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Difficulty talking
Expressive difficulty is a clinical finding in which a person has trouble either writing words/sentences or speaking them, but comprehends language well.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A 48-year old asked:
Why am I have difficulty talking with people from my past?
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A 30-year old asked:
Can anyone please please help me! why do I have such difficulty talking to others in class?
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A 45-year old asked:
How normal would it be for seroquel (quetiapine) to cause slurry speech, difficulty talking?
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A member asked:
Can a cervical herniated disc in the neck cause slurred speech, difficulty talking, and swallowing? Sometimes choking on thin liquids?
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A 16-year old female asked:
I have a swollen tonsil and it's so painful that I am having trouble sleeping. I also have a cough and difficulty talking. Do i need to see a doctor?
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A 36-year old male asked:
I suffer from cough for last 15 years in winter. Difficulty in talking. No problem in summer. May it be cancer.
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A 25-year old female asked:
Can GERD really give you swallowing difficulty sometimes? I talked to my ENT about this before where I sometimes can't swallow randomly, but he just keeps saying it's a GERD symptom, but how can it give you trouble swallowing?
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A 21-year old female asked:
My throat hurts so badly, i'm having difficulty when i talk, I have cough and sometimes running nose too. I've been using the OTC medicines plzz help?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I cant recall anything anymore,have difficulty comprehending when people talk,or when I read.i feel weak,ashtma is worse,less sense of smell and touch?
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A 19-year old female asked:
My tongue is completely white since two days. There's a sore on the right side, difficulty swallowing or chewing/talking. What can it be?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Could depression kill an elderly woman (85 years)not talking&walking& difficulty in swallowing&having pain sometimes her stomach or head or her back.
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A 49-year old asked:
Can the experts please talk about the neurological disease which cause difficulty with handwriting?
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A female asked:
Why is dad talking without his pmv in place. He has a bivona tts trach and can phonate without putting on his pmv. He is not having difficulty breatIn?
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A 19-year old female asked:
What does it mean when when im eating or talking i have difficulty breathing its like im hold my breath or hard to breathe when doing anything?
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A 19-year old female asked about a 27-year old male:
Cousin got sick a few mos ago. Since then he has had dyspnea, difficulty swallowing, & can't even talk. He already lost 30lb & docs don't kno wats wrong?
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A 58-year old male asked:
I have difficulty swallowing pills-supplements. Can i empty the powder out of the capsules and dissolve it in water and drink? I know for certain medicines it's not good to do that because of the time release factor. But I am talking about supplements not
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A 18-year old female asked:
Difficulty swallowing, swollen glands/tonsils, sore throat changed to just painful swallowing (back roof of mouth) and uncomfortable feeling talking?
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A 32-year old asked:
What kind of doctor I talk to about sexual problem.?
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A 49-year old asked:
What should I talk to about a replacement knee problem?
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A 32-year old asked:
Is hypoxia and hypoxemia talking about the same problem?
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A 42-year old asked:
I have a problem of talking while sleeping --what can be done for this?
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A 25-year old male asked:
When i talk with any girl then a clear chicky clear water come out from my penis. I want to know is it a problem or not. And what's its solution?
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A 16-year old male asked:
I would love to talk to someone, I've always wanted to talk about my problem. But I can't because I have no money. I've always wanted to be a girl.
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A 27-year old male asked:
Sometimes if a person talking in high voice to me , my voice is getting lowered? It happens more with my manager? Is it a problem n how to rectify it
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A 20-year old male asked:
I want to suicide because of fear iam always afraid of a small problem how to get confident to face problems and i will not able to talk with anybody?
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A 31-year old asked:
My boy is 7 but he has a big problem of comprehension and talk in a text he was 61 verbal but execution 119to different she said neurologist will help?
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A 23-year old male asked:
When I talk to my girlfriend even I have no thoughts of sex or romance, I feel something fluid like leakage through my penis. Is this a sexual problem?
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A 20-year old male asked:
There's bad breathe when I am talking with others. Its becoming a lot of problem for me. I can't talk with others. How can I reduce it. Help me please?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I have had a problem with talking.a total different sentence will come out or i will just mumble. I have been very forgetful lately. a problem with my short term memory. losing my keys. i dont know what is wrong. but it is getting worse?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Why the free-cum or the thing which comes out from penis whenever I talk to my gf in chatting. And also it came today without being excited too! And I cum in less than 30 seconds while masturbating. What's my problem and what to do about all these??
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