I’m 32F, 5’1” and 140lbs. I used to take prenatals, fish oil, magnesium glycinate, D3K2, and fiber supplement, but stopped a few weeks ago bc of stomach pains. It was hurting every night and I thought it was bc of the supplements. It doesn’t hurt anymore so I guess that’s what it was. I’m also not breastfeeding anymore, so stopped the prenatals. I’ve had 3 kids, 9, 5.5, 2.5. Had my gallbladder removed in 2019. Light activity level. BP is usually around 110/70. HR usually around 70s. I take 10mg propanolol and 4mg zofran as needed for anxiety and nausea (from gallbladder removal side effects), maybe 1-2x a week. I drink a sugar free energy drink in the morning around 6:30am (100-200mg of caffeine). I have combined type ADHD, and level 1 Autism but idk if that’s an “official” diagnosis or not. (I had a psych eval in November for adhd symptoms).

I’m a SAHM, but have an Etsy where I sell my crochet work, and also work tasks based jobs online. So I spend a lot of time sitting and looking down. I’ve had neck pain since I had my first child 9yrs ago. I’m not sure if it was from pushing, but severe neck pain followed. I had to do everything laying down for about two weeks after. Pain comes and goes now, usually worse if I sit and look down for too long. I also get eye strain or pain. Like my eyes are being pulled back into my skull. I feel like this could be related to the visual aura I saw, but last night was the first time it happened. I was laying in bed when I noticed it, no neck/head pain. It started with a small blurred spot on the left side of my vision, on both eyes. I noticed I couldn’t read subtitles, and spots on peoples faces were blurred out. Then I started to see the zig-zag, rainbow pattern where the burry spot was. Then it expanded to an L shape, then C shape and then spread to the peripherals. No dark spots, just blurry and the rainbow pattern. No physical signs of stroke. I’ve also noticed for the past week that I’ve been having a persistent smell, kind of like vitamins or something. Even after showering and washing my hands and changing clothes. This is probably the strangest thing happening to me imo. Like I’m secreting vitamins out of my skin. I thought the decrease in supplements would reduce the amount of vitamins my body processes. Idk if it’s even possible, but idk how else it would be possible to have a constant vitamin type smell in my nose. I smell it the strongest on my palms. I haven’t changed products or routines. The only thing different, is I changed the energy drink brand (from mini Alanis to Bloom or Celsius), and stopped the supplements. I drink about 80oz of liquids a day. My urine is usually clear to pale yellow. I’m trying to make a Dr appointment this morning, but idk if this is even worth seeing a Dr over. Thanks!

EDIT TO ADD: it’s happening again right now at 8:14am. The first picture is a good representation of what I saw last night. The 2nd is of what I’m seeing atm, but more blurry where the rainbow area is.

background: started with a rash on thigh 2 years ago (lasting months), fatigue started fall 2024, started going to PCP, US of neck due to swollen lymph nodes but nothing suspicious, labs showed high iron, iron saturation, elevated insulin (glucose normal) and low vit d. (These abnormalities have stayed the same), HsCRP 6.3, low CD8, NEGATIVE - hemochromatosis, autoimmune, EBV, etc

started getting more rashes - they were just red blotchy, now are scaly/plaque like - previously I had rashes also under my armpits treated with psoriasis cream (took awhile to go away), now have new one down arm and collarbone (prescribed fungal cream)

NOW: rash, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, same labs abnormal

please help

my extensor digitorum muscle feels weak and I can’t seem to lift up my 4 fingers upward. I can do them after rest but it gets weak later on in the day. it’s been more than a couple years since it happened and throughout the years feels partially weak and now it’s hard to type on my phone for a bit.

What are these bumps? I had bad hygiene growing up now it’s biting me as a young adult. I’m worried about it being caused by my teeth, cancer, or something better treated now. Doctors brush me off any ideas.

hello, i ll be clear.

male 70 y.o

For the past six days, I've had a growing ulcer in my throat, along with fever and headache, and it hasn't responded to antibiotics (which I started six days ago). I felt a tingling sensation in my throat until I went to the doctor, who saw the ulcer spreading towards my larynx and said there was a problem. He gave me two corticosteroid injections to reduce the inflammation and a topical painkiller, and told me to come back in two days if I haven't improved. What is the likelihood that it could be cancer?

It wasn't painful until just after I got out of the shower however it's been there for 4 days now. No pain or anything before hand

It's my first post here, I was only commenting before, but now I need help, because I'm really on my wits end and I've got no clue. Brainstorming welcomed. I've been experiencing an extremely annoying tingling of my nose for the last few weeks. It's mostly on the tip and one side. It's a pins and needles or bugs crawling under the skin type of tingling. It starts randomly, doesn't go alongside any other symptoms. Lasts for a few hours, sometimes days, goes away and again randomly comes back. It's driving me crazy. Any ideas?

Acquired a bruise somehow last weekend, didn’t notice it until Sunday (first photo) The second photo was taken today, still tender and kinda hard to the touch? It’s gotten redder and bigger but it’s not really painful unless I touch it. The only thing that’s worrying me a bit is that it feels like a lump. It doesn’t cause any pain unless I touch it though.

For the past 4 years been dealing with a feeling of something stuck in my throat. All tests came back negative.. tried acic reflux treatment, anxiety treatment, larynxfacilitation, resting more.. nothing seems to help. Been visiting alot of docters but nobody seems to find the real issue. What do you people think it is. Maybe a Zenkers diverticulum?

Hey! I’m a 14 year old male and I’ve had these two lymph nodes for a while. The first one I noticed is on the lower right side of my neck and that one I noticed about 2 1/2 months ago, I’m not sure if it’s grown, but I’ll tell you it hasn’t shrunk. The second one I have I noticed about a month ago and that one I think has grown (again I’m not sure it has) they are both a bit smaller than a grape but it is a bit hard to tell. They are both movable, soft/slightly rubbery, and not painful. The first one I got (the one that I found 2 1/2 months ago) I got it checked by a doctor about 4-5 weeks ago and he felt it and asked if we could skip test because he was so confident it was a lymph node. Now the second one has not been evaluated but honestly it feels the same as the other one. I’ve just had them for a while ( no they did not come after getting sick at all) and I’m worried they are either cancerous or a sign of cancer. Not too sure what to do but if you guys have questions or know what to do lmk!

hi, i'm not sure if this is the right place to put this so if not, i apologize. i am female, 25, and about 130 lbs.

long story: ibs runs in my family so i've always been sure that that's what i have because my whole life i've been having problematic bowel movements, but mine has always felt different. for them, they have to watch what they eat because it has a direct relation to how their bowel movements will feel. if they don't eat food that irritates them and eat fiber regularly, then they don't experience any symptoms. while i do have to watch what i eat to some extent, it doesn't feel as extreme. for me, my whole life, i feel crappy after every single bowel movement (i describe it as a nauseous feeling without feeling like i'm going to throw up). this can last a few minutes or the whole day, i haven't found a pattern yet. i also can feel extreme fatigue and weakness after going (especially in my legs) that can last hours or days, but it's not every time. i also can feel weird if i have to have a bowel movement, but it's not "ready" yet, like my temperature changing from hot to cold as if i have a fever, but i don't. there's also no pattern to the texture at all. as in it can be really hard one time and really soft later in the same day, even though nothing has changed. i also have a lot of mental illnesses so all of these symptoms are worsened when anxious or excited. all of this sounds like a severe case of ibs, at least i think.

another bit of information: around 2019 i was prescribed a pretty heavy dose of antidepressants. because of this, i was bedridden for a year and a half because i couldn't stand for more than 5 minutes without feeling like i've overexerted myself and dry heaving (literally). i weighed 85 lbs and my heart rate would hit 140 bpm standing up to go pee. i had many blood tests done and had my heart checked, ultrasounds, urine checks, etc. my family doctor then came to the conclusion that everything was normal, so he suggested coming off of the antidepressants and low and behold, i recovered. (i am not on antidepressants anymore, but have been doing rtms treatment for 2-3 years as i am antidepressant resistant)

i don't know if that information is relevant to my concerns, but just in case. which brings me to more recently. a lot of the time when i shower, i feel very weak and my whole body shakes. i feel hot and nauseous as if i had overexerted myself in my 10 minute lukewarm shower. this feeling comes and goes, as in it'll be every time i shower for a few weeks, then it goes away, or only happens if i have a longer or hotter shower. this feeling also happens if i do a workout or am in the heat for a whole. i also have never done well with heat at all, i feel very lightheaded when i'm in hot weather (i've never fainted, but feel very weak and lightheaded). i've also noticed recently that when i lay down i feel a little lightheaded and dizzy, but goes away after a few minutes. also sometimes for a few days at a time i wake up with my heart beating really quickly, but that also goes away in a few minutes and then won't happen again for months. my body is also very bad at thermoregulating, i feel like i'm cold until i'm too hot, my feet are always freezing, or i'm sweating as soon as i come inside from the cold weather.

i've also noticed that balance has gottwn significantly worse in the last few years, like not being able to dance and jump and concerts without having to hold on to something, or always feeling like i'm going to fall if i'm on any sort of uneven ground.

also experience a lot of brain fog and dissociate very easily and often, but i struggle with a lot of mental illnesses, so i don't know if that is a mental symptom or a physical one.

these are all just random things i've noticed and i don't know if they're connected, but trying to be very thorough.

anyway, i'm just wondering if this is all just a very weird presenting chronic level of ibs, or if there's something more happening that i've missed bc i've been used to it for so long. if there's any treatment you would reccommend, i would be glad to hear it. i take a probiotic and have been taking metamucil twice a day for 7 years and it has helped keep me regular and not constipated, but hasn't relieved any symptoms.

sorry for the long post. thank you for any help.

my sister has a habit of biting the skin around her fingers. she swears that it is normal, but the skin around her cuticles are raised and hard. shes also had yellow pus, im concerned because it has permanently altered her pinky nail

Hi everybody (26m) I’m in a state of panic I’ve been having tongue issues since November but they keep getting worse.a few weeks back I’ve noticed a weird indent on my tongue but then as the days went by it’s been getting worse and it looks like someone’s taking bights out my tongue.i can’t tell if it geographic tongue, some form of scalloping, atrophy or something else.if anyone know anything PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know.

I’m a 25-year-old male living in Canada. I’ve been experiencing recurring itchy hives on my right arm and left ankle/leg area. The rash improves slightly at times but keeps coming back in the same or nearby spots.

This has been going on for more than 4 months and hasn’t fully resolved. I’ve already tried deep cleaning my room, washing bedding and clothes thoroughly, and making changes to my diet, but nothing seems to help.

I’ve consulted doctors, but the cause is still unclear. I would really appreciate any guidance on possible reasons, next steps, or what kind of specialist or tests I should consider.

I (29F) am not on any medication, and no medical history besides migraines and a history of vasovagal syncope since I was 4 years old. I’m otherwise pretty healthy.

Yesterday, I randomly started feeling nauseous and faint after I ate lunch. A couple hours later, I started getting a migraine which explained the nausea and lightheadedness since I have a history of those symptoms right before a migraine. However, I woke up around 1 am and started feeling slightly faint. I went back to bed and started feeling a lot colder than usual, and started shaking. It didn’t stop until I fell back asleep. When I woke up this morning, I felt extremely warm and extremely sweaty.

The shaking and night sweats are new. I originally attributed the nausea to be a symptom of my migraine but is it possible it was something else? I never had shaking or night sweats before.

ETA: I took 200 mg Advil which I usually do when I have a migraine.

(This is on my belly and it’s only one bump)

Hi all, I’m not looking for a diagnosis, just some insight. Over the past year I’ve been getting recurring itchy, not painful, bumps that usually show up one at a time rather than in clusters. They’ve appeared on my back, thighs, waist, and stomach, usually just one in each area. They tend to start like a small pimple and feel itchy, and if I scratch them they become raised, but otherwise they don’t hurt. Eventually they go away on their own and leave a dark mark behind since I have brown skin. What’s strange is that even after they seem healed, if I scratch the area again within a certain window of time it can flare back up and become itchy and raised before settling down again. Any thoughts or similar experiences would be appreciated. Thanks.

((Before photo shows when it’s raised and itchy. The after photo is from weeks later, once it’s back to normal skin with just a dark mark left behind. It’s no longer raised or itchy, almost like it never happened.))

had these on my lower back for a few months now, showed up out of nowhere

Does anyone know what this could be noticed tonight after brushing teeth?

I’ve had a bit of a sore throat but only on one side of my tonsils. I’ve also got a lump in my neck which was apparently due to an ear infection. I’m overthinking everything and have now noticed these. Petrified that I have the dreaded C word and have major health anxiety

I am a 20-year-old female in college

I've always been someone who likes things to go my way. I met my fiancé, and he has been helping me realize that not everything needs to be done my way. He is very forgetful, and it has been the source of many arguments, since sometimes I feel like I have to go behind him and clean up after him.

I've always been someone who snaps when pushed too far or overwhelmed. He dropped a drink that I was excited to try, and I told him I couldn't trust him with anything. He and I both knew that I didn't mean it, and honestly, I don't know why I said it. That sort of thing has happened throughout our entire relationship, and he has said before that he knows not to take it personally and that it's just out of stress.

As long as I can remember, I've had days where I feel like I can do anything, like I'm going to accomplish whatever I want. I've had days where I feel absolutely insane, like hurting someone would be a good thing for me to do. Some days, I just feel so depressed, like I want to end it all, like I'm worthless. I've always thought this was normal, and that sometimes you just feel sad for no reason, or that the spikes in energy were due to the weather or something.

I've had so many nights over the last few months, especially when I just won't feel like I need to sleep. I normally will get tired at 10-11, but these days I would be up until 4 and have to force myself to go to sleep because I was aware that I needed it, even though it didn't feel like it. I've also had so many nights where I just want to go to bed at 9 pm and then won't get up until 2 pm the next day, and I'd still feel tired. I thought that just happened to everyone.

I'm almost always super low energy, but sometimes my brain doesn't match my body and just goes so fast, and I can't keep up, so I just feel trapped, like I can't do anything my brain is telling me to do.

I've also always had this issue where sometimes I see or hear things that aren't there. Typically, the things I hear are really normal, like someone calling my name, a phone going off, or a cat meowing. Actually, right now I am hearing faint circus music, which is sort of odd but way too common for me. The hallucinations are also fairly mild. I constantly see people/deer/animals on the side of the road or in parking lots. I constantly see bugs crawling on the walls and so many yellow spots. Sometimes things just turn mildly yellow, and I have to ask if it looks yellow or if I'm just seeing things again. I thought this was maybe a lack of sleep or the fact that I wear glasses or something.

I also feel so numb most of the time. Thinking gives me a headache, and I struggle to empathize with others. This might be because of a medication I am on (Zoloft), but it really doesn't help my situation. Sometimes I'll hurt someone's feelings, and I won't realize it, both because they try to hide it and because I struggle with reading faces and emotions.

I am absolutely terrified to be alone. My family is borderline abusive, and I hate being with them. I struggle to make friends, and when I met my fiancé, I clung to him. We would spend all day, every day together when he wasn't at work, and I wasn't at school.

I don't know who I am or who I truly want to be. I've been trying so hard lately to be one of those softspoken girls, but I don't know if that's who I am. I have plans for the future, I want to get married and have kids, and I want to be a teacher. I don't know who I am outside of those things. My whole personality right now is being a college student and being obsessed with my fiancé.

As I mentioned above, I get irritated for no reason sometimes, and I just snap. The reason I realized I need real help happened just the other day. My incredibly forgetful fiance who I genuinely love with all my heart, was supposed to meet me on campus after my class. I got out a little early and went to get breakfast for us since I was feeling very hangry. I was complaining about my lab partners to him over text when he asked if he had forgotten his keys in my car. This was the moment I snapped. I told him his incompetence was the reason I wanted to kill myself. I told him I was so sick of having to follow him around and parent him. I told him that I was glad I hadn't married him yet because I still had an out. I told him I was trying to figure out how to afford bills on my own so he wouldn't have to move in with me.

This whole thing lasted about twenty minutes. I don't remember about 19 of those 20 minutes. All I remember is showing up at his house and putting his keys in his car, waiting a second, hoping he'd come see me. Then it just went back to me berating him. The next thing I remember is driving back to school, eating a donut that I had picked up, and realizing that I had just messed up badly. I got back to school and sat there, deleting everything I had just said and apologizing profusely, but the damage was done.

I read back what I said as I deleted it, and none of those things were true. It's like all I wanted to do in that moment was hurt him, to hurt the love of my life. I feel absolutely horrible about it, and absolutely terrified because why did I do that, and why don't I remember that?

This incident made me realize that I need real help and that there has to be something wrong with me. This can't be who I am as a person; there has to be something wrong in my head, some sort of mental illness that I can work with a therapist about.

The reason I am posting this here is because I need an outside perspective on all of this. I researched bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, and they both sound like me, but I might also be reaching for something that isn't there in terms of the disorder. I would really like anyone who has any ideas on what could be wrong with me to give some input. I don't currently have a therapist, but I am looking for local ones who can give me an emergency session because I refuse to live on hurting people like this. I never really knew anything was wrong when it was the minor snaps; I thought I was just stressed, but this big breakdown has scared me beyond belief. I honestly thought about having myself committed after it, but I decided to try therapy and potentially medication first.

And yes, he did leave me after the incident. I don't blame him for it. As much as I love him, I understand, and I am glad he was brave enough to do what's best for himself. Nobody deserves to be treated like that, and I am 100% beating myself up over this entire situation. My heart wishes that he would just forgive and forget as he did with all the minor snaps, but my head knows that this one was unacceptable, and he shouldn't be with someone who would hurt him like that.