DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a woman and will be 59 in a month. I’m in excellent health. I’ve worked out seriously with weight-bearing exercises for nearly 30 years. I have great muscle tone, and I believe I am height/weight proportional (5 feet, 2 inches tall, weigh 130 pounds). Is it inevitable that women gain weight […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 50 years old. In the past three months there have been indicators that I am perimenopausal. I have a very large fibroid. It is described as “six months” in size. I am not a candidate for embolization. I presently have no painful symptoms, and, with iron therapy, I am no […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: My married daughter, now 52 years of age, has for the past two years become psychotic and is on antipsychotic medication. She makes a humming sound, which seems to be involuntary and over which she has no control. She will begin speaking, and then this sound comes from her. Did you ever […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 32-year-old daughter has been diagnosed with Devic disease. A year ago, she had five days of intravenous steroids to deal with optic neuritis. The optic nerve is 100 percent healed, but she still has pain. Antibodies show up in her bloodwork. She is about to undergo two treatments, two weeks apart, […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I read your response regarding CT versus MRI scans. I have severe pain in my right hip, on the outside, radiating to my right foot. It is a hot, burning pain, hampering activity. I saw an orthopedic surgeon, who X-rayed it and said it is not surgical. I have arthritis in my […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have had leg cramps for about 32 years while I have engaged in an active lifestyle. I was a jogger for some years, and now I work out at the gym. I am in my late 60s and have found that the leg cramps have gotten worse. I noticed three or […]

DEAR ABBY: My husband is a hard worker, a good provider and a good dad. However, he’s angry all the time. It has been this way for as long as I can remember. He is aware of it, and always promises me that when this or that settles down, things will get better, but they […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 69. Two years ago, I had a heart attack followed by double bypass surgery; two vessels on the back of my heart were blocked. I had no symptoms. My doctor, family, friends and I were stunned. I was too healthy to have been struck by a heart attack. I was […]

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 27-year-old woman who still lives at home. I do it so I can help my mom with my five nieces and nephews. Their mother passed away suddenly in 2009 at the age of 30. My mom and stepdad kept them rather than scatter them to fathers who don’t appear very interested […]

DEAR DR. ROACH: My question is about my sister, who 66 years old with aortic disease and who’s had four aneurisms: an ascending aneurism 4.5 x 4.6 cm, a descending at 4.2 x 4.7cm, and also an abdominal at 2.4 x 3.2 and another just at 2 cm. I missed an in-depth story on the […]