I’m a 28 year old female. I’m retaining water really bad in my legs. My ankles and feet are so swollen 24/7 that I can’t wear any other shoes other than my flip flops right now. It’s been going on for about 5 years. I’ve been doctoring for it for over 2 years now and they haven’t found anything. I’ve had an ultrasound done on my heart, lungs, kindeys, liver, bladder, uterus an legs. So far they have found nothing. I’ve had multiple blood tests done and they also all came back fine. I limit the amount of salt I intake because I know it makes it worse. I often times wake up with my face an hands swollen as well. I’ve now taken two different types of water pills an neither of them have worked. I have no allergies and I’ve never had any health problems until recently with the water rentention. I need help trying to figure this out. My family doctor can’t seem to figure out what is causing it. I’m so sick of not being able to wear shoes.
I’ve had a lump in my forearm for about a decade that was diagnosed as an aneurysm of the left basilic vein. It gets larger when I play sports or lift weights. The doctor can perform an aneurysmectomy or leave it alone. What do you recommend?
In May of this year, I had an acute onset of tingling in both my legs. Each leg was tingling from the top of the outer pelvis bone, above the hip joint, to the soles of my feet. The tingling was strong and constant, but was not accompanied by any pain or weakness.
I went to the E.R. because my blood pressure was also dangerously high at the time. They gave me something like valium and the blood pressure returned to near normal. (I have had slightly elevated blood pressure for several years, prehypertension.)
By the next morning, the tingling had subsided, but it continued to return now and then, never as severe, and never for as long. The frequency and severity of the tingling continued to decrease, but never completely went away.
I contacted my primary care physician to discuss the issue. She had me start vitamin B12 and had me do a nerve test of my legs. The nerve test (some electro-shock type of test) said everything looked great. She also started me on blood pressure medication, first hydrochlorothiazide, which gave me some mood side effects, then Losartan potassium, which seems to have gotten my BP very near normal.
Over time, I started to experience the same tingling in my hands and my forearms. I also started to notice that all the tingling seemed to be correlated with being in contact with a firm surface. (My hand tingles when I use my computer mouse, the soles of my feet tingle when driving, my legs tingle in bed if one lays across the other, etc.) Generally, if I change position, I can get the tingling to subside or mostly subside.
Over the last couple of days, the tingling in my right hand has increased in frequency and strength.
My primary care physician has been contacted, but she seems unsure what to think. I’m hoping for some other ideas.
SOME MEDICAL HISTORY:
I have the genetic bone condition osteopetrosis (not osteporosis). I wonder about the condition of the ultra-dense bones in my spine, and the spinal cord, but my primary care physician did not seem concerned about this when I mentioned it to her.
I also have metal-on-metal cobalt/chromium hip resurfacing replacements, from 2006. Recent blood tests show cobalt and chromium at very low levels, but not zero.
I am a 46 year old male. 6’0″, 265 pounds. I have had a yearly blood sugar check and it has always been normal. My primary care physician did another blood sugar check (some test that gives the blood sugar average over recent history) and it was normal as well.
ALLERGIES:
Clindamycin – rash. Likely sensitive to gluten, celiac test was “equivocal”. Have been on gluten-free diet for a few years.
I am a 61 year old female and have been diagnosed with insulin resistance but am unable to take metformin XR 500 due to severe side effects. My doc has suggested Januvia 10mg. Will this work as I do not have diabetes 2 as yet.
Question: I’m 26 years old, (27 on Monday) and there were 3 spiders in my bedroom, so panicking, I grabbed raid and sprayed them until they were visibly dead. It was a large amount of raid, and I was too scared to call anyone or wake my family up to ask what I should do fix it. So I cracked my bedroom door open and went to sleep. I felt alright the next morning, extremely exhausted, and spent most of the day in my bedroom, still highly aware of the raid fumes in my bedroom. It is now hard for me to breathe, and I feel extremely exhausted. What should I do? (also I cant see a doctor)
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