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  Disclaimer
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  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/

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  Shortness of Breath, Coughing with Trumpet Playing - Is it Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis?
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  Unsafe Sax-To Circular Breathe or Not
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  @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.

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  Lead Players Need Less Bathroom Breaks
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  @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.

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  Dr. GO? My back's been bothering me...
  • Dr GO  

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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

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  Triple by-pass reocvery
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  Thank you guys, very much.

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

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  Thyroid stuff
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  @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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  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.

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  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.

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  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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  Treatment Option Comparisons for Trumpet Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

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  Laughter is the Best Medicine
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