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Your Good Health: Surgery for hernia could be riskier than living with it

Your Good Health: Surgery for hernia could be riskier than living with it

In general, doctors recommend surgical repair for symptomatic hernias, as pain tends to gradually increase.
Your Good Health: Weight gain, tight pants can compress nerves

Your Good Health: Weight gain, tight pants can compress nerves

If numbness and sharp pains persist, it鈥檚 important to redo an exam and make sure of the diagnosis.
Your Good Health: Study on tattoos and lymphoma doesn鈥檛 hold up

Your Good Health: Study on tattoos and lymphoma doesn鈥檛 hold up

Professionally done tattoos have little risk when the aftercare instructions are followed, but there are still some health risks.
Your Good Health: Fosamax an appropriate drug for osteopenia

Your Good Health: Fosamax an appropriate drug for osteopenia

Severe musculoskeletal pain can occur days or months (sometimes years) after starting the medicine.
Your Good Health: For 80-year-old man, urinating is easier after orgasm

Your Good Health: For 80-year-old man, urinating is easier after orgasm

It鈥檚 likely that enlarged prostate is reduced by ejaculation, improving urinary flow.
Your Good Health: Periods not regulated after stopping combination pills

Your Good Health: Periods not regulated after stopping combination pills

Doctor likely stopped pills because women who have migraine with aura are at a much greater risk for having a stroke while on estrogen.
Your Good Health: Can citrus bergamot lower cholesterol levels?

Your Good Health: Can citrus bergamot lower cholesterol levels?

While some report good results, large trials needed to prove fruit extract is a safe, effective way to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease.
Your Good Health: Hormone shots cause terrible hot flashes in 67-year-old man

Your Good Health: Hormone shots cause terrible hot flashes in 67-year-old man

Men can get hot flashes, but only when the male hormones are stopped suddenly and completely, which is typically part of treating a hormone-dependent malignancy, especially prostate cancer.
Your Good Health: Avoid drug for incontinence if dementia is a concern

Your Good Health: Avoid drug for incontinence if dementia is a concern

For approximately a decade, I have been taking trospium for incontinence. I would like to know if long-term usage of it could have an effect on dementia.
Your Good Health: Doctors give conflicting advice regarding calcium supplements

Your Good Health: Doctors give conflicting advice regarding calcium supplements

My primary care physician wanted me to stop taking calcium but my endocrinologist says I should continue. What does one do when doctors give conflicting advice? What are the risks if I continue?