Suggest Treatment For High BP And Cholesterol Levels

Posted on Tue, 27 Sep 2016

Question: My 88 year old father ,Caucasian, high blood pressure and high cholesterol - on medication and takes Effexor 75mg once a day. Has shooting pain up one side of his head, numb lips and surrounding area, then a shooting headache, usually on one side. When it is most sever his left foot gets too heavy to lift. He has vertigo. Been to ER many times - heart is very healthy. What doctor should he see? any ideas on diagonosis?

Answered by Dr. Ilir Sharka (20 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
I would recommend as follows:

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!

I carefully passed through your question and would explain that his symptoms seem to be related to trigeminal neuralgia. This is a neurological disorder related to irritation of the trigeminal nerve.

The fact that he has difficulties of moving his left foot time after time, raises suspicions of a possible intracranial lesion (tumor, inflammation, etc.) related to his symptoms.

For this reason, I would recommend consulting with a neurologist and performing a brain MRI to investigate for the possible causes.

Hope you will find this answer helpful!

Kind regards,

Dr. Iliri

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar