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will happen to many are that they will make a great recovery or during the recovery process the person recovers from the acute phase of the illness while trying to get back to their everyday life and experiences difficulties. Others have constant headaches, tiredness, memory problems, personality changes, and depression, which are the hidden after-effects they can also…

Have you ever bumped your head and thought it was just a headache? It is very important to be able to recognize a concussion and know what to do, in order to keep yourself safe. A concussion is a complete change in the way your brain works and functions. If you lose consciousness after bumping your head, you should immediately go to the hospital to be observed by a doctor. If you don’t lose consciousness, you may have an instant headache, nausea, loss of memory, or confusion. You may also be…

drinking is 4-5 or 5-6 drinks in a short amount of time. Addiction is having a few drinks every single day. Binge drinking can be once a day, but addiction is way worse. Comparing the 2, binging alcohol can just mean getting very sick the next day or a headache. That’s temporary. Addiction affects all parts of the body and is kind of like smoking; it will take some serious effort to get out of the “spell” and not being addicted. Another name for alcohol addiction is just Alcoholism. Most…

Should Teenage Girls Have The Right to Access Plan B? When people think of birth control they tend to think of all of the harm that it can do to a female’s body, but birth control is not as bad as people make it out to be. A form of birth control that many are probably unaware of is Plan B an emergency contraception. Plan B, also known as the “morning after pill”, is a pill that a woman can take to help prevent pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourses. Other reasons women would use…

Introduction to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when there is a mechanical force that has been applied to the head as it affects the normal functioning of the brain. When looking at what mechanical force is, it call be seen in two ways. The first way comes from a ‘blow to the head’ ‘rapid acceleration-deceleration event’ (Struchen & Clark, 2007). An example of this would be from a car accident. The human brain can become injured with or…

Nandrolone is an anabolic steroid which is used to increase the growth of certain tissues. Athletes would use this enhancing drug to improve their blood’s oxygen-carrying ability. This process would be done by increasing hemoglobin and the size of red blood cells. With this advantage, the athlete would be able to train longer and harder since they would have more amounts of oxygenated blood in their muscles. Athletes who have been injured would also take nandrolone in order to recover quicker.…

One form of treatment is medication. Amitriptyline is one type of medication that treats post-concussion syndrome which includes severe headaches, irritability, dizziness, and depression. Another is topiramate that treats migraines while gabapentin helps people with post-traumatic headaches. Although these medications help people with concussions, no one specific medicine treats every person that has a concussion. In addition to medication, therapy can also…

Tacrolimus toxicity mimicking Progressive Multifocal Leucoencaphalopathy in renal transplant patient ABSTRACT: Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressive drug prescribed to many transplant patients. It has many common side effects include shaking, headache, diarrhea, constipation, nausea/vomiting (N/V), stomach upset, loss of appetite, insomnia, tingling and swelling of the extremities. In kidney transplant patients, 30% or more side effects are infection, HTN, abnormal renal function, constipation,…

Hello Dr. Afrin, Hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving. I hope you don’t mind me reaching out, but I had two questions about symptoms I am experiencing and didn’t know if mast cell was the cause or a contributing factor. I suffer from Mast Cell Activation along with Dysautonmia/Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Gastroparesis, Asthma, and Reflux/GERD. To control everything I take the following meds daily and in emergency situations/as needed. Cromolyn Sodium 100mg/5mL…

measures (Metaxalone, n.d.). There has yet to be an explanation to how metaxalone actually works, but it is said that it may be due to general central nervous system depression. Some adverse effect that metaxalone causes are drowsiness, dizziness, headache, irritability, nausea, vomiting, and upset stomach. Mr. Bear has only felt dizziness from the drug for the first week of taking it. The second drug Mr. Bear was prescribed was 10 mg of cyclobenzaprine in the forms of tablets to take one before…