Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 69-year-old male in good health. In 2017, I experienced a pulmonary embolism in my left lung. Following that episode, my cardiologist put me on a statin regimen of 40…

Dear Carolyn: Can you please outline for me what I need from my husband concerning his emotional cheating? Three years out, I still feel it’s unresolved. When asked why he chose to shut me out…

Hi, Carolyn: Your column concerning a new mother feeling pulled in many directions to celebrate Mother’s Day really got me thinking. I have felt the Mother’s Day guilt of wanting to make my mother and…

Dear Dr. Roach: Recently, a well-respected consumer organization ran an article asserting that hundreds of thousands of people die every year just from eating deli meat! The problem is supposedly that the nitrates and/or nitrites…

Dear Carolyn: I’m a middle-aged, longtime-divorced, peaceful, content woman. I was pressured into dating a recently divorced man in his 60s; I wanted friendship, he wanted romance. We’ve been dating a few years, but had…

This is not the article I would have predicted to write a few months ago, and certainly not my usual educational column.  However, like many others, COVID-19 has me feeling off-balance as I navigate my…

The statewide stay-at-home order has been lifted, but life and work are far from “back to normal” for most of us amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  Social distancing, cleaning and disinfecting, wearing face masks in public,…

Dear Carolyn: My partner made an offhand comment this week that if life had to remain this way indefinitely — sheltering in place — he would probably decide it was “not worth living.” I understood…

Dear Carolyn: My father recently said he wishes we were closer, like I am to my mom, and asked me if I blame him for their divorce. I truthfully said no. But haven’t told him…

Dear Dr. Roach: My doctor started me on Wellbutrin 150 mg XL for depression, but I have had terrible insomnia. She said it would get better in two to four weeks, but I am having…