help.
I am 31 year male and I have SpondyloArthritis.I am taking medicine for more than 6 months.
But from last 15 days I am feeling extreme pain in my right knee and left hip.The pain exists in the right side of my knee.Though I have no fever but there is too much heat in that area of the knee.There is also little swelling in that side.
For last 9 days I am taking Aceclofenac 100mg twice daily but I am not getting much relief.
The medicines that I am taking right now are-
Methotrexate – 20mg on Sunday
Folic Acid – 5mg on Wednesday and Thursday
Sazz – 1.5gm – twice daily
Shelcal 500mg – twice daily
Pantop 40 – everyday before breakfast
Aceclofenac – 100mg – twice daily
Calcirol granules 60,000 IU one sachet – once in a month
At last I visited my doctor and he has told me to take Defcort 6 mg – once daily for 1 month.I have heard this is steroid and taking steroid is very bad for health.
So I visited to another doctor who is near to me.He has suggested me to take Alanz for 5 days,and Retoz 120 mg for 20 days followed by 90 mg for 10 days.But he has changed the dozes for Sazz from 3gm to 1.5 gm daily and Methotrexate from 20mg to 15mg.
Now I have got confused and can not decide what should I do.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Problems started before 6 months.i do have symptoms like fever, abdominal pain, headache, joint pain,nausia,very weakness,disorders of bowel,bleeding a lot,very very dark urine,etc.i am under a doctor named prof (…).
My SGPT is 30,SGOT 44,hemoglobin11.8,hb(A1C) 5.3,Triglyceryde is 187,HDL 33.ALL these are reports result.what has happened to me doctor?what disease i have doctor???Now i am taking viusid powder twice a day,Proviten gold and disopan.
Im a male 40. In 2010 a girl gave me oral no intercourse, 3 days later i had burning pee an fell very ill. Doc said UTi but antbiotics didn’t work I felt worse. 3 month later std n HIV neg, My pregnant wife neg. Soon i had chills for days, loss of appetite, and still burning. 1 year later HIV- ANXIETY! Sometimes my body would feel warm n itching. In 2012 i screened for std n HIV neg- I am going on an episode of constant throat mucus. An my wife gets yeast infections. It’s been almost 6 years of anxiety, what’s wrong with me? Do i need more testing?
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