Dr Le Fanu's online health clinic, Friday 7th March 2014

Dr James Le Fanu photo: PHILIP HOLLIS

Welcome to the latest online clinic for 2014 with the usual mixture of the

intriguing and instructive.

beloved doctor James

1 was diagnosed with Scheuermann’s Disease in 2000. l had a strict schurman

kyphosis ( 96°) Scheuermann’s Disease, the curve was very painful. equally the

curve was very clay, l was well advised that pressure was impairing my heart and

lung function and needed anterior and posterior spinal surgery through my

chest, left spatial relation and back. 1 underwent an 18.5 hour surgery wherever four

titanium rods were inserted to pull the prickle straight and apply it in that respect,

and a screwed fusion through to join the bones together to living the prickle

straight. It is a complex operation and l deliver 40% paralysis from T4 down.

For these reasons, it is not through very ofttimes and the determination needs to be

made very carefully. But, l was well advised that l would probably die within

hexad to 12 months, but given only a 50% gamble of surviving the surgery equally my

eld was 48, which made me the oldest patient to be subjected to this character of

surgery.

in addition to paralysis, l deliver chronic pain, due to the strict nerve

hurt and or a cerebrovascular accident during the surgery. l now undergo Tramadol 100SR x 2,

Oxycontin 20mg x 2 and OxyNorm for breakthrough pain management, l also

undergo a Statin, Omeprazole and Zomig. Is this perilous?

rob reciprocal ohm

beloved rob reciprocal ohm,

Thanks for beingness in hint and your tale of the devastating effect of this

illness and the heroic surgical procedure to right it. 1 would deliver not

deliver that the medicines you are fetching to minimise the pain due to nerve

hurt are ‘perilous’. 1 do, but, curiosity whether the statins that are

well known to cause musculoskeletal pains are essential.

ALAMY

beloved Dr Le Fanu,

1 should be grateful for any advice on curing (not simply relieving)

flatulence, from which 1’ve suffered for nearly two age, after

(successful) radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

1 was also left with bleeding bloodline vessels (radiation proctitis) which

deliver not been really eliminated. The compounding is objectionable!

No suck, doctor or specialist has been able to paint a picture a cure for my

flatulence. john you or any lector avail?

give thanks you,

GH J

beloved g H J,

Thanks for your query. 1 note from an brilliant review of the gut symptoms

pursuit radiotherapy for prostate cancer that ‘sad’ flatulence in

surprisingly frequent (J Andreyev, Lancet Oncology 2007, vol eight, pp 1007-17)

-though why this should be so is not {{cleared|{{enlighten|{shed light

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