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).

Carotiditis or atypical migraine

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Hello does anyone know what this is? initially I was told I had trigemminaneuralgia but today I have been told it is carotiditis, often found in post menopausal women, when the pain comes deep inside my ear it is transient , severe & like a bonfire !! It stops & starts several times a minute...

by Guest over a year ago

Bulging of Left Eye accompanied with severe pain and high Blood Pressure

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My wife feels that her left eye is bulging out since past one and a half year or so. She is feeling some kind of intraocular pressure. It is accompanied with severe pain somewhere in the interior of the eye. Also she always feels dizziness and often she is complaining of high BP and sudden surge in...

by toxickaushik300103 over a year ago

Sometimes when I'm walking home and it's cold, I would be so ho

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Sometimes when Im walking home and its cold, I would be so hot.. My family likes it hot inside the house but when it is hot, I get very sweaty and cant breathe sometimes (I have asthma). But I dont think my family like the house to be cold. At night I wear shorts and a tank and my family wears alot...

by Chelsey over a year ago

I have high blood pressure for 4 or 5 days about 140/100 .i am anemia patient

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HELLO, i am 32 year old .i have high blood pressure for 4 or 5 days about 140/100 .i am anemia patient after 28 or 29 year .i feel so headitch an vomiting. i am so worried about me so i want to help u ..thank u .

by saima nasir over a year ago

broken blood vessels on my back seem to be getting worse it started earlier in the year

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hi i have broken blood vessels on my back they look like bruises i couldn,t see them obviosly it was my partner n freind that noticed it my skin at the top of my back feels tight and my partner looked horrified tonite when he looked at my back and says my god they look worse which frightened me a...

by Guest over a year ago

High WBC and other symptoms

Hi all...maybe someone can suggest something for me. Over a year ago I was diagnosed with Barrett Esophagus, having stomache pain/issues this whole time and nothing seemed to be helping. I have also been getting Migraines since I was 5 years old, I am now 27. Not sure if the headaches have...

by crystalreed28256034 over a year ago

high blood pressure, anxiety, sleep deprivation

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Hi.. I am less than a week of being 18 years old, and I feel like I need to find answers. My mother is 40 years old. Almost three weeks ago, she started having extreme headaches for about 4 days in a row. I was gone with my grandmother on trip in California and my mom did not tell me a thing for...

by j_fig18 over a year ago

what can I do when this brain fog occurs?

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My daughter Samantha is 16 and we recently found out what she has been suffering from is POTS. After 3 years of systems and numerous doctors, and 2 hospital stays at the Childrens Hospital in Milwaukee, we know. On her 1st visit to the hospital she recieved a feeding tube, Sam had a hard time...

by Concerned mom over a year ago

why dis happens to me????

i just wanna ask dat what is happening to me ...i m 14.... when i sit for long then after time i stand so i starts fainting and my head pain and i feel lyk vomiting..... everythng is black in front of my eyes ...and after 10 sec its all rite ... sumtime i felt difficuly in breathing ...specially...

by asra rao237137 over a year ago

Fibroid Embolization

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I had a fibroid that was the size of a canolope and it have been in me for 20 years and am perimenoposal now and my gyn told me that I needed to have a hystorectomy, so I ask him was there any other ways to remove other then surgery and he yes Fibroid Embolization but I would half to be a canadate...

by Michele over a year ago