Myalgia

After my personal hygiene, I rushed up upstair for breakfast before leaving for my writing class starts at 8:00 am. I ate a small disk of sweet sour pork with a bowl of rice that my mom prepared the night before. My life could have been full of depressed without my mom; she has the answers to everything, like where to find my brand new pair of puma shoes, the TV remote, or even how to cure my hiccups, etc.. When I was young, I was stubborn and a sly kid. I would execute my mom’s requests under her presence, but I 'd rather find a way to get away with it when she was not there. After my severe dengue, I began to obey my mother more. I got dengue because of my stubborn and disobey to my mother. Dengue fever broke out in Vietnam during 2007. The disease was quickly exploded in the city and got many people sick. My department started to announce all the preventions to the people, as my mother did all of them before hand. My family and I cleaned all the little pond of water in the back courtyard after every rainy day. My mom bought 10 pack of mosquito incense, which evicting the mosquitos away. She also set the sleeping net to my bed to keep the mosquitos from biting me. Obviously, I wouldn’t have dengue if I had listened to my mom and stayed away from the dark, and risky areas outside my house. It was Sunday night, and all the kids in the neighborhood were at church to play some traditional games like baby steps, run, and chase, etc… I played hide and seek with friends in a…

The study includes 76 patients who are currently receiving statin therapy and are experiencing myalgias in two or more extremities. They are randomly placed in either a placebo condition or a CoQ10 supplementation condition for three months. Pain questionnaires and visual analog scale (VAS) for assessment of pain intensity are completed at baseline and at monthly visits. The patient’s experience no comparable benefits by taking CoQ10 supplements twice daily. At 1 month, scores in both conditions…

Shingles Diseases time lengths vary, from short periods to more elongated and complicated periods. Thus, understanding the stages of a disease is a way to anticipate post-complications. It is indispensable to perceive the development pathway that a disease takes, as occasionally a disease triggers another disease. For instance, chickenpox incubates the first stage of shingles many years later. Generally, shingles spans several decades, from childhood itchy chickenpox to debilitating complication…

“Myalgia” is the medical term for muscle pain. It is often a symptom of another disease present in the body. It isn't a disease itself. So patients who report having this condition to their doctor have to undergo further testing to determine what the other underlying factors are. The severity and location of the pain both help in the diagnosis too. Once the doctor has all the information that he or she needs, they can make a determination of the specific type of muscle pain that someone has, so…

In the United States, between 2004 and 2012, 27% to 38% of influenza associated pediatric deaths were attributed to IB although it only represented 18-26% of all circulating viruses [2, 5]. About half of these children did not have any known medical conditions. Therefore, IB may contribute to a higher attack rate among children and adolescents, than among adults, and infections may be more severe [1, 4, 5]. An influenza virus infection typically presents as general malaise with fever, headache,…

Allergic reactions to AZA or 6-MP typically occur within two to four weeks of start of therapy, and include fever, skin rash, myalgias, abdominal pain, pancreatitis and toxic hepatitis, which usually resolve with discontinuation of therapy28 -31. Other adverse effects related to the use of thiopurines such as pancreatitis, hepatitis and even myelosuppression may be associated with the low serum level of the TPMT converting enzyme26,27. Nevertheless, treatment intolerance, whose main complaints…

CC: “I feel awful and ache all over” HPI: M.M. is a 19 year old female presenting to the clinic today with complaints of malaise, increased somnolence/fatigue, non-productive cough, fever/chills, headache, and generalized myalgia (7/10). Symptoms began yesterday morning, prior to school, and continued to get worse. Patient drank an energy drink around 7pm yesterday and again this morning to increase her energy but was unsuccessful. She took OTC Tylenol last night for other symptoms with no…

Clinical presentation Acute HCV The incidence of acute HCV infection is about 1/100,000 per year, but this figure is probably an underestimate because it mainly refers to symptomatic patients. Progression to persistent or chronic infection occurs in about three quarters of cases, is influenced by the IL28B genotype, and is associated with chronic hepatitis of a variable degree and with variable rates of fibrosis progression. Only exceptionally does infection clear spontaneously in the chronic…

She stated that she was being treated with a chiropractor for 4 years and responded favorably to chiropractic treatment but it seemed slower than expected. Electrical stimulation therapy was applied over the low back and neck as well as manual therapy over the right shoulder. Treatment plan included spinal adjustment 3-4 regions at the level of C2, C4, T3, T7, L5, and sacrum and chiropractic manipulation to both wrists and shoulders. She was diagnosed with low back pain, pain in thoracic spine,…

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is based on empiric knowledge gained by research outcomes (Chinn and Kramer, 2015). There are pros and cons to EBP in nursing. Some of the greatest benefits are the measureable improvement of outcomes for patients, providers and healthcare agencies (Grove, Burns, & Gray, p. 469, 2013). As new models of care are developed they are most likely based on evidence bases research outcomes that provide proof that changing the current system will create improvements in…