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The experience of Medicine and Psychology and Psycho-pharmacology, besides Military Medicine, allow me to understand more about the patient and his-her problems, then to chose a more appropriate regimen of medications.
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Psychiatry
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United States: California
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A 42-year-old male asked:
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Psychiatry 39 years experience
Alclholism: Alcoholism is mainly an inherited problem with painful consequences mentally and medically to oneself and to the children who also will bear the gene.... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
Does zoloft (sertraline) make you gain weight? i've put on 30 lbs in two months and i can't loose it
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Psychiatry 39 years experience
Zoloft (sertraline) weight gain: Some people are very sensitive to mental medicines and would gain weight even with meds that are not kwown to make people gain weight. If you already ... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Depession lifelong?: If depression if treated to remission, be totally normal in all aspects of life, medication(s) can be gradually tapered off. If depression recurs, res... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Abilify (aripiprazole) side effects: Side effects varies from person to person, from none even at high dose to muscle stiffness, restlessness. Or permanent (quite rare) stiffness of muscl... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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pacemaker does not hamper any daily activity, even sports, if just depends on the persons strength and endurance. Cell phone would not affect it eithe... Read More
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Xanax (alprazolam) addiction: Any long term and inappropriate use [by black market or by bad docs] leads to addiction. Any med that is used wrongly to treat symptomatically instead... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Safety of benzo: Benzodiazepine, the group that encompass Valium [diazepam], serax [oxazepam], Ativan [lorazepam] are very safe but not made to be used for a long tim... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Mental health facili: Plenty of government run mental health clinics for severely mentally sick people. The government mental health hospitals in all counties. Search the w... Read More
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Migraine back pain: Your problem must be long lasting! insomnia-1 + back pain-2 always lead to headache-3. Or in any order in a syndrome together= vicious circle. Cervica... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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PTSD treatment: Medications combined with psychotherapy, and emdr=emdr is most specifically made for ptsd and is very efficient.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Psychiatry 39 years experience
Prevent gum sores: Prevent by good dental hygiene is better than treat. Brush and floss twice daily and eat low residue helps prevent bad consequences.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Pain sternal tip: All major organs go there: heart, lungs, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, colon, diaphragm muscle. Pain in the uppper tommy right under the ster... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Asthma pregnancy: If asthma is severe, pregnancy may aggravate it as there is less lung volume when the pregnant tommy presses into the chest cavity. Mom's lack of oxyg... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Alcohol luvox (fluvoxamine): First of all, a lack of self control to continue alcohol while having a mental diagnosis will lead most of times to failure of treatment. Luvox (fluvo... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Elder meds: You need to take all meds your body needs = your doc knows you from inside out knows what not to ad on to your regimen. In general, avoid meds that d... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Crack babies: Drug use is strongly hereditary. Most kids genes are activated by 12-13years old, then the kid will have internal pressures to find drugs. Also the en... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Daily sun: It is part of good lifestyle above all! to have time to rest and go out. Time outside is time being active and healthy to recharge human energy and re... Read More
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A 53-year-old member asked:
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Alcohol cardiac: Alcohol directly damages the heart muscle and its conduction system with time, besides making the blood coagulate more slowly ( or much more slowly) ... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Back pain depression: Untreated depression will lead to back pain. Back pain medications will lead to headache after 4-5years due to medication overuse headache! whether pa... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
If i take half a doxylamine tab and im still not sleeping in a few hours can i take the other half ?
Dr. TRUC DAOanswered
Psychiatry 39 years experience
you did not tell the dose of the pill, no one can help you. And doxylamine is not a good pill to treat long term insomnia. It only treats the symptom ... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:
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Psychiatry 39 years experience
baby will poop it out
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A 26-year-old member asked:
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Psychiatry 39 years experience
Burn pain after meal: Pain in the upper mid tommy soon after meals means gastritis. Hungry pain and relieved by a meal is more stomach ulcer than gastritis. The treatment i... Read More
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A 18-year-old member asked:
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Ankle sprain: Ankle swelling, pain at each step? Tendon damaged and may totally rupture if not rested and treated properly. Sprained tendon ends up healing longer t... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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straining for stools is cause of hemorrhoid. Drink well and eat fibers ++ to ease off passage of stools so there be less pressures in anal area that t... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Urine color: If you drink copiously, the urine is diluted and no-color. If your urine is concentrated, it would be yellow. Food color may cause the same tint in ur... Read More
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A 62-year-old female asked:
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Psychiatry 39 years experience
Valerian xanax (alprazolam): Valerian is extremely weak compared to xanax (alprazolam). If you wean off your meds under doctor's advice, then you are safe. Xanax (alprazolam) is n... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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BCP: Contraindicated for + above 40 and smoking, history of deep vein thrombosis, some brain tumors, some kinds of seizures, severe hi blood pressures...
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Valium, sleep: Depending on the reason your{bad doc gave it to you in the first place. Sleep is quite infrequently the only symptom. It mostly is a symptoms of a big... Read More
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Hydration level: When your body is "dry", the concentration of chemicals and cells get higher. Each volume of blood has more concentrated numbers of red cells and whit... Read More
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Outgrow epilepsy?: No! whatever the cause, epilepsy will not go away and it always recurs. Only seizure due to high fever on kids younger than 5yo can go away when the k... Read More
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Internet adiction: China has rehab centers for internet addicts. I do not know of such in the USA. Start a healthier life style (good cycle of eat-sleep-work-socializing... Read More
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Itch after shower?: How long do you stay in the shower? How hot is the temp? If you stay too long or water too hot, after you dry self with towel, your skin gets wet agai... Read More
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Schizophrenia tumor: Brain tumor, causes symptoms depending on the localization in the brain (on the cortex or deep inside). Symptoms can be atypical hallucinations, or de... Read More
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Kids temperature: Under arm temp is never reliable. Only strictly use rectal temp for kids (they are too young to protest!). Older kids can use buccal thermometer. When... Read More
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Ritalin+energy drink: All energy drinks are laden with coffee, and no kids should ever be exposed to coffee (so, no brown soda as pepsi-coke-rootbeer- or even Mountain Dew ... Read More
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Mourning a child: Sorry to hear about your loss. Mourning can make a person unfunctional for a while. Usually it should last to three months then the person can functio... Read More
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Fitness exercise: I serve mainly elders with mental health, from above 60 till the late 80s = i demand a strictly 1h walk twice daily or 1h walk then every hours 60-100... Read More
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Aneurysm size: Beyond 4cm, the aneurysm is observed very closely. It needs be operated before it burst.
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Hotflash: Hotflash can happen to any women from the 20s till menopause. Not only related to hormonal changes but also to stress and anxiety. We hear mostly from... Read More
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AAA: By endo vascular non-invasive intervention or by open abdominal surgery to replace that segment of the aorta. Decisions depend of risk factors (age, h... Read More
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Tamiflu (oseltamivir) insomnia: You may have the flu which disturb your sleep? Congestion prevents sleep and Benadryl (diphenhydramine) can relieve it very efficiently while helping ... Read More
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Alcohol endocrine: Alcohol abuse mess up whole body mentally + physically + chemically with accumulated consequences. Abuse more than 2 beers/day. 5b/d = severe alcoholi... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Bipolar sx: Unstable mood, at times, happy, energetic, outgoing, ideas flow ++ followed by episodes of depression, no energy, isolation, no pep to do anything, ir... Read More
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A 39-year-old male asked:
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Sinus med and insomn: Sinus medications can prevent you from sleeping. If you cannot sleep with coffee then you will not sleep with sinus meds (sudafed for example). For de... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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Weird after Ambien (zolpidem): First, Ambien (zolpidem) is not ever to be used with other sleep med. If it alone cannot ensure good sleep of 7-8h/night, it must be removed immediate... Read More
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Alcoholism=self dest: Beer causes stomach ulcer and nausea vomiting, along with liver self destruction.
Some people are resilient and can absorb a lot without results til... Read More
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Anxious if lonely: You need psychotherapy to find the cause of the problem and treat it aggressively. Your anxiety disables your social and personal life and will not i... Read More
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Valium, cymbalta (duloxetine): Yes! a pill of Valium work for 72 hours! though its effect is mainly felt the first 24h. Both together synergistically aggravates daytime sleepiness. ... Read More
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Treatment 4 soc anx: Ssri as prozac, paxil, (paroxetine) zoloft, xelexa... Can be used a single agent or combined with one or more other meds depending on gravity of anxie... Read More
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Eat after tooth extr: When anesthesia wears out, within 1-2hours. May need to avoid that area for a day or two.
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Dr. DAO is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you for answering this question. In this topic, your answer was more meaningful and helpful than the rest. You are a great doctor!
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This was very helpful. Thanks! I'm always impressed to hear the eastern tricks mentioned in the western society, thank you for weighing in.
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Good. Answer. I. Had a family member who was addicted to valuim all his life. Destroyed him. Was never there emotional or physically.
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Top Psychiatrist, Third Place, California - Spring
2015
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