Dr. Shahruq Sarela
Internal Medicine
Tucson, AZ
12 years experience male
Locations
Office
Tucson, AZ
About
Bio
I am 32 years old, recently graduated from residency, and trained in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania at Allegheny General Hospital. I am eager to explore tele-medicine so I can reach people in a NEW way. I realize there are many problems with health care, and just getting an appointment into a doctors office can take months. But what if there is an urgent issue? With this electronic approach I am able to offer my services/knowledge to a patient who has not seen a doctor for years, has been turned down, forced to see a provider in 3 months, etc. I am here to help you, and I have your back! Welcome to the practice and enjoy.
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Internal Medicine
General Practice
Palliative Care
Licenses
United States: Arizona, California
Doctor Q&A
237 Answers
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine 12 years experience
White coat: The only way to tell if you have white coat hypertension is get a blood pressure cuff and check your blood pressure at home. Take readings in the morn... Read More
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Cea : Cea is a marker for colorectal cancer. Oncologist use this to trend chemo responsitivity. Since your numbers are dropping, this means the chemotherapy... Read More
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Twitching : When I am stressed my left eye twitches. Other explanations could be a cluster headache, and low calcium level in the body, your computer screen is to... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Rigor: Rigors and shakes are worrisome. This is suggesting and underlying infection taking place. Either bacterial, parasitic, or viral. Get him to the hospi... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
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Clogged ear: It doesn't matter, De wax or de clogg your ears before the flight as change in altitude can cause further pressure.
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Spine: Make sure there is no potential infection occurring. Make sure there is no broken needle tip that has impeded into your skin. Have them do an X-ray to... Read More
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A 40-year-old male asked:
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Blood in stool : You need to obtain a colonoscopy to evaluate and determine the source of bleeding. If this is negative a gastroenterologist may do a EGD to evaluate t... Read More
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A male asked:
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Head : Simple solution stop being so abusive and smacking your head. You can induce trauma and potentially a mild subdursl hematoma or induce a concussion. I... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Skin: Could be the beginning of folliculitus or a variant of eczema. The only way to know for sure is have your doctor check it out, or a dermatologist. Sor... Read More
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A 67-year-old female asked:
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Chemo: If a stone equals 14 pounds then over 7 weeks is not out of the ordinary if your undergoing chemotherapy. I would supplement ensure or protein shakes ... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Fatigue: Sounds like you are chronically sleep deprived. How many hours of sleep are you getting. If its less than 5 hours this is a big issue, and detrimental... Read More
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A 20-year-old male asked:
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Nocturnal ejaculatio: Nocturnal ejactulation is usually normal. It's not your body making excess semen. But rather a healthy penile response to vivid dreams, stimulation. U... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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Abdominal pain: It's possible you may just be having the post menopausal pain secondary to ovulation or a ovarian cyst that may have ruptured. The pain should subside... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Itch: Clean all clothes. You practically have to throw everything in the trash because the bed bugs are small and in the fiber strands of cloth. Medically t... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
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Diet : What you need to do is just increase your calorie count. If you add like 500 calories a day over 7 days that will be 3500 calories. This will make you... Read More
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A 54-year-old male asked:
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Tylenol (acetaminophen) dose : I would not, standard dose is usually 625mg oral every 6 hours. Do not exceed 4000mg because you can develop liver toxicity.
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Internal medicine : Try MKSAP review books. This will prepare you pretty well to sit for your internal medicine boards. Good luck on the exam
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Semen: I don't get fully your question. But normal variation in semen color is normal. If you urinated the color of semen will change. The only time to be ov... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Amlactin: This is a common relation to this medication. People can experience very dry skin almost a alligator like skin. This is even worse if your in te son. ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Pregnant : It is possible to become pregnant with an IUD, however the incidence is low. I suggest if you really need to know by the 5 dollar pregnancy kit. If yo... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
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Tingling: It is possible you have sciatica, compression of the sacral nerve and worse when sitting because your compressing the nerve. If you keep on having thi... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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Skin: Avoid direct sun exposure, hydrate the skin and prevent from drying, avoid harsh chemicals, or topical creams, stick to organic creams, don't pop zits... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Sixk: Of course it's the medication. I don't know why you took seven in the course of 2 months. You should be on some form of maintaince birth control. The ... Read More
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Anal fistula : Recurrent anal fistula may be related to I diagnosed irritable bowl disease such as Crohn's disease. I recommend you get a colonoscopy with biopsy to ... Read More
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A male asked:
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Ear wax : I would use over the counter debrox to soften ear wax. Haven't heard of colace (docusate sodium) for ears. Colace (docusate sodium) is a stool softene... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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Bone aches : What you're experiencing is actually not bubbles or air pockets it's essentially the synovial fluid or bursa sacs which act as a lubricants to allow y... Read More
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A female asked:
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Skin : It sounds like you have the beginnings of cellulitus, and bacterial infection of the skin. Please see a doctor to be evaluated and placed on antibioti... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Skin: It sounds like you have a keloid secondary from skin trauma from the injection site. This is a scar that has overgrown, very common in African America... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Pimple: Pimples are normal on the labia as well. As long as it's not bleeding, growing in size, or changin in color. If it doesn't go away in a couple of week... Read More
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A 49-year-old female asked:
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Burning sensation: possible causes could be a neuropathy like a trigeminal neuralgia. If you have a skin lesion, and burning sensation, this also could be a herpetic ras... Read More
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A 45-year-old male asked:
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Rash: some people can break out into a rash during stressors to the body. Vomiting is definetly a stressor on the body.
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Stools float : Usually my patient say they have stool that float suggest a malabsorption issues you're not absorbing the fat in your diet – that is entering into you... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Pain with swallowing: It's quite unusual that swallowing is related left breast pain. I think two things may be accruing. However, to unify both issues, it may be an esopha... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Period: First thing to do is be screened for pregnancy. Get a over the counter pregnancy test and check it out.
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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Pregnancy: it is possible that you are pregnant again, since your have unprotected sex. go to a doctor to get a quantitative beta HCG level, and general pregnanc... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Chest pain: It's sounds muscular in nature since it's associated with movement and body positioning. Did you work out, pull a muscle, undergoe trauma? If so you s... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Sex: Yes this is common. You probably have small micro tears in the vaginal canal from penile entry. The small amount of blood is mixing with vaginal secr... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Ear pain: it sounds like you may have inner ear pressure. pressure can be caused by fluid development behind the tympanic membrane (ear drum) and this could be ... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Spotting: if your concerned about potential pregnancy then get checked, make sure and ease your mind.
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Drugs: It's possible to get a lot of variability even though you're thinking you're taking the same drug. For example I have had people take Synthroid versus... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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Abdominal pain: pain that is excruciating for no apparent reason needs medical attention. please go to your doctor or an ER. they may need to obtain a CT abdomen with... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Lump: The lump could be a being lipoma aka a non cancerous fatty tumor. The only way to confirm officially is get a needle biopsy of this and have a patholo... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
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Uterine cyst: It is possible the pain your experiencing is during your period the cyst can rupture causing more pain and potentially the pain your experiencing. It ... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Heart rate : A heart rate in a young person in the 50s during time of sleep is fine. If your not having palpitations, chest pain, essentially a symptomatic I would... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
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Marina: It is possible the marina device has migrated, moved, caused irritation to the uterine lining, or trauma causing bleeding. It needs to be check as wel... Read More
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A 56-year-old female asked:
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Glucose: is this when you wake up and you are fasting. if so this is a reasonable number. however, if you are concerned that you have a lot of elevated reading... Read More
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Pain control: given plavix is a blood thinner, do NOT take ibuprofen, advil, motril, aspirin. as these medications also act to thin your blood, and thus increase yo... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Products: I personally recommend using things that have no sulfur in it or are paraben free. Products that contain these have been known to cause cancer cause m... Read More
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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Temple pain: It's possible you may have residual pain secondary to the impact of the basketball. Was it a hard impact at a high speed? If this is the case and you'... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Lp: Are you having any tingling sensation, or fecal incontinence. It is possible they may have cause some trauma to the spine and your experiencing neurop... Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thanks for info. I will take my son to doctors in emergency room then a doctor for his head. Think its getting bigger. Thank u for the advice.
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly I really appreciate it. I will let my doctor know and set up an appointment right away :)
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Much appreciated, I'm awaiting the results and although I'm only 20 and athlete the pulse freaked me out so Lord willing there won't be an aneruysm
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica
Graduated 2011MD
Residency
ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL
Awards
Most Influential, Second Place, Arizona - Spring
2015
Thought Leader, First Place, Arizona - Spring
2015
Top General Internist, Third Place, Arizona - Spring
2015
Affiliations
American Board Of Internal Medicine
American Medical Association
Society Of Hospital Medicine
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