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been seeing the Menletics app mentioned a lot lately and the whole military calisthenics thing got my attention. figured i'd ask here before i actually sign up.

little bit of background on me. i used to work out pretty regularly, like 4 to 5 times a week at the gym for a few years. then i got injured and had to stop completely. i'm finally feeling okay enough to start again.

i'm also not as young as i used to be lol. i know i'm not going to look like i did back then and honestly that's fine. i just want to feel better, move more, and get a bit stronger. nothing crazy.

i'm thinking bodyweight and home workouts are the way to go for now instead of going straight back to heavy lifting. just feels like the safer way to start again.

so has anyone actually used the Menletics app? does it work for someone like me who is just getting back into it and wants to keep things simple and at home? i'm not looking for anything intense, just a basic routine i can stick to and slowly get better at.

would love to hear from anyone who has tried it. good or bad, just want honest opinions.

Reddit, I'm asking for help, I don't know where to go anymore. I am a man, I am 26 years old. 2 years ago (in 2024), nausea and vomiting began, at first I thought I was poisoned. When this condition dragged on for 2 weeks, I decided to consult a doctor. I did a gastroscopy and found Helicobacter Pilori. It was cured with antibiotics as prescribed by a doctor.

But the symptoms did not go away, nausea also remained a constant symptom, but at least the vomiting went away. I thought it wasn't just the stomach. Having visited 7 doctors in six months (2 gastroenterologists, 2 neurologists and 3 psychotherapists) I was prescribed a course of antidepressants (I drank amitriptyline 25 mg for six months and then sertraline for six months). As you realized by changing the pills, neither one nor the other helped. I also drank antiemetics - nothing helps. I tried CBT with one therapist - a small dynamic began, but it was extremely small and did not lead to recovery.

What's the situation now: I've been sitting at home for 2 years, and when I go out or think that I need to go somewhere, I start to feel very sick. And when I say "very", it means that I'm about to throw up. But the most interesting thing is that it doesn't throw up. I have a great fear of throwing up on the street/in the subway/in public, which makes my nausea worse. My limit in 2 years is a trip to my relatives in 1 hour on public transport - and this road was hell.
Unfortunately, I have not found similar stories on the Internet, and accordingly, neither the Internet nor doctors (which is even more disappointing and frightening) couldn't help me deal with my condition.

Please ask questions, and I will try to respond promptly. And really, tell me if anyone has had this and what to do about it, or am I some kind of "patient zero". Thank you in advance!

Hi, so I think I’m going insane.

I got mono in November of 2024. Ever since, I constantly feel drained of energy and feel weak. In January 2025, I had night sweats that were so bad I had to sleep naked on a towel, and then when it eventually got drenched, I had to switch out the towel during the night. I thought it was just mono, and that it just hadn’t fully passed. The night sweats went away but then came back; they always last for a month, and they happen every night for that month. I’ve had 4 night sweat episodes since January 2025.

After the 3rd episode, I decided to Google my symptoms, and it told me I could have HL (Hodgkin’s lymphoma). I ignored my symptoms and hoped it went away. But then in February, I started to get itchy in the shower, which lasted 2ish weeks. I remember that it was a symptom of HL. But I am scared that it’s all in my brain and I just created itchiness because I read about it months ago.

Then in January of this year, I got the flu, and my lymph nodes never went back down. I went to my doctor, and she said that my symptoms could be a blood cancer. She ran a bunch of blood tests and a chest X-ray, and they all came back normal. She also ordered an ultrasound of the lymph nodes, and this is what the ultrasound found : Images demonstrate a heterogeneous lymph node versus lymph node conglomerate in right zone 1 measuring 4.2 x 0.7 cm (remeasured on cine images). There is also a left zone 1 lymph node measuring approximately 2.0 x 0.5 cm (remeasured on cine images) without a definite fatty hilum.

I called my parents, who are doctors, for their medical advice. My dad even told me I was Googling my symptoms. After I got the test back, my doctor asked me about what my parents think about it, and I told her what my dad said to convey to her that they are not taking me seriously, thus not giving any useful medical advice. She then asked me if I did. I was pissed off, then told me that my symptoms and my timeline don’t make any sense, and it looks like I was faking it to seem like I had Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The doctor said the only thing to do is wait and get an ultrasound in a couple of months or get a biopsy. I am going ahead and getting a biopsy in 2 weeks. My parents think it’s completely unnecessary and told me that nothing points to cancer. I feel like I’m going insane. On one hand, I believe myself, but all the doctors are doubting me and I’m starting to question myself.

I’m scared I’m just making it up, am I going crazy, is getting a biopsy unnecessary?

Note: I have terrible memory, and so when my doctor asked me a question, I looked at my best friend and her messages because I tell her everything. So when my doctor asked if I had an unexplained fever, I searched my messages and surely enough, I texted my friend during 2 of the night sweats episodes that I was having night sweats again and a fever. It could be possible that I have had more fevers, but we primarily send voice memos and can’t search for words in the transcript.

For some background I am 20 years old male, the only medication is a stimulant, and I’ve been vaping for a couple of years.

My husband (28M) started having trouble inhaling in august 2025. He describes is as not being able to fully breath in 100% because it’s like blowing air into an already full balloon. His symptoms gets worst in the evening while relaxing on the couch or when he is trying to sleep.

He suffers from asthma and takes medication twice daily and have been since he was a kid. He generalmy has had no problem with his asthma and was well medicated and could exercise a ton without having issues. He is really fit.

The first doctor we talked to after his symptoms started switched his asthma medication and that went on for about the first 5 months. No improvement, it actually just got worse because now he can no longer exercise without the symptoms worsening.

The medication has kind of stopped working. The doctors have tried a lot of things and nobody finds anything that can explain his symptoms.

He has had an ultrasound of his heart and all was find. He has had his asthma and lungcapacity checked out and nothing seems too out of the ordinary. According to all the tests he is breathing fine. He has been on an experimental diet the last 6 weeks (no gluten, no milkprotein, no soy and no coffee), and nothing has happened.

But after 8 months nobody has any clue what is going on. It is really affecting his mental health and he just told me and he will give it 10 years to improve or else he will kill himself. It frightens me to hear him speak like this. Does anybody have any clue?

Is is suppose to get an x-ray of his lungs tomorrow. We’ll see what happens. I’m expecting that they won’t find anything weird.

My dad is touching 56, he has been smoking since he was 25. Now he works at a pub and only comes home at 1 am and then gets up at latest being 7ish am. He is now pretty moody, tired and also changing a lot from the amount of attention he used to give to me. I'm so scared he will drop dead any second. Also he doesn't have a healthy diet that is nutritious. He just eats rice, some dal and meat. I want to help him in any way that I can. He wont stop smoking so I cant really do anything about that. Any advice on how I can keep him as healthy as I am able?

I 25M (150 lb) got a corneal abrasion on one of my eyes, and it got infected with conjunctivitis. I got prescribed an antibiotic ointment and have been using it for the past week, since I went to the ER.

Now here's the problem the pain is actually unbearable, I've been taking Tylenol every 3 hours because I cant make it to 4 . I cannot take sick days, I am broke, and I do not have insurance.

So to recap about 1500 MG Tylenol every 3 hours, about 9000 mg a day. I just googled a little bit ago because I thought I exceeded the dose a "little" bit. And the results told me I could probably experience liver failure in the next few days.

So basically if I stop taking Tylenol now, will I avoid liver failure, or can I switch to ideprofen?

Im a 38 year old male and I’ve had this spot for the last few months. It hurts sometimes and other times noting. I plan to make a visit soon for an ENT doctor but just curious if anyone has had something similar.

I am in Wisconsin. Green Bay.

I have Myalgic Encephomyilitis. I'm allergic to all steroids.

I need cataract surgery, and those two factors are making the entire process traumatic and dangerous for me.

I need a team who understands what my medical condition prevents me from doing, and how it changes the care and anesthesia I get.

I need to be sedated for all testing when my eyes are dilated. I need to be paced through the other tests.

I need to rest in a quiet, dark recovery area when I'm not engaged in testing.

I need support if I crash during the process.

I have the person to drive me. I have someone else who can help me with unexpected expenses and travel.

I just need to find this clinic and get this done.

My surgeon must repeat for both eyes, and I am willing to do both and sign a waiver for the risk to do both the same day.

I don't want to go through this twice, because my tolerance is very low, and I don't have any reserves.

My mom is 62 with arthritis and had knee replacement. She can walk but has pain when standing after rest. Doctor said it takes time, but visits are hard. Tried AI tools like ChatGPT and Medichat, but no real improvement. Should I trust AI or stick to doctors?

I am writing to provide a detailed clinical history of a complex neuropsychological condition I am suffering. All began following an acute episode on February 11, 2026. On that date, while taking a hot shower and smoking a couple of sigarettes. I started then to masturbate and I felt like I wasn't able to finish. I insisted for about 15 to 20 minutes while experiencing extreme pallor and ipo ventilations with pauses. After I stopped I experienced a sudden and severe crisis characterized by intense dizziness, extreme pallor, and diffuse tingling throughout my head and face. During this episode, which lasted as I said approximately twenty minutes, I suffered from a profound fear of being broken and what appeared to be a respiratory and circulatory dysregulation, possibly involving a cycle of hyperventilation and hypoventilation as the doctor said.

I decided to rule out structural damage doing an MRI. Although the results were entirely negative, showing no ischemic lesions or organic alterations, I have remained in a state of severe and persistent "functional shutdown" for over two months. This condition is marked by a profound sense of depersonalization and derealization; I no longer recognize myself in the mirror and I feel as though I have regressed to a vulnerable, childhood-like state. My perception of reality is distorted, making the world around me seem incomprehensible and distant.

Cognitively, I feel completely "burnt out." I am currently unable to maintain a coherent line of thought, and my working memory feels non-existent, as if my mind is unable to "hold" any information. This is accompanied by a distressing sense of strange feeling specifically localized to the right side of my brain and eye, it's really subtle and not constant. Physically, I suffer from a persistent feeling of cold and a total lack of "grounding", feeling as though I have no solid floor beneath my feet.

Regarding my current treatment, I have been taking 20 mg of Paroxetine (Eutimil) for 24 days and 50 mg of Pregabalin (Lyrica) twice daily for about 15 days and 1 mg of Risperidone. Despite this pharmacological intervention, the dissociative symptoms and the feeling of being "another person" remain unchanged. I am seeking a medical advice to address this persistent "freeze" I feel and to determine how to restore my cognitive and identity situation.

I still live in the fear that I suffered brain damage and that the situation is not reversible.

So I'm having bloody vaginal discharge

My boobs are sore and hurt all the time and I can barely keep a shirt on from how bad it is

There is some lump inside the breast bit I think it's normal for me?

I'm also feeling real depressed and unable to sleep and I'm super miserable and tired

So I think something is up with my hormones but I don't know what to do?

I don't even know how to see a gyno and I have so little energy I don't know what to do I just want to pretend it's not happening

Hello! I think the title is self explanatory, but this past school year I’ve been feeling physically horrible only at school. I feel weak tired everything feels heavier and harder to do. For context I’m 17 years old 186cm (6’1 ish) 76kg (167ish lbs)(idk if this is info is needed). I eat very clean I sleep 7h+ a night I also workout. No matter what and how much I eat for breakfast I still feel horrible at school. I had blood work done taking vitamin d because of a deficiency. I can go without eating and feel great when I’m on break or it’s the weekend, this feeling of tiredness weakness only happens at school. Is this related to stress? Is there a way to fix this? I’m not under extreme stress and I’m not getting bullied or anything this is only physical. Any advice would help!!!

Hi i need help ever since 7th grade in my elementary school ive began to get constant fatigue attacks, its a kind of attack where i suddenly become sleepy, my eyes are barely open, i have headaches and i cant handle noises anymore just people breathing too loudly around me can trigger frustration and silent agression i barely hold back, once i get back home i always sleep untill ≈8pm and cycle keeps repeating untill this very day, then neck and shoulders pain began to come along with the issue. So i always tried to rationalize at first back then i thought that might be because of my diabetes because i am a type 1 but back then i never experienced such exhaustion before 7th grade..so no, then if not diabetes then maybe bad posture? nope, why would i get fatigued by that? another theory i had was that my environment and circumstances might be the issue i was bullied that year when if started + there was some academic pressure for my 8th grade exam that allowed us to pass elementary and pick a good high school, so i thought that its mental overload from studying and dealing with a lot of agressive people, pressure rooted and sensory overload thing right? i guess i was wrong. environment changed and it was still terrible, i kept visiting doctors they always tell. me to either eat better, sleep more (lol), go on a walk get fresh air or that its stress or even better some sort of depressive episode but i dont think that, its a lot more complicated than what i could describe here on reddit but im just damn curious people my age (im 18) are energetic have lots of energy to go in places, handle noisy places with lot more ease than i do and seem more noisy in classrooms and other places, but for me it piles up and hurts to the point i feel it physically, but i cant just cut off society its part of life, i want my social circle to grow too i cant keep avoiding or missing opportunities because i was too exhausted to the point i slept through in my free hours + entire night, i dont want to annoy my family as well, they keep scolding me for sleeping. I began to take some caffeine tablets latelly, it keeps me up through the day but i do not wish to continnue like this, its dangerous i dont want my heart to stop one day from exhaustion and accidental caffeine 0v3rd0s3.. what do i do man? and what the hell could that be?…its been years, i want to cure it. (i’ll just quickly add that i do go for a walks and i excercise every time im able to, so its not like i never tried anything to change my situation.) i want to hear somebody else advise me, what do you think? any experience or info would be life saving i’d know what to check for or what to implement

I'm 23F and my periods have been an issue pretty much my whole life. The longest ive gone without a period is about 6 months but that hasn't happened since I was 16. I don't remember when my last period was, I don't think ive had one this year and I'm beginning to get concerned after looking up some potential side effects. Ive been tested for PCOS but the results weren't "obvious" enough to indicate that I have it. Ive had blood work done and they said my B12 was low but that shouldn't affect my estrogen. I'm not obese so I don't think that's the issue. Any advice would help a lot, I'm just feeling a bit hopeless with the situation.

24, female, 5'2", 110 lbs, white, united states, no known medical issues, no medications, several months

as the title implies i've had issues with excessive perspiration around my armpits and under my breasts. i've looked online and nothing i've tried seems to help much. i've tries different antiperspirants, deodorants, powders, bras, and nothing seems to work well. it's only under my armpits and breasts. thank you!

I am not sure if this is the right sub to post in but for some reason i cannot seem to drink water in the morning without ruining my whole day. people always say to drink water in the morning first thing when you wake up but whenever i do that, my stomach grumbles SO loudly and it starts to hurt. anytime i drink water on an empty stomach i get really bloated to the point my stomach hurts and i embarrass myself a lot in uni when it grumbles loudly. it is so embarrassing that i literally refuse to drink water in the morning no matter how thirsty i am. i have good gut health and do not ever get bloated apart from when i drink water in the morning. i have tried everything. for example: i started to drink room temperature/ warm water because i read that cold water can “shock your system”, nothing changed even then. i have also tried going to the toilet first before drinking water and i will still get really bloated after. i have increased my fibre intake and nothing changed. the only way i can make it stop is if i eat a heavy breakfast/lunch and then drink water. for example, i will have to eat toast and eggs or pasta for lunch and only when i feel full can i drink water. i do not get bloated at all when i do this but it sucks because i get sooooo thirsty. pls help.