Fingers, Family Medicine FAQ

After wisdom tooth extraction, the swelling in the cheek transforms into a flat, pancake-like tissue? Hello, Director Hsiao. Three months ago, I underwent surgery to extract my lower right wisdom tooth. After the extraction, my right cheek was significantly swollen. One month pos...

Is it possible for the swelling after wisdom tooth extraction to calcify so quickly, within 3 to 4 months? Hello Dr. Lin, I had my lower right wisdom tooth extracted three months ago. After the extraction, my right cheek was significantly swollen. A month later, I was referred to...

Questions about parasitic infections? Hello Doctor, Q1: Since I live in the countryside, there are stray dogs around my home and near my workplace. There is often dog feces on the road. Yesterday, after a light rain, I walked to my car and felt water droplets hitting the ground...

Nausea Parasite If you accidentally squished a mosquito and then forgot to wash your hands before eating, ingesting the remnants of the mosquito on your fingers is unlikely to cause any serious health issues. However, it is always advisable to wash your hands thoroughly before ea...

Umbilical bleeding Last week, I noticed a foul smell coming from my navel. I focused on cleaning it, mostly around the outer rim, to avoid missing the inside. The next day, I found the navel to be moist and sticky, and when I used a cotton swab, there was a slight blood tinge alo...

Numbness on the left side of the body, along with weakness and soreness on the inner side of the left arm, with no identifiable cause? Since early last year, I have been experiencing numbness in my left pinky and ring fingers, which then progressed to my legs. By the end of the y...

Mild pain in the lower left abdomen? Hello Doctor: I would like to ask which specialty I should see. I have a mild aching pain about 10 centimeters to the left of my navel, roughly three fingers down. This occurs when I sit and then stand up, but it resolves once I stand up strai...

Finger issues One day, I woke up and suddenly noticed that my right hand's middle finger, ring finger, and little finger felt a bit stiff when trying to bend them, accompanied by a sensation like a "pop." I also felt some tingling at the tips of these three fingers...

Recently, I have been experiencing multiple symptoms in my body? Recently, I have been experiencing multiple symptoms and I'm unsure which specialist to see first. Should I go directly to a family medicine doctor for an examination? Over the past two months, I have frequentl...

Hand and foot issues? Hello, doctor. I experience pain when pressing down on the first joints of both hands. My fingers, palms, wrists, and the backs of my hands sometimes feel tight. The pads of my index and middle fingers also hurt. Additionally, my left foot feels numb from th...

Medication adherence issues Hello, doctor. During my company health check-up on December 7, 2021, my blood test results showed a white blood cell count of 7.7, red blood cell count of 4.19, hemoglobin of 10, hematocrit of 31.4, mean corpuscular hemoglobin of 23.9, and mean corpus...

Self-diagnosis of a herniated disc? Due to long-term prolonged sitting, I have recently experienced occasional sensations of tingling and numbness in my thighs and fingers. These sensations are brief, and sometimes I mistakenly think I've been bitten by a mosquito. I initial...

Back pain with tingling in the inner side of the left arm and palm? I have been experiencing pain in the upper middle back for three months. I have seen a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner for acupuncture, who suggested it might be related to my gallbladder. Recently, I h...

Back pain with tingling in the inner side of the left arm and palm? I have been experiencing pain in the upper middle back for three months. I have consulted a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who performed acupuncture and suggested it might be related to my shoulder pai...

The fingertips feel swollen? Hello Doctor, for the past few days, I've been feeling a slight swelling in the pads of my left hand's five fingers (near the fingertips), similar to the sensation of calluses from pressing guitar strings. However, I haven't been pressi...

Headache when lying on the pillow while sleeping? There is a spot on the upper back of my head that hurts every time I press on it while sleeping. I also feel pain when I apply pressure with my fingers. This has been going on for a while, located about 3 centimeters above the nap...

Soreness in both hands? Hello, several months ago, I experienced soreness in the thenar muscles under the thumbs of both hands. I suspected it was caused by holding a child with my hands. It gradually improved, but over the past two weeks, I've started to feel something unus...

Finger numbness issue? Hello, doctor. For the past two weeks, I have suddenly been experiencing brief sensations of discomfort in my fingers (lasting less than 1 second or 1-2 seconds), which feel like a mild ache (not painful, and there's no pain upon pressure; I'm not...

Bruising on the palm? My mother experienced sudden pain near her fingers on her palm while riding her bike yesterday. The pain improved later, but she noticed a purple bruise and swelling, although she mentioned she didn't hit anything. Currently, she feels pain when pressin...

Joint issues Hello Doctor, since the beginning of last month, I have been experiencing numbness in all fingers of my right hand except for the pinky. The numbness worsens while riding my motorcycle, making it difficult to control the throttle accurately. After resting for a week,...