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I have developed a sweat rash or eczema on the inside right arm elbow area and get tiny lumps on my outside ar elbow area. I wear a t-shirt most days with a nylon parker which I can sweat in as this...
Who can have the shingles vaccination? Shingles vaccination is offered routinely as part of the NHS vaccination programme for people aged 70 or 79. The first people to have the vaccine will be those...
For many years now I have suffered from very high blood pressure and have been on Ramipril and Synvastatin to reduce it, When I went to my local GP here in Wales to register he wanted to do a check-up...
They managed to squeeze me in at ENT yesterday afternoon. VCM consisted of a camera up my nose and down my throat and me repeatedly having to say eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. (I sounded like a Geordie lol). A...
Can you tell me what vocal chord mapping entails and what exactly will the ENT consultant do? Thanks. (Apologies to all those who have a problem with FAO posts. I shall go off now and thrash myself...
I've had a vitrectomy for a macular hole and the good news is that, at the 3-week check-up, the hole has closed (and without my having to lie on my stomach for 7 days - I think they've realised that...
I have been told that some of the smartphones/iphones have an app (or whatever) so you can actually read live text as someone is speaking to you (maybe including movies?). I wonder if anyone on AB is...
had a hospital appointment,annual check-up re heart,2 apts. 1 ecg,then to see doc,but 2nd canceled as doc off sick,so got to come home early,as driving courtisy car,as mine in for repair
After being excessively tired, weak and enduring stomach cramps for a few weeks I went to my doctors. My glands were also swollen. I wad told that I probably had a virus and to take paracetamol. I was...
In August this year I phoned my GP about pains in the upper chest and down my right side. I was advise to call 999 and ambo men did the obvious ECG and found heart OK (phew!). Took me to A&E and was...
going about again, I know last year there was one called nuro virus or something similar doing the rounds is it the same one that's going about again now
Further to last weeks post http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1287357.html Results just back (comfortably before sqad's prediction of 'Christmas') - "no lesions or evidence of any...
I must be getting on peoples nerves with my paranoid self!. Im so sorry.. I had my blood taken on tuesday. Just wondering.. although the doctors ive spoken to dont believe it to be anything sinister....
Hello strangers! About 3 weeks ago I slipped on a wet wooden floor and went flying, smashing down on my right knee. The pain was excruciating. Now even though I can walk about and bend it perfectly...
In the last five years my husband has had two biopsies to check for prostate cancer due to having raised PSA levels, the last one just over a year ago. He has now had another blood test and his PSA...
Had a tooth break last new year,had a sort of filling,which came out a few months later,ended up having crown fitted + root canal(which I've now been told wasn't fully done)had anti-biotics then,that...
Sorry to bother you yet again. Bit of advice, my Mum was admitted to hospital last Monday the Docs have confirmed today that she has Bacterial MenIngitis. I've been visiting and feeding her etc. Would...