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Whom To Consult For Olfactory Hallucinations?
Question: For years I have had joints pop all over my body. It started after I was diagnosis with a syphillis my examination and was prescribed metronidazole. Took it for two weeks and I went back to tell the doc that I was smelling different he said he didn't smell anything and I could get a shot, I said no quickly cause shots hurt, haha. Well, his office moved and I wasn't making money at the time. So years later my joints are popping and seems to make other people to have their hips and shoulders to pop also... Only when I'm around and I still have some fragrance of smell to me also. I have tested by my primary doctor and said I do not have the syphillis. And joint poping is normal don't worry as his wrist popped when he brought it up to shake my hand, caused by what is I am describing to you.
What kind of doctor should I ask to be referred to about this. Is there a name or test I should be looking for to help find a diagnosis and cure to stop this from getting worse or never getting any better?
What kind of doctor should I ask to be referred to about this. Is there a name or test I should be looking for to help find a diagnosis and cure to stop this from getting worse or never getting any better?
Brief Answer:
You need a referral script from your physician
Detailed Answer:
I warmly Welcome you!
Thanks for consulting me at virtual clinic. I have carefully worked through your case, and I can realize your health worries. Being your physician, I assure you not to worry as I will take care all of your medical concerns.
Please ask your physician to refer you to a Psychiatrist for consultation. It's because You need in person visit to a psychiatrist, who is trained to treat such conditions with more perfection. He will take a detailed history and during conversation, he will assess what's wrong actually and will run a battery of tests on you after a complete physical examination.
I am sure, you will get better after the treatment which your psychiatrist will prescribe you once he makes a diagnosis based on facts.
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XXXXXXX USA
You need a referral script from your physician
Detailed Answer:
I warmly Welcome you!
Thanks for consulting me at virtual clinic. I have carefully worked through your case, and I can realize your health worries. Being your physician, I assure you not to worry as I will take care all of your medical concerns.
Please ask your physician to refer you to a Psychiatrist for consultation. It's because You need in person visit to a psychiatrist, who is trained to treat such conditions with more perfection. He will take a detailed history and during conversation, he will assess what's wrong actually and will run a battery of tests on you after a complete physical examination.
I am sure, you will get better after the treatment which your psychiatrist will prescribe you once he makes a diagnosis based on facts.
Hope it helped you today. If you need further, detailed and quick assistance related to any health issues, feel free to 'ask me a question' directly from my profile.
You can also attach Lab reports and pictures directly from the question window, or by emailing it to YYYY@YYYY with the Subject as, Attention: Dr. Muhammad Hanif, and the lab reports and images will directly reach my inbox for review.
May you get very well soon and have a wonderful time ahead. Please don't forget to give your valuable feedback and five star rating, to help me assist you in a better way in future too. Please, write a review about your experience with me.
Regards!
DR. HANIF
XXXXXXX USA
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Neel Kudchadkar
How is a mental health doctor going to help me with that?? You do not make sense. Are you reading the correct profile?i am asking my does my neck crackle in my head when turn it and it makes everybody around me have their bones pop aloud. I'm telling you doctor it does not discriminate. Something I put off makes this happen. I do not have arthritis or inflammation from what my primary care doctor says from blood work. Some kind of gasses come out of my body and will get into your bloodstream and pop goes your joints. Or something like that.. Lol. Well that's my only guess, is that it is airborn.
By the way Dr. Hanif, I have seen a psychiatrist and team before and they are idiots. I do not need any mental health assessments or mental health drugs thank you. Also I do not want to sit around in a hospital reading cards to someone or telling them I do not like classical music and why... W.e.
Why would I need a mental health doctor???
By the way Dr. Hanif, I have seen a psychiatrist and team before and they are idiots. I do not need any mental health assessments or mental health drugs thank you. Also I do not want to sit around in a hospital reading cards to someone or telling them I do not like classical music and why... W.e.
Why would I need a mental health doctor???
Brief Answer:
I am always here to help explain your health worries
Detailed Answer:
I welcome you back XXXX!
I appreciate your cooperation and follow ups are always welcomed at my virtual clinics.
Well, Your physician already told that you don't have syphilis anymore. So please take that completely out of your mind for the sake of your well being.
I want to pacify your curiosity. Joints are made of union of many bones e.g. wrist, neck, hips, shoulder joints are all a combination of different bones. When they are moved, e.g your physician shakes hand with you, it causes sometimes popping sounds, and please believe me, its all normal. Even my wrist pops many a times daily during shaking hands.
XXXX! You don't have arthritis or inflammations, which may have caused the crackles in neck joints. And I want to assure you, it's NOT at all airborne kind of infectious disease.
If you break a bone unfortunately (God forbid), where will you go to consult? An orthopedic surgeon off course. Isn't it...
If you have got Pharyngitis, You will definitely go to an ENT specialist.
The same way you have got a clear reason to consult a Psychiatrist. I am not saying, go to the same Psychiatrist. He must have been some issue so you didn't get satisfied. Please change your Psychiatrist this time. There are a lot more competent Psychiatrists in the region.
You are not wrong about what you are seeing or feeling. Problem is your mind is perceiving a thing, that's not actually there. Its there only for your brain. We have got medications which can make your brain kick in again to perceive normally like everyone around you. Its all the game of brain mediators and some hormones. When they go up and down, it gives rise to Psychiatric disorders. Psychiatrist will assess that derangements and will try to take all to a balance once again.
Within no time, you will feel the difference.
Hope it helped you today. If you need further, detailed and quick assistance related to any health issues, feel free to 'ask me a question' directly from my profile.
You can also attach Lab reports and pictures directly from the question window, or by emailing it to YYYY@YYYY with the Subject as, Attention: Dr. Muhammad Hanif, and the lab reports and images will directly reach my inbox for review.
May you get very well soon and have a wonderful time ahead. Please don't forget to give your valuable feedback and five star rating, to help me assist you in a better way in future too. Please, write a review about your experience with me.
Regards!
DR. HANIF
XXXXXXX USA
I am always here to help explain your health worries
Detailed Answer:
I welcome you back XXXX!
I appreciate your cooperation and follow ups are always welcomed at my virtual clinics.
Well, Your physician already told that you don't have syphilis anymore. So please take that completely out of your mind for the sake of your well being.
I want to pacify your curiosity. Joints are made of union of many bones e.g. wrist, neck, hips, shoulder joints are all a combination of different bones. When they are moved, e.g your physician shakes hand with you, it causes sometimes popping sounds, and please believe me, its all normal. Even my wrist pops many a times daily during shaking hands.
XXXX! You don't have arthritis or inflammations, which may have caused the crackles in neck joints. And I want to assure you, it's NOT at all airborne kind of infectious disease.
If you break a bone unfortunately (God forbid), where will you go to consult? An orthopedic surgeon off course. Isn't it...
If you have got Pharyngitis, You will definitely go to an ENT specialist.
The same way you have got a clear reason to consult a Psychiatrist. I am not saying, go to the same Psychiatrist. He must have been some issue so you didn't get satisfied. Please change your Psychiatrist this time. There are a lot more competent Psychiatrists in the region.
You are not wrong about what you are seeing or feeling. Problem is your mind is perceiving a thing, that's not actually there. Its there only for your brain. We have got medications which can make your brain kick in again to perceive normally like everyone around you. Its all the game of brain mediators and some hormones. When they go up and down, it gives rise to Psychiatric disorders. Psychiatrist will assess that derangements and will try to take all to a balance once again.
Within no time, you will feel the difference.
Hope it helped you today. If you need further, detailed and quick assistance related to any health issues, feel free to 'ask me a question' directly from my profile.
You can also attach Lab reports and pictures directly from the question window, or by emailing it to YYYY@YYYY with the Subject as, Attention: Dr. Muhammad Hanif, and the lab reports and images will directly reach my inbox for review.
May you get very well soon and have a wonderful time ahead. Please don't forget to give your valuable feedback and five star rating, to help me assist you in a better way in future too. Please, write a review about your experience with me.
Regards!
DR. HANIF
XXXXXXX USA
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Raju A.T
I am not educated in the medical field, I would not know the difference between a orthopedic and ENT specialist.. and the problem is not in my mind. It's in your mind. I just told you that is not normal when your knee pops 25 times in a hour just because your laying down in the same room as I am. And when your not near me your knee never pops. As a kid my joint never popped as much as they do now. They pop all day long sometimes loud sometime it just rolls over lightly. And if you were standing here in front of me and agree that it also makes your joints crack and pop than I must not the crazy. People agree with me in this and your just saying that I have brain disorder when I do not. I DO NOT have brain disarrangements.
Brief Answer:
I need some important information from you please!
Detailed Answer:
I warmly Welcome you once more!
I am happy to see you here with me. I want to assess you as per your history. Ok you told in your last Answer, that as a kid your joints did not pop as much as they are popping now.
Please give me some details:-
your age in your profile is 27. is that right XXXXX?
What medications you are taking now a days?
Your height, weight, Blood pressure readings?
Have you ever had fasting blood sugar level tested? if yes what were the results?
Do you have any kind of eye, and heart problems?
Do you have any skeletal muscle problems?
Any skin issue now, or ever had in recent past? if any what was that?
Can you freely, and easily move around in direct sunlight?
The most important part of diagnosis is you full body pictures. A lot of diseases are diagnosed on the basis of the physical examination and body habitus. make a side pose of your body. you are not needed to show the face (if you feel uneasy uploading the pictures, otherwise Patient information is never shared anywhere. it remains only in my files having your medical record at Healthcare magic)
I will wait for a reply, so as to help you out in a timely manner.
Hope it helped you today. If you need further, detailed and quick assistance related to any health issues, feel free to 'ask me a question' directly from my profile.
You can also attach Lab reports and pictures directly from the question window, or by emailing it to YYYY@YYYY with the Subject as, Attention: Dr. Muhammad Hanif, and the lab reports and images will directly reach my inbox for review.
May you get very well soon and have a wonderful time ahead. Please don't forget to give your valuable feedback and five star rating, to help me assist you in a better way in future too. Please, write a review about your experience with me.
Regards!
DR. HANIF XXXXXXX USA
I need some important information from you please!
Detailed Answer:
I warmly Welcome you once more!
I am happy to see you here with me. I want to assess you as per your history. Ok you told in your last Answer, that as a kid your joints did not pop as much as they are popping now.
Please give me some details:-
your age in your profile is 27. is that right XXXXX?
What medications you are taking now a days?
Your height, weight, Blood pressure readings?
Have you ever had fasting blood sugar level tested? if yes what were the results?
Do you have any kind of eye, and heart problems?
Do you have any skeletal muscle problems?
Any skin issue now, or ever had in recent past? if any what was that?
Can you freely, and easily move around in direct sunlight?
The most important part of diagnosis is you full body pictures. A lot of diseases are diagnosed on the basis of the physical examination and body habitus. make a side pose of your body. you are not needed to show the face (if you feel uneasy uploading the pictures, otherwise Patient information is never shared anywhere. it remains only in my files having your medical record at Healthcare magic)
I will wait for a reply, so as to help you out in a timely manner.
Hope it helped you today. If you need further, detailed and quick assistance related to any health issues, feel free to 'ask me a question' directly from my profile.
You can also attach Lab reports and pictures directly from the question window, or by emailing it to YYYY@YYYY with the Subject as, Attention: Dr. Muhammad Hanif, and the lab reports and images will directly reach my inbox for review.
May you get very well soon and have a wonderful time ahead. Please don't forget to give your valuable feedback and five star rating, to help me assist you in a better way in future too. Please, write a review about your experience with me.
Regards!
DR. HANIF XXXXXXX USA
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Dr. Shanthi.E
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