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I was recently in the hospital for a kidney infection?

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I was recently in the hospital for a kidney infection. I was released yesterday morning on the antibiotic ciprofloxacin and the pain medicine hydroporphone. Today i started having different symptoms all together that i have never had and is kind of worrying me. I have severe abdominal pain, distended stomach, nausea, clamy/sweaty, lots of gas, constipation, and when I was able to move a very small amount of bowel a small stream of blood came out with it. It has had me laid in bed. What can this be.

Age:
Female
Medications: Ciprofloxacin, hydroporphone

Back pain on off for couple of years. Gristle feeling along lumber spine?

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I have had back pain on off for couple of years. Gristle feeling along lumber spine. Saw chiro recently….he thinks disc bulge? I get restless legs…tingly feeling in back thigh to feet at times…walking feels heavy. It can feel like my back goes into spasm….I have a sitting job. Shooting and tingly pain in arms at times too. Your thoughts? Got xray yr ago. No MRI though. Just concerned.

Age: 27
Female
Medications: Valium when needed. Multivitamin.
General Information: Hereditary Spherocyctisis. No gallbladder.

Suffering with a lump in throat feeling for 6 months, I thought I had throat cancer?

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So i have been suffering with a lump in throat feeling for 6 months. So i thought i had throat cancer. I have become mentally unwell thinking about it. I went to my ent who did a full exam and scoped my throat. Then i had a upper endoscopy and mri. Followed by a barium swallow. Nothing has been shown. So i have pulling my tongue out and pushing my tongue to the side to look with a flash light. I never see anything but by stretching out my tongue the pain goes away for hours and comes back. I think i have ocd. So i have health anxiety. I think they missed my cancer. What should i do? I am 34 y/0 male don’t drink but used to chew.

Age: 34
Male
Medications: Prontonx and lexapro

Period is late but the two pregnancy tests I have taken have shown to be negative?

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My period is approx. 2 months late but the two pregnancy tests I have taken have shown to be negative and I have been free of the implant for 5 months.
Other symptoms include nausea and headaches but this has only been relevant for the past week or so.

Age: 21
Female
Medications: Sertraline and Propranolol

My legs get very cold, much colder that in the past and only when I lie in bed?

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My problem with thyroid started when I was 60 years old. In the morning, when I was getting out of my bed, I felt extremely week physically and mentally. During the day, when I was laying down for a short nap, my legs were soon getting very cold. Gradually I was getting more sensitive to cold in general, but only my legs were really affected and only when I was lie in horizontal position.
Over the following years, as I sometimes was feeling very bad, (I was very week, sweating, my skin was itching), it has been establish by my family doctor that the synthroid 0.075 mg. is the right dose to cover deficiency of my thyroid stimulating hormone.
At present I am 82 years old. I take synthroid 0.075 mg. every day. I swim, go for a walk and feel very good in general. Unfortunately my legs get very cold, much colder that in the past and only when I lie in bed, even as I am dress very warm and covered with 3 thick blankets. It prevents me from sleeping which creates many other problems. I am not getting referral to an endocrinologyst .
Is it possible to help me with this problem? My t.s.h. is now 5.2
Thank you for your time,

Age: 82
Male
Medications: Synthroid 0.075 mg., Rabeprasole, Nadole, Spirolactone
Yes
General Information: Until one year ago I had Hepatitis C. It was eliminated with special, new treatment by Dr. — in —– Hospital.

Blood on bathroom toilet seat, what can be the cause?

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Hi, I was cleaning the toilet and I noticed some little tiny blood-like specks on top of the rear part of the toilet seat. (on the top back part of the U of the sitting area of the toilet seat) The only person that uses that toilet is a 58 year old male. He sits for bowel movements and also sits to urinate to avoid drops/spots of urine on the seat/floor. In other words, the top part of his buttocks and crack are touching that part of the toilet seat. What can be the causes for these tiny blood-like specks on top of the rear part of the sitting area of the toilet seat? (I don’t know if this has anything to do with the question, but he could be/is bisexual and he uses the same pair of underwear for one week. He says, he doesn’t sweat and they aren’t dirty. He only does bowel movements in the house and immediately goes into the shower to clean/bathe his buttocks.) Thank you.

Age: 62
Female
Medications: None

I noticed a pea sized lump in front of my left ear?

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A couple of days ago I noticed a pea sized lump in front of my left ear. It doesn’t seem to move, and is not painful. I cannot tell if it has changed in size at all. It definitely doesn’t seem to have gotten any bigger. I cannot get an appointment with my GP for a couple of weeks, and don’t know if it’s urgent enough to spend £50 on a private appointment. Thanks.

Age: 26
Female
Medications: N/A

I found a lump at the bottom of my back that is small, pink and brown around the edges?

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I found a lump at the bottom of my back that is small, pink and brown around the edges. What could it be? I am quite concerned as I have only just noticed this and it is not painful. I think it has been there for a few months now, I have nothing else on my body and I have had blood tests and they are fine

Age: 21
Male
Medications: None

I have blood in my urine, is it cancer?

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Two and a half weeks ago I had a day where my urine was dark red/brown. I put this down to too much black coffee as it always makes me need to urinate much more often. I even thought it could be the coffee passing through me. This continued for a few days and then became normal one time and coloured the next. This is how it continued until during the last few days it became more blood coloured more often, but my doctor had started me on Rivaroxaban because I have intermittent AF and one of the common side effects is blood in the urine. Today, for example from first thing in the morning my urine was clear, bloody, clear, clear and then bloody, bloody and clear.
Having seen a bloody urine sample and tested it today my doctor has referred me as urgent to the hospital for tests.
I have googled it and found with bladder cancer it is quite usual for the urine to fluctuate, being bloody one time and not the next.
Are my chances of having cancer great? Unfortunately I am 65 and have smoked all my life albeit less then 10 a day.
Thank you

Age: 65
Female
Medications: Rivaroxaban and Citalopram both 20mg