David T. Greenspun, M.D., is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon specializing in microsurgical perforator flap breast reconstruction. He practices in New York City and Fairfield County, Connecticut. For more information, please visit www.davidgreenspunmd.com
In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Greenspun is also known for his clinical research in perforator flap surgery. He helped...
I suffered from and eating disorder for many years. My intention now is to become an eating disorder recovery coach. Here is a short story of my journey.
My ed started in about 4th or 5th grade after another one of our moves. I started spending all my allowance on candy and stashing it in my room. I also started playing sick from school so I could stay home and eat while everyone was gone....
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My name is Ali Sultaneh, I'm a neurosurgeon since 1995 from Bordenko Institute of neurosurgery in Moscow. In 1998 I discovered the secret of migraine headaches: My pressure points (1, and 3), that make the real end for all kinds of migraine headaches.
This new migraine points open the new way to cure migraine: 1- self cure. 2- surgery.
My new treatment help not only...
I lost a kidney and have just recently found a path to take because a Doctor took the time to listen and realized I was not a hypochondriac or a big overly sensitive, stressed, depressed woman. (yes, lots of justified sarcasm).
I was athletic, very lean and continued to stay fit by enjoying bike rides and playing recreational co-ed softball. However, when I started a family at 25, I had...
Stephanie Shore Jewett, RN, MBA I was born and raised in Iowa and I was very close to my grandparents. I believe nursing was always in my blood, as I would help my grand folks as they started to age. I noticed little things like limping carrying in the groceries, a dirtier house than normal, older food in the refrigerator, less than perfect hearing, hair turning grey, naps during the day, a...
Somewhere around November 18th or 19th of 2007, I started feeling what I thought were Carpal Tunnel symptoms in my right hand. The symptoms included: tingling of my fingers, numbness, and I was having trouble typing. I went out and bought wrist guards, and things designed to help CT patients. The symptoms continued for about two weeks and I promised I?d visit the doctor after Thanksgiving....
My real name is Jean, and I am a female, age 56. I live in northeast Ohio, and I am interested in art, writing, nature, animal rights and health care rights. Since 2001, I have been getting progressively disabed, with trouble walking, and muscle pain and stiffness, caused by exertion. My first symptom was severe pain and stiffness in my sacroiliac area, that spread up my spine...
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In sum, I had health issues my whole life, pre-diabetes, weight problems, back pain, leg pain, migraines, infections, indigestions, constant colds and bronchitis...
At the age of 18 i was 125, size 2-4 I was thin, but not healthy :( I went on to University where I managed to gain a Law Degree, Master, Bar and a lovely 60 pounds of FAT.
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Hi there - my name is Kristin Wall and I'm a survivor of Cushing's syndrome.
I developed Cushing's syndrome during my last trimester of pregnancy. Before getting pregnant, I was an active, healthy, fit person. I spent all lot of my free time outdoors with and I was addicted to endurance sports, like biking and triathlons. I treated my body well and it had always treated me well in...
I was born on August 8th 1991. Two or more weeks premature. I spent the first three and a half years of my life in a Romanian orphanage, on the third year one of the caretakers attempted to kill me by throwing me down the stairs for complaining that she was stealing food. I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury with skull fracture. I remember waking up in the hospital. Because of the premature birth...
