Thanks for watching...
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Here at "The
Ultimate Prescription,"
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we've been talking
about symptoms and causes,
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and we also talked a little
bit about our first aid kit...
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And if you would like to
chime in with your questions
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or suggest something for
our first aid kit, go to:
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heartwiseministries.org
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and you can contact
us there with an email,
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and let us know your
thoughts, your questions
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or what you might want
to add to a first aid kit
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as we will let
other people know.
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And someone was
just recommending...
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That was the
director of the program...
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The director of the program was
recommending a magnifying glass,
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and that's a great item to have.
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What might you use
that for, Dr. Marcum?
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You know, you can look
at a bee sting or something
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you can't see well,
when people get older
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sometimes we can't see as well
or get a feel for it exactly.
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We've had some insect removal
kits that might help with that,
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and remove some prongs or if
some poison, that might help.
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Another thing that I
thought about is a flashlight,
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so you can see
things, especially
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if an accident
happens and you need a light.
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I have my
flashlight on my cell phone,
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and I turn it on with that,
but they make very small lights
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now, Nick, they can be good.
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One of the things that
I think is pretty cool is
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in my telephone, I have
this lady in the telephone,
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and I can ask her
questions, I really can,
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and I can even ask her first
aid questions and sometimes
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she knows too.
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And my phone can tell
me stuff too! Not bad!
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That's pretty impressive.
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Technology
definitely can be a help,
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and sometimes maybe it
can be a hindrance too.
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No, but it's neat,
Nick, you should try it.
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You just ask this
girl the question,
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she will tell you
what you need to know,
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and if she doesn't know,
she will be very polite...
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She'll go, "I'm sorry, I don't
know what you're talking about."
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But anyway, it's very
neat, but you know what,
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we're digressing.
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I think we're about to
talk about some questions
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that she might
not be able to answer,
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but I think you might
have some ideas. I hope so
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Okay, let's get some questions.
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Our first question here
is about someone who has a
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constant headache;
they don't have any answers
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so far and they're
desperate for help.
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They ask, "It's been
going on for 14 years,
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I currently take Tylenol,
can you please pray for me?"
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Yes, we will
definitely pray for this person
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for chronic
headaches for 14 years.
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If I think about a
headache, that's a symptom.
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And a headache can be
caused by many different things.
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And, you know, I'd have to talk
to this person in great detail,
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but the chance is, if a
headache has been going on for
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14 years, it's probably
not life-threatening. Right
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The headaches that are
life-threatening are ones that
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are just sudden
onset, the worst ever,
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can't see - lots of
other things going on.
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But a headache for 14 years,
things that can cause that...
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chronic stress - you
know, muscles being tight,
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I've seen that a few times.
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We've talked
about the bowel flora,
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how bowel flora can
cause inflammation and do that.
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It would be very
interesting to know
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if there are
triggers for headaches.
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There are
different types of headaches;
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vascular headaches
that's due to blood vessels.
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Migraines is a
vascular type of headache.
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Different triggers
might trigger that.
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But a constant
headache for 14 years...
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Tylenol #3 is
probably treating the symptom,
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but not treating the
cause of the symptom.
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So I would be very interested,
not only in praying for this
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person, but I want to invite
this person to see a doctor.
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The doctors that
specialize in headaches
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are "neurologists," and
see if they can give you
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a diagnosis.
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If there's no diagnosis
and they do think it might be
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a stress headache or
"I don't know headache,"
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then that's the one
that really, you know,
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look at all the
different aspects in your life
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from hydration...
if you're dehydrated
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that can do it, to
eating certain foods...
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it can have chemicals in
it that can trigger headaches;
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inflammation can
trigger headaches;
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stress can trigger headaches.
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So this is a
wide-ranging process,
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but headache is a symptom
and on this lady, we're treating
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the symptom and not the cause.
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It's going to take a
little more investigating
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for a constant headache,
but those are some sort of
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thoughts on this
situation that might help her,
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but, for sure, we
will pray for you,
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and no matter what
symptoms that you have,
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God is going to
listen to our prayers,
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and help get us to the people
we know or heal us right away.
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So our Heavenly Father wants to
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be a part of
treating our symptoms.
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In fact, in the Bible, Christ
met people their physical needs
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first - that's
where He met their needs
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and then He
introduced them to the Father,
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and then the Father brought
him into a deeper relationship.
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So that's where it all
starts, meeting someone's needs.
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That's right.
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We've got another
question, someone asks:
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"I have a cough only at night
and usually when I lie down,
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my energy level has
been decreasing and my heart
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is going faster
with little exertion.
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My doctor gave me a cough syrup,
but it's not really helping."
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What are your suggestions?
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Well, a cough can be
many different things.
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It could be related to sinuses;
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that's a very
common cause of cough.
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Of course, people with cancer
in the lungs have a cough.
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People with acid
reflux have a cough.
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But this type of cough,
what makes me think this might
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be related to heart failure...
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Is this person, when he
lies down, it gets worse? Right
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That's very characteristic
of fluid in the lungs
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from heart failure.
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Also, this person
gives me another symptom,
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"the heart goes fast."
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When a heart goes fast,
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they can't breathe,
they can't lay down flat...
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That gives me a good
sign that this person might be
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in heart failure.
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So I would ask this
person to see your doctor...
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Have him evaluate
you for heart failure.
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If you are in heart failure,
again... they want to find out
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why you're in heart failure.
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They want to give you some
medicines for your symptoms,
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usually diuretics to
take fluid out of your body,
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maybe even a little oxygen,
and the next step would be
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finding out why
you're in heart failure,
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and that's another whole
discussion from arteries,
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to weak heart, to valves.
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All sorts of things
can cause heart failure,
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but these symptoms
sound like the cause might be
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a weak heart. Right
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That could be really
serious. Yes it is...
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So that's a great
question, I'm glad you asked it.
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I would get some help
right away on this one.
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If you're having
symptoms that you can't explain,
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please visit your
medical professional,
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and try and find some answers,
get to the root of the problem.
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And remember, we're
just giving suggestions,
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we are just going
to give suggestions,
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we can't enter
into a relationship...
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We just try to point
you in the right direction,
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but always see your doctor,
get their input. That's right
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We've got another
viewer who writes:
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"My body aches and
does not feel right,
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I have spells of nausea,
weakness, loss of weight,
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headaches and extreme fatigue."
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"So far, I've had blood
work, a CT scan, ultrasounds,
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and still no answers."
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Dr. Marcum, what do you
think they need to do next?
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So, they are sick at
their stomach, they're weak
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all over; they're losing
weight, they have headaches,
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they're tired all the time,
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they've had a
lot of testing done,
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and that's the routine
testing.. we do the blood work,
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the ultrasounds and they
still don't know the answers.
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Any thoughts?
Well, in tough cases
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where they can't find
anything, and the symptoms don't
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really follow a pattern,
one thing I like to sort of
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point people to is have
your doctors evaluate you for
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toxins and poisons. Okay
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There are certain things in
our environment that sometimes
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get in it that we don't want.
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We see things like
radon, heavy metal toxins that
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we don't want to have.
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I've even had people that
had some arsenic-mercury-type
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poisoning that gets in their
body, different types of things,
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lead, different
types of poisonings,
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toxins can cause
these types of symptoms.
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that might be a place to look at
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if nothing else is making sense
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especially if this
person doesn't have any other...
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Sometimes extreme stress
and mental problems can trigger
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the body to create symptoms,
to try to cope with things,
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but this
doesn't sound like this.
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This person really is sick
and there's really no pattern;
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nothing is picking up on
it, so I would be very concerned
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about a toxin, a
poison in the environment;
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a side effect of a medication,
something of that nature
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that could affect lots
of different organ symptoms
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and not be
explained very easily.
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And the way you do
it is go to a doctor,
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they do a toxicology
scan where they scan you
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for almost everything,
that's additional blood work
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that can be done fairly simply.
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That might give you some more
insight into making a diagnosis
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because treating
symptoms like this,
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you really wouldn't
know where to start. Right
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Because it
involves the whole body,
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but those are some thoughts that
I would have on that one, Nick.
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How about this,
another viewer writes:
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"I've had a heart
valve replacement 6 years ago
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for a bicuspid aortic valve,
I had a fever the last few days,
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and my doctor put
me on an antibiotic.
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I quit the antibiotic after
5 days because I felt better,
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and the fever
came back last evening.
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Should I resume the antibiotic."
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Well, of course, I can't
give specific information,
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but I can give some suggestions.
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First of all, see your
doctor, but a fever is typically
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a sign of infection,
certain cancers can cause
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fevers as well; of
course if you are hyperthermic
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for any reason - that can
cause the temperature to go up.
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So this person doesn't
sound like it's hyperthermic,
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doesn't give me anything
that would make me think
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that they were having a
cancer, not losing weight,
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you know - it hasn't
been going on for a long time,
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but would make me think
that they have an infection.
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The problem with an
infection in a heart valve,
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if an infection gets
into the bloodstream,
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the bugs love to
attach to something.
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They love to
attach to heart valves.
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So I would be very
worried that this heart valve
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might be infected.
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So you would want to
know right away whether
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you have an
infection in the bloodstream...
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So I would ask my doctor to
take some blood cultures first
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to see if the blood
was infected and if it was,
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you know of course, that
would also help us identify
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the bug so we could specifically
tailor the antibiotic.
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Antibiotics - we can
actually tell which antibiotics
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can kill the bug the best.
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Can you imagine a
person taking antibiotics
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for an infection and the
antibiotic is resistant...
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that means it
won't kill the infection.
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We see that in
certain staph species now.
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We've heard
Methicillin- resistant Staph...
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so methicillin or penicillin
won't kill that staph bug
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because we've got resistance.
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So those are some of the steps
I do, but I would be concerned
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on this situation that you might
have an infection in the blood.
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I would not
resume my antibiotics.
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I would see my
doctor right away and he can
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decide, based on some
blood work, if you have
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an infection in the
bloodstream that could be
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compromising your valve.
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If a heart valve gets infected,
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that could be a
very serious problem.
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We know that once
it's in the blood,
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the bacteria can go everywhere.
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And if they see
something abnormal,
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you know - the
bacteria are going around,
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and they feel pretty
good... they get to the heart,
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and they say, "Wow,
there's a valve, there's a valve
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that's abnormal - I'm
going to jump on that,
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that's a good place for me
to live and get nutrients."
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And then their friends come
along and say, "Wow, hey look at
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Buddy there, he's getting some
food - I'm going to join him!"
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And before you know it,
there's a bunch of bacteria
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forms an infection and
it can actually destroy,
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eat the tissue of the valve.
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So that's not a good thing...
Well, it sounds like some good
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advice there, a good
place for them to go.
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Another viewer writes:
"I have chest pain when I
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take a deep breath and
it's sharp like a knife.
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Should I be
concerned about my heart?"
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Yeah, my answer is -
I'm always concerned about
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everyone's heart... as a
cardiologist you should be,
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but first you need to see
your doctor who can examine you
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in great detail, but
when people have heart pain...
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a pain that
won't go away is either
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a heart attack
or something else.
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If you have a pain
that won't go away,
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that needs help right away.
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Another type of
heart pain is a symptom
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almost any symptom above the
waist when you're doing things.
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Those would be
characteristics of heart pains.
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If I touch it and
it hurts, that would be
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characteristic of a muscle
pain - musculoskeletal. Right
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If, this person sounds like
when they take a deep breath
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it hurts - that
could be muscles.
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It could be lungs, it
could be a condition called,
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"pleuritis" when the pleura
of the lungs come in contact
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with that - that could
be something like that.
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It could be a lung problem.
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The question is... "Should I
be concerned about my heart?"
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Yes, I would be
concerned about it.
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I would see your doctor
who will go through some tests,
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might do an EKG on you,
might do some lung testing
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on you which might
have need to evaluate,
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but this is not
usually what I hear when I hear
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when I hear a heart problem,
but I would still see your
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doctor and make sure.
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But if it hurts when
you take a deep breath,
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that would make me
think muscles, lungs,
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things of that
nature... pleuritis which is
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inflammation of the pleura
which can happen in infections.
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They might have damaged their
lungs - that could cause it.
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They might have had a bruise on
the lung or something like that
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that also could
cause it as well.
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It might be a muscle
that's connected to a rib
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so every time you
breathe, that muscle moves.
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But unfortunately,
when it's above the waist,
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you wouldn't
worry a lot about it
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if it was in the back of
the leg because you'd say
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"I pulled a muscle," but
whenever it's up in this area,
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it's hard to know
whether it's your heart.
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I always think pain up in
the chest needs to be evaluated
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by a professional in person
that knows what's going on,
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a few questions, maybe an
x-ray, an EKG will help clear up
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this symptom to see what needs
to be done to get at the cause.
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Excellent advice!
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We've got time just for one
more question here and it says:
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"My abdomen has been
bloating, no real pain,
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but it's just
worse after eating.
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I also have low grade
fevers, should I worry about
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my gallbladder?"
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I think that
person is right on base.
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That could be a symptom of
gallbladder becoming infected.
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It might be other things...
the fever makes me think that
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there might be an infection.
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Bloating is not
a normal symptom.
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So these are symptoms
that suggest there's a problem
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in the GI tract,
probably below the stomach
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and below the rectum...
and in that area we have
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stomach, we have
intestines, we have gallbladder,
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we have pancreas,
we have other organs.
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They can evaluate
that by examining it.
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If you touch it and it
hurts, that's really bad.
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If you're not
going to the bathroom,
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that suggests that the tube
is clogged up - that's bad too.
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They can do some simple tests.
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Sometimes they can do
some scans on the bowels
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to make the
diagnosis, but this is a symptom
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that needs to be
evaluated right away.
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It's not a normal feeling...
bloating, not feeling well.
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This is a person that
not only will be prayed for,
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but they need to see a doctor,
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get it looked at -
the sooner the better.
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That's some great advice.
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If you are
experiencing symptoms,
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go to your doctor and ask them,
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"Please find the
root of the problem."
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And we thank you, Dr. Marcum,
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for all your advice
that you shared with us.
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We're going to be
back in just a moment
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as Dr. Marcum would
like to pray with you.
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I hope you're not
experiencing symptoms today,
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but if you are, it's very
important to find out the cause.
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Remember, symptoms are anything
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in your body that
doesn't feel right,
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especially if they
don't go away - get some help.
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I'd like to invite you to
pray at this time with me...
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Father God, There
are many people out there
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that are having symptoms of
all sorts of medical problems
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as well as
spiritual problems, Father.
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We want to pray that You
be the Ultimate Physician,
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the Ultimate
Prescription for their lives.
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And thank You so much
for being a God that loves us
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and wants to heal us and this
is our humble prayer... Amen
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If those out there
want to have more questions
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that we didn't
address, I want to invite you to
00:15:38.57\00:15:40.34
our website that is:
heartwiseministries.org
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If you might
need special prayer,
00:15:43.67\00:15:45.41
we'd also like to pray with you.
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Until next time,
I'm Dr. James Marcum
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wishing you the best of health.
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