Describe your symptoms!

You've always got a snotty nose and scratchy eyes Liz? Are you mildly allergic to anything? Is your air-conditioning sub-standard?

Haha no RP, the irritability is constant. Which people who have met me know. The other stuff is a mild cold.

Erm, there's a question here isn't there? I had a headache today, and I have a sore inside my cheek next to my lower right gums that just showed up yesterday and is painful.

Um... a bit melancholy but that doesn't really count as a proper answer does it.

I'M A HOLOCAUST

Also, post-golf achiness in the torso.

was like this through my whole holiday. boo!

You poor souls.

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Marc Almond won't be drinking any semen for a while.

So I can go to the pub to watch the Champs League match tonight as long as I drink plenty of beer and pass out before 10:30?

I've got a giant spot on the bit they call the filtrum (above my lip, we had to google that one)

How can such a small thing be ruining my day so much? I just feel like shouting "Stop looking at my spot!"

i have a "dicky tummy" - it's been squirming and gurgling for a week. my girlfriend has it now, and her mom.

my nose and throat are warm and dry because its the morning and its getting cold and the night air is horrible.

HORRIBLE. you hear that Louie?

Sounds like you maybe need a dehumidifier to ease your sinuses of an evening? A cheaper option is to leave a bowl of water on a radiator in the bedroom, helps keep the air moist.

On a completely unrelated note, I have been waking up with pins & needles in my hands and arms for about a fortnight now.

I actually have TWO humidifiers, but my girlfriend has none. maybe I'll give her one.

No, I tend to sleep on my back. g00gling it produces Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, which is too scary for me to go to the doctor over.

name the symptoms you have been having

nose balm? is this what i think it is? moisturizer for the nose? i too have been wishing for it for years.

Can't people just admit there was a slight overreaction to a couple of her threads and make peace again? If possible, without yelling and calling each other stupid and stuff?

one of my hands is so dry. it is now bleeding slightly underneath the skin and forming little scabs. what the fuck is happening!! and why just one hand and not the other????

the joek makes itself

you mean one hand is being moisturised naturally and i should try and think of ways to let both hands get this moisturisation?

fllashing/blurring/jumping in my left eye?

get off the internet

went for a cuppa, sorted it ta

looking absolutely horrendous in photos and the mirror?

...get off the internet

Ever have just a regular head cold/sinusitis and for some reason have to take a leak every five minutes? I'm not consuming more fluids than usual, but I must have hit the head like 70 times yesterday.

Dear Dr ILX, I turned my ankle an hour ago and it's mostly stopped hurting and I can walk on it fine, but I just took my shoes off and it's a bit swollen. Is there anything I should be doing for it?

Just wondering cz 2 years ago I banged my knee and it was totes fine until the next day and suddenly it was the size of a basketball and I couldn't walk, so I am scared of minor leg injuries now

um, elevate it? Some ice maybe? I am not a doctor

I thought nothing of the oblong red patch on my chest for the past two weeks, until my step mother described the same patch on the back of my neck. Self diagnosis: ringworm.

So google indicates clotrimazole cream twice a day and launder my bedsheets daily. I may just get some big bandages for night time.

ugh, that doesn't sound like fun. Good luck.

number none otm

(thanks Number None and mookie! have propped it up on a footrest and put something cold against it. was considering an ibuprofen but it's not really painful and has gone down a lot since I took my shoes off so I don't think there's any need.)

I think the rule of thumb is cold packs early on until swelling goes down, then heat?

My sinusitis/pharyngitis is down to a dry unproductive hacking cough, which will hang around at least another week or two iirc.

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

^^ RICE = taught in first aid classes as SOP for such minor sprains

I've felt faint on several occasions in the last two weeks. It happened while I was driving once and I had to pull over. I guess lightheaded is more the right word. It's not constant and not every day more like a couple instances every couple days but enough so that it's freaking me out.

that's been happening to me recently too

probably global warming

Either that or we're both pregnant.

Actually I think mine is due to maybe not eating enough during the day. I'm going to try to start having a bigger breakfast.

I was gonna say maybe start with yr diet... it's happened to me on a couple of occasions in the past and tweaking my diet always helped

Why does my thumb hurt so goddamn bad?

thumb abuse

sore throat
nasal congestion
intermittent fever
little to no appetite

hurray, it's spring cold time

my lips are numb

i think it might be anxiety related

could that be anxiety related?

Not to freak you out, but I was just watching this video on cnn where a woman went numb and had er doctors tell her that it was anxiety-related, but turns out it was a stroke.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/06/17/dnt-woman-videotapes-her-stroke.cbc.html

okay, that will probably freak you out in spite of what I said.

are you fucking kidding me

lol sorry

No not freaked out at all! ;)

P glad I work in a hospital right now.

ps - i don't think I'm having a stroke.

well, the other thing there is that it could totally be anxiety, since that's what the doctors seemed to shrug it off as for the woman in the video. like, "oh yeah. face numb. anxiety. see it every day. prescription to chill out. nurse, call in the next patient."

bell's palsy?

i mean, is it droopy or just numb?

also my symptom is grittiness (a sensation of)

No, it's just tingly. I think I've been biting it tbh. I am p sure not a stroke though I did just go talk to myself in the mirror to check.

that's kind of unnerving, hope it turns out to be nothing

Tingling of the lips is pretty common, almost always OK.

If it goes all the way around the lips (crosses midline at least), that's reassuring. Can happen with hyperventilation, anxiety, and some metabolic disturbances (changes in electrolyte concentration in the blood, for instance).

Tingling on one side of the mouth/face can be a part of a migraine aura, and can also develop in people who are prone to migraines even in the absence of a headache (accompanying or following the sensory symptoms).

Sensory symptoms due to stroke are almost always on one side of the body. They're usually accompanied by motor dysfunction, and thus (in the face) slurred speech and/or a facial droop. In the CNN video, the woman has a left sided droop, dysarthria and a clumsy hand.

Migrainous sensory symptoms are sometimes associated with a subjective sense of difficulty doing something (feeling that hand movements are slow or weird, or that one has to concentrate to speak clearly) but the objective performance of the movement is usually normal, so people nearby usually don't notice anything amiss.

If you're worried, go to ER and get checked out. I see patient with facial numbness at a rate of 3+ per day in neurology clinic, they're almost all OK but I still get scans and make sure.

Update: I did not have a stroke.

Good to hear, I was wondering how you were doing.

:) Pretty sure it was just anxiety after all.

The skin on my palms is peeling. Am I turning into a snake?

varying degrees of double vision several times since Saturday, most pronounced Tuesday night. Getting eyes checked on saturday morning.

Beware of Grave's disease

achy right leg. i think it's varicose veins. at my age.

Given what we're talking about on the other thread Jon, might be due to fatigue/stress. Most people's eyes don't line up perfectly, they require a small amount of effort/energy to align (point at the same target). That tendency to disconjugacy is called a phoria, or heterophoria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterophoria) -- if it's constant/permanent, it's called a strabismus or tropia, and can produce a lazy eye in kids.

If you're really tired (also happens with sedative medications, alcohol, etc), your eyes can drift off alignment and produce transient double vision. That usually resolves at soon as the person is feeling better / brighter. Most everyone's had this experience at the point of passing out, you can even see cartoon characters' eyes drift off line when they get hit on the head, or when they're drunk, or tired etc.

There's a long list of more serious diseases that produce double vision, but most of them don't produce intermittent symptoms (myasthenia gravis is one of the few, Graves' symptoms are usually constant and part of a long list of other problems). It'd be a heck of a coincidence if you developed one of those (mostly rare) diseases at the same time as you've been coping with your very difficult family situation, so I'll bet your eyes are just tired.

i sort of thought that, but wanted to make sure. when i got back to NYC from Boston tuesday night it was bad enough that I couldn't get enough detail on people's faces on the subway to tell if it was someone I knew or not. If stress can bring it on, well I was certainly carrying enough stress to do so and still am, not to mention panic etc.

The other thing though is that I switched to progressive lenses earlier this year (lol old) and they have always felt a but weird for me so I want to get that looked at. So the trip to the glasses place is not amiss anyway.

Now I'm itching all over? Awesome.

Ugh, me too. I used to get this a lot, seemingly particularly in May/June and again somewhere between August and October so I thought maybe it was seasonal or heat/sweat-related or something, and then I didn't get it for a few years in my new place which I thought may be due to softer water, and now it's back.

Sort of wondering if it's a dust thing and it's just taken 4 years for my current place to be as filthy and dusty as I kept the old place (my bedroom is so horribly overdue for a good clean I won't even admit to it) but at this point I've been through so many imagined causes. Once it starts it seems to get set off by all sorts of things which I'm normally fine with so it's hard to work out the underlying cause.

Continually sneezing, feeling rundown and lacking energy.
Got to improve my diet for one thing, is lethargy a symptom. Though I guess i am keeping reasonably busy with trying to do pattern making.
Maybe I just need to get out into the sun before it disappears.

Jon, when I go through periods of severe insomnia i get double vision. It always disappears after a decent amount of sleep.

mysterious ache in the thigh/hip joint area, especially when walking.

Sciatica? Feeling this one a lot lately.

dunno... it feels like muscle pain. right at the front of my leg where it joins. i wonder if i'm sort of tensing the muscles in my sleep or something?

New shoes? Or old shoes that have finally lost some springiness?

lol my jaw's all numb. that's it. just a numb ol jaw. p sure it isn't a stroke so that's good. wish i knew why it was numb tho. i should get dental insurance.

i also gnash my teeth incessantly so that might be related. it's been really bad lately. i should get dental insurance.

i don't know where else to put this but hopefully some doctor types can comment? i realized last night that i've been accidentally taking 2x the amount of prilosec i've been prescribed for the past 3 weeks because i didn't realize the capsules doubles in mg. was prescribed 40mg so i've been taking 80mg. haaaaaa. is this a worrisome amount? i know some people are prescribed 80mg but i think it's based on weight? or they're prescribed that much for problems worse than gerd. idk.

i have many symptoms of many things but i always do because my body is a wasteland, not ready to assume anything is because of the prilosec

called the carefirst nurse line and they referred me to poison control lol, talked to probably the chillest medical field person i've met in years

What are you feeling now? Dicky tummy?

Prilosec prescribing information sez:

Reports have been received of overdosage with omeprazole in humans. Doses ranged up to 2400 mg (120 times the usual recommended clinical dose). Manifestations were variable, but included confusion, drowsiness, blurred vision, tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, diaphorsis, flushing, headach, dry mouth, and other adverse reactions similar to those seen in normal clinical experience. Symptoms wer transient, and no serious clinical outcome has been reported when PRILOSEC was taken alone.

Looks like you'll live.

Personally, I've never experienced heartburn, and hope that a very low fat diet prevents any future need. Fatty meals relax the lower esophageal sphincter, and there are populations with low-fat habitual diets that have a tenth of the incidence seen in the US, though arguably their lower obesity plays a big role. I became interested in the subject as PPI use kept coming up in research on intestinal dysbiosis.

yeah i'd read that but it only includes a max range and not a minimum

mainly i've had weirdly blurry vision all day which seems to be the main overdose symptom but it's probably just because i'm tired, i've been on 80mg for 3 weeks so it's weird for symptoms to pop up now

i know 80mg is literally prescribed to some people but my ENT said it's based on weight, figured i may be way out of my weight class

A 4” swollen area at the top of my shin, in the middle is 1.5” bruise or mark. The mark looked like a mosquito bite but the swelling came a day later, and now it doesn’t look like a bug bite at all, it just looks… weird. It’s sort of squarish in shape and has changed from red to purple. No red lines, no heat or redness in surrounding swollen area. No pain or tenderness in the area, just a slight tingle like an itch about to start. I got 3 or 4 other bug bites at the same. I thought it could be a staph-infected bug bite but the symptoms don’t match staph or cellulitis, and not spider bites either.

Maybe just a rash / allergy / inflammation, but purple is not a great color. I'd say monitor it and see if it subsides rapidly and no other symptoms appear. If not a bug bite, did you touch a plant ? In that case maybe cover it. Idk, use your gut instinct if you want it checked.

swollen knee, sore throat , cold I can't shake. A bit drained & sluggish.

In a bad mood about some pseudo liberal shit being done by somebody I already think is a complete idiot during Culture Night tonight

just1n3, I would get it checked for the staph anyway just to be sure. I had a bug bite get infected with staph and it went from a small mark to 4" across and dark evil purple in about 24-48 hours.

I think the swelling might have decreased but I’m gonna send a photo to my dr and see what she thinks

My dr was like 🤷‍♀️ and I got another one on my back. Something else has been biting me since then - I have about 10 on my shoulder, couple on my neck, 3 in my forehead and 3 on my finger plus a few other scattered ones. They itch for days. It’s only me - my husband is bite-free. It’s not bed bugs (we did a thorough inspection) but I don’t know what else it could be, I’ve never seen what’s biting me, I haven’t seen any bugs in general. It’s definitely happening in our house, not outside.

Tbh it’s starting to make me a little crazy.

The SoCal area has had a new kind of mosquito for a few years now, called Aedes, which are smaller than the regular ones and don't (I think) make the same sound, so it's hard to perceive them around you. I've been bitten inside my house, I guess they follow me in.

xpost is it worth seeing a dermatologist? they may have better luck identifying the cause

I booked an appointment with a derm but can’t get in till mid January so we got a pest control company come out and we don’t have bedbugs thank fucking god but we do have carpet beetles. They don’t bite but they have hairy little bodies that scrape against skin and can cause an allergic reaction that looks like a bite. No need to use the pest control company to treat the problem.

i feel fine but am constantly thirsty in the back of my mouth

so i pound water and/or selzer/pop/milk while it lasts

then i feel ugh bloated

now i am pissing literally every 45 minutes

GOTO 1

pls help but also don't tell me my kidneys are wrecked?

Would chewing gum lubricate your mouth?

Please get your blood sugar checked

^

agreed

feel better mookie!

uh oh

thank you!

Terrible headache, joint pain, dry eyes, exhausted, I assume it’s the flu. First time I’ve really been sick in years, this shit sucks.

ugh, that sucks... just knock yourself on theraflu or something

i went to hospital last month with the same symptom set you described, mookie. i was putting away nearly four litres of h2o a day. they checked my sugars and ketones but it was all fine. very confusing when you get diabetes-like symptoms but all your tests come up clean. the nurse asked if i'd thought about just... drinking less water? i try to only have two litres a day now, and it's better. i had recently quit caffeine, too. i dunno...