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Psychiatry
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A 45-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Who told you that?: Dr. Roger coger is absolutely correct. Your symptoms are related to hormonal dysfunctions.
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A 24-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Lyrica (pregabalin) V. gabapentin: Lyrica (pregabalin) is not a controlled substance; it is a registered trade mark/patented and is prescribed by your Dr.
Gabapentine is a generic and t... Read More
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A 16-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Middle ear bones: Most probable the bones of the middle ear, responsible for one link of the hearing link are damaged or absence due to the pathology that required surg... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Exercise detachment: Do not take statements from others as directed to you personally. Take things as facts of life not as acts to be shame of.
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A 29-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Doses adjustment: You are taking a good combination of antianxiety and slowing the heart rate; BUT the dose may need to be adjusted. See your Dr.
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Mostly not: EEG is of no clinical assistance to the diagnostic process of bipolar disorder.
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Time is of essence: Do not waist a minute thinking other than going to a Urgent Care or Emergency Department and ask for help.
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A 43-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Syntroid raises tsh: If your thyroid was remove "complete/totally" you need hormone replacement. The level has to be determined by your Dr. (Endocrinologist). Do not be yo... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Be concern no scare: Make sure that your physical examination is
negative, There is no doubt that anxiety or fear make create your symptoms.
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A 51-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Answer with question: Have you tried antidepressant medication?
If you have and did not help. go ahead and have preferable unilateral ECT to prevent worsening depression.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Eyes Dr.: There could be a connection between anti-depressants and glaucoma which cause floaters. CONSULT WITH AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST ASAP.
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A 29-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
You or I? (Can you): The two medications have similar effect and side-effect.
It is like changing wine's brand.
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A member asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Read below: Rotting sinusitis or Chronic pustulent sinus infection.
Need treatment by a specialist in Ears, Nose and Throat.
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A 21-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Spinal misalignment: Could be a slip disk or simple a vertebral misalignment compressing a nerve.
Consult an orthopedist or osteopathic physician.
Some people try reverse ... Read More
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A 38-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Hw wll do U know him: Does he vomits his food? Does he have diarrhea?
Has he consulted his family physician?
Some people grow naturally thin! Others may have an unsuspected... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Yes: Burnt food is like charcoal; absorbs intestinal gas. It is safe if the food was safe to begin with.
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A 16-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Not unsual mood.: Not unusual but not normal. Not enough information to give a sound advise. Consult with the Dr. that prescribed Methylphenidate.
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A 35-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Examination asap: What you describe "could be" manifestation of spinal misalignment or lesion. A Dr. should perform an examination and "probable" X-Rays and/or MRI scan
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A 49-year-old member asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Addiction: Caffeine does not xcause "immunity. But like any stimulant in some people develop habituation and like drugs need higher doses. Change stimulant.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Common occurance: The sudden change form horizontal to vertical position usually cause acceleration of the heart's beat. Since you are using a Holter monitor I assume y... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Longer THAN normal?: Age? Physical and mental health? How long after surgery? and how long slept before surgery?
Did you offer icecream?
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A 16-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Why dizzyness?: Dizziness is an impairment in spatial perception and stability. Because the term dizziness is imprecise, it can refer to vertigo, presyncope, disequil... Read More
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A 17-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Yes: Anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior, such as pacing back and forth, somatic (physical) complaints a... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Why do you ask?: It depends of what was eaten. After a regular meal that include meat, the stomach secrete acid digestive juice for about 3 to 4 hours; therefore the p... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Spinal alingment?: Unless a physical examination proves the contrary, pain on movement could be a spinal nerve compression.
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A 16-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
A Mental Status Exam: A Mental Status Examination, some psychological tests and a neurological examination would determine the cause of the problem which could be multiple... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Wikipedia Internet: Very extensive answer for this venue. Look up in a psychology/psychiatry dicctionary or in internet at wikipedia free encyclopedia.
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A 62-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Seek Help: Make an appointment to see a psychiatrist.
You need professional help.
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A 20-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
There is help: A Specialist (Neurology or Physiatra (Physical Medicine) could diagnose the problem and recommend treatment.
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A 64-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Stroke (CVA)?: Ataxia is a word commonly used by professionals! Has you already consulted a Dr.? Please consult for diagnoses and treatment with your Family Physicia... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Prolapse is treatebl: An "Interventionist cardiologist" could help in the treatment of your problem. Depression is a natural normal reaction. You could see a psychotherapis... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Spasm: Involuntary contraction of the circular (ring) muscle of the esophageal sphincter.
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A 16-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
XRay and scan: many disorders can cause a mass in an abdomen.
from benign gas to tumors. Waist no time; see a medical doctor.
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A 56-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Stretch your spine: There are many methods to stretch the spaces between vertebrae of the spine. I like anti-gravity (hanging head down).
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A 41-year-old member asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Yes: Some of the chemical components of monster energy drinks could trigger fatal disorders in ill people.
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A 44-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Not enough data: Haldol (haloperidol) in sensitive people may give a side effect pseudo-Parkinson (tremors, stiffness, etc.)
Ativan is anti-anxiety and have no relatio... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Switching & pract.??: Do you switch by yourself?
EXPERIENCING side effects are not normal!!
PRACTICE CONSULTATION WITH YOUR DOCTOR.
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A 32-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Ask your Dr.: It is possible, most probable that the symptoms you describe are withdrowal.
Ask the Dr. that sees you to alternate the days of low and old doses
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
You don't; the Dr do: There are a few medications for intestinal spasms that relax the guts (antispasmodics) that can be prescribed when indicated only by a medical Dr.
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A male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Safe: fishoil and fluoxetine are unrelated and there is not know interaction.
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A 25-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Not the right drugs.: Trazodone is not a sleeping medication; it is an antidepressant with bad side effects. Your dr. Should prescribe a short acting (8 hours) sedative.
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Yes: Alcoholism affects all organs in the body and mind.
Alcoholics should expect any and all kind of detrimental effects.
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Stools exam: Have you have a stool and ova examination?
Parasites? Digestive disorder?
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A 41-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Yes: Ingested or inhaled steroids can cause emotional dysfunctions.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Yes, it is possible.: Any liquid substance could be injected; but some substance are detrimental and some are lethal.
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A 22-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
You answered urself?: You say you are out of answers but you start by an assertive denial answer. Panic is cause by many triggering events, objective or subjective.
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A 45-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Maybe, but may not: Your anxiety may be cause by your physical tightness and notch tender that may be cause by organic condition. You must consult and be examined by a Th... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Overdose intake: Vit b6 or pyridoxine is recommended for arthritis not to exceed 100 mg. Daily. Overdose could form stone in kidneys.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Better or worse?: The better one is the one that makes you happier with the less undesirable side effects.
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A 26-year-old male asked:
Dr. Emanuel Winocuranswered
Psychiatry 69 years experience
Yes, it is fear but: it is not necessarily irrational. Zoloft (sertraline) like any other antidepressant may have undesirable side effects.
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I thoroughly enjoy reading Dr. Winocur's responses to questions based upon their brevity and high quality. I am sure patients equally appreciate his style.
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Dr. Winocur is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Condition persisting. Further research continuing. Thanks.
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Thanks for your quick reply! Thanks I appreciate your response. Currently on Effexor xr- treat res
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Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
U.BsAs.Ar./U.N.Y.,USA
Graduated 1954MD
Residency
Psychiatry
Awards
Top Psychiatrist , First Place, San Diego Region - Summer
2014
Top Psychiatrist , Second Place, California - Fall
2014
Thought Leader, Third Place, San Diego Region - Fall
2014
Affiliations
Am. Psyc. Assoc., Americ. Medical Associat., American Legion
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