name the symptoms you have been having

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

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

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!

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

hahah! You're actually right.

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

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My symptoms:

Dizziness, giddiness, logorrhea, temulence, constant erection.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

Michael, did you eventually get cured? Were you also fatigued? My sister is a pharmacist and she tells me some people who thought they had chronic fatigue syndrome have in recent years found out it was sinusitis all along. What antibiotic worked for you? any other tips?

if there is a plus side to being sick for 2 months in summer, it's that I have saved so much money from not going out, I don't know how much cash I waste on booze etc but it seems a gargantuan amount as I have gone completely insane buying clothes/records (2 or 3 every day in work)/dvds/books, and am still somehow way above my usual wealth.

I think we need photos of the marbles.

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?

Ronan, yes, sinusitis generally is incredibly fatiguing. Ten years ago, I had one really terrible sinus infection (which I let go for a while because I didn't realize what it was and I don't think I even had a doctor at the time). I have had bouts with sinus infections on and off since, though none quite as bad as that initial one. I have very bad allergies to begin with, so I am reluctant to tell you about my ongoing sinus symptoms in this context, since I don't want to suggest you are going to have the same problems.

A couple home remedies:

As an extra treatment, try inhaling the steam from eucalyptus leaves. (Put a towel over your head to help funnel the steam up to your nose--just be carefull if you are doing this over a gas burner.)

Nasal irrigation. If you try that, don't do it until you aren't massively clogged up.

If you don't have any pollen allergies, Goldenseal should be helpful.

I strongly recommend not smoking anything until you feel very recovered.

Wiggy, you're right. Suggesting that Roxy cheat on the no-coffee/alcohol regimen was wrong and bad. I am a hardened hedonist. Don't listen to me.

From what I've read (and my own experience fits with this), if you get repeated sinus infections, your sinuses can get to a point where they are so damaged that it's very hard to avoid more or less constant sinus symptoms of some sort.

I've been inhaling the steam from boiling water alot, and that helps albiet briefly. I didn't use eucalyptus though, I must try that. It's so annoying, for one day last week my sinuses cleared and I felt great and then back again the day after. It's a horrible sickness.

I stopped drinking caffeine last year (because I wanted to get pregnant). Now I crave caffeine and alcohol but mainly because I know I shoudln't drink any. I think I'll have an infuse (?) with caffeine and a dash of rhum right after I delivered my baby. :-)

The list of foods I can't eat is much too long. But I heard from another woman that her gynocologist even prohibited her more foods (like salads and so on). Mine's more relaxed about it.

Ronan, I don't know about Benadryl, but you can certainly buy Zirtek here. I've been taking it for years now for insect bites and so on.

I can see why you'd have to give up caffeine and alcohol, but how on earth would sex mix up your treatment? Weird.

My grandmother drank copious amounts of alcohol throughout her pregnancy. My dad suffers the consequences. Apparently his inability to have kids (after conceiving me of course) was due to her alcohol use throughout pregnancy. :-(

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Guys, I'm having to miss motely crue cause of this tonight :(:(:(

Last night I went to see Octopus Project and had to leave -- vomited 4x on the way to my car. Luckily no one saw.

i have:

* what feels like a pinched nerve inside my ear, head, and right side of neck. sharp pain.

* pressure from within my head

* i don't feel very balanced

i feel o.k., but i can 'feel' a sickness coming on.

Whenever I hear/read about these sprays, I imagine this:

http://www.ahajokes.com/cartoon/clinton.jpg

Costochondritis Symptoms
“Chest pain associated with costochondritis is usually preceded by exercise, minor trauma, or an upper respiratory infection.
The pain usually will be sharp and located on your front chest wall. It may radiate to your back or abdomen and is more common on your left side. The most common site of pain is your fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs. This pain increases as you move your trunk or take deep breaths. Conversely, it decreases as your movement stops or on quiet breathing”.

It does hurt sometimes; apparently people have been rushed to hospital thinking they are having a heart attack.

Can I ask you how they manifest themselves? I also have panic attacks but I often wonder how serious (or big) they are (compared to other people's attacks).

Thanks for listening. Let's see if I can kill this thread. I dare you not to post.

Have I got a long underlying cold I am intermittently fighting off? Or am I catching lots of weak colds?

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/proven/2005_09_01_proven_archive.html

- so maybe i should get my head cleaned out! has anyone had this, where they swoosh all your sinuses out? like a car-wash for your brane, it sounds BRILLIANT.

My eyes have been tearing up dramatically for 2 days. I was blaming the wind, or these new glasses. But I think it's actually excessive Katamari.

I'm seeing a doctor in a couple hours.

It's called Motherhood. ;-)

is sgs back from the doctor yet? What's the verdict?

Try the section of nasal irrigation here:

http://www.sinusitisfaq.org/

also: everything seems to taste more blend than usual.

Bleeding nipple: breastfeeding duh. :-)
Blue spots? I lost lots of blood during and after my delivery. I think it might have something to do with lack of hemoglobin or something.

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

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

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.

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.

A little blood in my urine this morning.

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

• onion eyes

swollen feet
pizza craving

am i preg?

gah i wanted the 1p3 version of this

roxy has suggested to me that i might have craddle cap

Are you a little baby Y/N?

N

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

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".

dry mouth + ear ache

thought this was 1p3 thread tbh

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

general malaise, excessive wikipedia reading

my heart feels all racy tonight

wth

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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..

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

But doctors pretty much always emphasise that.

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.

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.

Spent much of last weekend pissing out of my arse.