I have a few queries regarding what would seem to be classic symptoms of an anxiety disorder. This condition has only manifested itself since July of this year. I’m a healthy, intelligent, fit and active 36 year old professional. I have had quite a few family bereavement experiences over my childhood years and one this […]

Dear Dr. Joshua,
I had a full brain MRI and was told I have hydromyelia of the middle of my spinal canal. it is a smaller syrinx and and I have had this for 4 years but it has gotten a little larger now. I am experiencing tingling, numbness fingers, toes. I have burned […]

Doctor Joshua’s Simplified McDonald Diagnostic Criteria of MS for the Layman:
I have simplified the 2005 revised McDonald criteria here to make this (hopefully) understandable for non-medical persons. Remember, this is just for general information - it’s not an official list of criteria.
(Medical professionals and others who wish to research this topic further, please see original […]

New Year’s Eve, I was working at home before going out to dinner. Probably due to the workout of working t home, I started feeling kind of weird. Having already being diagnosed with and being pharmaceutically treated for high blood pressure, I felt that is was high just from a feeling that I get. I […]

My doctor put me on Calan a few months ago because I have been diagnosed with Right Ventricular Ectopy and Mitral Valve Prolapse. The pharmacy gave me the generic form called Verapamil. Since I began taking this medication I have gained weight and I have had problems with constipation and upper abdominal discomfort. […]

hi .. i am 15 years old , i was 14 at the time .. i had pains in my stomach and it got real bad and i had been vomiting all night. so i went to the emergency room they didnt do nothing , they said i had something else. i went to my […]

I’m 28 years old and here recently I have been seeing blood in my stool. Should I be worried?
Doctor Joshua’s Answer
There can be basically three types of blood in stool:
1) Bright red blood. By far the the most common reason is hemorrhoids (piles). Anal fissures are also typical causes. There are also other, more […]

In Jan. 1990(at 51 yrs of age), I had a “Pontine” stroke. Prior to that I hadn’t been considered a “stroke candidate”, as I watched my cholesterol,plus wasn’t overweight, or had high blood pressure, etc. I had been a bicycler, swimmer, & runner, plus ate “healthy” food, so a stroke was very unexpected. […]

My 25 year old son has finally gotten on accutane for 2 months after waiting until he was willing to not drink. Now his girlfriend of 3 years has just broken up with him. He is very upset, having trouble focusing at work. I wonder if he could get on an anti […]

My wife, 51, began experiencing tingling/numbness in RT hand and arm … MRI showed stenosis at c4-5, c5-6, c6-7 … neurosurgeon performed “anterior cervical discectomy and interbody fusion, c4-5, c5-6, c6-7 with bone grafts from the right iliac crest.” Immediately when she awoke in recovery she couldn’t feel her legs. Stat x-ray and […]

Let me start by saying, off and on for most of my adult life (I am 35) I have had passing out spells and migraines…sometimes together, sometimes totally unrelated to one another. In the past couple of years I have started having what my husband believes to be seizures. I always have a horrible headache […]

I am a 26 year old female who suffered a compression fracture of my L1 vertebra approx. 6 weeks ago due to a MVA. I was pain free after two weeks discontiuned use of my TLSO back brace a few days ago, which was recommended for me to wear for three months. Some information I […]

My father passed away on 9/30 of colon cancer, we were really close and I am depressed but getting out of it. I am on Lorazepam for the anxiety. Since his death I have had a little discomfort almost right on the bottom part of the left rib. If I stand or lay down absolutely […]

Hi Doctor, in july I underwent a radical procedure where my inguinal nerve was cut without my prior consent.
I am wondering if it is possible for a neurologist to get back in there and reconnect it? and if so is there any deadline from the surgery for it to remain a posibility?
Thank you.
Doctor Sinuhe […]

I was in a bad car accident 15 months ago and still have burning and tingling in my left arm down to my thumb and shoulder pain. Two orthopaedic dr’s said nothing wrong with arm and that the only damage to my discs is normal degenerative damage not caused by accident and though an MRI […]

I was wondering if there is any relationship between breast fibroadenomas and spinal hemangiomas. I began having fibrocystic changes and the MRI showed one fibroadenmoa and a second MRI shows two fibroadenomas and a T8 spinal hemangioma. Anything concerning there? There is no follow-up just a mammogram in a year. thanks
Doctor Sinuhe Answers:
Thanks for your […]

My son was in a car accident a few months ago. He had his spleen removed. 6 Broken ribs and puntured lung. Then after a week. His incision got infected. The incision goes past his bellybutton because of exploring the other organs for internal bleeding. So anyway after it was infected they opened the incision […]

I have had neck/back pain since a young child. I am 31 now. I had whiplash from being startled by a spider in June. I started doing Yoga which helped until Sept. when I started having severe muscle cramps in my legs and feet. My hand began to “wobble” back and forth when I would […]

I have been trying to get pregnant for about a year and half and still I have not accomplish that. I talked to my doctor about this problem and my doctor said it was normal because I had a regulated menstrual cycle. Is there anything I can take for my problem I really want a […]

…but sometimes, it just might be a zebra!
Our good moderator YankeeBeckham asked on the forum if I could write about some of the more exotic medical cases that I’ve encountered during my career. He asked me to write a bit about “zebras”. By zebras YankeeBeckham refers to this old medical saying: “When you hear hoofbeats, […]

Dear Dr. Joshua,
I have been experiencing very severe pain starting in my neck, and radiating across my shoulder, down my arm and into my thumb. This started just before Christmas. I have been seeing my Chiropoactor who suggests that I have a “C6 impingement”, but based on my pain level, he suggested I go to […]

Hi Doctor Joshua
please can you give me some advice, Im having a second cranioplasty operation in a few months to fill a defect which I was left with after a tumor removal in 1999 when I was 16. In May last year ( o6) I had a titanium plate fitted to the side of my […]

I had an ECHO done about 2 years ago… it found that I had trace/mild pulmonary regurgitation. Cardiologist reports that it is a normal finding and that it will likely never cause me any issues. I am currently training for my first triathlon. Is it possible that this could limit my performance […]

By way of brief background, I am young (24 year old male), athletic (former personal trainer), do not smoke, use drugs or drink heavily, and have no medical history of any clinically significant illness or injury. I have been taking low doses of Adderall (10mg or less) occasionally for the last 3 years. […]

I am a thirty-five-year-old female who follows an active and healthy lifestyle. However, over the past year and a half, I have been experiencing some symptoms on the right side of my face that concern me: eye discomfort (sensation of pressure and a feeling that something is in my eye), particularly upon waking; eye twitching; […]