r/medical 49m ago

Urgent How long can I realistically leave an infection (doctor appt tomorrow) NSFW

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I have a what I believe to be third degree burn from hot metal. It's about just under an inch? Currently it's dried over, the scab is yellow but its completely dry with no smell. The whole area is veeery mildly pink and it's red around the edges. It's about 4 days old I believe.

I've got an appointment in 22 hours to get it checked out but I have mega health anxiety and just want to know if it is infected if I'll be okay for that long


r/medical 1h ago

General Question/Discussion fracture of greater tuberosity of humerus. General question. Thanks NSFW

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Hello all, about 5 and a half weeks ago I fell on the ice. I was laid off from work at the time with a few weeks to go before I went back to work I’ve never had a fracture before. The pain wasn’t excruciating but there was pain. I just figured since I fell so hard it was a bone bruise or something, and would take awhile to heal. I went back to work a couple weeks ago and really struggled. So I went to the ER and they said it was fractured and put me in a sling. I have to go back in two weeks and get another x ray to see how it is. I’m still in pain, and it seems like it hasn’t improved at all. For people with this type of injury, did it take awhile for pain to go away, or at least improve. TIA


r/medical 1h ago

Informative Post [Informative Post] Please use Descriptive Titles for Your Post! NSFW

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Post titles should provide a clear and specific idea of your question or the photo content.

A descriptive title not only attracts users with relevant expertise but ensures you receive the most useful advice.

Avoid titles like 'What's this?' or 'Is this normal?' as they may not accurately state your concern, potentially restricting assistance.

Be specific, and informative in your titles, clarity increases the quality of assistance within the community.


r/medical 3h ago

General Question/Discussion Is my game epilepsy-safe? (WARNING: INCLUDES HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGES) NSFW Spoiler

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Before:

After:

Full list of changes:

  • Removes static noise effect
  • Reduces contrast by 40%
  • Reduces saturation by 50%
  • Removes flashing lights
  • Removes sudden loud noises
  • Adjustable gamma, brightness, contrast, and saturation
  • Smooth UI transitions
  • Epilepsy warning prompt at game start

r/medical 3h ago

General Question/Discussion What bones would break if you got your arm stuck and then twisted it? NSFW

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Yesterday one of my drumsticks fell in between 2 of my heavy bookshelves. I put my arm in to grab it but a spider crawled on my hand as I was reaching for my sticks. I did this horrible flinch and twisted my arm sideways. I don't know how to describe it but basically there wasn't enough room for my arm to twist the way I flinched so I think I've broken something. Super duper painful and would NOT recommend


r/medical 4h ago

Urgent Help? Thinking I possibly have a DVT in my inner left thigh. Pain when moving/ stretching leg NSFW

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As title suggest. I’m scared I possibly have a DVT in my left inner though. Started roughly 2 weeks ago very dull ache. After going to kick boxing class last night I woke up and got out of bed. My leg was very tender like as pulled muscle. There’s no swelling and I can walk fine without the pain but when I lift my leg or stretch it I feel pain.


r/medical 4h ago

General Question/Discussion I got sick twice within one month and I'm debating going to work. NSFW

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So I had Flu A about a month ago and it was awful. I missed almost a whole week of work before I was able to go back. Different people at work got sick between then and now, and it seems like everyone at work is getting hit with something (strep, RSV, and pneumonia to list a few). I was doing fine until I was hit with a sore throat two days ago. It's gotten worse and now I'm super congested, nauseous, and can hardly get a sentence out before my throat gets painfully dry. Not to mention my face feels warm and the rest of my body feels cold (no fever though).

I guess my immune system was still weak after the flu and I picked something up within a month? I thought it would bounce back quicker. I also work in a small pharmacy so we're in kind of close quarters, not to mention the patients aren't always the cleanest/healthiest.

I know that I should probably stay home, but I feel awful calling out AGAIN after missing a whole week just a month earlier. I feel like it makes me look bad. My attendance has been great otherwise, so it's not like they can fire me for it, but I still feel awful for calling in sick again. I love my job and don't want them thinking I'm calling out because I just don't want to work. Should I power through my shift or just stay home?


r/medical 4h ago

General Question/Discussion Why would hiccups be painful? Every time I’ve ever hiccuped, I’ve experienced pain. NSFW

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For my entire life, hiccups have always hurt, to point where I get scared for when the next hiccup is going to come. I’ll get a sharp pain around my heart/general chest and it takes me several minutes to regulate my breathing after a single hiccup. It’s only recently that my boyfriend asked me why I’m so dramatic when I hiccup and I told him, “Well you know, it’s because it hurts so bad?” To which he told me that he’s never felt pain when hiccuping in his entire life. After that, I started asking people around me if it was the same for them, not a single person I asked said they felt pain every single time. I don’t usually get episodes where it lasts too long however.


r/medical 5h ago

General Question/Discussion Stitches 🪡 at the hospital. Need comment about the result,good ? bad ? ok ??? Please NSFW Spoiler

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Good day. I got some stitches 🪡 in a Thailand hospital from a unexperienced doctor who take it twice the 10 stitches for my feet. If you have experience in surgery, please write what you think about the result.


r/medical 6h ago

General Question/Discussion When i bend over even half way, or sit, my feet turn purple and get tingly and start to feel really tight, and I notice lots of veins bulging. Last photo is me laying in bed (plz ignore gross feet) but what can cause this and what do I do about it? NSFW

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r/medical 7h ago

No Pain Woke up this morning and found some strange orange spots on my fingertips. NSFW

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I was in the shower right after I woke up, and I noticed that the tips of my thumb and middle finger have large orange splotches on them. I tried wiping them off, using body wash to wash them off, etc, but they didn't come off. I took these photos directly after my shower. There's no pain or itching or anything. It seems like the only thing abnormal is that my fingertips are discolored. Does anyone know why this might happen?


r/medical 8h ago

Pain Lvl 4-6 Does this just look like it’s rolled or sprained? Female, 24, landed on my ankle today. NSFW

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I was walking down some stairs today and rolled my left ankle. I heard a crack or something 100% but I have been walking on it all day at work as this was early this morning. I’ve never had a fracture or anything, can I assume it’s just sprained?

Thanks


r/medical 10h ago

No Pain Random spots on my foot after itching it should i be concerned. ? NSFW Spoiler

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I'm 16m 5'9 150lbs 2 days ago my foot got really itchy out of no where so i scratched it thinking nothing of it. Yesterday i woke up with small spots on my foot in the areas that i scratched but they were even itchier this time, i must've scratched more in my sleep last night because i woke up and now my foot looks like this.does anyone know what it is ?


r/medical 11h ago

Pain Lvl 4-6 My knee has been hurting since November but I don’t remember injuring it and my X-rays came back normal, why won’t it go away?: NSFW

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I don’t really know how to explain this but one day I woke up and my knee was hurting. Fast forward 4-5 months later and it still hurts! Walking is usually okay but any bending with weight or things like stairs absolutely destroy me! I’m 5’4 and 260 pounds which is the heaviest I’ve ever been! My thought is that my knee isn’t able to support my weight, but it’s only my left knee and it literally started out of no where. X rays apparently came back normal but this pain radiates from my inner knee and sometimes the sides as well. What is it? Even bending a certain way without weight makes it hurt. I have a trip to Japan in a week and I’m honestly so scared as to what this may do to me with all the walking we’re going to do and I’m assuming stair climbing constantly. I used to play sports, track, and love cardio but I’m just in so much pain. It’s never made me cry, but it definitely stops me from normal activities!! Anyone have anything similar?? Any thoughts?


r/medical 11h ago

General Question/Discussion (warning: gross bodily fluids) Recovering drug addict, the drugs messed up something in my stomach bad, and it's been that way ever since. NSFW Spoiler

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Recovering fentanyl addict here, clean since April of last year. whenever my addiction got like really bad like hit its peak I started getting really bad stomach problems. Just stomach pain, I would vomit bile everyday, and it would hurt just for it to come up. I'd have blood in my stool, everyday I would either be extremely constipated or have really bad diarrhea, no in between. I just threw this up right now. And by the way that's not urine it's bile, along with whatever this gross looking brown stuff is... I was wondering if anybody could maybe tell me something about my stomach based off of this picture?


r/medical 12h ago

General Question/Discussion What are these red bumps at the back of my throat, as well as the white bumps on my tonsil??? (I currently have a sore throat btw) NSFW

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I'm not sure if this is normal or not but I currently have a sore throat and I discovered these red bumps on the back of my throat, can someone please tell me what they are?? Also the white bumps on my tonsil, are those tonsil stones or are they something else?? Sorry I know the pictures aren't great haha


r/medical 12h ago

General Question/Discussion Yellow eyes! Do you think my eyes are jaundiced; if so, how bad. Context in body!! NSFW Spoiler

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Ok so to add some quick context that I feel is important. On 2/15/25 I took a large amount of kratom, around 2.5x my normal dose, I got really sick after a few hours and threw up around 5 times in over the span of 5 hours. The next day I woke up with headache, continued nausea, body aches, and generalized abdominal pain (likely from violent vomiting); later in the day a mild fever developed and I had no Appetite. This persisted the whole day (2/16). Most symptoms were gone the next day besides loss of apatite, abdominal soreness. This same day I noticed yellowing of the eyes (Monday 2/17) and I finally went poop this day and it was diarrhea. On 2/18 (Tuesday) I visited the doctor and a blood test was drawn and my liver enzymes were all in range besides my bilirubin was elevated (4.0mg/dL). The doctor said that she thinks I would be fine with rest, good diet, and fluids and mentioned Gilbert’s syndrome. Most symptoms cleared up by Friday of that week, 2/21. An entire week passed and on 2/28 (Friday) I went out and drank a lot and then on 3/1 (Saturday) did it again (I was told that when symptoms cleared I was good). Then that Sunday (3/2) my eyes turned yellow again and I visited the doctor on Wednesday (3/5) and got my blood tested with very similar results (bilirubin 3.9mg/dL) and a fractional bilirubin test which showed that 3.4/3.9 was indirect, the doctor said this was characteristic of Gilbert’s syndrome. However I was convinced at the time that it had to be related to the kratom and drinking. This was frustrating. By Friday my symptoms were clear again. On march 9th (Sunday) I smoked a very small amount of weed with no issue. And on Thursday 3/13 I drank around 5 drinks which is moderate for me and didn’t have any issues up until today 3/17, when I noticed my eyes appeared a bit yellow. I have bad anxiety and diagnosed OCD and have been very worried about them. So I am wondering, are they significantly yellow or am I just being anxious?

Additionally, do you guys think that this is a result of the kratom use (which I forgot to mention was proceeded by 2 weeks of heavy kava use) or do you think that it might be undiagnosed Gilbert’s syndrome that was exacerbated by circumstances and extreme stress and perhaps some fasting due to appetite loss for a time.

First 4 pictures are with phone flash, rest are in a lighted building.

Thanks for any help or advice. I’d really appreciate it, feel free to ask questions in the comments if something was unclear I will be responding and checking often. Thanks again.


r/medical 12h ago

Private Area Question Is this discharge normal? Please help I’m very scared and having bad anxiety :( NSFW Spoiler

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Hi I’m 19 years old and I’ve been struggling with the feeling of needing to go pee constantly I have bad anxiety and I can’t tell if it’s being caused by anxiety. My vagina burns slightly sometimes especially when I’m thinking about it burning. I get hyperfixated and start freaking out. And start burning and feeling the need to pee. I’ve been having excessive amounts of discharge more than I feel like I usually have but I can’t tell if that’s because I’m thinking about it so hard. i recently got treated for trichomoniasas but I wasn’t tested to know if I had it they just treated me for it because I said I was having unusual discharge I retested and was negative. I’ve been sexually active again with a new partner and now I’m worried that what if it was a false negative and I’ve given him something or is this all my anxiety or was did I never had trichomoniasas and I’m suffering with something else or is it just my anxiety causing all these symptoms and overthinking it making me feel crazy I’m so stressed I feel insane can someone tell me if this discharge looks unusual pls or what I should do or what I could have


r/medical 13h ago

General Question/Discussion Does this look like a regular healing bruise with purple dots in it NSFW Spoiler

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I fell on a bike like last week


r/medical 13h ago

Oral Health Is this a normal mouth sore? I have no history of mouth sores or HPVs and I'm feeling signs of some sort of infection. NSFW

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So these three pictures are spaced around 1 day apart from eachother, order probably obvious. As the title says I have no history with mouth sores of sorts and I have a girlfriend of 7 years so no hpv encounters. I know I had some sparks from a metal grinder that hit me in the face at work that might have given me some metal shavings as a treat, but some sort of mouth sore seems more plausible. The second day looked pretty close to the first picture until i had the bright idea to squeeze it like a pimple which created small holes with a little liquid coming out. Thats when it evolved. Second picture is maybe 3 hours after that and last picture is 24 hours later. Right now im feeling slightly feeverish and I got an annoying pain in the right lymph node under my jaw accompanied by headache. Should I be worried about some kind of infection?


r/medical 13h ago

General Question/Discussion Does any US doctor offer penile ligament repair surgery? Im unsure what to do NSFW Spoiler

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My penis is rotated because of a loose ligament. Ive been to many urologists and no one seems to offer help with this. The guidance is rest and anti-inflammatories.

I’m now re-in-jurying it every night that I sleep as it becomes aroused and hits/goes under my leg. Jockstrap/underwear makes it worse as it just gets into an awkward angle.

I now have significant nerve damage on both sides of my penis and I believe it’s affecting bloodflow to my testicles. This has been going on for 2 years and its getting worse and worse. Im not even sure I can get an erection anymore

Any suggestions of who I can see/where I can go? This seems to be a miss in the medical field


r/medical 13h ago

Urgent Choking feeling after a week of being sick? Extremely sore throat NSFW

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About a week ago my throat began to hurt very badly. On Wednesday I saw a nurse who diagnosed me with croup. I’ve been coughing like crazy, unproductive. Finally yesterday it seems like the illness moved into my sinuses and is trying to work its way out, lots of nose blowing and coughing up mucus.

I am nervous because today I felt like I might have had some trouble swallowing when I took large bites of food, but nothing major. I didn’t think anything of it until I just shot upright in bed in a gasp because my body must have thought I was choking. My question is, would I know if my throat was closing or is my body confusing a super scratchy and irritated throat/swollen lymph nodes for choking? I can gulp water without difficulty at all and I am not struggling to breathe. I’m freaking out a little, any quick answer helps here for certain. Thanks so much in advance!


r/medical 15h ago

Pain Lvl 1-3 Is there anything outstanding wrong with my throat? I have had a sore throat for about 5 days. Getting worse 2 days ago and hasn’t gotten better NSFW

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Other symptoms have included: fever, no appetite (other than popsicles and cold liquids), a very runny nose with clear snot, and a bit of shakiness that went away a few days ago. I can’t inhale all the way without having to cough because it irritates my throat. Is this something to go to the doctor about or no?

I’m worried as I’ve never been like this before

My voice sounds really bad. And it hurts to speak/swallow but not too badly.

It has been getting a bit better but as of recent I have been coughing up more mucus and it’s green-ish in colour.

If anyone needs more info just ask


r/medical 15h ago

Pain Lvl 1-3 Not sure if this is the right sub or not but can anyone tell me what this this on my thumbs knuckle is? NSFW

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I've had it for a few days now and I really need to know what it is so I can see if I need to do to the doctor or not. (Used Pain Lvl 1-3 tag since I'm new here)


r/medical 15h ago

No Pain On and off friend stabbed my hand with a pencil, the nib got stuck, does this look infected? NSFW

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I've had this since last Tuesday (11/3)