Joint aches rach fever

Bought a package of Buitoni pasta on Saturday. Noticed a little tear along the seal line. I’m quite food-conscious, so asked my mom abt it, but she brushed it off.
I ate some of it last night, and a bit today at lunch. I’ve also been sick all day today (throat ache, fever, etc.) but stomach/appetite have been normal.
Abt 30 min ago my brother went to boil some of the tortellini, and it was all moldy. Maybe it’s a stupid worry, but I’m the only one who ate it, and I haven’t been around anyone sick.

Hello ! I was hoping to get some feedback on this. It seems like since December of this past year my son (15) always seems to get sick, he got covid in December and then he gets a cold what seems like every few weeks. I dunno what’s too much to get sick. Never really has fevers but he has sore throat, head aches and he just feels awful.hes sick again right now and they tested him for strep and covid and both negative Dr just says kids just get sick. But I thought that really only happened in school age children ??

I’m ignorant on this surgery aftercare. Me and GF are long distance so acquiring her dismissal paperwork from her non English speaking caregivers is a challenge while she is loopy.
Does the duration of surgery imply severity?
She’s had chronic deep aching bone pain in her limbs and alternating sciatica. We had the impression that endo was wrapped around her nerves causing her debilitating 24/7 pain, not just during cycle.She’s also got a cyst in her hip joint that stupid doctors have dismissed because she’s too young and that it’s normal.
Widespread endo+Hip cyst = 24/7 chronic pain
I’m hopeful that we are now halfway there. Just need to find a competent doctor to drain her hip effusion and remove this TOTALLY NORMAL hip bone cyst.

Hi guys, I’m a 23M that has been diagnosed with a probable virus after seemingly having tonsillitis. I’ve tested negative to everything - strep, STI’s, mono, influenza, covid etc. anything that can be swabbed or blood tested. All 4 doctors have no clue. I’ve been prescribed erythromycin (taking it for acne beforehand so doubled dose) for 6 days when there was white puss/infection coming from only right tonsil, then penicillin with erythromycin for 10 days after puss went away but still sore to swallow and swollen. Weird thing is halfway through the penicillin it flared up again, having around 5 tiny white dots appear predominantly on the inflamed right tonsil for a couple days. This was accompanied with swelling that made the tonsil protrude towards the uvula too. Whilst it’s settling down again after 4 days of dots, I still have swelling 3 weeks later. My main concern is the anatomy of my right tonsil because where the puss was coming from in the slit is healing so slowly and it’s like my tonsil has a little dangly thing/uvula of it’s own now lol. Could it be a stubborn tonsil stone or something causing the protrusion? Never had my tonsil look like this. I’ve poked around with a q-tip and it actually tucked in the dangly thing a little, with no clear stones or anything behind it or the tonsil flaps.
Current symptoms are barely any throat pain when swallowing, swelling and inflammation of right tonsil and moderate lymph nodes in neck, chronic fatigue, no fever, sporadic body aches and pains.
I’m lost because I’ve never been sick for this long for a respiratory issue and feel something’s not right.
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My LO is almost 7 weeks old. At 3.5 weeks norovirus hit our home. Our babe had a 101.5 fever and we rushed to the hospital. I was also actively sick at the time but we only admitted her. I threw up in the hospital twice, once at home beforehand, I was miserable but she came first. Then we were transferred to the bigger hospital 45 minutes away because they found bacteria in her blood. It was protocol to look and I thank my lucky stars they did, because she ended up having bacterial sepsis.
Thank the good lord above our daughter fought off the bacteria very quickly and we were there that long just to finish the course of meds. We still need to do one more blood test for a specific immunodeficiency disorder, but otherwise all her other blood work (other disorders, platelets, white blood cell count, liver, kidney) all look normal.
We ended up spending 2 weeks at this hospital that was 45 minutes away from home. I couldn’t just pop home when needed, I felt like a prisoner. I was freshly postpartum sleeping on a hospital chaibed and the baby could never nap properly because of all the commotion at the hospital. Our only saving Grace were the nurses. There were a few that genuinely cared about our well being and I am so grateful to them.
We’ve been home for a week tomorrow, and I’m still not ok. Most days I feel fine, but then there are days like today where she wouldn’t take a nap (away from me at least, she slept on top of me fine lol) until 4:45 in the afternoon. And I become a basket case of anxiety. My body still aches, apparently my tiny little surface level tear hasn’t healed, I’m having weird urethra pain that “she couldn’t see” so it must not be there, and I’m tired.
Sure I’m getting 4-5 hours and my daughter sleeps through the night now (5-6 hour stretches) but I’m still so damn tired. I’ve always been the type of person that needed 8-9 hours a night. I’m also an extremely routined and tidied person. If I’m off my routine and my house is messy I am a ball of anxiety. And with a newborn…y’all know how that goes. Luckily I’m still able to keep the house somewhat tidy, I clean when she naps. And I’m trying to relax while my husband is home and taking care of our baby, but it’s so hard to not be “on mom mode” and just chill.
Not to mention I now know newborns who get sepsis run the risk of cognitive delays and a risk of dying in the next 5 years, I’m fucking terrified.
So yah, that is my extremely long anxiety induced essay that I realllyyyy needed to type out. Thanks for reading.

To me, this question is something I should know. I know the sun can make you not feel well, but what about causing pain in your small joints? I sat out in the late afternoon sun for about 30-45 minutes yesterday. I didn’t feel too bad, or worse than I normally do last night. This morning, my fingers from the smallest joint including all the finger joints hurt awful. My thumbs are so stiff. I have had trouble using my steering wheel and I had to take my daughter to an appointment 1.5 hours away from my house. Also, my wrists and elbows ache. My elbows will kinda lock up then with a snap become functional and my wrists snap/crack all the time. Usually not painful, today painful. Tonight, my fingers are swollen, to the point it makes it hard to fully extend them. This is slightly distressing me because I want to enjoy my summer, sitting outside. I live way up north in the US so seeing the sun is kinda rare, lol. I’ve been on Hydroxychloroquine since September 2023 and Methotrexate since December 2023. Maybe I see more days where my fingers are functional? I’m still tired, writing and typing still suck. Could this also mean my meds are not working for me and maybe making the sun not like me? I see the rheumatologist in a month and I am not fond of him. I’m a freaking nurse so you would think I’d get it. I don’t though. I’m cross-posting this to the other RA sub if you happen to see it again. TIA

To me, this question is something I should know. I know the sun can make you not feel well, but what about causing pain in your small joints? I sat out in the late afternoon sun for about 30-45 minutes yesterday. I didn’t feel too bad, or worse than I normally do last night. This morning, my fingers from the smallest joint including all the finger joints hurt awful. My thumbs are so stiff. I have had trouble using my steering wheel and I had to take my daughter to an appointment 1.5 hours away from my house. Also, my wrists and elbows ache. My elbows will kinda lock up then with a snap become functional and my wrists snap/crack all the time. Usually not painful, today painful. Tonight, my fingers are swollen, to the point it makes it hard to fully extend them. This is slightly distressing me because I want to enjoy my summer, sitting outside. I live way up north in the US so seeing the sun is kinda rare, lol. I’ve been on Hydroxychloroquine since September 2023 and Methotrexate since December 2023. Maybe I see more days where my fingers are functional? I’m still tired, writing and typing still suck. Could this also mean my meds are not working for me and maybe making the sun not like me? I see the rheumatologist in a month and I am not fond of him. I’m a freaking nurse so you would think I’d get it. I don’t though. I’m cross-posting this to the other RA sub if you happen to see it again. TIA

Seeing what’s floating around.

My LO is almost 7 weeks old. At 3.5 weeks norovirus hit our home. Our babe had a 101.5 fever and we rushed to the hospital. I was also actively sick at the time but we only admitted her. I threw up in the hospital twice, once at home beforehand, I was miserable but she came first. Then we were transferred to the bigger hospital 45 minutes away because they found bacteria in her blood. It was protocol to look and I thank my lucky stars they did, because she ended up having bacterial sepsis.
Thank the good lord above our daughter fought off the bacteria very quickly and we were there that long just to finish the course of meds. We still need to do one more blood test for a specific immunodeficiency disorder, but otherwise all her other blood work (other disorders, platelets, white blood cell count, liver, kidney) all look normal.
We ended up spending 2 weeks at this hospital that was 45 minutes away from home. I couldn’t just pop home when needed, I felt like a prisoner. I was freshly postpartum sleeping on a hospital chaibed and the baby could never nap properly because of all the commotion at the hospital. Our only saving Grace were the nurses. There were a few that genuinely cared about our well being and I am so grateful to them.
We’ve been home for a week tomorrow, and I’m still not ok. Most days I feel fine, but then there are days like today where she wouldn’t take a nap (away from me at least, she slept on top of me fine lol) until 4:45 in the afternoon. And I become a basket case of anxiety. My body still aches, apparently my tiny little surface level tear hasn’t healed, I’m having weird urethra pain that “she couldn’t see” so it must not be there, and I’m tired. Sure I’m getting 4-5 hours and my daughter sleeps through the night now (5-6 hour stretches) but I’m still so damn tired. I’ve always been the type of person that needed 8-9 hours a night. I’m also an extremely routined and tidied person. If I’m off my routine and my house is messy I am a ball of anxiety. And with a newborn…y’all know how that goes. Luckily I’m still able to keep the house somewhat tidy, I clean when she naps. And I’m trying to relax while my husband is home and taking care of our baby, but it’s so hard to not be “on mom mode” and just chill.
So yah, that is my extremely long anxiety induced essay that I realllyyyy needed to type out. Thanks for reading.

I had the best shopping trip ever after a doctor's appointment today! I've been having a bit of a flare up the past couple days, and then my doctor's appointment made it a little worse but I had to get to the store today because we needed a few essentials. I went to a store on the nicer side of town since it was closer to my appointment. This store actually had more than two working mobility scooters! I never really get to use the mobility aides offered in grocery stores since I feel like I'm not disabled enough to use it since I can walk despite being in pain, but since the store was mostly empty given the time of day and there was a row o about 5 charged and working scooters, I figured I could use one without taking away the aide from someone else. IT. WAS. AMAZING. I was able to go around the entire store without getting dizzy or stumbling, and my joints didn't ache nearly as bad as they would have had I walked the store, I even had the energy to stand in line to get a coffee and breakfast sandwich to take my pills with when it was time to take my meds (the lines are usually long in the starbucks kiosks and stores, and standing in them for too long isn't worth it for me most days.) It might sound silly, but it was the best shopping trip I've had in a long time!

Its been 3 years since I gained 150lbs on zyprexa. I want to lose it, but these meds keep it on me no matter what I seem to do. To add some context I was 21 and weighed 98lbs at 5'4, yes that was too low, but my god to put on 150lbs in 6 months was wild. I got off zyprexa 2 years ago and lost 65lbs a few months later only to go back on it and gain 20lbs back. Now I'm sitting at 205lbs and I am so out of shape. I walk everyday, do yoga, and eat a pretty clean diet (mainly vegetables, fruits, and lean protein). I've tried the intense work outs, my joints ache from the weight and they didn't seem to help. I've done the intermittent fasting, my blood pressure won't stabilize if I dont eat regularly. Heck I even let my ED (I'm in recovery) take over for a while and that didn't even work when clearly it did in the past. I cannot lose weight and I don't know what to do. My body feels awful, I feel awful about my body, and I don't know if theres anything I can actually do about it. My goal is to be down to 150-160lbs but that means losing pretty much 50lbs. I know theres no quick way to do it but I'm struggling to see ANY way to do it. Has anyone had success losing weight while still being on antipsychotics and other mental health medications? If yes, HOW?

i've noticed this after a long while, but most days i'll wake up feeling less impending doom than usual and then as the day crawls along i begin to feel worse and worse. most of my symptoms are mental ( i.e severe brain fog, intrusive thoughts, anxiety etc ) so its fairly easy to notice when i sense them getting worse. it tends to hit its peak in mid afternoon. i also notice in the evenings that i feel a slight bit calmer, and i don't know if its because i'm tired and my body is preparing for sleep or what. my main physical symptoms are joint aches, fungal acne and flaky skin, fatigue and a pounding fast heart rate ( along with breathlessness when doing very simple things ) and those also tend to fluctuate but to a less noticeable degree from the time i wake up onward.

I have OCD and seek therapy for it. It’s not working. I’ve went downhill significantly for several months now. One of my biggest fears is HIV infection. And I’m currently suffering from a “trigger” and it’s ruining my life.
I go to electrolysis appointments for hair removal, and I have convinced myself that back in January I contracted HIV from this particular appointment. I went in directly after someone who I convinced myself has HIV and lack of proper sterilization has resulted in an HIV infection. What makes matters worse is that I got sick one week after this appointment. Very sick. Horrible cough, shortness of breath, lost my voice, fever, chills, body aches, diarrhea, etc. I was so sick that I actually pooped blood on one occasion. I was seeing a guy at the time and went and got an HIV test which came back negative. (Not enough time for the window period of my appointment) I relaxed a little and eventually got better and things were okay for a bit. I just had another appointment and completely spiraled again. I am back at square one still convinced that I got HIV from that appointment and have given it to now 2 men I’ve slept with. I’m just a complete hot mess. I don’t know what to do. I’m not promiscuous (yes I’ve slept with 2 guys in 5 months but this is out of the ordinary for me), I do not use intravenous drugs. So other than that I am a healthy, 30 year old female. I’m not seeking reassurance. I don’t know what I want honestly. I just hate feeling this way. I’m plagued with anxiety and am so scared to take this test in the next few days that I feel physically ill. I’m mostly worried I’ve given it to these 2 guys and how am I going to explain this to them…I don’t know how to calm down. Advice would be appreciated.

So about 7 weeks ago I met this girl. We stumbled across each other on social media and she asked me for marriage. My 17 year old brain hastily said yes without any thinking. We got to know each other and truly she is on deen on very religious. She also has very good qualities and characteristics and an amazing person. I come to find out she lives in Europe while I live in the US and she is a year older and that we are different races. We kept talking for a couple days and yes I know it is haram but we both couldn’t control ourselves. After a couple days I say we should stop talking and see what Allah has in plan. I got so attached to her that within that same day I said I couldn’t and we kept talking. Another week passes by and I said we should stop actually this time. After a lot of tears that day I was able to somewhat calm down do my prayers tahajjud and istikhara to see if she is good for me. Suddenly in the middle of the night I get this claustrophobic feeling and I knew something was wrong with her. I break no contact once again and almost 12 hours later she replies saying how she was in the hospital the entire day with a really bad fever. I took this as a good sign as I knew something was wrong with her and felt it especially after istikhara. We go on talking again and our feelings for each other get stronger. She also does istikhara a couple days later and right after she jokingly asks her mom if she can marry outside her culture. Her mom got extremely mad at her. That same day another family came by and dropped her a proposal. We both acknowledged this as a asnwer to her istikhara but neglected it as I got a good sign and she looked to have gotten a negative. Fast forward a couple weeks she tries to explain to her parents about me and they completely destroyed her emotions because they don’t like me and rather want her to marry the guy who dropped the proposal. After calming her down she went to sleep. A couple days later I had an operation and while under anesthesia I told my mom I liked this girl and she later talked to me saying she wont allow it due to my age and me still being in school and not having a job which is completely letly understandable. Few weeks pass and she gets a dream. She dreamt of me and her drowning indicating we sre drowning in sin and awe agreed to go on no contact that weekend. The next day She dreamt about henna on her hands and feet, adopting an orange cat and watering a plant back to life. After she did some research according to Ibn Sirin they all indicate marriage soon. She also dreamt of adopting a pair of twins a boy and a girl which indicated a person you have a close relation with will not lead to marriage. This really scared us but the next day we went on no contact again having faith in Allah. The first couple days were hard but it got better and until last week. She told me how she said yes to that guys proposal. She met with him a couple times and her parents and siblings like him. She also told me how she tried really hard almost everyday trying to convince her dad about me and I have been open to talk to her parents from the beginning. Her father was so furious one time he almost broke her phone. She is extremely scared of her parents so she said she won’t pursue me anymore. She gave me a description of what that guy was like and from what she said the guy does sound good. He has a job same race older and on deen. Although we both promised each other that we would wait it looks like Allah had other plans. From my time with her I stopped bad habits like watching 18+ videos, lowered my gaze always, stoppped cursing, stopped masturbation, started tahajjud everyday, not missing a single sunnah prayer, reading quraan everyday. She always provided me with hadiths and verses from the quran when i needed help she was always there for me when i needed help. I truly love her for the sake of Allah. She made me a better person and my heart aches so much for her. This weekend I stopped talking to her as I felt guilty for talking to someones soon to be wife. Before we parted ways I asked her if she still had feelings for me she didn’t say yes or no rather said she feels some type of way for the guy that hes a good person and has a stable job and will take care of her. After that we parted ways and said Fi Amanillah. It hurts so much because I truly loved her we even gave sadaqah in each others name. I just accepted that guy is her naseeeb and I cannot do anything about it and whenever I go into sujood it is always her name that comes first. I wish I had ended it when she got her signs from her istikhara. I do good sometimes but then all of a sudden i go into such deep sadness because of all the memories that just flood in. Shes a great person she even said before we part she will make dua for my health and that I find someone better than her and I do trust Allah that he has something better planned for me but in the moment it hurts so much please give me advice i read quran and do extra salah but it still hurts. Shes such an angel I cant imagine living knowing shes with someone else. Jazakallah Khair

FTM, LO is 6 weeks this week. Breast feeding was an immense struggle for the first 4 weeks. LO’s latch was really shallow, ties have been ruled out by multiple LC’s and pediatricians. She just had to get a little bigger. She’s great on my right side, no pain at all. Left side is still a bit painful, which is the side I’m currently experiencing this pain.
It’s like a terrible ache on the outer side of my breast. It usually happens just one or the other, but last week it was both at the same time and it was terrible. It’s not necessarily a particular spot which makes me think it isn’t a clog? It feels like deep muscle pain. Laying down is very painful, if I lay on the side that hurts, it feels crushed and painful. If I lay on the opposite side, the pulling of that breast to the opposite side of my body is also very painful.
No fever or chills or anything like that. I basically just ice, heat, and massage until it goes away. Takes about a day if I’m consistent with that stuff. What the heck is this? How can I avoid it? I’ll go several days of not having any pain (apart from the nipple that her latch is still weird) and feeling like I finally have a handle on breastfeeding and then it happens again and I feel very discouraged. :(

Not sure what is going on with me. Ever since yesterday (Monday) evening, I have felt tightness in my chest when I breathe deeply. It wasn’t super noticeable until this morning. It did wake me up once in the night. Since this morning, I feel like I can’t breathe deeply and my lungs ache in my upper chest when I do , I am a bit short of breath, I have aches in my head, neck, and shoulders, slight cough when it feels like my breath is taken away, and I now have a fever (peaked at 102). I went to my doctor and had a negative COVID test, negative flu test, negative xray for pneumonia, and the ct scan showed no pneumonia or blood clot. My doctor is saying she suspects a viral infection but the chest tightness/lunch ache seems like a weird symptom of a virus.
Back story is I had my surgery may 1st and recovery went well. I used a brand new cool mist humidifier every night and most days. At night I will note that the humidifier would fog out my whole room to the point where it was visible. I was not warned by my ENT about pneumonia risk. I rested/laid down elevated majority of my recovery. I did get up periodically but did not know I should make a point of it.
Any advice???

i think i have the flu.. not sure. I started feeling sick last thursday with a tickle in my throat and had a fever by the nighttime. fever stuck on and off for 2 days with severe aches, chills, sweats, heart racing. day 3 i got a full blown head cold with blocked nose, pressure headaches, ears plugged. i’m on day 6 and i still have pressure headache.. nose is less stuffy but still a ton of post nasal drip. i feel absolutely exhausted no matter how much i sleep. i feel weak, shaky, nauseous all day long. to the point i don’t think i could walk any real distance.. started coughing like no tomorrow this morning, hardly getting anything up but a little bit. it feels so…. gross to breathe in my windpipes. i don’t know how to describe it. i’m starting to get a bit worried at how ill i feel for the 6th day though. Is this normal?

Female diagnosed with GHSV2 about 6 weeks ago. First outbreak was mostly horrible because I had 5-day fever, but I didn’t have any visible sores so it was mistaken for dengue as I just returned from the tropics. Was uncomfortable in the vulva so had a routine STI test that same week (no herpes test) and was sent away with thrush medication.
A week later I returned to the clinic as I was still sore but couldn’t see anything amiss. Nurse noticed an ulcer (entrance to the vagina where I couldn’t see it), swabbed and sent me away with acyclovir. Result later confirmed GHSV2.
Now I think I’m having another outbreak; I had prodrome (ache/heaviness in vulval area) for a couple of hours a few days ago and am uncomfortable in the vulva area now (feels like a papercut), but even with a mirror, everything looks ok down there.
My questions are, how long do prodrome symptoms usually last and how do you know you’re having an outbreak if everything looks ok? Also, is there any point in taking antivirals at this stage or should I just ride it out?

Hey guys, hope everyone is doing better than before!
Just tested negative today and I finished my treatment a month ago. However, I still experience some symptoms and not sure if they are related to this nasty bacteria. Basically, I still have more than usual burping, but definitely better than before. I started to experience muscle ache/soreness as well as joint pains. They are mostly around my shoulder and neck area which makes me suspect that my lymph nodes are swollen too. Has anyone experienced the same? Wondering if it's related to the bacteria/antibiotics or is it a function of mineral deficiencies. If so, any suggestion on how to improve? I will bring this up to my family doctor in two weeks. Will update when I hear what he suggest.

December 2023, started getting brain fog, off and on, several days per week. I thought I might need a change in the supplements I usually take, so I ditched Quercetin, Astaxanthin, and Krill Oil, and just kept taking the usual vitamins. No improvement in brain fog.
In late February 2024, I started feeling weak in the legs, with oddly stiff knees, when getting out of bed in the morning. It was hard to walk and my feet hurt. The brain fog also increased, and I started getting horribly fatigued, sometimes all day long. During the day and in the evening, my hands/knuckles/fingers started throbbing, sometimes severely. No fever, no swollen glands. I went to my primary doctor on March 19, and she ordered blood tests and xrays. Xrays showed no joint damage, and my inflammatory markers were pretty good, but my Rheumatoid Factor test was positive. She referred me to a Rheumatologist.
In mid-April, Rheumatologist took history and ordered a gazillion blood tests and urine test. Inflammatory markers looked good, except for IgA, which was elevated to 435. RF was negative though, after being positive the month before. FANA test was also negative (positive, with speckled pattern, but an insignificant titer....so, negative). Meanwhile, symptoms persist...brain fog, headaches, fatigue, joint pain (including wrists, now), weak/stiff/wobbly legs in the morning for about 45 minutes (but they come back if I sit or lie down for too long). At a recent follow up appointment, my primary doc ordered a brain MRI (haven't had it yet) and told me she still thinks I'm dealing with RA, but the Seronegative version.
Has anyone else experienced the same things? How did your Seronegative RA get diagnosed?

Hello I'm in my mid twenties and I've recently started dating a girl and have had a lot of unprotected sex (stupid I know). Thing is I've had a flu for the past 2 weeks that just seems to keep coming back, just after we started having sex. I'm pretty fit so I'm surprised that it hasn't gone away. I've not had sex with someone in over a year and I read online that STI's can have flu symptoms but I have no rashes or bumps. I've booked a health clinic check up. What are the odds it's an STI? I hope I'm just being paranoid. It started as a flu with fever, aches, sore throat, cough that went away for nearly two days then it came back with a vengeance. I had a boiling fever, even worse aches and now my parotid glands are so swollen I can feel the fluid swishing around in my blocked ears.

I woke up with a 100 degree fever and body aches and chills yesterday so I had to call out. I might have to call out tonight too but I only have 15 hours of PPTO. 8 will go to last night's missed shift which leaves me with 7. Will I still get a point if I am an hour short on ppto? Or am I better off not wasting the 7 hours and just taking the point?