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Family Medicine
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United States: Texas
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
97 Answers
12 Agrees
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A 20-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
NSAIDS are dangerous: The other doctors answer is corret. More specifically, out of about 7 or so chemically similar grouping in the NSAID class (non steroidal antiinflamma... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Am I pregnant?: There is a simple way to answer this question. Pregnancy is a yes or no situation. There is no maybe, half, or three quarters pregnant... I know that ... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
ENT unless fever: This always need to be drained and the outpatient procedure can be done by an ENT as the er will only want to do this if it is an emergency (airway re... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Doxy or Levaquin (levofloxacin): Common problem with Azithromycin 1000 mg! ask your doctor if you need retreatment if the infection was 6 months ago. Chances are you need to be retes... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Steroids short term!: Corticosteroids (like triamcinalone, mid potency steroid) are amazing drugs and can reduce inflammation very quickly almost miraculously. They are how... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Better Question: It might be helpful for you to better articulate what you mean when you ask what to look for after a hysterectomy. If you are considering having one, ... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Calories are key: All fat is essentially providing the same purpose -- insulation, protection and energy -- so whether you want to lose abdominal, back or buttock fat, ... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Food in Pregnancy: One of the biggest concerns during pregnancy is a bacteria called listeria that is often found in unpasteurized cheeses and spoiled foods. If you have... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Axillary Boil: Usually a "knot" under the arm that is painful, red, warm and growing is a "boil" or glandular abscess. It must be examined and likely incised by a ph... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Tonsillar Enlargment: Its pretty unlikely that 3 ents missed a tonsillar abscess or foreign body, as you can often see this without otolaryngoscopy. Having said that, the s... Read More
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A 58-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Hardened Disc: A "hardened" (medically referred to dessicated) disc that has been surgically treated is not likely to herniate again as the reason for the hardening ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Dark menses: As menstrual blood is retained in the uterus, it darkens even appearing black. You might be having breakthrough bleeding because either (1) your estro... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Posture is important: Sitting at a desk (most office workers) is both unnatural and detrimental to your skeleton. From the neck down to your lower back, the spine is confin... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Stopping BP Meds: It is dangerous to stop a blood pressure medication on your own despite the hypotension that you experienced. Low blood pressure is certainly a side e... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
It can be reversed!: Metabolic syndrome is a name for a group of risk factors that occur together and increase the risk for coronary artery disease, stroke, and type 2 dia... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
De Quervain's: Inflammation of one of the most important flexor tendons in the wrist is a good possibility.
Evaluation by an upper-extremity orthopedic physician... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Tetanus updates: Great question. Dtap shot schedule shows 4 vaccinations by 18 months. If she is 12 months old now and her last one was at age 5, she might have only h... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Low Potassium: Muscle cramps are not always tied to specific serum potassium levels so your 3.3 may or may not be causative with your symptom. However, if you are on... Read More
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A 54-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Sodium Requirements: Daily intake sodium should be no more than 2300 mg daily (one tsp of table salt!) your question is far too simplistic and the complex regulation of e... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Heat Rash Treatment: Since heat rash is essentially a sensitization reaction to "heat" the choice of treatment is to allow the natural healing of the skin and an avoidance... Read More
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A 21-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Excessive sweating: Your doctor can prescribe either a solution called drysol or an oral medication called robinol. There are dermatologist who also offer bo-tox to knock... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Contagious periods: The contagious period differs for each type of infection, even among different viruses! there is a range of values based on different infections rangi... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Water Weight Loss: Its true that the majority of rapid weight loss (1-3 pounds daily) is due to loss of water. The reason this happens is because a reduction of sodium i... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Cardiac Enlargement: That is a great question and your cardiologist (you should have one) would advise you based on the type of enlargement. At 41 years old you should no... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Body Shape: The only body proportions you have any chance of affecting will be the width measurements. Since your height at 18 is most likely not going to change,... Read More
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A male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Flushing of face: Common problem and related to (1) rapid dilation of superficial blood vessels called capillaries that increase in diameter and blood flow in response ... Read More
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A 46-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
No help for virus: Cold sores, usually caused by a variety of viruses (most famous among which is the dreaded herpes simplex virus) are unaffected by antibiotics which a... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Craniosynostosis: You made your own diagnosis, but its a shame that it might have not been discovered in infancy... At this point you cannot do anything to change that.... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Am I pregnant?: There is a simple way to answer this question. Pregnancy is a yes or no situation. There is no maybe, half, or three quarters pregnant... I know that ... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Complicated Answer: Chances are if you already had a tubal pregnancy, the scar tissue from that event (even if non surgical) might preclude a second pregnancy in the same... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Eczema hands: You probably already know these things but...
1. Don't over wash hands
2. Avoid all hand sanitizers
3. Avoid all hand lotions
4. Use gloves when w... Read More
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A 41-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Chest Pain: Frustrating problem for both patients and physicians... What did your cardiologist tell you about other causes of pain? Has costochondritis been ruled... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Vagal Response: Hard laughing, like coughing or retching can stimulate the VAGAL NERVE, an important nerve regulating our parasympathetic system. This nerve travels f... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Acute otitis: That is a very high fever and along with swelling (probably massive lymph node) your physician would likely check you for an acute otitis, mastoiditis... Read More
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A 46-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Need arthroscopy: Usually arthroscopy can fully determine and often treat a torn meniscus. Mri might be interpreted incorrectly and often a surgeon will either find the... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Pink or red tinges: "spotting" usually refers to mild or moderate vaginal bleeding that is either before, during, or after menses. Most women who say that they have spott... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Burping and nausea: This is possibly due to a viral gastroenteritis which would fit the time frame of your symptoms but it can also be due to gastritis or a gastric/duode... Read More
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A 38-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Tinnitus Neuritis: Buzzing "in the head" or often reported in the ears is a symptom we call tinnitus. It's exact cause is unknown and sometimes is because of middle ear ... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Pregnant?: All these symptoms point towards some disruption of your menstrual cycle and the most important one of these is pregnancy! this has to be evaluated an... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Missed Depo: The only way to determine if you are pregnant, even in the best of circumstances (timely depo, iud, tubal ligation, ocps, etc) is to have a pregnancy ... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Depends where...: Axillary or inguinal abscesses are very hard to remove and the diagnosis is hidradinitis suppurative is difficult to treat. Sometimes hormonal regulat... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Hair loss: Hair growth and loss follows a cycle that is often disrupted with stress including physical or emotional. Hormonal changes can often result in dramati... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Difficult to treat..: Mouth ulcers, also called apthous stomatitis for the most part are poorly understood. There are some systemic illnesses that have these as characteris... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Urologist way to go: This is an understandable concern and rather than see the many ads that are there promising a lot and delivering little (especially by retired sex-ind... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Hormonal imbalance: Extended cycles (barring retained placenta or miscarriage) are usually imbalance between your natural estrogen and progesterone. If you are overweight... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Missed Depo: The only way to determine if you are pregnant, even in the best of circumstances (timely depo, iud, tubal ligation, ocps, etc) is to have a pregnancy ... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Not often...: A dermatopathologist (pathologist who specializes in dermatology) would not miss melanoma. Its very definable and as long as the depth of the initial ... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Usually virus: Infants with runny noses will benefit from bulb suction as they cannot eat with clogged noses. Children with runny noses and low grade (less than 100... Read More
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A 40-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Spasm: Most likely a fairly simple muscular spasm of very tight or injured para spinal muscles of the back and neck. Bending your head forward (flexion) caus... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:
Dr. Raja Abusharranswered
Family Medicine 23 years experience
Leg Pain treatable: Best way to reduce painful legs due to standing is to start your day wearing "compression stockings." these can be bought without a prescription at a ... Read More
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Abusharr is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Abusharr is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! I already had an appendectomy in 2005. My lower back hurts also & im always tired. Thanks Dr. Raja
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Thank you very much, Dr. Abusharr. That link about the immune system is perfect. I have something interesting to read, now! : )
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Wait so are you saying that I do have craniocynocytosis? I don't have any seizures but I am so self conscious about my head
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, OR
Graduated 2000MD
Residency
LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL
Awards
Pfizer Teaching Award 2010
National Health Service Corps Scholarship 1996-2000
Active Teacher in Family Medicine, American Academy of Family Physicians
Affiliations
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Assistant Professor
American Academy Of Family Physicians
Texas Medical Association
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