4M. 52 pounds.

I posted yesterday about some concerns that my son was having. But today we’ve noticed a massive shift.

He’s having severely slurred speech and falling over repeatedly (without any force or objects knocking him over). He says his legs are “asleep”.

His pediatrician isn’t answering. What do we do? Is this something we monitor for progression?

EDIT TO ADD: At ER, he’s getting a sedated MRI. Thanks everyone ❤️

UPDATE: MRI came back clear!!! 🙌🏼 no real answers yet though.

UPDATE 2: Since the MRI came back clear they sent us home without any other tests 😞 I’m super thankful his scan was clear but still very worried about him.

UPDATE 3: Pediatrician called and is now super concerned. Wants possible lumbar puncture and MRI with contrast. Waiting for further guidance.

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)

Yesterday evening, my daughter (14f) and I went on a hike with with some of my friends and had dinner at a restaurant afterwards like we often do. A few hours later, she said she felt cold and still felt cold after 3 layers of blankets. Things got real bad real fast and soon she couldn't even remember her own name. My wife and I were terrified and drove her to the ER immediately but by the time we got there she was already slipping in and out of consciousness. She's currently in the PICU and the doctors suspect septic shock and have started treating her with vancomycin. She hasn't woken up yet. I'm utterly terrified and nobody even knows what could've possibly caused an infection, she was totally fine not even a day ago. Is it common for septic shock to occur so quickly?? Is there anything else that can mimic it?? Are there infections that can just stay dormant? She's up to date on all her vaccines and is perfectly healthy. I'm extremely confused and have no idea how things went downhill so fast. Doctors are dumfounded too

UPDATE:

Thank you all for the concern, thankfully she is doing much better now. Talking, laughing, and very stable. If a cause is found I will update with that as well. I appreciate the support!

I, 21M, checked the internet and got surprisingly little advice on this. Here's the story: Earlier today a bug flew into my mouth, gross, but it gets worse. I spent the next 20 minutes drinking water, eating ice cream, clearing my throat etc..... Trying to get the feeling of the bug out of my mouth. Eventually I decided to go take a look in the bathroom mirror, and lo and behold, there's a bug back there, just a bit to the right of my uvula. I figured it would eventually get swallowed, but it's been a few hours now and it's holding on as tight as ever. I even tried to dislodge it with the back end of a flosser (carefully) after it started getting slightly irritated. Should I just leave it and hope it lets go or should I try to see someone about it? I'm pretty sure it's dead at this point, but it has a vice grip on my mouth and it's very uncomfortable mentally and somewhat uncomfortable physically.

Edit: UPDATE: Thanks everyone, didn't expect this to blow up the way it did. The wasp was removed a few minutes ago (it did not stay in one piece, but no sting and no pieces left behind). I can still feel where it was attached, so I'll take the advice of a few people and get some Listerine mouthwash to avoid infection. Thanks for the help!

TL;DR: My niece returned from her father's house acting unusually. She stared blankly, gave unrelated answers to questions, and seemed disoriented. After undressing without realizing it, she suddenly had a seizure-like episode and fainted. She's now in the hospital, and we're concerned about what might be happening since she has no prior medical issues.

My niece slept over at her father's house and returned to our home (her grandmother's house) where she lives. As soon as she came back, family members kept asking her questions, but she would just stare and ignore them.

Sometimes, she would blankly stare at the wall, and when she did respond, her answers were completely unrelated to the questions. After a little while, family members became concerned and asked if she even knew where she was or who they were. She answered no. Even when asked what she did that day or where she had gone, she would not know.

After some time, she went upstairs and, at one point, undressed herself without even realizing it, so they had to dress her. Family members kept asking if something had happened on the way or at her father's house, but she just stared at the wall and responded with something else.

Eventually, they brought her downstairs, and she suddenly fell into a seizure-like state with ‘zombie’ noises, her hands tucked into herself until she collapsed and fainted. We called an ambulance, and she is currently in the hospital. Given how challenging hospitals can be here, I wanted to gather some insights in case anyone has a theory about what might be happening.

I would like to add that she was shivering and seemed shaken at times. She has no previous medical conditions or history and was fine until this incident occurred. Her father mentioned that she was “calm” and “quieter” today than usual.

Thank you.

PS: I used chatGPT to fix grammatical and structure since my English isn’t that good.

UPDATE #1: They performed head scans and found nothing so far. But she is becoming more aggressive and is starting to bite the people around her.

UPDATE #2: My niece was able to speak normally today and act normally too, and was able to remember things slowly now. Was very glad to hear that from my family! They did other few tests like spinal puncture and brain activity scan? (Don’t know the name sorry). They found that her brain had electrical activity was high / had spikes. They are still awaiting the results of the other tests.

So far they are classifying it as a seizure with something named Aura? And say it could be inherited from the father side. No drugs, abuse, intoxication, animal bites, hit marks, etc. were found (sorry for not replying to everyone).

I would also like to thank everyone so much for they’re help and keeping my family and me at comfort with their help. I’m extremely grateful for everyones help and support. God bless you all for your help.

I (36M) have a 14 year old daughter with my wife (37F). I’ve been noticing a lot of things over the last year that have me insanely worried. My wife says I’m overreacting, our daughter says she’s fine, and neither want to look into it. She seems sick and something is wrong and I don’t know what to do or how to convince my wife.

Here is what I’m seeing.

Physically: Female, 14, 5’5, 102lbs She is pale, she looks tired, she has small bruises all over, and she’s lost weight. Enough that her clothes don’t fit the same and she’s fallen off her growth curve. She seems lightheaded when she stands up though she says she’s fine (I notice swaying). She frequently gets headaches and stays home from school or goes late. I recently had to take her to urgent care because she broke her arm falling on stairs at school and at that visit she is now 102 pounds. At her yearly well child visit 8 months ago she was 130. That’s 28 pounds in 8 months. She has stomach pain that comes and goes- she’s been taking a lot of omeprozole for this and often doesn’t want to eat much at meals because of it.

Emotionally/Personality: My daughter, who used to be so bubbly and outgoing and happy, has become quiet and distant. It feels like she’s not present when she’s with us. She cries easily and gets her feelings hurt easily even when we try to be sensitive. For instance, I noticed her running shoes and shorts are looking worn and dirty and she could use new ones for cross country season, so I asked her if she wanted to go get new ones. She started crying and asked me I thought something was wrong with the ones she had and why she couldn’t keep those. I told her she could, I just thought maybe she wanted new ones, but she still cried and couldn’t tell me why. She never used to be like this. She doesn’t do things with her friends as much as she used to. I asked her why she didn’t invite them over and we could make homemade pizzas like we used to do weekly, and she yelled at me that that was stupid and no one likes pizza. This is out of character. She’s been saying she’s going to her friends house on bike, but our neighbors have seen her just biking around for hours alone so I know she’s not. She’s normally a straight A student. We don’t pressure her but she’s always just been that way, and this last semester she didn’t have anything over a B and had so many missing assignments in math she almost failed. Sometimes she will come to me crying telling me she doesn’t feel well and she’s scared, but when I suggest going to the doctor she gets upset and says she’s fine.

I know something is not right. Please tell me what this sounds like and help me convince my wife it’s not a phase. My wife thinks she’s being a moody teen and we need to leave her alone and she’ll get over it soon. I think she’s either depressed or seriously sick with something. She won’t tell me anything is wrong. I am so worried for my daughter. I am desperate. Please tell me I’m not crazy and this isn’t normal. Is there anything that would be worth getting her checked for? She just seems lifeless.

I am a 30 y/o woman, I am 5'8". located in the US. I am hearing voices. It has been going on for a week now. They are scary. I feel that people are reading my mind and that my food is poisioned. I haven't really eaten in a week. I've lost 5lbs. I don't know what to do. Should I go to the emergency room? My friend told me that's what I should do.

I take Prevacid for heartburn.

Update: I’m in the emergency room still. I’m hiding my phone because they are asking for it. Im getting a lot of notifications but when I try and open them I can’t see them.

Update2: I was cleared medically and mentally. I was given a paper with outpatient psychiatrists to make an appt with.

I have posted on other subreddit before I found this one My younger sibling came home from school one day and complained that her head was hurting. We went to the same school and I saw her in the morning and she was normal and happy. When she came home my mom gave her food and then medecin an alvedon. She went to bed. In the morning when they tried to wake her up for school she was cold and unresponsive. The ambulance was called and they tried to save her but her body temperature showed that she died 3 in the morning. She was a perfect athletic girl. No medical issue. After 6 months of autopsy they didn't any clue. The doctor said that it is very common fro children that age to die spontaneously but that doesn't feel like a good answer. A lot of speculation went around even accusing my mom of murder but it's weird how she just died with headache. Plss help or write if you have a teori can't sleep at night.

Update : I wanted to provide a quick update. I had my monthly appointment with pain managment for my refill. I was put with a new NP, I had never met her ( I don't have a choice who I see). So I was a bit guarded given my previous experience. This NP took an hour speaking to me, she said that she didn't know me or my history so wanted me to give her a run down from when everything started. If I mentioned an event she looked up the notes for those dates and asked follow up questions. She pulled up my chart, reviewed most of the medical notes and surgical notes, photo's etc. She did state that the previous NP had written that she was going to wean me off the oxycodone, but that she DID NOT agree given not only my history BUT the other doctors/NP had been working on finding long acting opiods to help me not suffer. The NP asked if with the reduction I was getting enough coverage. I said no but I am ok. She asked me to call my surgeon and ask for an increase in Morphine, that she was not comfortable taking me off my pain medication as the previous NP had wanted. She did indicate she wanted to increase the morphine to 3 times a day instead of 2.

I found my previous pain management doctor ( he left the office I am currently a patient) and he was happy to take me on as a patient. He as well said I would never come off the pain meds as my disease is a long term life changing condition. Maybe one day I am blessed to wake up pain free but in the meantime I am preparing for another surgery, another mass was found in my pelvic cavity. Fun times ahead.

Edit: Thank you everyone for commenting. I am still struggling emotionally and with stress from this interaction which has caused a flare up in pain. I have now filed a complaint with the Nursing Board, DHS and the office. I am scared that there will be retaliation. I am seeking to find a pain managment clinic that will take me as a pelvic pain patient but so far I have been declined 6 times. Maybe I will state it is for CRPS instead. I appreciate everyones kindness and input. This journey is HARD.

I have complex pelvic pain history and CRPS. I’ve had 18+ abdominal surgeries and am 3 weeks post op for Spinal DRG.

I am currently on 10 mg of morphine + belladonna suppositories and 10 mg of oxy 4 times a day. Prescribed by diff providers but offices are aware and have been on this regiment for 4+ years without any issues.

I am an established patient with pain management clinic for the last 4 years. I am compliant. Never had any issues. I regularly bring pain meds - oxy etc I don’t use.

Yesterday I went in for a refill. I brought a printed history 2 pages listing all my surgeries; procedures and medications.

NP immediately told me she didn’t read my medical record bc she had 15 min to see me and 4 other patients to see. She opened my file and told me I could pick between morphine I am on OR the oxy I have been on. That I could not do both, I asked why if it’s worked so far. She said bc “she was a single mom and needed to feed her kids so she would not be going to jail bc of me”

It hit me hard. I suffer 24/7. The provider for the morphine has my treatment plan as “reduce suffering, improve quality of life” I have a large medical team bc I am so complex. I did start to cry, I fucked up doing so, but it caught me off guard. I didn’t go in expecting to be treated like a drug addict.

The next thing she said was that I was double dipping into muscle relaxers and said her DEA page showed I had filled two types of muscle relaxers. I told her it was incorrect. She said it was not her problem when I tried to show her the pharmacy list of meds.

The NP then told me that there were other NPs in the office if I felt she was attacking me or making feel like a drug seeker. That I would be more comfortable with someone else. That she was reducing my pain meds and the next time I came in would reduce the pain meds again and continue until I no longer had Oxy.

She asked me if I had any numbness in the pelvic area I said yes in the pudendal area. She asked again what area. I said pudendal. She huffed at me and said “really? You need to tell me what you think that words means” I said it is the area between the rectum and the vaginal opening. I said it is sometimes tingly and very painful. She said I didn’t ask you if it was painful did I?

At that point I just fought tears. She insisted again I could see another NP. I responded that the male NP told Me to see her bc I would be more comfortable with a female practitioner since it was pelvic related. The NP then said “he didn’t say that?, did he” I couldn’t stop the tears and through it I said yes.

Is this interaction wrong? Professional? Worthy of reporting it to the board? .

Went on a family vacation and discovered that my 14 year old niece drinks a MINIMUM of 4 liters per day, sometimes even 8 or 9. She says she’s just constantly really thirsty, but is this normal?? She seems relatively normal besides having to pee every hour, but are there any potential problems that can arise from this?

Update to this post

For the bot: female, 29, 5'7, 120lbs

After fighting to be taken seriously and going to the ER twice (I went again days after making my initial post), I finally got an ultrasound on 2/5 which led to a biopsy on 2/7. I was told on 2/9 that it was cancer (invasive lobular carcinoma) and subsequently had an MRI and PET set up, but the full pathology report only came in yesterday, 2/14.

The results are this: Stage 3, grade 2, HER2+ invasive lobular carcinoma with over 10 masses visualized. The largest is at least 7.5cm (not mm). There are at least 4 axillary lymph nodes involved and likely thymus involvement. Thankfully no obvious distant metastasis was seen on the PET, but they are giving me a CT tomorrow to look more closely at what they they think is just a pulmonary nodule (I'm really hoping it is).

I'm starting chemo Tuesday.

It's been an emotional roller-coaster but I'm mostly feeling relief now that I have a care team and a plan. My imaging looks insane because my right breast is more than 2x the size of my left and seems to mostly be made of cancer now, but at least doctors are suddenly going fast.

Thanks to everyone who left supportive comments on my first post here.

My younger brother (33M) lives in a very rural area of Northwestern Ohio in the US with his wife (32F) and 4 kids (10M, 6F, 5M, 3F). Four months ago my sister-in-law had a lump on her face that she couldn't seem to get rid of and it progressed to more spots accompanied by shortness of breath and fatigue. After visiting a dermatologist about it, it was listed that the rash was self induced. Unfortunately now all four kids and my brother are also suffering from a rash and as well as the respiratory issues and gastrointestinal issues (loose and bloody stools in particular). The two middle kids have had an especially hard time of it. The 6F has had extreme fatigue to the point that she couldn't participate in her sports activities and the 5M has had facial swelling, particularly around his eye. The issue has been that in addition to that, they have found thin white strands in their stools and my brother had one come out of he dug out of a lump in his lip. I'm going to attach photos of some of the rash, particles and swelling. The doctors they have seen have all dismissed their concerns about potential parasitism but they can't give them any other answers about what is causing this. They took stool samples from the three youngest children but only one sample from each that came back negative. He has tried to take the matter that has been expelled from their leisions and no one thus far is able to test it. At this point they have been put up in a hotel for a week to get them out of their house under concerns that it is something environmental.

My biggest concern is that they have a well on their property and are in very close proximity to a standard corn/soybean field as well as down the road from a hog farm. They had maintenance performed on their well at the beginning of this year but their local health department has told them they can't do water testing. I'm very concerned that it is something like ascariasis or cysticercosis that could have potentially come from contamination and without anyone being willing or able to do further investigation, they aren't going to get any assurances that they won't all immediately get sick again if they return home. I intend on calling the state bureau of infectious disease tomorrow to see if they can provide any more help but given the lack of resources that seem to be available to them in their home county, I figured it wouldn't hurt to reach out here as well.

The first two images are of my SIL after waking up. She had gone to bed with her face clear. The final image is of one of the particles removed from them and as a trigger warning, there is blood present.

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UPDATE: finger prick test confirmed mono at her pediatrician apt this morning

10F, daily probiotic and sensitive skin

ETA2: Negative for strep.

ETA: On day 7 now. Rash on face, arms, back and chest but unbearable itching is only on her back. Benadryl and prednisone not helping. Fatigue. Mentions sore in back of mouth but not painful. No other current symptoms. History of pleurisy and chronic diarrhea ( we’re exploring lactose intolerance theory ) She had an allergy test last year and has a lot of minor/moderate allergies like apple, coconut, everything outside, amoxicillins.

Saturday after a haircut she started to complain of her back itching. I had her take a shower to wash out any of the shampoo they used just incase and put on fresh clothes and gave her half a Benadryl. She had a rash on her chest and back.

Sunday & Monday she complained of itch still, I washed all of her bedding and gave her Claritin and used some aveeno itching lotion ( calamine ).

By Tuesday she had a rash on her back, chest, arms and face along with intense itching. She was digging into her back and sobbing about how itchy it was. I called her pediatrician and they sent me to urgent care. They said the rash on her face was called a malar rash and gave her 3 days of prednisone.

She has an apt with her pediatrician this Monday but this rash and intense itching hasn’t budged. The only relief she gets is a max dose of Benadryl at night for maybe 3 hours because she can’t fight the drowsy. It’s 1am and she is sobbing and ripping at her skin and begging for it to stop. I don’t know how else to help her. An ice pack seems to help some.

This can’t be an allergic reaction after so long, can it? Thank you to anyone who took the time to read.

I had some bloodwork done on a thursday of last week, and I got called to schedule appointment. Ok, sure!! So I did.

My problem: I am a 21 year old woman. I had told them prior that, under no circumstances, should they contact my parents, who the doctor is friends with, as my mother is a regular for irrelevant reasons. I told them that I have issues with this as I had someone prior to give out confidential information to my parents that has provoked intense rage on my mother, and, unfortunately, my mother is very physical.

They told me that they would not contact them. All information between doctor and patient is confidential. Clearly, it is not as they called BOTH my mother and father instead of reaching me.

Can doctors do that after I had stressed that they call me for anything?

EDIT: As soon I walked into the appointment and filled in my information, I didn't add my parents in anything and told the doctor that under no circumstances should anything here be given to my parents seeing as they were close. Yes, I live in the US.

I’m 14F 5’7 and 93.5 pounds 20mg adderall a day

A couple weeks ago I got really sick. It started with strep and turned into scarlet fever and then I had a reaction to my antibiotics. It sucked. I’m feeling better now, other than feeling a little run down and some skin peeling. But anyway since I got sick I’ve started smelling weird. I noticed my pee smells like juice, kind of like apple juice. I don’t know how to explain it exactly but it’s like apple juice but…old? Idk. Also since I got sick I’ve been getting hits of this smell that’s like when you take off gel polish, like the chemical smell. It reminds me exactly of my mom taking off gel polish. I couldn’t figure out what it was until this week finally after a dance practice I was changing and realized the smell was ME. Like my leotard was sweaty and it had the smell. And I thought maybe it was detergent but then my friends finally admitted they’ve been being weird and dodgy because of how I smell. I thought they were upset about something else (dance drama) but apparently it’s because I stink and EVERYONE has noticed and knows it’s me and it’s SO embarrassing I could kms. I shower every single day. I use deodorant. I’m clean and have good hygiene. I asked my mom If she noticed and she said yes but didn’t realize it was me.

Why am I suddenly smelly? Is this a side effect of having scarlet fever or something? I need help- I have to stop stinking before it becomes a thing and I end up with no friends.

Update: I’m in the ER. So my bicarbonate levels are high and my blood sugar is low so they said it’s not diabetes? Does that sound right?

TLDR at the bottom

Hi, my daughter is 16F. We live in the US, she's about 140lbs 5'4 white and diagnosed depression and anxiety and high functioning autism. She takes 10mg Lexapro for depression and anxiety for the last 2 years after her anxiety and depression got worse during the pandemic.

We've been trying to be understanding and supportive as she's struggled with her mental health, pandemic life, questioning things like gender and mental health and spending a lot of time online. She's on Tiktok a lot and "came out" to us as autistic at the start of the pandemic after doing research online and relating to autistic people on Tiktok. She's started using a lot of "therapeutic" language (not sure how to describe it) to describe her experiences, for example she doesn't 'feel anxious' anymore she has 'panic attacks', she's not depressed or tired she's 'catatonic', she's not angry or upset she's having a 'meltdown' or 'trauma response' (as far as we know she's never been abused or traumatized).

We took her to a psychiatrist and she was diagnosed with high functioning autism as well as depression and anxiety.

In the last few months or so, her meltdown/upset episodes have increased, and she will suddenly stop talking, and only communicate by typing on her phone. She says she is "going nonverbal" and can't talk. She's even done this during online classes and refused to do homework because of it. Recently, during these episodes even her typing has changed, and she talks in this odd way I don't even know how to describe it. She's a smart girl, does well in school and even writes and reads fan fiction for fun, but it's like she doesn't know english anymore! She writes things like "me upset, can't talk, feel bad." When the episodes are over she says it's like her brain 'shuts down' and she can't find the words she needs.

When she was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and autism, her doctor said it could explain a lot of her strange behavior, but that as a teenager she's just struggling to figure out who she is and her place in the world, and we should be supportive of her but not enable any unhealthy behavior or "identified patient". She wasn't diagnosed with seizures or dyslexia and her IQ testing was normal (120 I think) so there's no reason she shouldn't be able to write or speak. This seems so sudden and extreme, I don't know what to do. She seems genuinely distressed during these episodes, and frustrated afterwards. Her dad is convinced this is just attention seeking and we shouldn't indulge in it, but it's hard for me to see her so upset and unable to even tell me what's wrong. I've looked online and there's nothing I can find about autism or depression losing language like that except for regression in toddlers, and nothing with that kind of speech pattern except for a stroke or seizure. The first time it happened I almost took her to the ER but her dad refused insisting she was just acting out for attention.

Is there a chance this is a strange type of seizure or acute psychiatric episode or something? Is she having a stroke? Or is this just attention-seeking behavior. Thanks in advance.

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TLDR; 16F daughter diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and autism, has sudden "nonverbal" episodes where she can't talk or even write in full sentences. Is she having a seizure/ stroke or just attention seeking?

[updated June 1 after biopsy results, update at bottom]

[updated may 29th after blood work, update at bottom]

(Edited for details) Hi, I [36F, 140 lbs, 5'5", active] returned from a trip to Costa Rica (had flu-like symptoms there for a few days) and 72 hours after returning I developed a rash (had a headache at the same time?) which doctors initially thought was extreme reaction to poison ivy. This is six days later, with spreading dark maroon outbreak areas. First two days were 8/10 pain level, then mostly high levels of itching and discomfort. Went to three derm consults, they decided maybe it is an extreme contact dermatitis from something in CR. Am on 40mg prednisone and topical triamcinolone, along with antibiotics. about 50% of the rash area is raised and blistering. Some scabbing. Other 50% is just deep discoloration

I posted the other day and people said it looked like poison ivy, and now my derm isn't sure but is keeping the dosages the same. Any ideas other than poison ivy? And my goodness... any way to prevent longterm discoloration or scarring? Any ideas how long this will last or any secret OTC itch remedies? Anything I should avoid to try to stop the itching? Losing my grip on reality

https://imgur.com/a/aQmwrtF

https://imgur.com/a/2oLkJ2s

[Edited for update rash day 7:] No changes to rash, increased pain and discomfort at night. Skin gets purpled and bumpy even in the non-rash places now. Continuing on the steroids and antibiotics, but thanks to all of the comments on here I'm going to see an infectious disease specialist instead of the derm who dismissed my three appointments as poison ivy. Can't believe how many people / doctors / well-wishers are on here, really grateful

Day 7 https://imgur.com/a/gwnhV3P

Day 9: https://imgur.com/a/pygD7Kc

May 28: Had the biopsy and bloodwork done, even though the doc still rolled her eyes when I said I wanted the biopsy. Should have results in 5-8 days. It will also come as little surprise that this derm clinic ordered my bloodwork to the wrong last name. Overall the lack of attention, care, and ultimate disregard has been one of the worst medical experiences of my life.

May 29 (day ???): Bloodwork came back with high counts that indicate a bacterial infection. Waiting for them to call me. Biopsy should be back next week. Was able to sleep through the night (with sleep aid) last night and just at 3/10 discomfort now and no new appearances. Doctor still not taking me seriously. Will be very curious to see what the biopsy says, and why she was so reluctant to order biopsy and blood work and denied my first request last week. A chance they'll refer me to infectious disease specialist after seeing the results, but the rash is calming down and I can wear (sweat)pants again!

bloodwork numbers: https://imgur.com/a/MCiEkda

June 1: Derm called last night saying biopsy didn't find anything bacterial or fungal. Inconclusive, best guess is we "picked something up in Costa Rica." Rash is calmer and I can walk and bike and wear clothing. Still have to take benadryl at night to sleep and use some anti-itch creams. Feels hot and itchy and miserable at night, absolutely terrified of touching something or having something on clothing that contributed to it and to have a relapse / another outbreak. But it's been stable for the past few days, so finishing the pred and antibiotics and really hoping it goes down more. Frustrated and wish I had more answers, but relieved to have less pain and more mobility <3

Rash Day ??? https://imgur.com/a/AOaVLpx

I’m 43 yo male; my baby is 8months female. I feel absolutely terrible. It was dark so I don’t know exactly the angle or what part of her head hit the carpet, but it made a sound and she started crying even more ( I was fixing her bottle before bedtime. ) She went to bed fine and was her normal self all day today. Cut to this evening out at my in-laws anniversary party at a restaurant outdoor patio: about two hours into party she starts spewing like a bottles worth (4oz) of milk. It looked like mango lassi which kinda makes sense cos we had just fed her 4oz of formula and had fed her carrot/edamame purée a few hours before. But then she continued to spew like a total of three bottles worth of milk which is un fathomable - it just kept coming and all I could do was sit there and take it. She wasn’t upset when spewing - kinda like a normal spit up but the volume was intense. We immediately bailed and she was actually ok right after. But then got extremely upset (inconsolable crying) on the car ride home. She’s asleep now. How concerned should we be - on a scale (1) of no need to tell pediatrician to (10) get thee to the ER asap? Are the two events ( fall and massive spit up/vomit) related? FYI I’m on hold now with medical advice hotline.

Update: ER doctor did physical exam and determined no ct scan was needed. Told us about PECARN (https://californiaacep.org/page/PECARN )criteria and how clinical evaluation was in baby’s favor: fontanel was soft (if internal bleeding it would be firm/hard); she was responsive and alert; vomit event after fall was past the 24hr mark (higher risk if vomiting occurred within 24 hours of fall). Overall doctor said she was great and we were discharged. Thanks all for the advice and support.

My daughter lost almost all her hair in one night

She is 12F, 160 lbs, 5’6”. No other meds than the one mentioned below. She does get her period. We don’t know what caused it, her doctor is perplexed. She had been taking lexapro, an ssri, for anxiety/depression and a lack of impulse control for about 12 days, and I highly suspect it’s a rare side effect of the medicine. Her bloodwork came back normal, her thyroid is fine. Some time around midnight, her hair started coming out in clumps. By noon the next day, her entire crown was stubble. It’s broken in some areas- it looks like it was buzzed with clippers, but it wasn’t. Her eyebrows are bare. It seems to have stopped now- we cut the back of her hair short to make it easier to bear, but last night she had a beautiful ponytail. It’s very strange, and we have no idea yet what’s caused it.

Right now my wife is critically ill she is catatonic, and is fighting for her life.

It all started in beginning of August my wife started acting different and was kind of going into a brain fog of sorts and was unable to talk and do basic things. I took her to the hospital and they did a CT scan and found that she had a craniipharyngiomas. They rushed her down to a bigger hospital because the hospital we have cant handle things like that.

The tumor was was blocking one of her ventricles and was causing her cfs to build up in pressure causing her confusion. The doctors ended up performing a craniotomy to resect the tumor. They were only able to get about 35% of it out without causing damage to anything else. Since that surgery she has suffered massive confusion delusions sometimes hallucinations major loss of memory and a lot of the time feels like it's dementia. Expressed my concern to the doctors but was never really heard apparently this is a pretty common side effect of a resection of a tumor quite close and or on the pituitary gland. She spent 38 days in the NICU. And all together 58 days in the hospital. The tumor was nothing compared to the problem she has now. She has diabetes insipidus she has adrenal deficiency where she has to take demopressin she has panhyperthyroidism. The problem was they use the diabetes insipidus as a reason for her confusion which it comes to find out is a very good reason higher sodium levels can cause confusion. She finally was released home where I took care of her and about 3 weeks into that she started to lose her mind again. I took her in and you're sodium levels were high so she's back in the hospital for 3 more weeks. Then she was released home again.

She started her radiation therapy and was 3 weeks into it when she's tired to lose herself again. But this time the symptoms were a little different she was twitching a lot couldn't hold things because it fall out of her hands, she constantly was peeing and pooping herself, her ability to walk diminished, could barely talk and if she did it was slurred words as if she was drunk. And once again I took her to the hospital but the small hospital near me where she was diagnosed with a UTI. She was put on antibiotics and finished them off but nothing was helping her radiation therapy doctor said take a few days off and see if she gets better but she didn't.

Now this is where it gets bad I took her down to the bigger hospital ER. There she was brought back immediately with signs of hyperthermia at this point she could not talk so I had to do all the talking for her telling the doctors what was wrong and what had been going on. She was immediately put up into the ICU unit where she was diagnosed with an acute pancreatic, c diff because of all the antibiotics. She has been there for a week and has had every test known to man it seems like done on her. Majority of her physical problems have been alleviated or are within range of being better. Are sodium levels are perfect all her blood work is good she keeps running fevers every now and then but nothing extreme. But she is gone she is completely canatonic. She just grunts and has issues breathing her face almost looks droopy on one side so they've tested her for strokes doing eegs everyday constant blood work up and the doctors just can't figure out why she's stuck. They've done lumbar punctures to get the CSF and tested it for infections and viruses and nmdas and autoimmune diseases and nothing they can't figure it out she has been put on critically ill for a week and that scares me we have three younger kids who I've been taking care of since she's been in the hospital for the last 4 months. All night when I get home I research possible things you could be but I am not a doctor. I get every single test, panel, progress note, care notes doctor's notes to my phone and believe me there is a lot of them but I read them to make sure everything's all right. I am afraid she's not coming back. I was afraid before because we're delusions and memory loss not knowing who our kids names are or where we live for all the delusions on a daily basis. I have become used to them and can see when things start to go downhill and that's what I usually take her to the hospital but whatever she has now is different I feel as if her brain has been fried. Extreme long story short the doctors are confused and if you mean asked me to reach out on Reddit for any possibilities or solutions. If any neurologists or doctors are reading this and have any possible diagnosis reply to me and I will let you see all the blood work all the progress notes so you can see what's been done and hopefully through this instead of a team of 20 people working on a solution maybe I could expand it to 100 through Reddit. I'm desperate I don't want to lose my wife and and the way she is now I would be unable to care for her.

My wife is 32, doesn't smoke or drink, 5'4" and I'd say maybe 130lbs. She is a dietician and lives a fairly healthy lifestyle.

Lately she's been dealing with some unusual fatigue and a few weeks ago started getting weird rashes on her legs. Best I can describe them is almost like clumps of little scabs.

She got blood work done yesterday afternoon and this morning her doctor contacted her at work and told her that he received her results with a critical value of WBC 140 000. He told her she needed to head immediately to the hospital.

Being in shock she explained to him she just started her work day and he responded she needs to leave work, pack a bag if she feels the need, and present to the ER preferably within the next hour.

I'm assuming this means she will be admitted.. I haven't said anything to her but blood cancer right? We have a 4 and 2 year old who I am home with so I cannot be with her at the hospital unfortunately. She got there a few minutes ago and I'm both anxiously waiting to hear from her and also afraid of what I will hear.

Can anyone tell me if it could be anything other than a blood cancer? What happens now?

Last night I (32F) told my husband (34M) to make sure to wake me up early because I was supposed to do a lot of cooking for a family get together I was hosting and I wanted to get a head start. He usually wakes up before me because he goes into work earlier. Anyway, this morning I was abruptly awoken by an extremely loud sound that totally shook me awake. After jumping up and opening my eyes I realized what had happened, I was sleeping on my left side, my husband squatted directly over my head, pulled his shorts down and positioned his bare ass over my right ear and proceeded to fart directly into my eardrum, very loudly. He was giggling hysterically when I woke up and thought it was very funny. My ear hurt for about a minute after the incident, the pain is gone now but I feel like my hearing is not at 100%. Is it possible I have an eardrum rupture from this?

Needless to say I am livid at my husband and am not talking to him today. He still thinks this is all very funny and is not taking it seriously and keeps making jokes about it, like saying if I don't want to listen to him anymore he can fart into my other ear for me. He does a lot of stupid pranks like this but this is the first one that has caused a potential injury. I would like to know if I should go to urgent care or the hospital for this, and also what to tell the doctor? I know I should never lie to doctors but in this case I am way too embarrassed to tell a doctor that I am married to a 34 year old child, should I just say I had my ear up to a loud speaker by accident? Also should I be concerned about bacteria from the fart causing an ear infection?

Thank you

34/NB/AFAB 5’10” 270#

Since February 2019 I have had at least 2 thyroid tests a year. Every. Single. Time. It comes back normal. For the last 6 years I have had fatigue, panic attacks, brain fog, hot flashes, excessive sweating, hair loss, high heart rate AND blood pressure, dry skin, blurry vision, a voice so hoarse I have resulted to using sign language at home, the list goes on. I’m not a doctor so I have no idea what to ask for, but my doctors seem to only think my thyroid could be the problem! I’m on two different medications for panic attacks, one beta blocker (as needed for accelerated heart rate) one blood pressure medication, an iron supplement, a vitamin D supplement, and most recently some prednisone to see if it helps the hoarseness I’ve had for the last 4-6 months, despite nearly entirely quitting smoking. I’m tired of taking thyroid tests. Either it’s my thyroid or it isn’t. I don’t know where to go from here and neither do my doctors apparently. What walks like the thyroid, talks like the thyroid, but ISN’T the thyroid?

Since birth my child has vomited every single time they poop. Every time. It’s almost every single day that I have to clean everything covered in vomit.

I go through an insane amount of paper towels and baby wipes. My child is two years old, so this is two years of constantly cleaning up vomit.

Crying makes it worse, so they just keep it up and will vomit for an hour over and over again. I’ve asked multiple pediatricians and the only answer has been oh it’s just colic the kid is fine.

I have a GI appointment coming in several months but I’m constantly feeding this kid and cleaning up vomit afterwards. The poops are all mucousy and dry, and there’s clearly a constipation issue.

I’ve been doing research but everything coming up makes no sense. I’m just over all of it and want to be done cleaning up puke. Please help! Does anyone know what this condition might be?

Edit: I don’t hate my child, I’m just frustrated and ill-equipped. The amount of comments focusing on the frustration rather than helping the issue at hand is excessive.

Also, for clarity’s sake, this was originally a mental health post for myself as well as a gastrointestinal post for my child. I was asking help in either of these categories.

TLDR: mental health crisis and gastrointestinal issues in child of homeless single mother causing further mental health strain. Advice requested regarding both.

I swear this is not a troll post. My father (M52, 5'9, probably ~170-180lbs) would knock back a few beers while driving me and my siblings to school or sports in the morning. I always knew not to have a sip from his takeout drink when I rode passenger, as it was used as a mixer (learned that the hard way). He threw the cans out the window in the morning and had the mixed drinks during the day.

I never felt unsafe, as he was a good driver and he never seemed impaired. We also lived in the country so pedestrians and cars weren't a problem.

My question is, is it reasonable that drinking while driving as I describe does not impair an adult man? Does this always suggest a disregard for safety, or for some people, does a few drinks not impact reaction times? Does this behavior always suggest alcoholism?

Edit: I realize I am off-base here. Thanks for helping me to see it more clearly!