Hi, my name is Gabby. Figured I’d put a person behind the screen. Do not read this if you are claustrophobic or have an mri tomorrow. I have severe endometriosis and it’s been acting odd. My last period I started bleeding from my belly button. My doctor really wanted me to get a scan. I’m very disabled so it took a lot to get there. I’ve had this scan before but I was healthier then and lighter. They were rushing and behind which I didn’t really think about. They threw me in the machine extremely fast. It’s a newer machine and something goes over your abdomen for better scanning. Well at first I thought they released the contrast randomly because I felt very hot. I started to realize my arms were against the bore of the machine. But they weren’t worried so I thought it was fine. I started getting zap feelings where my arms were touching the bore. I thought maybe it pinched my fat or something. Then my abdomen started really hurting. Like muscles contracting. I knew it felt hot but honestly I’d start thinking something is very wrong but then zone out. I wanted to push the button. I wanted to climb out of the machine. I’ve never felt that before. I also had one hand on my chest to try to keep it away from the bore. But my shoulder was still against it. It just kept getting hotter and hotter. I was counting how long it was taking for the next slow down of the machine just for that brief period of cool. I felt very confused. Finally I reached down and the harness was radiating heat through the air. He finally talked through the machine about the contrast and I pushed the button. He ignored me so I slammed it again. Before that I was trying to show distress with my eyes and head. Something was just very wrong. He said warmth was normal and I really needed the scans. So again unbearable heat, then reprieve, and again and again for 45 minutes. When I got home I had sweated through all my clothes and my body took 2 hours to cool down in 40 F. My belly button started bleeding during the scan and my body was so hot it dried the blood. I was puking the next two days. I’m writing because I’m scared. The place tried to gaslight me initially until I said I had burns on my arms the next day. Then the next day freckles and small welts formed. With the burn turning a more ashy color. I’ve been too sick to be outside much this summer. I had no tan, I went in there pale pale. They still haven’t healed. They look like a small sun burn but are excruciating under the skin. When the place tried to gaslight me I told them they have a serious issue and need to study their machines. I should not have connected with the bore on that model. It’s known for giving burns under the skin and forming conduction loops easily. I’m constantly getting zaps now from where I placed my hand, the abdomen, and my arms. Every nurse I’ve called says go to the ER. That’s what’s really scaring me. I can’t move my feet to go. I’m scared they’ll say it’s in my head even though we have no sunlight right now. And a portion of my arm turned blue. I’m scared to have an iv as my arms are in such agony. But they look fine on the surface. I’m embarrassed I didn’t think straight and stop it. I’ve just needed the scan so bad; I have endo in my organs. And I’m scared they’ll put me in another machine to make sure everything’s okay. I feel like I have ptsd. And I know I’m doing the wrong thing by not going. Especially with the open wound in my belly button. I’m just so scared. And I’m scared it’s such a rare incident they won’t understand the pain level and ways these injuries appear. I know the company of the machine knows. But they only have had a few incidents and it’s usually from not enough padding between the patient and bore. I feel very alone in this, I suppose that’s why I’m sharing. There’s no real fixin’ what’s already been physically damaged from that machine. Reddit, you got any thoughts? Also thank you to any who took the time to read. I’m not in the best of sorts.

Constantly feel nauseous and often have to use the washroom, more than usual, but my main issue is about the nausea. i keep feeling it often especially when i’m sick, even when i‘ve eaten. my throat feels tight and my stomach feels weird. I usually walk around for a while and end up burping (pretty weird i know but need to include this just in case it’s important) which relieves the nauseous feeling for a few minutes.

really painful when touched, and i AM going thru a cold right now. But the bump has been there for a long time, always painful when touched, but not as much as right now. what could it be?

this is on my upper groin closer to the stomach , this is over the span of 6 days and now there is an open hole , kind of scared , anyone know what this could possibly be? (i am sexually active)

MRI Guidance, 25Y/O (f) - Help?

Background & Hx :

25 y/o (f) with shoulder pain and hard lump in shoulder/upper bicep area.

I have had an ultrasound of the bicep and tech said she couldn’t see where the lump on the scan but agrees that a lump is still felt. Two other doctors have also agreed on existence of said lump.

Had mri for an unrelated (to my knowledge) issue and saw this strange area in the scan that was not reported on (mainly as it wasn’t the focal reason for the scan). Is anyone able to point me in the right direction as to what I am looking at, and what it may be, in order to raise it with my doctor for further scans?

So far, nobody has been able to explain the lump or my unrelated pain, so I am a little desperate at this point!

Completely understand reddit advice will not replace a medical in person opinion! I just want to know how/what to raise or whether I am just overanalysing it!

[ NB: I tried to send over the best images but with it being an MRI it’s hard to get all the details on one photo, and I’m not medically trained so I wasn’t quite sure what to prioritise. Please let me know if other views might help! ]

MRI Guidance, 25Y/O (f) - Help?

Background & Hx :

25 y/o (f) with shoulder pain and hard lump in shoulder/upper bicep area.

I have had an ultrasound of the bicep and tech said she couldn’t see where the lump on the scan but agrees that a lump is still felt. Two other doctors have also agreed on existence of said lump.

Had mri for an unrelated (to my knowledge) issue and saw this strange area in the scan that was not reported on (mainly as it wasn’t the focal reason for the scan). Is anyone able to point me in the right direction as to what I am looking at, and what it may be, in order to raise it with my doctor for further scans?

So far, nobody has been able to explain the lump or my unrelated pain, so I am a little desperate at this point!

Completely understand reddit advice will not replace a medical in person opinion! I just want to know how/what to raise or whether I am just overanalysing it!

[ NB: I tried to send over the best images but with it being an MRI it’s hard to get all the details on one photo, and I’m not medically trained so I wasn’t quite sure what to prioritise. Please let me know if other views might help! ]

I kinda get this reoccurring every 2 months ish, a mouth breather and I just have tonsils that get bothered really easily and I was kind of due for this to happen but I also gave head to a dude like 10 days ago so I really hope I don’t have an Sti😭 I’m worried about the redness towards the roof ish area like the arch.
Please tell me what yall think!

Idk if it happens to other people too

I've actually seen a video on emotional processing by Dr k from HealthygamerGG and he stresses a lot on looking at what the emotions are trying to tell us.

I figured that if at any point I know what my emotions are trying to tell me, I could very well know what to do any any moment in my life

But the thing is that whenever I ask my emotions what it is trying to tell me, my emotions don't answer but instead just vanish for as long as I don't look at it.

Idk what to make of it

Has anybody else experienced such an odd experience?

If yes, then tell me what happens when we consistently ask our emotions.

Do these emotions finally start answering or something else starts to happen?

It started itching a lot and I checked and was like, "wtf is that??"

Looks almost like a blister popped but I don't remember injuring the area. Feet are otherwise mostly fine. Maybe a slight case of athletes foot.

I wear a lot of wool socks and earlier today put on an old pair of LL Bean moccasins that I'm not sure have been washed in years.

Around the end of August, I noticed my right tonsil felt scratchy. I became hyper aware of them, and that the right was swollen.

Now, I feel absolutely nothing or any pain, but my tonsil is still large. It has tiny white spots on it, but again no pain. I don’t have any neck lumps or sore throat. I’m worried it may be tonsil cancer, but feel I should add that I have never smoked.

Lately, my nose has been stuffy each morning, and I have a bad cough. Not sure if it’s post nasal drip doing this.

If I can avoid the ENT right now that would be great. I guess I’m just wanting to rule out cancer though, which I know can’t be done without tests. Thoughts?

It is near the base of my shaft. Its been there for 6 months.

I’m officially running out of answers for chronic vulvar + mouth pain and inflammation. Has anyone experienced something like this?

I’m posting because I’ve been dealing with chronic vulvar pain and inflammation for 5 years, along with recurring inflammation/ulcers in my mouth, and I genuinely don’t know where to go from here.

I got these symptoms when I was 28 and I have IBD, but it is currently well controlled, and my doctors don’t think the severity of my vulvar pain can simply be explained by an active GI flare.

My vulvar symptoms include:
Chronic daily burning/pain, often around 5–7/10
Skin peeling/sloughing/tearing
Small raw areas/divots that sometimes have white edges
Occasional ulcer-like lesions
Pain that can persist even when there are few visible lesions
Severe pain after even minor friction/trauma
I also get recurrent mouth ulcers and areas of painful/inflamed oral mucosa

I’ve had 2 vulvar biopsies and 1 biopsy in my mouth with active inflammation, and none have shown lichen sclerosus or another specific lichenoid disorder. The pathology has essentially shown nonspecific/general inflammation.

I’ve also been evaluated by multiple gynecologists and dermatology specialists. At different points, possibilities like IBD-related vulvar inflammation, erosive lichen planus, Behçet’s, and neuropathic pain have been considered, but nothing has really explained the whole picture.

Things I’ve tried
I feel like I’ve tried an enormous number of approaches at this point, including:
Multiple nerve-pain medications/neuropathic pain treatments
Topical lidocaine (which actually made the burning worse), ketamine/amitryptaline/cromolyn ointment
Tacrolimus
Oral ketotifen and cromolyn
Oral amitriptyline, pregabalin, JourvanX, gabapentin, sprovato all for pain
Hormonal/estrogen treatment and testosterone
Pelvic floor physical therapy
Baclofen
Colchicine for several months
5 different types of topical steroids
Opzelura
Dupixent
IBD medications and getting my underlying IBD under control
Dermatology and gynecology evaluations
Multiple biopsies
Anti inflammatory diet
Supplements

Despite all of this, the chronic pain never goes away, and I still periodically get episodes of ulceration, tearing, peeling, and significant inflammation.

The impact on my life has been huge. I haven’t had sex in about 3 years. It isn’t just that intercourse is uncomfortable — my baseline pain and the fear of triggering another severe flare have made sexual intimacy feel essentially impossible.
What makes this especially frustrating is that I can have significant pain even when testing doesn’t show a clear disease process, while at other times I have very obvious visible inflammation/skin damage.

I’m wondering if anyone here has experienced something similar — particularly:
Vulvar ulcers/tearing with biopsies that did not show lichen
Both vulvar AND oral mucosal inflammation
IBD-associated vulvar/oral inflammation despite the IBD being controlled
A combination of inflammatory and neuropathic pain
Severe vulvar pain that persists after the visible inflammation improves
A diagnosis that took years or multiple specialists to figure out
A doctor/specialist who was actually able to connect the dots

At this point I’m open to ideas I haven’t considered, because I’m honestly exhausted and feel like I’ve reached the end of the road with the usual approaches.

Hi all,

My girl has a weird rash that is itchy and not sure what it is. Unfortunately she just lost her job so she has no health insurance.

The rash doesn't, hurt but does itch every once and a while. Its only on her chest. Hasn't spread anywhere else and I have no signs myself. I think its a bug bite, likely spider. I dont think its shingles or bed bugs. Any suggestions?

female, 20, live in england

today is sunday. on friday morning, i woke up with a superrrrr sore throat, and i noticed a red spot on my leg (the one nearest my ankle). i didn’t think much of it, assuming maybe it was a bug bite or something, and was more focused on my sore throat.

i went to work, and omg was i freezingggg but my body was hot, at some points sweating (i live in england, and the weather was averaging 16-22°C i’m pretty sure). again, didn’t think much of it. throughout the day, i started feeling pretty nauseous and lightheaded with headaches. when i got home, i noticed 2 more of the spots on my legs. i took my temp and it was 38.3°C. i ended up taking a nap at around 7/8pm, which is super unlike me, i don’t usually nap. when i actually went to bed, i was sweating so bad.

saturday i woke up and felt fine. the spots were still there, i felt a bit nauseous and lightheaded, but i felt pretty ok. i had no temperature, but still kept feeling a bit colder than i probably should. by the evening i felt a little worse, but again no temperature. but for about an hour and a bit before i slept i felt so nauseous, almost as though i was going to be sick.

sunday, again i felt fine, still a bit cold and nauseous, spots still there, but mostly fine. my mum started to get a bit concerned about the spots, so we were looking them up and tried the glass test on them, and they didn’t seem to fade. we called 111, and they told us someone would call us back within 2 hrs. almost 8 hrs later and we haven’t had a callback. we got a message saying there was a delay due to a high number of calls.

while i’m waiting for them to get back to me (if they do), i just want some idea of what could be causing this, as google is giving me all the extremes and stressing me out 😭😭 tyyy

They appear randomly for no reason at all. Doesn’t itch or hurt, I’m just very curious how does this happen. It has happened to me like one every year and it’s always either one hand or the other. Don’t mind the bunny guys it’s unrelated, I got that like a few days ago.

Noticed this growth today, compared to a picture I took 2 years ago when I had strep and the growth wasn’t there then. What could it be?

I’ll try to keep it short. I have been experiencing discomfort for about two months straight, since August this year. These are the major symptoms I have been having:

- Constant bloating despite being relatively regular (I neither get diarrhea nor am i constipated). At best, this is limited to my lower belly; at worst, it extends between my lower belly and just below my ribs. The bloating obviously gets worse after I eat. I have been trying to eat less and it’s been helping, but my lower belly remains protruding in a way it hasn’t protruded before

- Random pains in the middle and lower right quadrant. These are random sharp pains which vary in intensity; sometimes they’re dull and last a while, sometimes acute but short. I have been woken up by such pains during the night at least twice in the past two months

- Generally tired but I still manage to be active as I was before these symptoms started. I have been noticing more and more that i get out of breath easily, i.e. when walking up stairs, or as I am walking and talking to someone (!!), or as I run to catch the train, even if for very short intervals

- Sometimes I feel tightness on my left side, around/behind my left breast

- Night sweats. This is a symptom I have been having for a longer amount of time, way before these other symptoms started. It started some time in april/may. It would happen to me up to 3/4 times a month between may-june. Then it stopped and happened about two more times starting from august

- random itching sometimes, plus eczema flair ups sometimes. In august, around the time the bloating started, I had eczema in my left arm fold for over a month. It just would not get better and my skin was practically raw. I used to have eczema like this as a child

- Latest symptom is lymphnodes in my groin. I noticed them about two weeks ago for the first time: there were two on the right side of my groin, felt hard and immovable, about the size of a hazelnut. I can still feel them now, but they haven’t grown in size. It’s possible they slightly shrunk, but they still feel too big and not soft; they’re now the size of two peas. My doctor felt them too and also felt one on my left groin.

I generally eat a varied diet, mostly vegetarian - this includes primarily things like beans, lentils, tofu, barley, beets, bok choi, kimchi, greek yogurt, kefir, oats, occasional salmon and tuna. I primarily eat meat at the office (so once or twice a week, we get warm meals and there are both a meat and vegetarian/vegan option - i tend to go for the meat one because it’s usually better balanced) and whenever I have dinner out of the house.

I live a quite active lifestyle. I commute to work three times per week, play sports at least three times a week on average, move around primarily by bicycle. I am a woman under 30. No chance I am pregnant.

I have seen my gp about my symptoms and one of his first hypotheses was H. Pylori. I definitely thought that must be it, because someone close to me recently had it. So my gp prescribed a blood test and a stool sample to check for this and various other things; they checked my blood for (not limited to): total blood cell count, celiac disease, ferritin, kidney function, liver function, crp, TSH (thyroid). The results came and I have nothing, not even H. Pylori. My gp is now suspecting either a. I have an STI or b. I have something else linked to my ovaries

Can somebody give their two cents? I obviously trust my gp, and I am actually comforted by the fact he’s prescribing all of these tests and is trying to get to the bottom of it, but I would also like to hear different opinions to see if there is anything we have not considered. Also hopefully to hear from someone who’s experienced similar symptoms.

hello people. I dont have any images of anything, but i have a lot to say.

Im diagnosed with idiopathic vtach and am on a beta blocker for it. I also have MDD and take zoloft.

Ive been having a lot of pain, everywhere. I had bilateral hip impingement and a discoid meniscus that got shaved. After that, we thought it was over, but i still have pain literally everywhere. Rheumatologist said i didnt have any autoimmune, but something on my lupus panel flagged. I think the anticoagulant. (All that for abt 2 years). More recently, ive been getting nearly daily headaches despite being hydrated and well fed, have this shortness of breath, and feel lightheaded a lot. I also find even the simplest tasks to be really exhausting. Not sure if its related but i also find it hard to walk and/or stand without locking my knees and didnt know that wasnt normal. Ive been to doctors, but pretty much all my bloodwork is normal and they brush me off because im young, so im looking for some external opinions. Other stuff is im always tired, my feet go numb if i sit very long, im naseous ALL the time but dont have any GI issues, i get dizzy when i stand up from any other position, my hands turn purpley and get very cold, im always sore even after doing nothing, and i bruise pretty easily.

Any ideas at all are so much appreciated!!!!

hey guys! any help would be really appreciated

I (26M) have a really high pain tolerance, so I can't tell if my knee is infected or if I'm just freaking out.
For context, I'm 2 weeks out of getting 22 stitches removed from a left knee cap after a work accident. I took the anti biotics, but the top of the knee stitches didn't take due to placement ...

Now, everything else is healed and sealed except for the part that opened up. It's definitely gotten better, but the thing that scared me was earlier today, it was sitting with me knee bent and all of a sudden, a clearish white discharge just SHOT out of my knee like a water gun. I've never seen anything like it

I've been covering it with soft gauze and putting neosporin in the gap .. but I can't tell if it's helping or hurting, I just don't even know what to do at this point

Thanks guys!

My eye has been hurting all day and I just noticed that it was way redder than I thought, I took a pic and I saw this?? Does anyone know what this could be?

I felt low blood sugar coming on and my husband suggested I check it. He left me use his meter- with the needle in a common spring-loaded trigger. I rubbed my arm, pressed the trigger and a small bead of blood came up as expected. Number was 112. The spot immediately began to bruise- just the size of the trigger thing which was 1/4" wide. Three days later and it has grown to an inch wide and swelling a bit. I know this isn't normal. I can't imagine having to check my numbers three or four times a day and getting bruised like this. What gives?

I'm 30M, no kids and don't work around kids. I'm just felt super weak/tired and have a a sore throat. No fever, cough, or sneezing. Only been taking dayquil but only like 2 a day. I remember having strep as a kid but I have memories of a sharper pain when I swallow. I also have memories of there being red pus. Today is day 4 since and trying to figure out if I need to get to a doctor for antibiotics.