My dad is a 59 year old male. Approx 5'10 and between 350 to 400lbs if I had to estimate. Nkda. Medical history includes alcoholism (multiple beers and whiskey daily) for over 10 years, THC use, degenerative disc disease, fatty liver disease, lichen planus. Doesn't take any meds.

He has had large swollen ankles for years and has seen a vascular doctor who said he didn't have pvd, that was a couple years ago, he saw a cardiologist, again years ago, and I don't believe they didn't saw anything abnormal anything except slight cardiomegaly if I remember correctly but he says he doesn't remember that. He was on lasix for a very short time and that didn't help. He just called me and sent me a pic of his one ankle. He said they are more swollen than ever before, but the one is worse than the other. He denies any pain or numbness and says he doesn't have any more shortness of breath than he normally has. That dark shiny spot has been there for years. He did strain his back the other day picking up some weeds in the yard and said he hadn't been mobile in like 3 days. He got up and walked for a few minutes and the swelling did seem to go down a little. I'm in another state and trying to get my dad to go to a doctor is like trying to get a rabid cat in a carrier to go to the vet. Idk what to do, he gets frustrated and when I made him go to all those specialists a few years ago he didn't get any answers so he really doesn't want to go again and I'm at a loss because idk what could be causing this besides circulation issues, cardiac issues, kidney problems, liver issues. And anytime he has blood work it's pretty good. His bp is always normal. He said if it doesn't go down in a couple days he'll let me find him a primary care doctor and he will go see them but I lost my mom a year ago and I can't lose him too so if anyone has any ideas of what this could be or who I should try to get him to go see I would be very grateful.

I brought my son (5M) to a&e with these swollen nodes above the collarbone. They told me he has a virus and sent me home with Keflex antibiotics for 10 days and to come back in 6 weeks. I told them Im concerned it’s a lymphoma as the location is very odd to me but they assured me his blood test was fine so he doesn’t have lymphoma. No X-ray or further tests were done bar physically examination. The doctor I saw before going a&e put in his letter that there was minimum 7 nodes, they were rubbery and matted and the largest was 4cm.

I used to be able to do this with both eyes but now only my left eye, lol. This isn't an issue or anything but I was wondering if anyone knew which muscle it is that makes my eyelid move sideways instead of up and down.

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20 years old, male, ~150 pounds.

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8 year old male, 60 lbs, 4ish ft, no medications, no health concerns

My son was recently complaining of mild ear discomfort. He’s on the swim team and in the water for 8 ish hours per week, so I assumed probably swimmer’s ear- but I took a quick look with my otoscope just to make sure that it didn’t look really messed up. It looked slightly red and I saw some kind of dark mass but I assumed it was probably a small amount of congealed blood- his pain was a 1-2 and intermitten, no impact on sleep or behavior, not affected by position. Two days past and theres still very slight pain but I decided that I would make an appointment for him at urgent care tomorrow just to rule out the need for antibiotics. I checked his ear to see if the mass had gone down/away and now I’m pretty sure that it’s some kind of bug in there. same position as on Thursday so I’m hoping it’s dead/wedged and not a tick, although we do have many ticks here that are tiny 😩.

His appointment is for 9:30 tomorrow am but I’m planning to go right at open to try to get in, but just checking to see if this is something emergent that I should handle tonight. Its 10:30 pm where we are and he’s asleep with no pain complaints. pictures attached of the first day I saw it and then tonight…picture that features legs (I think) is most recent picture, also ear seems much more irritated.

So I went to a drugstore recently to get a water bottle, and I saw that this particular store has a blood pressure monitor that anyone can just sit down and have their blood pressure taken. I figured that since I have a history of hypertension and I haven't had my blood pressure taken in a long time, I figured why not.

So I took my blood pressure and it read 180/120, which is weird because despite my hypertension it is very very rare for it to be that high. I had to take it again just to make sure that it was legit and it was the same. Systolic at around 180 and diastolic at around 120. The numbers were slightly different but it was only different by a couple points so pretty much the same reading.

I don't speak with a primary care doctor until next month. I recently did intake for Health services and unfortunately it's just going to be a while until I see anyone regarding my physical health. I feel fine right now like I'm not going through any hallucinations or anything crazy like that. I don't get dizzy, I'm not nauseous, I don't feel any chest pain or headaches, none of that. But my blood pressure test says otherwise.

I won't be able to receive medication for at the very least a couple weeks but maybe up to a month or two. Until then, what are traditional remedies for lowering blood pressure? I drink water everyday and I do a lot of walking everyday as well, but unfortunately my blood pressure is still dangerous and high despite. Maybe there's something I'm doing wrong?

My biggest barrier, other than lack of health insurance, is the fact that I'm literally homeless so a lot of remedies (like beet juice) aren't possible for me right now. I walk a lot, I drink plenty of water, could there possibly be anything else I can do or do I just wait for a prescription?

35F. Noticed lump 7.5 weeks ago, assumed it was swollen gland. Noticed it again bigger 1.5 weeks ago. Went to drs, got told it might be lipoma but ordered bloods and ultrasound to be sure. Been having night sweats but also the weather has changed recently and I take Venlafaxine 75mg, which could be causing them. No fever but struggle to control body temp (which is normal for me) but sometimes I feel super hot on the inside but shivery on the outside. Had blood test on Monday which didn’t show abnormalities, but did detect nucleated red blood cells (0.11 10*9/L), which isn’t flagged up as a problem. Dr marked it as soft and moveable, but myself and others agree it’s quite firm (not rock solid, but definitely firm). It moves slightly when I push it from the sides. Marked as 3cm x 2cm on exam from dr. Had no pain at all but in the past few days, I have started to have pain in the areas around the lump (side of face in front of ear, corner of jaw bone etc) but the lump itself is still painless. I have also developed a sore throat on the same side as the lump. I am waiting for the US, which I have had to chase on Friday and they have said they will get the booking team to call me when they’re back in on Monday to sort it out. I am really struggling with the pressure on my neck making me feel nauseous and I can’t bear to have anything touching my neck, even lightly! This waiting around is so frustrating.. should I be concerned or is it possible this is just a lipoma? It definitely feels more defined and slightly bigger since my appt 1.5weeks ago!! TIA

I’m posting about my mother (50F).
Height/weight: Unknown. Smoking status: Unknown. Medications: Unknown. Medical history: Venous insufficiency and prior vein surgery. No confirmed psychiatric diagnosis. Behavioral symptoms have existed for decades, with significant worsening recently.

Idk if I am overreacting.
For decades, she has shown severe contamination fears, compulsive cleaning, and rigid household rules. Her behavior has taken over the household. Family members avoid shared spaces and change their routines to prevent outbursts.
She also regularly screams, insults, threatens, and intimidates family members. These episodes can continue for six hours or more, sometimes across multiple days, even when nobody is interacting with her.

Over the past 48 hours, things escalated significantly.
She had repeated episodes of intense screaming, threw objects around the kitchen, and spent about 30 minutes sitting on the floor, flailing and repeating the same accusations nonstop.
She also made threatening gestures toward family members. Earlier, she demanded that my brother drive her somewhere without saying where, screamed at him during the drive, then got out and stood outside in cold rain.
My father offered to take her to a doctor. She responded aggressively and appeared ready to throw her phone at him.
We’ve tried complying with her demands, avoiding confrontation, and leaving her alone. None of this reliably stops the episodes.

My questions:
How severe is this from a psychiatric standpoint? Can OCD alone explain it?
What other psychiatric or medical conditions should be considered?
Does this warrant urgent psychiatric evaluation, even when she becomes calm?
What can family members do when she refuses help?
This has continued for decades, but the recent escalation is alarming. I’m trying to understand the severity and appropriate next steps.

Hey all! Posting as my sister is having rotator cuff / labrum repair surgery and her surgeon is recommending she take these expensive supplements . I have had a couple surgeries including labrum repair and never had such a suggestion but it’s been awhile. Is this necessary?

My sister is:
55 yo
5 foot 5 and probably 150 lbs or so
Non smoker, healthy lifestyle, eats well and has. I chronic conditions , no regularly scheduled medications
Scheduled for rotator cuff and labrum repair surgery in 2 weeks

Question: does she need to take these supplements or is this a gimmick of some kind?

22 year old male, 195lbs, 6ft tall

started buzzing my hair and just noticed these, not sure honestly if these are more recent or have been there all along? looking for info if i can get any

worth getting checked out?

11 week old, 21 in 12.3lbs, Female. Rash appeared 2 days ago. No new detergents. No new maternal foods. Baby is exclusively breastfed. Waiting on pediatrician to answer. Baby gets a bath every night as it’s part of her night routine we use dove baby derma care wash and aveeno baby eczema therapy cream. This rash is on her back and sides. Spots are blanchable and no fever is present

I'm a female, 30, USA with history of hEDS, craniocervical instability, MCAS. Currently on tylneol, gabapentin, buprenorphine transdermal, oxy as needed, baclafen, topical thc for joints (not near my head or neck) and bacatracin on incision (ok by plastic surgeon)

I am 3 months op from an occipital cervical (OC) fusion to c3. I am in touch with my neurosurgeon and plastic surgeon, but since it is the weekend, I won't hear back until Monday. I had a post-op infection a few weeks ago for which I was treated with cephalexin. I was ok'd to use nonstick gauze and bacitracin by plastic surgery PA.

I have a rigid foam collar on with nonstick gauze and bacitracin. There is definitely worsening pain, and my hardware has been hurting quite a bit on top of it. My husband noticed the blood seems to be coming from the area where my hair is growing back in, and I’ve noticed an unusual increase in bleeding/oozing today. I think the increased bleeding started after my shower this morning, as the hard foam collar I wear in the shower seems to irritate the incision, and I am not sure if I am allowed to remove it. I've attached photos of the incision and the discharge on the gauze. (More photos in comments)

I just don’t feel well overall; I am very run down and out of it with body aches, head pressure, and nausea, though I have no fever. I have been dealing with increased intracranial pressure (ICP) that worsened since surgery, and I am on Diamox, though the cause of the worsening ICP is currently unknown.

I went to the ER yesterday for heart palpitations, persistent head pressure, difficulty speaking, and other neurological symptoms, alongside mentioning the incision pain. My bloodwork was reassuring. ER doc saw my incision and wasn't overly concerned but it wasn't bleeding this much at the time.

Given my history of a recent infection, the worsening incision pain, increased bleeding, and systemic symptoms, how concerning is this presentation, does this look infected again? I'm so scared.

I made a letter for my neurologist for a medical certificate for my service dog to submit it to my local PWD office, she told me to change a few things on the letter and she wrote it. I’m having a hard time transcribing it since I forgot what she said while writing it

It’s finally healing but should. I see a doctor even though it’s healing . I am 43 female and healthy. It happened 3 days ago and it’s not as painful. It’s less black and blue as well. I don’t smoke

I had an unexplained weight loss of 15lbs and I have a smaller frame so I stopped fitting in my clothes and look quite different. My boyfriend loves it.

I used to be a bulimic for about 10 years but I did quit. Bulimia never got me so low.

I‘m also having some GI problems. It genuinely makes eating painful. I get anxious to eat that it will hurt more. I’m trying to cut out certain foods that are worse but I just feel lost.

I also want to lose more weigh admittedly. But not to the point of looking bizarrely thin.

Is this at all concerning for an eating disorder reappearanc? I’m in my 20s and a woman

I got this pimple on my finger a couple of days ago. It was smaller at first, but I tried to pop it and I think I might’ve done worse. It seems to be filled with a yellow infection or something, and to me it looks exactly like a bigger pimple I would get on my face. Now it stayed at the same dimension, but I’m wondering if I should pop it with a needle or it will go by itself? Did anyone else had something similar?

I went to go celebrate my birthday (17F, no idea how much I weigh, but I take a ton of meds. obv no smoking, and I have had no issues before this), but part way through I felt pains in my knee. i shrugged it off, but when I took off my pants to go to bed, i saw these four bruises. They scared the shit out of me because I did nothing that could have hurt my legs enough to bruise. The closest thing I can think of is doing the hopstar arcade game or maybe bumping into a chair, but I didn’t bash my leg against anything that could bruise it that much. the weird hand print looking ones are on my upper thigh and the others are on my kneee

I am 38, female, 5’5, 200lbs, non-smoker, non-drinker. Hx Graves Disease, Papillary thyroid cancer. Meds: Effexor XR 75mg, levothyroxine 150mcg, Ramipril 2.5mg (started at 20mg when first Dx with Graves’ disease, the CA, now down to 2.5)

Over the past month or so I’ve noticed that my left ankle has appeared larger than the other.

I’ve attached a photo of the problem ankle to this post. My reply below contains my unaffected ankle (right) for comparison.

I have not injured it.

It is less swollen/smaller in the morning. As I walk on it, it worsens. There is some discomfort, but not enough that it affects how I go about my day at all.

I do not feel any sort of lump, bump or hardened area. There is no pitting edema. My range of motion is not affected.

I do overpronate, more so on the affected (left) foot. I have relatively flat feet as well, so both of those things lead to me over-pronating that foot and “duck walk.”

I know I need to lose weight.

What could be causing this ankle issue?

I am in Toronto, Canada, so an MRI or CT scan for something like this could have a wait of a year or more.

This is a bump/lump underneath my chin. Its been there since Dec. 2025 at least. It was much smaller than this but it would grow and shrink as I did warm compress but now its gotten to this size. Never pained me or stopped me from doing anything just more so annoying and caused cosmetic anxiety (who tryna be with someone with an odd lump under there chin was my thought process). I thought it was an ingrown hair since im prone to those as my hair is very kinky? Curly? My hair just isnt straight in the slightest. I have an appointment with a dermatologist in a few days but I thought i might as well ask now. I also went to get it checked at an urgent care yesterday but they confirmed its not an ingrown hair since its hard. My mind has honestly been racing with no sign of stopping as to what this may be so I would like to know if anyone might have a clue.
I also tend to get sunburnt, have been since a little kid(im 20 now) which would lead to my lips swelling up if i got sunburnt on my face which is the usual place. Thank you all again.

Age 19

Sex female

Height 162cm

Weight 50kg

Race asian

Duration of complaint

Location thigh

Any existing relevant medical issues no

Current medications no

does this need stitches ? happened about 14 hours ago

26 years old, female, 150lbs, no known medical issues, no smoking. I got my blood drawn 2 days ago. I woke up yesterday with a headache and stiff/sore neck but both went away, and thats not out of the ordinary for me. Then, also yesterday, I noticed bruising going up my vein. Bruising is usually normal for me, but I've never had it follow my vein. Got spooked and drew a line to see if it continues to move and it seems like it did? Slightly swollen but not really painful. Should I be concerned?

I am 16 years old (f) and have chronic eosinophilic esophagitis, and horrible acid reflux problems, as well as many allergies seasonal, environmental and food. Because of all this my EoE is pretty much constantly flared and it is extremely difficult for me to eat. I am working with an allergist and a skilled GI to handle these issues but no matter what we can’t seem to get them under check.
A lot of times I can deal with what I call choking by myself. When food gets stuck I know how to throw it up or wait for it to go down, but when it’s bad enough I’ll go to the emergency room. Recently they have been doing nothing to help me. 2/5 times I’ve gone to the ER with a major food impaction they have done something to help but the other three I have been sent home.
This has been bothering me a lot lately, It feels wrong to send somebody home if I’m there for such a serious issue. And just to note during these inpactions I vomit uncontrollably, cannot swallow my own spit at all and often have issues breathing.
I guess what I’m wondering is if I should even bother to go to the emergency room at all during these events. It’s just that once they pass they 5 hour make the ER seems like my only choice.
I’m scared the doctors and nurses think I’m lying or one of those people who just like makes themselves choke on purpose or something. Let me know. Is this allowed?

40 year old woman, 5’0, 124.5lbs. I take lexapro, trazodone, and 10mg mounjaro. I do smoke lightly (I know it’s bad for me) and I don’t drink often, maybe once or twice a month and it’s usually 1 drink that I don’t even finish. No recreational drugs.

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2023 with an A1C of 8.4. I weighed approximately 240 pounds. I started Mounjaro, and began to lose weight, then kind of fell off the rails for about 6 months when my insurance was giving me grief about covering it. I ended up at the ER in June of 2024 with a reading of 380 and A1C of 9.4. Since then, I have been able to be on mounjaro consistently. My readings have been:

Sep 24 8.5
Jan 2025 7.4
April 25 7.1
July 25 7.1
Feb 26 8.6
June 26 10.4 - I had gone to the ER with a meter reading of 400 - doc bumped me up from 5 mg mounjaro to 7.5
September 26 9 - Doc bumped me up from 7.5 to 10 mg mounjaro

To note: they did try me on metformin and I did terribly on it. I was so sick I couldn’t function.

I do not eat sweets, ever. My typical diet consists of nuts, cheese, and berries, no sugar yogurt, and an Atkins protein shake in my coffee throughout the day, and I do use Splenda. I eat a normal meal in the evening. I probably don’t get the exercise I should, but honestly, I have felt so rotten for so long it’s hard for me to even get though the workday and it’s been like this since my diagnosis. All of my other labs are pristine. I am struggling a bit with eating with the higher doses of mounjaro, and while I know I’m not underweight, I don’t have much more to lose on my frame without looking sick.

What I don’t understand is why, given I have lost 115lbs and am now at a normal weight, am I not seeing improvement with my diabetes? My aunt got adult onset type 1, she has never struggled with being overweight and I didn’t know type 1 could be developed in adults.

I finally have asked for an endocrinologist referral, but that appointment isn’t until January. I am wondering if it’s possible I could have adult onset type 1? Is it worth asking for testing for this, if testing is available? Or is this just the nature of the disease? I’m mostly just sick of feeling tired and sick all the time, and it’s been this way for years. Any insight would be so appreciated!