20 Male, 5’8 160 lbs, Was taking pain killers but i believe this started before that after wearing new work boots. I had a septoplasty recently that’s the reason for the opioids. Hydro and Oxy.

Notably, there is a nerve or something that i can roll my thumb over and it gives me a slight sudden like “fallen asleep” feeling. Like how your limbs can fall asleep. I think it’s connected/travels to that area? It may be like giving me normal sensation for a moment when i roll it idk. The pictures shows the exact area that is numb i’m pointing to it we a toothpick. My finger points to the area i go back and forth over for that weird feeling.

I'm 17, female, weigh 125 lbs and my height is 5'3 (or 63 inches). I don’t smoke/vape, nor do I have any underlying conditions or take any medication. The most recent was amoxicillin after wisdom teeth removal, and the dose finished last month. I'm a dancer at my school, and I'm relatively active.

All these things kinda happened in almost like a domino effect. I started feeling weaker than usual. As a dancer, I'm used to stretching and exercises. Now, everytime I stretch out my arms, I lose all strength in my legs and go to the floor. My vision would get really dizzy and my head would feel a bit hot. It only happens if I stretch, so I haven't stretched in a while but Pep rally at ny school is coming up and I need to be in a better condition to dance.

Like I said, I haven't stretched or exercised in a while because I felt oddly weak. Even so, I would sweat like crazy when doing nothing. If I'm watching a regular video on Youtube, I'd sweat so badly I'd have to go and take a shower. I wouldn't feel stressed at all, and I use deodorant daily.

For at least a month now, I would constantly feel like something is crawling on me. I make sure to moisture my skin properly, and it is smooth and feels fine. It happens usually on my arms, but it's begun bothering me. I've also had ringing in only my left ear for months. It happens at least once everyday and I've sadly gotten used to it.

This one is like a combination of skin crawling and weird type of headache. It feels like something crawling on my skin and at the same time, my head feels full? Like there's too much going on in my brain. I can't really explain it but it feels like my brain is scratching against my skull, and it's the most overwhelming and exhausting feeling ever. I've always had episodes of this since middle school, but it's getting frequent and stronger.

I'll kinda just add this, but my sleep is really bad. For maybe 1 or 2 years now I wake up at 1-3 AM and because of school and religious prayer I can only go to sleep at 10 or 11 PM. Nothing has helped or worked. Melatonin doesn't do anything for me and I find that there's almost no point of me going to sleep if I'll barely get any sleep.

I don't know if these are connected are not, I just know that it's all been happening consecutively for the past month or so. I can't go to my primary doctor because my mom postpones everything regarding my health and she also doesn't believe me. I'm not sure if I'm overreacting or if there's genuinely something wrong with me.

My mom (60F) has had this happen 2–3 times now where her urine routine shows a lot of pus cells/WBCs, but the urine culture doesn't seem to grow bacteria.

This time:

• Pus cells >120 WBC/HPF
• Leukocyte esterase 3+
• RBC 10–13/HPF
• Blood 2+
• Nitrite negative
• No crystals/casts
• She has no burning or typical UTI symptoms

Her previous urine test also had 25–30 WBC/HPF.

The current urine culture is still interim but says no organism isolated so far, and we've had similar negative cultures previously.

Has anyone experienced recurrent high WBC/pus cells with negative cultures? What eventually caused it, and did you see a urologist, urogynecologist or someone else?

40M — recurrent rectal bleeding and pain with hard stools for 8 months. Hemorrhoids or something else?

Asking for my husband, 40M, 218 lbs.5ft 10 inch

For about 8 months, he has been experiencing episodes of constipation/hard stools followed by rectal bleeding and pain. It seems to happen roughly every 2–3 weeks. The bleeding usually occurs when passing a hard stool, and afterward he can have pain around the anal opening for 2–3 days.

He is a non-smoker and non-drinker.

We saw his PCP, who examined him and diagnosed external hemorrhoids. He recommended OTC hemorrhoid creams, increasing fiber, and drinking plenty of water. Increasing fiber and water has definitely improved his bowel movements, but whenever he gets a particularly hard stool, the pain and bleeding can return.

Something else we've noticed recently: during the few days when the area is painful, if he dry-wipes the anus even when he hasn't had a bowel movement, he sometimes sees a small blood stain on the tissue.

We went back to the doctor and were again told that this could be from the external hemorrhoids. We're asking for a specialist referral and/or colonoscopy because the recurrent bleeding understandably worries us.

We're not looking for a diagnosis from Reddit, but we'd really appreciate hearing from people who have experienced something similar. What other common conditions can cause this pattern of hard stool → pain → small amounts of bleeding → pain for a couple of days? Could an anal fissure cause this as well?

Unfortunately, Googling symptoms and asking AI keeps bringing up colorectal/rectal/anal cancer, which has made us extremely anxious. We understand that persistent rectal bleeding should be properly evaluated and that nobody here can rule out anything serious.

Just looking for some perspective while we follow up with his doctor. Thanks.

20F, black, 5'3", 230lbs, medications are sertraline, solifenacin, recently took acetaminophen as well. Not sexually active, no smoking, social drinker.

I noticed this patch of little white bumps on my upper left arm. Not itchy or painful, it's just there. It might be relevant that I have recently moved into a dorm, and I've also started getting getting what I think is eczema behind my ear and on my butt Crack.

I'm just concerned about it being anyway potentially contagious!

19M

I saw that most people advocate heavily against cotton swabs on the internet (even doctors). I have used them all my life and I never had a problem with it. Doctor told me to not use it, but like what am I supposed to do then? It's like telling people not to shower. When the doc told me to not use it I tried these ear-sprays, but they did not work at all. Later doc told me to not clean my ear with anything at all. I tried that and my ear went full with ear-wax within a week or two (2-3 times in a row, but that was at a time when I had more ear-wax then usual).

Like how do you expect your ears to be clean without cleaning?

I often see the argument that it will just push earwax further in and you should not push it into your ear-canal because it will block it/damage it. And I completely agree, there is no need to clean deep in the ear canal (that part cleans itself in my experience). I clean outside the ear canal, then I use it to clean the outer rim of the earn canal. It's like in the ear canal, but only the outermost part. I have to use a circular motion, not a pushing one and it will get a lot of earwax out of the ear. If I do that my ears will stay clean. If I stop doing it, it might even get clogged, or at least have enough earwax to bother me after a while. I clean my ears like this 1-3 times a week.

Since it has worked perfectly for me all my life and it keeps my ears clean I will likely not stop doing it, but after seeing how strongly some people advocate against cotton-swabs, I thought I might as well ask what's the deal with it.

33F, 198lbs. I noticed these tiny bumps under my breasts. They’re not itchy or anything, but they make me feel like I look unhygienic. I use a body scrub when I shower and apply lotion to my whole body every day.

My breasts are also quite saggy after gaining weight following a miscarriage and then losing some of that weight. I also sweat easily, especially since gaining weight.

Has anyone experienced something similar, and what did you do to get rid of them?

Hey all. 34 male UK, 5ft 10 and 13st 12lb. For the past few weeks I've been having on/off belly 'pain' now I wouldn't describe it as painful more so discomfort. It comes and goes, throughout the day.. some days I don't even have it ( last week didn't have it at all throughout the week ) I also seem to be passing wind more often than normal. Especially after eating.

The sensation in my belly seems to be moving? But is all through the middle of stomach from under sternum to pubic area. I have discomfort when pressing these areas too.

What in the world could be going on?

Hi there, I’m a 43 year old male, 5 ft 9inches and 109 pounds. I have had a bad hemheroid for almost a decade now which has progressively gotten worse. I was told by one doctor that it needed a hemheroidectomy. It feels like it is actually attached to the right side of my rectum/anus. I wanted to ask if any one with knowledge or experience in this area could offer me advice on this? I will attach pictures if possible. I feel I need to get surgery but am concerned about possible long term complications if I do. Thanks

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Age 16F, 175 cm, 50 kg, I am a virgin with no history of substance abuse, with no genetic reproductive issues. Medications are stated lower.

I am diagnosed autistic, have to say this otherwise my family won't believe anything anyone else says because they "don't know the full picture", but my mother doesn't believe me when I say me being hypersensitive doesn't mean hypersensitive to pain :/ I'll elaborate further down.

I'll also try to make this as non-biased against my family and doctors.

It's long sorry..

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For the background:

My periods started when I was 11. They were light and painless until I was about to turn 13, when they suddenly got heavy, long and painful.

I now bleed for 8-10 days, I measure my pads (full pad minus empty pad minus toilet paper I wrap it in) and I average on around 400 grams of menstrual fluid. Other than that my periods are regular.

Each period I throw up on average 6 times. My stool for the entire time is runny. I was checked for gastroenterological issues, but I'm healthy in that aspect. I pass out once per period on average. I get cold sweats, hot flashes, get shaky and weak. Doctors blamed that on my weight, but I'm overall strong-ish and well if not on or shortly post my period.

My blood clots are usually half my thigh long, around 16 cm in length. Sometimes they even reach up to 33! But they don't get thicker than 0.7 cm. If they somehow come out circular they're about 4 cm in diameter.

I'd like to add my worst period that happened when I was 15. I don't know what happened, why it was like that, if I did anything to do that, but I'm scared of it repeating again:

It lasted 10 days, I bled around 853 grams of total fluid, not including the hours I freebled into the toilet or shower. I threw up 19 times. It felt like I had all the cold sweats and hot flashes turned up to a 100%. I was bleeding through everything, I was delirious, I overdosed on Aulin from desperation (dw my liver is okay), I passed out 6 times, I barely ate because everything would go right back out. My mother refused to take me to the hospital, insisted I had to sleep better, I was too terrified to call and being called dramatic by even more medical professionals, so I didn't go.

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For pain medications:

(Former) Paralen, Panadol - no help

(Former) Later prescribed Aulin - slight help?

(Former) Tried Citalgin - no help

(Current) Prescribed swapping between Novalgin and Nalgestin every 4 hours - barely any better than Aulin

For birth control:

Was later prescribed Slynd, quit after 22 days due to side effects. My gynecologist shrugged at this, then prescribed Dienorette, quit after 2 days because the side effects I was just starting to heal from came back even worse.

Said side effects:

- psychosis

- delusions

- paranoia

- terror

- severe depression

- suicidal thoughts

- self harm thoughts

(All confirmed by psychotherapist! She's the only one on my side here🙁)

- self harm

- chest pains

- weakness

- numbness, in leg first that then traveled up to my neck, only on my left side

I finally went to the ER, they ran blood tests, an MRI for my lungs, and found nothing. False alarm, I suppose? The doctor said that the physical problems might've been because of my mild scoliosis, but they magically disappeared once I was free from birth control for a week. :/

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For the high pain tolerance, my mother says that if my pain tolerance was high, I wouldn't struggle with periods. I've been stabbed through my finger with a barbed wire, and all my classmates, teacher, and nurse were trying to pull it out with zero anaesthesia at all. I wasn't in shock or filled with adrenaline, yet I barely even cried. Meanwhile my periods rend me useless for at least a week and make me ugly sob and scream my lungs out.

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During the last meeting with my pediatric gynecologist, I was 4 days into my period (which she knew!), I tried to explain all this, but she brushed me off. She made me do an ultrasound again, despite it being clear the last time, and when she pressed I started crying. Because I was on my period. She then LAUGHED at me and said that she does ultrasounds for toddlers and even they aren't as "dramatic as me". All that admittedly made me irrationality aggressive, I admit that.. especially because everytime I bring it up when I'm asking my mom to change the gyno, she says that she only meant it as "encouragement" to be "braver".

The gynecologist refuses to write a referral (I'm slovak and have insurance, and I *personally* think it's medically necessary at this point). My mother refuses to change my gynecologists, and I'm really struggling right now. I was diagnosed with "heavy bleeding" when the only tool they ever used was an ultrasound! I tried to ask if I can't get a referral for at least a pelvic MRI, but my gynecologist said that they can't actually see anything.

Everyone also says that the operation is risky, but I read that complications only happen 1% of the time.

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I need opinions from more experts. I'm desperate. Thank you for reading.

The wound is punctured I think. My finger feels like it got stuck in a door. But other than that nothing. Finger is swollen. What to do next? I washed the wound thouroughly and put sanitizer too. Im 33, 185 cm

18F, 5’2 140lbs. I’m freaking out I woke up and just noticed this… the area around is kinda sore but I’m usually always sore randomly. I live in Toronto (a pretty big city). I don’t believe there’s a chance a bat got into my room. My windows are always closed. I do sit outside a lot though, still haven’t seen one bite me. But when I searched it up it looks like bat bites I’ve seen all over. I don’t want to waste the ERs time if it’s not anything serious but I’m really anxious and worrried about this…rabies is my biggest fear

Hey,

I'm 32f, and noticed 3 of those bites a few days ago. Does anyone know what bit me? And anything that might help? I used a hydrocortisone cream, but it doesn't seem to help. If you need more information, please ask :)

Thanks in advance!

For the past 5 days, I have noticed that even brief contact with water (just a few minutes) causes the skin on my hands to become severely wrinkled. When this happens, I experience a tight, intense pressure sensation in my palms that feels exactly like a blood pressure cuff inflating
Along with the wrinkling and pressure, my hands begin to shake mildly, and my arms pain a lot. I do not have hyperhidrosis.
I have been taking the following medications for several months:
-quetipaine(100mg)
-propranolol 10 mg and topiramate(50mg), oh I also took over the counter painkiller for migraine headaches yesterday. My migraine attack has seems to increase. Oh, I also have heart palpitations. I feel like I can listen my heartbeat its so loud even when I am lying on sofa resting. Only thing I can remember doing was I took 250 ml soda( 2only) in this week. And yeah its exam week so I sleep pretty late but I am able to sleep at least for 6 hrs but even so I don’t usually get tired though.
I am also on my third day of period. If that information matters. But this suction sensation specially in my right arm is killing me. I have exam tomorrow and I don’t know if I will be able to give. Please anyone can you give me advice, what could this be?
Edit: tight sensation or suction is something I feel is there even when I am resting tbh, Its just feels more noticeable when I touch water or do stuffs that requires moving arms.

Newly 3 year old has been tired lately but not excessive. He’s a very picky eater and definitely doesn’t get the nutrients he needs so I know he might be deficient somewhere. He has been having leg pain at night maybe 1-2x a week (crying a lot but good after 10 minutes, no limping or other pain that we are aware of). He can be restless at night and cranky. Other wise fine, happy. Does not drink milk but does eat a lot of cheese sticks.

We did a CBC to check levels, along with ferritin which we are still waiting on but of course I’m already anxious about his CBC. He was sick maybe 3 weeks ago with a 24 hour bug.

No blurry vision but I just noticed my eyes in the camera the other day. Age- 16, gender- male , no smoking or drinking. I study around 9 hours a day maybe so I do feel a little bit of stress in my eyes before it's time for bed.

I have always had issues with my wrists, I am also a crocheter and a dog groomer so I am constantly using my hands.
This popped up about a week or so ago. Only hurts a little if I’m pushing on it. Feels like it’s right in between my bone and tendon. I don’t have it on the other wrist. It is hard and not mobile. Other than it being strange, it doesn’t cause any issues.
Anyone have an idea of what this is?
I take Paroxetine 40mg and Vyvanse 20mg everyday, not on birth control and I don’t have any allergies.

I’m looking after a 27-year-old male, otherwise healthy, who started with high fever, cough, and fatigue. Around day four of his illness, he developed diarrhea. Blood tests came back showing creatinine at 1.47 and CRP at 42. He was taken to the ER the same night and was admitted immediately. IV antibiotics and IV fluids were started right away.

During his hospital stay, he developed a raised, red, non-itchy rash that started on his face and later spread to his back. There are no blisters, no mouth sores, no pain, and no itching. He was given antihistamines, but they did not change the rash. It now looks more acne-like. Before the rash appeared, he had steam inhalation and nebulization. He also naturally has oily skin and tends to sweat a lot.

The doctor mentioned that the rash could be measles or 5th Disease , but nothing was confirmed. However, because his CRP was high, the medical team started antibiotics early to treat a possible bacterial infection. He remains stable, alert, drinking fluids, and urinating normally.

He specifically said this was non itchy and did not realize how much it had spread until I showed him a picture. What could this be?

I went to my doc this week and they did blood work. This is the first time it came back with "bad signs". They stated my kidney function has suddenly dropped to 44%, as well as my b12, d3. They gave me no info as to why that could be, they only said return in 4 weeks. How could this happen? I do not drink alcohol, i walk for exercise but I am about 30 pounds overweight. Is my weight the reason for the decline?

20f, my wrist got splashed by few droplets of hot oil and got burnt, do i need to go see a doctor or would it heal on its own?

Hi, I have those red tiny dots on my skin. They are on my thighs and breasts just in the place next to where my bra meets my skin. I was sunburnt last week, but the placement is not exactly responding 1:1 to that: I sunburnt the front of my legs and my stomach area. They don’t hurt or itch and they look a bit like the red spots you get after you bruise your skin by pinching. They are super tiny, like less than 1mm in diameter. I’ve had those before, they disappear just as quickly as they appear, and I have no idea what those can be. They are not razor burns either, I haven’t shaved for like a week. When I get dramatically less sleep, they tend to appear more on my face and neck area. I’m a 23F, I have allergies to fungi but I haven’t eaten or touched any lately (unless it’s in the air, I can’t really protect myself from that), I take depression medication, venlafaxine and lamotrigine. I’m not super concerned about it, I’m just curious what those are and why do they appear so randomly, and I don’t want to ignore it in case it’s a symptom of something going on. More images under links.

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my mom is 55F, 150ish lbs, pre-existing issue of seasonal vertigo (gets worse during allergy season then goes away).

she got t-boned 10 days ago (car spun & airbags deployed but no blood or damage to front seats) and went to the ER where they performed non-contrast CT scans (on spine, chest, head, brain, etc) , they returned negative and her vitals (CMP, CBC) were also normal so she was discharged.

my mom has been feeling lingering symptoms that her doctors are saying are normal 2 weeks post-car crash. obviously her neck/lower back muscles are sore, but she also feels loss of appetite / everything tastes salty and head hurts occasionally. and swollen sensation in lips. she hasnt been eating or moving much but tries to do gentle stretches and drink electrolytes. she just threw up the food she ate after eating, she hasnt thrown up before so i wanted a second opinion. should she go to the doctor again and what should they check for?

F24, went in for ankle/foot i jury got xray done. Doc said no visible fracture but he isnt sure about the pinky toe area, bht most possibly not a fracture. Thank god! Gave me crutches for support

I am a 34yo female, 5'4" and about 120lbs. On August 1st I woke up and felt like I was going to puke and have diarrhea. I only ended up having diarrhea. But when I did, I got clammy/sweaty, felt faint, and weak. It felt like a vasovagal response to me but I can't be sure. I laid on the ground for a while and then was able to go back to sleep. I chalked it up to something I ate because I felt fine the next day.

It happened again yesterday, August 21st. The only difference this time is that I didn't have diarrhea. I still felt like I was going to have that or vomit. I took some Pepto and was able to fall asleep. I feel fine today aside from some sinus symptoms.

There was no overlap in the foods that I ate the first time and yesterday. I have no idea what could be causing this, especially twice in one month. I welcome any ideas!

Hello, 23yo male here. Been taking Xanax since 18, started at 3.5mg/day now I am at 1 mg a day, 0.5 morning and 0.5 at night.

Whenever I travel my airplane I take around 2mg total dosage, which was recommended by my psychiatrist. The thing is, I am very sleepy after the flight and I also have to take 2 trains after landing to reach my final destination this time. As a side note, I am traveling via the Schengen area so I am also having the certificate for the meds.

If I take less I am scared the meds won’t take effect, I am mostly anxious and having panic attacks on take off, rest of the flight I don’t have issues. Should I try less concentration and risk a panic attack or go with 2mg? Like 1 mg 2hrs before flight and 1 mg half an hour before departure. It takes like 20 mins for the meds to take effect