My brother 16 yrs old had abdominal pain for about 6 weeks. Early diagnosis was pancreatitis. As the pain didnt go, we had post contrast CT scan. It revealed:
1. Diffussely swollen pancreatic head, body and tail showing homogenous hypo-enhancing parenchyma.
2. Smudging of the peri-pancreatic fat planes.
3. Enlarged celiac, porto-caval, aorto-caval, paraaortic, per-pancreatic and mesenteric lymph nodes.
4. Mild fatty hepatomegaly.
Lipase and Amylase levels are high(about 300 in value)
His doctors recommended IgG4, but results are after 15 days. What should I do now or at least until results came?
For family history, I had Ulcerative colitis ten years ago. Sometimes it revisits me, but it gets better on taking Sulfasalazine medications.
Hello, I’m a 22 year old female with relatively good health. Within the past month, I got the first spot like in the picture, on my left leg. It looked like an insect bite and I didn’t think anything of it aside for the fact that it was itchy so I was putting anti-itch medicine on it. It went away within the next few days, but I broke out in a large red scaly patch on my upper right arm. At first it just looked like dry skin, so I was applying lotion to it. Then all of a sudden it started to itch which is when I had my partner take a look at it and we noticed I had spots on my neck now too. Which I have those in the bottom picture I sent. We thought it might be ringworm so we started using spray on it and then a cream because the spray wasn’t working and I started to break out with them on my back and breasts even through I had been keeping my bedding clean and treating them as if they were ringworm and not scratching them.. I kept on that routine for 3 weeks and now this morning I’m waking up with more patches all over my stomach and my lower right side of my back. The medication I’ve tried using for ringworm or other things we thought it might be haven’t helped at all. Some spots don’t itch and others are super itchy. They aren’t getting any small and every few days I seem to find at least 2 or 3 new patches coming in.. I don’t have the money to go to the doctors right now unless it’s an emergency.
Hi I’m an 18 year old female, for the past years I’ve been experiencing excessive vaginal discharge and I am aware discharge is normal and healthy. But when it first started it had a little odor and on some days, not so often, it’ll look a little chunky like cottage cheese but it was always white & thick. Now recently for about the past year or so it’s gotten worse. It’s odor is so bad even when I wash it daily it comes right back about an hour after I shower and clean up. Every time I use the bathroom and wipe the odor is horrible and there’s so much discharge, it’s thick and sticky sometimes even yellow and chunky. And recently I’ve been getting a bump on my vulva. It’ll come and go but always in the same spot mostly after I shave or if I don’t shave for a long period of time and it takes forever to go away. I don’t know if it’s a pimple, boil, wart, or anything. It’s hard, not painful, but when I squeeze it then it gets irritated and becomes painful. Sometimes nothing even comes out of it and other times pus comes out, even a little blood and a clear liquid came out along with the pus before, but it’ll still sit there for weeks. I’ve been tested for HIV and was negative. I don’t think it can be an STD because it started before I became sexually active. One day it was so bad it was extremely itchy and I thought it was a yeast infection so I used some vagisil cream and the itchiness went away but the discharge and odor never did. I don’t really have pain in my pelvic area, sometimes but it feels like very light cramps never really paid mind to them. I do wear a lot of leggings, tight clothing, and I’ve always used scented body wash/soap in the shower. So maybe it can be from a thrown off pH balance but how can I fix this? How can I get rid of the excessive discharge and odor? Are there any creams that I can buy over the counter?
Hi, I’m 23 years old and 8 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child. For the past couple days when going to the toilet, after wiping, the tissue is pink. I had a brown discharge 2 nights ago and now have a pink colour. It’s not constant but seems to happen first thing in the morning. After experiencing a miscarriage last year, I’m worried it may happen again. I have no pain or cramps, just the pink colour on the tissue
I have anxiety and stress, its only from my digestion problems. I go to the bathroom everyday or other day (small hard or loose) but hasn’t been much and not solid, and very dark. I feel I drink plenty of water and eat really good solid meals, I just need help. I don’t feel like I digest my food well even when I take a HCL supplement/ digestive enzymes and or sweetish bitters. I think I have Small intestine bacteria and h.pylori and a stomach ulcer. I am lost and have no idea what to do or where to go and need help. I’ve tried the natural path and it helps a little but I wonder if there is a more serious problem. So I am reaching out to see if you have any specific test or route you can suggest to help me? I would like to fully evacuate my bowels when I do go to the bathroom and speed up the digestion, I want to feel I digest my food so I can eat more food to gain more weight, I want a good appetite again, I would like to cure the ulcer/ dull stomach pain, I want to see why my stools are dark. I want to make sure I don’t have h.pylori/ sibo bacteria, I want to feel normal and not be so stressed and worried about this.
I am a 56 year old female who has recently been experiencing numbness in my hands and feet, frequent urination, noticing a strange burning smell, forgetfulness and anxiety. I have been referred for a MRI scan of the brain and have received my report (attached). What is wrong with me?
I am a 38 year old female. I’ve had urinary sensitivity for many years, but rarely have had UTIs. Usually I take otc AZO and my irritating symptoms go away on their own. I’ve had symptoms over the last couple of weeks. AZO helps some with the pain, but not as well as usual. This doesn’t necessarily feel like the burning typical of UTI. My bladder is achy and heavy (pressure) with pain during urination that comes and goes. It is not going away as expected. Today, upon first urination, I found my urine to look completely strange. It almost looked like oil and water mixed, but that the “oil” on top of the water had a bunch of white stuff floating in it. I have also been peeing a lot lately (but very thirsty/drinking more, so may make sense?). I have low back/side pain (achy, with bouts of more severe shooting/stabbing feel). I also get that shooting/stabbing pain in my abdomen. This has happened in all quadrants, with the upper left and lower pelvis area being the most severe. My usual pain meds aren’t working as well as they usually do. I’m used to pain, but would like to lessen or eliminate as much of it as possible, of course. My aching pain varies in intensity from 4-7 and the shooting pains vary from 8-nearly 10, at times. I had similar symptoms a few months ago. Urine was tested and CT done. I believe all of that was normal at that time. Starting around then, and continuing today, I’ve also been quite nauseous and have watery diarrhea everyday. I have a referral to GI to look into this, but wanted to mention it in case it could be connected. And I have a swallow study this week because my esophagus spasms sometimes and I can’t complete my swallow or breathe in or out until that finishes. I do have fibromyalgia, so I try not to go to the doctor unless a symptom is way more severe or completely out of the norm or new for me. I have been having way more health issues over the last 1 1/2 years, beginning with gallbladder removal (stones) and complete hysterectomy for pain and severe bleeding. I also have PCOS. I’ve been to the doctor quite a bit and am not sure what to do. When I go in and they don’t find anything conclusive, if they test at all, they often assume it’s related to fibromyalgia or nothing at all. I am also currently working with a neurologist for severe short-term memory loss, confusion, missing time, changes in senses, increased muscle weakness and neuropathy testing. I’m sorry for all of the back story, but I thought it may be important. I don’t know what to do right now for my bladder(?) problem, or any of the problems really. Go to the doctor again or wait it out??? What could be causing all this? Thank you!
Surgical Hx: Tonsilectomy (age 5), appendectomy and R ovary torsion (age 12), R ovary removal (1998), R shoulder stabilization (2000), gallbladder removal and complete hysterectomy (2015)
Current RXs: Zofran 4 mg, 1 every 8 hrs, as needed
Seroquel 50 mg, 3/bedtime
Medical cannabis, as needed
Loperamide 2 mg, 1 every 8 hrs, as needed
Estradiol 1 mg 1/bedtime
Zoloft 100 mg, 2/bedtime
Vistaril 25 mg, take 1 3x/day as needed
Tylenol 500 mg, take 2 2-3x/day as needed
Ibuprofen 800 mg, take 1 2-3x/day as needed
Gabapentin 300 mg, take 3 2x/day
Guaifenesin 400 mg, 1 every 4 hrs, as needed
Fish oil
Multivitamin
I am a 22 year old female. When I was younger I had mastoiditis. I was hospitalized , and had to get tubes put in my ears.
For about two weeks I have had a yellowish brownish color of drainage coming out of my ear that smells like infection . Today and a week ago there has been blood coming out of it , not gushing blood ,but blood like a pinkish color . I have also been having headaches.
My 2.5 year old son has had a worsening itchy rash for 2+ months. It’s on his back, stomach, arms, armpits, legs. Pretty much everywhere except his face, soles of his feet and palms of his hands. One dr said heat rash and the other is now treating him for scabies and it hasn’t improved yet with that treatment (going on 48hours) and has new ones since then. No one else in our house has any kind of rash so I don’t think it’s scabies. Any other ideas on what it may be or what could be causing it. I have changed laundry soap, stopped using dryer sheets, washed everything I can think of, no lotions etc. could food allergy cause this? HELP
Hello I am pretty sure that i have SRED / NES I wake up a lot more than one time in the night and can’t sleep without eating some times i even don’t remember if i ate while i was a sleep then in morning i find out that a specific food is gone then you remember going there and eating it , it make me gain weight a lot is there any treatment for it Thanks
Hello, my name is (…). My hair has been thinning over the past few years and seen several dr’s. I have just seen a hair specialist(who is a dr) that has put me on Minoxidil 10mg tablets taking a quarter a day. I didn’t realize that this medication is for lowering blood pressure and not for hair. Im concerned taking a medication that is not for my specific problem and all the side effects that come with it, as well as i already have low blood pressure. Do you think taking a quarter a day is safe?? Thank you so much for your option
2 months ago I started getting these small bumps all over my body progressively the bumps turn into rashes and now they’re like flat surfaces with bumps around the edges all of them are around and I’m really scared I don’t have insurance to go to the hospital and I really don’t know what to do the one that was on my chest totally healed but the one on my leg got bigger and it looks terrible I have one in the palm of my hand and on the other hand I have to starting to peel and spread wider
39 5’8 165 suffered from blood clots but after medication and 8 months non found
I’m 26, female and I think I may have septic, I don’t have a family doctor, and want to know if I’m in danger. I have had knots come up in the crease of my leg and get big and hurt bad, sometimes they pop with green yellow stuff that smells terrible. That has been going on for about a year or so. I have had a very high heart rate the highest was 186 lowest was 128. I have MVP since birth. I had my OBGYN take blood when the knots kept coming and she found out I have two types of blood clotting disorder. The last week I have felt terrible!! I’m extremely weak, can’t sleep, fever (but goes away once I take my pain meds), hot and cold over and over thru the day, no energy to get out of bed! I truly feel like I’m wasting away, I feel terrible and don’t know what to do…..please help???
I’m a 22 year old male and the only medical condition I have is Mitral Valve Prolapse. My names (…).
Back in August I got sick and went to an immediate care clinic with a 102 degree fever. He diagnosed me as having a sinus infection with liquid behind my left ear and prescribed a Zpack antibiotic for me. The A week after finishing the zpack, the fever came back to my primary care physician with a 99 degree fever. He also diagnosed my illness as a sinus infection with fluid in the left ear & prescribed a course of Prednisone with a dose of 60mg for two days, 50 mgs for two days, and on down to a final 10mg for two days and finished. All this time I had almost no congestion and didn’t really feel sick except for a fever. This is my first item of concern.
While on the prednisone, about day 4 or 5, I felt very odd especially in my head. Kind of dizzy, disorientated, lightheaded, etc. but after I finished the prednisone I was okay for 4 days. The weird dizzy, lightheaded feeling came back worse than when I was taking the prednisone(at this time I had a normal temprature) and reached severe limits as my vision was slightly blurry, I was feeling extremely anxious, etc. I went to the ER and found that my blood pressure was up to 160 over 10. They gave me 2-10mg Ativan tablets, saw my BP come down and they released me with a diagnosis of a bad drug reaction to the prednisone with anxiety related symptoms and prescribed me 10mg ativan to take as needed for anxiety. After leaving the ER my head still felt very dizzy and lightheaded.
When I went to my primary care physician as per the ERs recommendation, I told him about everything that happened. He took my blood pressure finding it to be 127/96, told me my stress responses where increased with hyper reflex response and dilated pupiles. He said to keep taking the ativan as needed and I should be okay.
Over the course of a month and a half until yesterday I have been experiencing the same dizziness and lightheaded weird feeling in my head, a strange feeling at the base of my skull, ringing in my right ear which I had experienced mostly in the morning and at night, heavy anxiety, sensativity to light (which has lessend), I had three episodes where my hands have shaken for maybe 10 mins, pressure on my templesso I went back to my primary care doctor.
I told him about the lightheadedness, dizziness but I forgot to mention the other symptoms. Was that a mistake? He looked into my ears and found I had liquid behind BOTH ears now with the left ear being worse than the right. He did some sort of eye test where I followed a light with my eyes. He said I had some sort of reaction that he said I have vertigo and prescribed my Meclizine HCL 25mgs to be taken 3 times a day as needed. I left the office feeling better with hardly any of the above negative symptoms.
Today I took one Meclizine as a preventative measure as I was not dizzy or lightheaded etc(I was not dizzy/lightheaded at the time) and the symptoms came back within an 2 hours of taking it.
My question is I’ve been having these episodes of dizziness, lightheadedness etc for over a month along with the other symptoms. Some have gone but my head feels weird still, I’ve tried everything and nothings working.
I have hypochondriac type tendencies and all the while during this I’ve been extremely scared which has at points intensified these dizzy lightheaded feelings.
22,female: I underwent vaginal septum removal on the 4th of October 2016. I have noticed light brown watery discharge (periods stopped 2days ago) and I’m experiencing vaginal rash and labia irritation (itchy and swollen). Dalacin VC clindamycin phosphate was prescribed after the procedure.
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