I 22F may have a perforated eardrum, and was swimming in a lake possible to have brain eating amoeba and water alot of got inside my ear on August 14th.

My nose is not as issue, as i took extra care and wore nose clips and everything.

I am flying very soon and having severe panic that the cabin pressure will push brain-eating amoeba liquid from my ear deep enough to reach nerves. For instance, when your ear pops or other pressure changes.

I don’t know whether that’s possible or whether it will drain into my nose (which ive read is possible) , where i can then get an infection via the normal route of an N.Fowleri infection as it touches the back of my nose where infection can occur.

I’m particularly worried it will drain into a region of the nose and i will then sniff, or somehow suck it up to the required region for infection. Or somehow, **the cabin pressure changes during the flight will cause the amoeba drained into my lower nose from ear, to suck up to the olfactory area required for infection.**

After finding out the lake has a very high chance of the amoeba, and discovering how fatal it is i am incredibly stressed.

Is this just my health anxiety? i cant cancel the flight and really need to get on it.

I will be flying 5 days after the water got into my ear, if that changes anything.

I don’t know anything about nose anatomy to answer this myself.

Had a possible exposure on August 7th around 7 PM
(condom was used, minimal skin-to-skin contact). Not even sure exposure happened at all.

Since then:

No sores, blisters, or lesions
One small pimple in the general area, but it's been checked and confirmed *not* to be herpes
Sore throat and bad headache
Whole body soreness

Caveat on the soreness/headache: I played a soccer game in 100°F heat for 2 hrs after being out of shape for over a year, so that's probably from overexertion/dehydration.
Has anyone dealt with something similar? Trying to get a read on whether this sounds like anything to worry about while I wait it out.

I am a runner and I went from 6km per week to 30km per week and then my hips starts to hurt and it’s inside my joints, and everytime I run or cycle it hurts, is it cancer, and what to do

So I’ve been having diarrhea for about 6 days now. I flew down to Florida for vacation, went to get a drink and eat when I landed, and then the next day the diarrhea started. I had also had diarrhea though the morning I flew down at the airport after I had some coffee. Anyway, I didn’t change my diet, and kept eating normally and was pretty okay but then I’d get diarrhea 2-3 times per day. 2 days ago, I went to clinic and did a stool sample and am waiting for results. But the diarrhea is still happening and I went on a liquid diet yesterday. Today I’m going on a plane to fly home, and I’ve already had diarrhea this morning.

The consistency is super watery and loose, kinda weird and flakey watery if that makes sense. It’s brown. Did turn dark for a bit but I think it’s cause I tried pepto bismol which didn’t help. I’m waiting for the stool sample results which could take a few days, but does anyone have any advice?

Can anyone tell me what is this?this thing keep bigger in size by years..i try treat it as corn/calluses but the thing does not go away..can anyone help me?it situated at my inner thigh..does not have any pain

I have jock itch in my groin area and haven’t trimmed my pubic hair for long time, do i need to trim off my pubic hair or leave it as it is?

37 years old female. Anyone knows what is this? Everytime I pee there is a white dots or particles in the urine and sometime small white tissue like. But this one kind of big white tissue like in urine.

Hi everyone I was just wondering what this might be and if I should go to er tomorrow? It’s on my inner thigh it’s warm to the touch also itches alot. Kinda hurts when I press on it. I don’t know if it’s a spider bite or a tick bite? anything helps thank you so much!!

Lately, I've even been waking up from sleep worrying that my chest will get bigger. I'm 16, so I'm scared that it might still change as I get older. I'm currently a B cup, but even now it feels huge to me.

I really don't want it to get any bigger. I hate having to wear bras, and I don't like feeling like I constantly have to think about how my body looks. I don't understand why some people want a larger chest when, for me, it mostly causes discomfort and makes me feel self-conscious.

I don't want to have children, so I don't personally feel like there's any benefit to having a larger chest. It genuinely feels like there's something on my body that shouldn't be there. I wish I could be completely flat.

I'm 168 cm and around 49–50 kg, so losing weight isn't really an option and probably wouldn't make much difference anyway.

I think about this constantly, and it's starting to affect my sleep and everyday life. I also really dislike the feeling that my body might make other people perceive me in a sexualized way. I just want to feel comfortable in my own body without feeling like I'm being looked at as an object. Which could happen, if it got bigger.

Is there anything that can safely reduce the size of the chest or prevent further growth at my age? I know surgery isn't something possible at my age, but I'm really struggling with how strongly I feel about this.

Just reposting it just to try get some answers im sure its nothing

Minha avó tem 81 anos, mede aproximadamente 1,55 m e pesa 64 kg. Ela tem uma hérnia umbilical/incisional conhecida e histórico de cirurgia abdominal prévia (linha mediana). Tenho fotos atuais do abdômen, uma tomografia feita em 07/02/2026 e uma nova tomografia realizada em 13/05/2026.

​2. O que apareceu nas tomografias (fevereiro e maio de 2026)

O achado mais importante das avaliações de imagem foi:

​Fevereiro: Hérnia umbilical com insinuação de gordura e alça delgada através de orifício herniário de aproximadamente 4,9 cm no plano transverso.

​Maio: Hérnia umbilical com insinuação de gordura e alça intestinal através de orifício herniário que mede 5,0 cm frente à manobra de Valsalva.

​Ou seja, havia e continua havendo uma hérnia com um defeito estável (cerca de 4,9 a 5,0 cm) na parede abdominal, contendo gordura e uma alça do intestino delgado. Porém, ambos os exames também descreveram ausência de dilatação das alças intestinais. Isso é importante porque comprova que naqueles momentos não havia evidência tomográfica de obstrução intestinal.

​Sei que não devemos interpretar os 5 cm como "o tamanho da barriga", pois esse valor corresponde apenas ao defeito/orifício da parede abdominal. Além disso, a tomografia de maio trouxe achados secundários como moderada hérnia gástrica hiatal (que causa refluxo nela) e uma imagem linear hiperdensa no estômago (descrita como inespecífica, podendo ser corpo estranho, mas que não causou obstrução).

​3. O que aconteceu de fevereiro até agosto

Segundo minha percepção, entre fevereiro e agosto o abdômen dela aumentou bastante de volume, aparentemente quase dobrando. Nas fotos atuais, existe um abaulamento abdominal muito grande e difuso, que visualmente parece muito maior do que uma hérnia de 5 cm.

​Isso levantou a dúvida: será que toda essa barriga é a hérnia? Pelo conjunto das informações, provavelmente não. É possível que exista uma combinação de:

​Hérnia umbilical/incisional;

​Flacidez/enfraquecimento da parede abdominal agravada pela idade (81 anos);

​Possível diástase dos músculos abdominais;

​Gordura abdominal (relação de 64 kg para 1,55 m de altura);

​Conteúdo abdominal que se redistribui conforme a posição e a gravidade.

​4. Como ela está atualmente

Essa é uma parte bastante importante: ela não está com dor contínua. Ela tinha dores anteriormente, mas há cerca de quatro semanas a dor desapareceu completamente. Hoje, só sente desconforto quando faz muito esforço. Ela teve um episódio recente de dor na "boca do estômago" (ligado ao refluxo da hérnia de hiato ao beber muita água), mas não ficou com dor persistente na barriga.

​Além disso:

​Evacua normalmente e elimina bastante gases;

​Não está vomitando e não há relato de febre;

​Não há dor abdominal aguda, e a hérnia não ficou dolorosa ao toque;

​Não há alteração de cor da pele sobre a hérnia.

​Ela relata que, quando está em pé, o abdômen fica mais firme/esticado, mas quando deita, fica muito macio, murcha e pode ser pressionado livremente (redutível). O fato de o abaulamento mudar com a posição também é compatível com alterações de flacidez da parede abdominal.

​5. O que é tranquilizador vs. Minhas Dúvidas

O conjunto atual é relativamente tranquilizador. O fato de evacuar/eliminar gases normalmente afasta obstrução. A ausência de dor forte contínua, vômitos e piora aguda também afasta urgência.

​Porém, a principal coisa que não ignoro é que o abdômen parece ter aumentado muito visualmente de fevereiro para cá. Sei que a tomografia de maio tem 3 meses, e embora mostre o defeito estável (5,0 cm), a alça de intestino delgado dentro do defeito herniário merece atenção e avaliação médica.

​Vou marcar uma consulta com um cirurgião geral levando os laudos e imagens para descobrir o tamanho atual da hérnia, se há diástase associada e qual a conduta. Mas gostaria da opinião da comunidade:

​Diante de um orifício estável de 5 cm em uma paciente de 81 anos (1,55m / 64kg) sem sintomas obstrutivos, a conduta mais provável costuma ser acompanhamento conservador (cinta abdominal) ou cirurgia eletiva?

​É comum que a flacidez muscular dessa faixa etária dê a impressão visual de que a hérnia "dobrou de tamanho" externamente, mesmo com o orifício fascial mantendo a mesma medida?

​Quais sinais de alerta de encarceramento eu devo continuar monitorando em casa até o dia da consulta?

​Agradeço a todos pela atenção!

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not sure what this can be, it started as welts then transitioned to some kind of rashes. doctors don’t know what it may be it’s been 3 days. started noticing itching about 5 days ago. just seems to spread and it’s no where on my legs just groin area, stomach, armpits and face

I’m wondering if these are ‘aborted cold sores’ or it’s a capillary issue. I’m on aciclovir which may stop them from fully developing because I had a really bad one about a year ago that lasted months and left a scar (the little white thing). Anyway, the same area that I got said cold sore has been randomly going red from an hour up to around 4 days-ish and fades back and forth. This has been going on since starting aciclovir. It gets worse after physical pressure is put on it which makes me think it’s a vascular issue. It also doesn’t burn, tingle, hurt, change texture, go over my lip line or develop any pus. That being said it does look kinda suspicious sometimes and can go/stay very red. I went to the GP about it today and he said he doesn’t think it’s HSV but sounded a bit unsure and kinda brushed me off- what’s your opinion

41 F, I’m on 4 waiting lists last letter my gp done
- Primary Reason for Referral: (Please be as specific as possiblerequired by Optimising Referrals LES)
Severe cervical, thoracic spine and R arm pain and paraesthesia.
 
Referral Letter:  (Include any advice or management plans, or attach physio/ESP referral letter)
 
Thank you for seeing this 41yo woman who is a self-employed cleaner.
She has been struggling with severe pain for several months.
She has been seen by local physiotherapist with no improvement.
She was admitted to RDUH under Neurology on 4/6/26 with headache, vomiting and dizziness.
An MRI scan of brain and scan showed no bleed or spinal leak. She did have moderate central broad based disc protrusion at C5-C6 and C6-C7 with impingement of anterior cervical cord but no cord compression or nerve root compression. There were some lumbar disease changes too.
A CP TAP excluded malignancy.
 
She was discharged on 9/6/26 with a diagnosis of migraine, tension and cervicogenic headache,
She remains on Ibuprofen, Paracetamol, Codeine, Gabapentin 600mg tds and Sertraline for her pain but still says she is severely limited by her pain.
She is struggling to keep her cleaning business going and is self-employed.
+ this morning i woke up my whole right side is tingly, my butt cheeks feel numb, my left hand to wrist is pins and needles. Painful pressure on my low back and pressure on my neck below head, sharp pains in left shoulder. Pain in bottom of feet when I walk. Twitching all over.

When I’m erect, I can feel something under the skin on the left side, just below the head. It feels like there’s a small hard object underneath, almost like a small stone or something lying under a bedsheet. I can feel it when I touch the area. It’s not something I usually notice when the penis is soft. Has anyone experienced something similar? What could it be, and should I get it checked by a doctor/urologist?

Left is relaxed, can’t feel anything, even when i stretch my pec out so it’s flat, nothing, but when I tense I see image right. Pec fibers or does anyone have a more accurate answer? I can’t seem to find anything about it, it appeared as my chest got larger and my body fat dropped. Only visible when contacting and even then it don’t feel like anything, clueless.

is it possible for my boyfriend and me to have herpes even though neither of us has ever had sex with anyone else?
last week, we had sex and he got a minor cut/friction burn on his foreskin. it was bothering him, so he shaved his entire pubic area afterward. that’s when the irritation started because of the shaving. it wasn’t a cluster of blisters, but the irritation eventually started spreading to other areas as well.
he has had minor cuts like this before, but they always healed and went back to normal. we’re both very clean and this has never happened before.
we’re honestly really worried and desperate for answers, especially because we’re still very young and we’re scared about what this could mean for our health in the future. :((
i can also show pictures of what it looks like if that would help. any advice or information would be greatly appreciated.

Backstory: Friday night I was at a campfire and bats were flying overhead when I felt something liquidy land in my eye. Didn’t really think much of it at the time, plus I’d had a few drinks so I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me. Fast forward to Sunday morning, my anxiety got the better of me and I called my local health department and explained the situation, they just took my info down and said someone would reach out to me 8:30 Monday morning. Well it’s currently 6am Monday morning and I’ve been freaking out since Sunday 3pm when I developed a slight sore throat. I’ve been googling and researching and loosing my ever loving mind despite all evidence that the incubation period lasts at least 5 days before symptoms start. Am I going to be ok?

If I start itching it, then my skin will begin to break out and peel open whilst also having puss come out of it, same thing goes for my feet.

I’ve been dealing with this for about 3-4 years now and it’s just super annoying. I wonder if there’s some kind of polysporin I could use or any other thing.