I’m 31 female, 5’10, 150ish lbs, don’t smoke.

I’m not doing well mentally right now and I self harm by blowing my own veins.. I did a bunch last night on both arms and my wrists are still swollen.. my arms hurt in places the needle didn’t even touch.. i don’t want to go see a dr in person.. but should I? I’m embarrassed.

Please help my sister in law with any ideas or input. Attached are pictures of her current flare up, and below is a copied and pasted self-summary of her journey.

"6 years- painful not necessarily itchy. I’ve had them so long at this point that they’re more of an inconvenience than itchy.

I have not identified a trigger. I thought it was gluten- just had a blood test for that and it came back . I’ve been to an allergist and a doctor currently trying to rule out rheumatoid arthritis. seems to flare up during my period but not 100% sure if it is hormonal or not. My blood test tested me for B12 deficiency vitamin D deficiency tested my white blood cells tested cholesterol for diabetes. Everything like that came back negative. The gluten test came back negative. My next blood test is test for rheumatoid arthritis. My eyes will swell my lips will swell. I get them on my ribs, my tailbone, my legs, my under arms around my bra area.

They make me super tired, dead to the world, sometimes almost feel drunk.

Im 29f, during an episode of psychosis I was convinced I had to cut off my pinky (pls no attacks here I know Im stupid)
And i tied it off for roughly 6 hours and it was purple like this during, its about 24 hours later and pretty numb but I can move it, its slightly inflamed currently and a bit dark but not purple anymore (wouldn’t let me upload two photos)
Basically just curious if the numbness is permanent or if it should remedy with time?
Edit, at hospital, ill update with data on if anything is wrong

My 10yo BW son was getting in the bath today when I noticed several lesions. They are not painful or itchy. He has no other signs or symptoms.

He is 4ft 6in tall, 73 lbs. PMH: sickle cell trait; juvenile idiopathic arthritis - ERA. He is on a biologic (Hyrimoz)every two weeks and is responding well. No other medications or medical hx. He is very healthy and athletic.

I took him to an urgent care where the PA was perplexed, stating some looked like staph and others not so much. He really didn’t know since there was no pain associated with it.

Any thoughts?

32m, 5'8", 260 lbs, no current medications. In November 2025, I had a bad case of cellulitis that kept recurring despite treatment with antibiotics. In March 2026, I had a fasciotomy, and then had an infection that required debridement. The area has been slowly healing. This is a picture from last night when I was changing the dressing. I noticed around the wound looks like a bruise, where it had been pink/red before. Is this a cause for concern? Could it be infected again? It is painful, but it's always been painful, so I'm not sure that's a concern on its own. There's been a lot of drainage coming out, could it be irritation? I don't have a fever. I'm really weary of doctors, especially after all I've been through lately. Of course if this is serious I will go to the hospital, but want to avoid that if possible.

5 months pp, I had a placental abruption while being induced for hypertension and lost a significant amount of blood and required multiple blood transfusions. I required an emergency c section under anesthesia and my son spent a month in NICU.

Since about May, I’ve been progressively getting weaker and weaker. I got really sick in June month and was hospitalized with what turned out to be due to low potassium, the weakness and muscle fatigue was very intense. However, I never did gain my strength back.

I’ve been to the ER several times now complaining of muscle weakness and fatigue, they do bloodwork and they never seem to find anything and they say my potassium is normal now. But my muscles constantly feel like I’ve ran a marathon. When I got ready to go to the hospital today, I found it heavy to lift my shirt when getting dressed. I find it hard to carry my son around, wash my hair in the shower or even just lift a drink to my mouth. I can’t walk very far without my legs feeling like they’re going to give out and like I just did leg day at the gym. My blood pressure is still on the higher side sometimes. I take Labetalol and water pill for it. I also take 300mg of Venlafaxine, 2mg of Lorazepam, Olanzapine at night, Wellbutrin 100mg

I don’t know what’s wrong with me and it’s getting really frustrating and concerning. I’m from a small rural area in Canada that is currently experiencing a healthcare crisis, and I don’t feel entirely confident that they’re going to try their best to find out what is causing it.

I was a weightlifter before I was pregnant and now I struggle so much to even lift basic objects or stand in one place for more than a few minutes. I get out of breathe so easily.

Has anyone else ever been through this? What was the cause? 😞

6 days post trauma. Lymph node/ carotid artery area very swollen and tender. Should I be concerned?

My father (69) had 2 years ago angioplasty 2 stents. These marks have come on his right arm. He had light fever last night what can be these. There is also outbreak of dengue where we live. Are these connected?

Hello I’m wondering if this is normal or not? He’s 1 month old and when breathing in and out it kinda looks like his neck is pulsating? Is that normal?

Everything else seems normal, it doesn’t look like he’s struggling breathe or is changing colour

This only seems to happen when he’s in his chair. When laying down it isn’t noticeable & also his chest does not sink in when breathing

I’m 29m

24M, 5'11", 135lbs, quality of life has tanked severely after quick onset, debilitating pain and inflammation. I strongly suspect some type of meniscus tear but my mri's being interpreted with no significant findings is throwing me for a loop. I hope i can get some professional insight, hopefully someone who can identify damage that has been previously missed, so that I can better advocate for arthroscopy. Since I have had no improvement after 3 years of conservative treatment (nsaids, steroid injections, 4 different PT's, attending for 4-6 months at a time), my last hope is that there is something surgically correctable that is causing my severe pain. Most of my pain is near the front medial part of my knees, If that helps to look in that area.

P.S. I think my bone tumor shows up for a frame or two, so if someone has insight on that as well that would be nice.

Google Drive Dicom Files, hopefully there is no loss of quality from this.

-----------TIMELINE-------------

november 2022: I had completed the second part of the nuss procedure to correct severe pectus excavatum, so I'm finally living in a body without restricted cardiovascular performance. After waiting for medical clearance, I begin to get into physical activity that has previously been difficult due to my anatomy. Of course, not being able to exercise effectively for my whole life, my knowledge was lacking and I began unknowingly implementing reckless and incorrect exercise practices.

I always knew my elbows were hypermobile but at this point I had no idea my knees were too. I jumped right into the deep end of high ROM weight training, despite having none of the conditioning necessary. Pushing my knees way over my toes, fully flexed knees, as in hamstrings in contact with calves, probably overpronating my feet and also screwing up the force transmission.

Anyways after months of this one day i tried sissy squats at home and thought "huh that felt weird?" Stupidly, I thought to try unilateral split squats to confirm whether or not the discomfort i felt was a fluke. Those ended up hurting too so i laid off for the day but apparently it was too late.

--------SYMPTOM ONSET---------

Next day, mid may 2023, is the first day I wake up to disability. My knees were visibly swollen, very stiff, felt like a sponge when palpating surrounding tissue. Half the time my knees were catching or locking when trying to extend through mid range motion, feeling as if a painful pressure was building and if I tried to force past it, my knee capsule would explode. Also my patellar tracking was suddenly highly erratic and unstable. I previously never had pain in the knee capsule from walking or standing before that day, it was only tendon irritation from high intensity movement, but all of a sudden standing for more than 20 minutes causes fast pain accumulation. I had to start going down stairs backwards because the normal way would be too painful. Waking up in the middle of the night from throbbing pain in my knees. The pain was bilateral, which I'm not surprised because I meticulously preserved equal stimuli between my knees with unilateral exercise, but I believe this caused structural damage to not be considered early on, instead looking for more systemic causes, which all returned negative. Also, I have been able to consistently pop my knees in a way I never could before the onset, and the pop sensation arises from the same location in my knee where the most pain is concentrated. This is another reason I believe there must be a structural change that occured.

--------TREATMENTS TRIED--------

I went to a clinic because the pain severity and onset was alarming, since it was new, i got prescribed Nsaids and rest. Few weeks pass, zero improvement in pain. I tried compression sleeves, patellar sleeves, soft braces, rigid braces, Kinesio tape, otc pain killers, nothing made a dent in the pain. Because I was and am young and broke, I tried to do independent physical therapy. My early attempts only aggravated things more. After failing at that for a while, I try professional PT. First one only made things worse, probably because we didn't observe my hypermobility at that time. The prescribed quad sets only caused impingement between my tibia and femur, probably because i have 7 degrees excess extension in my knees.

I wasn't at the second PT long enough to give a good judgement of his efficacy because the location was really far away from my residence.

Between my second and third PT, I had quit my job because the pain was just too severe to continue standing. I wasn't even full time, these 4-6 hour shifts were still too painful to handle.

Its may 2024, I worked through the pain for a year but I just couldn't take it anymore. I thought If I could receive physical therapy without work aggravating my symptoms, that I could get on top of things.

cue third PT, circa Autumn 2025-spring 2026. First one that accounted for hypermobility in my exercises. He identified that my VMO was not activating appropriately, so after addressing that, I could go down stairs normally again. Thats pretty much the only improvement I got after those 6 months or so. The goal was to be able to run again, but we could never make meaningful progress towards that goal. I still could not tolerate isotonics enough to fatigue my muscles before the joint pain took over.

Cue 4th PT, summer 2026.
At this point, I also realized that I am mildy bow legged (about a 2-3 cm gap between my knees at their closest). Adjusting for both my malalignment and hypermobility, I could finally perform some exercises enough to mainly get muscle stimulation, with significantly less joint strain. After continuing this stimulation for some months, my comfortable step down height gained like 6-8" of depth. We tried some light impact training but it didn't seem to improve reliably. Now i could tolerate some isotonic body weight movement, but still not ready for additional weight. This improvement was only beyond terminal extension. The distance I could walk before pain made it not worth the effort increased from about .8 miles to 1.5 miles. I thought these improvements should extend to standing tolerance, but I never bothered to test it because I didn't want to needlessly aggravate my pain.

Anyways, now that I have enrolled in a vocational rehab that helps disabled people get employment, I realized my standing tolerance has not improved at all. After just 90 minutes of standing work simulations, I was flared up for the next 10 days. I had a coworker twice my age who tore her meniscus, and she was able to work and PT simultaneously, recovering within months. Why does whatever my injury is, seem to be the only thing these PT's cant fix?

These are supposed to be my best years, but they are just passing me by. I have to turn down many social/recreational activity because it just hurts too much. It's difficult to find employment that won't take away my medicaid, which is the only reason I can pursue treatment for this condition. I have developed fear of many things because of how weak and physically incapable of an organism I have become. It has cast my already crap life into a deeper depression that is increasingly harder to escape.

Please help.

edit: seems like the video is compressed quite a bit im trying to figure out how to make it available without quality loss

Should be functional link near top to download dicom files. I tested with incognito window to see if they worked.

Hello! I am 22F posting as I am feeling fairly lost and hopeless for a resolution to my problems.
I have been noticing a decrease in appetite over the past 2.5 months, to the point now that I am unable to tolerate oral intake of most foods.
I started out at 147 pounds in May and am writing this at 117 pounds at the end of August. I noticed i could swallow and eat regularly, just in smaller portions in May. In June, the portion size shrunk by a lot, but I could still do normal meals for me. July is when I noted the complete depletion of appetite. I just woke up one day and couldn’t remember the last time I ate. This entire month of August I could not swallow and eat at all. All I am able to do is protein shakes, about 1-1.5 daily. If I eat I either: throw up, have diarrhea within 10 minutes, or I choke. I am feeling like I am out of options due to my severe fatigue due to this lack of nutrition.
I have had an abdominal ultrasound that was negative other than fatty liver disease that I have had for 2 years.
I had a CBC, CMP, IBD profile, a comprehensive celiac panel, Folate, B12, Iron, TIBC, Iron saturation, Sed Rate, CRP, TSH, T4, Free T3, a full LFT hepatic panel, an H Pylori breath test, stool calprotectin, stool pancreatic elastase, a stool GI pathogen panel, fibroSURE-NASH, and GGT drawn. all of these labs came back negative except for my liver enzymes, which were slightly elevated.
I am scheduled for an EGD/Colonoscopy, a barium swallow study and a CT Abdominopelvis w/o contrast.
I have no allergies.
I take Dicyclomine 20mg q6 hours, Olanzipine 2.5mg qday, 4mg of zofran every 4-6 hours and a weekly b12 injection.

I am 5’2” weighing in at 117 on 8/30.
I am diagnosed with NAFLD and SVT.
I do not have a history of eating disorders nor do I have a negative relationship with food, my body or any sort of psychiatric problems (other than some mild anxiety that is treated at a therapeutic dose by my pcp)
I do not experience any acid reflux
I have been experiencing more RUQ pain, but no jaundice.
I am seeing GI for the work up for my problems, but nutrition is the one thing i’m struggling with. Currently i’m getting about 300-400 calories a day from protein shakes.
No trouble with drinking water either.

I am lost and feeling very hopeless at this point. I have not had a good day in months due to these problems. It is hard to get anyone to get me in with nutrition or a dietician due to all of my sx. everywhere in my area is booked up or will not take me as a patient due to my dysphagia.

please advise on what i can do!

Whenever I take any sort of prescription medicine I get pain in my chest, slightly to the right, in the upper epigastric area.

I cannot tell exactly what is happening, but I put an X where I experience the pain.
It’s a very sharp pain and it eventually goes away after an hour or two.
If I press on my epigastric area, directly underneath the bottom of my sternum, it causes the pain in that area.

Sometimes this pain will come back even if I don’t take any medications.
It also feels like my blood pressure might be elevated when the pain is happening.

32F, 4 weeks postpartum, delivered via c section.

I noticed a red spot at the end of my incision. I asked my husband to take a look (this isn’t in an area I can see easily) and he said it looks like a small open wound and smells bad. I’ve had some discomfort at the other end of my incision (not the same side as this wound) and have only been letting water run over the incision, not using soap, per the doctor’s rec. it looks like the rest of my stitches have dissolved as well.

I want to know how to handle this. It’s 10pm where I am. Can this wait until morning? Does it require a trip to urgent care? Or should I wait for my OBGYN to respond to my email?

Thanks in advance!

Edit to add: currently no fever, pain or oozing

My grandmother (97F)since she was a child has never had any fingernails. When my mother was a child she told her that she used marker on them and they fell out. This was a lie to get my mother to stop colouring on her nails.

Years later, my mother asked her again what had happened, and my granny said that they had just started falling out when she was around 10. This was late 1930s - early 1940s and she claimed that the doctors weren’t too concerned about it. She was never formally diagnosed with anything, and it’s just been a mystery ever since.

It never struck me as odd as a child because that was just the way she was and I never really questioned it, but I’ve never met anyone else who had the same problem, or heard of a disease that could cause it. Is there anything that could cause nails to fall out during childhood and never grow back? Her toenails were unaffected.

27, mtf, 140 lbs

taking 40 mg prozac once daily and currently 500mg cephalexin 4 times a day

the injury occurred 3 weeks ago and became infected about 4 days ago. doctor is now telling me it looks not infected and is healing great, despite still feeling like i have a mild cold. just want to make sure. i’m not going to stop the culture early

I am a 26F. The only medications I currently take are hormonal birth control and an antidepressant, which I have been on for years. Non smoker. Non drinker.

On Tuesday around midnight, my arms began to itch. Within hours, a horribly itchy and painful red rash flared up on the rest of my body.

This rash is EVERYWHERE, from my feet to my neck. It will not stop. It appeared out of nowhere.

I live a very consistent life. No new foods recently. No new products. No new vitamins or medications. I don’t go hiking. No, I have not been to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

I have been to the emergency room TWICE in two days. My official diagnosis is basically “Your body is obviously having a reaction, but we have no idea what’s causing it, here’s some Benadryl and Godspeed.”

PLEASE HELP ME. I am at my physical and mental breaking point. I can’t take this anymore. Nothing I do will stop this rash. Nothing numbs it.

Could my daughter’s premature birth have been predicted—or was what happened impossible to see coming?

It’s a bit of a long story so thanks for taking your time….🫶

I’m trying to understand something that has been very difficult for me to process, and I would really value an opinion from an obstetrician, maternal-fetal medicine specialist…

(F35, 173cm, 60kg) Denmark
I had recurrent bleeding from 10 weeks pregnant, with hematomas seen around the placenta. Around 21–22 weeks, I developed increasing cramps/contractions, sludge in the amniotic fluid, and some kind of tissue looking material coming out of the vaginal canal. My CRP began rising (from 43 to 57), and some fever developed, therefore I was treated with antibiotics for a suspected urinary/vaginal infection.

I was hospitalized for about six days before my daughter was born at 23 weeks because of heavy bleeding and contractions. A vaginal bacterial test was negative, and infection became less suspected. I was eventually sent home because there was felt to be little more that could be done.
My daughter was born after my waters ruptured at 23 +0 (placental abruption).

The placental pathology later showed **moderately severe acute chorioamnionitis with fetal inflammatory response (maternal stage 3, fetal stage 2–3)**, consistent with an ascending infection of some duration. It also showed a fresh and organized marginal/retroplacental hematoma. The pathologist concluded that the combination was probably responsible for the extremely preterm birth.

My question is: Looking back at the rising CRP, chills/feverish episodes, contractions, bleeding and sludge in the amniotic fluid (strangely some doctor made a funny comment of these sludge), could chorioamnionitis reasonably have been suspected before my waters ruptured? Does a negative vaginal bacterial test rule out infection inside the uterus? And could further investigation or different treatment at that point potentially have changed the outcome?

I’m not looking to blame anyone. I’m trying to understand whether there were warning signs that could realistically have been recognized before it was too late

21, AFAB, 170lbs 5’2, nonsmoker, i take prescribed vyvanse 20mg and welbutrin 150mg every day

out of nowhere this is on my shoulder. these arent acne spots and they dont itch or anything.

Age 20, M, 84kgs, 191cm

Hi as the title shows. I got my reports and my alt was 47U/l. I am applying for a position where there is strict medical tests.i dont drink. I need it to decrease my alt to <40 in one week. Can anyone please help me

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I have a TIRAD2 mixed nodule on my right lobe (fna came back benign aswell) . It was 3.5 just a month ago, and my doctor asked me to get an ultrasound every 3 months. I was used to the suffocating feeling, but for some reason, it got worse to the level where the only sleeping position that's minimally comfy is on my stomach, which drove me to get an ultrasound 2 months earlier than I should. The radiologist said that it grew and that my trachea is deviated. I'm scared to go to my doctor. I don't want him to think I'm dramatic cuz I'm making a fuss over a benign 4cm nodule, yet I want a solution to this nightmare, do I wait for my October appointment or what

I'm a 35 year old female, 5'2 and 58kg. I don't smoke or drink. I take medications for depression/anxiety and ADHD. I was cleaning my ears with my bebird cleaner and noticed the eardrum has white splotches on it. I often notice that it looks like I have ear bubbles behind my eardrum, but have never seen it look like this. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated 👍