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I’m 35F, generally healthy with ulcerative colitis that is well controlled. I take mesalamine and omeprazole. I had my gallbladder removed in 2024. I have been noticing abdominal pain and a little yellowing of my skin, nothing crazy but noticeable. I did some bloodwork today and I just got the results back. My doctor is out on Fridays and I won’t hear back until Monday, but I am in increasing upper abdominal pain and I’m trying to make sense of these labs. Should I go to the ER or can this wait until Monday?

This is less than an 1/8 of an inch at its longest.

I am 38 years old, male, 210 pounds, 5’10. No medications or current health issues.

Last night, I noticed a red spot on my lower leg, started playing with it, then I went to pop it like a pimple and this guy popped out.

At first I thought it was a tick, but it has no legs or features and it never showed any signs of life.

F31. 160cm. 50kg. Now it’s me again with my sunburn. You can see on my previous post how this looked like yesterday. It was all dry and now these liquid appeared. I just cleaned it with soap in the shower and it got worse. What is the bright red things in the liquid? Those hurt when I washed it in the shower and those red things appeared in the shower. Should I go to the ER or is this normal? I don’t understand why there is liquid again when everything had dried out. The regular health care isn’t open until Tuesday. Thank you all for your help. Yesterday the doctor told me it looked ok but does it look ok now? Should I pop this new blister with a needle or just let it be?

Edit: I called the ER and they said to wait and not to go in. Also the hard wound ”stood up” yesterday and now it has ”shrunken down”, what does that mean?

23M, 155 lb, don’t smoke, no medications, no prior ear issues. I just noticed this in my left ear, with a much smaller patch in my right ear.

Hello!! I am 24 y/o female, 5’3”, 190 lbs, and a non smoker. I have only been diagnosed with Hashimotos and currently take 88 mcg of levothyroxine. Thyroid levels are currently stable.

So far, I have been to my PCP, an endocrinologist, an ER, and now an allergist/immunologist. No one has any idea what is going on… I am currently waiting on some bloodwork to come back from the immunologist, but wanted to pick everyone’s brain.

For about a year now I have been experiencing the following symptoms:

Worst symptoms—

- Extreme bloating, especially after eating (doesn’t matter what I eat. Could be crackers could be a whole meal)

- Nausea and diarrhea

- Loss of appetite

- Muscle pain/aching

- Random hot flashes with sweating

- Skin gets flushed, hot and burns

- Itchy hives on skin

- Terrible brain fog

- Can’t concentrate and lose my train of thought frequently

- Irregular and heavy/painful periods (cycles range from 38-60 days, periods last about 8 days and are heavy the whole time)

- Extreme fatigue and tiredness that don’t improve with any amount of sleep

- Dizziness

- Heart palpitations

- Insomnia

- Shortness of breath

A lot of my symptoms seem to happen in “flares” through the day. I will get hives everywhere, skin is hot and burning, I start sweating, I get dizzy and nauseous, basically just feel awful like I have the flu plus hives, then after like 25 minutes they go away and come back throughout the day. Other symptoms are constant. I have constant, debilitating itching even when hives are gone. They started off only happening in the evenings usually… gradually have gotten to the point where they’re all day almost every day. My diarrhea happens quite literally as soon as I eat anything. This has resulted in me mostly just eating ice chips every day. I have started doing 2 Allegra with a famotidine in the morning and the same at night. This has helped slightly but has not completely eliminated my hives.

I am at the point where I genuinely feel like my quality of life is being affected. I don’t sleep well, I get hot flashes and sweat all day and night, my stomach always hurts, and I’m always breaking out in hives or flushing on my face. I’m always tired and achey and I feel dazed every single day. I just really want to know — what could be causing this? I don’t believe it’s my hashimotos as my TSH started off at 31.7 and is now at 2.9 and my symptoms have not improved at all.

A few other things that might be worth mentioning

- negative ANA

- negative tick panel

- no allergies (have never had so much as seasonal allergies)

- haven’t made any recent changes to soap, detergent, etc.

- CBC and CMP were basically normal

- vitamin d deficient

I have added a picture of the hives for reference.

Female, 5’3, 62kg, no smoking or drinking, currently taking beta blocker Bisoprolol, echo scan around 2 years ago due to suspicions of having POTS. All clear. I have been having tachycardia for around 4 years bought on by positional changes and just at random.

Experiencing very frequent ectopic beats and dizziness so took myself to a and e. They done an ecg that showed this abnormality but then said it’s nothing to worry about. My xray and bloods came back clear. The have now increased my Bisoprolol but it does not seem to be helping. I am waiting further help for cardiology but there is a wait list Any ideas? Abnormality is circled. Any tips on how to stop the thudding sensation.

Like title says. F47. Is this mole any concern? She had it for 2 months and gets bigger.

I am a 35f who went to urgent care due to sinituis. I have an ent appointment April 16, but im worried I need to be seen sooner. I was prescribed antibotics and prednisone at urgent care yesterday.

urgent care couldnt see my ear drum due to wax build up. they tried to irrigate it with water and soap. it hurt badly. I made them stop, then discovered i was actually bleeding from my ear.

I used an ear camera (I know bad). attached is an image.

I do not use qtips or even put headphones in my ears (I use over the ear headphones). this camera is the first time ive willingly put something small in my ear, but the bleeding really freaked me out.

in general my ear situation is freaking me out.

should I see an ent sooner?

age: 10 months. Female. weight: 21 lbs

I know this just looks like she has a lazy eye but I took it from a video.

She randomly started doing this yesterday at a ped appointment. No triggers and no other symptoms. She would be in the middle of babbling or playing with a nurse and do it with a plain face and stop in seconds.

We got a CT head scan, they said looked fine. Got a blood panel done, they said for a baby getting over the flu it looked fine as well.

She also got a 75 minute EEG and we are waiting on the results. We are also waiting to hear from a pediatric optometrist for an appointment.

She hasnt done it that I have seen since last night. She would do it a few times with only me and her father but then when someone else was around it happend more. I started to think it was intentional but talking to the nurse who witnessed it multiple times said she didnt think it was by the way her eyes were moving around.

She slipped 4 days ago while she was crawling and bumped her head on the floor. She also had the flu two weeks ago. She is also teething.

Im just wondering if anyone has experienced this before?

I am a female. 38 years old. I am 5'4" and approx. 176lbs. Hyperthyroid diagnosed around the time all this went down. Don't know if they can be related.

So I have had this mole on my back for a long time and my husband noticed it start rapidly growing over a period of a few months. I was going to see a doctor at around picture 3 where it started to get darker, but it just....disappeared. Did it fall off? All it left behind was a minor blemish on my skin. It has been a few months now with no change so I am not sure if this can just happen sometimes or I should be worried.

I can’t say enough words to express how desperate I am, please if you are a person with medical or experienced knowledge, please I beg you to read - please.

I’m 7 months postpartum, (my baby has slept all night from 4 weeks old - so I sleep well) I’ve been so unwell for 6 months I just need closure and direction.

Female - age 29 - I don’t smoke or drink, I’m on esomprezole

(These might not relevant, but just for context) Mybloods and vitals are normal, I was diagnosed with gastritis by endoscopy after treated for hy’plori (now negative), I have been dizzy, fatigue, feeling out of it, tinging fingers and toes and lips, blocked ears, swollen lymph’s, jawing pain on my left upper abdominal side radiating to back. Heart palpitations I eat every 2-3 hours avoiding large meals, I drink 2-3 litres of water, I have no spices or refined sugars (unless having a severe drop and no glucose tablets), I have been told I am all good because of my blood results but please understand I feel so weak I can’t leave the house, I get severe rapid blood sugar drops after having a shower. I am desperate for help, I just want to be able to spend time with my children and be able to play with them, please, please I am so desperate can anyone help.

I have had issue with blood sugars since I was a child but it was never too major and I have dealt with it quickly with eating some sweet and bam back to normal. Now for the last 8 days it’s out of control, my diet has never been better, I’ve removed all refined sugars, only water, as I say above frequent eating with great complex carbs, proteins, fats, veg and non citrus fruits. What more can I do, they keep saying it’s ‘normal’ I’ve collapsed twice at 2.7mmol, I spent 2 days in hospital and they said ‘some women just get lows’ but this is a sudden changes. I bought a cgm it’s been that bad. The cgm failed to pick 2 readings so I have had 4 drops today and they happened so quickly. I have zero warning and bam it’s so so quick (also my insulin came back at 3, and was told that low was very normal) but they now think that rules out insulinoma. It’s the fact this has happened so quickly and rapidly and even happens when I sleep, it went to 3.1mmol. Our hospital is so bad, I feel so lost and ignored.

Could this be from my pancreas or please any thoughts at all? My liver function is normal, I’m not diabetic

I have spent the last 10 months having bizarre health symptoms. For a month my scalp was burning, another month I developed POTS, then sinus tachycardia, and vitamin D and iron deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, histamine issues, extreme fatigue, became hypothyroid for a month, and a lot of strange things.

I’ve been checked for just about everything but recently gained 10 pounds a month over five months very suddenly out of nowhere and I’m 50 pounds heavier than my normal weight despite having a nutritionist, eating homemade foods, and exercising. I developed insulin resistance and mild fatty liver from this, and I’m working to reverse that through diet. It’s been really upsetting.

Suddenly, last week, my mouth began burning, and I didn’t know what it was and each day it got dramatically worse. It began with redness and intense swelling. I went to two urgent cares, and an ent doctor who said it was viral, but didn’t have much treatment. All of the red spots in the back of my throat down my esophagus, and my tongue turned white overnight with my tongue mainly being yellow. I did begin antivirals in case, but had bad side effects, but today’s day four with that.

My integrative doctor ordered me a swish and swallow medication for oral thrush and within 24 hours I saw great improvement with my tongue- it’s now raw and red and most of the yellow is gone. I believe that is the main cause and I’ve lost my voice and it definitely spread down my esophagus as the ENT doctor checked with a camera and said I was covered in viral ulcers.

I’m trying to understand why I developed this and if doing the swish and swallow medication for a week will be enough. I had a fever during this and extreme loss of appetite after again previously the last five months having a ravenous appetite. I couldn’t eat solids most of the week but now can slowly but have no hunger. I have no taste and was tested three times for each flu, strep, Covid including cultures. I have been tested for diabetes and have 5.0 A1c and great fasting glucose. I previously was tested for immune system things like HIV multiple times and was negative. I get extensive blood work done monthly and nothing else has shown.

The only other new thing is I did a 24 hr urine test in my last post that was very high. Both saliva cortisol tests were normal, so I’m unsure if they will continue testing for potential Cushings.

I did go through trauma with the death of my bf two years ago dying from fentanyl overdose (I do not use drugs) and have PTSD from that. However, I’m on anxiety medication and did three months of an outpatient program for anxiety that just finished this week and I’m doing much better. I also I’m concerned about environmental factors in my apartment possibly. I am non-smoker quit cigarettes in 2018, and do not drink alcohol. I just don’t know what to do I’m 31 years old and keep getting more sick with stranger symptoms overtime. Any help is appreciated and I apologize I’m writing this from my cell phone.

Current meds are pantoprazole for gerd, klonopin for anxiety, ivabradine for pots, and then zrytec/flonase, iron supplement, multi vitamin, vitamin d, magnesium glycinate, weaned off propranolol for pots, and using valtrex this week and nystatin.

F31, 5’3”, 185 lbs (was 135).

So i went to a govt doc today for ankle pain which lasted a month after treeking and done an X ray

He says the gap is something something which i didnt understand and just gave me calcium and gas tablets. Can anyone read it ?

20M

Hello I’m a 36F, 100lbs, non smoker, very minimal drinker.

Long story short I ripped my SL ligament completely. Got a reconstruction and after persistent pain found out I had radiocarpal high grade arthritis, cmc arthritis, edema in the druj and joint effusions.

Basically I’m looking at a full fusion combined with an ulnar shortening ostectomy as conservative care and time have only made the issue worse an more persistent. The hand is painful and minimally useful. The pain is all over both radial and ulnar. The ulnar side hurt after awhile and turns out there’s a partial foveal tear there too.

I’m just wondering if there is any advice reassurance or thoughts on these two surgeries. Are they staged. Combined. Do they impact one another.

Seeing multiple people for multiple opinions.

Hi all,

I have had this 10-12cm extremely painful mass on my lower back for 6 months now. It feels like a deep deep pressure in my lower spine and causes non stop jerking in my right leg.

It was 8cm when I found it 6months ago and has recently measured 12cm. I’m 23 and female.

The weird thing is, although it’s extremely visible to the eye, it hasn’t shown up in any ultrasounds, CT scans or MRI’s. This means I’ve fallen through the gaps in medical care as many specialities don’t want to take me on when I have clear scans.

What could this be? I’m in severe pain daily and has taken over my life.