Why do I faint easily over any stressful situation? It’s usually symptoms like dizziness, nausea, unable to focus, can’t balance. Stressful situations like seeing my own blood, seeing roller coasters, getting on boats, bad news, dance, intercourse, or anything with adrenaline. I started also feeling very dizzy after playing certain video games.

Also, I am very daring person, I would love to do anything that gives me adrenaline rush and would do it in a heartbeat, but there is no point of doing it if the aftermath is me falling on the ground or feeling nauseous all day. So does anyone know what’s up with this constant nausea and dizziness that I experience? I went to doctor and they checked my blood. They told me I have iron deficiency, but I have seen other ppl with the same issue. They aren’t as fatigue as me.

Hi there.

I'm wondering what illnesses or autoimmune disease can cause iron to not be absorbed in the blood leaving me with iron blood anemia for 6years now. I have been supplementing as well. Still low ferritin after 2years of constant supplementation twice a day.

What could be some causes. My symptoms are getting worse and i need advise. Which are dizziness, cold intolerance, severe weakness and fatigue, body pain, blurry vision, heart palpitations, foggy brain, and sometimes difficulty speaking or communicating.

I'm 38y F I'm currently on Levo 100 for hypo, deseril for anxiety and prozac for depression as well as iron for anemia. I'm obese due to my low iron and can't get it off no matter what I do.

Vaccine reaction or infection?

Hi all,

Should preface by saying that I have already been treated and am recovering, but I’m interested to get some extra clarity.

27M got a couple of vaccines on the 23rd (COVID and Pneumococcus). Starting just feeling a little under the weather that evening. By the next day I just felt like I had the flu - nothing extreme and what I assumed was a normal response to the vaccines. The one thing that was surprising though was how much searing muscle pain I had in my right arm from my Pneumococcal vaccine. Severely limited my use of the arm; the pain reminded me of when I tore my hamstring. Saturday night was horrid. Couldn’t stop shaking despite paracetamol every few hours, felt freezing cold but was burning up, a bit of a headache, just generally felt awful. I had a very nasty case of the flu about 10 years ago, and it felt like that, maybe a little worse. Arm pain just as extreme. When I dragged myself out of bed on Sunday I noticed a pretty substantial area of redness around the vaccine site (about 10x10cm). Called 111, saw a doctor and he sent me straight to the hospital after taking my obs (HR bouncing between 120 and 140 and a temperature of 38.6). Had lots of care very quickly at the hospital (which was a bit scary in itself, given how long NHS wait times normally are!). ECG confirmed HR of 142, temp 38.6, but thankfully o2 normal and BP normal. They did some bloods very quickly and took some cultures, and about 45 mins later when they came back I was given IV antibiotics (ciprofloxacin and tecioplanin - allergic to penicillin) and 2L of IV fluid over the next few hours. Not sure what all of my bloods were, but WBC was 17, CRP was 152. Felt a bit better after about 6 hours, HR back to 100-110 and just generally feeling a bit less unwell. Repeat bloods the next morning showed WBC down to 10, CRP up to 191, but they were happy assuming CRP was just lagging behind.

The question I have unanswered is that two different doctors had different opinions - one thought the redness was not infection/cellulitis and suggested that this was either an extreme response to the vaccine (or perhaps coincidentally a different infection somewhere else), whereas a second doctor thought it was cellulitis. Pictures in the link.

Was sent home with 5 days of co trimoxazole which i have now finished. The area of redness doubled again between Sunday and Monday, but pain subsided and it became less hot to touch.

It would be great to get opinions here - if this was just infection then it doesn’t change things going forward, but if this was an immune overreaction then it might change the risk-benefit of future vaccines.

Thanks!

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I'll say that I've noticed my body odor getting a lot stronger than before, but don't know why the reason could be (aside from maybe putting on a few pounds). In my teens and twenties, I would be out and about all day every week and it didn't get nearly so bad. The odors I'm noticing now are similar to some of those I noticed in certain classmates during elementary and/or middle school. Am I a late bloomer? Is there something more serious going on? My diet hasn't changed much and hygiene is pretty much the same. No major health changes, although I am on anti-depressants. Just the thought of having to navigate for the rest of my life is... Ugh.

can drinking caffeine every day can cause natural miscarriage? I've search it a lot on google and it says its one of the things that pregnant woman should avoid during their pregnancy since it might lower the development of the fetus and cause miscarriage. is that true?

I did the deed without any protection nor taken any pills since i don't have a bf and did it only for money, and im afraid to get pregnant to some unknown man child. what should i do? i also didn't take the test yet since it might be too early and its still a week since i did it. We actually did during the week of my period was going to happen and I didn't get my period, its two days late. I've been drinking ginger tea, i also bought a contraceptive pills (the micropill one) and also started drinking instant coffee 300 mg. i hope u could give me some advice tho.

I have a very important soccer game in 4 days that I really need to attend, but today I started getting a fever and am feeling very sick. Will I be okay by game time? If not, what medicine should I take? We have 2 games over the next 2 days after that as well, if that affects anything.

Thanks!

Angina? Nerve pain? Anxiety? Please help! (Feeling like no one's listening)

About me: 29 yo Female, 195lbs (fluctuate from 185-200), 5"3, Caucasian.

Diagnosed: GAD, OCD, PTSD, High Cholesterol and Triglycerides (tests done without fasting), hypertension, Sleep apnea.

Recent blood work shows: Pretty low iron saturation (no signs of being anemic, test done during my period which has been extremely heavy), low vit D3.

Treatment/Prescriptions: Anxiety & Depression - Pristiq 50mg, Buspar 5mg 2x a day. High Cholesterol & Triglycerides - Told to diet until we run labs again with fasting 3 months from now. Hypertension - Valsartan 40mg Sleep apnea - CPAP machine. Iron supplement - not sure MG told to take several days a week. Vit D3- 5000iu

Labs: Cholesterol (Taken Aug 8th without fasting)- 235 Triglycerides (Tagen Aug 8th without fasting)- 223 Vit D (Taken Nov 13th)- 24.9 Iron saturation (Taken Nov 13th)- 9 Iron (Taken Nov 13th)- 41 TIBC (Taken Nov 13th)- 433 Hemoglobin (Taken Nov 13th)- 11.3 Ferritin (Taken Nov 13th)- 9 Calcium (Taken Nov 13th)- 9.3 Plus others that all seem in normal range.

Tests ran fairly recently: Echocardiogram (Aug 19th) -Summary

1. Left ventricular systolic function is normal, with ejection fraction

estimated at 55 +/- 5%. 2. Left ventricular segmental wall motion is normal. 3. No significant valvular disease identified. 4. There is no pulmonary hypertension, estimated right ventricle systolic pressure is 25 mmHg. 5. There is no pericardial effusion.

ECG ( Aug 26) - Everything reads no value

Holter monitor (July 19th)- HOLTER: 168 hour(s), commencing on Jul 19,2024.INDICATION:PalpitationsFINDINGS:The predominant rhythm was Sinus. with an average heart rate of 76 bpm (41 - 208 bpm).There were 21 VE beats with a burden of <1 %. There was 1 occurrence of Ventricular Tachycardia with the Fastest episode 208 bpm, 07/21 10:03:03, and the Longest episode 5 beats, 07/21 10:03:03.There were 138 SVE beats with a burden of <1 %.There were 10 Patient Triggers. Patient triggers correlated with sinus tachycardia, sinus bradycardia, or unassociated with arrhythmia. Symptoms included chest pain or pressure which was associate with sinus tachycardia.Non susatined ventricular tachycardia present. Results as above.

Symptoms: Fatigue Random pain/pressure? That will start in left side chest/shoulder near arm pit that will shoot down to fingers (usually thumb and pointer), sometimes will start in arm. Occasional palpations Increase anxiety Bloating Diarrhea Nausea (comes and goes)

Possible factors: Constant stress (stay at home mother of two, relationship issues with husband, family issues, health anxiety.) Diet (having a hard time sticking to low fat low sugar diet for cholesterol.) Weight (over weight) Periods (heavy uncomfortable periods that cause pretty bad fatigue and mood changes) Posture (not great)

Fear: Heart problem (Angina, clogged arteries, creeping up heart attack.) Cancer of some sort.

Please someone help.

So I have a mass in my left testicle it’s very possible they will remove it and I know it’s going to hurt so I want to minimize the pain and not have a catheter if possible what are my other options. I will take literally anything else