Fever gums

Teething in babies is a natural developmental stage where a baby's first teeth start to emerge through the gums. This process can be uncomfortable for babies and challenging for parents. Here's a detailed look at the symptoms and remedies for teething in babies:
Symptoms of Teething

1. Drooling:

• Increased saliva production, leading to more drooling.

1. Chewing and Biting:

• Babies may chew on toys, fingers, or other objects to alleviate gum discomfort.

1. Irritability and Fussiness:

• Increased crankiness due to gum pain and discomfort.

1. Swollen or Tender Gums:

• Gums may appear red, swollen, and tender to the touch.

1. **Sleep Disturbances**:

• Discomfort can lead to disrupted sleep patterns.

1. Loss of Appetite:

• Babies may eat less because of gum pain.

1. Ear Pulling and Cheek Rubbing:

• Babies might pull at their ears or rub their cheeks, as the pain from teething can radiate to these areas.

1. Mild Fever:

• Some babies may experience a slight increase in temperature, though high fever is not typical and should be checked by a doctor.

Remedies for Teething

1. Teething Toys:

• Provide safe, chewable teething rings or toys to help massage the gums.
  
• Chilling these toys in the refrigerator can provide extra soothing relief (avoid freezing as it can cause more harm than good).
  

1. Cold Washcloth:

• A clean, damp washcloth chilled in the refrigerator can be given to the baby to chew on.

1. Gum Massage:

• Gently rubbing the baby's gums with a clean finger can help alleviate discomfort.

1. Teething Biscuits:

• Hard, unsweetened teething biscuits can be offered to older babies to chew on.

1. Cold Foods:

• For babies already eating solids, cold purees, applesauce, or yogurt can be soothing.

1. Pain Relief:

• Over-the-counter pain relief medications like infant acetaminophen or ibuprofen can be used if necessary (always follow the dosing instructions and consult with a pediatrician first).

1. Distraction:

• Engaging the baby with activities, toys, or a change of scenery can sometimes help take their mind off the discomfort.

1. Teething Gels:

• Some parents use over-the-counter teething gels, but these should be used with caution and under a pediatrician's advice due to potential risks from certain ingredients.

Additional Tips

• Maintain Oral Hygiene: Even before teeth emerge, wipe the baby’s gums with a clean, damp cloth after feedings to keep the mouth clean.
  
• Monitor for Other Symptoms: Teething should not cause severe symptoms like high fever, diarrhea, or a rash. If these occur, it's essential to consult a healthcare provider as they may indicate another issue.
  
• Stay Calm and Patient: Teething can be a trying time for both babies and parents. Maintaining a calm and comforting presence can help soothe a distressed baby.
  

By understanding the symptoms and using appropriate remedies, parents can help their babies navigate the teething process more comfortably. If concerns arise, it’s always best to consult with a pediatrician for guidance.

I have a 1 year old cavapoo. He’s neutered and he has no prior health issues. He’s about 11 pounds and the only medication he takes is Simparica Trio. He’s the happiest, sweetest boy ever. He loves to eat and he loves to run around and play. Now on to the issue.
Around 24 hours ago, my dog woke up in the middle of the night and threw up. I didn’t think much of it because sometimes it just happens. He had been normal all day and eating as usual. I cleaned it up and we went back to bed. He ended up jumping off my bed at some point in the night and had diarrhea EVERYWHERE. I woke up to it in the morning.
He was not himself at all. He looked so sad and just mopey all day long. He loves to eat everything and refused everything under the sun, including cooked human food (chicken). I got him to drink some water here and there.
Throughout the day he threw up at least 10 times. Just straight liquid. He only had one bout of diarrhea which was the one in the house in the middle of the night. I finally made the call to rush to the emergency vet when i noticed specks of blood in his last round of throw up.
We get there and they basically told me that he sounded good, vitals were good, no fever, no abdominal swelling or pain when touched, and his gums weren’t pale so he wasn’t that dehydrated. Overall his physical exam was fine. They gave him an injection of anti-nausea stuff and some fluids just to be on the safe side.
The vet stated she was okay sending him home. It’s been around 8 hours since the vet visit and i’m still worried sick about him. He drank a little bit of water, still won’t eat, still laying around, but he has peed and had one more bout of diarrhea two hours after we got home from the vet. His last vomiting episode was probably 9 hours ago.
Maybe i’m overreacting and I just need to let whatever upset his stomach run its course but i’m just so worried. I don’t know what would’ve made him sick as he didn’t get anything new nor has he gotten into anything (that i am aware of). He is up to date on all vaccines and he doesn’t really go anywhere and hasn’t been in contact with other dogs.
When do I make the call to bring him back in? If this is just a case of gastroenteritis, when would you expect to see improvement?

I just got a 10 week old puppy from a rescue. He had two doses of parvo, leptospirosis, dewormer, flea treatment, etc.. He was rescued from an Amish farm, so I'm assuming(?) mom was unvaccinated, as well. These were unspayed/unneutered working dogs, not a mill, according to the rescue, though, not sure that is relevant.
I've had him for 4 days, started with vomiting late last night, undigested food. Then 2-3 times of bile. He then had watery stools throughout the night (3-4 times) and was generally fatigued. Initially, I assumed too many treats, too much outside time/excitement etc., but this morning he had blood in his stool and was more lethargic, so I brought him to the emergency vet. They tested for parvo, at my suspicion from everything I've read, and he's positive.
Obvisously I had two treatment options, inpatient and outpatient with the inpatient being the preferred. That started at $5k and was told it could easily go up. Vet was beyond wonderful, so no issues there, and he was thoughtful in his recommendation for inpatient, but understanding of the outpatient option.
Outpatient was considerably less expensive ($700 as of now) with potentially less favorable results. I chose the outpatient option on the caveat(s) that my pup is 12lbs, a larger breed, and he did have two vaccine doses, pink gums, soft belly, low grade fever, hadn't vomited in 12 hours and was taking in some water, BUT if he got worse or didn't improve within a day or two I'd bring him back.
They gave him fluid in his hump, a anti-nausea shot, two antibiotics, an appetite stimulant and oral anti-nausea to take home.
Since bringing him home, my pup is still super sleepy, but has been drinking when awake (still no vomiting) and scarfed some rice and beef earlier and had chicken and rice an hour+ later. He also had a smidge of scrambled eggs and a tablespoon of peanut butter to choke down the oral antibiotic. He tolerated all of that well, but hasn't has a BM since this morning. Is that OK? Is blockage a worry with parvo? He has peed normally and his stream appears clear. He's not in obvious disress, apart from being tired. He's at times a little whimpery (if I carry him outside to go to the bathroom) but does not seem overly uncomfortable, but is definitely low energy.
He was totally fine and an absolute shark tooth monster yesterday, so this feels like it came on super quick. I work from home and have a very casual schedule, so he will not be alone, at all, during any of this.
I guess my question(s) are...he hasn't pooped in 8 hours. That will come?
Does the eating and drinking sound promising?
Can he be reinfected? I read to bleach everything, but he's gone to the bathroom outside each time and we're not socializing with other people or animals.
Any other recommendations over the next two days of at-home treatment?
I've read all the parvo stories here...as much as I could mentally handle. Just looking for any positives or reassurances with my pup. I appreciate any further advice.

Hello Doctors of Reddit!
Over the past year, I have been searching for answers for my daughter, and keep getting brushed off by doctors who only want to focus on their specialty instead of the whole picture, so I want to try and get ideas before we go to see her next specialist. I have been made to feel like I either don't care enough or have Munchausen-by-proxy by the doctors I've had her seen by, even though I've done everything as prescribed and everything has been found through routine examination.
I have a 16-month-old daughter who seems to have issues unilaterally on her left side.

• The first thing discovered was Congenital Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss in her left ear. It was discovered the day after she was born, with it remaining unchanged over the past 16 months. She has a hearing aid for this.
• She had torticollis towards the left side that led to a pretty minor flat spot on the back of her head, it has mostly gone away at this point. The torticollis was resolved by physical therapy that was prescribed because she had a mild motor delay at 6 months. She has remained in physical therapy and is excelling, though at times she does seem to have weird unilateral quirks like only using one hand or foot for a new skill while the other catches up. The physical therapist noticed this.
• At her 1 year checkup, she flagged the vision screening and was referred to ophthalmology. The ophthalmologist found that her only left eye is near-sighted, while both have astigmatism. Her vision is currently being corrected with glasses.
• Her left palm has only one crease, the right has 2. I don't know if this is a major thing, but along with everything else, I feel like it is worth mentioning.
• As she has been teething it seems like her upper left lateral incisor isn't coming in, and it doesn't even seem like it is under the gums, or that there is really even a space for it, even though all the rest of her teeth are either poking through or swelling other than her back molars. This isn't something I'm super concerned about yet, but if it doesn't come in by her next dentist appointment in July I'm going to ask about it.
• She is in the 99th percentile for weight and BMI and 96th percentile for height. These seem pretty outlier-ish, so worth mentioning.

Because her hearing loss was discovered at birth I'll include some of that info too:

• Born at 39 weeks, 7lb 11oz.
• Induced for gestational hypertension, though I didn't even get to pitocin. She was out less than 4 hours after cervadil was placed.
• I had a history of preeclampsia and Factor V Leiden so I took aspirin throughout the pregnancy.
• I began to get a fever before she came out (they didn't expect her to come so soon), and I was given antibiotics (ampicillin and gentamicin) for "possible early chorioamnionitis".
• She was pushed out in one push with a compound presentation of her fist over her ear.
• I had COVID-19 in the 2nd trimester (August 2022 I believe).
• No drugs or alcohol or even anything like hair dye during pregnancy.
• She is my 2nd child, my first child does not have any diagnoses.
• There is no known genetic history of anything related

She currently sees her pediatrician, audiologist, ophthalmologist and physical therapist. We had a TERRIBLE experience with an ENT, who never had any of her records and never sent referrals, but charged $700/appointment and didn't want to deal with insurance, so it was just going in, getting charged, and the same appointment over and over. We were just able to get a referral to another ENT after significant convincing (and slight begging), so that appointment will be scheduled soon, and hopefully, we can get the referrals for genetics and imaging like the first ENT kept saying they'd send out.
Every doctor we've seen treats each thing as a separate issue, but her dad and I both agree that there are just a lot of coincidences and feel like there is probably some sort of connection even if no one wants to take it seriously. Neither one of us even know where to start looking or what to ask the specialists to look into.
If you had a patient with these symptoms, history, and diagnoses, what would you test? What would be on your radar? Would you think these are all separate issues, or could they potentially be linked?
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I know that ‘immoral’ doesn’t quite cover it.
It isn’t as though I awoke one morning and decided that was the Thursday I was going to roll out of bed and become a piece of shit. I didn’t pull on last year’s trainers and make a pact with myself that my bank balance would triple because I was going to become a ghost-hunting scam artist, greasing my endless lies with snake oil. But it doesn’t matter, not really. Karma came for me in a big way, and it was deserved.
We gained a bit of a niche following online, nothing to write home about but we made our money from donations and of course, the cold hard cash from the people we sucked the life out of. I won’t bore with fine details, but we ghostbusted nineteen homes before we reached the Whistlebys. With each home, we bought more equipment to really add credence to the whole wraith-wrangler thing. We turned creaky floorboards into demons, water tank leaks into internet views. It was fun, until it wasn’t.
I’d never met a family quite like them.
The others, they were young couples afraid of whistling wind, old singles desperate for validation that their home wasn’t heavy with the weight of vengeful spirits. It was easy, muscle memory. But the Whistlebys - god, they were terrified. Young parents and two children with their family dog, cowering in the corner when we set up for our bullshit interview. The daughter was so pale she seemed to sink into the walls behind her, face gaunt and eyes haunted. It was her we latched onto as we probed, stifling excited smirks with our palms.
“He never leaves,” she whispered, staring through us as if we weren’t really there. If her eyes glimmered once, they certainly didn’t now; lost and soulless as she gazed into the abyss. It was Adam who managed to coax the words from her lips, voice soft as he gently probed.
“Who is he? We have plenty of equipment here to find him in whatever corner he’s hiding, we just need to know as much as you can tell us.”
A wry smile made its way onto her lips as she finally looked at Adam, voice low and deliberate. “You don’t need to find him. You’ll know where he is, I promise. He walks on the ceiling and crawls down the walls. He’ll find you.”
The young girl’s mum spoke suddenly, eyes full of tears. “She didn’t used to speak this way,” she breathed, gaze darting around the room, “She’s so tired. So tired. She doesn’t sleep anymore, it doesn’t let her.”
Jonah stood up then, grinning as he clutched his camera for dear life. “Ma’am, don’t you worry for a second, you’re in the right hands. We’ll find out what your visitor wants, and we’ll cast him right outta here. You have my word.”
His word meant nothing, but they didn’t need to know that. The fear in their aura was palpable, it was as if they had their own pulsing circle of gravity sucking the life from the room. Their dread did something foreign to me: it made me nervous. In all the nighttime giggling and masquerading in people’s homes, I’d never been scared. To do this job was to know that ghosts were as real as fairies in whimsical tales, it was to laugh at the notion. But during that interview, I wasn’t laughing. The girl’s eyes were black holes, and they looked like they’d sucked her soul out long ago. So, with the image of those eyes burned into my retinas, we did what we did best. 11 pm rolled around and with the family booked into a hotel, it was showtime.
“Show yourself, demon!” Jonah lunged through the front door as nighttime blanketed the house in darkness, hauling our masses of equipment through. We didn’t need any of it, obviously, but it made people feel as though we were legitimately expelling ghosts from their homes with the flick of a battered crucifix.
Adam rolled his eyes, glancing down at the EMF reader in his hand. “Bro, come on. Did you see how scared that girl was? I feel a little bad.”
“Shit, she was creepy,” Jonah chomped on his gum, leaving muddy boot stains as he clambered up on the sofa to stick his camera to the wall, “He walks on the ceiling. Dude must have the mother of all headaches.”
I stayed quiet, chewing my lip as I set up our audio equipment and eyed the tired-looking lump of plastic. The older it looks, the more authentic it appears Jonah had assured me, and sure, I supposed it did look like it belonged in a 1998 horror game, but it was pretty shit. Not that we’d ever picked up anything on it before - there was the great scare of house 12 when the fridge appeared to hum a lilting tune, but it was just super broken.
“Right,” Jonah jumped downwards, nearly knocking over the coffee table, “Plan is Megan Donovan is leaving the house party you guys didn’t wanna go to at like 2 am. I say we wrap up here by 1 am, swing by the party and I’ll be her shoulder to cry on because her douchebag boyfriend was a dick again all night.”
Adam scowled as Jonah cackled but I stayed mute, casting my eyes around the room. I couldn’t deny this place felt different, somehow. Even with all the lights dancing across the house, there sat an empty, tepid coldness that seemed to seep through the walls. There was no warmth here, no safety. Loving family photos littered the room, but somehow it felt barren. Wrong.
“I’m down to do this quickly, at least,” Adam muttered, eyes darting around nervously, “You guys feel that? Place feels…”
“Haunted?” I finished for him, rolling my eyes at Jonah’s guffaws.
“Alright, if you’re both gonna be pussies, I’ll get started,” he stared ominously into our main camera placed across the room, red light blinking towards the sofa we were sitting on, “It’s time, everyone. As always, first, we’ll try to contact the ghost, and see if we pick up anything on the microphone or the EMF.”
Clearing his throat, Adam stole a glance at me. “Uh, okay. We’re here in your domain, ghost,” he tried to project but I heard the slight crack in his voice, “We’re here to find out what you want, why you haunt this family. We’re here to set you free.”
I counted down from six, bulging my eyes as I shrieked, throwing myself backwards. “No way,” I bellowed, pointing off camera, “There’s no way!”
And we did the usual scramble, all of us claiming we saw a photo frame go flying, switching to shaky hand cam footage as Jonah retrieved it from the floor we laid it on earlier. It was rehearsed, but something just felt different. It’s hard to describe, but I couldn’t shake the feeling a pair of eyes were locked onto me, a horrid gaze burning into my back. The feeling amplified as we pulled out the trusty Ouija board only moments later, laying it on the table and pushing it into frame. I scratched at my arms nervously, trying not to stare at the shadows that seemed to be consuming the room.
“Alright,” Jonah muttered, placing his finger on the planchette, “I ask its name, we give it something creepy like Maurice. I’ll move it, you guys just stay still.”
“Feel free to run the show on this one,” I offered, goosebumps erupting over my skin. Had it gotten colder in here? Adam certainly thought so as he hugged his hoodie tighter, shaking something off as he placed his finger on the planchette with us. The dread was otherworldly, beginning to creep across my skin and begging me to stop.
“Spirit,” Jonah demanded, dramatically eyeing each corner of the room, “Make yourself known to us. Show us. Communicate with us! I want to ask what name gives you your power. What is your name, ghost?”
He waited a fairly believable amount of time before the planchette slowly began to move towards M, but I knew my heart wasn’t in my lacklustre reaction. Jonah would yell at me later, claiming I ruined the entire Ouija shot, but I swore I could see something in my peripheral. Just out of view, staring at me. I didn’t turn my head, didn’t dare. Instead, I gritted my teeth and focused on the board, letting my jaw drop dramatically.
M-A-U-R-I
And just like that, the planchette halted. Painfully, almost. Jonah scowled, head snapping to us. “Really?! Dude, I was nearly finished-”
“You stopped,” I argued, wondering if it was a blanket on the bookshelf or a crumpled-up man staring dead-eyed at me, as I was beginning to suspect it was.
“Just do it again,” Adam grumbled, and it wasn’t usually like this. We didn’t fight, we didn’t bite. The house felt as though it was draining the life from us, the joy. I felt physically tired, as though even being here was soul-sucking. But, as I told myself, ghosts were not real. We were not real. We were opportunistic bastards and we were leaving at 1 am.
The planchette moved to M with ease again and we forced our shock, but with less enthusiasm this time. It seemed even Jonah was struggling now, eyebrows knitted together tensely.
M-A-U-R-I-C
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And it stopped again, but this time it jerked to the left, causing a gasp to leave Adam’s lips. “Jonah, for fuck-”
“What is your problem?” Jonah cried, looking between us as though we were crazy, “Ever since we got in here, you’ve been acting like a couple of little girls. I swear to god, if Megan-”
But his words died on his lips, because - as we all scowled at one another - the planchette yanked our waiting fingers in the opposite direction, landing on a letter.
B
“Adam, for Christ-”
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E
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The planchette scraped horribly against the Ouija board and I couldn’t tear my eyes away, sitting between the chaos of my friends arguing as each blamed the other, neither paying enough attention to the board. I swallowed, trying to watch for a twitch of the muscles in their fingers, some indication of which one was fucking with us.
E
But there was none. Their fingers were light, barely grazing the object jerking clumsily around the board. Adam met my eyes, trepidation lining his features. “Listen, I just want to get this shit done and get out of here. If this is you-”
L
“It isn’t,” I returned, voice lost in the sound of Jonah growling and wrenching up the planchette, launching it across the room till it hit the wall with a sickening crack. I could only stare in shock at my furious, panting friend but Adam leapt upwards, throwing his arms out in question.
“You can’t be serious! Jonah, for fuck sake, what is wrong with you?”
And they argued. Yelled, threw their arms around, ignored the room. But I couldn’t ignore the room. I hadn’t been able to ignore it from the second we’d stepped in here, the atmosphere wrapping around my throat from the very first second we’d dared. And they weren’t seeing it, but I was. The blanket in the corner of the room, hanging limply from the figure underneath it. Tall, impossibly tall, shrouded in shadow and with the fabric sagging off it horribly.
“Shut up,” I whispered to the boys next to me, but they didn’t stop. They didn’t stop as the blanket began to drag closer towards us, the sound of toenails scraping on the floor echoing louder than even my friends. I could see the silhouette underneath it, the darkness that followed. The cold. But they didn’t notice, not until a screech sounded, sending our eyes all in the direction of the bleeping monstrosity.
“Fuck,” Adam cried, shaking his head at the EMF detector which was flashing a bloody red colour and wailing to attention. I was only distracted momentarily from the carnage, turning around in time to feel a horrid whoosh of air as the blanket fell into a crumpled heap a mere inch from my nose, dropping to my feet. The air was sucked from my lungs as I tumbled backwards, collapsing on the sofa and gasping instead of forming words. Adam looked upon me with concern, but Jonah was done.
“Nah,” he growled, wincing at the wail of the EMF machine, “Listen, I’m not doing this all over again. Come here, let’s do something with this godforsaken thing. Grab it, wave it around, just fucking get up.”
My eyes were still darting around the room and only pulled from their trance as a buzzing fly landed on my hand, narrowly avoiding death with the flick of my shaking finger. It woke me up, my voice sounding more strained than I would’ve liked. “Are you hearing that? It’s detecting something, Jonah, I swear to god I saw-”
“Faulty microwave, shitty electrics, I don’t know,” his voice raised threateningly, “Seriously, stop. Let’s leave the room and run in, we’ll act shocked about the EMF, we’ll walk around a bit, and then we’re going. I’m sick of you both.”
I should’ve argued. Obviously, I should’ve argued. But I can’t describe the way I felt in that moment - it was as though my fear gave way to denial so quickly that I was already calling myself crazy, reaching desperately for the idea that no, I was seeing things. Feeling things. As though I needed to prove to myself that I was crazy, and the horrors my mind was conjuring simply couldn’t exist.
So I stayed.
I stayed as the three of us trudged out of the living room, as we all pulled our clothes tighter and ignored the ice seeping into our skin. I ignored Adam squeezing my shoulder, a sentiment he’d never bothered with before. I ignored my thudding heart as we clutched our cameras, bursting into the living room in our most epic movie yet, ready to contort our faces in horror.
But we didn’t have to fake it.
In the corner was our screaming EMF reader, blinking red as it had been for the last 5 minutes. But the problem was the endless claws wrapped around it, attached to a figure so tall its head brushed the ceiling and black eyes glared upon us. It swayed in the shadows but I could see its arms, gaunt and as long as its legs, neck cracking awfully as it turned to look at us in an instant. A sick dripping sounded just loud enough for us to hear, and to this day, I imagine it as thick, crimson blood falling from its fingers onto its dead, curled toes.
“Holy shit,” Adam whispered, so I knew in fact, I hadn’t lost my mind. We ran, of course. Scared idiots launching themselves backwards and tripping over everything, legs jelly as we bolted for the front door. I cursed myself for not leaving more quickly, begged for a time machine to have me believe my eyes the first time. We didn’t make it. There in the hallway was our 1998 horror movie audio device, except now it was crackling and a rasp sounded from it, too deep and gravelly to be human. Layers of voices sounded at once, so distorted I could barely make them out.
“I smell your blood,” it rasped, the voice touching me so closely I could practically feel it inside of me, “I’ll suck it out of your veins and wear your skin.”
And then, before there was time to react, every lightbulb in the house smashed at once. I know, because I heard the shards hit the floor in every room. Cried out as pure darkness filled the space, leaving me with no idea where my friends were and if they even existed anymore.
“The door won’t fucking open!” Adam screeched from my right, audibly jamming the handle, “It won’t open!”
“Where’s the crucifix?” Jonah begged, and I could hear the tears in his voice, “Adam, where?!”
But now it was only footsteps we heard. Not slow ones. Thudding, loud footsteps, gaining pace and getting louder and louder, till it sounded like something was running at us. But the sound didn’t come from the floor. With the most gut-wrenching feeling of horror, I realised it was coming from the ceiling.
“Oh my god,” Adam’s voice was below me somewhere, because he’d fallen down into a heap of fear, “What the fuck is that? What is that?!”
It was deafening, all of it. The wailing EMF detector, the rasp of crackling audio threatening to break all our bones at once, the footsteps slamming to a stop directly above my head. All leading to the moment I looked up, a silent tear disappearing in a slow trickle down my cheek.
Its body was contorted horribly as it glowered down from the ceiling, neck cracked at an unnatural angle with bones jutting out everywhere. Dead, black holes for eyes bored into mine, hell radiating from them in such a way that I was knocked to the floor by the sheer force of it. Rows of razor teeth were pulled back into a horrific grin, stretching much in the way its wings did as they grazed the ceiling, reams of liquid trickling from them onto our heads.
Hell. Staring from above me.
My memory is hazy, and part of me thinks my brain tried to erase the trauma to give myself half a chance to go on with my life. I remember Jonah being lifted into the air with such a guttural wail that I’ve never heard a sound like it since. Remember the sound of his bones crackling as we ran, making straight for the living room. We threw furniture at the window, and ignored the thud of Jonah’s lifeless body being hurled at us, hitting the wall with a sick crack.
I know we got out. I felt its eyes burning from behind me as our skin snagged on glass, as we sprinted into the hammering rain, screaming for any help we could find. When the paramedics came, most of Jonah’s leg had already been eaten, the remains nowhere to be found. He woke up six days later, screaming bloody murder. Screams he kept up till he was sedated, only reducing to a whimpering wail the third time they woke him up.
The bottom floor of the house was destroyed, along with everything in it. Our equipment crushed; all evidence of our horrors erased other than the haunted look in Adams’s eyes and the nightmares that still wake me at 3 am. Wild animals tore the leg from an unconscious Jonah, the local police said. We were just idiots holding a seance in a house, leaving the backdoor open to all manner of wild animals as we partied ourselves silly. At first, they thought we trashed the house, but the Whistlebys assured the police that no, it simply wasn’t the case. This had happened before, they told them, we were just caught in the crossfire. They gave their statement that night, protested our innocence, then packed their bags.
They never left.
Their little girl went missing that night, right before they could flee. Her suitcase sat in her room, untouched, and that house became a sad legend on those streets, spoken about in hushed tones. I left town but something inside it never left me. We don’t speak of it, the three of us. We left, and when we meet, that night exists as the elephant in the room, Jonah’s scarred stump reminding us that we didn’t imagine the entire thing as a collective fever dream.
So I left, lived my life. Started going to church, took up cricket. And when I hear the sound of thudding footsteps hammering along the ceiling of my hallway in the dead of night, I pull the covers over my head and pray to every god that may or may not exist that I’ll live another day. It takes such a long time to pick up all 104 crucifixes off the floor the next morning, but for the life of me, I’ll never stop doing it.

My symptoms:
Erythema Nodosum for 10 weeks (just now healing)
Swollen lymph nodes for several weeks, different ones get swollen at different times
Petechiae on my neck (2 days now)
Lethargy
Heart palpitations
Knees get red, hot, at least once a day
Waking up hot like I have a fever
High blood pressure (just started)
Dry eyes (2 months now, unable to wear contacts)
Random gum sores, like canker sores
Just not feeling myself. I have a history of shingles 4 times in my early 20s-mid 30s. I am 39 right now. History of chickenpox multiple times as a kid, which they said was not possible. I was wondering if I may have undiagnosed Epstein-Barr Virus also... bloodwork came back unable to measure platelets due to significant clumping. Elevated protein 8.7, elevated albumin 5.03.
Any ideas? Waiting for a referral to call me back about an ultrasound for my swollen lymph nodes. So far, I only feel some in my neck.

Hi, I am hoping to get some feedback from anyone diagnosed with MG and Lupus (or really any combination of autoimmune disorders). I’m diagnosed presumed seronegative MG but have weaned off steroids to do additional exclusion testing before starting immunomodulating therapy long term.
Since weaning, all of my MG symptoms have returned but I’m now also experiencing hair loss, mouth ulcers, gum bleeding, extreme fatigue, daily headaches, joint pain in my knees, hip and neck, fever and fever like muscle pain, flushing (the photo is one unusual example and it usually goes just over my nose and cheeks), chest pain and kidney pain that begins to throb after I go to the toilet… 😭
Honestly, I’m so done with all of it. The idea that I will finally be starting proper MG treatment only to add a giant list of symptoms to the mix is beyond defeating. It’s making me feel crazy and I don’t even want to mention these symptoms to my neuro tbh. I can’t stand the thought of having to start a process of advocating for testing for lupus or some other condition when I had a hard enough time being diagnosed with MG.
Any way, sorry to rant but I’ve read lupus is a somewhat common comorbid condition with MG and so I’d really appreciate hearing about anyone else’s experience of being diagnosed with this or multiple autoimmune disorders generally.
TIA
*I had also considered Isaac’s Syndrome because I was having really full on fasciculations but it seems that was caused by increasing my mestinon since weaning off pred.

I'm feeling so conflicted because I couldn't go to tds2 last year because they didn't come to my country, and that show had so many of my favourite songs, but this year a lot of these were removed - trigger the fever, boom, chewing gum, mfal, beatbox, quiet down, teddy bear etc. This year I got tickets to go overseas for the concert but I feel conflicted if I should go or wait until tds4, because I was hoping to see a lot of these songs live especially trigger the fever 😭 do you guys reckon the setlist will change from Seoul to other countries? Also renjun is not performing in my show, so even songs like better than gold we won't be able to hear his voice. Also is it just me or was the layout of the stage kinda basic this year? Like for tds2 they were literally in boxes and had so much stuff going on, but this year's concert feels kinda empty in comparison? I love that box, go, sos, poison and many songs are in the setlist for this year, and it's gonna be a great show regardless, I guess I was just hoping for more since tds2 was so good.

My baby is 8M old. We thought back at 6M that he is teething because he was very fussy , drooling a lot and chewing on toys, but nothing happened.
Now again he is chewing constantly and drooling a lot. Very fussy and crying but it could be due to new milestones and sleep regression.
I clean his gums every evening with a sterilized pad and I see nothing, seems something more pronounced up. No fever.
So asking dumb questions, do symptoms start when the teeth show or before? There periods of excesive chewing are normal?

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Age: 26 Sex: female Height: 5”4 Weight: 8st11 Race: white Duration of complaint: since 02/05/24 Any existing relevant medical issues: listed Current medications: listed
26(f) UK
I’ve recently started working in childcare, so I’ve had a slew of bizarre cold/flu type things while my body hopefully adjusts to the exposure..
Context: I’ve just moved house so I’m in the process of waiting for my registration to go through at my new GP surgery. I mention a phone call with my previous doctor (4 hours away), but not sure how I could book an appointment to be seen until my new registration goes through, or if that’s even necessary.
Medical background: I have no pre-existing health conditions. Don’t smoke, drink moderately. I do think I have a pretty weak immune system (I tend to catch whatever is going around) but unsure why- I’m not immuno-compromised or anything. Over the past year I’ve had chronic infections on both wisdom teeth on my lower jaw. One never really went away but doesn’t cause me any pain.
So last Friday I woke up feeling ill again - I anticipated just another cold/flu type thing and stocked up on lemsip max. The glands on my neck, particularly one side had swollen up massively and were so tender I could barely touch them. My symptoms at this point were mostly headache and sore throat, no cough. I worked through the day and thought little of it.
By Saturday evening, powering through was not an option. I was exhausted. I looked in the back of my mouth and my tonsils and throat were red, irritated, and covered in white sores. At this point I was still able to eat/ talk.
Sunday I was so exhausted I barely left my bed. Started gargling salt water, kept taking lemsip max & ibuprofen, the pain in my throat was beginning to make eating and talking difficult. My skin broke out massively which is unusual for me.
Monday was similar, I was only able to eat soups from this point on.
Tuesday I was expecting to feel better, instead felt much worse. Woke up in tears from the pain. Came down with a fever. Spent the day oscillating between roasting in bed with a cold flannel, and shivering under a blanket. Woke up to a pus filled sore on my outer lip, and swollen, tender gums, particularly inflamed around my wisdom teeth, which (as mentioned) have been a problem for me over the past year or so. I had a phone call with my GP and picked up a 10 day prescription for Phenoxymethylpenicillin that evening. Two 250mg tabs four times a day.
Wednesday gums are even more swollen. Feels like gingivitis now. Some blood when brushing. Fever and flu symptoms had resided slightly, but I was still fatigued and nauseous, I had a headache from the afternoon till night, I could not chew any food without crying. Glands are noticeably less swollen!
Thursday, today, my body has a bit more energy but dear god my tongue, gums and teeth are in agony. I feel like my mouth is full of rusty needles, but weirdly it doesn’t look particularly bad when I open my mouth? There’s a few white sores visible on my tongue and tonsils still, but my gums don’t look as red or sore as I feel they should with the amount of pain I’m in! I don’t feel fluey, I just feel like I’m chewing glass.
I’m nearly 48hours into my antibiotic course, regularly gargling salt water, corsydol, diluted tcp. Gently brushing my teeth and flossing. Still taking paracetamol for the pain. Nothing seems to be helping my gums, which at this point, are the most painful aspect of this. Is this even strep? At first the symptoms lined up but it seems to have moved into my gums. I’ve never had an illness like this and I’m struggling. What else can I do? My mouth is in agony non stop, regardless of whether I’m eating or talking or sticking to my vow of silence!
Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks.

M18
so I got really sick last week (really sore throat, fever) then I got better for a day and I am not sure if I was reckless or not but after one day of not being sick I became sick again with different symptoms:

• 8 ulcers on my lips, inner-cheeks, and the tip of my tongue
• inflamed gums
• a little bit of a fever and a sore throat but not as severe as the first time.

usually I get a sore throat and fever and that it but I've never gotten this much ulcers before. at the moment I can only drink and not eat because my mouth hurts too much to eat. it feels that the sickness moved from my throat to my mouth somehow. my question is this common and how long does it take to heal. ( I got a buccal spray from the pharmacy that I am taking 3 times a day )

Earth's orbit experiences an “Orbital Eccentricity”, 100,000 year cycle orbit and inclination variation, going from circular to elliptical, the hemispheres experience more or less sun or exposure to the sun for extended periods, causing ice ages. Scientists estimate we are near the minimum, a 6% change in solar energy. At peak, the earth experiences a change of 30%.
Modern Day Primates, in the wild and captivity, are able to communicate, near and far, using verbal and gesture components, even to other species. Have been observed using wood as tools, and in using medicinal plants to treat wounds.
44 million y a - Hominid ancestors acquire Herpes virus.
10 million y a - Primate ancestors develop genes to digest alcohol.
6 million years ago - Primate ancestors split from Chimpanzee/Bonobo line (15 million DNA mutations have occurred since then; each person born today has 100 mutations distinct to them, most don’t survive.)
5.3 m y a - Mediterranean Sea experiences the Messinian Salinity Crisis, for 600,000 years the Straight of Gibraltar closed off, causing the Mediterranean to shrink down to two inland seas with Italy and Greece separating them. Ends in the Zanclean Flood, a river of Atlantic sea water flows thru Gibraltar and fills the Mediterranean in 2 years.
5 m y a - Arabian-African continent reconnects with Asia. Land based Turtle species start going extinct.
4 - 3 m y a - Hominid ancestors acquire pubic lice from Gorillas (genetic evidence).
3.6 - 2.58 m y a - Considered the Neogene Period.
3.3 m y a - Stone tools found in Kenya and Ethiopia.
2.6 m y a - Mode One Stone Tools found in Ethiopia, would subsequently spread. Flourished to 1.7 million y a in southern and eastern Africa. Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Era (2.6 m y a till end of last Ice Age, 11,000 y a). Subdivided into the Early- or Lower Paleolithic (c. 2,6 million years ago - c. 250,000 years ago); the Middle Paleolithic (c. 250,000 years ago - c. 30,000 years ago); and the Late- or Upper Paleolithic (c. 50,000/40,000 - c. 10,000 years ago)
2.58 million - 11,700 years ago - Considered the start of the Quaternary Period, and covers the Pleistocene.
2.4 – 1.4 m y a – Homo Habilis (4.5-3.5 feet tall).
2 m years ago - Earliest Hominids start eating meat.
1.9 – 1.8 m y a – Homo Rudolfensis.
1.89 m y a to 110,000 y a - Homo Erectus (first to leave Africa and spread across Asia).
1.8 m years ago - Mode One Stone Tools found on Java.
1.7 m years ago - Mode Two Stone Tools (slicing, hand-axe/butchering, evidence of drilling tools) appear in Kenya and southern Africa.
1.6 m years ago - Mode One Stone Tools found in northern China.
1.6 - 1.5 m y a - Africa, Turkana Boy dies, likely from a tooth cavity infection. He was either 8 or 11-12 years old and 61 inches tall. Brain 880 ccm.
1.5 m y a - Kenya, possible start of Hominids using fire to cook food. (increase in caloric intake, which would lead to evolution; however, Paranthropus Boisei is the local species, brain 500-550 ccm, 54 inches tall)
1 million years ago - Likely split between ancestor of Homo Sapiens and proto-Neanderthal-Denisovan species. (Mitochondrial DNA evidence.) South Africa, evidence of fire use for cooking.
1 m - 700,000 y a - Java, Java Man dies, brain 900 ccm. 5' 8" tall.
900,000 y a – Possible earliest use of boats.
820,000 - 580,000 y a - Durum Wheat develops out of natural hybridization with Einkorn Wheat (genetic analysis).
800,000? y a - Low world temperatures recorded. Height of Ice Age?
790,000 y a - Levant, oldest Fire hearths found. (Homo Heidelbergensis, 1,250 ccm brain, 69 in tall)
740,000? y a - Height of Ice Age?
7-200,000 y a – Homo Heidelbergensis (East Africa and Europe, likely first to hunt large animals with spears)
640,000? y a - Height of Ice Age.
550,000? y a - Height of Ice Age?
540,000 - 430,000 y a - Art: Sea shell formed into decoration by Homo Erectus. (Could indicate when sea shells began to be used as whistles and horns.)
530,000? y a - Interglacial Peak (between Ice Ages, high CO2 content in the atmosphere, 524-474,000).
500,000 y a - South Africa, evidence of Spears. Genetic evidence of Neanderthal spread from Europe to Caspian Sea, Denisovans occupied land from Caspian to the east.
450,000 y a - Earliest physical evidence of Neanderthal.
450,000 y a - Global temperatures had dropped, stayed that way for thousands of years.
430,000 - 230,000 y a - Durum Wheat cross-breeds with wild Goat Grass (genetic analysis).
400,000 y a - Interglacial Peak (between Ice Ages, 424-374,000).
400,000 y a - Germany, oldest Spears found. France (Terra Amata), possible evidence of manmade shelter using prepared wood.
360,000? y a - Height of Ice Age.
335-236,000 y a – Homo Naledi (South Africa, 4’9”)
310,000 y a - Interglacial Peak (between Ice Ages, 337-300,000).
300,000 y a – Mode Three Stone Tools (smaller knife-like, scrapers, developed in Europe by Neanderthals)
300,000-200,000 y a – Africa, Origin of Male Y-Chromosome that all current males are descended from. (40% of males do not reproduce.)
270,000? y a - Height of Ice Age.
240,000 y a - Interglacial Peak (between Ice Ages, 242–230,000).
200,000 y a - France, evidence of Neanderthals fishing. Africa, "Mitochondrial Eve," source of all Human Haplo-groups that everyone is descended from, existed at this time.
194,000-135,000 y a - Penultimate Glacial Period.
190,000 y a - Early physical evidence of Denisovans. (At least three interbreeding events would occur with Homo Sapiens. EPAS1 gene, hemoglobin concentration, Tibetan plateau.)
190,000-50,000 y a - Flores Island, evidence of tool use by the Human Hobbit.
170,000 - 80,000 y a - Body Lice evolve (genetic evidence, feed on human skin, live in clothing; evidence of clothing)
164,000 y a – South Africa, heat treating Silcrete Stone to enhance stone tool production.
140,000 y a - Homo Sapiens found in Europe.
130,000 y a - Evidence of humans in North America. Crete, earliest human settlements found on the island. Art: Neanderthal necklace made of eagle talons. Croatia: Neanderthal teeth show possible dental work.
125,000 y a - Interglacial Peak (between Ice Ages, 130-115,000). Sea levels 4-6 meters (18 feet) higher then today.
110,000-15,000 y a - Last Glacial Period. Grey Wolves would migrate from North America back to Asia prior to the maximum.
100,000-60,000 y a - Flores Island, bone fossil evidence of the Human Hobbit.
100,000 y a - Oldest example of proper human burial. South Africa, Pigment (paint) Creation Kit found. (would cover bodies in mud/clay and then spray the paint over the bodies, sun screen-protection from insects)
90,000 y a – Harpoons.
86,000-37,000 y a – Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens begin interbreeding, based on genetic evidence found so far.
75,000 years ago - Likely rise of Hunter Genotype in Homo Sapiens.
75,000 y a - Art: Drilled snail shells found in South African cave.
73,000 y a - South Africa (Blombos Cave), evidence of Red Ochre art on pieces of stone, stone with deliberate lines cut into it possibly representing count marks.
72,000 y a - South Africa, Beads found in cave.
70,000 y a - Mitochondrial DNA suggests this is when the Haplo-group of early humans migrated out of Africa to populate the rest of the world.
70-60,000 y a - Earliest evidence of bone and stone arrowheads (for Spear Throwers), found in South Africa. 64,000?
70,000 - 35,000 BCE - Neanderthal burials in Europe and Middle East.
68-16,000 y a – Smallpox evolves from an African Rodent Virus.
67,000 BCE - France, burial shows skulls with Trepanation (cutting holes to relieve brain pressure), earliest example of surgery.
65,000 y a - First humans settle Australia.
64,000 y a - Spain, oldest evidence found of Cave Art (Neanderthal hand).
61,000 y a - South Africa, possible evidence of a Sewing Needle.
60,000? y a - Height of Ice Age?
60,000 y a - Evidence of man/Neanderthal using herbal medicine.
55,000 - 40,000 y a - Italy, evidence of Neanderthal using Pine Tree Resin and Beeswax for hafting tools, in cave. (Beeswax can be used in making Candles.)
52,000 y a - Last evidence of Denisovans.
52,000 – 41,000 y a – Archaeological find of “Bast” tree fiber twisted into primitive cordage, possibly as handle for a Stone Tool. (meaning they had access to Clothing, Nets, Cord for Fishing or Hafting tools, rope; thinking processes of Counting, Sets, Patterns, and possibly abstract thinking)
50,000 - 10,000 y a - Mode Four Stone Tools (long blades).
50,000 y a - Australia, last evidence of megafauna. Siberia, needle made from bone found in Denisovan cave. Genetic evidence of Neanderthal spreading to western edge of China.
50,000 years ago - End point of development of Gatherer Genotype (can survive famine), Teacher Genotype (can handle new and different environments, analytical).
45,000 y a - Evidence of Neanderthal and Homo Sapien interbreeding. (Fossil found, DNA tested.) (France, to create stone tools required precision, “Soft Hammers” were likely used.)
44,000 y a - Evidence of art found in Indonesia.
44,000-40,000 y a - Europe experiences cold and dry weather, displacing populations.
43-42,000 y a - Germany, oldest musical instruments (flutes) found.
42,000 y a - Australia, skeleton of man suggests Atlatl use, pre-dating earliest evidence; earliest example of cremation found. Spain, small amounts of Natural Gold found in a cave.
40,000 y a - (Mankind is at the “Forager” level.) Last evidence of Neanderthal. (Inheritance of "STAT2" gene, immune response. HYAL2 gene, helps skin recover from sunburns.) China, test on body found that ate a lot of fresh water fish. Possible example of oldest petroglyphs. Beads found in Lebanon.
40,000 - 26,000 y a - Studying toe bones, showed they became smaller and weaker, indicating shoes were worn. Prior to this, shoes were likely bags wrapped around feet to protect from cold.
38,000 BC - First appearance of Mode Five Ground Stone tools on Japan. (rock was quarried; thin slivers of flint stone, attached to hafts, man is learning the use of a "handle" for tools and "leverage", create Adzes, Celts, and Axes; grinding helps to penetrate trees and was likely discovered when grinding plant matter; found buried with owners; were traded) Lasted till 14,000 BC. (Would not become popular elsewhere until 10,000 BC?) Germany: Clay Figurine featuring human with lion like appearance, thought to be earliest representation of a Deity.
35,000 BCE - Europe, earliest examples of "Venus figurines" found buried in graves (some showing they were deliberately broken or stabbed repeatedly); would later spread to rest of Eurasia. Early examples of skulls and long bones showing red ochre, indicating possible relic worship.
35,000 y a - Germany, flute made from a vulture bone found.
30,000 BCE – Solomon Islands, first humans settle (60 km sea voyage).
31,000 - 27,000 y a - Evidence of Pit Fire (Earthernware) Pottery developing.
30,000-20,000 years ago - Explorer genotype (Ice Age refugees, idiosyncratic, asymmetrical, contrarian mentality)
30,000 y a - Evidence of starch residue on rocks, indicating where plant matter was pounded and ground. (Would likely be the pre-cursor of developing bread from roots of cattails and ferns. Quern Grinding Stones would spread and gain popularity.) Georgia, Flax used as a textile (harvested, dyed, and knotted) found in Dzudzuana Cave. Fertile Crescent, Einkorn wheat harvested in it's wild form. Evidence of man using the Atlatl. Poland: Boomerang carved from mammoth tusk found. France, Lunar Calendar. Likely when Bolas (stone weight(s) and length of cord) began to be used.
28,000 y a - Europe, oldest evidence of rope.
25,000 - 15,000 BCE - Blood Type A develops in the Fertile Crescent. (able to survive Plague, Cholera, Smallpox)
27,000 y a - Australia, oldest example of petroglyphs found. Czech Republic, earliest example of "Weaving" of material together to create baskets and basic cloth. (Leads to counting and simple math, organizing.)
26,000-13,300 y a - Considered "Glacial Maximum", ice sheets extend to the 45th parallel north. (26,500 considered to be maximum glacial reach.)
23,000 - 12,000 y a – Europe, Perforated Batons found, made of antler, assumed to be a form of Atlatl that uses a leather strap or string to wrap around the spear and give it a slight spin, arrow or spear thrower (similar to Swiss Arrow). Right and left handed throwers find preference. Most carved with Horses, have one or two holes (one had 8 holes).
23,000 y a - Israel, Ohalo archaeological site, hunter-gatherer society (6 brushwood shelters, 132 stone tools some attached to hafts, stone Sickles, dwellings showed flint tools were made at entrance, cooking at other end, grind stone showed sand and cobbles to place and had U-shape of seeds around it) that grew/harvested Barley, Millet, Bromus (grass in same tax tribe as wheat/barley/rye, can be used for fermenting beverages, can be eaten by humans and animals), Rubus (same family as Rose plants, similar to blackberries), and various fruits (seeds from 13 different species), earliest evidence for “Bedding” material.
22,000 – 17,000 y a – France, Solutrean inhabitants make use of Antler.
21,000-17,000 y a - France, Atlatl's found in caves.
20,000 y a - Height of the Ice Age, sea levels 120 meters (360 feet) lower. Mode Five Stone Tools (microliths glued to handles, Fertile Crescent). Earliest example of a building/house found. Ukraine, Bullroarer (wood on rope that is swung around to create sound over long distance) found. Iraq-Iran, Zarzian Culture, had domesticated Dogs.
19,050? - 13,050 y a - Oldest Dryas Period, stadial, abrupt cooling period. Sea levels rose 10-15 m in 500 years.
17,000 BCE - Mesopotamia, Wild Emmer Wheat harvested.
18,000 - 17,500 y a - Siberia, earliest example of a domesticated dog found frozen. Germany, Bow and Arrows found. Early evidence of Darts used.
18,000 y a - Japan, oldest pottery discovered.
15,100 - 14,000 y a - Morocco, earliest example of a cemetery.
15,000 y a – Mode Five Stone Tools reach Europe. Southern France, cave art depicting possible Musical Bow, Nose Flute; "The Sorcerer," a figure showing human and many animal qualities (bison), made out of Clay.
15,000 – 10,000 y a – France, Stone Oil Lamps.
14,500 y a - Oldest example of bread making, Jordan desert.
14,160 - 13,820 y a - Archaeological find: infected tooth partially cleaned out with flint tools.
14,600 - 13,600 y a - "Melt Water Pulse," sea levels rose 16-24 m.
14,000? y a - Older Dryas Period, around 200 year cooling period.
13,500 - 8,200 y a - China, wild Rice domestication event occurs.
15-10,000 BCE - Himalayas, development of Blood Type B.
11,050 BCE - Syria, attempts at domesticating Rye.
13,000 y a - Greece, evidence of lentils found. Earliest evidence of Amber used in jewelry. Israel, archaeological evidence of beer like gruel for ceremonial purposes found at Haifa. Likely beginning of Slavery.
13,000 - 12,700 y a - Fertile Crescent, archaeological evidence of man corralling and using pigs.
12,900 - 11,700 y a - The Younger Dryas Period, when temperatures went cold instead of warming from the Last Glacial Maximum.
10,000 BCE - Jericho, considered mankind's first town, is established. Buildings of clay and straw, dead buried under homes. (Would reach 70 dwellings by 94,000 BCE.) Chickpeas domesticated. Earliest evidence of the Bottle Gourd being domesticated and used (Africa and Asia variety). Azerbaijan (Caspian Sea), petroglyphs of reed boats. Starting point of Ocarina type flutes. Cyprus, humans arrive. Germany, Jet artifact (Botfly larvae, which can be eaten). Curved Stone Oil Lamps.
11,700 y a - Considered the beginning of the Holocene.
9600 BCE - Southern Levant, earliest use of wild Emmer Wheat.
11,500 - 11,000 y a - "Melt Water Pulse," sea levels rose 28 m.
11,400 y a - Cypress, archaeological evidence of pigs (indicating they had been domesticated and brought from the mainland).
9400 - 9200 BCE - Jordan Valley, Fig trees found, indicating earliest agriculture since these trees could not reproduce.
9130 - 7370 BCE - SE Turkey, Gobekli Tepe, oldest known worship location.
9000 BCE - Syria, oldest (Saddle) Quern found. Mesopotamia, Copper first used. Bartering of Cattle and agricultural products likely occurring at this time.
9000 - 3300 BCE - Neolithic Era, roughly. Time period of when man has begun herding, before using bronze.
11,000 - 9,000 y a - Mesopotamia, domestication of Sheep; Rammed Earth construction technique developed. Iran, Domestication of Goat (focused on management of the animal, varieties would come later).
11,000-4,000 years ago - Warrior genotype (farmers, soldiers, inventors); Nomad genotype (life upon a horse, can handle different environments, good immune system)
11 or 10,000 y a - Last Ice Age ends.
8800 BCE - Emmer Wheat spreads beyond the Levant.
8700 BCE - Iraq, Copper pendant.
8500 BCE - Domestication of Barley. Domestication of peas occurs around this time. Turkey, Beer production found at Gobekli Tepe. Domestication of Cattle from the Aurochs (two separate populations, one in Mesopotamia [pop. 80], the other Pakistan). (Rendering cattle bones into Tallow allows for the creation of Candles. Beeswax also used.) Oregon, oldest pair of shoes found made from bark twine. Oats possibly start to be harvested, crop mirrors wheat (is like a weed).
8400 BCE – Cyprus, earliest dug Water Well (26 ft).
10,300 - 8,700 y a - China, Millet harvested.
10,200 - 9,500 y a - Emmer Wheat domesticated(?).
10,000 - 7,000 y a - Archaeological evidence of boats.
8000 BCE (10,000 years ago) – Genetic evidence of breeding Pigeons. Palestine, archaeological evidence of pastoralism. Pre-Pottery Neolithic people in the Fertile Crescent form perfectly smooth stone vases. Iran, Goat domestication. Believed to be when primitive dairy-cheese making began. Flax cultivation. China, Quern Grinding Stones. England, Antler used in headdress costume.
9,500 y a - Cyprus, earliest evidence of cat domestication. SE Anatolia, cold-working, annealing, smelting, lost wax casting of Copper.
7570 BCE – Indus Valley, Lapis Lazuli artifacts.
7500 - 5700 BCE - Anatolia, Catal Hoyuk develops as a spiritual center, found many clay figurines and impressions (feminine, phallic, hunting).
7400 BCE - A monolith ends up submerged in the Straight of Sicily.
7176 B.C. – Earth hit by one of the most massive Solar Storms from the sun ever recorded (visible at night with the magnetic field interaction).
7000 BCE - Archaeological evidence for pastoralism in Africa. China: evidence of mead (honey, rice, water fermented) in pottery; evidence of musical instruments. India, first archaeological evidence of Dance (cave art); evidence of dentistry. Armenian Highlands, art depictions of Cymbals. Durum Wheat made thru artificial selection in Europe and Near East. Greece, earliest evidence of grain silos. Turkey, Catal Hoyuk, art depiction of a Slinger. Afghanistan, Lapis Lazuli mined and traded to Indus and Mesopotamia societies. Europe, Cave Wall art of Honey Collecting.
7000 - 6600 BCE - China, domestication of Soy beans.
7000 - 6000 BCE - Turkey, domestication of Bitter Vetch. (Too bitter for human consumption without being boiled several times, has been found to be great for cattle feed.)
6500-3800 BCE - Ubaid Period (Mesopotamian citystates rise, evidence of specialized workers, evidence of taxation)
6500 BCE - Turkey, evidence of lead smelting at Catal Hoyuk. (Wrapping the dead in textiles, too.) China, archaeological evidence of Silk. Kosovo, oldest Ocarina found in Europe.
8,200 - 7,600 y a - Sea levels rise rapidly. Linked to North American great fresh water lake (Agassiz, Ojibway) sudden draining into Atlantic Ocean. 8,400 y a?
6050 BCE - Moldova, evidence of man extracting salt from a natural spring.
8,000 y a - Western Europe, white skin first appears. Iran: earliest evidence of irrigation; man starts choosing sheep for their wooliness, not just meat and skin (2-3,000 years later, would start wearing wool). Georgia, earliest evidence of wine. Spain, cave painting shows people collecting honey from a wild hive, using a container to hold. China, Buckwheat cultivated (near Tibetan plateau), possible first example of Influenza. Earliest evidence of the Ard Plow used (castrating bulls to train 4 years to become Draft Oxen, also means they can be used to haul logs thru and from forests). Mediterranean, Broad (Fava) Beans, Broccoli. Portugal: Almendres Cromlech, begins, aligned to equinox and solstice, occupied for 2,000 years, would become largest complex in Iberian peninsula, equal to other large complexes in Europe. Anatolia: Obsidian polished into mirrors. Spelt Wheat appears. First Stone hafted Axes. Earliest evidence of “Cock Fighting” game fowl. (Iraq, Kiln.)
6000 - 3500 BC - Mesopotamia (Sumer), Poppy domesticated.
7,8-5,000 y a - SE Turkey, Einkorn Wheat grown and domesticated.
5600 BCE - Evidence of The Black Sea Flood, turning the fresh water lake into a salt water sea, rose shorelines and displaced populations (source of flood myths in religions).
7500 y a - Earth experiences a cold climate period? Lasts for 500 or more years.
7500 y a - Earliest example of chickpeas being used. Poland, archaeological evidence of cheese making. Ukraine, Romania, earliest examples of traps used for hunting. Pakistan, evidence of Cotton found in copper beads. Egypt, earliest Combs found (placing a leaf in the teeth can create a primitive sound instrument).
5500-5000 BCE - Serbia, Copper Smelting.
5200 - 4700 BCE - Iran, earliest evidence of a wheel, for pottery, made of stone or clay.
7,000 y a - Earliest example of Dolmen, single chamber tomb, consists of two stones supporting another on top (table design), found in western Europe, would spread and be common 4000 - 3000 BCE in Europe. Iranian plateau, evidence of Bronze made with naturally occurring arsenic. Tin would replace as the major ingredient (and releasing non-toxic vapors) in the late 3000 BCE period. Iran, evidence of wine found, using sealed containers. China, Hemp domestication (smoking was likely cause for spread, Iron Age would use for production); Rammed Earth construction technique, Silkworm domestication begins. Egypt, Badarian culture starts farming, used boomerangs. Roundels, circular enclosure often with entrances aligned to solstice, would be constructed in Central Europe (Germany, 120-150 altogether). Siberia, oldest carpet found (likely a funeral gift, from Armenia, featured griffons). Mesopotamia: first use of Stamp Seals for government purposes; Rotary Quern milling stones are introduced. Armenia: possible origin of Apricots. Lake Zurich, cultivation of Pear. Indus Valley Civilization, using Bitumen aka Asphalt for waterproofing (a basket), adhesive. Bulgaria, Turquoise beads.
6950 - 6440 y a - Papua New Guinea, cultivation of Taro and Yam.
4800 BCE - Egypt, early evidence of peas being grown. Cairn of Barnenez, Brittany, England, begins (burial monument and later bronze age use, considered one of the oldest and largest man made structures).
4700 - 4200 BCE - The town of Solnitstata, considered the oldest known settlement in Europe. Built around a salt deposit.
6,500 y a - Croatia, earliest example of an oven found. Slovenia, dental filling made with beeswax. Indus Valley, irrigation. Wine production reaches Greece. Carnac Stones, Brittany, France; would become large complex of standing stones, menhirs, domens, tumuli (burial mounds, with passage tombs), large rectangle formed by stone. Americas: various tribes domesticated “chili peppers.” Bulgaria, Carnelian beads. Manufactured Red Pottery Oil Lamps.
4500-4000 BCE - China, Investment Casting develops.
4200 - 4000 BCE - Mesopotamia develops true, easy to spin pottery wheels.
6,000 y a - Earth experiences a cold climate period? (Starting maybe 500 years earlier and ending 500 years later.)
4000 BCE - (Mankind has achieved “Farmer status.”) (Thought to be when Cattle were turned into Oxen for Draft Animal purposes.) Egyptians start building big Brick structures; manufacturing Papyrus; Gold artifacts; (domesticated Donkeys?). Earliest examples of Kilns. NE Italy, archaeological find of Appleseeds. Sicily, evidence of wine found. Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Horse domestication begins (they became small and varied in size as compared to their wild ancestors). “Pontic Language Explosion”. [People from north of the Caspian and Black Seas migrated around Eurasia, ancestor of western languages. (shared origins with: milk, horses, sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, grain, copper, carts, yoke, weaving, mead; patrilineal clans)]. Earliest examples of Viticulture (wine making). Levant, earliest examples of harvesting Olives; start using grain Silos. Art: Earliest depiction of Shoes, Sandals. China: example of a Loom for Silk production; Ramie (similar to flax, requires chemical processing, not as popular, believed to be used for Egyptian mummy wraps). Persia (Iran), Mung Bean domestication?, Chang (precursor to Harp) found on artwork, made with sheep guts. Mesopotamia: Stamp Seals come into use; Mirrors made of Copper; 30-40% of animal bones in settlements were pork (understood to be a way of removing trash from community, easy to feed and raise many); Uruk clay tablet describes two temples owning a herd of 95 pigs to be rendered into soap to clean linen; clay pipes for sewage. Europe, farming reaches northern regions. Anatolia, Silver production.
4000 - 1000 BCE - Ethiopia, Teff is discovered (can feed people and livestock, building material).
3800 - 3500 BCE - Czech Republic, possible evidence of earliest plowed fields.
5,700 y a - Lolland Island, a blue eyed, dark haired, dark skin woman spits out some Birch Bark gum; oldest complete human genome extracted; had Mononucleosis ("kissing disease"). Possible archeological evidence of pit traps used for migrating animal hunting.
3630 BCE - Oldest example of silk fabric found.
3600 BCE – Pork bones in settlements (Levant, Mesopotamia) dropped to 16-30% of total livestock.
5,500 - 4,700 y a - Georgia, tomb found had honey remains on pottery. (This culture could identify Linden, Berry, and Meadow-Flower varieties.)
3500 BCE - City of Uruk: (Mesopotamia) begins outward expansion and influence, later first example of organized warfare (would influence Egyptians to start building pyramids); "Cylinder Seals," a type of noble seal, that can be rolled unto wet clay (would be popular until 1000 BCE). Iraq, Kish Tablet, considered to represent the early transition from pictographic to cuneiform. Mesopotamia, earliest Harps and Lyres found; Gold artifacts. Modern humans settle the western coast of Europe, hunter-gatherers. Egyptians show Cat domestication; Gold Smelting; used a vertical Gnomon as a primitive Sundial? Iran, Beer made from Barley. Armenia, earliest Leather Shoe found. China, Pottery in shape of silkworm indicates earliest example of Sericulture (silk worm production).
3500 - 3350 BCE – Mesopotamia, earliest evidence of wheeled vehicles. Indus Valley civilization uses Stamp Seals with a type of script.
3400 BCE (5,400 years ago) - First metal casting. France, Cow skull showing Trepanation found.
5,400 -5,100 y a - Itzi the Iceman dies in the mountains of Northern Italy. Had a copper axe. Earliest evidence of tattoos. Shoes made from two types of animal skin (bear and deer). Arsenic residue in his hair.
3300 BCE - Egypt, tomb paintings show people Dancing. Indus Valley, develop Sanitation.
3200 BCE - Examples of using symbols to represent real life objects (would go to form written language). Ireland, construction begins on Newgrange, largest passage tomb in Europe, aligned to winter solstice. Egypt, Bead made of Meteoric Iron found.
3100 - 2900 BCE - Jemdet Nasr period (following fall of Uruk) would be known as establishing Cuneiform as a proper language.
3100 BCE - Upper and Lower Egypt unified. Mesopotamia, likely evidence of the earliest Lute type device.
3000 BCE - Onset of Bronze. Mesopotamia, Irrigation; Glass Beads appear (possible side effect of making metal); possible earliest Iron working (required higher temperatures), cuneiform mention of Pigeons. Sumer, Medical text found on tablet, believed oldest ever found. Egypt, Hieroglyphs of Pigeons and use of Homing Pigeons for message delivery, first record of a Doctor named, Imhotep; Antimony harvested from rock and made into eye makeup; earliest evidence of domestic Donkeys in the south. Egyptian Mummies show evidence of Smallpox (deathrate 30% especially among babies, can leave people blind). Dromedary Camels likely domesticated in Somalia at this time. (Camel hair can be harvested for shelter and clothing, outer guard hairs make for water proof coats. Camel milk readily turns into yogurt. To turn into butter requires a clarifying agent and extended process.) Chicken reaches Europe from Asia. England, earliest Stone Circles found. Slovakia, Romania, earliest chainmail found. Sheep chosen for wooly coat, not long hair. China, Clay Bells found. India, River Buffalo domesticated (water buffalo); Jute grown for fiber (burlap). Northern Iran, earliest examples of Trumpets. SE Asia, earliest records of Radish. Pakistan, Terracota female figurines.
2800 BCE - Solid evidence of plowed fields. China, Copper smelting discovered. Babylon, evidence of manufacture of soap like substance.
2700 BCE - Chinese treatise on health. 40 kinds identified.
2650 BCE - Egypt, dental work found.
2630-10 BCE - Egypt, Pyramid of Djoser constructed by Imhotep, considered first.
2600 BCE – Egypt, domestication of Honey Bee complete.
2600 - 1900 BCE - Indus Valley, Stoneware Pottery (meaning fired at 1000 degrees Celsius), would become a major industry; (Ivory?).
2580-50 BCE – Egypt, creates first true Ocean Dock for sea trading vessels (with Indus Valley).
2560 BCE - Great Pyramid of Giza completed.
2500 BCE - Evidence of The Amber Road, trade route from the Baltic Sea to Mediterranean Sea. E Iran, Bactrian Camels domesticated. Iraq, "Lyres of Ur," considered world's oldest stringed instruments. Peru, oldest Sling ever found. Egypt, earliest depiction of a Khopesh (sword). Sumerian Clay Tablet with instructions for manufacturing soap (heating mixture of oil and wood ash, earliest record chemical reaction, used for washing woolen clothing). China, axes with Corundum (precious stone). Harappan Culture of Indus Valley, chicken used for Cock Fighting, not food.
2500 - 2000 BCE - Mali, domestication of Pearl Millet. Turkey, Meteoric Iron dagger.
2400 BCE - Sumer, description of Prostitution and a Brothel-Temple to Fertility Goddess.
2300 BCE - Mesopotamia, Urukagina of Lagash, considered the earliest Law Code. (Widows and orphans exempt from taxes, state pays for funeral expenses, the rich must pay in silver and cannot force the poor against will, checked power of priests, protect from usury, abolished polyandry). Iran, Quince (fruit). China, oldest Gnomon (painted stick that casts a shadow for sundial purpose).
2200 BCE - China, first known tax, using salt. Iraq, tablet reads “22 jars of Pig Fat” (each jar 18 liters of Lard, 396 liters total, require 45 adult pigs; likely used to make soap to clean wool of sheep before turning them into textiles)
2200-2000 BCE - Turkey, Iron Smelting.
2100 - 2050 BCE - City of Ur: Earliest written Code of Law discovered. References Butter. (Fines for bodily harm, references murder, robbery, adultery, rape. Two classes of people: free and slave.)
4000 - 3000 y a - Mesopotamia, earliest Scissors (shear, spring type). India, Mung Bean domesticated.
2000 BCE - Murals show horses pulling chariots. Horses become common in western Europe. England, Great Orme Mine started, would become largest copper mine in region (most productive between 1700 - 1400 BCE), used bone and stone tools. China, Bells made out of metal (Bellfounding); domestication of the Swamp Buffalo (water buffalo). Ghana, earliest evidence of Cowpea (black eyed pea). India, Canola/Rapeseed; Diamonds being used to drill beads. Egypt, Lupin Beans. Greece, Kale grown.
1900 BCE – Homing Pigeons used for warfare.
1800 BCE - Egypt, medical text on gynecological issues; Safflower for pigment. India, Iron working.
1754 BCE - Code of Hammurabi (recognized Prostitution and gave women protection and inheritance; theorized that a fertility goddess had a temple that offered sex workers).
1700 - 1200 BCE - (Late Bronze Age) 8 societies in Middle East: Aegean, Egyptian, Hittite, Canaanite, Cypriot, Mitanni, Assyrian, Babylonian. Considered a "globalized world system." Next time this would occur is today.
1700 BCE – Mesopotamia: The "Mari Letters" reference Minoan society, King Hammurabi; clay tablets list Trigonometry Tables and Applied Geometry (for land ownership, speculated to aid in construction).
1628 BCE - Island of Thera/Santorini experiences huge volcanic eruption, possibly causing a tsunami thru eastern Mediterranean.
1600-1500 BCE - Greece, Helmet formed of boar tusks found.
1600 BCE – Levant, Mesopotamia, Pork bones rarely found in settlements (banned from temples in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Egypt). (Found amongst the poor classes, difficult to tax since it did not produce wool or milk or could plow a field.)
1550 BCE – Papyrus Ebers, Egyptian medical text, mentions Chlamydia.
1500 BCE - Modern Trumpet design found in eastern Mediterranean. India, Pigeon Pea domesticated. Egypt, Mercury found in tombs; archaeologists find earliest Sundials; Emerald mines. China, Water Clocks.
1400 BCE - Syria, Hurrian Songs, cuneiform music tablet in Ugarit. Greece, oldest body armor found, made of bronze, Dendra Panoply (not actually worn, more of a showpiece, but clear representation of body armor for battle). China, Meteoric Iron axeheads. Art representation of Scale Mail in Egypt. Art: representation of Shields.
1350 BCE - Turkey, Hittites chronicle Egyptian prisoners of war bringing "the plague.”
1300 BCE - Uluburun Shipwreck, off coast of Turkey, had 300 sixty pound copper ingots (10 tons), 1 ton of tin, and tin objects and ingots of colored glass (blue, rose, brown). From Cypress/Minoa.
1300? - 900? BCE - Eastern Mediterranean experiences a 300? year drought. (Could also be: Cypress 1200- 850. Syria 1250-1187. Galilee 1250-1100)
1279 BCE - Battle of Qadesh (Egypt vs Hittites).
1200 BCE (3,200 years ago) - Onset of Iron smelting. Earliest Camel saddles appear. Last appearance of Megaliths. India, earliest evidence of Firewalking.
1200 BCE - Eastern Mediterranean civilization collapse. Drought in Greece. Earthquake series.
1188-1177 BCE - Egypt suffers invasions from "The Sea People."
1185 BCE - Syria, Ugarit Letter, Famine.
1140? BCE - Ramses 6th, mummy found to have Smallpox. No record of people dying from Smallpox.
1100 BCE - Phoenicians establish nation. Europe, Iron Age.
1100? BCE - Earth experiences a cold temperature period?
1100-750 BCE - Egypt, Iron Smelting.
1070 BCE - Egyptian mummy found with Silk in hair, earliest evidence of Silk Road.
1000 BCE - Early Cuneiform script (late stages, still pictograph in nature). Bactria, Barbat (primitive lute). Egypt, Kenaf is grown for fibers, leaves can be eaten by animals and humans (similar to Jute and Hemp; rope, rough fabric, sails). Mediterranean, Cabbage domesticated. China, Iron Age. Sport: racing Homing Pigeons.
930 BCE - Camel bones found in Arabian peninsula. Jordan, earliest Bloomery for Iron working found.
800 - 600 BCE - Ethiopia, Sorghum Wheat begins to be harvested.
800 BCE - Considered the beginning of Ancient Greece, after the Mycenae Civilization. China, Bloomeries used.
700-500 BCE - The Illiad orally composed. India, Diamond mining starts.
708 BCE – Greece, Olympics, Discus Throw.
700 BCE - Turkey, first Coins in Lydia. Assyria, first equipment recognized as a Saddle for a Horse.
660 BCE – Massive Solar Storm hits Earth.
600 BCE - Earliest example of a Steel Sword.
600-400 BCE - Ancient Greece rise of scientific inquiry and philosophy
550 BCE - The Illiad written down.
540 BCE – Sri Lanka, earliest record of Pearls.
500 BCE - Camels used in warfare. Persians use kettle drums for military maneuvers, frighten enemies. Greece, Grape Syrup, early form of sweetener and preservative; earliest written mention of what could be Influenza. Blackberries consumed around Europe. Spain, Disk Quern developed. India, Cholera described in Sanskrit. Romans manufacture dipped Candles.
430 BCE – Athens, Typhoid Fever outbreak during siege by Sparta.
400 BCE - The "Celts/Gaeil" settle Ireland. Greece, the “Hippocratic Corpus” seventy collected medical texts, mentions Pneumonia, Meningitis, Valerian Root.
396 BCE - Olympics, horn blowing competitions.
314 BCE - China, first mention of Sweet Orange.
298 BCE - Foot powered Loom.
200 BCE - China starts making paper.

24F
A few days ago on Friday, I noticed I had a pressure headache and pain in my neck. I thought it was due to the way I was laying on my neck in bed in an improper position, so I thought nothing of it. The next day, I noticed the headache was on and off, but I mainly noticed it standing up after sitting for a prolonged period of time. I woke up drenched in sweat late at night Friday night-Sunday night. On Monday night, i woke up a tad drenched, but not too much. On Sunday, I took my temp and had a fever of 101 with chills. I took Covid/flu test, they said it was negative but I’m not sure if it was false negative. My fever went away after taking theraflu starting Sunday.
Today is Tuesday, I no longer have a fever, at least I don’t think so. I took my temp and it says 100 but that could be false given I just came in the house from outside (it’s hot out) and I was chewing gum. So I’ll take my temp again in about 30 mins. My lymph nodes hurt moreso on the right side under neck, I noticed I have red spots on the roof of my mouth, doesn’t hurt when I swallow only my lymph node hurts when I swallow, I also had a bit of eye pain in my right eye but it surprisingly just disappeared. I also have an on and off pressure headache. What could this be? I know this was long so I’m so sorry. The urgent care doc told me to just let it pass because it’s most likely a virus and it didn’t make sense to come in and get retested :/ should I be concerned? How long should I wait to go to a different doc for testing if symptoms continue to persist? I saw people speaking about lymphoma. I don’t feel ill whatsoever. I just have a headache, sore lymph nodes with mild ear pain that comes and goes every now & again.
**Edit: I’m not sure if this info is necessary, but I haven’t been drinking as much water as I should so I’ve been dehydrated (I started drinking water again on Friday though). I’ve also been REALLY stressed beyond measure with just work, trying to save up money with my move in the next month, stressing about a potential career transition, stability, etc. just a lot of stress. I even picked up a second job and yeah, that’s been real stressful too. So I’m not sure if this is impacting me or something else.

Every parent or person who works with babies swears that when the real teething kicks in, they see: raised body temps (no fever), some diarrhea, runny nose, disrupted sleep, and general fussiness. My 5 month old is experiencing the above, minus runny nose for the last 24 hours. Her gums are swollen and I can see some white just under the gums. BUT American Academy of Pediatrics says those GI issues are unrelated. What gives? And what was your experience with your little ones teething?

Hi there everybody I’m new to this whole HI thing, but let me give a quick background of myself

• 15F who has invited Hpylori
• took anti biotic round at age 9 but DID NOT finish
• took two antibiotic for H pylori alongside another antibiotic for ear issue at age 13 but DID NOT finish because I got allergic reaction to one of them, so I stopped all and doctor represcribed me ONE antibiotic for Hpylori and I got terrible fever and diarrhea so I stopped before I was supposed to

After that I started getting bloat, LOTS of constipation, anxiety, irritation
TO ADD: I was restrictively eating during that time also
After I started eating normally I got issues where I would be super constipated and anxious, in a fog, wanted to cry, bloated
I tried naturally taking Mastic gum and some hpylori killing probiotic but it didn’t get rid of my Hpylori even after using it for 2 months - taking a break- 2-3 months again
Naturopath told me I might have histamine intolerance so I tried eating low histamine but it backfire and I feel like I got more symptoms honestly (maybe I was just more aware) So I bought Beef kidney but it didn’t work and bought natures and it also didn’t work (I’m pretty sure) because either I ate it with the histamine liberator and not high histamine food or I just timed it wrong
So I decided to look into vitamin c and so far I think it works I take 2000mg morning and 2000mg evening (is that too much?) But I also noticed like sometimes I can eat WHATEVER I want and I’m fine but then suddenly a week later I’m suffering with bad symptoms for 4 days and the symptoms last for a week or two and the cycle repeats. I also take vitamin b12 daily I don’t think I have mold toxicity or environmental issues with HI but I’m just confused why I react sometimes and why I don’t react sometimes like I ate avocado and kimchi and suffered for five days but yesterday I had soooo much kimchi and sauerkraut and I’m literally fine…. 😤

56F, with unintentional weight loss (now BMI of 18), fatigue, poor appetite, some stomach discomfort, some mid back pain, night sweats, Dr orders lab work, tumour markers all come back negative, blood work good but the urine analysis shows blood in urine and 250 leu/ug of leukocytes but no symptoms of bladder infection. Ultrasound for bladder and kidneys was done on Friday at 12:15 and by 12:53 the report came back as STAT, with description of nodular solid density, approximately 2.1x1.4x1.9 cm, demonstrates evidence of vascularity. No definite renal parenchymal claw is definitively identified. "Impression: circumscribed solid lesion in close proximity to the renal midpole of left kidney, the exact origin of which is unclear. Differential considerations include exophytic renal mass or accessory splenic tissue. Further evaluation with cross sectional imaging recommended.
The clinic phones me on Sunday and I get an appointment to see a dr at the clinic, (not the one that ordered the ultrasound). I thought if it was a stat report it meant something urgent but the dr today was pretty chill about it, put in a request for CT scan but warned they can take awhile. Said if it was kidney cancer it is easy to treat.
Two questions - is there a potential that this mass is not primary, in which case this would be more urgent? I know we can't know that until the CT scan, and if so would it be beneficial to try to get a private scan done? (I'm in Canada, so CT scan is covered by healthcare but could be a few months away). Since I'm having symptoms I would like to get to the bottom of this quickly. Seems like a small mass to be causing my symptoms unless something else is going on?
Secondly, this may be unrelated but I have been having premature ventricular contractions for several months. Went to ER in March when was also having shortness of breath and chest pain, been referred to cardiologist for holtor monitor (still on wait list). Sometimes with the PVCs I get a dry cough, and slight fevesweat. I bought a Kardia Mobile to track - when I get them it will be 4-8/minute, and sometimes lasts a couple of days and then they go away. Fatigue definitely worse after having them for a couple of days - need to sleep most of a day to catch up. Haven't been able to nail down what triggers them. Well, alcohol definitely does but only had a couple of drinks in a month. I have never smoked but I do chew nicotine gum (4 pieces/day on average and realize that could be contributing). My stress level has been high with a daughter that has chronic progressive illness. Chest CT scan would probably be a good idea too?
I'm on Estradiol for menopause, concerta 36 mg for ADD and rovustatin 5mg for high LDL. I had iron overload last year (iron sat was 60%, iron above normal), had a phlebotomy and donate blood every 3 months which helps fatigue. Negative genetic test for hemochromatosis. Anything else I should be asking the dr to do?

My friend had a dog and she said that he was consistently throwing up from the night and into the morning. I gave her a ride to a vet and they said that most likely based on the xrays that he had a blockage. He had a fever and his gums were a bit pale but not white. He was only a year and 3 months old. His nose was cold as well... very cold and he definitely did not want to move at all.
After a few hours being left at the vet office (they were going to do surgery on him the next morning) his fever went up all the way to 106. They said it was most likely a dead bowel. They explained this when we were there before that it was a possibility this could be the case due to the blockage. I assumed that since she said he didn't act put, had a healthy bowel movement, and only recently had him throwing up, that this most likely wasn't the case and they just needed to remove the blockage...
However, the pup obviously wasn't doing well and so all she told me was that the vet was putting him down. Later on they confirmed that the causes was a blockage and there was A LOT of dead bowel. So my question is, how long does it take for a dead bowel to occur? How long does it take for a lot of dead bowel to be present?

I'm doing a writing exercise (not homework, just cause) and had an idea of explaining vampirism and zombies through an interconnected patho, with classic features of these two fantasy tropes coming from hysterical exaggerations of the disease process by the public. I'm just an ED nurse and school was a long time ago so I thought I'd ask here, just in case someone was interested in the idea. I'm not looking for something that's 100% possible, just meh, so it reads plausibly.
I have a rough idea with some holes:
A fluid-borne plague causing a hypermetabolism, and rapid healing (how? GH?). Too rapid in most cases, causing emaciation, an acute need for calories, rapid and disordered wound healing and tumorous growths, often in the brain. Bone growth often stops in children, causing frail bones and often proving deadly (chest expansion for resp).
Driving physiology maybe something like:

• Hyperthyroid somehow
• and pituitary tumor

Initial symptoms:

• Emaciated
• Red eyes
• Light sensitive skin and eyes
• Twitching
• Sweating
• Twitching
• Sustained high fevers
• Seizures

Many die of anoxic brain injuries. Those who survive have often sustained brain injuries, leaving them unable to speak or process. Those who are not vegetative use what facilities they have to satisfy the hypermetabolic hunger. Growth hormone increase causes rapid wound healing. Combined with brittle bones, they often are broken and knit at inhuman angles, while cuts and injuries heal too quickly developing into encapsulated lumps, abscesses or cancers. Those who can meet the increased calorie needs long enough develop some gigantism symptoms on top of the rest. This is self limiting with fragile bones and eventually they become collapsed crawlers. Often die when rib cages collapse and unable to breathe, like peds.
Lastly, a very select few, who win the lottery of no brain injury and develop no cancers, can recover.
Recovered plague patients remain somewhat hypermetabolic, calorie need remains higher than before, heal somewhat faster, bone density returns over some years, teeth elongate slightly (or gums somewhat retracted?), photophobia persists. Pale and gaunt, grey pallor, clammy. High protein and carb needs, a scary desperate appetite could be inflated to rumors like your classic vampire.
Or is it not permanent but for many years after as things return to baseline? Even that is enough for vampire rumors. Does fast healing remain? Or just the rumor?
Is there a way to explain them being long-lived? Or able to “hybernate” or go dormant like tardigrades? For the immortality rumors?
"Rapid healing" still sounds very vague and baseless...
Thanks in advance if anyone is interested in the thought exercise!

I recently developed gum swelling and dull toothache near a wisdom tooth that is growing towards my top teeth on the right side. When I’d floss the tooth second to closest from the wisdom tooth, there would be some blood on the floss. Now my gums feel fine in that area but my gums are kinda swollen in some areas of my mouth but now my front bottom teeth are aching. It feels like when I wear my retainer after not wearing them for a while. It’s an intermittent dull aching pain. I have all four of my wisdom teeth and I believe it’s just the one that is growing towards my teeth. I bought a waterpik today because my gums feel way too sensitive when I floss with regular floss. I also will be doing warm salt water rinses twice a day. Does anyone know what’s going on and what I can do to help? I don’t have any pus or bad breath. No fever or facial swelling. I noticed a little bleeding on a small section of my gums last night. The pain feels worse after eating. My lymph nodes along my jawline are inflamed and sore, more evident on the right side. I don’t smoke, drink on rare occasion