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Do I have Cushing’s Syndrome?

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Do I need to find a new doctor test for Cushing’s? I was diagnosed around 6-7 years ago as being insulin resistant, and since them, symptoms keep appearing. I have the fatty hump on my upper back, but when asking my doctor, she blamed weight. I ended up looking deeper and found a picture from my smallest weight, (125) and the hump was still present. I have the rounded face, and my cheeks are always red as well as purple stretch marks that appear out of nowhere even when my weight stays slightly consistent. I was also in therapy for my hips around the time of insulin resistance diagnosis. My doctor will not test me, because she says there is nothing wrong with me other than weight. (185 lbs), and i cant lose weight for the life of me, nothing works. My recent lab results showed elevated Alk Phos, total protein, cholesterol, anion gap, white blood count and platelets. As well as extremely low vitamin d. All of which she explained as fine. Please help!



I have cramping and diarrhea for 2 weeks now?

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Hello my name is (…) I have been cramping and having diarrhea for the past 2 weeks I took some medicine for the diarrhea and it finally went away the cramping gets worse at night where I can’t even go to sleep it wakes me up my age is 42 the only thing I have is a thyroid medicine and my surgery they took everything out where I won’t be able to have kids or have my period



I was diagnosed with Cervical cancer I have some lymph nodes that are swollen and a ongoing cough producing phlem/mucus?

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Hello. I am a 36 year old female experiencing an ongoing cough producing phlem/mucus for around 4 weeks now, drenching night sweats, every night for the past couple of weeks. I have to change my clothes 2-3 times each night. I am generally cold, so this is strange for me. I am also experiencing weight loss and poor appetite, but was diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism 17 years ago. I have been able to maintain my weight at around 110 pounds, but the last several months, it has been very difficult to keep it up. I was diagnosed with Cervical cancer a little over a year ago, but was able to get it surgically removed and my pap smears have come back normal since. I have some lymph nodes that are swollen and slightly tender in the neck and groin area. I also have Ankylosing Spondylitis. I don’t know if these are related, but my research thus far shows that they may be linked. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to look this over, and offering some advice!



I just suffered intense and unbearable period cramps, a massive lump fell out?

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I am a 22 year old female.
I have just suffered the most intense and unbearable period cramps. The pain was something I have never felt in my life, and I have never been pregnant, but what was going through my mind was this is what a child birth contraction would be like. I felt like I needed to vomit, however I had just woken up so I had not eaten in many hours. I was sweating and felt very hot. I almost thought of calling an ambulance, or going to the emergency room, it was very, very painful. I am on the contraceptive pill, and I have not had my period since the start of November, as I purposely skipped my period. So now its January and I decide to get my period and I had not started bleeding yet, then I woke up to these intense cramps and it just kept getting worse. It probably lasted at least 40mins, then slowly calmed down. Once this happened, I was walking around my house and from the hole where your period comes out, I felt this massive lump fall out, into my underwear. I ran to the bathroom to find this massive. . like mass, full of blood and like white mass. I toke photos of it, but I flushed it. As it is the weekend my doctors have closed and I don’t know what to do! It was so large! I have never seen anything like this, I don’t think it’s normal at all! The size of it and the pain I felt, was horrible.
I don’t think this could be a miscarriage.
Could you please help me, what do you think this is?



I suspect I have an STIs (Sexually transmitted infection), I have flesh-colored bump on the right side of my vulva, near my vagina

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I suspect I have an STIs
for about 1.5 months i felt i had the tiniest flesh-colored bump on the right side of my vulva, near my vagina. over a course of 2-3 weeks it grew in size and is now a pinky-flesh colour. i’ve got one on my anus too but now i’ve checked, it seems to have disappeared and i feel another little one coming on the inside of my vulva, next to my vagina again. i also feel a slight itchiness/irritation on the inside of my vulva near the anus, i’m not sure if that will also turn to another bump. they are quite small and not painful but do get very slightly itchy sometimes. i’m worried because the visible one on my vulva had a little bit of a dry surface, i was scared it was a herpes sore but i’m not sure if it is because it isn’t painful whatsoever. i would like to know whether this sounds more like hpv or hsv. if it is hpv, i would like to know whether i could leave it without treatment, and when the warts fall off whether that means the infection is gone too because i’m scared that if i get rid of the visible warts, i won’t be able to tell when my body actually fights the infection. i’m not planning to have sex for the next two years. please help, thank you



I have been on my menstrual cycle for over a month, now found out I am pregnant?

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I have been on my menstrual cycle for over a month closer to 2 months. I found out I’m pregnant less then a week ago… I bleeding heavy and have abdominal cramps and started getting headaches. (…) I’ve smoked meth 6 months ago and drank GHB around same time. I’ve been an addict for 10 years and I’m 32yo. I’m afraid it could be cancer or a cyst and the pregnancy test is not accurate. Please advise?



Facial pain, tingling numbness, along with ear pain and fatgue, brain MRI found several lesions?

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Hi..my name is (…) and I’m a female 49 years of age, due to facial pain, tingling numbness, along with ear pain and extreme buzzing and tinnitus, along with some fairly body wide complaints, most concerning is of fatigue, weakness and at times inability to move and use predominantly legs, but at times also arms. I also have some sensory deficits as well as issues with temperature regulation. I recently had a brain MRI that found several lesions that could be indicative of old ischemia along with leukoariosis. The brain mri report also discussed the finding of a type II loop in anterior inferior cerebellar artery. (…) I have been experiencing symtoms for years and progressively getting worse. Please advise?



Sprained left ankle for a year and a half. Ligament injury, synovitis with effusion?

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Condition summary:
Sprained left ankle for a year and a half. Ligament injury, synovitis with effusion

Condition Description:
Female, 34 years old. Left ankle sprain nearly a year and a half (in September 2015 when walking) has not healed yet. Applied bandage for a week after the injury but continued commuting without no long-term rest. Now I can still feel pain and instability inside the ankle. My latest MRI test indicates ligament injury, synovitis with effusion etc. (see the uploaded MR films please) Have taken anti-inflammatory medicine and several external use of ointment, feeling no significant effect.
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I Hope the doctor could help me in:
My condition dragged on for a long time. Both internal and external use have been tried. So far there are still discomfort walking, let alone doing sports. Some physicians I visited in person recommend taking glucosamine sulfate capsules, while some recommend of physiotherapy, even arthroscopy surgery, making it hard to decide which one to follow. Therefore, I would truly appreciate your opinion on the optimal treatment for this situation.
sprained left ankle



I am a 40-year-old woman who still gets acne, are there any topical treatments that work?

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Hello, I wanted to know if there are topical treatments for acne and acne scars. I am a 40-year-old woman who still gets acne. My skin is very sensitive, and each new treatment prescribed by a doctor only causes more acne to show up. I have totally lost faith in doctors from my area. The type of acne that I have is red, inflamed, painful to touch, filled with puss, and hard to hide with makeup. I have taken a retin-A course before, and it did work for a while but re-emerged. I also have various scars or “holes” in my skin. Any solutions? Thanks!

I suffer in page in front of vagina, painkillers don’t ease the pain?

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I am a 27 year old normally healthy female. In the bit between my anus and vagina it felt like something was pushing out. It was intense pressure. Then my lower back started to hurt. It has been hurting without any respite for 4 days now. The pressure doesn’t feel as bad in my bottom but it’s still there. I am also experiencing shooting pains in the front of my vagina.
The pain in the back has got worse and had been keeping me awake at night.
it is mostly on the left side however the shooting pains in my vagina feel like they are on the left. (they only happen now and again, but i am sure they are getting more frequent) I have been lying in bed for 4 days, painkillers don’t seem to ease the pain.



I suffer sleep deprivation through what appears to be electromagnetic sensations?

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i’m 32. i am undergoing sleep deprivation through what appears to be electrical sensations to the chest, neck and head (brain?). This is coupled with sharp shocks or stinging sensations both inside and on the surface of the skin. Almost all of a sudden i am almost in an electrically drugged staggering state. Is this something electromagnetic? All other health aspects are fine, no history of physical or psychological problems, although lack of understanding and adequate treatment, this may change. Thank you.

Do I have melanoma.. how likely is it that this is melanoma?

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Do I definitely have melanoma? How likely is it that it’s melanoma?
I’ve read about the ABCDEs of melanoma and I think all of them apply to my case. My mole used to be just a tiny dot but then it suddenly became raised and grew larger in size. It also became asymmetric, and the borders are irregular. It’s now about 4-5 mm in diameter. It doesn’t itch, hurt, or bleed. I’m a 23 year old female and I have a family history of cancer on both sides. My aunt has breast cancer and my grandfather used to have stomach cancer before he passed away. I’m incredibly worried and I have to wait till next Thursday to get it examined. Please advise, thank you.

I had a back fusion at l4-s1 now have anterlothesis of l4 on l5, do I need surgery?

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I am a 35 yr old female. I had a back fusion at l4-s1 about 4 yrs ago. I have recently been having a lot of pain when I bend forward and try to straighten back up. It feels like it locks on me. So I had an xray done, and it shows that I have anterlothesis of l4 on l5, and it increases with flexion. My pain doctor referred me to a surgeon because he said it should not be moving like that due to it being fused there. Is he right? Is this abnormal movement?



I have had really really bad reflux and cannot sleep or feel like eating?

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I am 60 years old and a diabetic.
I used to take kombyglyze 500 x 1 per day however it was not lowing my morning sugars. I had to see a different doctor recently and she put me on metformin 1000 x 2 per day plus weekly injections of bydureon and since then my sugars have been low but I have had really really bad reflux and cannot sleep or feel like eating. I have heavy breathing and generally feel just tired. Please help me . I am also taking medication for reflux, high blood pressure and cholesterol. I am feeling so unwell