DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 76-year-old woman who enjoys a 6-ounce glass of ruby-red grapefruit juice every morning before my breakfast of cereal, half a banana and coffee. My husband has been trying to convince me that I should stop having my morning juice, as it is a real “sugar bomb.” Is he correct in […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 63-year-old female of normal weight and active. I exercise several times a week and am in seemingly good health. About a year ago I noticed that my eyebrows were disappearing, starting on the outer edges. They are now almost completely gone. During my annual physical in November, my general […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 84-year-old woman who has followed and appreciated yours and Dr. Donohue’s information and advice for many years. Now I need some help. I have a chronic vertigo condition, which varies from slight to severe. I can take meclizine, which helps. However, there is an exercise of the head, done […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 66-year-old woman who usually is too hot. When I tell my doctors, they just sort of laugh it off. It is making my life miserable because if I keep the heat or air conditioning where it is comfortable for me, it is too cold for others. I hate summer […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a question about the results of a routine colonoscopy I had yesterday. It was found that I have a twisted colon. Since I was under a twilight pain medicine for the procedure, the doctor couldn’t complete the last portion, because it was too painful for me. He recommended that I […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 22, and I am a security guard at a local store. Just recently, I detained a suspect for shoplifting. We were in a room no bigger than a small office, and she was coughing up a storm. I was in and out of the room for a half-hour or so. […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a healthy, trim and physically very active 65-year-old with excellent EKG results and no family history of either stroke or heart problems. I was put on Lipitor about two years ago for high cholesterol. I have been monitoring my cholesterol every six months, and levels of total cholesterol have gone […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: My daughter suffers terribly from esophageal spasms. She is currently taking Ativan, Bentyl, Pepcid and sometimes Ultram. She has suffered for two years. It is unbearable, and she just wants to give up. She has two young children and a full-time job. She has burning in her shoulders that is really bad. […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an old man (84) with a middle-age paunch (5 feet, 7 inches tall and weigh 200 pounds) who needs to fit into a suit with pants an inch too tight in time for a wedding in a few weeks. About how many pounds do I need to lose to fit […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: In order to detect the existence of a hernia, I had a CAT scan. It revealed something mysterious on my liver. The doctor then ordered an ultrasound, and pronounced a simple cyst, not cancer. Others tell me that an ultrasound cannot be conclusive; only a biopsy can do that. Thus, what I […]