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Your Good Health: Former drug addict endures pain, fatigue

Your Good Health: Former drug addict endures pain, fatigue

Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檓 in recovery from addiction to opioids, benzodiazepines and cocaine, which I used for up to three years.
H1N1 strain of influenza wallops Island kids, middle-age adults

H1N1 strain of influenza wallops Island kids, middle-age adults

Children and middle-age adults are having a rough ride from the H1N1 influenza virus this year, public health officials say. 鈥淲e鈥檙e definitely seeing the H1N1 virus in both adults and children this year,鈥 said Dr.
Your Good Health: SIBO won鈥檛 go away despite antibiotics

Your Good Health: SIBO won鈥檛 go away despite antibiotics

Dear Dr. Roach: I have been suffering with small intestine bacterial overgrowth syndrome for five years. It started when I was treated for H. pylori with omeprazole. I鈥檝e had two endoscopies, a colonoscopy and lab tests.
Your Good Health: Shots, pills can reduce allergy symptoms

Your Good Health: Shots, pills can reduce allergy symptoms

Dear Dr. Roach: I鈥檝e had allergies my entire life. I started taking allergy shots, and all my symptoms disappeared. I had years of symptom-free springs and falls. Then, a few years ago, the itchy, watery eyes returned, along with other symptoms.
Your Good Health: Family鈥檚 weight problems go beyond diet soda

Your Good Health: Family鈥檚 weight problems go beyond diet soda

Dear Dr. Roach: My family members drink mega amounts of diet pop, including the kids, ranging from age 3 to age 10. All the adults have serious weight problems. They say they have to drink something besides water. What comments do you have? A.H.
The Doctor Game: Groundbreaking discovery by optometrist Sydney Bush overlooked

The Doctor Game: Groundbreaking discovery by optometrist Sydney Bush overlooked

What a sad day for me, and for the world. Dr. Sydney Bush has died. During my 43 years of writing this column, I have never devoted a memoriam to a colleague. But one is needed for Dr. Sydney Bush. In part, I鈥檒l miss his presence.
Your Good Health: Blood-pressure spike could be nerve damage

Your Good Health: Blood-pressure spike could be nerve damage

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband, who is 71 and very active, had squamous cell carcinoma of his mouth a year and a half ago. He had surgery, along with a radical neck dissection.
Your Good Health: Woman, 69, wakes up with numbness in hands

Your Good Health: Woman, 69, wakes up with numbness in hands

Diagnosis can be made with nerve conduction test
Your Good Health: CBD oil risky for anyone on heart medication

Your Good Health: CBD oil risky for anyone on heart medication

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 49-year-old woman who had a massive heart attack in April of this year. My father died of a massive heart attack at 49 when I was three.
Your Good Health: Defining 鈥榗linically meaningful鈥

Your Good Health: Defining 鈥榗linically meaningful鈥

Dear Dr. Roach: In a recent column discussing the use of aspirin, you made reference to the results of a study that were neither 鈥渟tatistically significant鈥 nor 鈥渃linically meaningful.