Need a medical experts help?!


Question: Need a medical experts help?
Im 16 and i get ill pretty much twice a month throughout the year. I dont know why my immune system is so weak but i end up with illness' such as quincy regulary.
For the past 4 months ive been experiancing piercing chest pains on the left side, and the feeling of abnormalities in my heartbeat? they make me breathless and for hours after it feels as though the air is too thick to breathe?

Also for the same amount of time i have been experiancing the piecing pain in my lower back.. guessing where my kidneys are..

I have had about 6 kidney infections since christmas. could it be something more serious than just a kidney infection because the antibiotics given by my gp just make my kidneys hurt more and seem to swell up or my stomach swells up and dont actually get rid of the pains..

Answers:

This is the alternative "medicine" board. There are no medical experts here,- just quacks with egos.

Anyone who tells you to visit a Chiropractor, homeopath or Osteopath instead of a real medical Doctor should be ignored. I don't know what is causing your symptoms, or even if they are related, but your chest pain requires urgent investigation.

Recurrent kidney infections require investigation because it will eventually lead to renal scarring, and ultimately hypertension and impaired renal function. Six renal infections within the last 6 months requires a referral. There may be abnormalities of the urinary tract (e.g. neuropathic bladder, vesicoureteric reflux, obstruction by kidney or bladder stones, etc).

"Often organs don't function optimally when they are not sitting correctly and this could be a factor"

That's B.S. Lighty is just reaffirming his quack status.



The antibiotics the gp gave don't seem to work.

Well, I am not surprised, mainstream medicine is not a science, just some applied statistics, so you will need statistical luck to find this rare doctor that really can help you.

In the meanwhile you can be lucky to find a good TCM practitioner. He may give you temporarily additional help, and most important, he may give you some good advice about how to change your life, since some of the cause may be in your lifestyle, or the lifestyle of the people close to you.

Lifestyle could be anything...



Please go back to your GP and inform him/her of your concerns.

As mentioned, this board is full of unqualified quacks playing at being doctors, it is NOT a safe place to get advice about real illness and disease.

@ Lightning, sorry to hear you're not well but try and appreciate that placebos do not work on kidney infections just like they don't work on TB, cancer and severed limbs.



i don't mean to be funny but could it possibly be that you are being poisoned ?
i know it sounds stupid but it sounds like some-one is giving you small dowse of Poison
has your Doctor given you a blood test ask him/her about the affects of poisoning

my head



see an hio method upper cervical specific chiropractor.



Why you are so prone to kidney infections is a good question.
This is most unusual.
Often organs don't function optimally when they are not sitting correctly and this could be a factor, especially for the chest and low back pain.
If you are so prone to kidney infections it is likely that your low back pain is from there. I have met a couple of patients with underlying kidney infections which they were unaware of complaining of low back pain. 1 got sent by a doctor who missed it. To be fair i did too. its only when she didn't get better i sent her back for a urine test.
Is it possible you have just had one kidney infection but it never completely goes away with the antibiotics?
I would recommend seeing a primary care practitioner trained in visceral techniques.
http://www.barralinstitute.com/therapist…
If they can't help they should be able to refer on through the medical system.

By all means try the homeopathy but i wouldn't recommend doing so instead of conventional medicine.
If you do so as well it will not do you any harm.

NB. Re placebo. Gary i'm under a lot of stress at the moment for things going on in my life. I'm taking a homeopathic remedy for it which seems to be working quite well to calm down the anxiety.
So i now don't have anxiety and i also haven't put toxic chemicals for my Liver to metabolise into my body. Its win win. I don't really care if placebo is responsible. I do care that I don't have to have the chemical intervention.

Edit:
Gary, How do you know Homeopathy won't help a recurrent kidney infection? In the days before anti-biotics did people have them forever or did they sometimes resolve?
Kidneys are very complex organs who knows what a change to the autonomic supply will do to them?
If it is a recurrent infection clearly the anti-biotics aren't helping.
Maybe she needs another modality. Either way homeopathy WILL NOT HARM her especially if she uses it in conjunction with conventional medicine.

I'll stick to my anti-anxiety remedy if you don't mind.
if it ceases to work I'll try herbals. If they don't work I'll visit my GP.

NZ registered Osteopath



This is an ALTERNATIVE medicine board - very few medical 'experts' frequent here. It is for alternatives TO medicine. Like homeopathy as suggested by @thenoseknows'. Homeopathy is water and sugar pills - its a magical treatment, it doesn't actually work.

You need to go back to your doctor, or another doctor and discuss these issues with him/her. If you have something serious going on, you don't want treating yourself with PLACEBOS.

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EDIT: @Lightning -

1. a placebo will not help with recurring kidney infection
2. you cannot know if the homeopathy is helping with your anxiety - correlation does not necessarily imply causation
3. water and sugar pills are composed of chemicals

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EDIT: @Lightning - in response to your points:

“Gary, How do you know Homeopathy won't help a recurrent kidney infection?”
I said a PLACEBO won’t help with recurring kidney infection.

“Kidneys are very complex organs who knows what a change to the autonomic supply will do to them?”
Argument from ignorance – it doesn’t mean homeopathy works.

“If it is a recurrent infection clearly the anti-biotics aren't helping.”
We are only working with an anecdote – we don’t know if there are other factors involved. Perhaps she is not completing the course for example. That’s why she needs to go back to the doctor.

“Maybe she needs another modality.”
What, do you mean her chakras may need unblocking or her aura needs balancing?

“Either way homeopathy WILL NOT HARM her especially if she uses it in conjunction with conventional medicine.”
And failing to seek proper medical care could prove FATAL.

“I'll stick to my anti-anxiety remedy if you don't mind. if it ceases to work I'll try herbals. If they don't work I'll visit my GP.”
We are not talking about anxiety attacks here, the question is primarily about kidney infections.



See a professional Homeopath. Obviously conventional medicine isn't working for you.
Antibiotic use will destroy your own immune system by killing off your good gut bacteria along with the ones possibly causing problems, and they can also cause gastric upset, kidney pain and heart problems. You may also be having an allergic reaction to them. Antibiotic use results in bad bacteria forming biofilms that become resistant to antibiotic treatment when you might really need it for a life threatening condition. Since 80% of your immune system is in your gut, you mess up your own natural defenses and become more susceptible to future problems.
You need to take a high quality probiotic supplement that delivers at least 15 billion cells per serving for at least a couple of months to try to rebalance your system.




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