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Do you need help as a matter of urgency, or your father is having urgency? Urinary urgency is usually associated with frequency. In men older than 45-50 years of age, increase in the size of the prostrate (for whatever reason) could be a significant cause of urgency, frequency, hestitancy, retention, etc. If urinary tract infection is excluded from this clinical scenerio, then you need to take your father to a urologist for a DRE, and other exams.

There is difference now in the symptoms you have given now insight. There seems to be incontinence added to the urgency. As naijaking has intimated, your dad needs to see a urologist for examination that might include cystoscopy. If urinary tract infection has been exclude, unusual in men, your dad might benefit from oxybutynin. This is all subject to urological diagnosis!!!

@Kathyekiti
Something tells me she needs an OB/Gyne more than she needs a surgeon.

@Insight
Urge incontinence could be a sign of PBH, Prostrate Ca, or even prostratitis after UTI has been eliminated. I understand the side effects of oxybutin. If you're in a major city in naija, PH, Lagos, and Enugu, you might get a reference to one of the older retiring urologists in the area. The Urologist would give you other options after ascertaining the true cause of your father's urge incontinence. Sometimes Flomax shows a remarkable improvement in about a week, somethings surgery is needed, sometimes hormonal therapy like leuprolide is used. Final recommendation: urologist, urologist, urologist!

Hello doctors inthe house,

Please what could be the cause of pains and inflamation of legs.

Doctors in the house, I greet you. Kindly help me with this condition:

About 2 months ago I took a malaria injection  and about 10 minutes later I felt a numbness on my thigh which continued the next day. On the 3rd day I went back to the same hospital and the doctor allayed my fears and advised that I apply balm to it that it would go with time. Despite the balm application I could feel only partial sensation on that part of my body and it was quite worrisome.  Gradually the numbness gave way and replaced itself with a biting pain that  increases by the day. Ive been to 2 other hospitals after my initial experience and I was  given Vitamin C, Tramax Capsule, Neurovit Forte, Paracetamol and Balm. I don’t know what to do again and the pain still persists .   :'(If I go to another hospital they’ll still give me analgesic! The pain is limited to the thigh muscle/skin, the bone is ok. Isn’t there any test I can do that will reveal the cause of this stubborn ailment?  Please note that the injection was administered on my bum, not my thigh. Also, there was no abscess formed and the pain on the injection site did not last more that 2days! In other words, the injection might not be the cause of this ugly condition .
please help, somebody.

Thanks Mr. Balogun
I had my baby January this year through C-Section, now am feeling pain at my right hand side of my tommy. what test do i do to no what is wrong with me? .

My upper eyelid of my right eye is swollen and its painful whenever i touch it. please what do i take for it

Doctors in the house, please help me.

I've bn sick for sometime now and among the lab tests I did, it was only malaria that was positive, I do have pains once in a while on my legs and the legs are sometimes heavy making it diffcult for me to lift them and walk.  At the hospital, I was given pain killers and antibiotics as well as malaria drugs.  I have taken the medication but I feel feverish (internal) once in a while, it could last for 30 min to Ihr and several hours in the night.  Its not constant though, like 2-3 days interval but am worried because I feel weak afterwards.

Any response will be highly appreciated, tnx.

Any Doc. in the house. Please help me out with this.  Before I had my kids, i used to have a regular period of 28 days.  But lately my period is irregular, I do have a cycle of 32-38 days. in addition to this i find it diffcult calculating my ovulation.  please I need your advice on what to do to correct this.

@marami
it is normal to see a change after childbirth.  Unfortunately this also makes it more difficult to estimate your ovulation date.  Your might want to purchase an ovulation kit to help you with figuring out your fertile days.  Also, Dr. Balogun was quite right in the additional questions he asked.  If you could answer those, I might be in a better position to help you

Doctor Balogun, can you help me  please.

Dear Doctors in the house,

please i need your help.

each time i make love to my wife and ejaculate, all the sparm will come out immediatly.

is this a problem?

she has not been able to concieve for me after 8 months of marriage.

if this is a disease, what is the name, the causes and the solutions?

please i need your help before i become frausrated. 

You are welcome here surgeon!! There are a few of us medics that give advice.
Kathyekiti gives obgyn advice
Naijaking gives general advice and personal physician to pheesayor!!!
My speciality is Emergency Medicine

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@gentleone, thanks for the heads-up.





@titlaelae.

I hope you are much less in pain now, seeing that you posted this over 2 weeks ago.

From all your accounts, it's likely you suffered Neuralgia. This is inflammation of a Nerve branch or Nerve bundlle; in your particular case it resulted from the sharp point of the needle traumatizing directly such a nerve/bundle in the buttock, exactly where the needle went in.

Now, you may wonder why you then felt the pain below this point in the thigh region.

Well, remember the nerves of pain are found in areas of the body tissues that can then be traced backwards to the Spinal-cord at the centre, whence it travels up the Spinal-cord to the brain where the stimulus is registered as conscious pain. The fact therefore is that any damage along any point of this Nerve pathway, could then be interpreted by the brain or "felt" as though coming from the source of the nerve ends i.e. the body tissue.

Your damaged Nerve branch/bundle, was actually coming from your thigh tissue area, hence the brain assumed the pain was coming from there.

Time will definitely re-oganise the injury and heal you up. How is the pain today?