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Your Good Health: Man weighs 84 pounds decades after gastrectomy

Your Good Health: Man weighs 84 pounds decades after gastrectomy

This degree of profound weight loss is very disturbing and usually results in a worse outcome, so effective treatment is overdue.
Your Good Health: Blood pressure fluctuates after quitting meds

Your Good Health: Blood pressure fluctuates after quitting meds

Blood pressure can change from minute to minute, and thinking about something that makes us feel anxious can raise the blood pressure by 20% or more.
Your Good Health: Patient feels ignored when it comes to anesthesia concerns

Your Good Health: Patient feels ignored when it comes to anesthesia concerns

There are several chemically different classes of opioids, so if you have a true allergy, you can get a chemically unrelated alternative.
Your Good Health: Stress tests and calcium score tests are complementary

Your Good Health: Stress tests and calcium score tests are complementary

The tests are ways of evaluating a person for blockages in the arteries of the heart
Your Good Health: Man continues to use nicotine gum after quitting smoking

Your Good Health: Man continues to use nicotine gum after quitting smoking

Adverse effects of nicotine-replacement therapy are relatively minor (such as mouth and throat soreness) compared to smoking (heart disease, cancer).
Dr. Roach: Steroid injections provide relief from shingles pain

Dr. Roach: Steroid injections provide relief from shingles pain

Trial found that intrathecal injections led to excellent or good pain relief
Your Good Health: Epidural injections could provide relief for back, butt pain

Your Good Health: Epidural injections could provide relief for back, butt pain

Surgery has limitations and isn鈥檛 more helpful than physical therapy in most people.
Your Good Health: Woman struggles with constant constipation for many decades

Your Good Health: Woman struggles with constant constipation for many decades

If her doctor thinks she has IBS-C, there are additional effective treatments
Your Good Health: Kidney could be affected by painkiller use

Your Good Health: Kidney could be affected by painkiller use

Daily users of pain relievers should at least get yearly checks on their kidney function.
Your Good Health: Medication might be behind fingernail-splitting

Your Good Health: Medication might be behind fingernail-splitting

Up to 20% of older people will have some kind of brittle nail condition