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Dear Dr. Roach: I love fish and chips. I eat them once a month. I have tuna and other fish throughout the month as well. Quite often, the fishy odours linger for days until all remnants have left my body.

Dear Dr. Roach : Regarding urine collection in boot camp, I had the same experience in the fall of 1962. As I remember the story, after a few weeks in 鈥渃aptivity,鈥� our systems were cleaned out and our urine had medical value.

Dear Dr. Roach : Is there anything that I could take for an enlarged prostate that would allow me to donate blood? I have been trying saw palmetto and pygeum. M.J.C.

Dear Dr. Roach : I am conflicted about getting a shingles shot. When I was young, I had a mild case of chickenpox. Last year, I contracted a mild case of shingles. I had decided previously not to get the Zostrix shot.

What a sad, thought-provoking photo, published in the Globe and Mail newspaper. It shows Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, unable to stand. You can see the terrible frustration and pain on his face.

Dear Dr. Roach: Several months ago, you had an article in the paper about an 82-year-old man who had a constipation problem. You mentioned a couple of medications to take.

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband is physically fit and works out daily through biking, elliptical trainer, playing hockey, working outside, etc. He is of appropriate weight, and his cholesterol and sugar numbers are normal, as is his blood pressure.

Dear Dr. Roach: A recent MRI of my internal auditory canals revealed an incidental finding of 鈥渕icroangiographic changes鈥� in the area of the pons.

Dear Dr. Roach: My 89-year-old husband died two years ago, and it has been a great sorrow and puzzlement to me and his family that his death certificate listed the cause of death as Lewy body disease.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 69-year-old male with very low testosterone levels. My doctor started me on a testosterone cream and increased the frequency of application twice, trying to get my testosterone blood levels to 鈥渘ormal鈥� without success.