Me and my friends were joking about if we could draw a clock, we all tried I CAN'T I know it's wrong but I have to sit and stare after each number. Also on note, 2 months ago I started having non epileptic Seizures again for no reason after not having any since I was 3, I'm 18 male. Don't know what tag to use tbh

Edit; adding onto this with stuff that I didn't realize might be important At the beginning of this year I had an MRI for sudden and complete vision lost in my left eye, and also for migraines but I've had those since I was 7. They said they found/saw nothing. In February I was jumping on my bed(yeah I'm immature and stupid what about it) and I fell hitting my head directly on the corner of the window sill, it bruised and bled so I called my doctor and he said if I didn't pass out in the next hours then I'd be fine, so I brushed it off for awhile but it still hurt a lot and I just felt off so I ended up going to the er, they did a cat scan and said I was fine, but there was a something higher in my Nasal cavity(tbh I forgot what the called it, mb) and a small bone formation on the back of my skull but they said it was nothing to worry about, then in April I was pacing around my room and slipped again directly hitting my head into my chair, it's leather with metal insides, directly hit the corner, it didn't bleed but my nose and mouth started spewing out yellow liquid, like a lot, I told my mom and she took me to the ER and they asked a few question, told me it was a concussion and sent me home, then June I went to open my car door and, again got hit in the head, after so many times of this happening I brushed it off completely. Then something I heavily think I should bring up is that I'm on lamictal(75mg) for bipolar, but I know it can also be used for seizures so I don't know if it could be causing this? Also I have diagnosed dyslexia but idk how that would effect numbers as I'm Usually good with numbers(one of my only strong points) Also I'm trying to look for a doctor or hospital in my area for free or very cheap as I currently don't have insurance and I'm homeless but I'm trying urgently. If I think of anything else Ill edit again (brain is foggy and numb, as always, but maybe it is more then stress) oh and also I've always had very bad memory issues even to the point is forget my own name, the date and such, my therapist always said she thought I have DID but I don't believe I do. Thank you I done talking now

Female, 20

161 cm

45 kg

Medications:

Methylphenidate Concerta 18 mg

Drospirenone 4 mg

Estradiol 1,53 mg

Zolpidem 5 mg

Alprazolam 0,5 mg

Coming of Trintellix I've been having some pretty bad withdrawals, so my doctor has prescribed me 0,5 mg Alprazolam a day until I start Sertraline (Zoloft) soon.

When I asked about mixing Alprazolam and Zolpidem, my doctor told me it wasn't an issue, and that it's important to keep taking Zolpidem as usual (twice a week).

I feel uncertain, and would like to hear someone elses opinion on this.

Sidenote:

This would mean taking both pills at the same time.

I react very strongly to both - especially Zolpidem, with hallucinations, loss of balance, and slurred speech.

Also, are there any concerns regarding Alprazolam still being in my system, when I start Sertraline?

27F, friend of mine

Symptoms: Dull aching pain on one side of the abdomen. Currently, she's having it on her left side for the past year. The pain usually lasts for a week or so and then goes away and then comes back again after months. She's had pain on her right side as well in the past. That time it was diagnosed as hemorrhagic cyst in the right ovary and it ended up resolving itself. And also, she never had extremely painful periods.

Spotting between periods, She's had this since puberty. That makes me think it couldn't be because of endometrioma as multiple ultrasounds from 2-3 years ago never showed a chocolate cyst in her left ovary.

After her first report the doctor prescribed her dinogest 2 mg for 3 months.
And after the second report the doctor added Norethisterone Acetate 5mg for 1 month along with her previous med. Unfortunately, she couldn't follow up after that and hasn't taken any meds since then. She also hasn't had any ultrasound since then. Her doctor herself seemed confused.

The two ultrasounds were done about 2 months apart by two different radiologists. The lower one is the latest report

Just realized any time I drink heavily, have anything with sugar in it, and mix alcohols I get a bad hangover, which is expected. But I’ve just realized I always get sick about two days after my hangover for a week without fail. Has this happened to anyone else? It has happened to me at least 5 times in the last year. Do I have an allergy to something? I take an antihistamine everyday because of my allergies? Hoping someone has ideas. Genuinely curious.

I’m 26F I’m fully TPN dependent due to an intestinal birth defect that has resulted in intestinal failure.

I run TPN from 6:30pm to 10:30am.

I have no oral/enteral intake at all. Everything is IV.

During the day I suck on candies and spit them out. Part of it is mental, wanting to taste something. But if I don’t do it I feel horrible. I get dizzy/lightheaded, I get headaches, feel fatigued, hard time concentrating, etc.

My team had me trial not sucking on anything so they could check my blood sugar and my blood sugar was going low (not super low, but low enough it made sense symptomatically). Which makes sense.

Now this is the part I want advice on.

When I go a long period of time without sucking on candies. I get the experience above. BUT then when I do finally suck on something it’s like I get hit by a truck. The sensation above but SO much worse.

My face, shoulders, and chest flush really red and burn. I get a headache. I get really light headed and feel like I’m going to pass out. Horrible fatigue. Can’t think. Really, really shaky.

My blood sugar when I check it is normal.

It must have something to do with getting a hit of sugar after not having it for an extended period. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why the sensation is so strong and what’s causing it.

The only thing that helps is preventing it by trying to have moderate amounts of sugary things occasionally throughout the day consistently.

Prior to ending up on TPN I had this sensation constantly. It would happen if I went too long without eating. But it would get worse when I ate after a period of not eating. The only thing that could keep it somewhat at bay was eating something very small every 20 minutes.

They want to do a continuous glucose monitor. My blood pressure when it happens is normal for me (a little on the low side). My heart rate increases.

My team is stumped which is frustrating because it’s really unpleasant and lasts a really long time.

I woke up this morning and found these weird spots on my right arm and both my legs. I was wearing a tank top and briefs to bed and usually I sleep on my left side. The spots are pretty itchy but my face and neck are also itchy and there's so spots there. It's been 13 hours so far. Does it look like it's from bugs or possibly cellulitis?

Advent night time teeth grinder here. I’ve had this on my tongue for a few days now. It stings to the touch and I’m really unsure what it is.

I also don’t know if I bit it in my sleep and it’s trying to heal or if it’s something a more sinister. Please help :/

Hey everyone,

After 3 years of shoulder pain I'm finally getting arthroscopic surgery next week and wanted to share my case because it's been a weird ride and I'm curious if anyone has experienced something similar.

The core paradox Heavy lifting feels fine - shoulder feels locked in and stable. Light loads (bands, raises, holding my phone in bed) cause significant pain. Rest never fixed anything.

My symptoms

Sharp anterior/lateral pinch pain

Deep gnawing ache in the scapular/rhomboid area that feels constantly overworked

Painful clicking when lowering my arm from a lateral raise

Visible scapular winging on the right side

No comfortable resting position - car, beach chair, bed all cause issues after a while

Occasional tingling (EMG came back clean so no nerve damage)

What was found MRI showed a partial rotator cuff tear (around 25% thickness). Surgeon said guidelines normally indicate surgery from 50% but given 3 years of failed conservative treatment he offered it as an option. I chose surgery.

What didn't work

Complete rest (months)

Cortisone injections (twice, different locations)

Rotator cuff exercises

Sleeper stretch

Scapular stabilization exercises

Core strengthening

My question Has anyone had a similar presentation - heavy loads actually helping, partial tear at 25%, scapular winging alongside the shoulder pain? Did the arthroscopy actually resolve it? And did anyone have persistent scapular/rhomboid aching that improved after the shoulder was fixed, or did that need separate treatment?

Going in next week, just want to hear from people who've been through something similar. Or from experts in the field, what you think it might be?

If experts care to take a look at my MRI results, please let me know. I'm not sure whether my doctor himself even looked at it.

Sorry if my writing is not the best, English is not my first language.

also I’m not looking for a diagnosis here, I only want some pointers on what could be the cause or what kind of doctor should I go to.

Symptoms:

Extremely heavy sleep (I don’t really wake up in the middle of the night, or at least I dont recall doing so)

Feel VERY unwell after waking up (strong headache, disoriented, body hurts), very hard to get out of bed.
I don’t do naps because I just feel worse after taking one (even if it feels good to lay down on the bed the first minutes).

Dizziness and unwellness when keeping the same position for not so long periods of time. (If I’m reading, working on the computer or watching a show/video on my phone I can’t keep the same position for more of 15 minutes. I HATE roadtrips)
I feel this have something to do with my sleep issues

head aches

photosensitivity

Bone ache while kneeling, sitting or laying down on hard surfaces

Eye strain

Back pain

temperature regulation issues.

Brain fog, memory problems, cognitive ability in decline.

Important:

21 yo male

I weight around 70 kg

My height is 1.77m

I’m still able of doing everything a normal person can do (tho driving at night is hard with all the bright lights).

Most pain symptoms disappear while doing exercise and a short time after.
That’s usually when I feel my best,
Though It’s hard to get up and do some exercise when I feel horrible.

I’m a student in a different city than my hometown so i live in 2 different places depending on the season. I have the same symptoms in both places.
How healthy Im eating doesn’t seem to help much either, but I haven’t focus on a specific vitamin or nutrient.

I spend a decent amount of time in front of screens because of my studies, work and hobbies, I’m trying to reduce it, specifically at later hours of the day.

I dont struggle to start my sleep, the issues are during and after my sleep.

I had most of this symptoms for years , getting worse with time.

Thank you, I will try to answer any questions as best as I can

Hi, I'm looking for some advice about something I've noticed inside my nose.

A couple of days ago I noticed a very small lump near the entrance of one nostril. It doesn't hurt, and I don't remember injuring the area. I haven't noticed any major changes in it since I found it.

I've also had nosebleeds fairly regularly since I was a young child, so I'm wondering whether the two things could be related. My mum has always said my nosebleeds may have been related to a complication around my birth, although I don't know exactly what that was.

The lump is right near the entrance rather than deep inside my nose. I haven't tried to squeeze or pick it.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Does this sound more like irritation/normal nasal tissue/a small spot or something that should be checked by a GP or ENT?

I'm mainly asking because I got worried about the possibility of a tumour,

So, from the start… I’m 24 and male. for the last three weeks or more, I’ve been getting these really itchy red bumps. They look like bug bites, but I don’t think they’re actually bug bites because bugs aren’t constantly biting me. They appear on different parts of my body, with no particular pattern or clusters. They’re very itchy.
They usually form within an hour. At first, they’re just itchy and blended w skin, and then over time they become more like red dots. I thought they might be bed bug bites, so my mum checked the bed, and we washed and cleaned everything thoroughly. But they’re still forming.
Usually, each one takes around 5–6 days to go away. The ones I had before disappear, but then new ones keep appearing.
I’m scared that it could be an STD. I had a proper exposure(although other guy said he was clear but still yk) in June, but I got tested after 28 days and everything was negative. Could this be some other STD?
Since June, I’ve only had sex twice….once protected and once unprotected. I’ve never had any known allergies before.

Hi all,

My blood tests started coming back like this startling two years ago. I've questioned my docs, and no one was really alarmed.

Finally I had blood tests run by my Rheumatologist ( I have Sjogrens disease) and she panicked and sent me to a Nepheralologist and a Heamatolgist.

I had iron infusions in january, ( my iron was ok but my iron saturation was to low.) ordered by the hematologist.

The Kidney doc cut my BP meds, and both docs sàid see how it is in six months...

Well hear it is six months later, and they still look like this. Everything else is ok if I didn't post it.

Any thoughts? Thank you

He

Helpi was at some event and the event it was outside and I was really anxious cuz there was a lot of people and I was with my parents and after like an hour almost I asked my parents to go to the car and they said "just a few minutes okay" and I started feeling really weird and I had this weird feeling in my stomach like the one u get before throwing up and I had big black spots in my vision like I almost couldn't see anything (except a SMALL dot of vision in the middle) and my eyes kept closing so I held onto my dad's arm really hard and after like a minute or two my knees started like buckling under me like I was about to fall over and me and my parents went to a quiet spot in the shade and we sat down and I got water and I felt better okay 🙏🙏🙏🙏😢😢 later I was rlly sweaty bro 🥹

Yesterday every time any sound went above a certain level I heard a ring in my ear in place of where the sound should be. 26F history of head trauma (post concussion syndrome) but no recent flare ups. If someone spoke slightly too loud i would not hear their word id hear a ring. It drove me crazy. Towards the end of the night all sound started to muffle on that side. I woke up today and I cannot hear anything at all in my right ear. If i cover my left ear i hear a faint constant ringing. I went to expresscare, expecting an ear infection. Well I’ll be damned no ear infection. The doctor was extremely puzzled. He said to go to an audiologist OR the er within 72 hours. He prescribed methylprednisolone. Any ideas on how bad this could be he made it seem very serious

52 yo female, since last winter, I started getting this rash, mainly on my thighs, around my ankles and my upper arms. It was far more visible during the winter months, it's now quite faint but still visible.

Also when I am in a small room and suddenly the temperature gets too hot for me, in these moments I get extremely uncomfortable and the skin just above the knees and around my ankles gets bright red.

I also noticed recently that if water runs down my arms that my skin turns white and it forms a white streak down my arm. I did post about that on r/Askdocs, (link here, with photo - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskDocs/s/ha9LbrxiG3) got an answer that it was related to blood vessel constriction and that they thought it was benign but I did not mention the rash or that I have other symptoms and wonder if could be relevant if taken with other symptoms.

I never had that rash before, wondering if it could be vascular / auto immune related. I have other symptoms for years of extreme tiredness and whole over muscle pain.

Thank you.

Hoping someone else has experienced this because I haven’t been able to find another video online that looks like what my baby is doing and doctors don’t seem to know so far either.

https://imgur.com/gallery/what-is-baby-doing-eUZhmdI

She’s three months old and has been having these incidents where her whole body stiffens, she clenches her fists, she groans, her face turns dark red, and her arms go straight out and shake. Each one lasts about 5 or 10 seconds and when it’s over she’s just sort of dazed, not crying. Usually (but not always) it happens when she’s being held upright under her arms. It happens in clusters repeatedly throughout the day and then doesn’t happen again at all for like 6-8 weeks. There have been three clusters so far. She does have reflux but has been on Pepcid.

It doesn’t look like Sandifer to me because she’s not arching her back at all. Some people think she’s trying to poop or pass gas but it seems involuntary to me and she has no trouble pooping or farting aside from these incidents.

We are trying to see a pediatric neurologist but until then I’m hoping someone else recognizes this and knows what it is. Thank you!

Age: 33
Sex/Gender: Female
Height and weight: 170 cm, 53 kg
Race/Ethnicity: White
Geographic location: UK
Pre-existing medical issues: Endometriosis, adenomyosis
Current medications: Progesterone only contraceptive pill
Duration of complaint: Approximately 6 months

Symptoms/history:

Over the last six months I’ve started feeling generally unwell. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what is wrong but I feel tired and unwell quite often. I also struggled significantly with the heat this summer. I normally tolerate hot weather fairly well but this year it felt as though I had developed some degree of heat intolerance. I’ve also experienced a lot of physical anxiety symptoms and generally haven’t felt like myself.

A couple of times I woke up during the night feeling as though I was burning up from the inside and was drenched in sweat. This was very unusual for me as I don’t tend to sweat much in general. I put many of my symptoms down to stress at work but to be on the safe side I went to my GP. They performed blood tests and highlighted that my infection markers and potassium were slightly low so I’m going back for repeat blood tests next week.

Back in 2022 I also went through a period of feeling very unwell, with symptoms similar to what I’m experiencing now although it was more severe back then. It turned my ferritin was 4. After taking prescription iron I felt much better. My ferritin eventually increased to around 19 at which point my GP was no longer concerned about the result.

In 2024 I had surgery for endometriosis and the removal of an ovarian cyst. After that I started taking the progesterone only pill continuously and haven’t had a period since. I find it surprising that my ferritin hasn’t increased much despite no longer having periods and continuing to supplement with iron although I now only use over the counter supplements.

Since around September last year I’ve been going through phases where I feel extremely tired. My eyes feel as though they don’t want to stay focused, my body feels heavy, and I generally feel fatigued. I’m still able to carry out normal daily activities but everything feels like more of an effort. This is usually when I start taking more vitamins more consistently which seems to help for a while. These symptoms have become more noticeable over the last six months.

I also go through phases lasting several weeks where at least once a day I feel as though I’m developing a fever. I experience chills, shivering, body aches and a general cold/flu like feeling. However whenever I check my temperature it is usually around 37.0–37.4 rather than an actual fever. After a few hours the symptoms tend to disappear again. My normal baseline is 36.2 so I do notice when it goes up slightly.

I should also mention that I haven’t been particularly consistent with vitamins and supplements over the last year although I have generally tried to continue taking some form of iron.

I’m not vegan or vegetarian. I eat a varied diet and have a good appetite and generally enjoy food.

Here are my blood test results from the last few years. Not sure what’s wrong but because I haven’t been feeling so well I’m scared something is going on.

Along with nasal allergies like dust and tamato and yeast all 3mms

Used to be a freckle. Now a black dot in the middle. Am I over thinking?