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 have a friend that is seriously damaged from a test that went wrong. He went in for a normal eye check at the eye doctors. When putting liquid eye drops to dilate his pupils, he has never recovered. His vision is some what of a prism effect. He has horrible headaches and there are […]

Fibromyalgia, possible multiple sclerosis symptoms?
I am a 36 year old female diagnosed with fibromyalgia, degenertive disc disease, and osteoarthritis. I have had tingling and numbness from my right knee down through my toes. The numbness is so bad I can not walk or drive a car. I have also has muscle twitching (it looks like […]

This is a question concerning my father who is 74. He was he said accidentally elbowed in the side of the head when 2 of my younger brothers got into a fight. Since that time (over a year he wouldn’t admit he had a problem but it is getting worse) he has almost […]

Last year I had three unruptured aneurysms successfully embolised (I have never had an SAH my aneuryms were found completely by accident during an MRI scan which was carried out as I had had an episode of Bells Palsy from which I made a full recovery and also some ear pain and my ENT […]

I’m considering having lasik surgery done as I would reallyl like to live without having to wear glasses all the time. What I would like to know is how do I go about finding a quality laser eye surgery clinic, are there any reviews or independent rankings available?
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
When considering refractive surgery, first go […]

I am a 44-year-old woman who has been in good health except for increasingly heavy and painful periods. In June 2004 I experienced severe pelvic pain and had a laparoscopy and appendectomy. The pathology report on the appendix showed microscopic endometriosis. In December 2005 I experienced pelvic pain severe enough that I went to the […]

In October I was diagnosed with MGUS (Monoclonal Gammopathy of undetermined significance);
I have been evaluated for Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis (had an apparent “false-positive” biopsy for Amyloidosis). In the last six weeks I have developed a twitch in the muscle under my left eye (in the “baggy” area below the eye and just above the […]

I am an electrician and also do machine shop type work. I am 55 years old, male. In the course of my work I some how got a piece of grit embedded in my left eye near the outer edge of the iris. It is clearly visible and is very irritating. I have tried to […]

My 9-month old was born a month early. On her right eye she can’t move completely to her right side. When
she was born her eyes where fine. It all happened within a month.
Please give advice on what to do. What type of eye movements to do.
 
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
 
This is called abducens palsy, it is a […]

I am a 34-year-old woman and I don’t care to eat vegetables much. I know that they are vital to my health, so I began taking some vitamin supplement that claim to give all the nutients that fruits and vegatable provide. After about 2 weeks of taking them, I noticed that my eye lids got […]

Xanthelasma, high cholesterol
I have white pockets of cholesterol build up on my eyelids. Is there away to get rid of these other than with laser surgery.
 
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
They are called xanthelasma and can be a sign of high cholesterol. They may reappear even after surgical removal. You definitely need to have your blood lipids measured, […]

Hi I was wondering if i was eligible for contacts… i had retinal detatchment surgery on my RIGHT eye and am practically almost blind on that eye. Glasses or anything else wont help on that eye but i do wear glasses. My left eye is fine and i wear the same strengh for glasses on […]

C. asks about
eye twitching:
I have had a twitch
in the top lid of
my right eye for
almost a month now,
and i was
wondering
if it could be
anything medical. 
it isnt constant,
but it does go on
for most of the day. 
it doesnt seem to
affect my sleep,
but it is very
annoying.

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