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I get blisters on my right buttock cheek sometimes 3x a month. Sometimes less, sometimes more. I’m wondering if it’s related to herpes or shingles. It’s always on my right buttock cheek, not the inside, but the outside of the cheek. I don’t have a fever, just the blisters which itch in the first few days. I’ve had a slight cold for the past 10 days, but I’m fighting it with vitamin C and other herbs. I have PKD and polycystic liver disease. My ex-boyfriend had genital herpes, and I found out later about it. Can that appear on my bum cheek? And I get outbreaks very often.
November 4th, 2024
I'm 83 years old, in good health, and take Lisinopril 10 mg once a day for blood pressure, which is in the 120's. I've been prescribed Celebrex 200 mg twice a day for one week for mild neck/shoulder pain. Is this combination safe, and how might it affect my blood pressure?
July 18th, 2024
I've been sick for 2 months with a fever of 102 twice a day, anemia, leukopenia, elevated CRP, and a Klebsiella infection in my urine. I've taken 3 rounds of antibiotics, have headaches, post nasal drainage, nausea, and fatigue. My blood work and other tests are negative, and I have a history of asthma, COPD, and vasospastic heart disease. What could be causing my symptoms?
August 18th, 2023
I had the flu two weeks ago and now I have a fever, body aches, chills, nausea, and chest pain. I'm confused about what could be happening. How long have you had the pain, and what seems to make the pain better or worse? Do you have any other medical history the doctor should know about?
June 6th, 2023
Given the half-life of Tamiflu is 6-10 hours and it takes 4 hours to peak, if you take the worst case (6 hours), it looks like this: 4 hours--at peak, 10 hours--1/2 left, 16 hours--1/4 left, 22 hours--1/8 left, 24 hours--take another capsule, but it will take 4 hours to peak. After 10 hours or certainly after 16, there isn't much left to work with. It's probably why on the non-prophylactic dose they have you take it twice a day. Now, obviously it works pretty well prophylactically, despite this, because of the trials. But since they never tested H2N3 with it, we don't know. I want to believe it'll be okay, but with the H2N3 being more virulent and dividing faster, do you think that when a person takes that second pill, it can kill off around 14 hours of virus? I figure that when there's 14 hours left, the tamiflu is at 1/4 strength, and probably with the H3N2, the virus won't be stopped for that period of time. The question is whether in the 10 hours after taking the 2nd capsule--that is enough to kill off 14 hours of growth?
April 5th, 2023
Are you covered under Unitedhealthcare? My wife has diarrhea and vomiting, and my daughter has had this for 4 days and has been to the doctor. I need to be sure this is covered under Unitedhealthcare.
November 12th, 2024