Thursday 28 August 2014

Worried After Evacuation

Worried After Evacuation
Dear Dr,
Please make this inquiry confidential and  reply me through this email address. Some time ago, I had an evacuation which was about two weeks old, but later on when I see my period I do feel a deep pain from inside my vagina. Of recent, the pain is getting mild; I really want to know if it is not an infection or something I do not know. Secondly, I used to feel pains when moving my eyeballs, this is usually accompanied with a headache. Doctor, I need you to shed more light on these. Thank you.
Worried lady.
 
Dear Worried Lady,
Simply go back to the person who did your evacuation-- I hope he's a doctor and not a quack?-- and complain.  He's the only one who can tell. As for me I think you have some sub-acute infection --perhaps you did not follow up on antibiotics you needed to use after your procedure? It is important to go and sort this out because such infections as we are talking about can damage your tubes and fertility. Hurry. Before we go, proper knowledge of fertility --what we call fertility awareness will help you from having to do evacuations or remove your own unborn babies by yourself before they are born. Go to www.mediamedix.blogspot.com to read articles on fertility awareness-- how to be sure you do not get pregnant and for that matter also, how to be sure you have a good chance to get pregnant. As for your headache and eyeballs, go see a doctor and have him check you for typhoid fever or some mild salmonellosis. The symptoms you complain of tend to be associated with this milder form of infection with Salmonella which is the generic name of the germ that causes typhoid fever.
Cheers

Thursday 14 August 2014

Scanty Bleeding--Why?

Scanty Bleeding--Why?

Dear Doctor,
I am a girl of 23. It happens that since April this year that I have been experiencing another scanty drops after my normal menstrual flows. I have consulted my family doctor and explained this to him, he then asked me some questions that goes thus * Have you been using fingers on yourself? * Have you been using contraceptive pills?* Has your finance been using force on you? * And so on. But my answer to all of the above was "NO" Though I have a fiance, but due to the fact that he is not residing in the same state with me, I don't have sex regularly, and while having sex we use condom unless during my free periods because we don't want to have a baby until we wed. Meanwhile he advised me to go and run a scanning test to know whether there is injury in my womb or something like that, I did so but the result yielded "NO" significance including the size of my vaginal passage. Since then I've been noticing it but not on regular basis. Please doctor, could you suggest the course or the solution to this problem so that it will not cause any harm to me during my pregnancy? Thank you sir,
Sally Ima, Enugu

Dear Sally,

Any lady can have the complaints you have -- small amounts of bleeding from the vagina outside the normal menses. Some call it bleeding twice a month also. We call it spotting -- the woman sees no more than spots of blood on her pants, outside the normal menstrual period. It is an important topic in female health; so all ladies, listen attentively. I will mention a dozen-odd conditions that can cause this condition --but I will divide them into(the first six)ones that are harmless and those(latter six) that are injurious 1.Pregnancy is the first thing to consider -- some women tend to have hormonal imbalances even in pregnancy that make them bleed in a funny way that confuses everybody--so much so, a times that no one knows whether or not they are pregnant 2.Ovulation -- some ladies have some amount of spotting as a sign of their ovulating 3.Use of Estrogen Contraceptives; 4.Stoppage of Estrogen Contraceptives; 5.Ovarian Cyst 6.Nothing the matter -- and it will not last more than 3 times.7Infection; eg Chlamydia;8.Cancer of the Ovary; 9.Cancer of the uterus; 10.Cancer of the Cervix; 11. Peri-menopause; 12.Menopause See a gynecologist/good doctor. Call the help-lines Cheers