Dear Komal,
I am 73 years old, 5.7 ft height and weight 55 kg.
Lost a lot of weight, approx 3 kgs, in 2020 coz of having for 2 months lime juice and honey every morning during pandemic days. Also, was less active. All the tests were okay.
There was loss of muscle mass and muscle wasting.
In September, I had mild COVID for a short while after double vaccination, with no treatment as per doctor's advice. I only had multi-vitamin and Vitamin C.
I have stopped my exercises since then.
For 15 years, I have been doing 30 minutes brisk walk and 30 minutes light exercise like squats, lunges, push-ups and light weights in between the week. I plan to start again soon.
I want to rebuild my muscle mass and fitness and diet. How should I do it?
Thanks,
Alvito Dsilva

Ans: History noted.
Considering your age 35 years, trying to conceive since, one year and few test done, one of which suggest possibility of tubal blockage, there are various modalities of treatment.
Firstly, you can do laparoscopy to note the severity if blockage and do tubal cannulation.
Tubal cannulation is often the first line of treatment for patients with blocked fallopian tubes because it's a non-invasive procedure that's widely available.
Tubal cannulation is a procedure that can unblock fallopian tubes and is highly successful for proximal tubal blockages, with a success rate of over 80%. However, it may not be successful for all patients and is not recommended for distal tubal occlusions.
This procedure if successful can avoid IVF procedure. Laparoscopy has…
Yes, before ivf get all your blood test, ecg, 2 D echo, xray chest to rule out any illness
Same with your husband to get semen analysis and viral markers with blood sugars to be done.

Ans: Firstly, period was on 1st October
Taken Ipil on 13 November with intercourse prior 2 days
Kindly get urine pregnancy test done first and foremost
Secondly
Ipills can cause irregular or delayed menses also.
If still no periods in one week with negative urine pregnancy test, visit your gynec and get good usg pelvis and few hormonal tests done.

Ans: Hello, noted your concerns
You are in late 20’s with irregular periods, acne, weight gain,
You are undergoing hormonal imbalance
We need to do certain blood test like
CBC, tsh prolactin fasting insulin level
Hba1c, testosterone level
DHEA, LH FSH ESTRADIOL LEVEL
Amd AMH level to check for fertility level
Usg pelvis to rule out
Pcos
The mainstay treatment. For pcos is lifestyle changes
1) Daily exercise, walks. Zumba, running
2) Good nutritious food with proteins, vitamins, minerals, low carbs and fats
3) good adequate sleep 7 to 8 hours
4) stress management: yoga meditation, breathing exercise
5) supplements to controls effects of pcos
6) low dose OC PILLS TO regularize the cycles

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Ans: Hello;

My suggestion would be to opt for an adequate term life insurance and invest through mutual funds and NPS for other goals.

But if you are keen about ULIP only then you may select the insurer/plan of your choice or as advised by your insurance advisor.

However in the Ulip plan have 80% allocation to pure equity funds and balance 20% to debt funds to beginwith and tweak it over time as you grow older(nearing policy maturity date; ~ 30 years later) so by the time the policy is about to mature your equity allocation should be 40% or less.

Happy Investing;

Ans: Hello;

Since money invested would be required after 3 years for payment towards property purchase, recurring deposit is a better option then equity savings type mutual fund.

The returns from equity savings type mutual fund may be higher but they are subject to market fluctuations so no point in taking that risk.

Happy Investing;

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Ans: The cyst size looks quite big. It is better to do CT abdomen with contrast to rule out any significant lesion. If it turns out to be benign you need to do yearly scans.

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