r/DoctorsAdvice

age:17

height:169

weight:65.5

never smoked never drank

I couldn't feel my hands ,groin ,abs ,everything in my body was numb,and contracting......they all got stuck in a postion ....my thumb and hands were in single postion i couldn't move them or change it

I was having minor fever and extreme body pain....I got some medicine from a local clinic and for some time it got okay but today my condition worsened suddenly......I had paralysis it think,

doc did some test and said I got extreme low calcium 4.9 SMTH

I am currently in hospital and admitted..... I don't wanna stay here tbh i told em to discharge me ...they said they can but I would be on my risk

what should I doo??? I can go home right? please tell me fast

Title basically. Whenever I go to the doctor I answer zero on all questions for the anxiety and depression questionnaire and always say I am not suicidal.

I feel fearful of telling them because in childhood I told them about my suicidal ideations and my parents committed me to a mental hospital. Now I have a very deep mistrust of doctors, therapists, and psychiatrists.

I am very depressed and I will kill myself in 3 years on a predetermined day. My anxiety grows as this date gets closer. I really need help. But I can’t talk to anyone.

Hi! I'm a 28 year old female, active and live a healthy lifestyle, but for the past 5 years, I've dealt with bouts of fatigue and brain fog that are slowly getting worse until just the past year I'm realizing this is starting to affect my job and social life. It's like most of the time I'm fine, but some days I will wake up feeling horrible like my body has been sucked dry of any energy. I work remote and even sitting at my desk on those days feels impossible, and then I will get almost immediate relief if I lay down.

I also feel a lot of chest discomfort and intense brain fog. The brain fog is like I'm looking through a foggy window and don't feel aware at all of what's going on. I also often black out when I stand up where I don't pass out but my vision goes black and have a ringing in my ears and heart feels to me like it's beating rapidly. I have passed out twice when I was a teenager and another time when I got my blood drawn, but I haven't passed out in the past probably ten years.

Because of that, I thought that maybe this is POTS, so I went down that rabbit hole and met with a cardiologist. He ordered an EKG, heart monitor, and stress test, and they all apparently came back normal with no indications of POTS and they also did a quick testing of my heart rate and blood pressure in office laying down and then sitting and standing, and that didn't reach the criteria for POTS. However, while all of that was happening, he told me to increase my liquids, electrolytes, and use compression socks, and those have really taken the edge off most of the symptoms, but not really enough to make a huge difference. When I mentioned the brain fog again with the cardio follow up, he said I may need to see a neurologist so I guess that might be my next step.

Also last thing, I will say that I first really noticed these symptoms about five years ago, but the more I thought about it, I realized I used to have spells as a kid where I felt like I was dreaming or didn't quite know what was going on, which I would now say was the brain fog feeling, but you don't really have the vocab to explain that as a kid.

I'm tired of not getting any answers and all my tests coming back normal, so if anyone has any insight or suggestion of a type of doctor I should see next or supplements to try, I would greatly appreciate it.

Current diagnoses for other issues are PCOS, mildly low blood sugar (not enough to be dangerous, but I've used a dexcom to learn the signs and adjust my diet), seasonal allergies, acid reflux. So my only medications currently are zyrtec for the allergies and pantroprazole for the reflux. The cardiologist did give me a prescription for Midodrine, so I will be starting that soon.

TL;DR: I'm suffering from chronic brain fog and fatigue and all my doctors say my tests are coming back normal, so curious if anyone has suggestions??

Edit: for missing info, I'm in the US, caucasion, 5'9, 160 lbs, diagnosed already with PCOS and reflux, taking pantoprazole 40mg and zyrtec for allergies, no drug use, don't smoke.

I (30F) get my first iud next week. Doc prescribed Valium and something to help dilate my cervix. I have some ketoralac and oxy left over from a kidney surgery.

I know you can take a Valium and ketoralac together but the oxy id have to take by itself. I have a pretty decent pain tolerance never any issues during paps, so should I take the Valium by itself, the Valium and ketoralac, or just the oxy to prep? Any suggestions or experiences would be helpful.

To add, I’ve never taken a Valium so I have no idea how it’s going to affect me.

Hi, I dont really care for miss spelling but whatever,
I’m 16 F, I’m currently laying in bed crying from the pain and it’s 4:19 am.
I really hope this is a period thing.
I’m the middle girl and I’ve mever really asked for much, my older sister 19F and younger 9f have always been the scary ones that run to my parents in a thundering night or when having a bad dream or when sick.
I’ve always proudly of myself never really asked for this things and they’ve appreciated that to a large extent, what’s it gonna do? They gonna magically let it go away? Plus it makes me feel bad when they wake up because they’re both busy in the morning.

Anyways, randomly yesterday I think around 5 pm I was laying down, before hand I walked around my house multiple times because I like it with music too. So I was just laying down in my bed scrolling TikTok and I had a what I think is a bad cramp, it started in my lower belly I think or lower, I thought it was just a sign of my period coming soon and I tried to wait it out,
3 hours later it hurts so bad that I can’t even get up to get dinner, I had texted my mom while she was making it that I was hurting but she was kinda annoyed so I stopped that, I really felt like I had to use the bathroom so I had to slowly get myself up and kinda limp, but as soon as I sat on it another cramp just fricking hits me, at this point it hurts so bad, and I had left my phone in my bed so I start yelling for my younger sister instead, she gets me the pain relievers and a cup of water and I thank her.
Btw yelling hurt too, so I’m in the bathroom and for some stupid reason I can’t go, at all, even releasing gas was long and painful, so I wait until I pee just a little, then I go back to my bed.
Then my mom got concerned when another hour in I’m still in bed and I text her that I can’t join dinner because I was in so much pain, she made my favorite (noodles) she goes to my room and I ask for more pills which she says no because I already took 2 so soon, (it felt like they didn’t work)
So she goes get me a heating pad and lets me use it then leaves, it kinda works a little but more sharp when and keep going in.
My dad comes home and asks me if I’m alright and I say no, he says if sucks but tried to make a gay joke, it was lowkey kinda funny and I laugh but I keep trying to stop because that also hurt.
I’m left alone with my mom coming back to take the heating thing to charge it then coming back and giving it to me.
4 hours later my mom tells me to get up and eat something and the pain monetarily went down so I go downstairs slowly, I eat down cereal because some reason the noodles felt like way too much.
Then everyone is going to bed, I lay down, hoping to sleep the pain away, I can’t sleep so I just play on my phone for awhile then put it down to hope to sleep it off.
I’m twisting in turning in pain because everything is painful, it feels horrible, any movement hurts but eventually I fall asleep only to wake up again now 2 hours later because it hurts so bad.
Now I’m freaking crying and I don’t know what to do.

Help me, can I just take some medication? Do I keep trying to sleep it off? My dad has work at 5:10 should I wait? Please I don’t know what to do

Update, I think?: it’s now 5:20
For a little I just layed in my bed, kinda half yelling for help, nothing happened.
I renelented and did it, had to put my shorts standing uop extremely slowly for like 2 minutes and limped holding the rail to my parents room, my dad was in the garage smoking before having to get ready so I went to my mom and I woke her up telling her.
So anywho, she told me to drink more pills and I tried to tell her about the pain but she went back to sleep, so I limped back to my bathroom and took two more pain relievers and while there my dad come up and asked me if I was alright and I said No and he just told me to take more pills while I was taking pills.
wtf do I do, I guess I’m gonna try to fall asleep and hopefully it calms down despite the large pain

Update 2:
My mom got up after like another hour and went to me asking more questions, she was kinda upset at me why I don’t go sooner 💀
Anywho she’s researching with my dad and told me to try to sleep it off and if it doesn’t go away she’ll call my dad to take me to the ER she said though I really doubt it

Update 3: we went, it’s a UTI, thankfully we caught it. I had thought it was just a really bad period.

Here some things:
An untreated UTI can progress from a simple bladder infection to a fatal systemic condition in anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, but once bacteria reach the bloodstream, death can occur in as little as 12 to 24 hours.

It took 19 hours to get me there, had to pee in a cup which took so long because I couldn’t.

Their gonna me antibiotics for 5 days and run more tests. For anyone who might think you got it here are some syndromes:
Severe lower stomach/cramping
Pain lasting many hours without stopping
Pain so bad you were crying
Pain with movement/walking
Limping because of pain
Laughing/yelling hurting
Trouble using the bathroom
Trouble passing gas
Only peeing a little
Heating pad only helping slightly
Pain medicine not helping much
Couldn’t sleep because of pain
Woke back up from sleep because pain was so severe
Twisting/turning from pain
Eating felt difficult
Pain coming in sharp waves/cramps

Do not wait for it to get worse yall it could kill you.
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My mom acknowledged it was wrong for her to shoo me off in the morning and said that normally I don’t have much going on so she hadn’t thought it was a big deal because I’m always alright and take care of myself.
My dad was a little upset that he had to take time off work not gonna lie but then again his not the most emotional person as a veteran, but I still felt bad.
I do admit I have shame asking for things because I’m embarrassed or I hate asking for things.

There goes my record of like 6 or 7 years (lol 6 7)
Without having to go to any type of hospital L.

Thank u guys so much so urging me to go to my parents, I didn’t know it could be deadly and I was just gonna wait it out, I try to update if something else happens but I doubt it, thank u guys 🔥🔥🫶🫶🫶

I am a 32-year-old male, 6 feet 4 inches tall, at 246 pounds. I am very active in martial arts, running, walking, and weightlifting, albeit still obviously overweight. My resting heart rate is generally around 55–65 bpm. My blood pressure could be improved; it’s often at 136/77-ish, give or take a few points in each direction for both. I don’t eat fast food; I eat fairly clean and get okay sleep. No health conditions except exercise-induced asthma that has been extremely mild.

Saturday I decided to do some intense cardiovascular fitness training as I am training for a fitness test for a new career. I was doing the 1.5-mile test. I ran at a great pace, and a few times I hit my max heart rate (with the 220-age method). I had sustained at least 13:55 minutes of intense exercise. After the run I felt fantastic! I pushed myself; I got a good baseline and felt good.

20 minutes later, I’m coughing a lot, phlegm in my throat, my throat and chest get tight. I can’t breathe; my pulse, which had dropped to 100, was bouncing between 160 and 135 at rest. I begin true hyperventilation and a panic attack ensues. Tingly lips, tight jaw, felt like I couldn’t breathe and was going to faint. I called 911 and they came and took me to the hospital. My vitals are good; my pulse hung out around 110 for about an hour. Oxygen throughout the whole time was 99–100%. EKG was clean except a possible right bundle branch block incidental finding. Lung X-ray is clean.

Doctor does comprehensive blood work; I was slightly dehydrated; otherwise things look good. Gives me a breathing treatment with albuterol nebulizer. In 5 minutes my throat and chest relax, no longer feeling like I can’t breathe. Heart rate comes down to 70 in about 3 hours. Then hangs around 65–70 rest of night.

Troponin levels: 10 ng/L, then 2 hours later 27 ng/L, then 6 hours after incident 36 ng/L. Threshold for concern according to doctor is 45 ng/L. Doctor sends me home. He did note there was slight wheezing at the end of my breath before I left, even after nebulizer treatment.

I did continue to have panic attacks off and on the next few days, lessening as time went on. Today (4 days later) I finally feel normal, likely due to the adrenaline and just sheer terror of the event wearing off. I do have a history of panic following my second COVID vaccination (not anti-vaccine), but it’s just observed with my doctors. I never had a panic attack in my life beforehand, still mostly glad I got vaccinated. The response was within a day from my second shot several years ago.

Hopefully that’s enough background for my question.

Why do you think my ER doc said it was fine to go home even though my troponin levels were increasing? I know the delta between the first and second test was 17, and the delta between the second and third was only 9, which would indicate a decrease in change. But how do we know in 24 hours it’s not really high or a concerning level? He said that he believed it was an exercise-induced asthma attack mixed with a panic attack. I agree. I’m not a doctor, just a medical physicist haha, so I don’t know much outside of radiation testing. I have been seen by my PCP yesterday who said my heart sounded perfect, no irregularity or murmurs or anything. My lungs sound good except a slight wheeze at the end of a big exhale; otherwise clean bill of health. He also said it sounds like exercise-induced asthma or maybe I am developing mild asthma later in life. He cleared me for exercise but advised me to keep inhaler on hand for the time being. How do you interpret this event? I tend to agree with them, just logically, but I’m trying to figure out the troponin logic. I will admit I am a little nervouse to exercise! Would love some insight! Thank you!

This is my first post on reddit, never thought I'd be posting here but I figured I needed some advice and support that I'm not finding otherwise right now. Apologies for any mistakes I make.

I am 24(F), 5"8, roughly 126 pounds, based in the UK. I don't smoke or drink, and my blood tests came back completely clear.

I was diagnosed with labyrinthitis about a month ago and am currently five and a half weeks in with no improvement. Medications (prochlorperzanine, betahistine, and cyclizine) have done nothing to manage symptoms and have only made me feel worse so I stopped taking them. Only other medications are ibuprofen and paracetamol, taken once or twice daily at the moment. My GP is either unable or unwilling to help me further, and the wait list to see ENT is a year long, or £200 for a private initial consultation. I was told that I should start to feel better on my own, but I feel that I'm being let down by the system, and I don't know what to do.

My symptoms are ear ache in both ears, though nothing could be seen in either of them and I have no discharge, minor headaches, dizziness/vertigo like I'm on a boat, and awful fatigue. Honestly the fatigue makes it impossible for me to go for a short walk without needing a nap afterwards. I have tried to return to normal tasks where I can but even doing the dishes or the laundry can make me feel so much worse and need to rest for the remainder of the day. Nausea and lack of appetite have been symptoms, and they were really bad for about a week, but haven't been bothering me nearly as bad as of late. Overexertion feels like a tight headache, lightheadedness, dizziness, and heat coming out of my ears, which fade into a bone deep fatigue that makes it so hard to function. The ear ache has gotten worse since this all started, but varies in severity - sometimes I don't feel it at all, sometimes it's sharp and comes with a feeling of fullness in the ears.

I'm not entirely sure how I got it, as I don't think I had a cold or anything before hand. I did, however, definitely overwork myself beforehand, as my part time job was rolling onto the new rota so the day I would previously have off I was now working, and my apprenticeship split my singular work day into two half days, which culminated in 8 days straight of work. Since it would have a decent number of half days I figured I would be able to handle it, but the second half of the week really got to me as it was 3 back to back 8 hour shifts (I work at a hostel). I made it about an hour into the 7th day before feeling very lightheaded and told to go home. Recovered after taking the rest of the day and the day after off, felt back to normal, and then the same exact thing happened the next week. Worked Sunday and Monday just fine, but an hour into Tuesday and I needed to go home again, lightheaded and just feeling that something was wrong. Again, I recovered after a couple days, even went into my apprenticeship the next two days and felt mostly fine, but come that Saturday I felt as I do now: dizzy, headache, bone deep fatigue. Five and a half weeks later and I haven't been able to go into work, I can't drive or get my own groceries, and struggle to do more than step out into my back yard to get some fresh air most days.

I guess I would just like some advice on what further actions I should be taking. My GP is only willing to prescribe medications to ease symptoms, none of which have worked for me, and otherwise seem happy to wash their hands of me. I know that steroids can be considered but it's not something that any of my doctors have brought up - they seem happy to leave any further treatment to ENT, even though it leaves me high and dry for a year. Should I go ahead with the private consultation? I can afford to do so, I just worry that they'll tell me what every other doctor has, that it'll go away on its own and I just have to be patient.

I'm tired of being patient. I'm so sick of not being able to do anything for myself. I miss living my life. I have birthday plans in the next three weeks that I'm trying to figure out how to tell my friends that I won't be able to go unless I feel better. I hate that wait lists are so long and that none of the health professionals I've spoken to have been able to actually help me. I'm so scared this is just going to be my life for the foreseeable future. Everyone keeps assuring me I'll be better before I know it, I still have weeks before my birthday, but I know that I won't be better by then. I can just feel it.

I'm sorry if this was quite rambly. Thank you in advance for any advice, I'm happy to give any more info as needed.

How long is too long to wait to be seen for a scheduled appointment? The last 10x I’ve gone in to visit my PC doctor, I’ve had to wait at least 45 minutes just to be seen for maybe a 20 minute appointment. While I understand people being squeezed in to address pressing matters like bronchitis and stuff, this seems excessive. I always feel like a problem going out to ask the nurses when I’ll be seen at the 45 minute mark, but I work full-time, have a family, and this really isn’t fair to me or my schedule either.

Idk. I don’t want to be a jerk about this and I’d like to confirm I’d be doing the right thing by leaving. I appreciate any and all input on this.

Sorry for my bad english and lack of knowledge on the correct terminology!

I'm an adult female, in my 20's and I was born with a heart condition called Atrial septal defect, where the septal (?) was missing almost completely. It was fixed with a surgery when I was 10 years old. I have to get yearly check ups where they use the ultrasound machine on me.

Something I'm curious about is why do they use the machine also on my abdomen area and lower stomach? It always feels uncomfortable, and I wonder why do they have to do it? Can they actually see the heart from that point of view? Does it just give them a different angle?

Context I am 24f 5’7 and weigh 107 I do vape only medication I am on is Zoloft for postpartum depression. I had a bad fall on concrete on the 13th of may . I thought I had just hurt my knee I had no other pain. About 4 days later my legs were numb and tingly (not worried because that happens off and on). 2 days after the numbness I started having lower back pain near tailbone worse while laying down still just thought whatever. A day after that my shoulder blades started hurting to the point where I couldn’t get comfortable to sleep, I tried popping my back in every way nothing helped. The day after that I was now having sharp pain in lower abdomen coming in waves and it was bringing me to my knees so I called an ambulance. Well they told me my vitals were normal so if it was them they’d take Tylenol and not waste the trip. So I did and the pain from my abdomen subsided but the pain everywhere else stayed. The last day the pain in my back and shoulder blades was getting much worse and so I got in the hot shower (to which immediately everything from my shoulder blades down went numb and I was now having numbness in chest and pain in my rib cage. So I decide to go to the hospital. I tell them all of this. They order an xray and are coming in and out asking me all kinds of questions (also I am a sahm with an 8 month old 30lb Velcro baby who’s teething and my son is with me in the hospital) so I’m struggling and in pain the whole time. Doctor comes in and tells me nothing on the xray looks broken and that he thinks it’s just bruising from the fall but wants me to follow up with orthopedic surgeon just incase. So I leave and decide to go look on the visit notes and he wrote I came in for a knee injury and I stated there was no numbness or weakness present and no other injury was stated. And that I stated there was no numbness to touch on my back. Since the visit the numbness has gotten worse and now spread to my butt and the shoulder pain is debilitating but I am now feeling like I’m just overthinking what’s wrong because everyone keeps dismissing me yet I can’t even hold my son for more then a minute and I’m getting worse. Does this sound like a nerve issue or is there anything non serious it sounds like ?

I tested negative for a yeast infection for over 6 months, yet my doctor keeps claiming it’s a chronic yeast infection. I’ve taken yeast infection medications more than six times, as well as used boric acid, but the symptoms keep coming back.

Right now, I don’t have any abnormal discharge — only itching and burning.

She hasn’t explained why she still believes it’s a chronic yeast infection even though I’ve tested negative for over 6 months, including being tested more than three times and having a wet mount test.

Should I look for a second opinion or see another urogynecologist?

So as a trans person I obviously don’t align with the gender I was assigned at birth. I was born female and because of this I of course have the female anatomy.

I’m from Victoria, Australia and I was wondering if anybody knows how I can successfully get a full hysterectomy here without any issues or complaints. I’ve never wanted kids, never have never will, Im also a lesbian so it’s not like I have a male partner that wants kids (would break up even if he did)
I hate getting a period and the continuous crap that comes along with a menstrual cycle, it brings me nothing but annoyance and anxiety and makes me extremely dysmorphic, so I don’t think it’s an unfair decision to want my entire uterus gone.
And side note, I should be allowed to get a hysterectomy just because I want one, I shouldn’t have to justify my decision.

So my question is, does anybody know any Victorian based doctors/surgeons that would do a hysterectomy on me, no questions asked?

I (19f) have been experiencing lightheadedness, nausea, loss of appetite, migraine, and a “screenshot” like feeling for the past 2 weeks and it has only gotten worse recently (around 5 days ago) I weigh around 150 pounds and I’m 5’2. I have ADHD, OCD, and MDD and was heavily medicated for it until a month ago in which I was hospitalized and told to relax from my medication for a bit.

I haven’t taken any of my meds since and I felt fine the first 2-3 weeks, but then started slowing having the symptoms I mentioned earlier in this post. It also doesn’t help that I tend to have pretty rough panic attacks and freeze up a lot. My family has a pretty complex medical history as their immigrants and had most (if not all) of their medical problems show after they moved to America. I myself have a pretty expansive medical history but recently (like past 3 years) have been told by almost every doctor I’ve been to that I’m fine and just chalk up all my problems to “just anxiety” It also doesn’t help that I tend to have rough periods too, that my previous medication would help me with. And now with these new symptoms, I’m sacred to go back to the doctor, as I feel like they will just check me and say that I’m “too young” or “just anxious” and then I’ll get nothing out of it and I’ll just have to suffer until I either get treatment or wait for everything to go away (which it never really does)

I’m only making a post on here as I’ve heard my symptoms could lead to worse things if not treated, but I wanna make sure this is something worth going to the doctor and not “just anxiety” I’ll list the meds I used to take now and I’ll mention one more thing.

My mom and aunt both have Lupus. My aunt has two kids and while my male cousin is fine, my female cousin has tested positive for the lupus gene, but not the disease. I also got tested this year and I’m finally old enough and got the same results as her. Although I’m in the process of getting tested and checked again as I do show symptoms, but my mom’s lupus doctor denied me having it has my lymph nodes weren’t swollen.

Meds I took before stopping:
• Fluoxetine hydroxide 60mg
• Buproban 150mg

Vitamins
• Omega-3 1000mg
• L-METHYL-MC
• Nature Made Vitamin D3 50mcg

Thank you to anyone who reads this and responds, I really appreciate it