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Question: Good morning from Texas!
So, I am a 23-year-young female who has been experiencing multiple symptoms of something very odd going on with my body over the past month. The odd occurrences are so out of character for my body to experience and the changes are happening in different parts of my body. If you could just offer me any wise advise or help me with one problem, I'm greatly appreciate it. I'll start with the first change in my body that I noticed and work my way to the most recent to the best of my recollection.
1) Pelvic, private region: I should probably start from the very beginning of this probably, but I want you, it is a lot of "TMI". So, I am not very sexually active, but a month ago or so I did engage in "unprotected" sexual activity with this guy. It was close to the 4th day of my menstrual cycle when we had sex and I was previously bleeding, but as soon as we finished, my period was gone. My menstrual cycle usually last about 5 days or so, so that wasn't out of place that it stopped, but the fact that I instantly stopped bleeding alarmed me. At some point I noticed that when I would go to use the bathroom, the duration of my urination lasted about double the time and resulted in double the quantity of urine than it normally does. It sounds precise and weird that I probably know that, but it's like I would stop urinating as I would for my normal urination duration, but then I'd feel like a change or move and then the extra urine would come out and last about the same length of time as if I just first sat down to urinate. About four days after having sex though, I noticed one night while working that almost every few minutes I'd have to run to the bathroom to urinate. I still urinated for the extra time length, but I had less urine coming out. I also remember feeling dizzy/light-headed, had a burning sensation of a headache, felt suddenly nauseous, and had a high heart rate the same night this frequent urinating was happening. It took about two hours before the burning sensation in my head went away and my heart rate was normal. The following day I started having back and lower abdomen pains and my urine had went from clear (I was drinking a lot of water) to mild yellow with this cloudy, dark orange pulp debris looking clump in it. My frequent urinating during this day was ridiculous. I got up almost every few minutes to have to go and over the next two days my urine was not consistent in it's look. I wasn't having pain while urinating at this time, but right before I'd stop urinating I'd feel a sharp pain rather than a burn. I noticed that my urine would go from clear to a darker yellow to clear with a orange pulp clop and then twice I experienced very mild bleeding from my urethra. I mean the first time I bled from my urethra it was these tiny, pepper looking specs and I didn't bleed anymore. The next time I saw blood on my toilet paper, it was two tiny hair-like lines of blood that seriously were as thin as hair and as long as my fingernail maybe. Then no more bleeding. My back and lower abdomen would still hurt, but the left side of my abdomen right above my hip or wherever looked and felt swollen. Well, I was still urinating kind of frequently by the 6th day, but this time it did hurt when I would urinate and in one of my leavings I noticed my urine was clear, but there was this one tiny, not even XXXXXXX sized round wad of what looked like a hairball, but it was blood. It really looked like a clot of hair, but it was blood and that was the only thing in the toilet that was odd. After this, the frequent urinating subsided, no more weird looking urine, pain as I was urinating subsided as well, but then one day I went to use the restroom and a glob that looked like runny blood snot goo came painfully out of my urethra. This was either the very last time blood came out of there or another occurrence happened, but I haven't experienced any of these urinary pains since then until yesterday evening. I got off this month's menstrual cycle two days ago and was good to go for no blood show, but as I woke up from sleeping to get ready for work, I felt like a bubble pop and this clear looking blood just leaked down both my legs. I hurried to the bathroom, but that was pretty much the end of that, but I'm still feeling pain in my left lower abdomen by my hip. It's hurting as I type this, but I don't have any weird color discharge besides the clear blood that appeared yesterday.
2) Pain in the inner arches of my feet: (Started a year or more ago) Pain would hurt so bad I had to get off my feet. I usually have a fairly high tolerance of pain, but it would be to the point where I'd walk with the inner sides of my arches placed up towards the sky, and I'd walk awkwardly until I could sit down. The pain comes and goes, so I don't know when I'll have a good walking day or not. A few months ago, I started feeling my right pinky lock up randomly and overtime it would go numb and lock up. I then got a pain in my right hand and my index finger started hurting as well. I told my doctor about it, but he said it was probably caused from the way I was sleeping since I have previous neck problems on that side. Actually, majority of my pains and problems occur on the right side of my body except the pain in my lower abdomen and my left shoulder. Well now my left hand pinky is bothering me and I've noticed the slowness of my hands and how they don't function as sharply at times. Also, I lose sensation for short amounts of time randomly when I'm touching something. I can be touching my hair and then my fingers go numb and it's this weird feeling of not knowing what I'm touching feels like anymore.
3) I have a compulsive desire to pick scabs on my head. Gross, I know, but it's very addicting and I've been doing it everyday for the past two or three weeks to the point that I do it in public without noticing at times. Well, the scabs are pretty bad and I do pick them until they bleed and hurt. While I'm harming myself doing that I noticed multiple swollen lymph nodes appear on the right side of my neck and a hard one on the back of my left ear. I've had this happen once before I think 3 years ago, no big deal. I figured they might have appeared because I had an unnoticeable infection, but they've stayed for about a week now and they are hard and vary in size and shape from a bb gun pellet to taking up a large sum of the back of my head near my right ear. One knot on my head even has a kind of pointy edge and yes, they hurt. Today majority of my lymph nodes and these knots or bumps on my head are hard and tight on the right side. I woke up for work and they were automatically hurting which they have done before previously this past week. It feels like the right side of my back head and neck got botox compared to my left side because it feels so tight. I also have noticed a definite increase in my acne, and these small bumps appearing around my face that don't feel or look like acne, and my skin (face and body) changes colors. My face appears red the most and I've noticed my arms randomly turn a dark red but they have also looked darker. My boss has mentioned the redness and bumps on my face, but I still would question my vision because even though I wear contacts and have astigmatism, my eyesight is pretty good, but my vision hasn't been up to par lately. I can look at something, but my eyes will go into this weird focus of it and then snap back, and I see dark clouds kind when looking at a computer screen or even at my own body. I've noticed my thinking has definitely changed because I have been struggling when it comes to thinking of what words to use in conversation and getting the words actually out of my mouth. It's like a stutter kind of, but then my brain just takes a break from thinking. I'm also tired A LOT to the point where I sleep almost all day as to not normally doing that, and although my increase in the past month had drastically increased I didn't gain any weight from it. If anything I think I lost weight and I had stopped working out.
I am not depressed or stressed, and pretty happy with life at the moment. I do take Adderol 30 mg for my ADHD, I take iron pills for my anemia which I didn't find out I had until earlier this year which was odd, I have had cervical cancer, but was cured in 2010, and I just have seasonal allergies. Maybe these things aren't a big deal, but just thought I'd see if you could help with what I am and was going through. Oh yeah, I randomly get these "burning" headaches and they feel so weird, and I don't think regular ibuprofen and such do much for these. RIght now I have this burning feeling on the top and back of my head. It kind of makes me want to scratch where it burn, but it feels like it would hurt if I did.
Well anyways, I truly thank you for taking time to read this and thank you in advance if you answer back. I did not really proofread what I wrote, so I apologize for any typos or confusion. I have been up all night at work and just am so exhausted, so please forgive me for that. Have a great day and God bless! :)
So, I am a 23-year-young female who has been experiencing multiple symptoms of something very odd going on with my body over the past month. The odd occurrences are so out of character for my body to experience and the changes are happening in different parts of my body. If you could just offer me any wise advise or help me with one problem, I'm greatly appreciate it. I'll start with the first change in my body that I noticed and work my way to the most recent to the best of my recollection.
1) Pelvic, private region: I should probably start from the very beginning of this probably, but I want you, it is a lot of "TMI". So, I am not very sexually active, but a month ago or so I did engage in "unprotected" sexual activity with this guy. It was close to the 4th day of my menstrual cycle when we had sex and I was previously bleeding, but as soon as we finished, my period was gone. My menstrual cycle usually last about 5 days or so, so that wasn't out of place that it stopped, but the fact that I instantly stopped bleeding alarmed me. At some point I noticed that when I would go to use the bathroom, the duration of my urination lasted about double the time and resulted in double the quantity of urine than it normally does. It sounds precise and weird that I probably know that, but it's like I would stop urinating as I would for my normal urination duration, but then I'd feel like a change or move and then the extra urine would come out and last about the same length of time as if I just first sat down to urinate. About four days after having sex though, I noticed one night while working that almost every few minutes I'd have to run to the bathroom to urinate. I still urinated for the extra time length, but I had less urine coming out. I also remember feeling dizzy/light-headed, had a burning sensation of a headache, felt suddenly nauseous, and had a high heart rate the same night this frequent urinating was happening. It took about two hours before the burning sensation in my head went away and my heart rate was normal. The following day I started having back and lower abdomen pains and my urine had went from clear (I was drinking a lot of water) to mild yellow with this cloudy, dark orange pulp debris looking clump in it. My frequent urinating during this day was ridiculous. I got up almost every few minutes to have to go and over the next two days my urine was not consistent in it's look. I wasn't having pain while urinating at this time, but right before I'd stop urinating I'd feel a sharp pain rather than a burn. I noticed that my urine would go from clear to a darker yellow to clear with a orange pulp clop and then twice I experienced very mild bleeding from my urethra. I mean the first time I bled from my urethra it was these tiny, pepper looking specs and I didn't bleed anymore. The next time I saw blood on my toilet paper, it was two tiny hair-like lines of blood that seriously were as thin as hair and as long as my fingernail maybe. Then no more bleeding. My back and lower abdomen would still hurt, but the left side of my abdomen right above my hip or wherever looked and felt swollen. Well, I was still urinating kind of frequently by the 6th day, but this time it did hurt when I would urinate and in one of my leavings I noticed my urine was clear, but there was this one tiny, not even XXXXXXX sized round wad of what looked like a hairball, but it was blood. It really looked like a clot of hair, but it was blood and that was the only thing in the toilet that was odd. After this, the frequent urinating subsided, no more weird looking urine, pain as I was urinating subsided as well, but then one day I went to use the restroom and a glob that looked like runny blood snot goo came painfully out of my urethra. This was either the very last time blood came out of there or another occurrence happened, but I haven't experienced any of these urinary pains since then until yesterday evening. I got off this month's menstrual cycle two days ago and was good to go for no blood show, but as I woke up from sleeping to get ready for work, I felt like a bubble pop and this clear looking blood just leaked down both my legs. I hurried to the bathroom, but that was pretty much the end of that, but I'm still feeling pain in my left lower abdomen by my hip. It's hurting as I type this, but I don't have any weird color discharge besides the clear blood that appeared yesterday.
2) Pain in the inner arches of my feet: (Started a year or more ago) Pain would hurt so bad I had to get off my feet. I usually have a fairly high tolerance of pain, but it would be to the point where I'd walk with the inner sides of my arches placed up towards the sky, and I'd walk awkwardly until I could sit down. The pain comes and goes, so I don't know when I'll have a good walking day or not. A few months ago, I started feeling my right pinky lock up randomly and overtime it would go numb and lock up. I then got a pain in my right hand and my index finger started hurting as well. I told my doctor about it, but he said it was probably caused from the way I was sleeping since I have previous neck problems on that side. Actually, majority of my pains and problems occur on the right side of my body except the pain in my lower abdomen and my left shoulder. Well now my left hand pinky is bothering me and I've noticed the slowness of my hands and how they don't function as sharply at times. Also, I lose sensation for short amounts of time randomly when I'm touching something. I can be touching my hair and then my fingers go numb and it's this weird feeling of not knowing what I'm touching feels like anymore.
3) I have a compulsive desire to pick scabs on my head. Gross, I know, but it's very addicting and I've been doing it everyday for the past two or three weeks to the point that I do it in public without noticing at times. Well, the scabs are pretty bad and I do pick them until they bleed and hurt. While I'm harming myself doing that I noticed multiple swollen lymph nodes appear on the right side of my neck and a hard one on the back of my left ear. I've had this happen once before I think 3 years ago, no big deal. I figured they might have appeared because I had an unnoticeable infection, but they've stayed for about a week now and they are hard and vary in size and shape from a bb gun pellet to taking up a large sum of the back of my head near my right ear. One knot on my head even has a kind of pointy edge and yes, they hurt. Today majority of my lymph nodes and these knots or bumps on my head are hard and tight on the right side. I woke up for work and they were automatically hurting which they have done before previously this past week. It feels like the right side of my back head and neck got botox compared to my left side because it feels so tight. I also have noticed a definite increase in my acne, and these small bumps appearing around my face that don't feel or look like acne, and my skin (face and body) changes colors. My face appears red the most and I've noticed my arms randomly turn a dark red but they have also looked darker. My boss has mentioned the redness and bumps on my face, but I still would question my vision because even though I wear contacts and have astigmatism, my eyesight is pretty good, but my vision hasn't been up to par lately. I can look at something, but my eyes will go into this weird focus of it and then snap back, and I see dark clouds kind when looking at a computer screen or even at my own body. I've noticed my thinking has definitely changed because I have been struggling when it comes to thinking of what words to use in conversation and getting the words actually out of my mouth. It's like a stutter kind of, but then my brain just takes a break from thinking. I'm also tired A LOT to the point where I sleep almost all day as to not normally doing that, and although my increase in the past month had drastically increased I didn't gain any weight from it. If anything I think I lost weight and I had stopped working out.
I am not depressed or stressed, and pretty happy with life at the moment. I do take Adderol 30 mg for my ADHD, I take iron pills for my anemia which I didn't find out I had until earlier this year which was odd, I have had cervical cancer, but was cured in 2010, and I just have seasonal allergies. Maybe these things aren't a big deal, but just thought I'd see if you could help with what I am and was going through. Oh yeah, I randomly get these "burning" headaches and they feel so weird, and I don't think regular ibuprofen and such do much for these. RIght now I have this burning feeling on the top and back of my head. It kind of makes me want to scratch where it burn, but it feels like it would hurt if I did.
Well anyways, I truly thank you for taking time to read this and thank you in advance if you answer back. I did not really proofread what I wrote, so I apologize for any typos or confusion. I have been up all night at work and just am so exhausted, so please forgive me for that. Have a great day and God bless! :)
Brief Answer:
The quick and easy way to get better.
Detailed Answer:
Dear XXXX,
It's always a pleasure for a doctor to have people who have an eye for the "nuts and bolts" of their illnesses because as both of us know, the devil is in the details.
I'm Dr. Neel Kudchadkar and I'll help you "nuke" all your problems.
In order to get and set things perfectly right, we have to start right from the beginning. Believe me, I have examined the "document" (It really cannot be called a query) you have sent over the 'web to healthcaremagic and I have decided that it's about high time you are rid of all these irritating problems.
You deserve to be in the pink of health and enjoy life to the maximum don't you?
So take a deep breath and let's get started.
1) I would reassure you that the first query that you have described in graphic detail is a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection). The scientific and statistical medical fact is that of all women, 50% suffer from UTI's in a lifetime and for some, there are recurrent UTI's. Despite all the antibiotics and countermeasures.
Why?
Because the female urogenital triangle (the anal region, the inner thighs and the vagina, roughly sketching it out.) is constructed in such a manner as to cause a proximity (closeness - too close for comfort) between the anus and the urethra (the living tube that's connected to your urinary bladder, from where the urine flows).
Secondly, a females "urethra" is very short as compared to a mans.
Thirdly, during ablution (wiping the anal region with toilet paper), if the movement is from back to front, (natural instinct), this transfers germs (they can't be seen, they are microscopic, even a single one is sufficient to trigger off an infection) to the urethra.
Why am I so confident that it's a UTI? Perhaps "it" could be something else... something serious and scary perhaps.
Because, science reveals that the most common diagnosis (the problem) is the most likely diagnosis.
Fourthly, let us go step by step. Let's give you something for the UTI.
I really apologize, but as yet, we, at healthcaremagic, cannot give you a prescription for medicines over the 'web. (Although we soon might.) I'd really like to do so, and for now you might want to visit your favourite doctor and vocally voice your concerns, and in all probability you will get a prescription for the following medication.
**CIPROFLOXACIN** This is an antibiotic and is not to be confused with the eye drops. Please take it orally, take every pill on time and without fail. Take the dose that your local physician asks you to take.
2) The second problem of feeling parasthesia's (weird feelings in your fingers and toes) and feeling pain in the arch of your foot, can be diagnosed in this manner.
1. Raynaud's Disease.
2. Claudication of vascular or neurogenic origin.
What does all this mean?
Raynauds disease is "something" that simply affects the blood vessels of the arms and the fingers, and make them feel numb. It can be disconcerting.
Intermittent claudication comes from the latin word "claudio" - "To limp". This is due to lack of blood supply to the parts of your lower limbs. This is called "vascular" claudication. If there is pressure on the bones of the back, it's called neurogenic claudication.
Let's see the big picture here. Given all this information, I would give you a low dose of a famous medication called PROZAC.
I am confident that you are absolutely sane of mind and have sound judgement.
=================================================
It's just that PROZAC **may** be used in certain people (not you) for depression and anxiety and a couple of interesting things, But PROZAC is used "off-the-shelf" for the above mentioned problems.
You are free to ask your doctor this. Given all the facts of your case, I am confident that a low dose of PROZAC will make the issues better, not because of ANY QUESTIONS AS REGARDS YOUR SANITY, BUT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT BY COINCIDENCE, PROZAC HELPS THESE ISSUES.
3) You mentioned that you feel the urge to pick your hair. This happens to some people and isn't really that nasty unless THEY FIND IT UNACCEPTABLE. A LOW DOSE OF PROZAC, SAY 10MG, IS USEFUL HERE TOO. The urge to pick your hair is in no way a sign of ANY MENTAL ILLNESS. YOU MENTION THAT YOU DO NOT FEEL DEPRESSED, AND THE LIKE.
I am interested in your case and would like to hear from you. I sincerely had to "war game" various scenarios of treatment. It took much thought, and finally instead of taking a whole bunch of medications with their accompanying side effects. I feel that these two will solve your issues - all of them.
Warm wishes.
By the way jokes about Texans don't sound funny to me either :).
Please visit your favourite doctor, take both of 'em (the drugs, the "meds")
Kindly report back to me as regards the outcome.
I am confident we can fix "it".
Dr. Neel Kudchadkar.
The quick and easy way to get better.
Detailed Answer:
Dear XXXX,
It's always a pleasure for a doctor to have people who have an eye for the "nuts and bolts" of their illnesses because as both of us know, the devil is in the details.
I'm Dr. Neel Kudchadkar and I'll help you "nuke" all your problems.
In order to get and set things perfectly right, we have to start right from the beginning. Believe me, I have examined the "document" (It really cannot be called a query) you have sent over the 'web to healthcaremagic and I have decided that it's about high time you are rid of all these irritating problems.
You deserve to be in the pink of health and enjoy life to the maximum don't you?
So take a deep breath and let's get started.
1) I would reassure you that the first query that you have described in graphic detail is a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection). The scientific and statistical medical fact is that of all women, 50% suffer from UTI's in a lifetime and for some, there are recurrent UTI's. Despite all the antibiotics and countermeasures.
Why?
Because the female urogenital triangle (the anal region, the inner thighs and the vagina, roughly sketching it out.) is constructed in such a manner as to cause a proximity (closeness - too close for comfort) between the anus and the urethra (the living tube that's connected to your urinary bladder, from where the urine flows).
Secondly, a females "urethra" is very short as compared to a mans.
Thirdly, during ablution (wiping the anal region with toilet paper), if the movement is from back to front, (natural instinct), this transfers germs (they can't be seen, they are microscopic, even a single one is sufficient to trigger off an infection) to the urethra.
Why am I so confident that it's a UTI? Perhaps "it" could be something else... something serious and scary perhaps.
Because, science reveals that the most common diagnosis (the problem) is the most likely diagnosis.
Fourthly, let us go step by step. Let's give you something for the UTI.
I really apologize, but as yet, we, at healthcaremagic, cannot give you a prescription for medicines over the 'web. (Although we soon might.) I'd really like to do so, and for now you might want to visit your favourite doctor and vocally voice your concerns, and in all probability you will get a prescription for the following medication.
**CIPROFLOXACIN** This is an antibiotic and is not to be confused with the eye drops. Please take it orally, take every pill on time and without fail. Take the dose that your local physician asks you to take.
2) The second problem of feeling parasthesia's (weird feelings in your fingers and toes) and feeling pain in the arch of your foot, can be diagnosed in this manner.
1. Raynaud's Disease.
2. Claudication of vascular or neurogenic origin.
What does all this mean?
Raynauds disease is "something" that simply affects the blood vessels of the arms and the fingers, and make them feel numb. It can be disconcerting.
Intermittent claudication comes from the latin word "claudio" - "To limp". This is due to lack of blood supply to the parts of your lower limbs. This is called "vascular" claudication. If there is pressure on the bones of the back, it's called neurogenic claudication.
Let's see the big picture here. Given all this information, I would give you a low dose of a famous medication called PROZAC.
I am confident that you are absolutely sane of mind and have sound judgement.
=================================================
It's just that PROZAC **may** be used in certain people (not you) for depression and anxiety and a couple of interesting things, But PROZAC is used "off-the-shelf" for the above mentioned problems.
You are free to ask your doctor this. Given all the facts of your case, I am confident that a low dose of PROZAC will make the issues better, not because of ANY QUESTIONS AS REGARDS YOUR SANITY, BUT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT BY COINCIDENCE, PROZAC HELPS THESE ISSUES.
3) You mentioned that you feel the urge to pick your hair. This happens to some people and isn't really that nasty unless THEY FIND IT UNACCEPTABLE. A LOW DOSE OF PROZAC, SAY 10MG, IS USEFUL HERE TOO. The urge to pick your hair is in no way a sign of ANY MENTAL ILLNESS. YOU MENTION THAT YOU DO NOT FEEL DEPRESSED, AND THE LIKE.
I am interested in your case and would like to hear from you. I sincerely had to "war game" various scenarios of treatment. It took much thought, and finally instead of taking a whole bunch of medications with their accompanying side effects. I feel that these two will solve your issues - all of them.
Warm wishes.
By the way jokes about Texans don't sound funny to me either :).
Please visit your favourite doctor, take both of 'em (the drugs, the "meds")
Kindly report back to me as regards the outcome.
I am confident we can fix "it".
Dr. Neel Kudchadkar.
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