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Gastroparesis after Nissen Fundoplication.

ajonesy
  • By ajonesy · New reply November 12, 2009
  • 19 replies
  • Has this happened to anyone? Help ...

Bowel Obstruction from J-tube?????

Rodeogrl02
  • By Rodeogrl02 · New reply November 11, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • I had a colonoscopy and an endoscopy this past monday (the colon part because of having severe diarrhea for weeks), then before we started the procedure my dr asked if he could add on an endoscopy last ...

Does Anyone have Aplastic Anemia?

scuba
  • By scuba · New reply November 11, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • Does anyone have aplastic Anemia? Do you know any reason my tongue is white? Dry? I wake up on fire? Face feel numb ...

Pulmanry Problems ??????CONFUSED!!!!!

Rodeogrl02
  • By Rodeogrl02 · New reply November 11, 2009
  • 13 replies
  • I told my neurologist whom I see for dysautonomia that I keep getting really short of breath with very little exsertion, just like walking a few feet or up a few stairs, so she ordered a pulmonary function ...

Still sick

shan789
  • By shan789 · New reply November 11, 2009
  • 19 replies
  • It's been 3 weeks and Jake doesn't seem to getting better. He has been vomiting off and on since his Mickey button, for his cecostomy, was placed. We have been to the Dr. office and ER a lot in the past ...

School = feeling horrible. need advice

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply November 11, 2009
  • 16 replies
  • I go to the University of New Mexico it’s been about a month since I have started my classes and it is HARD I am taking 14 credit hours. I am always worried I will pass out on campus as I almost did ...

Coping with Neurological symptoms

sarahmichelle
  • By sarahmichelle · New reply November 10, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • I am so glad to have found this forum. My illness has turned my life upside down. I'm learning to cope with it and need all the support I can find. Finding this website has helped me not feel so alone ...

Good days & bad days

KAS2008
  • By KAS2008 · New reply November 10, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Since Dec of last year I have learned to define my life, literally, in terms of "Good Day", "Bad Day". Lately the bad day's have way out numbered the good days and it gets hard to keep the faith. With ...

My wife was finally approved for IVIG infusions!

TheVirtualPatient
  • By TheVirtualPatient · New reply November 10, 2009
  • 21 replies
  • After years of Injections and her IgG, A and M being too low, my wife (of 38 years) will start IgG infusions next week. Don't know what to expect other than a long time at the hospital, but it may offer ...

Mastocytosis

Fabulous005
  • By Fabulous005 · New reply November 10, 2009
  • 27 replies
  • I have a question I'm going through some testing to see if I do indeed have any type of mastocytosis, but I started experiencing symptoms and those tan/brown spots a few years ago once I moved to this ...

nerve root sheath tumor

aware
  • By aware · New reply November 10, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • I have been having severe pain in my groin on the right hand side. Was told that it was probably a trapped nerve after an internal operation showed nothing wrong inside. I had an ultra sound done for ...

To: Pain From: Me

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply November 9, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • To: Pain From: Me Well hello pain, you might not want to hear this but you have out-stayed your welcome here in my body. You are the most annoying, agitating, distracting, way to needy, company that I ...

Trying to live with Trigeminal nerve pain after dental trauma procedure ,

BABYTBEAR
  • By BABYTBEAR · New reply November 9, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • The more I read and study , the more I realize I am not alone ,,, I have spent 14 months looking ,begging ,praying , crying, reading and paying for help with no dental insurance or medical insurance ...

I have IGAn . . .

jbon317
  • By jbon317 · New reply November 9, 2009
  • 21 replies
  • this is all so new to me ...

TheraSphere Treatment

clkempf
  • By clkempf · Posted November 9, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • Going to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for TheraSphere treatment to TRY to shrink my 6.7cm tumor in my liver....Has anyone else had this treatment and what were ar are your results??? This is the first major ...

new and not sure where I belong

ember
  • By ember · Posted November 9, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I was sent here from another forum. I have body wide twitching for 13 years. I see a specialist in movement disorders. I am 52. Tegretol seemed to help, but my white count dropped to low and had to stop ...

RND and Yoga

zanypaws
  • By zanypaws · New reply November 8, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • My daughter is 13 and has Reflex Neurovascular Dystrophe. Is there anyone out there with this condition that has had success or not with Yoga? I feel like I'm spinning my wheels ...

"HYPOKALEMIA OR LOW POTASSIUM"

mandyblue
  • By mandyblue · New reply November 8, 2009
  • 32 replies
  • I want to share this research information in "My Journal". This is a very long collection of articles, that explains in great detail, about Hypokalemia or Low Potassium. It is for anyone who needs help ...

TRIGEMINAL NEUROPATY (NERVE DAMAGE)

Gary1970
  • By Gary1970 · New reply November 7, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • I am currently 39 years of age and until just after my 37th birthday I was free from any type of nerve pain. In March 2007, I caught a viral infection which essentially after a week attacked my right ...

Cancer has returned

bizzyfingers2009
  • By bizzyfingers2009 · New reply November 7, 2009
  • 31 replies
  • The fight is not over yet...Started back on chemotherapy 10/05. Carboplatin and Taxol. The road is long, and bumpy but I will make the trip ...

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