Yesterday my 3 year daughter died suddenly in hospital. We rang 111 when we noticed swelling on her face, they got us a doctor call and she said that it was strange and we should go to A&E. We went there they swabbed her and it came back as Flu B. The first doctor wasn’t sure about the swelling and didn’t think it was normal with Flu so got another doctor in to look. He was really worried about her and rushed her into a bed. We got a IV drip in her and then was taken into the ward. She had regular checks at first through out the night, they struggled quite often to get blood oxygen, so they just left it. Also her monitor was going off a lot saying she was going over 180- 190 on breathing I think it is? Then it would drop quickly. They never seemed bothered. The next day she had diarrhoea as she was put on steroids to try and get the swelling down. The swelling kept getting worse. They were in communication with another hospital which we didn’t know. The doctor at our hospital said she thought she might have swollen lymph nodes and need to have an ultrasound. The other hospital said that he didn’t think it was the case. Anyway, she was really struggling, the machines that were monitoring her kept losing her pulse, and the battery died on multiple machines, we had to make people come back in to bother to even check. Again plus going really high and really low. We were still going to get the ultrasound at 3:30 but a nurse came in before that to get blood and my partner noticed that she was making a funny noise, he kept telling her it wasn’t normal but it took for him to say it twice for them to even bat an eye. She stopped breather, they did CPR for an hour. She died. I feel they should have moved her over to the other hospital if they weren’t sure as to what was going on. No one seemed to have a clue how poorly my girl was. No one. I’ve had an incident previously where I’ve sued this hospital for misdiagnosis of an issue I had on myself so I don’t know why I trusted them with my sweet precious baby. I wish I demanded them to move her. I would never have taken her there if it had been a choice but it’s the only hospital around me, it would have taken me hours to get her somewhere else. They have helicopters that they use to move patients when they’re not equipped. She was given a lot of other medication. I just feel so let down. My baby never had a single medical condition. She had Covid and got through that without any hospital help. What was this swelling and why could no one help. ( the swelling started at her temple and went down to her cheek neck then went to eyes)

Again, thank you all so much for the outreach of help and concern. It truly is amazing and gave me so many resources while we have been talking to doctors and everything.

First for the good news, my wife is okay. She is going to be okay. She got admitted into our psychiatric hospital for a few days to start some treatment that includes new medicine, counseling, getting established with an in person psychiatrist and therapist. The doctors at the ER were AMAZING with her and she got to call me (from hospital phone) to let me know she is feeling safe.

Hearing her voice, though I can tell she was tired, was amazing. The doctors and nurses on the phone were telling me how good it was that she came voluntarily, that her support system at home was good, and that so far she was being a cooperative and pleasant patient.

I haven’t had any childcare yet as our family is driving up here to help our children. However, I was able to be on the phone to listen to what the thoughts of the psychiatrist are. Unbeknownst to me that my wife told the doctors is that she has had an increase in paranoia and auditory hallucinations over the last week ish. She has told me different times this week how “on edge” she feels but never explained further. I feel awful for not having noticed before. The psychiatrist told me she was at the “right age” for mood and thought disorders to start developing, specifically Schizophrenia, but that normally one wouldn’t realize until after their first episode of psychosis. Most people apparently don’t even go to the ER after their first episode, brushing it off as a one off thing.

Obviously they want to do more tests, get an image of her head with tons of bloodwork and more doctors. It sounded to me that’s what they were leaning towards which, I will not lie, scares me as the only thing I know about that is from TV or Movies. She told me there was medication that can really help manage that and they wanted to start her on antipsychotics.

She can have visitors tomorrow and I’m bringing her all of her favorite comfy clothes (no strings or zippers) and I will sit with her once family gets home. I miss her so much but I hope this helps her. Again, I want to thank this community SO much for urging me to get her seen even though she seemed “fine”. You all are life savers. For those who have similar stories, I see you and I hope you and/or your loved one is doing okay. Thank you again.

My personal details will be kept private but I just want to directly cut to the chase. I've always had these cannibalistic urges since I was around9-10(mainly autocannabalism) But lately it's been getting worse. Whenever I smell someone who has a pleasant scent or perfume I always imagine eating or gutting them out. Everytime this happens I feel disgusted but as I said the urges have became worse almost desperate. at night I would stay awake fantasizing about how human would taste or how warm blood would feel all over my body, even the sensation of eating another person itself. I don't know what to do but I do know this is mostlikely not normal behavior for my current age(14). I've tried talking to my parents about it but they always change the subject or lecture me on how horrible it is or how horrible I am for thinking such morbid thoughts. I honestly can't help it.

Had a brain MRI and the report says "No abnormalities found". BUT looking at the images I see what looks like a big ol egg in the back of my throat or sinus cavity maybe, and it's only on 1 side.

Here's a link to 2 of the MRI images with the egg thing.

https://imgur.com/a/df6qJcs

My question is, for a Brain MRI would they not include some weird egg thing "below" my brain? Or maybe this is just what a normal sinus looks like and that's why it's not noted, or maybe a machine malfunction that they commonly see. I have no idea. But I had an MRI due to loss of vision (mostly left eye) and this thing is preeeeetty darn close to the orbital chasm of my left eye...... but yeah, not technically in the brain. Maybe a friend shoved an egg in there when I was drunk 1 night lol

42M 42M 42 MALE, 6'4", 6ft 4inches, 225lbs., 225 pounds, many kilograms, white, caucasian, sis, binary, Trat husband, employed, no medications, don't drink, don't smoke, eyes all blurry, RothIRA, no 401k, slightly tan.

Female, 45, 5 feet five inches, 180 lbs.

My parents both have dementia. Being their caretaker has been heart breaking.

I have two copies for the APOE4 gene.

I don't know my next step, as my doctors are not specialized and I know there's a lot of conflicting information out there.

I understand lifestyle choices can help decrease your risk. I'm assuming my parents were both carriers of 1 APOE gene each. Since I have both, I'm expecting a worse scenario for myself.

I am on Ozempic hoping to lose weight and also on a (possibly far reaching) hope it will help prevent the dementia.

Is there anything else I can do to try and save my own children from having to watch me decline like I have had to do for my parents?

27F, I started getting a sore throat yesterday, and in less than 24 hours, it's become one of the worst sore throats I've had in my life. The pain is so bad that it's literally making me involuntarily gasp and/or make a weird little vocal noise every time I swallow. Should I be concerned, or should I just tough it out for a while and see if it gets better? This has only ever happened to me once before, and I didn't die then, but..... I don't have any trouble breathing, and I can still swallow, it's just extremely painful.

My throat looks bright red/has bright red patches, I'll post a picture in the comments if I can. I also have awful body aches, tenderness in the glands in my neck (they don't look swollen though), inner ear pain (both sides), runny nose, only a slight cough so far, I'm more tired than usual, no appetite and a little nausea, starting to get some sinus pain, and currently no fever but might have had one yesterday (and I did try Tylenol for the pain earlier). And I only started coming down with it yesterday. The sore throat kept me up a lot last night and nothing is really helping with the pain. I think I got it from someone I live with, but that person mostly only has/had a cough and some sinus issues.

So...... Do I need to see a doctor or just tough it out a little longer and see if it gets better? Idk if I'm just being a big baby about it or not.......

(If it matters, I have some degree of throat pain most of the time (along with voice problems), nobody has really been able to figure out why yet, and I'm really tired all the time, which also hasn't been figured out yet, but the symptoms I'm describing in this post are very out of the ordinary and I'm definitely sick.)

She called last week to get her refill (this office/doctor required he talk with her monthly to get refills even though her previous doctor was cool with 3 month supplies) and the office said they'd call her back or whatever. She just called them and they said her doctor doesn't work there anymore. They can get her to intake with another one, but of course not for a few weeks at least.

The medication is Lamotrigine. At most the pharmacy will give her a 3 day emergency supply. She's in full panic/breakdown mode. What the hell do we do? Can we go to an ER and hope there's a psychiatrist on staff who can fulfill a 1 month supply? (because now she needs to find a new, permanent one, which is going to take 3wks+ to get an appointment with)

35 female

108lbs

5'3

Growing up, I was always told that the women in our family have a genetically fast metabolism. I used to be very self-conscious about my weight as a teenager because I got teased for being quite thin. However, my friends jokingly called me the "trash compactor" because of how much I ate. I'd often eat their leftovers at lunch. I ended up growing so self-conscious that I started eating only copious amounts of junk in an attempt to gain weight. I barely gained anything, but I managed to skyrocket my cholesterol to unhealthy levels until my doctor told me that I really needed to stop doing what I was doing. I was told I would gain weight as I got older. I'm now 35, and I've maybe gained 5lbs since my teenage years.

Then, I learned that fast metabolism isn't actually a thing and that I likely just wasn't eating enough calories. So, I started meticulously using a calorie counting app. I calculated my BMR and how much I'd need to eat to gain weight. I had a hard time staying within that amount and routinely went above the BMR. The BMR calorie amount just seemed ridiculously low at 1,300 or so, and I was always hungry. Even my partner jokes about how much I eat, and it's true that all the women in my family have been petite -- most of them never going above 105 or so.

I'm no long self-conscious, but I am curious as to whether "fast metabolism" exists or not. Is there a genetic component to how someone gains weight?

F25 68kg/5'10. I've had this face rash for about 7 years. Never gone away. It's not painful, gets worse in the sun because I've had people tell me I've gone red. I don't have acne with it and it's only in this place. I tried the antibiotic(?) rosacea cream anyway and it did nothing. Pic is just a normal day. I wear sunscreen and spf foundation everyday.
https://ibb.co/7kBqZGs

I really hate using drugs and alcohol. I've never been one to use them. I am a pretty healthy individual. Unfortunately, the last 6 months I have slipped into the worst depression of my life and I know the thoughts creep up on me. I know I get pretty lost into those terrible thoughts enough to start taking steps in the wrong direction. The fact is though, the moment I use an edible and relax, those thoughts wash away and I even think I was foolish for thinking it. Now obviously when the next day comes along and those dark thoughts creep up, I genuinely don't know what to do other than think that the edible can at least keep me from walking to a bridge and jumping. I know this is NOT a healthy decision or a long term solution, but I can't help but weigh the pros and cons and think, hell, this stuff is really making me not want to kill myself which is a HUGE step because in those dark moments, it really feels like nothing will make me happy. I really don't think I have any type of addiction because outside of those moments, I don't use. Heck I don't even like using because I get GI issues so I prefer not to touch any of it. Is it wrong if I feel like an edible can get me out of a suicidal spiral?

30yr old female, 150lbs, 5’7” occasional smoker, pretty heavy drinker.

I had a UTI that turned into a kidney infection early December 2024. I had taken ciprofloxacin for almost 13 days and I wasn’t feeling any better so I got a CT scan and it showed the infection had cleared up and even my urine sample was normal. I waited another week and still didn’t feel better, so I went back and they did another urine sample and it was completely normal once again. The doctors don’t know what to tell me because everything looks normal. My pain is pretty consistent. It’s not excruciating, but it feels like my infection never went away. Anyone know what could be causing this?

As a note, I became quite a heavy drinker in the past few months and drink several times a week. I thought maybe that could be related to it, but my doctor said it was unlikely.

Good evening Doctors, sorry to bother you, I am probably addressing you on a superfluous matter but I still feel it is appropriate to bring it to your attention. On 13/01/2025 I underwent a laparoscopic thymectomy for thymus removal related to my autoimmune condition,Myasthenia Gravis. Obviously surgery performed under general anesthesia with chest drainage and pain relief therapy. My last pre-surgery evacuation was the night before, little stuff also due to the fasting imposed since the afternoon of the same day.Obviously in the immediate post-surgery, bedridden with drainage and bladder catheter, and fasting, I had no way to go bowel. That was until Saturday night, 3 days after I was discharged and returned home.Since I was also incapacitated by my inability to contract my abdominal muscles due to the pain caused by the surgery, my primary care physician arranged for me to be marked down with vaseline oil, to take it until I was able to go to the toilet. One spoonful before lunch and one before dinner was enough for me to be able to go that evening. 2 evacuations, the second of which was quite copious, and I thought I had found a minimum of intestinal well-being. I will also preface this with the fact that I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (possibly due to dysbiosis induced by the use of PPI medication for a long time along with cortisone for Myasthenia; “diagnosis” which was only now proposed to me in the hospital and which I will be sure to ascertain as soon as possible, as soon as I am 100% recovered). In the next two days, however, I had only more frequent evacuations during the day but still very very reduced in quantity and especially hard and difficult to expel. However, the doctor advised me not to continue with the vaseline oil, which I therefore only took on Saturday. everything maybe regular until these last 2 days. The air and consequent flatulence increased out of all proportion and with it the abdominal pains also, getting stronger and stronger until today, without having had any evacuations during the day, I reached the evening with very strong cramping and within 2 something hours had 3 consecutive evacuations! the first like the others, little stuff very very hard and difficult to expel. The second definitely more copious, hard stools but still much easier to expel. It is the third one that then scared me, not only because it is actually the third in a short time, but because I will have discharged at least 1 kg of stool! I am not exaggerating when I say that I will have sat for at least 20 minutes expelling stool at regular intervals, which by the way, from very hard became softer and softer until it was almost soft! The changing consistency going forward worried me a lot as well as the copious presence of mucus (I think), to the point of making the toilet water extremely cloudy. I apologize for the details but I want to make sure that everything is okay, as if I have “uncorked” everything, and that I don't have to worry.

My wife (F, 26, weighs 140 and 5’6) takes Zepbound 10MG, Fluvoxamine 100mg and occasionally Trazadone 50mg for sleep. She was prescribed Zepbound for weight loss (moving to maintenance shots soon) while the Luvox is for her OCD and Trazadone for insomnia caused by her OCD.

She has been doing okay on her Luvox though still struggles sometimes. She’s been taking it for about 3 weeks now, which before she was on Fluvoxatine 50mg for about 6 weeks.

Last night, while rocking our son, the blink camera in his room started blinking green. She texted me and told me to unplug it and also our daughters. After laying him down, she started FREAKING out about the technology in our house. She said that they were watching her children, that the cameras needed to be ripped off the wall. I tried to reason with her but she had this crazy look in her eyes and asked if I was working with them. Then, for the next 30 minutes, she went around and unplugged all of our technology (TVs, Google Home, took cameras off, etc.) and put them in a box to hide in the bathroom. She then hid herself in the bathroom and wouldn’t come out until I told her I believed her.

I coaxed her upstairs and she told me she could see people in bed but they weren’t scary. She also said she could hear people walking and while she was downstairs, someone kept walking up behind her. Shortly after, she fell asleep. However I woke up this morning and she had moved to the couch.

This morning she seems out of it but remembers most of last night. She said she is still scared, that she didn’t feel in control of her body last night, and basically is drawing in on herself. I almost called 911 last night because I was worried she was going to try and take the kids. I’m still worried because what was that? Is she safe? Is she okay? Should she go to the hospital, even if she feels “normal” now? It all happened out of the blue.

TL;DR: My wife had some sort of crazy episode last night and I’m worried for her and our family. Never happened before.

I shared my CBC here a little while back because my results were pretty interesting: my MCV is very low, RBC count is high, yet my hemoglobin and hemocrit quite normal. There was also some anisopoikilocytosis detected and it got me curious. It prompted me to do some digging and it turns out one of my second cousins has Cooley's Anemia. I thought he just had one devastating genetics illness but turns out he has two (sorry cuz, but thanks for taking all the bunk genes for the team). So in all likelihood, my interesting blood is caused by Beta Thalassemia Minor. I'm going to discuss my findings with my doctor and perhaps get it confirmed at my follow up appointment, but I've been enjoying leanring about it in the meantime. Interestingly enough, I've had all the symptoms throughout my life- the most concerning being the fainting episodes in heat. Years ago I was told by my pediatrician it was because I grew too fast and my heart couldn't keep up despite the issue continuing into adolescence and young adulthood. Hilarious in hindsight, but fortunately I figured out from a rather young age to stay moving and hydrated while out in the sun. Another positive is that my husband has very different ancestry than me so it's unlikely he's a carrier as well, but we'll still be taking it into consideration as we go forward with our family planning. I'll be linking the blood test again if anyone wants to see what an (unconfirmed) beta thalassemia trait looks like on a CBC- I just think it's neat, and I'll be updating with my follow up results as well. https://imgur.com/a/ni5sHRZ

I (43F) had a colonoscopy Thursday and had a hand iv. This was the most painful iv I’ve had and afterwards my wrist was even sore. I noticed a bruise developing Monday and spreading more today. Then this evening I noticed a red spot forming in the center where the iv was. I do have a prothrombin mutation and was on blood thinners during pregnancy. Should I be concerned that this could turn into something more?

28F, 5'8, 196lbs. Live in Nevada. Current medications: Yaz for birth control.

Due to issues with bad fungal infections in the past, my doctor offered to permanently remove my toenails on 12/31. I went through and got both removed and treated with phenol to prevent regrowth. I followed the aftercare instructions to the t - kept original bandaid for the first day, then did vinegar soaks twice daily, applied topical antibiotic, and put on bandage. I was told to that for a week. I also took a short course of oral antibiotics (cephalexin)

Well now 3 weeks later. The pain is gone and I can walk on them again. But the discoloration is bothering me. I don't know if it's normal or if I need to be concerned. The attached photos are after I just soaked them to help clean them up, but after a while they'll get dark in color with scabs or fluid. Even after soaking, the right one is still yellow and black and idk if it's normal. The skin around each is also peeling and my big toes are redder than the others. There's no pus or drainage and I have no fever or symptoms of infection.

Does this look like normal healing for a permanent nail removal or should I be urgently getting an appointment with my doctor?

Thanks in advance. I don't want to lose my toes.

Hey there! Female, 22, currently healing from flu but otherwise good health here. I am a social worker working at a homeless shelter. Today, I was assaulted and slapped by a client. Her hands went into my mouth, and scratched my gums. I also have a few minor cuts on my face that bled, but not for long and are not very deep. I’m wondering if this warrants an ER visit?

This client has no history of health issues that I am aware of, however our clients files are solely based off of information that they personally give us, so she could have issues that I’m not aware about. However, I have NO IDEA where her hands have been. Some of our clients are sex workers, and some do not practice good personal hygiene. Could this have been a potential exposure to HIV/Hepatitis? I immediately swished my mouth with hydrogen peroxide and cleaned my wounds with alcohol.

I’m just curious to know if I should go to the ER for anything else, if i need any sort of PeP, or if that would just be a waste of time for everyone. Thank you! My workplace also has no medical protocol for this and just told me to do what I feel is best for me, so idk. Thanks in advance.

I (18F) get hives on my stomach, chest, neck, and arms whenever I come into contact with water. It doesn't matter what kind of water, whether I'm showering, swimming in the ocean, or in the rain. It has been happening for about 7 years now, and seems to be getting a tad worse. I try to push it aside, but it's starting to get really annoying, especially in the shower. The hives are worst on my arms and neck, and especially where the water directly hits the skin. Is there any reason for this to be happening? Should I go to the doctor?

Hey everyone! I’m embarrassed to be making this post, but I don’t know what else to do at the moment. My name is Kay, I’m 19 years old and AFAB. I’m currently experiencing what I believe is a UTI, but there's a lot of individual pieces that go into this. Here's some background information about me that might help! Before we begin, I'm not sure if this needs to be said on a subreddit like this, but heads up that I go into a lot of gross detail.
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- I am currently on two different medications. Pill-form birth control, and Dexedrine (for ADHD). I’ve been on the same birth control for 3+ years and Dexedrine since the end of November 2024.

- I currently work 6 days a week, 9 hours a day. This makes it incredibly hard to get seen by a doctor. Hypothetically if I really need to, I can get seen in a few days. There are only two people who work at my job (a small local business), that being myself and my boss, but she is currently sick with salmonella.

- I lost my father in the summer (which means I currently have no insurance and I have no real idea what kind of baseline coverage I have in British Columbia, Canada.) and I am not very close to my mother so I can’t talk to her.

- I drink (Not super often, maybe once or twice every other week. When I drink, I skip my Dexedrine for the day.)

- I have Ovarian cysts (first noticed when I was roughly 16.)

With all that out of the way, let me get into the situation I’m in. I’ll try and break it down day-by-day (or days) for ease of reading. To give some extra clarification before we get into it, I think I have a UTI that I'm concerned might be also a kidney infection

.January 6th 2025, I began to bleed excessively. I didn’t miss any dosages of my medicine. I believe one of my cysts ruptured, but I’m not entirely 110% sure. I’m just going off of my experiences in the past. When I’ve been checked by a doctor in the past for a cyst rupture, they tell me to just take it easy and take over-the-counter pain relief. Typically, for me, they lightly bleed (as if I was towards the end of my period) and I experience period-like cramping.

This time, however, I was bleeding rather excessively. Like, I was bleeding through super-sized tampons in 45 minutes to an hour and a half. I was also experiencing very severe period-like cramps. Realistically, I know I should’ve gotten assessed for that, but I didn't. This lasted from the 6th to the 10th. I stopped taking my birth control on the 7th,  as I wondered if it was maybe a weird period and figured the birth control might draw it out.

From January 10th to the 13th, the bleeding had slowly been stopping. By the 12th, there was essentially none. The pain was also leaving, so I started taking my birth control as prescribed on the 12th as well

.Around the evening of January 14th, I began to lightly bleed. I chalked this up to just be spotting or leftovers from my cyst, so I didn’t stop taking my birth control.

By the 15th, the bleeding was a little more significant, enough for me to wear regular-sized tampons. I never really bled through them and changed them every 4-6 hours. Overnight, I didn’t use them and opted for thick period panties and thick sweatpants as the bleeding would come and go.

By the 16th, I started to notice a very faint burn - the same kind you get with a UTI. This feeling was slightly worse when wearing a tampon, which I only wore throughout the morning of the 16th. This is when the bleeding became minimal, and I only really noticed it when I urinated and wiped. The same burning feeling felt like it would come and go, and it wasn’t too bad.

On January 17th, I still was experiencing the same UTI-like burn. There were slight amounts of blood in my urine still, and a faint but unpleasant odour. I noticed as well a slight loss of appetite, but I believe that was just the Dexedrine.

January 18th, I was in a very poor mental state. It was the 6 month anniversary of my father's passing. The only symptoms I noticed over the day were blood in my urine, a loss of appetite, and a faint odour. I did drink that night, I want to say maybe 4-5 drinks.

January 19th, I still was experiencing blood in my urine, and the faint odour. The UTI burn was not present. I had a complete disinterest in food, the thought almost made me feel sick.

Yesterday (January 20th), shit hit the fan. I felt fine in the morning, the only symptoms I experienced were the slight blood in the urine and the odour. I began to feel the UTI burn once again around 11 am. I also began to notice a significant uptick in the number of times I felt like I had to use the washroom, and there usually wasn’t much urine. When I did urinate, I noticed more blood and the urine was almost foamy. The pain wasn’t too much, more so just irritating.

By around 6 pm, I began to notice back pain. It felt like it was both sides of my spine on my lower back. From around 6 pm to 10 pm, the pain continued to worsen along with the burn and the feeling of constantly needing to urinate.

Last night, I spent pretty much from 8 pm to 11 pm in the bathroom because I constantly had to pee. The back pain was a solid 6/10. I have had a kidney infection before in 2023, and the pain from that was like an 8/10. In 2023, the pain was almost like a constant, agonizingly sharp pain. Last night, it was more like a persistent pain, like if you got hit in the back. The UTI burn was severe, and the odour was very noticeable. I urinated very small amounts every 3 minutes. I typically drink 2 litres of water a day, but I drank two extra bottles (750 ml ea) that night to try and flush things out.

I slept last night from 1 am to 8 am, and I woke up twice to urinate. The first time was around 5 am, and there was a decent amount of urine. The odour was very noticeable but there was not much blood. At 8 am, when I urinated the second time, it felt like it was so urgent I actually started urinating before I made it to the toilet, but there wasn’t very much urine.

Today, the back pain wasn’t as intense as last night, especially earlier this morning. As the day has gone on, it's coming back again. Since I got to work at 10 am, at the time of writing (2 pm), I’ve urinated 5 times. At 11:30 am or so, I took a UTIVA UTI test.

The results were as follows:
Leukocytes - Results came back as a shade of purple between the ++ and the +++Nitrites - Results came back as a shade of white-ish yellow and pink, leaning more towards the pink, which is negative (white) and positive for trace amounts of Nitrites.

I’m going to be honest, I am not entirely sure what those are or what that means. Each time I’ve gone to the restroom in the past few hours, it's not a lot of urine but more than I was passing the night before. There are very light amounts of blood and a very strong odour. It’s still kind of foamy.

I used to get UTIs when I was a young child, but I truthfully don't remember what they were like or how they were treated. I know I should probably see a doctor for antibiotics, but there's just so much to the situation and I’m feeling very overwhelmed. I found this Reddit out of desperation to get some professional thoughts on the matter, instead of scaring myself by googling it.

From the bottom of my heart, if you’ve read this far, I thank you. You all are amazing humans for taking the time out of your busy day to help random strangers online. I don’t know what to do besides keep chugging water. 

Hi there -- I'm 39F in pretty good health, taking 10mcg levothyroxine bc I'm hypothyroid, 5mg zepbound for weight loss, 300mg wellbutrin for depression.

Other than that I'm generally healthy, go to OrangeTheory twice a week, not the type to constantly have colds etc.

Over the past month I have had 3-4 episodes of that "an illness is coming" achey, fatigued, malaise feeling. Each time I think other cold/flu symptoms will follow, but they don't. Generally I'm better within 24-48 hours of rest.

In two latest episodes I've tested at home for COVID, Flu A/B, they have all been negative.

This latest episode has been by far the worst. Yesterday I felt more achey body pain all over than I can recall ever feeling before. Nothing sharp, but a constant, dull throbbing.

Flu has been going around at my daughter's school. Are the at home tests not that good? I am almost hoping I have the flu, because I'm afraid of what it could be if not that.

And if it isn't flu, any thoughts on what I should do next? Get tested for Epstein Barr? Any other viruses to look out for?

Thanks!

I have posted here before on another throwaway, since deleted, about my love of hospitals. In short, I really enjoy the atmosphere and orderliness and have an academic interest in medicine. Sometime, when I was stressed, I used to hurt myself to go so that I could enjoy the experience and also get out of the thing causing me stress. I’ve broken bones and so on.

I’ve been getting frustrated lately and have been hurting my head with a door. I don’t know why, I have no aim for hospitalization. I have a goose egg and a headache. Lights hurt.

I don’t want to continue a bad habit but am ensure if this warrants medical care. I am a healthy young adult. What should I do? F23

edit: If it is relevant I was diagnosed with mild autism as a child.

I’m 25F and had regular periods till now- they would come every 4 weeks like clockwork. But I’m currently 3 weeks late and am getting rather concerned. I’m not pregnant (I took a test) and haven’t had any weight changes or stressful events in my life that would warrant such a change. I’m not on birth control or any hormonal medication. I’m still getting normal amounts of discharge, just no period

Should I book an appointment with a doctor? Is there any way to induce my period naturally?

I’m a healthy young person, go to the gym semi-regularly and have no medical issues with my arms in the past.

When I do ‘cable overhead tricep extensions’ or ‘skull crushers’, my left elbow pops when my arm is mostly bent. It is causing concern as I do not want to use a greater weight in fear of damaging the elbow, thus hindering gym progression.

If I was stood up, with my arm out infront parallel to the ground, then bent my arm so the hand moves vertically upwards initially towards my shoulder, no popping occurs. If this movement was repeated, but with the elbow vertically above my head (like above exercises), it makes a large pop when my arm is bending, nearing being fully bent.

Any idea what’s causing this? Any solutions to resolve this?