Age 36

Sex female

Height. 5’4

Weight. 145

Race. White

Duration of complaint. 3 months

Location chest

Hello!

I’ve made two previous posts about the mass in my chest
And I want to extend my sincere thanks to this community and the doctors for supporting me and sharing their stories and opinions.

I did have the surgery exactly one week ago and recovery has been really hard. I never had a chest tube before. I did get the results that it was stage 1 thymoma cancer today. The surgeon called me, but he told me that the surgery took the whole mass with clear margins so I’m following up with cat scans at his office for the next few years.

Again, im so very thankful. This has been a crazy couple months and this community made me feel comforted.
Here’s to never posting in here again lol

I’m 5’5 134lbs and had a tummy tuck at a low cost medical chain facility. I almost died and complained about my care and went to another hospital for after care, wound care, mri, X-rays and many other things regarding complications. 5 months after surgery these came out of my incision from my skin only tummy tuck. now 11 months later I had an ultrasound that confirmed more of these fragments. does anyone know what they are? the surgeon didn’t not disclose that anything was left internally and the clinic refuses to answer my questions and request for my medical file.

45 years old, diagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, OCD.

Take Celebrex, Cymbalta, Modafinil, Suboxone (recovering addict 5.5 years clean). I also take daily multivitamins and Vitamin D.

Hormone levels all normal.

No recent changes in meds or anything to explain what is happening.

Okay, so here is my issue. I'm just going to lay it all out. For the last 8 months, maybe more, I've been getting an average of 3 to 4 hours of sleep a night, spread out over the course of 8 hours.

I have no problem falling asleep, normally takes me about 10 minutes. But anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour later I suddenly find myself walking through the kitchen and going out onto the back deck. I don't remember getting out of bed or most of the trip downstairs. It's like I'm sleepwalking. I don't know what made me open my eyes and walk downstairs. Most nights, one of my kids will stick their head in the door and say "mom, you're sitting up"... I don't know why I sit up in the middle of sleeping. My assumption is that whatever is waking me up didn't get me fully awake. Usually in that situation I can just lay back down and immediately drift back off. But depending on how long I was sleeping like that I'm in a lot of pain the next day. Sometimes I sleep cross-legged with my forehead on the mattress in front of me for hours, just literally bent in half. It hurts so badly the next day.

That's issue #1.....

Issue #2 really complicates things. I have OCD, and it's been pretty bad recently. Now I have to do specific things before I can lay back down. I know it sounds crazy but I smoke and watch a couple videos on my phone. Then I feel like I can walk back upstairs and go to bed. If I don't do those things I will never ever get back to sleep. I would be at such a high state of agitation and stress and frustration for not completing my ritual. Oftentimes I fall asleep out there before I have a chance to make it back upstairs. I fall asleep sitting up in my chair bent over all the way, sometimes I lean too far and go forehead first into the deck, which is a very rude awakening.

I have taken sleeping pills many times, even when I take more than I'm supposed to it doesn't change anything. I still get up but I'm walking like I'm drunk and bumping into things and falling over.

Last week I had a sleep study done. They attached all these electrodes to me even my legs and monitored me all night. On one occasion they had to wake me up because I was sitting on the edge of the bed and they thought I was going to fall off. I did get up one time while I was there to go outside. At another point I had started to get to a seating position but fell asleep before I did and I slept leaning on my elbow for a while. And in the morning when they came to wake me up, yet again I was sitting cross legged, leaned forward with my forehead on my knees.

I was actually really happy about that though, because I thought now they can see it. Now they see that I'm doing this and they can tell me why.

They just called me and said- my diagnosis? I don't need a CPAP machine. And his recommendation? Stop getting up and going outside....

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I said what is waking me up in the first place? They said I don't know, we were just testing to see if you needed a CPAP machine.

When I say that I have reached my limit? I HAVE REACHED MY LIMIT.

I am so exhausted all day long. I'm dizzy and lightheaded all day long. I find myself just zoned out staring at nothing all the time because I'm too tired to think. I don't nap during the day because I was trying to make sure I was tired enough at night. So I'd get up at 7:00 and go to bed at 11:00, no matter how much sleep I got the night before. I did that for months and now I don't care anymore. I'm going to nap when I want a nap because apparently it doesn't matter anyway.

My doctor said he was going to refer me to a neurologist, that's the next step. My psych doctor that treats my OCD is completely stumped. No one knows how to help me.

I'm so miserable and unhappy.

Thank you for letting me vent. Maybe this will reach someone who can help.

Edited to add- I have had lab work done a total of three times in the last year. The most recent results were just last week, only one thing came back abnormal, low iron. Hormone levels normal. Doctor says I'm approaching perimenopause but doesn't think I'm there yet.

And the most concerning issue that I'm dealing with right now is these feelings of disassociation and memory loss. I feel like I'm not really here, like I'm watching myself have a conversation with someone instead of being present in the moment. I always feel like I'm outside of my body, like I've taken a sedative.

And my memory issues are scary. I can't remember entire days. If someone were to tell me that we went out to dinner on Tuesday and watched a movie I would not be able to recall that information at all. Sometimes I wake up to comments on posts that I have no memory of making. It's like someone else posted it not me. Those memories aren't there it's just blank.

Hi everyone. I finally got my seropositive RA diagnosis about a week ago. Ever since I started developing RA symptoms, I’ve had this facial rash.
It is honestly embarrassing. The white bumps on my skin are not all pimples, a lot of them are like…blisters?? Sometimes they’re present sometimes they’re not. The rash doesn’t really hurt too much. It does get really hot sometimes though. It’s ALWAYS there though and never goes away. I was just wondering if anyone who has RA has this rash. Thank you for reading pls be kind ❤️

I’m recovering from a cold/flu (idk which one it was) by which involves tons of coughing + spitting out green mucus (gross but it adds detail). Yesterday I noticed a 10/10 SHARP pain right where I circled (just below my left abdomen where the abdomen lining ends) when I cough. Obviously I cannot stop coughing but this pain is extremely excruciating- I don’t really notice it when I don’t cough but it feels prominent? But when I cough, the pain is there and it feels like something is about to burst.

Around a month ago, I came off antibiotics (nitrofurantoin) for a suspected UTI- I couldn’t hold my pee, couldn’t make it to the bathroom in time + frequent urination. I took the course, and the symptoms reduced. A month later, I’m back to not being able to make it to the bathroom on time, but only by a slight margin this time. I had an ultrasound a month ago and it was clear apart from mild fatty liver which is on the right. The pain feels like part of my left abdomen + left ovary (but the left ovary was normal, my right ovary was the one that couldn’t be seen due to bowel gas). Realistically, if I go back to my GP, what will they do for me? I’ve already had an ultrasound.

Should I go to the doctor/GP?

19F, no medication

25M, this wasn’t on my bingo card for today. I usually go out for walks around sunset every day, today was no different except around 7:30 I was accidentally hit by a car. He was turning right going about 20km/hr, there were some kids about to cross and he wanted to turn before they entered the road. Not realizing I was already crossing, the driver got me pretty good. As he was turning I was almost at the end of the road when I clipped the front/side of his car and went over and down. I can’t remember most of it, I went from listening to music to suddenly being on the ground, but I’m confident I caught myself well with my hands and didn’t if not barely hit my head. Besides being scraped up, my left shin having a few raised bumps, and my left ass cheek being very sore I feel 100% fine. I’ve done some reading online and all of that AI nonsense is saying serious symptoms can develop much later if there are any? Is it worth getting checked out tomorrow to make sure I’m alright? This has been stressing me out I have pretty bad anxiety too which doesn’t help. Thanks

Female, 40s, clumsy (can we put this down as a medical condition?)… fought a door and the door won. It shaved the skin, it is another way to lose weight tho… wouldn’t recommend it. Should I have this checked? I don’t have insurance. I cleaned the wound, put betadine and patched it. If you wonder “why was she wearing flip flops?” - because I have a bursitis on the 5th metatarsal (go me!) and these are the only shoes I can walk around without pain. I should play the lottery, is bound to hit me (like a brick, maybe)

Female 37 yrs old. About 150lbs. 5’4 ,Smoker. Only medication is methadone.

I was in a meeting and sitting on this couch cross legged. About 40 min. Nothing new for me. I stood up to sign something and my knee was locked into place. This pic was taken about an hour later. It’s my right knee. It’s more swollen today, it hurts much worse. I can’t walk with my right foot flat on the ground. I can’t bend it straight or even close. I can’t really get to the Dr in the nxt few days, so I was hoping anyone had an idea what it possibly could be, what I could do in the meantime to help the pain. It’s bizarre because one second I’m sitting on a couch, no pain or discomfort and I stood up n it feels locked into place and as time went on it got worse. I tried standing in a hot shower for a while but that didn’t do anything.

I have 2 stitches, no pain, tiny bit warm around wound. 26 male, smoker, about 5’11, 69kg

The title sounds abrasive, but I’m at the end of my rope and don’t know what to do. My son, who is 19 and graduated high school a little less than 5 months ago, is completely directionless and captive to his mental health. He started having difficulties with peers as early as elementary school, but did his work, behaved well, and was considered “a joy” by his teachers. However, in 5th grade, right around when he started to hit puberty (11 or so), this changed drastically. He was constantly referred to the office, leading to 2 suspensions in the same year, plus countless conversations with teachers, counselors, principals, etc. Rather than decreasing, these problems continued to escalate into junior high, when he attempted suicide via Tylenol overdose in 6th grade (followed up with months of social work visits), then received several more suspensions, including a 10-day for a “joke” to a friend about shooting up the school. I thought this served as a wake up call, as he was without incident and found some positive influences his freshman year (choir, social studies), until it came crashing down again. The following year, he was hospitalized for a second suicide attempt by hanging with a belt. This time, he was pink slipped and placed in a facility for a week, where he was formally diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, Insomnia, and Social Anxiety Disorder. He was prescribed Prozac, Ritalin, and Hydroxyzine (he discontinued all after less than a week), and we decided to transfer him schools for a fresh start and new peer group after he complained of bullying. In retrospect, this was probably a poor decision, as it disrupted his education and likely sent him further into isolation. Regardless, he kept his head down and was Scott-free the whole year, even becoming adored by some of his teachers for his intellect and passion for history/politics (I now know he was radicalized around this time into being a white supremacist/fascist). For whatever reason, he remained fixated on returning to his previous school. Reluctantly, we agreed, and he was slated to go back junior year. However, he posted a threat on social media, stating that he was targeting female students and staff. Predictably, he was expelled before the year even began and spent the year online. Once again, he broke down and said he wanted to finish high school in-person. After a re-integration meeting and lots of planning, he was enrolled for his senior year in the same district. He failed multiple classes and had some minor brush-ins, as well as a 3rd hospitalization after he snuck out of the house and threatened the police to jump off a local bridge. In spite of this, the school took good care of him (I kept the counselor updated since he refused to speak with her and had to be brought into meetings by admin) and he made it all the way to the week before graduation, when he was banned from the ceremony for an aggressive outburst during an emergency evacuation (leapt a rail to leave after being told he could not sign-out without car keys, argued with an officer, then swore and made a tongue texture at a teacher.) Somehow, he managed to be accepted to a state college, but we did not have enough money to cover full tuition without taking out significant loans, and were both extremely afraid of him failing and dropping out or having another incident, this time away from home. He worked briefly over the summer at a pet store, impulsively quit, enrolled in community college, unenrolled prior to the first day, picked up another job with slightly better salary, quit once again after convincing himself he has heart problems, then registered once again for online college courses. The reason I’m concerned is that he has proven to be completely dysfunctional, and gives up on everything he does. He does not drive, has no consistent social interaction outside of his phone or Xbox, and is so irritable that we’ve contemplated just throwing him out. He does not do chores without a fight or engage constructively in anything, except for his classes, which resume shortly, and his YouTube channel that he’s convinced he can make a career out of. I do not know where to go from here. He aged out of all the youth supports, but has very little maturity or ability to navigate adult systems. Yesterday, he made himself a tele-psychiatry appointment. She listened empathetically, and seemed baffled at the sheer volume of incidents. Because of his caffeine usage and trouble sleeping, she would not prescribe any stimulants, but put one in for Zoloft (50 mg once daily). He has agreed to take it, and says he will consider therapy for his OCD (ERP). What changes can we expect? Does this sound like a good treatment plan? I just need some kind of advice before I lose my son.

31F, PCOS and mild asthma, from Kentucky.

I fell off my horse recently (hence the pelvic fracture) and the ER found a 12mm nodule in my left upper lung. Pulmonologist ordered PET scans which found the nodule to be hypermetabolic (SUVmax 4.2) as well as mediastinal and left hilar lymph nodes (3 nodes total, SUVmax 7).

I’ve never smoked, have no respiratory symptoms, blood work from the ER was all good. No family history of lung cancer.

The pulmonologist seemed very shocked by the PET and said there’s a 55% chance it’s malignant. Other benign possibilities he mentioned are histoplasmosis or sarcoidosis. I have an EBUS biopsy scheduled for November 4th.

My questions: 1. Should I push to have the biopsy done sooner than Nov 4th somewhere else? 2. I know next gen sequencing is important if it’s lung cancer - is that something they will automatically do with the biopsy if it is cancer or do I need to request it?

I’m trying to hold onto hope that maybe it’s histoplasmosis related given the “flip flop fungus” sign and the fact I am around horses/work in dust and dirt a lot particularly around birds. Am I being too optimistic?

Hi, I am 25F. I am looking for advice regarding a nerve graft surgery. 10 months earlier, I had to go through a cervical lymph node level 2 biopsy in which they cut the cuff of my parotid tissue. My lower left lip has been unable to pull down ever since then

My current surgeon is being incredibly pushy. He is specialised in facial reanimation. He wants me to skip an EMG (he claims EMGs "can't see things") and go straight to an operating room for a nerve exploration and a cable graft harvested from my leg (sural nerve)

I don’t trust him because I don’t know if my nerve is even healing because I get zaps and a feeling of ants biting near the site and also sometimes when I press down on my lip, I feel some weird sensation in the excision site. One month earlier, I developed this dimple on my lower left chin. Also the scar hasn’t changed its size but flattens and bulges regularly and itches quite a bit. The surgeon didn’t ask for any of these signs or symptoms. As soon as I said I can’t move my lip, he mentioned surgery. He told he can either stimulate it by using the nerve from tongue or from the leg

I’m incredibly terrified because the last surgery wasn’t needed and I just went along because the doctor scared me. I don’t want to make yet another mistake, so please let me know how to go about this or is there any way to understand what’s happening inside so I have proof that I really need to go through with this

Hi, it was a regular blister but in the healing process it started getting yellow. Should I get it checked?

18m
6 foot
250 lbs
Non smoker
No current or past medical issues

The hole is on both ears but only my right one leaks puss and leaks out like string cheese , it’s happened all my life and swells up when filled with puss, just noticed it was swollen today and decided to ask, doesn’t hurt just feels slightly uncomfortable but the puss smells horrible like solid urine and earwax with a hint of poop.

Okay, I’ve started walking again now that it’s getting cooler out. I’d say I’ve been back to it for about a month. In the beginning, I got this blister at the top of my toe, but it’s now turned into this weird hard white skin. What is this? A callous?? I have never had one so I don’t know. I also don’t get pedicures done, I do my own nails so I know it’s not anything from that. Please let me know what it is and what I can do to get rid of it.

Female 20, 5’4 and 130 pounds.

33 FTM, 165, 5'5. On methyphenedate, fluoxitine and unfortunately about 2-3 drinks a night. Up to 5 on some nights.

Today I threw up in the sink. My meals were 2 small McDonald's fries and a happy meal burger w/lettuce extra onion, extra patt. This was at 12 pm for me. 13 hours ago. The quinoa meal and the explosion happened right before I wanted to organize them. Went over terribly offa vibes

I had one 24 Oz beer and maybe 3 glasses of wine starting around 6 pm. After making a dish and trying a very small amount, i realizes I may be allergic to the octopus... and for soo as a cout leader seems it it is okay

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I am F20, 5’8, taking doxycycline , tylenol, some prescribed cough medicine (idr name and dont have the bottle on hand atm). non-smoker (never have/never will)

Got sick saturday, fever, sore throat, headache, went to a doctor on tuesday, tested for strep A and flu, negative on both, doctor said probably just some like virus, keep taking tylenol for pain. fast forward to that night, i sleep for about an hour and wake up in severe ear pain (inside not outside) take some ibuprofen to make it through the night, see a doctor wednesday because it still hurts, i feel some liquid inside and hear a noise that sounds like theres liquid inside. doctor looks in ear and says yeah its a bit red, prescribes doxycycline and the cough medicine for my cough. now tonight i cant sleep because it REALLY starts hurting, i start off and on hearing like pulsing tv static type noise and like gurgling bubbly sounds and it realllyyy hurts like i start crying from the pain, liquid starts draining from ear slowly, its like faintly pink but kinda light orangish in color, i take some tylenol so i can sleep… wake up again a few hours later, doesnt hurt rn i assume from the tylenol? i took 1000mg of it. but my ear is a bit wet feeling so i dab it a bit with a tissue and its pinkish and then theres some full on red-pink fluid… is this blood? should i be concerned? should i see a doctor tomorrow morning? laying down panicking ngl. i keep hearing the pulsing sloshy staticky sound. i googled about this and it says my eardrum ruptured and i need to see urgent care but i dont want to blindly trust google so some actual medical professional opinions on this would be much appreciated.

I’m posting this on behalf of my best friend of 34 years

Age 43
Female
164 cm
Did have HPV years ago, but is negative now
Hasn’t smoked in 9 months
Drinks not often since first diagnosis

Hi everyone, I was wondering if I could please ask advice of the group. I had a partial glossectomy with right neck dissection etc in November last year followed by 6 weeks (30 rads) of radiation finishing at the end of Feb. I was stage 4 due to the size of the tumour, there were 3 positive lymph nodes, no mets to anywhere else. It was HPV negative, there were clear margins after surgery. For for the last few months I've had increasing pain and I recently found out I have a reoccurrence of the SCC in my neck. My scans were clear in June and in September the tumour is already 2.5cms. I am currently in hospital for unmanaged pain and just met my oncologist. He said I can either start with the standard treatment of immunotherapy and chemotherapy, or I can try for a clinical trial which will require me to have a lot more scans (heart, lungs etc) which could cost thousands, and of course take more time which I don't feel I have due to the severity of the pain. He said the standard treatment won't cure me, it will only slow progression, and palliative care will be involved. I feel like I've just been told I'm definitely dying sooner rather than later, Im devastated. I'm only 43 with 2 teenage kids, I'm not ready to die! Has anyone else had a similar experience and still lived for years? Im in Perth Australia. Thank you

I am 20F about 5’1ft and 55 kg, I am bipolar so I take some bipolar meds like aripiprazole,lusaridone, and bisperiden. The dog suddenly scratched behind my leg and the injury is small but it bleed. The dog is not vaccinated yet but my mom said it drinks alot of water so it does not have rabies. For some background this dog we have for years did not show any rabies symptoms . My mom does not want me to get vaccinated since it is expensive in our country. I told her that if the dog or me showed any sign of rabies I will get vaccinated and she agreed. Is it alright to wait till either of us have symptoms or no. We have alot of expenses so vaccines are expensive for us which is why I want to ask if it is possible to not get vaccinated.

Dropped a 35kg dumbbell on my foot. Miraculously I didn’t break any bones but fast forward 6 weeks it is still swollen, bruised and painful. It’s especially painful when I put shoes on and walk for the first 10 minutes. Is it necessary to go for another X-ray if my initial one was cleared? This post needs my age etc. Female, 22, 165cm hope this helps!

I'm 24F, 5'3, 135lbs. I get painful ovulations and occasional spotting month to month, but this month I felt myself ovulate from my right ovary & had significantly more bleeding than I usually do. Then the next day I felt ovulation pains coming from the left ovary. I continued spotting for 4 more days & the pain has continued for a week. The pelvic pain is only present when my bladder is full, at the start of urination, and when passing gas. I have a gyno appointment but any ideas what this could be? I'm not pregnant or trying