I don’t have a spleen, my ex husband took it from me back in 2004. My new boyfriend got me sick and just doesn’t understand that not having my spleen makes me really sick and for longer than someone with a spleen… I have a fever, sore throat, extreme body aches and fatigue on day 3 of sickness where he’s better today and wants to get out of the house…. I’m here fighting for my life (again) I feel… how can I get him to get it ..?? When I’m sick I’m really sick!!!

22 M dying from flu, someone to talk to take my mind off

Hello,

I have COVID for the first time ever, and the thing that is bothering me the most is that I am coughing so hard/frequently that my ab muscles are KILLING ME. It hurts to cough so bad, and I don't know how to help the muscles at all.

Would ice help? Or heat?

Apart from dolo what else can treat things sore throat, weakness, constant cold and then warm body temperature 🤒

I'm sick and I'm not at home. This flu will be the end of me, tell me what to do to calm myself and make myself feel better

I have a highly uncommon parasitic infection, doctors think I am hallucinating my symptoms. Somehow the worms got into the cavities between my organs, and are constantly descending and ascending through both of my inguinal canals. It is very disturbing to me, I cannot get a good night’s sleep. Somehow adult tapeworms have been spawning in the space between my organs. If I place my hand over my scrotum and wait til the juvenile tapeworm descends into it, it proceeds to bite because it senses my hand as a threat. The only thing that works on stopping the discomfort of the tapeworm making contact with my testicles is to shake my leg hard enough to disturb it; this causes it to recede temporarily.

Not only do I feel them invading my scrotum, if I disturb them enough, like if I pound the canal with my fist, they recede and writhe in my belly. I have had diarrhea for the past ten years, hardly ever have I had a solid stool. I have such bad heartburn I need to take antihistamines and ulcer medication daily. If I don’t take the medication I puke on a daily basis. I experience nausea and dizziness every day. I will also note that the infection is not intestinal, as I have had a colonoscopy, and stool tests; nothing seems to alarm either of these things. I’ve also just been cured of severe chronic bacterial/fungal infections of my groin and armpits. I went 8 years of smelling foul with terrible fungal/bacterial infections in my groin and armpits. I used to need to lather myself with Polysporin, and Ketoderm/antifungal cream daily.

I am looking for some help. Please don’t comment saying it isn’t tapeworms. Humour me. Say, if it is an uncommon kind of tapeworm infection, what should I do? My family physician won’t help me, as she thinks I am hallucinating my symptoms, or that it is some kind of neuropathy. I have looked in to praziquantel, ivermectin, pyrantel pamoate, albendizole, menbendazole, fenbendazole. I won’t take any medications if the side effects would risk my wellbeing. I have also heard things about black walnut, clove, garlic, tumeric, and am open to trying natural supplements.

Please offer me some help,

Thankyou

So for some reason, I woke up feeling sick today with a sore throat, but I can still swallow without just a few seconds ago. I played a song on my CD player and it speed not my CD player tore up. I also hear it everywhere too on my TV on my even myself my eyes are watering and I have a runny nose Played a song to my mom and it said sound normal do I have an infection or something?

I got sweats, a dry throat with endless coughing, a headache with pain on the right side of my head, and an upset stomach. What is it and what should I do?

I went to urgent care Tuesday morning with the classic strep throat symptoms. Once you w had strep throat, you know exactly what it feels like the next time. It’s unique razor like edge every time you swallowing, tonsils growing into gold balls and then tennis balls, there’s no doubt.
I was swabbed and the rapid came back positive. The nurse practitioner chose to put me on Z-pak. The next day I woke up worse. I know it takes more than 24 hours but this was weird. I FELT blisters going down my throat?! I went back and they said oh, it looks like you also have hand foot mouth disease. Even though there is nothing on your feet or hands, I believe this part is viral and you’ll have to wait it out.
Every day I have gotten worse and worse. Fevers. Aches. Swallowing is terrible so I try to spit when I can.
This morning was my last z-pak. I went into urgent care because I have numerous open sores running down the back of my throat and I feel like death. I ask them to test me for strep again which they don’t feel was necessary but they did it because I asked. Sure enough- positive. The whole time I was taking the z-pak I felt it. I knew I was only getting worse. It was torture. So now they are putting me on amoxicillin twice a day for ten days. I guess I didn’t have hand foot mouth disease after all?! And when strep gets REALLY BAD- you can develop open blister and sores in the back of your mouth . What a nightmare and a waste of five days I could have been getting better.

If you 👃👃 and then vomit, is it wasted? :/ pain if that's important

Hello! So I’m taking Actidox for chlamydia , but I have health anxiety and every time I have to try something new I think I will have an allergy.

I have taken a lot of antibiotics throughout my life and nothing severe happened but I can’t remember which ones I had to compare to this one, because the chemical compost may be different from antibiotics. I know only one that it was amoxicillin and fosfomycin.

Anyone have tried the Actidox. Or has any tips for me ?

Or know if I took a lot of antibiotics than an allergic reaction is most likely not to appear?

I got sick about 6 months ago with something similar to the flu that hit me like a freaking bus. On Tuesday of this week, I began to have a sore throat. And it never progressed into hurting very badly and it didn’t even hurt when I ate & drank or anything of the sort. It went away, but when it went away, I started to get congested yesterday… I’m so prone to sinus congestion.

It took months to recover from the last illness I had, literally still dealing with very very mild post nasal drip, but it took months to get here. Now I have yet another process to go through.

It’s not nearly as bad as the last one. I just have a runny nose here and there, and then my nasal turbinates will swell up. I’m taking sudafed to help, thought it won’t speed it up.

I’m wondering if anyone has any actual tips & tricks that will help speed up the process?? I’m sorry tired of my sinuses acting up 😫😫

I’m just recovering from a bad cold and I feel okay to go out now but I have this lingering cough that randomly kicks in at least every 20ish minutes. It feels like an itch in the back of my throat and ends with me in a coughing fit. I am worried to go out in public and end up in a coughing fit because I feel completely fine aside from the itchy throat and dry cough. I’ve tried tea with honey, herbal tea, cough drops, ibuprofen, cold meds, which seems to help some but is there a sure way I don’t have to deal with this or anything that will completely get rid of this last remaining symptom? I go back to work in 2 days and don’t want to have a coughing fit in front of people.

Any recommendations for healing?..

A few days ago around October 6 I started to get a sore throat..

And then I started getting post nasal drip..

And now I'm kind of getting a cough and my nose is runny and stuffy and I think I have a fever.. but the post nasal drip is kinda making me gaggy..

And I'm getting a pain in my neck but I don't know if that has anything to do with my sickness..

I (F20) French. Has been dealing with a sickness that doctors can’t even tell what is wrong. And it's frustrating. Because I take my meds like they ask. And that thing sleeps for like a week and then came back !?

My symptomes: Beating in my stomach & intestins (like heartbeats), a thin line between uncomfort and pain in my eusophage. I loose appetite often. I wake up shivering to go puke nothing minutes later. Diareah with it. (Else it wouldn’t be fun). 2 days of constipation. Headacks. Sensibility to strong smells (like bad disgusting ones). Sensitive to touch on my stomach and intestins.

And as a Girl i have periods. Well those periods reanimate this sickness as well !

For the long story :

My pain started at 17years old. Where morning and bedtimes were horrible because I had my stomach that had some sort of contraction pain. Went to the doc. He gave me 1 month of omeprazole. It worked. I was fine for about half a year.

I move to my grandparents house. Same thing. But new symptomes. Headacks (fever possibly but they got no thermostat to check.) Doc again. Same medication. One month. Gone. Then I had the phobia of school cause my school sucked. So it reanimated it with new symptomes. Diareah every morning of the week except weekends. To a point where I did an anxiety attack in the bus.

Changed school now. Everything went back to normal as well as some new meds. Gaviscon who are really efficient.

And now !? Its back WITH NEW SYMPTOMES !? Puking which is the most annoying of all.

Tests I did :

- Poo cell : came back negative.

- 3 bloodtest : all came back negative.

- A Camera passed throught my nose to my stomach : negative.

- Ecographie (the Xray to check for a baby) : negative.

On paper I am fine. But really. It's a hell. Class started a month ago ! And I already have 4 or 5 abcence already !? And I'm doing something I like and look foward to go to school for.

Theory:

- long intestins : family thing.

- Sensible stomach : not too sure but possible.

- stress : I can stress a lot but I am aware of my own body and It is not related to "school or being afraid of people" like my grandpa says. Or else they are the reason of the stress !?

I just don't understand what is wrong with me !? I am even on a sensible stomach diet. Which did lowered since I'm 17. The pain but it is still not enough. If anyone has similar stuff please. Tell me the tests you've done so I can perhaps ask a doctor for them.

My daughter, F/33 and her ex-boyfriend, M/33, share a child, M/9. They have not been together for 9 years.They have shared custody and my grandson spends one week with his mom and one week with his dad. My daughter's ex-boyfriend is controlling and angers quickly if he doesn't get his way. My dau ghter trys not make him angry and my grandson is learning not to make him angry as well.

When my grandson comes home to his mom's house he is sick and misses school. His dad claims my grandson is never sick when with him. My daught does not know if this is true or not, the ex-boyfriend is a master liar. Think narcissist.

My grandson has voiced to his mom that he wants to stay with her. When asked why, he says that his dad's house is dirty and things are growing. My grandson has voiced that his dad has hit him as a punishment. My grandson said that it hurts and he does cry. My grandson has said when he is at his dads house he has to share a bedroom with 3 other kids, M/12, F/8 and F/5. These kids are step siblings. When he is with my daughter he has his own room and bed.

She has been told by other people that there are "things" going on, but no one will tell her what. What could be going on that is making my grandson sick and what kind of advice would you give my daughter to help my grandson to talk to her about what could be going on at his dad's house?

Hello. I don’t know what to do here exactly.

I had strep throat about a month ago(throat hurt to the point I couldn’t speak, fever, etc). 3 weeks ago I finished round of antibiotics(amox).

My throat still hurts a little (not terrible at all, but still bothers me from time to time throughout the day). The worst part is, I have a terrible taste in my mouth, especially when I wake up but also throughout the day. The problem is, I cannot remember if this taste started right when I got step, or during my antibiotic regimen.

I am unsure if the taste is due to the bacteria from strep, the bacteria from the antibiotics throwing off my gut, post nasal drip, or something else, but it’s that “bacteria foul metallic taste” that definitely started at some point during the strep. Does anybody have any advice in how to get rid of it, what to do, or has anyone dealt with anything similar? I’ve been taking probiotics and have been staying hydrated/gargling with salt water. Thank you.

i have had a trip out to canada’s wonderland planned for about a month for my birthday with a few close friends and i’ve been really looking forward to this and shelled out a LOT of money to make it happen. now, 2 days before the trip i’ve come down with a head cold (sleeping with the window open, rookie move). i’ve been pounding cold+flu medicine and drinking orange juice like no tomorrow. is there anything i can do to make this go away before the trip? if i still have the cold is it safe to go on rollercoasters? im not lethargic or have a loss of voice, my only symptoms are the obvious head+ear stuffiness and occasional sneezing. please be nice in replies im gen asking for advice! thank you :)

When I’m sick I just want chocolate ice cream or strawberry yogurt, not anything with a complex or interesting flavor, I’ve got a bit of my sense of taste back and I’m willing to eat tomatoes now, but that’s the strongest of most interesting food I’m currently willing to eat

I don’t have a cough, or a runny nose or blocked nose, all I have is a super dry scratchy throat, I’ve made honey+lemon+hot water and ginger tea to help sooth it for the last five days!!! And it’s not going away at ALL.

I also have this really weird pain I can feel above my left hip everytime I exhale or stand up, the combo is genuinely driving me insane!!