I’m a 29 year old female, I have attacks of severe upper abdominal pain that feels like pancreatitis but all my blood tests and scans have been normal apart from a spike of bilirubin and persistently high red blood count , the Drs don’t know what’s wrong with me! I’ve had acute pancreatitis 3 times in the past , I used to binge drink in my teens. I had my gallbladder out when I was 18, a hysterectomy and appendectomy last year.
I’m a 38 yo male with low testosterone levels. It has been confirmed through blood work. I have sleep apnea high blood pressure asthma and I smoke. Also extreme depression anxiety low libido and Ed I believe due to test levels. I’m on benticar htc and the albuterol. I had pneumonia 4 weeks ago blood pressure was elevated then while sick but back to normal now. Question is my Dr says he can’t treat the low test until I stop smoking. Is this normal or am I getting the run around ? Not sure if I should skip the family Dr and see a specialist about this or not cause it is cause alot of problem for myself and my family to the point I’m stressing over if I will end up divorced from this.
Hello I am contacting you about my daughter. She turns 14 tomorrow. Long story short, she had blood work 8 months ago, everything normal, except alsosterone (blood) came back at 2.5. Doctor was not concerned. I had labs sent to our family doctor, and he was not concerned. Last week at a routing physical, I asked about this again, they said at my request they would order cbc, panel, functions, cortisol, aldosterone. They instructed her to fast. She had the blood test the next morning at 7:50 am sitting in a chair. Doctor called that all was normal EXCEPT Cortisol 20, aldosterone 2.5. Sent me to pediatric endocrinologist. She was not concerned either. I want to feel at peace, but when I look up these levels online, I see scary diseases and syndromes. Please give me some insight to these levels, are they ok? I am so worried. Thank you.
27, Female, Married with 3 children. (No major medical history beyond giving birth) Currently I take a medication called buprenorphine (generic subutex) and have taken it for 6 years. It is for opiate dependency maintenance. I am tapering off buprenorphine and have been for over 4 months. I am on the last month of tapering off, right now. I dont believe my issue is due to the buprenorphine at all. I am also taking clindamycin which has been in my system over 90 hours right now. My issue started about 8 days ago. I had terrible tooth and gum pain on the right side of my mouth with both upper and lower teeth. A couple days later the pain was in my front top two teeth.. The pain has been honestly horrible at times to where i feel like im going to pass out. 1 night i described it as possibly worse than child birth and as stated gave birth to 3 children naturally. About 5 days ago i slept with a heating pad on my face and woke up with a very swollen upper lip, mustache area, and nose.. I went to the ER that day because no dentists were open. They prescribed the clindamycin at 300mgs caps, 4 times a day. The swelling spread to my lower cheek/jaw area by the next day and has been swollen around both side of my lower cheek and jaw/ nose/ upper lip/and mustache line area for a few days now. I went to the dentist yesterday and they took xrays of my teeth but told me there were no abscessed teeth that they could see. They prescribed me an antibacterial oral mouth wash but i do not know what the problem is. I anticipated there to be an infection in my teeth somewhere and possible abscess but also anticipated the swelling and pain to go away at least by 3 days of being on the antibiotic. I dont know what to know nor what could be causing this pain and swelling. I read about it possibly being a sinus infection but i dont have any swelling around my eyes nor forehead. just my lower nose, upper lip, mustache line, and lower cheeks on each side accompanied by pain in my front top tooth. I did have a filling done in between both front teeth about 7/8 weeks ago followed by another filling done in the left bottom side of one of my molars about 1 month ago.. Other than a sinus infection i am worried about the cause of this pain and swelling. Ive read different things about thyroid issues and only bring them up because ive also read that buprenorphine can cause thyroid issues. Any help as to why i would have swelling and pain in so many different areas. I have so much to do because ofchristmas and i dont know if i should go back to the ER, dentist, or a MED express type place. Thanks for reading this.
I have been having joint pain in my hands, fingers, balls of feet and toes. These areas feel sore, stiff and swollen (they don’t look swollen though) every morning and sometimes during the day. I also feel very tired and like I’ve never had a restful sleep, even though I sleep 7-8 hours per night. This has persisted for 2 months now. I am a 30 year old female with a BMI of 20. I have a 2.5 year old daughter who sometimes picks up viruses which I then end up also getting. My inflammatory blood tests came back normal, my full blood panel was normal, also Ferritin, B Vits and Vit D were also all normal. I take no prescription medication, only an organic 1 a day multi vitamin supplement for women and 1000mg high quality omega 3. I took a high dose probiotic for approx 3 days around 2 months ago but stopped as this was around the time the symptoms started and I was worried the probiotics were causing the symptoms. I exercise 2-3 times per week and eat a varied, mostly organic diet. I suffer with anxiety and aside from this am in otherwise good health.
I am a 25 year old female working in the jungles of Equatorial New Guinea as part of a research team. We had a fellow researcher develop some open sores and his leg swelled up about 4 times the original size. They gave him several antibiotics but nothing is workings. The swelling move into his testicles and he is now urinating blood. He is still conscious and has a good attitude but the doctors in Malabo can’t figure out what it is and he can’t fly by plane. They just medivacked him out to a German hospital today.
I too developed an open wound but I spoke up before it got too bad, as he waited 6 days before saying anything. I have been given an antibiotic and the wound has started getting crusty and seems to be healing after a couple days, but the swelling is not going down. I have attached a couple of pictures. My question is: should I get on a plane and go back to the United States where I could get some better medical help or should I give it a few days to see if it continues to heal. The redness around it doesn’t seem to be going away yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My name is (…male), 25 years old. I am from PH. I am suffering something odd on my body for the past 3 years. Sometimes when I go to sleep, not feeling anything bad, I will wake up with muscles not cooperating with me. It’s not painful when you are just lying or sitting but when you try to use force, I feel like having muscle cramps from neck to foot. I need to use my full force just to sit from lying in bed, it’s even hard to put slippers on. I can sometimes walk normal during this state of my body but most of the time I can’t. I really don’t know what to do when this happens. The thing is, it only last within a day or sometimes 2. I know I really need to be checked by doctors in person but i’m a little afraid. Can you give me advice or idea what could be my possible illness?
I am coming up to 18 years of age., I am asthmatic and have been diagnosed with Anxiety and Depression. The only medication I have to take are my inhalers – Seretide Accuhaler and the salbutamol Easyhaler.
So I have been ill for about a week now with what my mum thinks might be the flu but I had my flu vaccination 6 weeks ago so I don’t think it’s that and this is the fifth time in the last 2 months that I have been ill.
I have trouble breathing and I am coughing an awful lot, also my arm becomes uncomfortably numb and it’s even worse when I go into a coughing fit. I’m rather concerned because it’s not the first time it has happened and each time the pain gets worse.
What could be the problem?
Hello my name (… female) I am almost 21 years old, for the past year or so I have noticed a massive change in myself, I have went from being 12 stone down to 8 without having any change of diet or exercise and this was in the space of about 5/6 months I put it down to stress with college but I am no longer under stress. I have always had an issue with my weight so when I first started to lose it I was sort of happy but then it got worrying. I have now started noticing bruises that randomly appear all over my legs without any injury and I am constantly pale in colour. I have been tested for an iron deficiency and thyroid but they came back clear. what could this be?
I’m a 38 year old male. No real known health issues other than high cholesterol 239 total. I’m 5’8 172 lbs. I’m not a smoker or drinker. Around August and September I started to feel little more tired and legs felt heavy. I started also to have this disequilibrium or off balance sensation during time of walking. Dr said was alergies so he put me on fluticasone nasal spray. Really didn’t help so next was meclizine and didn’t help either. Well on November 4th I went to ER cause urgent care dr thought maybe I had appendicitis. . Went to ER and did ultra sound of abdomen and blood work. Ultrasound was normal and blood work didn’t show any infection so sent me home and follow up with my dr. I did so in 3 days, sent me to gastroenterologist and did a hida scan. Before the scan, I got 2 rashes, small, one on my back and then on mid stomach. My Dr said it was shingles. I was in bed for 2 weeks cause I felt so bad with no energy. Not really any pain. Went to see another dr cause I was so exhausted and tired..no energy. He looked at my rashes and said it wasn’t shingles.. did more blood work.. tested be for HIV etc.. came bk and i tested positive for HSV1 virus of 13.54..I am still very exhausted and tired and seem to not be able to get any energy. Went bk to dr, another dr, did more blood work, tested for lyme disease, rocky mtn spotted fever, b12, all came bk negative. I had a EBV AB VCA OF 179.0. And AN EBV NUCLEAR ANTIGEN AB 443. I’m still weak, exhausted, depressed and worried. Just really no answers..tested for hepatitis and all negative. Please help.. anxiety is out to roof.
Hi, I am a 20 year old female. I have been having some interesting symptoms lately. I have Undifferentiated connective tissue disease. In August, I had a Brain MRI done. I see some white dots on the mri and was wondering if they are significant. Recently in the past 3 weeks, my arm has been going numb at night and my fingers on the right hand are spastic. They are seized up towards the palm of my hand. Any insight towards this mri would be great. I can only upload 1 picture but can upload more if needed. Thanks
23/female/pcos/ Topomax 100mg/cryselle. I have had migraine headaches since March of this year. I went to a neurologist who did a mri without contrast and it came back normal. He put me on Topomax 100mg which simmered it to headaches every day, every other day bad headache and 1-2 times a week severe migraine. No pain killers can even help decrease the pain. I have blurred vision, disoriented, slurred speech, fever, weakness, elevate white blood cells, nausea, vomiting, vertigo. So many symptoms I can’t name them all. Nothing is helping me and my neurologist isn’t helping at all. I need answers and I don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t take this. I need answers. Especially after today because I honestly think I had a seizure.
Hi my name is (…). I’m 33 years old. I have 2 children and both times had gestational diabetes and have been overweight for most of my adulthood. I haven’t been to my family Dr in the past 6 months or so. Prior to my last visit I had upper right quadrant pain and nausea and vomiting. They did an ultrasound and I had some gallstones. The next few days I threw up blood and they concluded it was due to my frequent vomiting. Soon after, my gallbladder was removed. I was told I had a fatty liver and elevated liver enzymes and to get it checked out. My sons are 366 days apart, I never made it back for more check ups.
About a month ago, I had blood clots and blood when I went to the bathroom. The urgent care Dr said I had a hemorrhoid and the bleeding stopped a few days later.
Now I have bleeding from my rectum for 4 days, increased loss of appetite, and this morning I woke up with blood in my mouth.
Obviously I am very concerned. My husband is between jobs for the first time since 2006 and we currently do not have coverage, although in the process.
Thanks for taking the time to read and get back to me.
50 yr old Male. No medical problems, except for chronic constipation since 22 yrs of age. Use Metamucil daily since. Used to take 30 mg Zn for while, lowered my Cu. Stopped Zn, and taken 2 mg Cu for past 6 months. Also eat alot of nuts, cashews, almonds, sesame seeds/paste (all high in Cu).
My Cu recovered from low end of range, to mid range. Went back to taking some Zn (15 mg) for one month. Tested both Zn and Cu. Zn normal. Cu bottom (borderline) of range! Also confirmed by CP (Ceruloplasmin), at end of low range (lowest number in lab range result).
Again, taken Cu supps, and foods, no Zn. Except for C 500 mg/ daily. Yet no effect on raising my Cu, whatsoever? What’s wrong here? I am sure that my body is full of Cu. But why it is not showing in Serum tests! Could it be: bio-unavailability? If so, what to do about it? My health is overall OK. But feel very depressed, fingernails and toenails very brittle. Hair loss. Hair is kinky, straw like. Pale skin. Insomnia.
Should mention: Fe is rock bottom. Ferittin low end of range! Never had such low figures before.
Please help, as I been researching all med sources, from Merck, Mayo, Medscape, etc. That I gained so much medical knowledge, yet can’t find answer to “why I am severely Cu deficient, why loading on so much Cu in both supp form, and natural foods”!
I’m 20-year-old male. I suffer from stuttering. This problem started a long time ago, approximately when I was 11 years old.
I suffer from stuttering. This problem becomes very clear in words beginning with the letter “T” or the letter “K” especially if this letter “T” or “K” is followed by a constant letter, for example “transparent”, “crash”. It may take me 3 or seconds to say these words.
That doesn’t mean that I can pronounce other words very normally.However, the stutter becomes clear in the previous case (K and T).
The problem is less clear when I read (but it occurs) , but is very clear when I think before saying
It also becomes clear when I talk with an important person.However, it sometimes occurs when I talk to my sister or brother or friend… (but less clear).
What makes the problem worse is that I’m to give a “lecture”in the university. I’m not fluent.
What’s the treatment??
