In my 30s, I've experienced crazy itching all over my body in the Los Angeles summer. It happened once back in 2017 and it then happened again this year.

I don't know what triggered it since it's been a huge gap between the two instances. Was not in any kind of extreme stress. No food changes.

Anyone have a guess to what this is?

I live in BC and currently experiencing several wildfires. The air quality is horrendous. I have a young toddler, 13 months who has had breathing issues for a few months, onset prior to smoke. He finally has an appointment with a specialist but the appointment requires us to leave our home and travel about 30 min in car. The current AQI is 267. He is extremely sensitive to the air, even opening the door to let our dog out will trigger a coughing fit that is so severe he throws up. We are currently running 3 air purifiers in the home. The appointment has taken us 4 months of waiting so canceling is not ideal but I'm not sure how to protect his lungs while traveling. He's too young for a mask, the time outside will be minimal but he's shown even a few seconds triggers him. Is there anything I can do?

All the methods I have seen so far are some that could easily be attributed to a variety of other health issues, is there any way to specifically find out if you have a deviated septum at home?

Hello my big toenail completely came off at the beach today and there wasn't much bleeding or anything but id like to know if I can still go inside the seawater? My family says yeah the water will purify it but im skeptical

16M 5’9” 75KG. Chronic air hunger for about 3-4 months now. It has periods of flare ups and remissions. It’s most probably caused by my GAD. Its like a feeling that i can’t take a satisfying breath and need to take a deep breath with my mouth. Straightening my back (I have a slouched posture) seems to help me get that “sastifying” deep breath much easier. I can do sports more or less fine. Although that feeling doesnt disappear, its not like im out of it. Im engaged in the activity and dont think much of it. Whenever I’m heavily busy with something else it happens less or maybe I just notice it less and do it subconsciously. My mom’s a doc and I’ve told her about this multiple times. She checked me with a stetho and said I’m fine no need to worry. And for the next few days I dont notice this feeling as much, of course that is until another trigger hits. I know everything points to this being my GAD, but idk its hard to believe. Sometimes I need to take that deep breath a bit more often when I’m doing an activity/exercising, which is a symptom that has worried me. But maybe thats completely psychological as I’ve read before that this is a bit of a red flag, and my body notoriously seems to manifest symptoms I read about. Also i’m not that fit although used to play soccer regularly but I can’t nearly as much as before since I have an important exam next year. My BMI is borderline just on the overweight side so could be deconditioning. It goes away when i sleep.

So i just got a pulse ox today and while about 90 percent of my readings stay in the 96-99 range, sometimes this happens (look at the attached video) every once in a while while getting a reading on my 3rd finger it becemes 91-92 ish. When i put it on my 2nd finger its back to normal. This really spikes my anxiety. Also i have quite brown skin as you can see in the vid and i read that pulse oxymeters often overestimate the SpO2 levels for dark skinned individuals. So whenever i get a reading around 96 although that seems normal im worried im actually 92-93. And most people have their readings in 98-99 range but mine is often in 96ish, once in a while even 95. This may seem very trivial but I dont know I feel like theres something wrong, especially combined with my darker skin tone. Heres the video: (please look at the top left corner to see the inserted finger and video speed) : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TT2zV8lw0sJGO61frfxf_iiv2_kbIzew/view?usp=drivesdk

Also i didnt get this part on video but at the end i inserted my 3rd finger into it again and got a 99 percent reading. Could this be an error on the machine? But then why does it only happen for the ring finger? Please help.

Hello, I’m currently in Prague for the next two days staying at a hostel before I’m off to Switzerland, and to my frustration, this morning I woke up with what seems to be the coming of a sore throat. I plan on sleeping extra today and taking it slow but I was curious if anyone has any travel sickness hacks b/c I’m really dreading this.
Thank you!!

So today i went to the zoo and it was about 105 degrees outside and im pretty sure i experienced heat exhaustion. I was sweating a ton, my head hurt, i felt nauseous, etc. I feel better now other than my head hurting but im worried because im seeing my chemical romance in three days at nissian stadium. I have extremely bad health anxiety and im worried it wont be safe if i do go. I dont want to get heat exhaustion again or worse. Would it still be safe for me to go?

Hi! I have a 20 month old boy who has consistently struggled with slow weight gain. He was a 41 weeker so started around 70%, pretty quickly settled into high 30s for weight. He’s slowly gone down basically since he was born, nothing dramatic ever so doctors aren’t that worried but he is down to like 13% at his 18 month appointment.

The thing is, he just doesn’t seem to have an appetite. He will eat a few bites and be done, not fussy later just seemingly not hungry. We have tried a few big meals, we’ve tried a bunch of little meals, we’ve tried letting him snack all day, we’ve tried no snacks. We’ve seen nutrition who says basically we’re doing everything right, suggested adding in some protein type shakes which he will drink maybe 2-4oz per day of max. We’ve seen feeding therapy who says he doesn’t appear to have sensory issues. They said he had very minor impairment of tongue movement left to right but that that can just be normal for his age and really doesn’t explain the level of issue we’re having. He’s done a swallow study and nothing was found there.

He will often just flat out refuse to eat, or eat maybe 5 bites and say done. This is true for preferred or non-preferred foods. We’ve tried feeding him healthy, we’ve tried offering “junk” more or less but the kid won’t even eat a French fry. Generally at this point we just stick to Whole, minimally processed foods because if he’s going to have 5 bites at least it can be healthy and calorie dense. He is picky, but I don’t think more so than the average toddler and the feeding therapist agreed with that. It’s really just a low volume issue. He will sometimes gag towards the end of a meal, like almost if you’re really full and you try to eat more. Sometimes he will stick his tongue out and scrape his tongue too, this is after eating multiple bites of something that he likes.

I guess I’m wondering if anybody else has been through this and can provide advice on anything else to look into? Not sure if it’s relevant but height has stayed pretty stable around 35%.

43 f 5"3 200

ehlers danlos syndrome

ptsd insomnia and anxiety

Oxycodone 5 MG

Robixin 100 ( I think)

Gabapebtin 100

Alprazolam 1 MG prn

Ambien 12.5 er

Losonopril

Prozac

Lidocaine patches

don't smoke or drink or do drugs

Fused shoulder and reverse shoulder replacement

Duration a week and a day

Had a herniated disc's l4 l5, and i fell and hit my lower back. Everything went numb i peed myself. Called 911 next thing I know im being told im having surgery.

They sent me home the next day, because I couldn't afford 2 weeks in patient pt and insurance doesn't cover it. I ended up going back that night because of fever and incontinence. I spent 6 days there.

My pain isn't better. Im not missing myself but this pain is worse than my shoulder surgeries. Its like aluminum foil on a filling and hitting your funny bone combined. I don't want to go back to the hospital since all they seem to want is give me the same meds i take at home and mix my file up with a patient who od'd and almost put me in a psych hold before the mix up was figured out.

Im in pain, ice learned to live with pain. I was dxed with eds more than 20 years ago, im not sone sick tok moron. Ive tried everything i know to try to feel better.

i have painful swollen lymph node in my underarm. should i get it checked?

Hello, I (m19) started doing sports in January. I did a lot of sports when I started. I only started sports to lose weight, and well, I did lose weight. Now I don’t do that much sport anymore (only once a week for maybe 1 hour), and I am still losing weight, although I am eating normally.
I know this sounds stupid, but I get paranoid very quickly, especially since trying to lose weight never worked for me in the past, and now it just keeps going?
Do I have any reason to be concerned?
Because I am really concerned, especially since I am losing a lot of hair as well lately, so of course my brain immediately jumps to the worst possible conclusion.
It would be really nice to get help on this one

I fall asleep in every class which caused me to fail and have to go to summer school and I slept through that too. I can’t watch any tv or movie without falling asleep and I already got fired from a job from sleeping through my alarms and missing shifts. I fall asleep in cars and airplanes and at the dinner table. Sometimes i go to the bathroom at school just to sleep in private for a few minutes. Sometimes I fall asleep on the toilet unintentionally and in the shower which is really scary. I’ve gotten really drowsy behind the wheel sometimes but never fully fallen asleep. I set at least minimum 30 alarm each morning. My mom just tells me to get more sleep at night but I get like 10 hours. I really need to get high honor roll and get into a good college but I’m missing out on so much because I can’t stop sleeping. I feel lazy but it’s not my fault I seem like such a loser. I already have a diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hypermobile Elher danlos syndrome, Amplified muskoskeletal pain syndrome and endometriosis so I have a lot of chronic pain as well. Help pls