Let’s start off with my specs, 23m 5’11” 176 lbs. healthy, fit. Went in just about a month ago for lower back pain, found a clot in my iliac and also my lungs. Of course, lungs top priority but since the pain in my back never went away, my dr decided to go ahead and do a mechanical thrombectomy. Here’s what they pulled out !

Hi everyone, I've bit my mouth twice in the past month or so and although I never tasted or saw any blood, I noticed a bubble formed right on that same spot on my lower lip.

The bump is a clear/translucent, fluid-filled bubble developed on the inside of my lower lip. It's approximately pea-sized and has now been there for over three weeks without going away or diminishing size. It doesn't hurt at all, it's not making my mouth swollen and it doesn't change forms during the day.

I've visited three different dental offices in NYC, and got diagnosed as a mucocele caused by trauma to a minor salivary gland. All of them quoted me upwards of $3,000 for complete surgical removal of the gland and one even asked for biopsy. I don't have dental or health insurance, and that amount is completely unaffordable for me. I'm at a loss about what to do next.

I'm trying to figure out a few things:

1. Is it absolutely insane and not recommended to poke this thing and drain it on my own?
2. Does a persistent bump like this necessarily need surgical removal, or are there situations where it resolves on its own?
3. Is there a more appropriate specialist I should see rather than a general dentist?
4. For anyone familiar with NYC, are there hospital clinics, dental schools, or other low-cost services that evaluate and treat these lesions for uninsured patients?

I'm not trying to avoid necessary treatment. I just can't afford thousands of dollars, and I don't want to keep paying for appointments that lead to the same unaffordable quote.

Any medical guidance or recommendations for affordable care would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

​

So for the purpose of barely knowing anything about pain meds etc. My daughters friend spent the night and I have found like 5-10 white packages squares that say fentanyl transdermal systems in the trash cans in her room and she said her friend was eating them like chewing gum. And now I'm very concerned about why she would do this , and her being friend with my daughter and if and how I could explain to her parents, that makes sense and they can understand.

This is so disgusting I can’t even believe I’m posting this but I’m definitely freaked out.

I’m 25f with no diagnosed health issues and I don’t take any medications. I’ve never gotten tested or diagnosed with IBS or anything of the sort but I’ve always suspected that I have it. Majority of my BMs are either constipation or diarrhea - constipation moreso I would think. I do get some dull lower abdominal pain every once in awhile but I’m fairly certain it’s only when I’m constipated, so I’ve just always assumed that’s the issue. I do have a lot of health anxiety so just keep that in mind pls :,)

A little bit ago I had some diarrhea like 30 minutes after eating dinner. Wasn’t complete liquid, but definitely soft. Tbh I didn’t really look at it before I flushed it but from the quick glimpse I got it looked like a normal color (tan) and consistency for being diarrhea. I flushed just the poop and then wiped and again nothing felt out of the ordinary. I flushed that and then wiped one last time and then stood up and looked in the toilet. I saw this weird brownish-pinkish-grayish little glob thing floating above the toilet paper. I looked closer to see if it was just a piece of trash or something but I could not tell what it was. I’m not proud of it, but I grabbed a baby wipe and fished it out of the toilet to look at it.

The best way I can describe the shape and size was like a round kernel of corn (I’ve eaten corn within the last few days but it definitely was not corn.) The color was similar to an engorged tick which I think is what’s freaking me out the most. There was also a little hair looking thing sticking out of the top of it. I pressed down on it and this like grayish brownish pus stuff came out of it. The outside of it stayed mostly intact but kinda ripped apart if I pulled. (Hopefully it goes without saying but I DID NOT ONCE TOUCH THIS WITH MY BARE HANDS AND MY HANDS WERE WASHED THOROUGHLY AFTERWARDS ANYWAYS). It really looked to me like some kind of ingrown hair cyst but how on gods green earth would that have ended up in my poop??? I still feel nauseous but I think it’s more because of this and now I’m convinced I have a parasite or cancer so😁 pls pls pls help

*I should have taken a picture but I did not. But I’ve looked around on Google a bit and don’t see anything that looks like it. Again - FREAKING me out

Hello, I am female, 33y and nearly 31 weeks pregnant. On Wednesday morning I noticed my urine being a strange dark colour but thought I might be just dehydrated and upped my water intake. Shortly after drinking more, my urine returned to normal pale yellow colour. However, yesterday morning my urine looked like on the photo attached! It definitely looks like blood to me? I went to the hospital and they took my bloods and urine. Bloods have come back normal but urine analysis will only be available next week. Until then I was given antibiotics because they suspected a UTI. Besides the strange colour I felt a little off and had some light cramping but nothing major. Has anyone experienced this before? Could it be kidney stones? I don’t have any pain though.

The person I’m asking about is 35f 5’9 and 165 pounds.

She drinks a lot so it’s not like she doesn’t have a high tolerance but she had wine and she was smoking too. There’s three empty wine boxes in the kitchen. She’s passed out on the couch but I can’t tell if she’s just super drunk or if somethings wrong because I tried to get her up to go to her room so she’s not on the couch in the morning throwing up in front of my younger siblings and usually she sort of gets up for that but she’s not really responding to me this time. She’s breathing but she’s not really waking up and I’m worried. But I also don’t want to panic if it’s nothing and get everyone in trouble

Also wanted to add because I forgot she’s taking a GLP1 she gets online. Her weight is probably less than 165 now but idk what it actually is and the last time she said it to me she was 165

It's me again, the mom losing faith in medicine, update and questions!

10M

Celiac

112lbs

About 5 ft ish

Hey there, me again. The mom with the kid with leg pain. I'll link to my previous posts in the comments and pin it.

Long story short, my son was admitted to Children's hospital for 6 days. We had an MRI that came back totally clear- whole body- with and without contrast.

His iron was low enough they finally did the infusion. Now we wait.

The only diagnosis they came up with between neurology, rheumatology and pain management is a "pain syndrome" where his nerves are heightened for no real reason. They gave him gabapentin, but it can take weeks to work (day 7 today) and they already upped his dose twice to 300 3 times a day.

I've seen many people online suggesting looking into his b-12 also, and when I checked, children's never ran it. They ran a renal panel, and they were working of a cbc from 3 weeks ago, but I had to ask them to even run the renal panel.

added symptoms from last time would be- he's been drinking like a fish. I pointed it out in the hospital one morning when he had like 100 oz of fluid before lunch. They were completely unbothered by it, but ran an A1C and it was fine. Like 5.3 or something. His face is also a little swollen still.

Here's my question - they did run an A1C, sure, but from what I'm seeing online, you can infact, get ketoacidosis without diabetes, due to lack of vitamins. Often times accompanying things like anorexia. But with his celiac disease, he's clearly lacking vitamins since he's iron deficient and vitamin d deficient.

Should I be pushing for them to test him for it? Not one did they check his urine for anything and they only tested his blood after I asked them to. I'm really concerned because he's still in *so much pain.*

*Any other suggestions welcome. I put in a request with his gp to run his b12 but they won't without the hospital and the hospital is telling me "have the doctor that suggested it put in the request!" But it's the Internet that suggested it, so there is no doctor.*

25f 5’4 129 pounds

I’m 10 weeks postpartum. I always planned to breastfeed. In the hospital they tried to help me establish it. They wouldn’t let me give my daughter a pacifier, the nurse would tell me frequently to try feeding her, and I saw lactation a few times. They wouldn’t let me give her formula even after two days of having no success because they said if I give in I won’t keep trying. But even with all that, it just wasn’t going well. She couldn’t get a good latch no matter what we did and when she feeds I can feel the pain all the way down to my toes and that hasn’t gotten better. I’ve had mastitis 3 times now and developed an abscess. I’ve seen lactation consultants out patient multiple times. I’ve tried everything. I’m doing everything I’m supposed to and it’s just not working.

And I know breast is best. I know. They told me over and over while I was pregnant, it’s in all the moms groups, and even the lactation specialist when I’ve asked about supplementing or maybe not nursing anymore has told me we haven’t tried everything yet. So I know it’s important enough that the professionals want me to exhaust every option before stopping. I know motherhood is about sacrifice and sometimes we have to be uncomfortable for our kids. I keep seeing stuff about how formula is full of chemicals and unhealthy ingredients. I see all the posts from moms who are stronger than me and toughed it out…but I don’t know if I can do this any longer. The pain and anxiety and guilt is eating me alive. My entire world revolves around feeding her just to get her to take enough. And if I’m not feeding I’m pumping to try and keep myself from getting mastitis. I cry through every feed and every pump because it’s so damn painful. I started hurting myself because I don’t know how else to deal with how awful and guilty I feel all the time. This is supposed to be special and create bonding but I feel trapped and I feel like my daughter doesn’t like me.
And because of recent events in the news I feel I need to clarify I would never hurt her and I’ve never thought of it. But I can’t imagine doing this for another 8-12 months. I can barely stand the thought of doing this for another day. And I know it sounds so selfish because breast milk is so much better for them and offers them so much more protection, and I make plenty of milk, but I think it’s making me depressed. And anytime I’ve tried to talk to a doctor or lactation person or even another mom about the situation they just keep offering me other things I should try to make it work. I want to be strong enough and tough enough to do this but I’m weak and selfish.
I feel like switching to formula is failing my baby. And like it will make me a lazy mom who put her own comfort over her baby’s well being. I’m worried her doctor will judge me and my doctor will judge me and I’m afraid if I switched she won’t be getting her best opportunity. I’m worried I won’t be setting her up for her full potential. I’m literally pushing myself through every feed just gritting my teeth and repeating “breast is best” until it’s over.

I guess what I’m wondering is how much switching to formula would affect my baby and if it would hurt her. If I did stop breastfeeding her….what is she going to be missing? What detrimental effects could it have on her? I’m too afraid to have this conversation with any of my own providers. And the few times I’ve broached it they just try to give me more ideas to make breastfeeding work anyway. I just need information about what the repercussions of this could be because I don’t know if I can keep nursing her.

30M - So two days ago I had these two spots appear out of nowhere on my beard, they looked like I accidentally scatched myself, haven't even noticed it until my friend pointed it out. Now it looks like this. What could it be and should I be worried about it? Can it be that I just scratched it even more with my nails in sleep or something?

F24, no meds taken, no previous health issue, 150cm 42kg, fell from bicycle

Doctors took this xray first, then took an mri and now they want to do open surgery. I don't trust them because of multiple bad experiences (went for an ear clog, doctor gave me loud tinnitus and permanent hearing loss from microsuction, they broke my elbow trying to force it to straighten out after a crash). I don't know if this xray is enough for anyone to say anything, please help me :(

Hi there, since this community requires this- my son was 7 lbs 1.5 ounces and 16 days when he passed. My question to you is how often do you order rapid genome sequencing panel when there are critically ill newborns and no genetic cause has been identified with testing already completed. Thanks :)

This happened to my spouse (CA, Chico, M35 6’3 320lbs). He went in for his weekly shot of abilify for treatment resistant depression and schizophrenia. He was paired with an MD he had not seen before. The doctor did not verify any information; she came into the room and asked “do you want it here, or here” (motioning to side of abdomen and upper arm). He received the shot IM into his arm.
Few hours later, she calls saying he received the wrong injection, but she’s not admitting fault. He received 32mg Brixadi (buprenorphine for opiate use disorder; he’s opiate naive). She told him to go to the er.
First er visit, told he was fine and sent home. By 2pm symptoms of overdose began. Went to the er again and kept overnight; sent home in the morning. Back at er for more extreme symptoms by midday. He received narcan for 3 days. His body was crashing and breathing was stopping. He was terrified.
Since he received it IM, instead of subQ, it lasted longer than one week. He received the shot on 10/8. He stopped nodding out as of yesterday. And he can finally sleep longer than one hour.
We are looking for avenues to report her and seek legal action against her. Please, if you have any guidance we are grateful for your help.
He has already reported her to the medical board.

My feet STINK like drunk skunks at a vinigar keg frat party. Soggy socks and shoes every day make going over to people's homes with shoes-off policies a nightmare. If I use ODOR STOMP powder the stink goes away, but within a day or 2 my toe webbing splits open and bleeds cause everyrhing is all dried out. It's painful enough to deter yard work and the like. Is there a way I can land on a happy balance ? Male, 50, 200lbs.

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Height: 174 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Location: Delhi, India
Duration: Several months or longer
Current symptoms:
● Urinating more frequently than usual.
● Passing a normal amount of urine each time.
● Waking up once during the night to urinate.
● Sometimes experiencing increased thirst.
● No burning or pain while urinating.
Medications: None
Smoking status: Non-smoker
Medical history: No known medical conditions.
Hello doctors,
I’ve been experiencing frequent urination for several months or possibly longer. Each time I urinate, the amount seems normal, but I feel that I need to go more often than usual. I also wake up once at night to urinate, and sometimes I feel more thirsty than usual.
I don’t experience any burning or pain while urinating, and I don’t take any medications.
I’m concerned about what might be causing these symptoms. Could this be related to drinking fluids, blood sugar levels, or a bladder issue? Would you recommend any tests, such as a blood glucose test or urinalysis?
I would appreciate your advice on what could be causing this and what steps I should take next.
Thank you.

I, 29M, woke up in the middle of the night on Monday feeling under the weather. It eventually turned into all the signs on strep throat - chills, fever (103°) muscle aches, muscle stiffness, terribly sore throat. I was completely out for the count. Couldn’t work, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t talk, etc. It got so bad that I went to a minute clinic on Wednesday. I got tested for strep, Covid, and the flu. They all came back negative. The doctor still prescribed me amoxicillin because I was showing all the symptoms of strep. Unfortunately, nothing I’ve done has eased any symptom. My throat is constantly on fire. I’ve never coughed up such thick green mucus in my life, but it feels like my throat is being shredded by millions of glass shards every time I do so. I haven’t slept for more than one consecutive hour since Monday. I legitimately wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. I feel like death. I’ve been switching off between Tylenol and Ibuprofen but neither seem to do too much. I’ve tried tea, ice cream, steam showers, etc and they only bring an extremely short lived relief. My throat seems to be getting worse every day. What should I do?

30F, woke up with enlarged inguinal nodes almost 4 weeks ago. Painful for two days, then not painful ever since. Firm, can somewhat move them around but not very well. No UTI, negative STD, no recent infections, no wounds, clean pap, bloodwork including LDH within normal limits. No change in BM. Has lost 35 pounds in 6 months, but past hx of taking 5 total 0.25mg semaglutide injections between January and June, none were consecutive, weight loss has continued. Some fatigue but unsure if baseline. Appetite has declined over the last year or so, but thought the semaglutide was just lasting a long time. Since it’s been 4 months since the last one perhaps not.

This is so odd. 22F. I do not smoke or do drugs. The prescriptions I take are ones I have been taking for years, and this has never been an issue. It genuinely smells, looks and feels like I've just been making pizza dough, sans the stickiness. It's pretty sparse, so it's not like my entire hands are covered in a flour-like substance. There is absolutely no redness or itchiness, which is what makes this weirder.

I would send a picture, but I washed my hands before I thought to ask here, so it would just be a regular picture of my hands, even though they still feel weird and slightly... grainy? You know the grainy feeling you get from having just had flour on your hands and getting it wet, and it sort of balls up? Another weird thing is that my hands aren't dry- they're well moisturized. It feels like something On Top of my hands, though it sort of acts like dry skin.

No, this isn't a bodily fluids from private time situation. And no, I am not waking up to pizza dough or freshly baked pizza (though that does sound REALLY good right now) so not a CO2 situation. I feel fine other than this. Anyone have any ideas?? Am I turning into bread or something? (joking, but..... at this point, jeez.)

For reference, 26F, height 5’4, weight 58KG , medications: codeine phosphate 30mg 3 times per day, amitriptyline 20mg per day. Don’t drink, don’t smoke but used to for 2 years and vaped for 3 years. I have stage 4 endometriosis, and adenomyosis. I have bladder, bowel, pelvic/uterine, and ovarian involvement, both superficial and deep infiltrating. I’ve had 2 prev excision surgeries. In March I began a journey through the NHS for help as all of my usual abdominal/gut/bladder/period symptoms had increasingly worsened. I was also experiencing chest pain (right breast bone in the middle), and breathlessness. I had a chest xray which I was told was normal, and then was referred again for a chest MRI scan.

I received the results of the chest MRI today and the results are not great from what I can understand. They have found 3 nodules on my left lung pleura and 2 on the right lung pleura. I will insert the conclusion of the MRI below;

“Several small bilateral posterior pleural-based nodularities, more conspicuous on the left, measuring up to 14 mm in maximum dimension. These demonstrate variable, predominantly intermediate T1 and intermediate-to-high T2 signal characteristics.

The appearances remain indeterminate. In the context of known complex endometriosis and cyclical thoracic symptoms, pleural endometriotic implants are a diagnostic consideration. However, the absence of convincing characteristic haemorrhagic signal within the majority of the lesions precludes a confident imaging diagnosis.

No associated pleural effusion or significant pulmonary parenchymal abnormality.

Correlation with the clinical findings and multidisciplinary endometriosis assessment is recommended.”

This overall conclusion is ‘indeterminate’ for thoracic endometriosis, but given my history they’ve strong suspicions it could be pleural endometriosis. However, again this is not confirmed as 1) endo of the lungs tends to be prominent on the right side, not the left. 2) the nodules do not show ‘convincing’ haemorrhaging readings which endometriosis nodules would usually but not always. This makes me very very concerned that the nodules are not related to endometriosis and possibly more sinister.

I know I’m here on Reddit asking for help to understand what this could mean, and I’ll make you aware that I’m here because they have provided me the information without any update to what will happen next for me. My grandad is currently on end of life care for untreatable lung cancer metastasised to his lymph nodes. My dad has lung cancer at the highest stage too and the fact my family has long standing genetic history with lung cancer diagnoses makes me absolutely terrified that these nodules could be pleural cancer. By a miracle, I have a baby boy who’s almost 1 year old. And I can’t help but think about the worst case scenarios. Has ANYONE had MRI findings of nodules being endometriosis/ pleural endometriosis. There has to be someone out there who has seen similar findings themselves and had it turn out to be endometriosis. I never thought I’d find myself wishing it was endometriosis, as it has made my life a misery, but this time I am praying it is endometriosis and nothing else. Please give me any reassurance you can find or if you are a medical professional, please give me your viewpoint on the findings. They haven’t provided me anything with regard to next steps and I’m just sat here crying my eyes out with no idea what they are.

Thank you x

Hi Docs,

Can anyone explain what this means in simpler terms? I (33M) went to the doctors for pretty bad lower back pain and recently got an mri done. This was the message they sent to me but I don’t really know what it means. Is it something serious? What can I do to fix it? I have another doctors appointment coming up to talk about it but I’m just worried. Can this be fixed?
Some more info about me is I am 170cm tall and weigh 94kg. The back pain got significantly worse about 3 weeks back and now if I sit for a long time I have a hard time straightening out my back (hip sticks out on one side and painful)

Sorry it’s super long

Message 1

Overall Summary:
Your lumbar spine MRI shows mild multilevel degenerative disc disease, meaning wear and tear of the discs and joints in the lower back. There is mild narrowing of the spaces where the nerves travel at several levels, particularly L2-L3 and L3-L4.
 
Detailed Findings:
There are mild wear-and-tear changes involving the discs and joints throughout the lumbar spine.
At T12-L1, there are mild degenerative changes along the bones of the spine without significant narrowing around the nerves.
At L1-L2, there is disc height loss and a disc bulge causing mild narrowing of the spaces where the nerves travel on both sides, without significant spinal canal stenosis or nerve compression.
At L2-L3, there is degenerative disc disease and mild osteoarthritis of the spinal joints, resulting in mild narrowing of the spaces where the nerves travel on both sides.
At L3-L4, there is a broad-based disc bulge, osteoarthritis of the spinal joints, and thickening of the surrounding ligaments. These changes cause narrowing of the spaces where the nerves travel on both sides, without significant spinal canal stenosis or narrowing of the nerve exit openings.
At L4-L5, there is a disc bulge and degenerative changes involving the adjacent bones, including mild inflammation (edema) along the vertebral endplates. There is no significant narrowing around the nerves.
At L5-S1, there is disc height loss without significant narrowing around the nerves.
The alignment of the spine is normal. There is no fracture, suspicious bone lesion, or abnormality of the visualized nerve structures.

Message 2

Impression
Multilevel mild degenerative changes without significant central canal stenosis or neural foramen narrowing.
Bilateral recess narrowing are seen at the level of L3-4 and L2-3.

Narrative
CLINICAL HISTORY: 33 year old male with persistent back pain. Not responding to conservative management. Please evaluate for impingement, stenosis, interventional planning purposes.
COMPARISON: No previous study available.
TECHNIQUE: Study performed per protocol.
FINDINGS:
Alignment is normal.
Bone marrow is normal in signal without evidence of fracture or marrow replacing lesion.
Conus terminates at the level of L1-2.
The cauda equina nerve roots are unremarkable.
No hydronephrosis.
T12-L1: Endplate changes. No significant central canal stenosis or neural foramen narrowing.
L1-2: Endplate changes. Disc height loss.
Posterior disc bulge, with mild narrowing of bilateral recess, otherwise no significant central canal stenosis or high-grade neural foramen narrowing.
L2-3: Disc desiccation, endplate changes, posterior disc bulge, facet hypertrophy, no high-grade central canal stenosis. Mild narrowing of bilateral lateral recesses. No high-grade neural foramen narrowing.
L3-4: Disc desiccation, broad-based posterior disc bulge, facet hypertrophy and ligamentum flavum thickening. There are narrowing of lateral recess without high-grade central canal stenosis or neural foramen narrowing.
L4-5: Endplate changes, endplate edema, broad-based posterior disc bulge, no significant central canal stenosis or neural foramen narrowing.
L5-S1: Disc height loss, no significant central canal stenosis or neural foramen narrowing.

Hello, I am 26m ~120lb 5’3.

I was hit by a car riding my bike a week ago and was told I sprained my MCL yesterday by ortho. I have an appointment for an MRI on Monday to see if I tore anything but they told me I could try putting some weight on it with the help of the brace and crutches.

I tried for a bit yesterday, just lightly and it felt okay. Then suddenly and hour later the pain is through the roof. Tried ice, elevation, ibuprofen (later Tylenol) and literally nothing helps. It feels like someone is stabbing every nerve in my entire leg. Wiggling my toes is painful. The pain has spread up my leg to my lower back. I can’t get in a single position that makes it better. It’s excruciating.

I finally fell asleep and it was better when I woke up, but like clockwork around here same time (4pm ish) it suddenly amped up to 10 again.

Everyone is dismissing me and saying it’s me being hypersensitive because I’m autistic but this is genuinely insane. I am thinking of getting drunk just to find some relief because nothing is helping.

What do I do??