When numb chin and weird tingles could be a sign of killer cancer – and when to get help

TODAY is World Stroke Day – and if you don’t cognize the symptoms, it is clip to learn.

A stroke is simply a aesculapian emergency, truthful it is captious to telephone 999 – the quicker idiosyncratic gets treatment, the little apt it is they volition endure semipermanent damage.

It happens erstwhile either a humor clot oregon encephalon bleed stops humor flowing to portion of the brain.

Symptoms tin onslaught precise abruptly and the easiest mode to retrieve them is recalling the acronym FAST:

• Face – has their look fallen connected 1 side? Can they smile?
• Arms – tin they rise some arms and support them there?
• Speech – is their code slurred? Can they talk intelligibly and recognize what you say?
• Time – it is clip to telephone 999 if you spot immoderate of these signs.

Symptoms of a stroke tin vanish arsenic rapidly arsenic they appeared, truthful you mightiness deliberation you are OK.

Even if this is the case, it is important to get aesculapian assistance and get checked over.

Here’s what readers person asked maine this week . . . 

NO LET UP IN KNEE PAIN

Q) I’M a 75-year-old antheral and I bask moving and cycling.

I ran the 2nd London Marathon successful 1982 and person completed galore more.

I was retired for a tally successful July and aft astir 1,500m, I got a unspeakable symptom successful my near knee.

I went to the doctors and helium said that it was my medial collateral ligament.

Although it has improved, I inactive get shooting pains successful my genu erstwhile I’m lying successful furniture and I can’t spot myself moving anytime soon.

I’ve tried assorted exercises specified arsenic squats and partition sits but determination does not look to beryllium overmuch improvement.

Can you counsel maine connected immoderate different people of action?

I admit my occupation isn’t life-threatening but it’s reducing my prime of life.

A) If you stood up and squeezed your knees together, the bits that interaction each different are astir wherever the medial collateral ligaments are.

They link the bottommost of the thigh bony (femur) to the apical of the shin bony (tibia) and truthful stabilise the interior (medial) broadside of the genu joint.

Injury usually occurs erstwhile excessive unit is enactment connected the genu successful a mode that stresses the ligament, causing it to tear.

MCL tears are the astir communal genu ligament wounded and tin impact anyone astatine immoderate age, but we commonly spot this wounded successful athletes – particularly footballers, rugby players oregon skiers wherever twisting, falling oregon collision injuries are common.

However, moving tin origin MCL tears too.

Most patients bash not necessitate country and the betterment clip is typically 12 weeks, but determination are factors that power betterment and healing time.

We heal much dilatory arsenic we get older.

Smoking besides delays healing.

Eating a highly nutritious fare with a wide assortment of fruit, vegetables and wholegrains alongside bully prime and capable macromolecule tin enactment the healing process.

I commend you connected surviving specified a fantastic progressive manner but taking clip to remainder portion we heal is important too, arsenic frustrating arsenic that tin be.

I’d counsel you to question immoderate enactment from a physio.

One oregon 2 sessions whitethorn beryllium capable to springiness you a rehabilitation plan.

This volition incorporated the close exercises for you to rebuild spot portion not interfering with the healing process.

When you resume moving it volition beryllium important to support strength-based exercises to trim the hazard of further injury.

Good luck with it, and delight nonstop a representation erstwhile you are moving again successful a fewer months’ time.

Q) l AM a man, aged 73.

Six years agone I was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

I had country to region it which was successful.

The occupation l person present is l inactive request the toilet astatine slightest 3 times a night.

Also, l person to deterioration a pad 24/7. I’ve been doing pelvic level exercises which haven’t helped.

During the time if I’m doing immoderate benignant of enactment I thin to bedewed myself.

It’s got to the signifier wherever I don’t privation to permission my house.

Is determination immoderate country to rectify this?

A) You are describing a information known arsenic post-prostatectomy incontinence, sadly a well-recognised and devastating complication, particularly successful men who had their prostate removed for the attraction of prostate cancer.

For the bulk of those affected it recovers aft six months to 2 years, but for a minority, which unluckily includes you, it tin persist beyond then.

The bully quality is that determination are a fig of highly effectual treatments.

Pelvic level exercises are indispensable truthful it is bully to perceive that you are doing these and there’s nary harm successful having a league with a pelvic wellness physiotherapist to cheque that you are doing them optimally.

Other manner factors, specified arsenic a steadfast assemblage weight, not smoking and avoiding caffeine, intoxicant and constipation tin assistance depending connected the benignant oregon types of urinary incontinence that you have.

It sounds arsenic though you are experiencing an constituent of accent incontinence, arsenic you accidental that enactment causes you to walk urine.

There whitethorn besides beryllium symptoms of impulse incontinence which is erstwhile you person a strong, abrupt request to urinate that is hard to hold – this tin besides marque you request to urinate much successful the night.

Functional and overflow incontinence are different types and, successful reality, individuals often person a operation of these, which is called mixed urinary incontinence.

Some types are amenable to medication, portion for others country works best.

An illustration of 1 surgical method is an artificial urinary sphincter.

My proposal would beryllium to inquire your GP for a referral to a urologist who tin afloat measure you and research what attraction options mightiness enactment best

DOCTOR STUMPED BY MY NUMB CHIN

Q) SINCE January, the close broadside of my chin has been numb.

It tingles connected and off, usually successful the aboriginal evening, and feels similar I’ve been stung by a stinging nettle.

When I unbend successful furniture the symptom goes distant and I’m conscionable near with numbness.

I went to the doc aft 3 months and helium conscionable said helium didn’t cognize wherefore it’s numb, and fundamentally said “bye”.

I americium 59 and, isolated from that, I person nary different problems.
I enactment connected gathering sites each week and play play astatine the weekend, truthful I’m very fit.

In 2010 I did person a five-hour op to region a cancerous tumour connected my close tonsil and that near the near broadside of my cervix numb.

I anticipation you tin help.

A) The information that you person a erstwhile past of right-sided tonsillar cancer, which comes nether the heading of caput and cervix cancer, is precise relevant.

Your chin symptoms dependable arsenic though determination could either beryllium a damaged nervus oregon unit connected a nervus which is causing altered sensation messages, specified arsenic numbness, tingling oregon stinging to beryllium sent to the brain.

In idiosyncratic similar yourself who has had head and cervix cancer successful the past, immoderate caller symptoms indispensable beryllium taken earnestly and ruling retired recurrence of crab should beryllium the fig 1 priority.

I don’t mean to alarm you by saying this, and with your crab being 14 years ago, it’s not apt that you would person a recurrence (most recurrences hap successful the archetypal 2 years) but it’s inactive important that ANY caller symptoms beryllium taken seriously, particularly if the symptoms are progressing.

The numbness connected the close of your neck, which has been determination since the surgery, is little concerning due to the fact that it is not new.

It whitethorn beryllium that a nervus was damaged during the cognition to region the cancer.

Nerve harm is ever a hazard of country and thing that you would person been made alert of erstwhile you completed your consent signifier for surgery.