A person who is an excessive drinker who does exercise a couple times a week, or a non drinker who does no exercise at all. (Same sex, similar age, weight and diet) Just wondering 🤔

Okay so bear with me here.

First off, this issue started on a night I had woken up missing my piercing in my tongue. The sensation has been well over a year now. I have already been seen at hospital, had MRI scan, Cat Scan, X-Ray, Blood Test & Cameras Inserted via my nasal passage.

Thus far the only information I have is that my tonsil seems to be slightly enlarged (which has been a noted thing for many years, not unusual for me). There is no 'evidence' that the piercing is inside my throat or neck.

However, to elaborate on my symptoms;

Lump in the neck that doesn't stay still, it can and does move when pushed, or not. Grinding in my throat when turning my head. Constant need to clear my throat, with phlegm. Slight pains when swallowing, coughing, clearing throat or any other activity giving movement to my throat. When pushing lightly I can physically feel the resistance and grinding of the particular thing ongoing inside.

Every doctor I have seen is telling me there is nothing wrong and nothing they can do yet I spend every day wondering and waiting to see if this is the day it turns worse.

I am at a loss for what I should do next since I am relying on free health care and thus far have spent a year to get no progress.

Please help 💕

I just got over COVID. Honestly I wasn't sure folks were still getting it. I got vaxxed in Mar-Apr 2021 (Moderna), and then boosted three times (Moderna, Pfizer, and then Moderna RV). I think the last one was "bivalent," made for more than one strain. Anyways, that last booster was in Oct 2022. Well in Jan 2024, I got it and it is a major pain to take off work so I want to do anything I can to avoid coming down with this again.

Are there different types of boosters to get? I looked on the CDC page and just saw a couple that said "2023-2024." Would any of them be as good as the others?

EDIT: On second glance, I think those shots marked 2023-24 were the actual vaccines, not the booster shots. But my question still stands--which is best to get, if there are any differences.

I am a 19 year old boy, I had a canker sore on the bottom of my tongue making it hard to speak and eat and previously I had one on the very front of my mouth on the bottom lip my boyfriend was in the car with me and asked why I hadn’t kissed him all day and I showed him the canker sore to which he asked if it was “contagious” 🤦🏻 I didn’t believe him when he said he didn’t know what it was because everyone I’ve ever known has had one at least once in their life. Fast forward to now and I showed him the one I currently have and he asked “is that what a canker sore is? I rolled my eyes because I still don’t believe him though he’s not the kind of person to lie about this sort of thing. I looked it up and I can’t find anything on people who have never gotten a canker sore nor can I find the percentage of people who haven’t gotten one to the amount of people who have. I STILL don’t believe he’s never had one before especially since he’s lied about things to look cute before it’s like saying we’re not a gay couple even though we have been dating for a year and a half! To me how TF do I know he’s never gotten one because it’s as common as a scraped knee or paper cut!!!

NSFW: disccussion of stool and just rather distastefull subjects

diagnoses: hypermobility

dutch 22 amab slightly underweight ( fluctatuating between 60kg and 65kg, 1.92m)

I've always been stuck on the toilet in the mornings with slight stomach pains,
however lately its been getting a lot worse and truly stopping me from doing anything in the mornings, paired with enormous pains that have me screaming out and heartburn for hours after.

I've been having diarea for months now (not more then 1 day in a row without ) (been to the doctor for this but was not taken seriously), when something else then diareaa comes out it's usually mostly black with some lighter parts which usually feels just as hard as a rock when it's coming out

outside of the mornings I feel like my stomach just is not active, it's been months since I've been able to poop outside out of the morning nor do I feel the need to, although I do feel very bloated during the evenings usually, paired with acidic / burning vomit coming up in my throat every 20 to 40 minutes or so

as per my eating and habits I will usually have 2 to 4 sandwiches (usually egg ham and cheese with some herbbutter, white bread) and seperate meat vegetables and potatos for dinner, I don't drink alcohol, I do however smoke some weed every now and then (2 to 3 times a week) and furtherly try to get around 30 minutes to 2 hours of walking outside in every 2 to 3 days, for which I will usually take a walking cane with me as I have trouble standing for longer periods/ walking a lot.

I do daily exercises of squads, sit ups and sometimes pushups when I feel up for it, when not I plank for 2 segments of 30 seconds

as recommended by my physiotherapist for hypermobility

I was mostly hoping for answers based on the toilet problems as it's getting in the way of being able to work, as I just cannot leave the toilet during the mornings anymore.

Thanks everyone in advance for their time and inout

Hi everyone, I genuinely don't know if this is the right reddit community for it but How hard should a blunt head trauma be for it to induce hemorrhage?

I was sleeping in the bus earlier and it hit a bump and my head banged on to the window. I think it was a bit mild considering that I still feel okay but like, should I be worried about brain bleed?

Hey guys I got two Wisdom teeth removed 2 days ago now. After the extraction I was given Amoxicillin and Ibuprofen 400mg as a painkiller. I was instructed to take two of each immediately and then one at night and then after one pill three times a day until the course ends. Well on the first day I was in pain so decided to take more pain killers than I should have (took two in the late afternoon then 2 at night lol) and needless to say I had the worst nights sleep imaginable, every single time l'd come to lay down I would get this sharp pain in my upper stomach underneath the left chest. Anyways went to a pharmacy the next day and grabbed some Gaviscon & Probiotics. Was able to lie down without pain and sleep for a bit but now ever since I've laid off all pain killers and only sticking to my anti biotic but I am still experiencing deep painful stomach aches which kick in every few minutes for a few seconds and then disappear. This has been going on for over 24 hours now and is really becoming stressful to deal with. Anyone have any idea what these stomach aches could be caused by ?

I have many many annoying eye floaters, and I read somewhere that nothing can be done and I read somewhere else that vitamins or propolis or hyaluronic acid works.
What have you tried that worked?

Hey everyone so long story short I deal with extreme health,depersonalization,ptsd, and other things along with currently finding out what other autoimmune disease I have other than sjogrens syndrome. I suspect something other than Lupus but my rheumatologist thinks its that with no details on it and couldn’t even tell me what type of lupus. I guess I’m looking for comfort in this post because over the past two years that I spent trying to find out my diagnosis I have lost 50 pounds. Which is a lot unintentional weight loss . So this amount on me for my height is a huge difference and so noticeable people ask me if Im okay. I have test results over the past year. I’m just looking for any support and any advice on anyone who is going through this I’m still having trouble finding another rheumatologist and doctor appointments just take away too long.Thank you have a blessed day!

I’ve been taking birth control to control my menstruation pretty much since i was a young teenager and now I’m seriously considering quitting because i feel like the artificial hormones are messing with my mental and physical health. I’m 29 so i’ve been artificially controlling my menstruation for more than half of my life. I’m not in a relationship and i don’t feel like dating at the moment so i think now’s the best time to do this to see how my body will react.

Ladies who quit taking birth control, what are your experiences? What are the pros and cons?

I have been struggling to do this, with very little time in hand to work out or even go for a walk, I have been just putting on weight, majorly belly fat, any suggestions on how to lose weight if you have a desk job?

Feeling ignored by my doctors

So for about a month and a half now I have been extremely nauseous most of the day everyday, and especially after I eat. I get into these fits of lightheadedness as well. I haven’t had an appetite for about 3 months. It got so bad I ended up being admitted to the hospital since I was extremely dehydrated, I was unable to eat or drink without getting close to puking, I hadn’t slept in days either due to the discomfort. Throughout all of this I have not thrown up. I also unintentionally dropped 20 pounds in two months, I didn’t even notice or have any knowledge of this happening. I have other symptoms/problems but the ones I’ve listened are the most reoccurring and debilitating. My life has been completely thrown off course, I have no energy throughout the day, so my laundry, garbage, etc js piles up around me. In the hospital I was giving a ct, multiple blood tests and urine tests. They concluded nothing from anything. I’d like to clarify before I say this I am 17, so in the urine tests they also drug tested me where they found marijuana, I am a typical user but since being Ill it has been impossible. They saw that and ran with it, they continued to question me on it thinking that’s why I was sick (it’s not, i haven’t smoked since I’ve been sick as well as I have been smoking for 3-4 years now so it is nothing new to me). As well as when I was in the hospital I had a lot of anxiety over my condition, they also heard that and ran with it. I am a person with social anxiety, I don’t like crowds and such. So they concluded that anxiety was the reason I could not eat or anything in that sense (which is js so wrong, I have dealt with anxiety my entire life, it didn’t js randomly hit me and cause to get super weak, sick, and unable to eat) so all they sent me home with was nausea medicine (Zolfran) and connections to physiatrists and therapists. So I went on to see a new doctor, who I saw yesterday. She ran me a blood and urine test. In my urine they found abnormal occurant blood, and in my blood tests they found my rdw-sd (red cell distribution width) which they decided was “normal” pls explain how abnormal amounts of blood in my urine is “normal”. Also when I spoke to the doctor prior to the tests she also went down the same route of anxiety/marijuana and gave me the same thing the hospital gave me (links to therapists, etc.). I’m getting worried about my health here since like i said my life has been completely flipped upside down, it’s hard to do anything nowadays, even showering and I feel as though I’m being ignored by the healthcare system. I forgot to mention in the past week I have been involuntarily gasping for air randomly throughout the day, about 15-20 times a day on average, and my doctor just told me “it’s normal” ive been alive 17 years I promise I know when my breathing is normal. I’ve NEVER had this kind of berating before. I feel very disregarded and disrespected by my doctors. Any ideas on what I should do or what might be wrong? I don’t wanna suffer for more months.

ok I'm pretty scared and I don't know what to do I'll just describe what's been happening.

so i think i have lost some feeling in my lower right back, which i notice more after making a bowel movement. I noticed this for the first time maybe 4 days ago while i was having a bowel movement. Its gotten me worried especially about one specific thing.

to give some backstory, whenever i do make a bowel movement i tend to sit there on my phone for way too long like sometimes even hours when i have nothing to do for the day like if its a weekend. i have done this for the past like 3 or 4 years and basically every time my bowel movements are 20+ minutes in length. Every time i start getting numbness/tingling/pins and needles in my feet and legs. i suspect this might be the cause of it. i started doing research and what came up was really scary so im not sure what it could be. i think i still have some numbness right now as i sit in this chair typing this out, as when I touch in the same spot on both sides of my lower back the one on my left i think i feel more than the other. today my bowel movement was fast for me as i didn't take my phone in there (15-20 mins) and fairly recently like (12:30 ish, its 2:03 right now). yeah idk i lead a pretty sedentary life style i dont play any extraurricular sports and its exam season so ive been sitting and studying a lot in the past week or 2 even even (outisde of school) i havent had an extra curricular sports thing to do since i hurt my ankle in march (it healed i just didnt sign up for football in the fall).

does anybody know what could be wrong with me? usually it only gets tingly below the knee and my feet so idk whats up but i know my lower back is too close to my spine. i did some google searching and everything it showed me got me really worried so advice would be much appreciated thank you.

27y/o male and basically for the past few months I've been experiencing nosebleeds only out of the left nostril almost everyday. Usually once but up to three times a day. Recently over the last few weeks I've been having vision problems, seeing somewhat blurry and sensitivity to light as well as shakiness throughout the body(does not happen at the same time as the nosebleeds usually and goes away after about 30 min-1 hour). I have less days I feel well then I do bad days. Anybody know what this could be a sign of? Best case scenario? Worries me pretty much everyday but I don't have insurance.

I’m going to keep this as short as I possible can but here we go.

I, 21M with no major background of smoking or drinking have been having reoccurring uti’s(urinary tract infections) ever since the age of 16-17. They started out of nowhere with painful stings and burns as well as major blood in the urine. Every time I’ve gotten one I am just given antibiotics to kill the infection only for it to eventually start up again months later. Despite this I’ve had ultra sounds of my testes, ct scans of my kidneys, blood tests, urinalysis, cultures, STD testing (clear) and almost everything you could think of but everything comes back “normal.” My family has a very prominent line of various cancers but doctors have found nothing so far. To my understanding uti’s are not supposed to be common in men and especially not in younger people. I’m honestly just very confused and scared at this point. Especially this last year I’ve started to see a decline in my health where I have unusual bowl movements as well as blood in my stool and rectal area, weird points of hearing loss and I’m sick every other week. Despite all this I’ve been trying to live my life and moved to a new city with a new doctor who wants to start this whole process of trying to figure things out. I’ve spoken to someone who has something similar called prostatitis but I’m told by family and doctors that that’s not something to be worried of with my age and this is all getting really tiring at this point and I just want some solid answers. If anyone may have any information or situations similar to me it would go a really long way.

A few months ago i started using rosemary oil for growth, well the opposite hapned and my eyebrows started falling out and still is, any knowledge about this?

Hey!

I'm a 20yo M, with a 19.7 BMI. I don't usually drink a lot of energy drink, maybe 3-4 a week and not on the same day but sometimes I have days where I drink anywhere between 5-8 in a day (usually in the afternoon) but that's once or twice a month and apart from each other. Between April 22nd and May 4th I was on a trip to Greece and on the 22-24 hour bus drive I drank around 10-12 RedBulls and 8 or 9 gas station coffees between stops and slept only 40 minutes at the start. On the remaining 2 weeks I drank around that much, sometimes more than that every day.

Today I drank 7 between 2pm and 11pm, specifically Hell Classic.

Each 250ml can has 30mg/100ml caffeine concentration, which adds up to the amount in the title.

Recently (maybe 30-50 minutes ago) I started to feel a bit cold, and shiver, even though my room is 24C and I'm in sweatpants and hoodie with a shirt underneath.

My question is: Can that be because of the caffeine and if so should I be concerned or it's something else?

I got to add that sometimes (2-3-4 times a week) I drink brewed coffee after I wake up, but I haven't drank any in 2 days.

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Thanks in advance!

Hi guys i am 22M, last week i felt something like piles, got it checked its kinda small, dr. gave me some medicines, one is antibiotic, one for pain and one for gut motion. But, i don't see any noticeable change in the size of it after medications its been 5 days since i started meds. I am drinking prenty of water and my po*p is soft as well but... It is not changing. What to do? Does it take this much time? Or should i change my dr.?

I'm a 14 yr old and the left side of my head hurts (the left eyebrow part) and probably caused by too much screen time and lack of sleep. How do I treat this without any sort of medicines, just home remedy for a kid

Hi all. My mom, a 62 year old white female with osteoporosis, recently (six weeks ago) fell in the kitchen and broke both patellas and an x ray also revealed that she had a mild wedge vertebral compression fracture in T7. Doctors could not tell if it was an old or new fracture, as my mom already had quite a bit of back and spine pain before the fall.

Since the fall six weeks ago, her patellas have been healing well but her spine pain has been worse than before. I assumed it would be making some improvement in six weeks, but her pain is consistently bad.

Does this mean her pain will be chronic? Can pain in the spine after a fall still get better after six weeks? Also, it is possible that her fracture was old, but she bruised or aggravated it when she fell?

Also, what strategies or techniques would you suggest to reduce her pain?

Thanks so much for any replies.

So for starters, I regularly poop only about once a week. I’ve asked doctors if that’s normal and the reply was “that’s normal for you” But lately, my poop timing has thrown me a curve ball. Now my body wants to wake up and poop at 6am which is much earlier than I need to wake up. I guess I’ll take it because it means I’m going, but why at such an odd time when I’m not wanting to be awake yet?
Is there any way I can adjust my poop timing or should I just be lucky I’m going at all?

A month ago I had a reconstruction surgery on my foot due to an ulcer that became infected the doctors had to remove a lot of tissue. The skin has healed well except in one part where a small hole is visible, ther is no skin or tissue that cover that space. I'll see the doctor again in two weeks, but in the meantime I am worried about getting an infection. Is there anything I can do to make that space close and heal faster?

Hello Reddit, I am 18(M) and this is my first time using it.I was first diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes somewhere around a year ago. Then,my fasting blood was 360+ and I don't even want to start about my post lunch blood sugar.My hbA1c was 13.6 which is like off the charts. I have to agree that I didn't live a healthy life. I was always eating food outside. Drinking soft drinks on a daily basis. I basically lived a sedimentary lifestyle. After I found out about my health, my dad basically flipped out and my mom started crying. And after this I had a lot of strict changes in my life. I had a clear aim of reversing my diabetes. I had a lot of mental torture at my house which I don't want to talk about.ik they wanted the best for me. I had to leave my girlfriend because of this and I made a lot of sacrifices. I've been eating healthy food. I sometimes slack off and eat outside with my friends. But i exersice on a daily basis.I don't smoke or drink(neither did I ever do it). I had academic pressure along with it. I was a 17 year old kid trying to get into top colleges of my country. So I hope someone can understand my pressure. I have to say that my friends were a great support to me. I had especially three friends who really were my support systems. Rn I am doing well. According to my latest reports,my fasting is 112 and post lunch is 120. My hbA1c is 7.1 . I have to get my hbA1c to under 6 and I will be a normal person again. I know I have a long way to go. I just wanted to openly talk about this. Which I cant do anywhere else.

I don't really know what's happening, but sometimes especially when my feet are dry, the skin is peeling itself and sometimes the skin is cracking and opening wounds.

This has been happening since I was like 12, and now I'm 18. At first, it was only around the thumb and index finger, but now it's more than half of my soles.

And it's much better when I'm wearing a shoe, so I thought wearing socks will help, it doesn't, well maybe the socks are too thin.

And actually maybe this is genetical thing, my cousin said he also had something like this, but after the surgery, it gone. And my aunt also had this but it was on her hand.

Let me start by saying that while I may not know how many times it’s happened exactly, it is enough times to count on one hand. Basically I can only describe it as an almost literal form of “splitting headache” without my head actually splitting. What it feels like though is that down the exact half of my brain it’s a very sudden and very sharp pain, almost numbing or paralyzing, even going on my tongue, down the back of my neck, and over my scalp. Sometimes it happens randomly, sometimes it happens when I jerk my head, but everytime it’s the same and lasts the same amount of time, maybe a few seconds.

I haven’t noticed any other symptoms though it’s been a while since I experienced it, but it has me curious as to what it could be.

By unconventional, I mean studies addressing questions like "Does hand washing actually help?", "Do people really need to use shampoo?", or "Do flu vaccinations prohibit the natural exposure to viral infections, thus inhibiting natural immunity?".

Basically, I am interested in reading about studies like this, regardless of outcome. And I’m also looking for legit organizations following standard testing procedures, not just a dude in his bedroom doing a 90-day experiment or whatever.

Thanks!

I have been trying to control it by reading some religious text. I have a flight in one week and I am already worried. Is it anxiety?

I'm 33 years old... I'm only 33 and dealing with pelvic organ prolapse ( cystocele and front vaginal wall prolapse) I just recently had surgery about 2 weeks ago (laparoscopic uterosacral ligament suspension, Colporrhaphy Anterior and Posterior Vaginal Wall for extra support ) I'm post op and still have a lump/ bulge.. it's just higher up...not as low. I am in serious depression because of this. It's making me hate myself... I thought this surgery was going to fix me up. I feel my life is over. The doctor did this surgery because I want to save my fertility seeing as I have a good 10 years of fertility left .. I do not want anything removed.... I'm in dire need of a really good urogynecologist surgeon... and a procedure that is guaranteed to fix this. I'm only 33 and I CAN NOT LIVE THE REST OF MY LIFE LIKE THIS! I don't even feel my age now. It made me feel like I aged 25 years... I didn't feel like myself... it's gross and I just can't live forever like this. I NEED A GURANTEED PROCEDURE THAT WILL FIX THIS AND LET ME KEEP MY FERTILITY. please someone help i feel like my life is over. I lost all motivation and just want this fixed 😪 😥😥😥💔💔