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      Disclaimer
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      Dr GO

      For any person posting that would like to have their physician respond to any information provided by me, please provide the link to the website below to find my personal link, then follow the link to the practice and I will respond as quickly as I can. It is best that the communication be maintained physician to physician to keep to the need to support this disclaimer.

      http://westernmedicineinc.com/western-medicine-providers/

    • Dr GO

      Shortness of Breath, Coughing with Trumpet Playing - Is it Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis?
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    • Dr GO

      Unsafe Sax-To Circular Breathe or Not
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      SSmith1226

      @Dr-GO
      All tongue in cheek. No patients or families were harmed in creating my post!!!
      Just a figment of my dry sense of humor.

    • Dr GO

      Lead Players Need Less Bathroom Breaks
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      Richard III

      @Dr-GO said in Lead Players Need Less Bathroom Breaks:

      So, for lead players that have their parts that hang a good part of the time above staff, I imagine less bathroom breaks are needed.

      I remember the days when my parts did that. ☺

    • Dr GO

      Dr. GO? My back's been bothering me...
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      @Pinstriper said in Dr. GO? My back's been bothering me...:

      @moshe said in Dr. GO? My back's been bothering me...:

      To encourage peace in this forum, I have deleted all of my posts in this thread.

      God bless.

      moshe

      What does this supposed to be meaning ?

      I haven't seen any non-peaceful responses. Some generalizations corrected, and disambiguiation, some restatement of pertinent facts, all in a spirit of accord.

      Or are you suggesting that you are about to blow an o-ring because everything you said isn't being accepted at face value, and you are trying to erase the conversation so that it never happened ? If so, you need a different kind of doctor.

      I was afraid that my posts might have offended some people,
      so I deleted my posts.

      It's that simple.

      Please do not insinuate that I "need a different kind of doctor".
      Be nice.

      moshe

    • oldpete

      Triple by-pass reocvery
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      oldpete

      Thank you guys, very much.

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      Sleep Faster
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      Rapier232

      @Kehaulani
      More too much rugby and running, that and getting old.

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      Thyroid stuff
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      Dr GO

      @Kehaulani said in Thyroid stuff:

      Yaaay for the American pharmaceutical and medical system!

      Hey, we have some control. You know how to make a hormone? Don't pay her!

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      Stroke
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      Kehaulani

      8 weeks removed from your stroke/
      You're lucky. There's a full year and a half that I don't remember. at all. It'll get better, just keep on doing what you're doing.

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      Could you have a metal allergy?
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      @Dr-GO said in Could you have a metal allergy?:

      @Richard-III said in Could you have a metal allergy?:

      Thanks for all the info.

      Richard-III you are so welcome. Hope all does work out for your current mouthpiece. If you do notice any of the symptoms starting, one option is gold plating. Gold chops does this for $35. I think it would be worth the try as gold has a great feel and less of a chance of developing a contact dermatitis. Plastic mouthpieces would be an alternative.

      Thanks. I was just asking for others and out of curiosity. I've never had an issue or allergic reaction with any mouthpiece. I don't know why as I've had reactions to metal everywhere else on my body. I've also played really old mouthpieces that were quite worn and the plating very thin with no problems. And I'm talking about many hours a day, every day for years and no reaction. I also play on horns with the lacquer removed with no problems. True that wearing a ring or watch for 16 hours a day is not the same as playing 2-5 hours a day. Exposure level is obviously different. The people who are reactive must be extremely reactive. I would ask them if they have the same issues with rings, watches and piercings.

    • Dr GO

      Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?
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      @Dr-GO said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:

      @Bob-Pixley said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:

      I've never had a headache from playing with out of tune "musicians", but it is a pain in the butt.

      In these situations, I just learned to turn the other cheek!

      I'll bet that helps.

    • GeorgeB

      Embouchure Dystonia
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      @Richard-III said in Embouchure Dystonia:

      Good read and a very good site for musicians:

      [link text](https://www.musicianswell.com/stories/2019/4/16/michael-atkinson-overuse-and-the-pitfalls-of-going-it-alone[link text](link url))

      Thanks for sharing. Nice article.

      Mike

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      Update on my injury
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      @ButchA
      Sorry to hear about your problems, Butch. With this last injury I thought that I may have to switch to Baritone horn. Thankfully, the trumpet is still my baby. Take care, buddy.

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      Trumpet Elbow!
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      Dr GO

      Treatment Option Comparisons for Trumpet Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

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      Laughter is the Best Medicine
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      Playing risks in Covid-time
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      @flugelgirl

      Good for you !!!!

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      Info requested from MD's & pros w/similar issues
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      Pinstriper

      @Estevao My eyesight is pretty poor anymore. I wear +5.0 contacts just for walking around, and +1.75 cheaters to read. My solution to reading music was to scan it all and put it on the biggest iPad I can get, in ForScore. With aggressive cropping, and also extensive cleanup - often pixel by pixel - to get rid of smudges, smears, schmutz that others can ignore but which my eyes take longer to recognize and disregard. I can get a remarkably clean and legible sheet out of a very nasty, crufty scan, and about 125% larger than if it was on a clean page. In some cases our original paper was the result of a scan of a scan of a photocopy of a copy of a copy and compared to that I have a few that are closer to 175% of original.

      I also turn the brightness on the screen all the way up. Really helps.

      THEN you also have the option of turning it sideways and viewing half a page at a time. You have more page turns, and it will be harder to read very far ahead, so you will want to make use of the Links feature to help with jumps, possibly even in repeats and certainly in dal segno and coda jumps.

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      I'm desperate and at a lost with reactions to metal mouthpieces.
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      @replacedflea said in I'm desperate and at a lost with reactions to metal mouthpieces.:

      Hello everyone, OP here. Thank you for all your advise and help. I will be looking into the stuff you guys have suggested. All this stuff has really helped. I did up date the original post with new information and clarification to some of the replies. Thank you again.

      Let us know how it goes.

    • GeorgeB

      First practice using trumpet mask
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      fels

      I am playing in small groups coached by local Phil players. They (and I) have done their research (studies by UC (Colorado ) and CSU). Last week the pros asked if I had a bell cover. I responded that I had left my Crown Royal bag in my kit bag. Then I remembered that I was wearing a Buff neck sleeve. I took it off and wrapped it around the bell. I could not tell any difference in tone or playability. Problem solved.

      Another note -- the phrase "Science is Science" has become trite. Science is a process. The "Conclusions"
      can and will vary considerably.

    • tptguy

      Tinnitus sufferers here ?
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      Dr GO

      Here is another article on prevalence of tinnitus in musicians, based on instruments they play. Wind instruments take the biggest hit.

      https://www.tinnitusjournal.com/articles/occurrence-of-tinnitus-and-other-auditory-symptoms-among-musicians-playing-different-instruments.html

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