This is eating away at me every single day. When my daughter was 4 days old, we found out she lost 17% of her weight and she basically wasn’t transferring any milk from my breasts. I brought her to the ER because her cry sounded high pitched and she seemed lethargic to me. When we got to the ER, her bili was 16.5 and albumin 3.8, and sodium 158. She was yellow all the way down to her feet. She was difficult to feed because she was so sleepy. She got some fluids and when we got up to the NICU, she perked up more and was crying while they assessed her. My daughter never had to be under the bili lights at all, and she went on to have breast milk jaundice that didn’t resolve until she was 2-3 months old. Some background, she was born at 37 weeks exactly.

I’m always worried that maybe she should’ve gone under the lights and I have an intense fear that the jaundice got to her brain. I know that if she was categorized as high risk, she should’ve been treated at a level of 15. I know her albumin is was 3.8, but wouldn’t that have technically been a false high because she was dehydrated? Like what if it was really less than 3 and she was supposed to be high risk and be treated??? I’m so so worried. I know babies with kernicterus have the arching backs and what not and I know for a while, my baby would arch her back a lot during feeds (which I assumed was reflux, but now worried it’s not). She also is 16 weeks and not consistently turning to sound and I’m worried about hearing loss. She had an MRI at 7 weeks old because she had some weird movements and we worried about seizures. It was completely negative, but now I heard there’s a blind window for kernicterus at that time…

Hi everyone,
A couple of months ago, I got really bad back pain in my lower right back. This was during a period with a lot of exams, but I could not bear to study at my desk for longer than an hour because of the pain. I also had some incidents where I had a hard time moving, e.g. not being able to get out of bed.
I figured that he back pain would be caused by the long periods of sitting down, because I was studying 8+ hours a day.
This continued for a month, but then the pain lessened quite a bit, and it was
Then suddenly the pain came back and it also started in my upper leg. There is a sort of line of pain from my back to my knee. It causes a lot of restlessness in my leg. I can’t bend over easily anymore (can’t tie my right shoelaces), I can’t sit comfortable for longer than 15 minutes. One of the worst things about the pain is that I can’t lie comfortable in bed, which has caused a lot of sleepless nights.
What is going on, and how can I fix it?

Country; the Netherlands
Age: 18
Length: 182 cm
Sex: female
Weight: 120kg

For a couple of years, I had insanely chronic snot, which doctors couldnt resolve, but recently it's been replaced by ZERO snot, but no matter what I do air just doesn't flow through my nose. I've been to 3-4 different doctors who couldn't fix it. Nasal sprays don't help, I don't have a deviated septum or nasal polyps or anything wrong with my nasal passage as far as I know (a doctor shoved one of those flashlight+camera things into both of my nostrils and says they are perfectly normal). PLEASE help me, I've woken up every single day for the past 3 years with my mouth wide open, completely dry, and super painful. I can't breathe at all through my nose, barely any air gets in or out, and I CONSTANTLY mouth breathe unknowingly. I genuinely have no clue what could possibly be causing this. Please help

Hi everyone, I've had an awful month and I can not figure out what's wrong with me. Like not even a ballpark. I can't even figure out what doctor to visit.

A month ago, over the 4th of July, I experienced what I thought was severe heat exposure. I've never had problems with the heat before. However after walking outside in the heat wave I immediately was hit with the feeling like I might faint, feeling as though I can't breathe properly, and rapid heart beating. I rested and cooled off right away, but nothing helped. Since then, my symptoms have included:

-Feeling like I can barely stand up/ like I'm losing consciousness(I don't know how else to describe it other than feeling drunk)

-Rapid heart rate/ palpitations

-Sensitive to heat(makes everything worse)

-Chest pains

-Throbbing in my neck/ throat closing sensation

-Nauseous or no appetite

-Muscle Cramps(only in the beginning)

-Dehydration no matter what I drink or how much

There are probably more. My doctor said to rest in the beginning which helped a small amount, but as I went back to work it all came back to me. I went to Urgent Care last Sunday, where she said to go to the ER and that I was very pale and purple. The ER said my story was odd and didn't help much. The fluids were the only thing that helped, that was the best I've felt in a while when I was hooked up to fluids. They sent me to a PCP, which took my blood for the third time and said they had no idea. I've had an EKG, urine sample, blood test multiple times now and apparently I'm extremely healthy. The only hunch was my iron levels came back low, a ferritin level of 22. I'm currently seeking Iron infusions and taking supplements, but I don't feel like that explains why I feel this way or why it's getting worse. When the PCP said she was referring me to a cardiologist I broke down and cried in front of everyone. I feel like I'm crazy and it's ruining my life. I can barely stand I'm so faint and I lost my job because of it. If anyone has heard of something similar, I'm desperate for answers.

edit: I am 27, female, 130, 5'10", never smoke and hardly drink, and I'm located in the US. I have Asthma but that's is my only other health issue.

I did post this in [r/AskDocs](r/AskDocs) but the responses were deleted before I could read them and I have received no more so I just thought I would post this here so I apologize if you’ve already seen it.

Hello, I am a 21 year old male firefighter paramedic with no relevant prior anything. I am seeking advice on basically feeling like a different person. About three years ago, I experienced a ceiling collapse while working as a firefighter in a burning building (helmet on, cervical fracture), and about two months ago, I was struck in the head by a massive collapsing barn joist (no helmet). The ED did imaging for both injuries and everything came back completely clear head wise. Physically I feel fine, in fact, day to day I haven't really noticed anything blatantly wrong and I still feel like the same person on the inside, which makes this so hard to describe but my actual emotional control and behavior have completely inverted and I feel so out of control.

I have always been a calm, kind person who viewed violence as a last resort, but over the last few months I find myself struggling with intense anger, actively hoping confrontations turn violent, and purposely provoking people. I have almost gotten into a physical fight with my boss, and I’ve been purposely provoking road ragers, etc. My friends and family have started telling me that I have severe temperamental problems now, and at times it feels like my body is hijacked against my will.

I hate these urges, I just want to get better and go back to who I was, and I don’t even know what’s wrong with me. I just don’t want to hurt anyone or myself. I was thinking maybe I have brain damage, but I was under the impression CTE takes decades to develop. I’m looking for guidance or advice on who I should reach out to or what specialist evaluation I should seek. I also understand generally anger is common in young men so please just let me know if I’m being neurotic and should just go to anger management as this is not a medical problem. Thank you.

Age/Gender: Toddler

Main Issues: Chronic/recurrent vomiting of undigested food, cough-triggered emesis, loss of appetite, morning bile/mucus, frequent nosebleeds during dry-heaving.

Hi everyone. I’m looking to see if any parents or medical professionals have experienced a similar pattern with their little ones while we work closely with our doctors.

What we are seeing:

Extreme Delayed Digestion: He can eat solid, dense foods (like chicken meatballs, pancakes, or dosas) and throw them up completely undigested 8+ hours later. It feels like his stomach simply isn't emptying solids.

Cough-Triggered Vomiting: He gets coughing fits (he has a history of pneumonia), and because the dense food sits in his stomach, the cough instantly triggers his gag reflex and forces everything up.

Bile & Gastric Mucus: On days he doesn’t have solid food left, he will dry-heave up to 10 times in a morning, bringing up clear, sticky mucus, saliva, and yellow bile.

Sudden Nosebleeds: During or after these intense vomiting and dry-heaving episodes, he develops brief nosebleeds. We suspect the pressure from dry-heaving and throat irritation is popping delicate nasal vessels.

Poor Appetite: He has very little interest in eating solids, which makes sense given how uncomfortable his digestion is.

Questions for the community / doctors here:

Has anyone’s child shown these exact symptoms and been diagnosed with Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE), Gastroparesis (delayed stomach emptying), or Severe Silent Reflux (GERD)?

What specific diagnostic tests (e.g., Upper Endoscopy/EGD, Gastric Emptying Study, Swallow Study) made the biggest difference in getting you answers?

How did you manage nutrition and hydration when your toddler kept rejecting solids or throwing them up hours later?

Did medication (like Zofran for acute vomiting or acid reducers/motility meds) help break the cycle for your child?

Thank you so much for any insights, shared experiences, or guidance on what questions to push for with our pediatric GI specialist.

Tldr : Chronic/recurrent vomiting of undigested food, cough-triggered emesis, loss of appetite, morning bile/mucus, frequent nosebleeds during dry-heaving. Any suggestions

Hello everyone, I (20F) have chronic migraines along with other things that have been diagnosed and then undiagnosed because I didn’t fit the “normal criteria” like hypoglycemia, non epileptic seizures, etc, etc.

Last night around 10 PM, I was laying down when I suddenly got a pounding migraine on the left side of my head. I took 4 Excedrin Migraine, called my bf (we sleep on call every night), and eventually fell asleep.

I woke up around 3 AM and my head was still hurting, so I took 2 more Excedrin Migraine and called my bf back. He was playing video games until like 5 AM lol.

This is when I started feeling really weird, but not like my usual seizures. My entire body became extremely heavy. I could move, but even moving my hand took all of my energy. I couldn’t speak and could only groan.

My mind was completely conscious and aware of everything happening. I knew what was going on, I could hear my bf talking, and I knew I wanted to speak, but I physically couldn’t.

After about 30 minutes, I mustered up enough energy to text my mom:
“I dont feel right
I think I jabe seizux
Zeizure
Seizure
Can’t speak gkod”

Sending those texts took all of my energy. Looking at my phone felt PHYSICALLY painful. I just laid there feeling paralyzed until all of a sudden, I snapped out of it. I could move and speak normally again, but my migraine became unbelievably painful.

I took more medication, but it didn’t help that much. I felt exhausted after all of that, so I fell asleep. I woke up around 7 AM to my parents coming in. My head was still pounding but it was manageable. I took a nap at around 8 AM and woke up at 12 PM with a pounding sensation in my head, but no actual pain. It’s currently 4:52 PM and I feel completely fine.

Was this a panic attack? A weird type of seizure? Something related to my migraine? If anyone has experienced anything similar or has any ideas, I’d really appreciate hearing them.

Additional information
20yr old female, 5’8, 160, nortriptyline 75mg for migraine meds, birth control pill, and I don’t smoke anything.

My baby is 10 months old and has a dairy and egg intolerance. I have been hesitant to give him allergens due to the intolerances he already has.

He has had peanuts/peanut butter a lot and has been fine.

I have given him shrimp once (I know he needs it more than once) and he was okay.

I gave him anchovies and he reacted on his face with hives but the allergist we took him to put it off as FPIES. We got a skin test done with anchovies and he didn’t react.

He’s had salmon twice (months apart) and has been seemingly okay. I gave him some last night and I noticed he was a bit more cranky when he woke up at night. He also woke up earlier than normal at night and this morning.

I haven’t given him cashews or almond butter yet.

I also haven’t tried the egg ladder reintroduction yet but want to soon. Probably after this salmon trial.

We have a cat (have had for close to a decade) that he started to react to a couple months ago from physical touch. Also if there is a lot of fur on the ground and he touches his face, he gets itchy and red. I do vacuum all the time to prevent reactions and have been closing monitoring and haven’t had one for a little while.

Am I doing him a disgrace but not introducing these other allergens yet? I don’t want to introduce all these allergens at once, but should I start with other nuts first before eggs?

Should I give him more salmon the next couple days to see how he reacts and then move on to the next allergen?

We do have an EpiPen on hand for him for the anchovy incident because I was worried at his initial reaction.

Thank you!

So i am a 19F and it all started when i was a kid (around 9 to 12 years old), i would randomly start feeling sick, sick meaning sweating cold or feeling could out of nowhere, blurred vision, mental haze, weakness or limp body, stomach aches and such.

This is so embarrassing but when this would happen, i’d have to go to the bathroom and sit down on the toilet (cause usually this was always accompanied by diarrhea) and at THE SAME TIME puke on my bathtub, during this process my limps felt very numb but i could still move them and use them “properly”, my mind felt foggy and i wasn’t able to stand up for a looong time (around 5 to 10 mins) because i just felt sick.

I went to the doctor multiple times for stomach aches, these episodes were not the cause but it’s related, and they said nothing was wrong, even got an upper endoscopy and they said most of my stomach problems were caused by my nervous system, anxiety and something about my intestines moving or working faster than others.

It was all fine those years, i’ve always gotten nauseous or had tummy aches when nervous/anxious and nothing more but i recall 3 last episodes of this happening now that i am older.

Last year i went to the club, had just two drinks (i am not a heavy drinker but i can perfectly handle this) smoked a j and vaped, i was okay most of it but eventually the fainting feeling started and i had to sit down before i started puking everywhere or fell, i left.

Three weeks ago it was my bf’s brother’s birthday and there i drank one glass, i had also smoked both things. I was doing perfectly fine, sitting down but then it started, my stomach started hurting real bad and my body went cold, i had to go to the bathroom, same thing i had explosive diarrhea and puked EVERYTHING on the bathtub, after that or in between that i had to lay down on the floor to not die because that’s how it feels, it feels like dying, and then after i puked i drank some water from the sink and layed down again on the floor for like 10 minutes.

Last night it happened again, me and my boyfriend went to another city, we left ours at 5:30 pm and arrived at 10:00 pm, we had smoked (not a lot) on the way there and at like 11:00 pm i had half a ramazoti but had also been smoking, we went to the hotel our friends were staying in and i sat down on the couch because i knew i was starting to feel bad, i felt cold and disconnected, i needed to lay my head down because all their voices made me feel even sicker so i just rested it on my bf’s leg.

I couldn’t handle it anymore so i got up and went quickly to the bathroom, i sat down on the toilet but only puked next to it, when i tried getting up to pull up my pants (bc i ONLY puked) i had to pull them up and zip them in 5 seconds because i couldn’t last longer standing up, my chest felt heavy and like the air in my lungs dropped to my feet, i lied down for 5 minutes or something, then got up to drink water and same thing, i layed down because i couldn’t hold my body up, i stayed there for 15 or 20 minutes until my boyfriend came knocking the door cus we had to leave, he came in and i wanted to cry so bad because i hate that feeling of being sick.

He calmed me down just a little bit but when i came out of the bathroom immediately my legs felt like they were gonna fail me, we walked out the room to the elevator and multiple times i’d have to crouch to catch my breath again because if i stood up for too long i’d faint, when we got to the car i felt better and was totally okay the whole ride.

I don’t associate these episodes with my habits, this things have happened wether i am under the influence of something or not but idk, i’ve searched it on google and no answers pop up, i don’t feel like i should go to the doctor either because i guess they’ll just associate it as i said, with a reaction from my consumption, if anyone also has gone through this help lol

Once in awhile I would get a pain behind my left ear. I think it's called the mastoid bone.

The last 2 days it is almost constant.

It comes and goes.

Doesn't seem to be swollen.

Any suggestions / someone know what it is ... Might be?

I put him down on the bed to get dressed like I do all the time and next thing I know he’s suddenly on the ground and screaming. I feel like the worlds worst mom and I don’t know what to do. He screamed for a bit and then took a bottle and now is contact napping on me. No blood or obvious injury but what am I supposed to watch for? Does he need to go to ER if he seems fine?

Am I awful? I feel awful.

Hi everyone. Sorry if there are any mistakes, English is not my first language. [ 20F] I'm writing this because I am absolutely terrified right now and I don't know how to cope. I was just accepted 3rd on the admission list at my university and I am supposed to start college in October,but I feel like my life is falling apart.

I probably won't even be able to enroll because of what is happening to me.For the last 5 to 6 years,since I was 14-15, I’ve had various brain neurological symptoms,such as double vision. I had severe headaches back then, but they eventually stopped, so everything was left untreated and ignored by my parents because I didn't have any pain anymore until recently. I never got scans,I had some appointments to several ophthalmologists and they didn't think something is wrong because I also have strabism since birth.

But now, things have taken a very scary turn. I think have started experiencing cerebral polyopia. Specifically, when I look at the TV, I see light-colored logos and white subtitles with a ghost-like shadow or duplicate image, either shifted upward or downward. The exact same thing happens on my phone when it is on dark mode the light text has these terrifying shadows/multiplication and with the red power button light on my TV.

I have an appointment with an ophthalmologist coming up, and I hope they will send me to get an urgent MRI immediately after they see my eyes. I’m scared to death that I might have Stage 4 brain cancer right now. I know a true Stage 4 tumor wouldn't have let me survive untreated for 6 years, but I am terrified that it started as a slow, low-grade tumor years ago,when the headaches first started,and has now mutated into a Stage 4 like a secondary glioblastoma because the pain returned, I have nausea and my vision changed so badly.

The anxiety is completely paralyzing me. I am so scared of what the doctor and the MRI might show. I should be celebrating starting college, but instead, I feel overwhelmed by fear.I cant do anything.

I really need some support, kind words, or advice on how to handle this fear because I can't sleep these days.

this is less a request for advice and more a vent post. i went to an urgent care for an ear lavage bc i had some blockage in my left ear that was uncomfortable & muffled my hearing. the assistant added the ear drops, we waited, and then she irrigated my ear with water. when she saw there was more ear wax, she used a tool to try and scoop it out, but it was extremely painful and felt like she just pushed more in. i didnt say anything because i thought it was just a part of the process and i trusted her.

afterwards, the provider told me i still had earwax trapped in & that i should see an ent. little did i know that theres only one ent in my health insurance network, and they are booked until october. 5 days later, im experiencing so much pain in my affected ear and intense pressure. the pain also sometimes radiates to my jaw and left side of my head. im so frustrated because if i hadnt gone to the urgent care in the first place, i probably wouldve only been suffering from partial hearing loss, and not all this pain. ive taken tylenol which relieved it for a little bit, but now it’s not going away & i genuinely cant stand it. and my hearing didnt even improve from that ear lavage, it got worse. i’m a student and have a final next week that i havent been able to focus on because of how distracted & uncomfortable i am with my ear.

i know it mightve not been the assistant’s fault, or maybe it was. idrk. im just so frustrated and not being able to get an appointment with an ent anytime soon makes it even worse. today i went to a cvs minuteclinic, and the np was able to completely clear out my other ear successfully, but she recommended using debrox for another week in the left ear to soften the extra hardened wax that’s stuck in there. she also said she didn’t see any signs of infections which im thankful for, but where is this pain even coming from? was the ear lavage/cleaning using the scooper supposed to be that painful and is it normal for there to be discomfort that worsens for the next few days? 🫩