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Dear Dr. Roach: My mother was diagnosed with right frontal lobe meningioma 17 years ago when she was 83 years old. Surgery was successful in that most of it was removed and it was found to be nonmalignant.

Dear Dr. Roach: My doctor recently retired. My new doctor is very concerned about my systolic blood pressure, which was 150. I made quarterly visits to my old doctor, who never had a comment about my pressure numbers.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Is it safe for me to get the COVID-19 vaccine or will getting the vaccine make my tachycardia or other symptoms worse? K.K.

Dear Dr. Roach: I participated in a research study and received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Nov. 30. I have lab-confirmed antibodies.

Dear Dr. Roach: I was sick for two weeks at home with the coronavirus and made a complete recovery. Why wouldn鈥檛 recovering from the virus be at least as good as getting the vaccine? I鈥檝e heard that I鈥檓 probably safe for three to eight months.

Dear Dr. Roach: My daughter-in-law has anxiety attacks. It gets so bad that she ends up throwing up. She has seen a doctor, but so far it has not helped. Can you give her any advice? M.L.

Dear Dr. Roach: I recently had an EKG that showed first-degree heart block and 鈥渋nferior infarct, age undetermined.

Dear Dr. Roach: About two weeks ago, I received the vaccine for COVID-19. By the next day I had a great deal of pain in the shoulder area where the vaccine was administered. For about five days, I could barely lift my arm.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 75-year-old woman who has been suffering from four to five bouts of hot flashes with night sweats (about every two hours from bedtime until morning) since I stopped taking HRT at age 62.

Dear Dr. Roach: You have written about PPIs such as Prilosec, which I have successfully taken for over 10 years to fight a severe case of GERD with a small hiatal hernia.