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I started having intense sharp constant pain behind my right eye, right temple area, and backside of the right side of my head?

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I’m male 24 years old. I started having intense sharp constant pain behind my right eye, right temple area, and backside of the right side of my head. It started in early September about once a week for the first 3 weeks. Then I started having the intense sharp pain every other day. And now it’s EVERY DAY. It’s a very intense sharp constant and persistent pain. It gets very painful during the nighttime. I went to go get it checked out when it started occurring every other day. The doctor asked what my symptoms were. Symptoms: intense pain on the right side of my head behind my eye, right temple, and backside of right side of head. I DONT have any other symptoms like vomiting, light sensitivity, etc. Just pain in my head.

My doctor prescribed me fioricet and didn’t do anything. She had me get a CT scan which ended up showing nothing. After that she prescribed sumatriptan which had little effect. Then I had an MRI done. The MRI showed I had a little bit of sinuses on the left side of my head (kind of near my eye brow). She said it was probably unrelated to my head pains but she prescribed me 2 weeks of antibiotics (amoxicillin/clave potassium 875mg) for the sinuses anyway; and decided to refer me to a neurologist for my head pain.

Once I started taking the antibiotics my head pain basically all but went away. 12 out of the 14 days I took the antibiotics I was pain free. 2 days of the 14 days I still had pain. But once I ran out of the antibiotics the miserable intense sharp pains came back… so I made other appointment to see if I could get some more of the antibiotics. It took 6 days after I ran out (which was this last Monday) to get into my appointment. I told her the antibiotics had a huge effect leaving me pain free 12 out of the 14 days when I took them. She said that was really good and that I probably just needed to be on the antibiotic longer to completely eliminate my symptoms.

So this last Monday she prescribed me 3 weeks of the same antibiotic with the same dosage. I started taking them Monday night. It’s now Wednesday night and the antibiotics are having no effect on me whatsoever now. My head pain is still very intense. I don’t understand why. I originally thought I had cluster headaches, but she prescribed me fioricet and sumatriptan and they didn’t work. Then I thought the sinuses that showed up on my MRI scan was linked my head pain since the pain went away first time I took the antibiotics. But now, for whatever reason the antibiotics aren’t working. I still have my neurologist appointment on November 30th.

What’s wrong with me?

What causes intense sharp 10 out of 10 pains on the right side of head behind right eye, right temple, and right side of back of head?

I’ve had this for almost 3 months now. I’m only 24. It’s so agonizing and exhausting. I’ve been taking Tylenol everyday. It’s effecting my everyday life.


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I have Temporal lobe epilepsy, I feel extremely fatigued after meals, is it Diabetes?

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Hi, my name is (…), i am a 46 year old male. I have Temporal lobe epilepsy and am NOT on meds. other than that i consider myself to be in relatively good shape. i have of late started to get extremely fatigued after any meal i have. At 1st i considered Gluten intolerance, but have eliminated this as the cause by avoiding foods that contain it and also by eating a single food group at a time. eg Protein for lunch today. I am really tired and it my brain seems to be on a slow strike. This happens with every meal, I have started to avoid eating at work otherwise I cant function properly…Is this something to do with Diabetes?


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My semen was pink in color and the last time it had blood in it?

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Hi I’m (…), I am Fifty years old, I am 183cm and weigh 16stone, I don’t smoke and drink once a week, my medical history is good so far. In the past few weeks I have noticed that my semen was pink in color and the last time I ejaculated two days ago it was very red and had noticeable blood in it. I had my last doctor check up ten months ago and everything was fine. I don’t have any pain urinating nor do I have any discomfort, it is alarming to see this so do I have anything to worry about? Thank you in advance for your help.

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I am having pain in a very specific part of my head for 1 year, seeing blue flash?

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I am a 30 yr old female and started having a pain in a very specific part of my head. On the back right middle head and it’s only in a spot about the size of my fingertip. I’ve also begun seeing a blue flash every now and then (couple times a week) out of my right eye. The pain isn’t bad, probably a 2 out of 10 and it just lasts about 5 seconds then goes away and might come back a few time throughout the week. I’ve had thorough eye work ups with an ophthalmologist and so I do not have any eye problems. I just found it weird that the pain is in such a small isolated spot and keeps coming and going. It has not gotten worse since I first noticed it about a year ago.


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I’m only 31, but experiencing health issues associated with elderly people?

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I am a 31 year old female with 4 children. I am having old people health problems. i exercise daily and eat healthily yet never lose weight, 3 years ago I started having weakness in my wrists and hands, I also had a colonoscopy bc of pain and many precancerous polyps had to be removed, I’ve always had horribly painful uterus issues. For the past 8 weeks I’ve had persistent numbness in on the right side of my face and right leg. Brian MRI was normal except brain signal associated with elderly. I’ve also for 8 weeks have had shooting nerve pain from my back to leg and sometimes to my arms as well along with constant low back pain. Back MRI shows moderate degenerative disc disease This past year my pulse has been 38-45 each doctors visit along with my heart skipping beats. im young not a heavy drinker or drug addict and I do no smoke. Is there anything that could explain why im having so many elderly issues? Taking ibuprofen when desperate but it does not help. Gallabladder removed 2008
Ovarian cyst removed 2013
csections 2006, 2007, 2014, 2016


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I am experiencing, joint pain, aches, swollen feet, and blue veins around my joints?

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i have a medical history with my right kidney ,in my teens 15 i had a reimplantation of the tubes ,my right kidney was damaged and enlarged and ony filtered 50percent, this improved once i had a reimplantation of tubes through the uretha ,i am now 22 and am struggling with a dull ache in the right side in this cold weather , i also have been experiencing joint pain ,starting in my swollen feet and then my right knee flared up ,recently i have joint pain in my hands and elbows , my hands and elbows have all blue vains around the joints , struggling to keep hold and grip items for long periods without dropping them or having imediate cramps ,do you think that this could be connected , i have been weeing more , experiencing headaches and fatigue


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I suffer from daily headaches that vary in pain, I have had no previous traumatic head or brain injury?

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I am 19 years old, male, and suffer from daily to near daily headaches that vary in pain, change location throughout the day, and don’t always follow a pattern of occurrence (Some weeks it will be every day, other weeks it’ll be every other day, and some weeks it’ll be a couple days in a row and then nothing the next day and then one after that) I have had no previous traumatic head or brain injury, and have not yet consulted with a doctor/neurologist. Ibuprofen/other pain killers will work for short amount of times sometimes and other times they will not work at all. I wanted to know why I receive these constant headaches.


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I have back problems, shoulder,neck, back pain – MRI shows numerous issues?

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I have back problems. Here are my symptoms:

Pain all the way down the outside of my left arm, left 3 fingers and arm goes numb, right hand and arm go numb off and on.
Pain in left shoulder and neck.
Pain between shoulder blades (pain gets worse when I cough or sneeze and if standing up makes my knees buckle).
Pain lower back
Pain down back of right leg into foot and with in minutes of sitting right leg goes numb.
Having a hard time urinating, have to really push to start then not much comes out, have to go tot he bathroom all the time.

I’ve had an MRI of my c-spine and l-spine and it shows:

C5-6 Facet Hypertrophy, no stenosis

C6-7 Facet hypertrophy right grater than left, broad-based disc bulge, and uncovertebral hypertrophy right grater then left. There is a right foraminal encroachment, no stenosis visible.

L4-5 Mild concentric disk bulge with shallow midline protrusion, and mild facet hypertrophy, giving bilateral foraminal encroachment. No frank stenosis

L3-4 Concentric disc bulge, with a small midline disc protrusion, facet hypertrophy, and relatively narrow spinal canal. Ventral CSF is near completely effaced, with thecal sac cross-section 0.8cm AP by 1.5cm left right. There is right foraminal encroachment.

Is it possible that the problem is a disc bulge in my T-spine?

I’m a 45 year old male





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I had my appendix removed about nine years ago, I’ve been having pains every since?

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Hi my name is (…), I am 24 years old and I had my appendix removed about nine years ago. I’ve been having pains every since. In the past nine months the pains got worse. I’ve had many different scans with no results. I had a xray done of my spine and there are surgical clips in my lower right quadrant as stated on my results. Really just need some answers to why they would still be there and if I’m right about them causing all my pain over the years. What steps should I take next.





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Rash on buttocks, by sitting at the beach- sand fleas, cutaneous larva migrans?

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I was recently in Puerto Rico and got really bad rash on my buttocks. I was sitting at night on the beach without a towel and after 7 days I start getting these itchy red bumps. My coworker that is from Puerto Rico told me that I most likely got bite by sand fleas
I was at the Doctors office few days ago and got Hydrocortisone 2.5% and Mupirocin Ointment USP 2% but it’s not really helping pharmacy also ordered for me ivermectin pills that I will get today.. he gave me these because he thought it’s Cutaneous larva migrans but he wasn’t sure so maybe my coworker that is from there is more right..

Can please help me? What should I do to make them go away?





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I presented with pain that started in my shoulder and then progressively worked its way down my arm?

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I am a 41 year old female. I presented with pain that started in my shoulder and then progressively worked its way down my arm. The upper bicep area above my elbow I noticed that I had a lump and I originally thought that I tore my bicep.

I have pain lost strength for example it can be hard for me to lift a large drink or carry a gallon of milk. My doctor after only spending about 3 minutes with me sent me for and MRI.

I went back for my MRI reading, once again the doctor only spent about 3 minutes with me told me I have a very small amount of tendonitis in my shoulder and told me that the mass was nothing that it’s just fat. ( I had to lean around them to be able to see the screen and I could see on the MRI it was a big oval area that was bright white see you can clearly see that there was a mass of something) I asked why I was having such bad pain and restricted use of my arm and I was told we’re not going to worry about that right now and he suggested physical therapy and left the room.

It has been 2 weeks since that visit in the pain is sometimes unbearable to the point where I can not sleep. I have scheduled a second opinion.

But my question is more along my MRI and the mass in my arm, how are they able to tell what the mass is made of and that it’s nothing more serious. And why would I have a mass of fat. Cancer runs in my family which is why it’s a huge concern of mine. I cannot find anything on the internet that says then an MRI will find a mass of fat.

I’ve had family and coworkers comment that the mass seems to have gotten larger overt the last few weeks.

Also I’ve had a very busy week at work where we did a lot of lifting which I had to do it now option and now my back on just that side where I’m having problems with my arm is having a lot of pain.

Any suggestions or comments on what maybe I can specifically ask the dr. about or what you think this could be or what I need to watch for.

I keep getting attacks, I sweat and get hot, then I start the cold chills?

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I keep getting these attacks where under my chest where ribs meet in the middle suddenly starts hurting. Feels like a heavy sac. The first one I felt like I was going to die. Then the sec. I felt the same but knew I made it through the first one. They all start out with sudden stomach pain, then I sweat and get hot so much I want to strip my clothes off but can’t cause of pain then I feel nauseous and then after about 15-30 mins. pain stops and then I start the cold chills. It always feels like I been through trauma. I had about 6 attacks this year. All happen in the evening except the last one. The last was 1 week from the last attack and was in the morning after drinking a slim fast. It was just uncontrollable shaking and then my nose started to run. Lasted 5 mins. Major headache for 3 days and nauseous with fever. That could be unrelated. Sometimes feel bloated. Use Excedrin everyday for headaches.sometimes during running and attacks also have pain in right collarbone. Grandma has heart disease. I’ve searched heart attack verses gas and gallbladder. Can’t figure out what it is. I’m a 40 yr old female. Sometimes have tightening in chest in morning through afternoon.feels like it will shatter if I go beyond a certain movement. I don’t know where to start to get answers.





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I have joint pain and muscle spasms since 2011, now developed numbness in legs?

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I am a 31 year old female with joint pain and muscle spasms since 2011 all limbs and back. Have periods were i have no symptoms and periods were i can barely walk or carry out daily activities.Been to drs a few time prescribed Naproxen tramadol etc but no diagnosis. Have now developed numbness in legs on and off and have burning and tingling in face. Have also has shingles in face 3 times in 8 months. Any ideas what could be the cause? I’m very bad pain wise at the minute.





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I have spherocytocis, I had surgery to remove my spleen last week, however I just had another gallbladder attack?

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Hello! This is not really a general question.. I am 20 years old, female. For the past few months i have been experiencing extreme pain in my abdomen. The pain shoots down my back and is accompanied with nausea and chills/fevers. After a sonar the doctors said i have sludge in my gallbladder. The underlying problem was spherocytocis – a deformation of the red blood cell. As a result of the sphero, my spleen became enlarged and broke down red blood cells, causing the liver to produce too much bilirubin. I had surgery to remove my spleen last week; however, I just had another gallbladder attack after only a week. I eat a very healthy diet with only natural fats. I have been drinking Ursotan to help the body with dissolving cholesterol. Is it possible that the Ursotan may be making me feel worse ? Is it possible for the gallbladder attacks to go away? How long will it take after my splenectomy for the gallbladder to recover again? How can i be sure that it is even my gallbladder and not my stomach or something else ? I’m really hopeless by now





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I suffered a major left sided hemiparesis in July 04, I started suffering from violent muscle spasms in my left Quads muscles?

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I’m a 63 year old male I suffered a major left sided hemiparesis in July 04 this was caused by sinus bradicardia for which I have a single chamber pacemaker. The legacy of the stroke is dropfoot on my left side. But for the last two weeks I started suffering from violent muscle spasms in my left Quads muscles particularly over the distal end of the muscle just above my Lt Patella The spasming is so painful It almost makes me fall over and severely restricts my walking I am very concerned and want to know what may be causing this once the initial pain and spasm starts to ease I he constant discomfort in my upper leg just above my patella Have you any idea why this may be happening also my toes hurt particularly my little toe and the one next to it also on my left side My footwear is correct so there is no pressure on my toes.I hope you can give mean indication what maybe causing these spasms your sincerely(…)





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