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Sweating issue

Maria — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:10:30 +0000

I am a 28 year old female, and I am having some sweating problems. It seems the older I get the worse it becomes. I profusely sweat from my face, including my neck. I do not sweat anywhere else. It really causes problems in my everyday life. If I do anything physical I start to [...]

Guillain–Barré Syndrome

Maria — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:39:32 +0000

In January of 2009, my mom woke up suddenly at night and felt tingling, numbness, weakness, and other strange sensations in her legs and hands. Two days later she went to the ER, they refereed her to a neurologist who initially thought she may have Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Her sxs got worse for about three weeks- [...]

Childhood Obesity And Its Possible Consequences

Maria — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:34:36 +0000

Posted by: Maria/ MD Health Forum.com Team When I was young, I envied chubby kids because of the attention that got from most adults. Those kids were considered cute and healthy, while the skinny kids, like myself, were called names. I was a weakling in everyone’s eyes, ironically, I rarely got sick. [...]

Pelvic pain and other symptoms

Maria — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:41:00 +0000

I’m a 39 year old woman that for the past 4 days has had pelvic pain non stop, lower back pain and with it pink spotting. Sex is painful and has been for a few years most often the morning after sex I have bleeding. My history is 3 kids born via cesarean and my tubes [...]

Ovarian cyst

Maria — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:00:06 +0000

My girlfriend just told me she has -bloody- cysts like objects which were picked up in an ultrasound. She has also just told me that she has missed approx. 3-4 of her menstruation. Please tell me she is going to be okay? But I need the truth. She is my girl, and I need to [...]

Common Causes of Chest Pain Among Teens

Maria — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:15:11 +0000

I’m only 15 years old. I was a premature baby, so one of my lungs are more underdeveloped. I’ve always been told that I have a touch of asthma, but I don’t need an inhaler. Recently I’ve started to get winded easily, by just walking up the stairs my chest feels like it’s about to [...]

Impact of Human Error on Patient Safety

Maria — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:42:30 +0000

Hospitals have a duty to provide patients with the safest possible conditions in emergency departments to reduce the likelihood for errors and injury to patients in this rather busy environment. When relatives bring their loved ones to the ER, they trust health care professionals to provide them with utmost care and don’t [...]

Episodes of vision changes and other symptoms

Maria — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:00:29 +0000

Everyone I’ve asked around keeps saying it might be my blood pressure dropping low, and I don’t have insurance, if anyone could give some advise would be greatly appreciated. Anywho, you know when you stand up too fast sometimes you get the ‘bloodrush’, and you feel slightly disorientated and slightly blackening vision? Well, it’s been coming [...]

Nipple discharge

Maria — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:29:20 +0000

I’m 28 yrs old. Ive been suffering from really itchy nipples for a few months now. They also sometimes seep a little discharge which i only notice if its on my bra. Its normally a light brown colour. My nipples themselves become very red and sore when they are at their worst. I do suffer [...]

Hypothyroidism and pregnancy

Maria — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:43:35 +0000

I am 27 years old and 6.5 weeks pregnant. During my first routine prenatal screening my doctor diagnosed me with underactive thyroid. My TSH level was 11.8, and my free T4 was 13. She prescribed me 0.05 mg levothyroxine yesterday, which I’ve started taking. I am concerned about how this untreated condition may have affected my pregnancy [...]