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Dear Dr. Roach: My son (early 40s) has been romantically involved with a woman (early 30s) for the past two years. She has always been underweight, but seems to be in good health.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 95 years old, and have been suffering from a very painful case of shingles. I take many medicines for pain, and for high blood pressure and glaucoma.

I鈥檓 sure many readers love to travel. I do, too. After all, travel is associated with fun, education and happy times. No one intentionally leaves home to have a bad time.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have talked to numerous doctors about my problem, but no one has an answer, and most don鈥檛 take it seriously. I have a terrible taste in my mouth all the time. Often it is so bad that it makes me gag and choke.

Dear Dr. Roach: My wife, who is 72, has had a horrendous number of surgeries in her life. After one, she had her first complication, delirium and hallucinations that lasted for days.

Dear Dr. Roach: I love salt, although I know it is dangerous to eat a lot of it. To compensate, I visit the steam room for a half-hour every day and sweat, which also causes me to drink plenty of water.

Dear Dr. Roach: Every year and a half to two years, someone in our house gets a sinus infection. We are in our mid-60s, and it is always a fight with our doctor to get antibiotics to cure it.

Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檓 a 65-year-old male. For the past five years or so, I have been losing the hair on my legs.

Mark Twain once remarked, 鈥淕et your facts first, then distort them as you please!鈥� Facts are easy to distort in medicine, particularly when talking about coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10).

Dear Dr. Roach: I had surgery last year to remove my spleen and three-quarters of my pancreas. I had numerous vaccines before and after the surgery.