Open Question: Medical Professionals, I have mild anterior hypoperfusion on exertion, is that very dangerous?
I have recently had an MPS which was positive on ECG, I am a reasonably fit 64 year old, but worry a fair bit, I have recently gone on to BP tabs, but are having no chest pains now on exertion. I cannot see the Cardiologist until the end of August, and am worried that I could have a stroke or something, the report also stated I have underlying heart disease, is there a cure? Thanks folks.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:59:41 GMT

Open Question: i have a question about a heart murmur?
i went to the doctors for my checkup, and they said i had a heart murmur adn are sending me to a cardiologist to make sure its for sure. im getting an echo. what exactly is an echo?
like what do they do? ( i like to know what doctors do before it happenes to me)
adn if i do have one, what will i most likely have to do to treat it?
ps:im 14

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:57:49 GMT
Open Question: I recieved a “C” for the first semester of P.E., willl that affect my chances of getting into a U.C. campus?
That grade (of which I am totally ashamed of) was earned just this past school year (my sophomore year of high school) and was earned due to well…life. You see my little brother, only 11 years of age, had to be put on life support because of a devastating disease. It was literally a life or death situation for him, and because of him and his phantomous condition my grades suffered, for my mind was always with him. But I digress, now I am normally an above average student. With grades ranging from B’s (very few) and many A’s, to a few A ’s. But I ALWAYS earn A’s in P.E and am always the most active and willing in P.E. I had P.E. as a first Period. I chose to have P.E. as a first period because that would open up space for an extra class in my schedule. Our school’s schedule operates with a 4×4 routine. Meaning we have our fist block (first 3 classes) on one day, and our other block (last 3 classes) the next day, every block meeting every other day. But since I chose to have a first period (P.E.), I would have P.E. EVEYDAY! I am noting this only because I want to emphasize on how disastrous it would be to be absent from a first period class I have every day versus the rest of my classes I have on my every other day block schedule. Back to the topic, Now for the first quarter of the year I had earned an A in P.E. (keep in mind this is before my brother got sick)along with A?s in almost all my other classes (I had earned a B in an advanced math class) and for the second quarter I had earned an F in P.E. (sigh..it hurts to even type that…I had earned an F). Now it was during the beginning of the second quarter that my brother’s life took a turn for the worst, along with my grades. Meaning I missed a lot of school and whenever I actually was in school I was miserable and lost. That lead to me doing very poorly. By the time second quarter progress reports came around I saw grades and comments I had never seen before in my life. D?s and F?s along with comments like ?attendance affecting grade? and ?achieving below ability?. I was so worried about the further amount of stress and worry my parents would obtain that I decided not to show them my progress report and hide it away. I knew they had enough worry going on in their lives. Prior to the actual 2nd quarter report cards coming out I was missing more and more in school and was completely perplexed. It was toward the end of the second quarter, and my parents received my 2nd quarter report card and they were completely shocked at the grades they saw with the same comments as before (?attendance affecting grade? and ?achieving below ability?)?.but they knew the cause of me receiving the grades that I did. They knew that my brother and what was going on with him played a big part on my mind, and with that they told me I was not to see my brother again for a while and that I would have to focus all my attention to school. And with them saying that I decided to take action once and for all?but the very next day on the way to school?my mother, little sister, and I were involved in a car accident. They had minor cuts but I had received a dislocated rib and after a one day stay at the hospital I had been told by my doctor not to perform physical activity in P.E. for a while. He had also given my a P.E. excusal slip of which I gave to my P.E. teacher and with that I thought I would use the normal time I spent in P.E. to spend time making up tests and what not in my academic classes (classes I thought really meant something in your record). So with that I had managed to elevate my D?s and F?s to A?s, but at the expense of missing P.E. but I had just thought my excusal form would justify that. Again, once second quarter report cards came out I had received an F in P.E. which averaged to a C for the first semester. Now that was a definite eye opener! For when I spoke with my P.E. teacher in regards to the grade, she said that even though I had the P.E. excusal form I would still need to attend the class each day, every day. Scared of the C I had earned in P.E. as the FIRST SEMESTER grade, I had taken her words to heart and worked to earn an A for both the third and fourth quarters and thankfully earned an A for the second semester. WOW! This is far longer than I had wanted/expected it to be! All in all, without going into even more details on how the P.E. teacher was really unfair ( for she said I could go out and make up work in other classes as long as I turn in thesis reports which I had turned in to her every week) etc. Can I still get into a U.C. campus in spite of the C I had earned in P.E. for the first semester of this past school year? Please help preferably from U.C. experts/Students of U.C. campuses, I am very worried about this grade.
P.S.:
* I go to a high school in California
* I have already explained myself to the school counselor and Vice principal and although they both agreed with me, they said they couldn?t do anything about it for the teacher?s word is final.
* WTD 10-12 GPA is 3.6700
* Total WTD GPA is 3.7100
Thanks in advance (your answer/advise truly means a lot) to all who answer.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:17:41 GMT

Resolved Question: do you like the raven?
this is my favorite poem i want to know what you think of it
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.’
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,’
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,’ said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you’ - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!’
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!’
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,’ said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
‘Tis the wind and nothing more!’
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.’
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.’
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,’ said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of “Never-nevermore.”‘
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.’
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,’ I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:21:38 GMT
Open Question: Cardiac Sounds??
I wanna know if there is a place where I can hear heart sounds of healthy hearts, and ones with diseases, Thank you!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:59:28 GMT

Open Question: Should Hong Kong government provide more funding for the sick peoples in Hong Kong, no.5 most expensive city?
Hong Kong is facing the severe health problems for many of the citizens, the air pollution caused diseases of asthma, heart and lungs and, particularly the alzheimer’s many family can’t afford to take care. Many of my friends’ parents (either one or both) are experiencing the difficulty of socializing and do their own daily things alone. It is recorded with more than 80,000 Hong Kong senior citizens are being suffered with one kind of alzheimer’s diseases. My buddy Fred’s father was reported missing in May 2007 during his short distance walk for buying two pastry in Kowloon and disappeared since then and the police can’t recover him alive or dead. I rather concern about the inadequate funding from the government which is about HK$58,000 per year in the old age care home. The reason of why Fred took his father from the special care home because the total cost is more than HK $107,000 per year for the acceptable and safe treatment. Many families can’t afford to pay thier bills.
The more severe health problem for the many in Hong Kong is the air pollution caused chronicle diseases of asthma, heart and lungs. The Li Ka Shing Medical centre of University of Hong Kong has recorded there were 10 million clinical visits in 2007 for the treatment of asthma, heart and lungs diseases. Hong Kong has a total populaton of 7 millions. However, most of Hong Kong senior citizens can afford to look after themselves after contracting the air pollution related diseases. It is very difficult to look after themselves after contracting the one or more of the chronicles. Many concerned citizens are keep on negotiaging with the unconcerned Hong Kong government and the legislators to provide more money to the more than 10% of the total senior citizens are currently contracted with the alzheimer’s. It endangers the lives of the 10% of Hong Kong senior citizens. There are more than 3,000 had died of Hong Kong foul air caused diseases in 2007. Government should provide more money.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dementia/AZ00003
http://www.google.com.hk/search?complete=1&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&as_qdr=all&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=The+alzheimer%27s+disease&spell=1

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:46:37 GMT
Open Question: Taurine supplements for cats?
My kitten has a heart murmur. I’ve read that extra taurine can help. Any ideas on if there are supplements?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:43:10 GMT

Open Question: Are heart murmurs bad?
my doc said i have a heart murmurs is that bad?

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:32:46 GMT
Open Question: A Herpetic Dilemma…?
To start off, let me say that my boyfriend has both Hsv-1 and 2. I’m going to assume that they’re each in their proper place, but I’m not even sure if he knows that.
He hasn’t had an outbreak, but he does getting a tingling sensation on his inner thighs, sometimes.
I personally think he should be re-tested, because isn’t their always room for error? He was diagnosed via a blood test.
Assuming he does have it, so far he has been fairly asymptomatic. He tells me all the time that he doesn’t want to hurt me, and it’s obvious that he sees himself as diseased and defective (breaks my heart to see that).
If we were to ever decide to be intimate…what form of prevention would work? I know from research that condoms don’t prevent it, and hell..he used a condom and got it anyway. My main concern would be the inner thigh thing, I guess.
I care very much about him and I don’t intend to let this ruin things nor do I want it to dictate anything.
Oh…Another thing I’m concerned about would be the HSV-1 getting in/around my eyes since it can cause blindness. :[ but that has nothing to do with vanity.
he’s not on valtrex or any antiviral meds, though I have mentioned them to him. To him prevention is abstinence, or so it seems. But, I don’t think that’s the asnwer either.
*Please don’t copy a bunch of crap from wiki telling me what herpes is. I obviously know what it is.*

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:31:06 GMT

Open Question: Heart murmurs?
Hi, my daughter was born with a heart murmur and the 1st pediatrician who ever saw her said it was fine and that she’d probably grow out of it.Well for a while i thought she had already grown out of it because the doctors never mentioned it.Now she is 5 and she just went to her pedis for a physical and he said he detected a heart murmur that he had never heard b4 which makes me question his judgement since she was born with one.He then started talking about xrays etc…and this scared me.I am kind of freaking out.Is he just taking proper precautions??

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:25:09 GMT

Open Question: What heart disease/problems don’t show on EKG?
plz tell all u know. thanks

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:56:39 GMT

Open Question: do you like the raven?
this is my favorite poem i want to know what you think of it
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.’
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,’
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,’ said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you’ - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!’
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!’
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,’ said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
‘Tis the wind and nothing more!’
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.’
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.’
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,’ said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of “Never-nevermore.”‘
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.’
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,’ I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:21:38 GMT
Open Question: get off the grass you Christians, Hitler was a Christian.?

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:05:11 GMT

Open Question: what are the most common diseases of the heart?
what are the most common diseases of the heart that contributes in the leading causes of morbidity in the Philippines?

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:59:55 GMT

Open Question: Too Strong Septum?
My doctor thinks my septum may be to strong. She said my heart has a slight murmur. It also makes a clicking noise. But Im a college soccer player, am I still at risk for heart problems?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:27:10 GMT