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Thursday, October 30, 2003
Common warning signs you shouldn’t ignore
By Darlington Hart, MD
SPECIAL TO THE POST
Chest pains: This is one
complaint that every health
professional takes seriously
because it is one major indi
cator of significant heart dis
ease in people at risk. Even
though there are many
harmless causes of chest
pains, it is vital to have chest
pains that follow the pattern
hsted below checked out.
1) chest pains that won’t go
away.
2) Chest pain in men over
40 years who smoke and
have a family history of heart
disease.
3) Chest pain in women
who are menopausal.
4) Chest pain that is associ
ated with difficulty breathing
or dizziness.
5) Any chest pain that rep
resents a source of an anxiety
and rmcertainty.
While the. above is not an
exclusive list of dangerous
characteristics of chest pain,
call us or your doctor if any of
the above applies to you.
Don’t assume you are not at
risk, because what you don’t
know CAN hurt you.
Available diagnostic tests to
better evaluate the soruce of
an uncertain chest pain
include but are not limited to:
EKG’s
Stress test
Chest x-ray •
Spirometer
Left heart catheterization.
If necessary, CT scan of the
chest
Fatigue (feeling tired):
Have you been tired all the
time, feeling Eke you have no
energy or hke you are not get
ting enough rest? Well if you
are, don” t just pass the
symptoms off as signs of too
much work or stress. Fatigue
can be the result of more seri
ous disease conditions like:
I) Hypothyroidism; that's
when the thyroid gland is not
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son in their lives.”
"When I first heard about
this group, I thought, 'What?!
Mocha Moms?’” Morrison, a
professor of creative writing
at Princeton University, says
with a laugh.
"Then I thought that, with
out having the name or orga
nization, it was so much like
what we had to do when I
was young, when there were
children, and having to work
or not work and being so
dependent on each other.”
Right now, the kids are
back home with dads and
baby sitters. Some women
live nearby and either
walked here or rode the sub
way. One, Adrienne Foster
from Detroit, flew in for one
night. "I got a cheap ticket. I
was lucky. I just had to be
here,” she says.
Morrison’s new book
explores many kinds of love:
romantic love, parental love,
love as desire, as control, as
obsession, as connection.
The mothers have prepared
most carefuUy for this talk,
marking up their texts and
huddling together to compare
notes before Morrison’s
arrival. "She’s a little comph-
cated initially, but after a
while, you get used to her,”
says Cathy Haynes, a mother
of three from North
Brunswick, New Jersey.
Morrison, dressed casually
in a fight blue blouse and
dark slacks, her long gray
hair intricately braided,
serves today as both artist
and sage. Divorced since
1964, the author herself has
two grown sons, Slade and
Harold, whom she raised
alone while working by day
as an editor at Random
House and at night on her
own books.
"She seems to understand
the breadth and depth of life,”
Foster says. "She has such a
well-rounded picture of rela
tionships and how they func
tion. ... We can take what she
has written and apply it to
our own fives.”
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producing enough hormone
to keep your body metabo
lism up. Get your thyroid
blood levels checked
2) Anemia (Low blood):
Women with heavy menstru
al flow may be losing-more
blood than their body can
replace and soon become
anemic. They are pale
appearing and have no
appetite. They crave ice and
usually are always tired.
Older people who are slowly
bleeding can have this hap
pen to them as well. As part
of your check-up ask your
doctor for a blood coimt.
3) Sleep apnea: Some peo
ple (usually overweight) have
episodes of sudden Apnea
(they stop breathing) spells
at night so they never quite
get a good nights sleep. They
are always tired and sleepy
and they may even have
headaches and high blood
pressure. These individuals
should have a sleep study
done. Call us or your doctor
to arrange for one if your
spouse or significant other
notices that you snore heavi
ly at night and have apneic
speUs.
4) Kidney failure: Most peo
ple who have weak kidneys
first complain of poor
appetite and lack of energy.'
The kidney condition is first
diagnosed through a routine
blood test.
5) Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome: In some people no
one can find any reason for
their persistent tiredness
and lack of energy. After sev
eral months of continuous
fatigue and low energy they
are diagnosed with the
above. Treatment is usually
difficult and incomplete.
There are many other caus
es of fatigue that cannot be
addressed in this, article. I
strongly urge you to contact
us or your family doctor for a
fall evaluation.
DARLINGTON HART M.D.
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