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name the symptoms you have been having

I have been experiencing nausea every time I eat for weeks, and I've been having a slight sore throat/cold-type symptoms for about a week now. Yesterday I noticed some painful, marble-like swelling under my jaw, kind of on my neck under my chin. My kidneys hurt. Less mind-numbingly: dizziness, depression, lethargy, sinus pain, headaches.

I have no insurance. Should I go to the ER?!

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

(not pregnant, by the way.)

(unless I am pregnant with aliens in my throat.)

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

The worst thing is definitely the marbles on the neck bit. They aren't visible (YET), but they are feelable. They hurt like an MF.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

my symptoms

http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/fpl/grossology/nose.jpg

JAXON (jaxon), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the worst, isn't it? Luckily I haven't been having a real runny nose.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

God, what symptoms haven't I had? I know I shouldn't look on the internet, but I google for the symptoms every single time. *sigh*

I think going for a checkup is always wise. If you don't have anything, you're healthy. GREAT! If you do have something, they can cure you. GREAT!

nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

And everytime Nath reads something she thinks she has it!

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

sounds like swollen glands. maybe that's obvious. paired with all the other symptoms, i'd definitely see someone. do you have any low income/free clinics in your area? sometimes doctors will reduce their price for patients w/o insurance. the ER might be really spendy, i'd search around a little & hit the ER if things get worse.

kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

But, no insurance since I went part time :(

I can't afford to go to the doc right now, unless I feel like it's life or death.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

that was an xpost

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

It's nice, you know, that I was never sick for the 5 years I had full insurance, and then BAM! All this shit right after I go to part-time.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, you should get yourself looked at. Is there a free clinic or some place where you can go that costs less than an ER? If this has been going n for awhile, you may be able to wait another day, but you ought to find someone who can take a look.

when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

And everytime Nath reads something she thinks she has it!

hahah! You're actually right.

I've had swollen glands before. I went for a check-up and it appeared to be a virus.

nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

God, I hope I don't give it to anyboy!

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

ANYBODY

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a sore neck actually. Woke up with it this morning. But I dont want Dr Nathalie's advice.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

That reminds me of Three Men in a Boat: Jerome K. Jerome goes to the British Library (I think?) to look up some of his symptoms and leaves thinking he has everything but handmaid's knee, and feels slighted for not having that.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Ok, new one: I now have a marble on the left middle of my neck, too. This is getting ridiculous.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe if I lance them they will burst.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Ok, the one on the left is visible when I lean my head to the right. EW!

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a gig tonight and a speech on Whirling Dervishes on Monday! How will I demonstrate the whirl with massive, putrid growths all over my neck?

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Get this Ron jeremy impersonator to do it for you, em.

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/542/whirling-dervish.jpg

My symptoms:

Dizziness, giddiness, logorrhea, temulence, constant erection.

M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't see that and I'm glad.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

It's just a colorful Egyptian dervish.

M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

My throat is closing up by the minute!

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link

jeez roxy, go to the emergency room! worry about paying for it later.

renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously. stop posting on ILE. get thee to a doctor.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't afford to go to the doc right now, unless I feel like it's life or death.

How do you know it's not? Get someone to loan you the money and go.

M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I have to stay at work til 5:30! I'm not about to stop breathing, don't worry. But this shit is getting worse by the minute. The neck marbles hurt!! I'm gonna ER it at 5:30 exactly

in related news, a distant relative of mine called the Emergency Room the Merchant's Ward, what a choad

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

Arf, Roxy, try your best to see someone! Because, umm, well. I'm not a doctor. I don't even really know that much about the human body. In fact, what I'm about to say might be unhelpful ass-blather in every possible way. But! From what it sounds like, your neck-marbles could actually be swollen lymph nodes, and one funny thing about lymph nodes is that if they sit around being jacked up for too long they can actually scar and stay lumpy -- not horrible-gross lumpy, but kinda "hey, feel this weird bump under my skin" lumpy. Point being: yeah, go see someone! Cheap clinic visit + script for antibiotics shouldn't be too impossible-expensive.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

out of interest: how much is it likely to cost to go and say: "ow, doc, can you have a prod of me glands"? (forgive my british ignorance.)

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

An office visit with zero bells and whistles at *my* clinic costs 45 dollars. That's incredibly cheap.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

(yeah, yeah, I work in a clinic. I'd see a doc here, but they are OBGYNs that are busy doing, like, surgeries and important shit. And there isn't even one here today, just a lone midget)

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

nabisco, your post has inspired me to actually go to the ER and not just chat shit about it

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you have any allergies? If so, sometimes cold symptoms can pile up. I had most of these symptoms (with the exception of the kidneys hurting, wtf) a month or so ago and it was a nasty sinus infection that took two rounds of antibiotics to chase off.

I suggest getting a bunch of sudafed with expectorant (the blue gel-looking pills) to work on the sinus thing and hopefully get things draining. The dizziness can be caused by the sinus infection screwing with your eustacian tubes -- are you having any weird hearing difficulties? Sometimes it'll sound a little muffled through one ear and your balance gets thrown off. You probably need antibiotics and such.

The other thing it could be (with the swollen lymph nodes and tiredness) is mono. That's pretty much an exact match for your full set of symptoms...

mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, I think you're right on, mike. I read something about swollen lymph nodes and it said they would check your kidneys when you went in. I wonder why? Maybe it IS related.

And yeah, I have been having weird, muffled hearing.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

Good! I wasn't trying to creep you out, or anything, and a tiny knot under the skin isn't even that horrible of a thing -- but, you know, there's no reason to let stuff get permanently damaged if you can avoid it.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

no allergies that i know of, btw

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

ooooooo, MONO, umbers, that's the KISSING SICKNESS

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

well that's just nonsensical.


(unless it means I'm going to be GETTING teh smooches)

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the last smooch I got was from an ILXor via text message

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

must have caught it off a microphone in our new shared practice space. Soon every member of both the Bloodies+ Night of my Life and the T-hooks will have a crippling disease

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Just realized I know a guy who has mono also. Should I use this as a pick up line?

Hey *I* have mono. *YOU* have mono. *shrug*

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a broken face. Uh huh. Ooohooh. No, really. Sunday night I tripped and fell face forward into the sidewalk. Minor bruising of the cheek, major cheekbone pain. What if I have a hairline fracture in my cheekbone? Will I have to have surgery? A cheekbone implant, perhaps?!

jennpb (jennpb), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

sinuses blocked every day, big lines under eyes, no energy, weak every day.

it's......SINUSITIS, I think, which apparently does give you fatigue, so says my doc. anyone else ever get crazy sinusitis like this?

I am on antibiotics for 2 weeks and no improvement.

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Rona, I feel for you. The same thing happened to me this summer. I was on antibiotics twice over the course of 2 months, the last time for three weeks.

M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i have sinus troubles at the moment. most unfun.

renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

SINUS INFUCKTIONS AND POST NASAL DRIPPAGE IS RUNNING RAMPANT IN NYC

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

soon, the streets will be overflowing with snot.

renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

jenn! I think a cheekbone-splint is imperative.

Roxy your symptoms sound like how I felt when I was coming down with mono. Weird back/kidney pain and all...take a look down your throat with a flashlight and if your tonsils are really swollen (is this what the swollen throat feels like?) they have the potential to get much worse. See a doctor!

sgs (sgs), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

i sound like fuckin' tom cruise!!

sore throat, sore ears, fever. i wanna go hooooooooome.

POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

off work today :( too ill

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
I have Urticaria! That's hives to merkins, I understand. I have no idea why I got it - I'm not allergic to anything as far as I'm aware (well, I'm now aware I'm allergic to something, but it's a mystery something).

HOW DO I STOP THE ITCHING? I have a steroidal cream and antihistamines but they're not working.

Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Calamine lotion might help soothe and cool your itchy bits.

Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's all talk about Madchen's bits.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

They aren't pretty.

Calamine, ugh! I've been avoiding it thus far, but if the itching doesn't go away before this evening I'm going to have to buy myself a bottle of the pink stink.

Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

they make it clear now, though i've been told it doesn't work as well.

i can empathize, i developed a mysterious rash on my torso and it has been driving me insane with the itching! went to the doctor, was prescribed cortisone pills which make me totally drowsy and headachey which is actually better than the itchy hell i've been in.

diagnosis: pityriosis rosea

it came from nowhere.

ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 16 March 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

my case is very mild, but the calamine worked well for awhile. benadryl did nothing but make me sleepy.

ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 16 March 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
Lower back pain for three or four days.

A little blood in my urine this morning.

Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

:-( oh man.

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

yikes

phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

It's maybe just a wee bit of dehydration. I'll have plenty of water today and see what happens.

Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Also possibly cystitis - lots of fluids is the way to go.

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Snuffling and sniffling. First cold in over a year :-(

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 15 May 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Or rather :-*(

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 15 May 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

dogmatism

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 15 May 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I smacked my elbow on a steel post whilst using a fencepost bopper the other week I got very severe funnybone tingling which went away but I was using an angle grinder this weekend and it seems to have set up a more permanant tingle along with some nasty twinges. Time for me to see the doctor I think.

Ed (dali), Monday, 15 May 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I would try resting it first before you spend all that money. It's amazing how these things will just go away in time. The body's default setting is to repair itself.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 15 May 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah but we have this wonderful thing called teh NHS over here...

(Sounds like a nerve got hit to me, worth checking out.)

Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 May 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I struggled through Monday and Tuesday, but today I have taken the day off. My appetite has disappeared so it must be REAL BAD.

Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Yesterday, I would have sworn that I was coming down with a cold. My lungs just weren't feeling too good and I was coughing a lot. Two days ago, I had been cleaning some junk yard wheel covers that I had gotten for my car in the kitchen sink using straight ammonia. I opened all the windows and doors in the kitchen and wore a breathig mask, but I'm thinking now that my "cold" was the result of too many fumes, because I seem ok now. The wheel covers look pretty good btw.

jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

-jaw pain plus divot in teeth from grinding them seen during uninsured dentist visit that also discovered need for 7 fillings
-ringing/worse hearing in left ear for several days
-misanthropy and urge to scream bad words and/or randomly target people with abuse

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Thursday, 18 May 2006 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

  • onion eyes

tehresa, Thursday, 14 January 2010 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

swollen feet
pizza craving

am i preg?

harbl, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link

gah i wanted the 1p3 version of this

harbl, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

roxy has suggested to me that i might have craddle cap

Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Are you a little baby Y/N?

the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

N

also, i meant to post this on the 1p3 thread with the same title

Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link

when i was a new born, my mum (who is french) took me to the doctors about flaky skin on my scalp. when my dad came home from work she said the doctor had told her it was "cradle crap".

village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

dry mouth + ear ache

Aerosol, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link

thought this was 1p3 thread tbh

Aerosol, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link

eight months pass...

Time to revive this long-time favorite: frequent pissing, skeleton hurts, tinnitus, tender uterus, barky cough, hot but not sweating, splitting headache on left side, eyeball pressure, pain in old pelvic fracture, fatigue, depression, panic, shortness of breath, tiredness w/chest congestion and heart-ish pain upon slight physical exertion, wavery feeling in back of head, head felt squeezed when walking in park, tremulous tingles along spine, hynagogic hallucinations, gingivitus

emilys., Monday, 28 May 2012 04:57 (eleven years ago) link

general malaise, excessive wikipedia reading

bene_gesserit, Monday, 28 May 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link

four months pass...

my heart feels all racy tonight

wth

(✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 11 October 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link

:(. has it improved? are you in love?

BLOCKY 4 LYFE (sunny successor), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link

getting a weird taste in my mouth /throat starting to cough and not stopping, unless i consciously stop myself. Then not being able to get my breath back and wheezing like I've got whooping cough, asthma or something.

I mean am I dying or something, since this is happening a couple of times a day at least. Thought it might be a reaction against something(s) in the flat but seems to be hitting me elsewhere now.

Having had flu/cold that i can't shake for ages.

Stevolende, Friday, 19 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

my knees, hips, ankles and elbows feel like they have been clubbed with a tire iron. they really do.

1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 December 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

on brain fog as symptomatic of something deleterious on a grander scale

having a thought wriggle away, and attempting to snag it immediately back
(the brain doing a routine thing, a little movement to snatch at the thought, like it has during incalculable distracted moments in the past)
coming up with nil, the mind starting to reach further and more desperately for the thought
mounting conscious obsessive terror about the loss of the thought and the circumstances that lead/are leading to its loss, including this right now
the thought slipping further and further behind an ever-increasing mass of suffocating clouds
repeat more often every day

jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

varicose vein in my right leg at 34. It hurts like fuck and it feels like my leg/foot is going to explode. then it stops for a few weeks but comes back after a while. why? will i die?

nuumerykah (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link

Varicose veins aren't usually painful. Is the vein varicose even when it's not painful?

Might be phlebitis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebitis

Plasmon, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

for the last 2-3 weeks: waking up early every morning in urgent need of a piss, sometimes in the middle of the night too.

gonna have to go to the doctor's next week i guess. sigh.

gong mad (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 May 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link

my tonsils have been up for a few weeks now, like I'm permanently on the verge of flu. think it's because I've been drinking too much, exercising too little and sleeping in rooms with aircon but it can go away now I'm home thanks.

aside from the concern around the consistent need to do so, periods of early morning/nighttime pissing are so f'ing tiresome.

Fizzles, Friday, 22 May 2015 07:38 (eight years ago) link

decent Horizon ep the other night suggested that the effects of steady booze consumption may be akin to low level perma-flu

gong mad (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 May 2015 08:19 (eight years ago) link

yeah, I'm reaching an age now where i really notice the beneficial effects of staying off booze more days of the week than not. productivity, clarity of thought, springiness of step, sleep, whatever - it all seems to add up.

Fizzles, Friday, 22 May 2015 08:34 (eight years ago) link

so want a cure for this semi-perm hay fever bouts I have been having for the last 3-4 years. Maybe I should drink more idk..

xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 May 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link

Ha, I went to doctor with lingering coldy symptoms recently and he strongly emphasised drinking less.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 22 May 2015 12:00 (eight years ago) link

But doctors pretty much always emphasise that.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 22 May 2015 12:00 (eight years ago) link

six months pass...

there are no diabetes threads it seems so can anyone calm me down about my big numb toe. i can still move it for the most part, i don't notice it most of the time but it's been like this for a couple months. there just isn't much feeling in the middle of it. there's no tingling.

i have nerve-y problems (disc is out of place i think?) that i just started getting PT for but that's all in my neck/upper back. i took a blood test 6-8 mos ago and i was below prediabetes levels so i haven't been too worried, but i eat a lot of starches and plain old sugar tbh so i'm always a little worried, and now i'm a lot worried.

qualx, Thursday, 3 December 2015 07:33 (eight years ago) link

Diabetic neuropathy won't usually affect one toe in isolation, or cause significant loss of sensation without pain or tingling/burning. It can precede the diagnosis of diabetes but that's not typical.

One numb big toe makes me think sciatica (S1 radiculopathy) but that's usually accompanied by the classic pattern of pain shooting down the back of the thigh. Another option would be neuropathy of the digital nerve to that toe, most likely compressive from tight footwear. In the latter case, if you can figure out what caused it and avoid further compression, it should recover within a couple of months.

Plasmon, Thursday, 3 December 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link

Spent much of last weekend pissing out of my arse.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 3 December 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link


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