Blood & Blood Vessel (Vascular) Disorders

The basic types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatics. Their main goal is to keep blood flowing to all of your vital organs. Here, you can discuss topics related to blood disorders (anemia, blood cholesterol, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, polycythemia vera, sepsis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, thrombosis) and blood vessel disorders (arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneurysm, vasculitis, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, lymphedema).

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AVM SURVIVOR HAS NEWLY FORMED FACIAL CYST/LUMP

My God daughter had a large AVM removed two years ago, in the right frontal lobe of her brain. 6 embolizations were necessary to remove the AVM. The sugery was sucessful, although she continues to have frequent eyeaches and headaches, partial vision loss, and occasional word lapses. Five days...

by LESLIE24952 over a year ago

over a year ago by LESLIE24952

blood comes from mouth every morning

Doc, a pleasant days, I am asking about, if the bloods come out from the mouth every morning, it is happen when I was taking a cefelexin medicine, I take that medicine because my tooth ache, then I take cefelexin four times a day cefelexin 500mg, after that when I wake up in the morning I had a...

by rodelio over a year ago

over a year ago by rodelio

renaulds syndrome

I would appreciate if someone would describe me renaulds syndrome. Is it more often with women or men. What is the treatment?

by morrill1244 over a year ago

over a year ago by Guest

Maternal Blood Test Might Reveal Fetal Health

Researchers from Hong Kong report that they have found a potential new way to differentiate the mother’s and the fetus’s DNA in a maternal blood plasma sample. This new finding may lead to a maternal blood test that could reveal health problems in an unborn child. Only about 3 percent of DNA in...

by simone2593 over a year ago

over a year ago by simone2593

tiredness, fatigue

Answered by a doctor

Hi! I am worried about my husband's health. For these past few months (approx 8mths), he has been complaining of tiredness and not enough sleep. He has high blood pressure (170+). What cause him to feel tired always? He is also the type where he cannot stay up too late at night (About 2am). Is...

by xue over a year ago

over a year ago by Lori2592

If it normal to see your external jugular vein pulse whens standing?

Thank you first off. I noticed that when I am standing and I look in the mirror where my external jugular vein is I can see a faint pulse coming from it only at the bottem of my neck. I have pale skin and If I look hard I can almost see the vein pulsing. Is this normal for your jugular vein to be...

by Billytogan115919 over a year ago

over a year ago by manna115927

cholesterol and blockages

I have problems with cholesterol. On my last check my doctor warned me about possible cholesterol blockages in blood vessels and possible stroke. He said I have to take it seriously…that scared me I admit. Anyway I was recommended to try with exercising. Is this going to do any good?

by schlechter190 over a year ago

over a year ago by Guest

Raised white blood cells

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I recently had the symptoms of fatigue, drowsy, naeuseua, and all the things u feel with a hang over, aching bones, I had what I thought was tonsilitus and raised glands over and over again and kept Being prescribed antibiotics, it didn't go, my doctor decided to do a full blood check and it...

by daisy over a year ago

over a year ago by daisy

increasingly high white blood cells

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I was just wondering if a person was to have some form of parathyroid problem, could this cause the white blood cells to be extremely high and continuing to rise ?

by emma over a year ago

over a year ago by medic-dan109453