The bottom of my feet have been black for a few months now. Why is that? What is causing them to do it? I am 37. I so have chronic anemia and just had a blood transfusion a couple of months ago. I also have nerve damage in my neck and right shoulder that causes my hands to go numb and I'm noticing now that the palms of my hands are turning black as well. Should this be taken seriously?
View 1 RepliesI went to the primary doctor and he gave me a diuretic and said it's the fibromyalgia. I ended up in ER for chest pains in February so I didn't know if it was some relation to the situation. I now got into the Rheumatologist on Friday and she says it has nothing to do with the Fibro. Any input anyone?
View 5 RepliesI have had a problem with pain all around bottom of my diaphragm for several months. X Rays, sniff tests show right side is higher than normal but no help offered thus far. All around he bottom area is extremely sore to touch and can't bear to lie on either side. If you press along bottom it is extremely tender. Gallbladder has been removed.
View 1 RepliesI have been diagnosed with WG and am on the usual medication.
WG attacked my nervous system. My feet are swollen and movement is painful. At night the swellings subsided but the moment I get up and move around the swelling flares up.
My hands have also been affected. The fingers are dead, no feeling and no muscle movement possible - cannot use the left hand at all. The right hand I can still use but the skin feels numb.
I have had this 3 times in the last few months and never before. My last one was last night. Yes they have all woken me in the middle of the night. The pain was so excruciating I didn't know what to do with myself. I tried putting a cold towel on the spot but it didn't really help and I went very dizzy and was on the verge of passing out. I blamed the cold towel, but now I know differently. I took some painkillers but I couldn't believe when after about 20 minutes it went then I was fine. I put it down to chronic wind! The next time was about 6 weeks later and a similar thing but not quite as bad, I rolled around the bed then walked up and down in a fast pace and eventually it went. Then last night, it was as bad as the first, I was really worried, again, I hoped it wouldn't last and didn't take any painkillers. I again paced for floor in a serious walking to and fro and found that was the only thing that helped. I will still go to the doctors just to be on the safe side, but I am pretty convinced that I have proctalgia fugax.
View 1 RepliesI am 33, female. I have had pretty much a constant pain under my bottom right rib for about a year now. On a daily basis, it mainly feels like pressure with dull aching that sometimes radiates under my right shoulder blade. Eating sometimes makes it worse, yet there doesn't seem to be a specific "trigger" food. Laying on my left side tends to make the pain turn to more of a stabbing feeling. I can specifically point to exactly where it is. It's tender to the touch; sometimes worse than others. Occasionally, I feel like I'm fighting infection (feverish, achy) for no reason. I don't drink or smoke, am pretty active, and I am pretty good about what I eat (healthy weight) I had an ultrasound of my gallbladder last year that came up negative; I will get the results from another ultrasound on Tuesday but I have a feeling that I will get the same results. I've looked up as much as I know how and I can't seem to find anything that fits the symptoms. I've tried everything for any gastrointestinal issues and nothing has helped at all.
View 1 RepliesI'm 16 and last night i masterbated and after i cleaned up and then i went into the bathroom the bottom of my penis was kinda swollen and plus i don't use any lube.
View 1 RepliesI'm freaking out over these small somewhat hard but not really jumbled together (about 4 or 5) flesh colored bumps on the bottom of my penis shaft. I haven't had sex in over 2 months and it was protected, before that I had unprotected sex with a girl who has recently gotten tested for HIV and HPV and she is clean as can be.
The area they showed up in is where some hair grows, and I had shaved it with a razor WITHOUT shaving cream, dumb I know. They appeared and about a little over a week they were still there so I decided to scrape them off with my razor, dumb again. A month later i tried scraping them with my fingernail and they just bled. Its been 2 months and they are still there.
What could they be? They don't look like warts (no cauliflower look, aren't big and bulky) and they don't look like herpes because there is no red rash around them. They are painless and not itchy at all, they're just there. I've used bacteriocin on them and it didn't seem to help although they do seem smaller. I'm freaking out, I just want them gone. I have also heard that obsessing over something can make them stay there for longer, which i have been obsessing over them (I suffer from anxiety) Also, hair follicles... can they take longer than 2 months to recover? I thought that's what they were too but hair follicles normally heal quickly and look like pimples whiteheads.
On Saturday the 27th I noticed a red spot down at the bottom of my shaft on the left. Exactly one week before this on Saturday the 20th I had, had unprotected oral and vaginal sex with a girl friend of mine. I cannot be 100% sure but I do not think I achieved an orgasm and so did not ejaculate.
The red bump was a bit tender to touch, and so I finished my shower at the time and tried to ignore it. I noticed the next day on Sunday that a tiny yellow head had appeared in the middle of the spot, I do not recall it being tender by this point. On Monday a really small scab had formed as whatever it was began to heal. Doing a lot of research on the internet my biggest fear became herpes, but with this said I was hardly itchy at all and if I was at all itchy it was possibly more out of paranoia. On Wednesday I went to a clinic to get checked up, but when shining the light on my junk the nurse and I couldn't find anything! I went on to give a urine sample and take a blood test. As luck would have it, it was the stupid light because when I got home I could see the spot under normal light, and so it had not entirely cleared as I had hoped. It is now Thursday, five days since I first noticed the spot. It is still visible although now smaller and purple in colour as it continues to go down and clear.
One other thing worth noting is that about two days after having the unprotected sex I noticed a tiny red flat spot the size of a pin prick just below the bell of my circumcised penis. It faded after a couple days. Could the two possible symptoms be related? Does this sound like herpes?
I have to go back to the clinic next week to drop off a second urine sample, since chlamydia doesn't show up until 14 days after sex apparently. Show this spot not have cleared by the day before i have to drop this urine sample off, I will arrange for another one to one.
I had a kind of risky encounter about 7 months ago. I used the oraquick test at 1 month, 3 months (twice) and 6.5 months. All came back negative. Can I rely on these results as being accurate and not a false negative?
View 7 RepliesBeen Having Really Bad Cramps At The Bottom Of My Stomach Right Above My Pelvic Area All Day And Everytime That Happens My Back Hurt Really Bad Could It be Contractions? 35 weeks
View 1 RepliesI am extremely frustrated. I have been sick since Aug 27 with extreme back pain. The pain is right below the bottom of my bra strap on the right side (slightly above where the I thought the kidneys are located). I am also having pain in the right side and rt groin area. The Dr's say that I have a lot of blood and crystals in my urine, but the CT scans don't show any kidney stones. The CT scan did show that the right kidney was swollen and the ER DR said that either the urethra or ureter (can't remember which) was swollen and enlarged as if I had passed a stone. I had an appointment with a urologist last week, and even before introducing himself, he told me it wasn't a kidney stone and referred me to an Ortho DR. He didn't examine me at all - did not touch me. He did suggest that I have cystscope, but said it would not help my back pain. Therefore, I didn't do it. I am usually a very tough girl. When I gave birth to my son several years ago, I didn't utter a single complaint (natural childbirth). But several times over that past few weeks, I have found myself in tears because the pain is so bad. I have had everything checked - gall bladder, liver, pancreas, spleen .....everything. What is a girl to do? I don't normally take any pain meds or narcotics. I am usually extremely healthy.
View 2 RepliesI am 39 years old .One day back i was observed bumps on my penis shaft which is on the bottom of the penis. these are painless. I was not observed any others. These are looking like when you get fewer at that time some bumps will observed on the skin. I was not observed any itching and white fluids also not observed. can you tell me what i have to do, to i have to consult (dermatologist or uralogist) and also last two days sexual desires also reduced. if i am going to penetrating my penis it was responding like earlier.
View 1 RepliesI just had a lumbar microdiscectomy yesterday on the L5-S1 disc. Right after I woke up and got up to walk in hospital I noticed the bottom of my right foot feels asleep. I never had this problems before. The reason why I had the surgery was from sciatic pain down my right leg going into my calf. I have had back problems with a herniated disc for 2.5 years. My latest flare up was sciatic pain for 3 months straight, I had a spinal injection, was in physical therapy, on pain meds and had no relief. I finally made the decision to go through with the surgery. My leg pain is completely gone, back incision hurts, but my main concern is the bottom of my foot is numb. Has anyone had this problem? I called the spine surgeon this morning and waiting for his call back. I was unable to speak with him after surgery because I was his 4th surgery of the day, he spoke with my husband when I was in recovery.
View 6 RepliesI am a young adult and I have huge problems with my teeth now after several years of not having medical coverage and extreme fear of dentists. pretty much all my molars are gone and need to be extracted, but on top of that, I may not even be able to get implants or partials because I have an even bigger issue with my bite.I went to a prosthodontist who told me that there isn't enough space between the top and bottom teeth to put anything there like an implant or even dentures and this is absolutely terrifying. He basically told me that he couldn't help me because he "limits his practice to crowns and bridges" so he told me to go back to my general dentist to ask what they can do with my bite. In the end of the day I didn't get anything out of that visit besides horrific news so my question right now is, can it be possible that I can't even get partials because of my bite? what exactly can be done about this? at the moment I have severe anxiety and fear so I can't sleep or even think because of the news that I got and I'm desperate for some good news. Can anyone please help me understand how I can be treated so i could AT LEAST get dentures if not implants?
View 4 RepliesSince the beginning of July I have been suffering with what I was to believe were piles very sore bottom and sometimes small amounts of blood on wiping, after about a month I went to the docs and saw a nurse prescriber who never did a dre but said I had a yeast infection as had recently finished a course of antibiotics. About a week later they were no better and I thought I might have an anal fissure as it was so painful having a Bm so went back to the doc who did a dre and treated me with rectogesic until I was due to see the gastro doc as I had had a flex sig a year ago and was due a follow up, although weird stuff it seemed to help. 3 days later I saw the gastro guy and he looked with a anal scope and said he could feel 2 hems and to stop taking rectogesic, I then got better for 2-3 weeks and then seemingly had a relapse after being constipated and was straining. So I've used the piles cream had no blood symptoms but can feel 2 little spots just inside rectum and one slightly bigger one further up by the sphincter. The two are pimple sized and the other is pea shaped all are quite hardy sore to touch! I have absolutely no idea what they are or what to do next but they are much sorer after a Bm?? Been to doctors 5 times now with no real solution...
View 1 RepliesI recently noticed a hard knot between my breasts at the bottom of my sternum. I also have pain in my left upper back and sometimes down into my lower left abdomen. It is sometimes tender to the touch, but not always. I don't lose sleep over it, food doesn't bother it, just the aches and pains in my upper left back and shoulder, sometimes on my left side. It doesn't hurt constantly and Ibuprofen helps. Any suggestions? This discussion is related to costochondritis or ???.
View 1 Replies4-5 days now i been having this annoying pain in my bottom 2 front teeth. I do not know what to do. I brushed, i've taken advil for the pain and it still is not going away. I been told by family its because i rub my tongue against them all the time. Could that be it? Is it something else more serious? Should i go to the dentist? I just want answers on what this is and want it to go away because it is driving me insane.
View 3 RepliesI realized I was constipated when my stomach was extremely bloated visually I started taking a laxative and it's helped but I'm on my 3rd day of Miralax and now I can't go again (only a little bit)
My stomach is still bloated and feels heavy from the bottom area, and there's a pressure on my pelvis area...
Also when I need to urinate it takes me a few seconds to actually start going.
I have had a stone lodged in the bottom of my ureter for about 6 weeks now . I was originally hospitalised with renal colic and advised that I needed an op to get the stone out. However I have previously had this op with some complications due to stent, so reluctant to go ahead. Anyway I decided to see if the stone would pass on its own accord. So my question is I have constant flank and pelvic pain but manageable most of the time . Recently I have had several more attacks of renal colic always after work I work as a domestic and my job is very physical could this be aggravating the stone. Has anyone else had this problem.
View 4 RepliesI got my tongue pierced today & when I went to clean it. There was yellow puss coming out from the bottom of the piercing. Is it infected that quick?
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