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IS it normal to be dizzy for cosmetically quite three or four minutes after devastating. Urgent medical waking up and walking attention is required to around? I find it difficult to confirm it’s actually Bell’s shake the feeling and have palsy rather than a stroke. fallen a couple of times. However, in most cases Should I be examined by a recovery is quite rapid. Steroid GP? treatment is often used to

When we sleep, our blood shrink any swelling of the pressure becomes low and it nerve and to help the subsequently rises when we recovery. Follow-up treatment wake, in order to allow us to is required to check that the walk around. A slight feeling eye and mouth function of dizziness can be normal first properly in the long term. thing in the morning. Just try to take your time. You could I have been diagnosed with also give your legs a wee prostate cancer and have shoogle before getting out of been given bicalutamide bed. tablets. What happens now?

Cancer of the prostate I’M 86 and suffer from gland can be treated by dystonia, which leaves me surgery, radiotherapy, unable to speak. I use a salt chemotherapy pipe – is there anything else I injections and tablets can do? or by “watchful

I would recommend waiting” if the conventional therapy from a disease is not speech and language spreading in an specialist to help with older man. communication difficulties. A Biclutamide slows “salt pipe” is a traditional the growth of cancer remedy of breathing in moist by blocking the effects air with a high salt content of the male hormone, similar to that found in testosterone, on the gland. underground caves. It is, Your oncologist will follow up however, unlikely to be of treatment with regular benefit. examination, blood tests and

I have a lump on my wrist that scans if necessary to assess MY partner recently my mum seems to think will

whether there is any further experienced something go away if I hit it with a book.

response. called Bell’s palsy. What is it Will this work? Sounds like and how long will it last? I have been told I have asking for a broken wrist.

This is the condition caused gastroenteritis – what is this A traditional remedy for a when the facial – the seventh and what can help it? ganglion or swelling over a cranial to be precise – nerve is Gastroenteritis literally joint used to be to hit it with a nipped and squeezed on its means inflammation of the large book, typically the journey between the brain gastrointestinal tract which Family Bible. Modern thinking, and the face. This causes a begins at the mouth and ends however, is to leave a one-sided paralysis of the at the anus. Most commonly it ganglion well alone as often it muscles in the face, which is is the term used to describe a goes away naturally.

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