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Suggest Treatment For Headaches And Lip Numbness

I have been waking up with headaches and having numbness in my lips that started out in the mornings. The headaches were relieved with small doses of ibuprofen. I recently had a procedure that required anesthesia and when they checked my O2 sat with the finger thing prior to the procedure, it was 89%. They had me take several deep breaths and moved it to my thumb and after several tries got a reading they were okay with. My HCT never returned to normal since my chemo for breast cancer which ended almost a year ago. I am having back and hip pain. When I told my oncologist about the headaches and lip numbness a couple of weeks ago, he said it was probably just anxiety. I m scared these could all be early signs of metastasis but the oncologist clearly was not concerned. (Breast CA was stage III, HER2+ 3+ overexpressing, metastatic to regional lymph nodes, estrogen & progesteron +, poor response to neoadjunctive chemo with a RCB score of 3.3) I m scared. Should I push to have the symptoms evaluated?
Thu, 16 Apr 2020
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Hi,

Are you having any fever along with headache? Right now, you need not worry about metastasis. Just take ibuprofen three times daily (after food) for 3 days. Only if it is not getting down by then or other symptoms like recurrent vomiting or visual disturbance comes in, we need to evaluate further. Meanwhile be confident and calm. Anxiety causes even minor things to be felt intolerable.

Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Muhammed Aslam T. K., Pediatrician
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Suggest Treatment For Headaches And Lip Numbness

Hi, Are you having any fever along with headache? Right now, you need not worry about metastasis. Just take ibuprofen three times daily (after food) for 3 days. Only if it is not getting down by then or other symptoms like recurrent vomiting or visual disturbance comes in, we need to evaluate further. Meanwhile be confident and calm. Anxiety causes even minor things to be felt intolerable. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Muhammed Aslam T. K., Pediatrician