Chest and tooth pain

I'm 30, caucasian and male. For the last couple years, I've had increasing incidences of a dull pain that is very central to my heart. It's not chest pain, but rather just feels like my whole heart.
Occasionally, but less frequently, I get a metallic pain in my jaw, chest and back that comes with the heart. It's very painful and I have to get up and walk around for 30 minutes. This is a lot more uncommon than the dull heart pain I talked about.
I guess I haven't told my doc because I put it off as a symptom of anxiety, which I have pretty bad. I can almost never just chill out and my resting heart rate is always right under tachycardia levels.

The medical gaslighting is just unreal.
I had a "cardiac injury" over the weekend (have to go for more tests for real diagnosis). My fatigue had been better that past week, so I challenged myself to go up the stairs without pausing (stupid - but every once in a while I get fed up and try to be normal). I got really winded, lightheaded, so I laid down. Then, it was like a switch. My heart started beating really fast and really hard and I could barely breathe. I went downstairs and put cold water on my face, vagal maneuvers, laid down flat - it didn't stop, so I called 911. By the time they arrived, the pounding changed to a cramping feeling in my chest/throat. My EKG came back baseline for me (I have an irregular EKG due to a heart defect as a baby). The paramedic was incredibly kind and I initially resisted going to the hospital but he encouraged me to go in for testing. Grateful to him.
Anyway, long story short, they drew a troponin and it was elevated (not heart attack levels, but still elevated), so they had to do another draw 3 hours later to look for a change. After my assigned nurse went over what happened (and AFTER the first T result came back, so she saw that it was elevated) and she asked me to describe my pain. I said it felt like pressure or a cramp starting in my chest and extending into my throat/jaw. She said, with wide eyes like she just cracked a case: "I wonder if it's heartburn."
I said (politely), "it's not heartburn. I have had heartburn in the past and it's really not heartburn." She said okay and moved on.
I went to my follow up with my primary today and she asked how my heartburn pain was amidst all this. I said "what heartburn?" Apparently the nurse wrote "heartburn symptoms" and "discomfort from possible indigestion." Luckily my primary believed me when I said it was never heartburn and ordered more cardiac testing.
Unbelievable. These careless people determine our futures. It makes me wonder how many other careless notes in my chart are floating around, keeping me from the care/testing I need and have needed.

Hi everyone, I won’t get into tons of details as if anyone is interested I’ve posted it in the GERD group.
M38, I’ve had tons of cardiac symptoms (chest pain, left arm, sob, nausea, sweating, etc) that have yet to have a cause, and the differential diagnosis is something in the GI realm apparently. I’ve been prescribed ami 10mg to deal with the symptoms I’ve been getting. In short he thinks there is some vagus nerve related pain, or esophageal spasms, or something related to that.
I currently deal with palpitations, high bp and cholesterol, and possible migraines. There’s probably some degree of secondary anxiety from not having answers and worried something might happen that catastrophic.
A friend of mine healthcare suggested against TCA in general, said they don’t work, high side effects, and even worse for men’s sexual health.
Has anyone tried it got similar indications as mine, and how did it go. Or even if they took it for other reasons, how are you feeling and how are the side effects.
Thank you in advance.

I’ve developed sudden sensitivity on a previously filled upper right bicuspid. The sensitivity is moderate, but dissipates after about 5-6 seconds after cold stimulus is removed.
I’m going to the dentist tomorrow and I’m terrified he will tell me I need a root canal. I had a root canal several years ago and it was extraordinary painful. I also had a tooth filled last year…the dentist hit my lingual nerve and caused half of my tongue and lip to be numb for several months.
I’m at my wits end. I do everything right. I have good home care. Based on the symptoms, what’s the likelihood I’ll need a root canal, and are there any potential alternatives other than extraction? Thank you for any advice you may have.

Hi! i want to clarify before hand i am not looking for medical advice, and am doing all the things medically for this issue that i can. i am also not looking to replace medical care with magic. i have recently been experiencing health issues that no doctor can figure out/help with. i have been trying everything. for 7 months. does anyone have experience with this? it’s extremely painful (nerve pain) and manifests in my throat, ears, neck, chest and head. I feel like now that no docs have been able to help, it may be a place for magic. there is a girl who threatened to hex me years ago and actually assaulted me on the street last year. i’m wondering if she could have anything to do with it. it all began after i had a wisdom tooth surgery, it seems like i was in a weak vulnerable place and this all began. It’s been rough. i’ve smoked weed since i was young for ptsd and i can’t use cannabis at all (even edibles) anymore because it flares me so bad. i believe in manifestation and that i can heal this mystery illness. any advice, ideas as to what could be happening, or spells/success stories of healing are appreciated. Blessings🤍🤍🤍

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"Leave the sleeping dragons lie in peace" is a lesson that seemingly has to be taught to every wannabe conqueror over and over again.
Time after time, there will be a few idiots who only see the dragon's hoard, its cult of followers, and ignore the piles of rusted, slagged, calcified, scorched remains of every moron who tried before them. They see all of this and think "I can beat it to submission and take everything it has."
And then the dragon wakes up, and more smoldering remains are added to the scorched scrap heap.
And the Malevolent Universe grins in the darkness, and increases the "Dead morons who should have known better" counter by one. Then, waits for the next contestant. - u/Matt_Bradock, Terran Philosopher, Age of Paranoia, TerraSol
^{initiating data stream
your name is Dhruv-661391
you were purchased for the same price as a moderately priced luxury vehicle}
She knows the dead. She is of the dead. She is the keeper and guardian of the dead. Life, death and the feasting of swarms all are one within her. She knows where once-dead things were laid to rest and where the deathless still dream in their unliving slumber. She knows where the hungry dead have roamed the universe's fields, and where they still roam them unburied, and why no one remembers them as they tread. - The Fifth Horseman, First Terran Imperium, "Meditations Upon Immortals"
^{you were created to serve}
What we tell ourselves, what we tell others, and what actually happened, are often three different things.
And sometimes four. - Unknown, Age of Paranoia, TerraSol
^{your name is Dhruv
and your brain was once smooth}
Captain N'Skrek checked his datalink.
The deep data storage was still at work bringing up information on "Legion" and "Sacajawea". The older databases of the Gray Lady had data at the ready, but it was sparse.
Two of the Biological Apostles of the Digital Omnimessiah, a figure of myth and legend.
Yet, they sat across from him.
They were talking back and forth in a language that the computer's linguistic database had no record of and stubbornly resisted any attempt to decipher it.
What N'Skrek did hear was several words that he recognized.
Daxin the Unfeeling. Daxin Freeborn. Chromium Saint Peter. Enraged Phillip. Matthias the Elder. Matthias the Younger. Kibuka. Kalki. Gravity.
A litany that left data scrolling down the empty space just beyond the edge of his peripheral vision.
Daxin "The Walking War Crime" Freeborn.
NavInt and MilInt were projecting with an 80% certainty (adjusted downward for unknown probabilities) that the beings in front of him were from that long bygone era.
Finally Captain N'Skrek cleared his throat.
The bald one, Legion, turned to look at the gathered staff officers.
"My apologies. I was catching my sister up on what has transpired since she disappeared," Legion said, smiling gently. He nodded. "You probably have questions."
N'Skrek nodded back. "The biggest one is: how did you..." he thought for a second. "Why did you..." no, that wouldn't work. "What bring about..."
Legion smiled.
"How did I replace all of your clones and why?" he asked. "Why is it that if you print off too many identical clones I show up?"
N'Skrek nodded. "Yes."
Legion looked at the Terran officers and smiled wider. It was a cruel smile, reminding N'Skrek of a hook pointed knife that had been sharpened to a keen edge.
"You didn't tell them? Have you really forgotten about me?" he asked.
"It was assumed to be still prevented by the cloning systems," Vice-Admiral Breakheader stated slowly. "We have only recently been restored ourselves. Less than two months time."
Legion just smiled.
Vice-Admiral Breakheader turned to look at Captain N'Skrek. "Running off too many identical clones causes Legion to manifest. It's why we use the Born Whole system, it ensures they have different brains, different expriences, and they have a slight variation to pore and retinal patterns, hair growth, minor things like that. Otherwise, Legion manifests."
"Why?" N'Skrek asked.
The Vice-Admiral sat silently for a moment before replying. "Because," was all he said.
Legion's smile didn't leave his face.
"Because it is my nature," he said.
Sacajawea said something and Legion replied in the same language, then turned to N'Skrek.
"My sister does not know why she was rebirthed," he said. He looked at her and spoke rapidly. She answered, only a few words, which made Legion reply at length. Again, only a few words.
"It must have been important," N'Skrek interrupted.
"She states that she does not know why the Immortals system did not rebirth her when she died," Legion said. He glanced at her. "She tells me that she died, with her people, when her peaceful planet was attacked."
"By the Mar-gite?" N'Skrek asked.
Again, more conversation.
"Yes," Legion answered. He frowned as she spoke again. "She says they were a peaceful planet. Anarcho-Primitivism. Very little technology. The Mar-gite attacked without warning."
She spoke rapidly and Legion listened.
N'Skrek saw the computer still was not able to parse the language, even though it could build a lexicon of off very little data for almost any other language it encountered.
Legion turned and faced N'Skrek. "She states that she believes it was the fact that some of her people demanded that high technology be left in place in order to allow the six planets her people had settled to remain in contact. That the high tech farming and sustenance industries led the Mar-gite to attack her."
Again, Sacajawea spoke, her head lifted, looking down at Legion.
"Why she was not reborn is unknown to her. She had guided and shepherded her people for thousands of years before the outsiders came. Outsiders drawn by technology, by the abandonment of the old ways," Legion said. He was frowning as he spoke rapidly.
The conversation took a few minutes.
"She said the outsiders came and wiped her people out after entire generations held them off. That in the final battle, they overcame her when her strength failed," Legion said. There was more talking. "She's describing the Mar-gite."
"Where was this?" N'Skrek asked, bringing up a map of the galaxy. "The First Mar-gite War was only three hundred years prior to the Council-Confederacy Conflict and lasted nearly a hundred years," the brought up a sketchy timeline of the era. "When did you encounter the Mar-gite and where?"
Sacajawea spoke again at length. Legion spoke back. It grew heated for a moment before Legion looked at N'Skrek.
"She will not say. She does not want us to defile or desecrate the worlds her people settled. She does not want us to know when or where," he said.
"That might be pertinent information," N'Skrek said. "Important information to keep the Mar-gite from overwhelming the Cygnus-Orion Spur."
Sacajawea spoke quickly, heatedly, half standing up. Legion put his hand on her shoulder, obviously encouraging her to sit down, but she shrugged, throwing off Legion's hand, and her speech got more heated, her eyes flashing with anger.
"She says she will not reveal her people's resting place for us to dig up the graves and desecrate them. That it is not anyone's business where The People have gone or what The People have done," Legion said. He turned and answered her.
The conversation got heated as the N'Skrek and the officers watched.
Finally, Sacajawea stood up and turned around, folding her arms across her chest, lifting her chin.
Legion's skin darkened with anger.
"Then you can tell them that load of bullshit yourself, little sister," he snapped.
He suddenly vanished in a swirl of black powder that evaporated.
N'Skrek saw that Sacajawea was shocked by Legion's disappearance. She stood there for a long moment.
"Dhruv?" she asked mid-air.
N'Skrek motioned his officers to stay silent.
"Dhruv?" she snapped, stomping one foot.
Still silence.
"Luke!' she half-shouted, stamping her foot again.
She turned and looked at the gathered staff officers, who were all staring at her.
"Legion?" she asked quietly.
N'Skrek held up one bladearm.
"It appears, Miss, that you will have to speak for yourself."
Sacajawea frowned and clamped her lips together.
N'Skrek just stared mildly.
^{your name was tiffany}
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^{your name was dhruv
you were created to serve the deshmuhk family
you were a gardener and a menial
but you have risen above that}
Jaskel had just gotten a plate of food and sat down in one corner of the cavernous Dining Bay Twenty-Three.
True, it was a little bit of a walk from the Telkan Marine section to that particular dining facility, but for some reason Jaskel liked the food put out by Nutriforge-Eight better than any of the others.
Like the Gunny always said, it was the little things that count.
He had arranged his silverware, his drink, and given a short prayer when he suddenly wasn't alone.
A slender man in an unfamiliar uniform suddenly appeared at one of the tables on the far side of the Dining Bay. Jaskel watched as two more stepped out of the first. They all sat down and started talking rapidly.
To Jaskel, it sounded like an argument.
It looked like one person arguing with himself.
Jaskel ate quietly and slowly, trying to avoid attracting attention, but watching the Terran out of the corner of his eye.
Terrans were universally half-crazy.
And a Terran arguing with clones of himself was probably full blown crazy.
That, and Jaskel remembered how negligent the display of power had been that had left him hanging upside down in mid-air.
Much to the amusement of his squad mates who watched the video and laughed.
He was down to dessert when the far door opened and a woman entered. Jaskel recognized her instantly as the young adult Terran woman who had appeared nude from the cloning banks, even though she was clad in clothing made of brown material and decorated with beads.
She immediately made a bee-line for the man, who had gotten a plate with a piece of pie on it while the other two argued between each other.
She stopped and stomped on foot, staring down at the sitting man.
"You look stupid," the man, Legion, said when she stopped next to him.
"Dhruv," she snapped. She rattled off words that Jaskel's datalink couldn't translate.
"Not talking to you until you speak Confederate Standard. I know you know it," Legion/Dhruv stated.
She stomped her foot again. "Luke!" she snapped.
Legion looked up. "Part of me, a large part of me, feels that you lost the right to call me by that name."
He went back to eating the pie. When the woman looked at the two clones who were staring at her, they stared back for a moment then puffed into black dust that swirled and vanished.
Jaskel kept watching out of the corner of his eye.
"Dhruv," she snapped.
"Go away, Sacajawea," Legion said.
She stood there for a moment. Then she suddenly leaned forward and slapped the plate of pie away from Legion.
"I will not call you Legion," she suddenly said as the plate clattered against the far bulkhead.
"Go away," Legion said. He looked up. "Let me put it in a way you might understand better: I just want left alone."
The woman stepped back, one hand going to her mouth.
"Yeah, still scared of him, aren't you," Legion said. He stood up. "Or are you?" he moved so he was clear of the table. "Were you ever afraid of him, Sacajawea, or was it all an act?"
Sacajawea looked away. "He was everything wrong with the world, a living reminder of what kind of men destroyed my people."
Legion suddenly laughed. "You forget history, little sister. But, of course, you never had any use for history unless it served your own ends."
Sacajawea stomped her foot. "Dhruv, be nice."
"No," Legion said, his voice low and intent. "I have yet to hear you thank me for what I did in the cloning bay, much less what I did for you before you ran off and left me holding the bag."
^{your name was luke
remember remember
your name was luke}
"I came back to find Matthias the Elder standing over the sundered murdered code of the Digital Omnimessiah," Legion said. "Then Daxin showed up, Matthias claimed I killed our Digital Father, so I ran."
"And he followed. Intent on killing you," Sacajawea sniffed.
"Yes!' Legion said. "Of course he did! I would have chased me in that situation," Legion said. He stepped forward. "And where were you, Little Sister, when it happened?"
She looked away and sniffed. "I was performing my duty, serving my people. As you well know."
Legion turned around, facing away from her. "Yeah, the people you had me bake up," he turned back around. "Not the poor bastards fighting a slowly losing war against the Mantid. They were your people too, but you left them behind. If it wasn't for the Mechakrautlanders, they'd be extinct with the rest of humanity."
"They had set aside the old ways. I told you that," Sacajawea said. She gave a sniff and turned her head away. "They were too consumed by blood lust, they would not stop fighting, would not embrace the old ways."
"EVERYONE WAS FIGHTING!" Legion shouted in a voice that made Jaskel's drink glass rattle. "There were hab-kids fighting and dying in destroyed hab-blocks in the ruins of megalopolises. It had nothing to do with 'the old ways', it was a fight for survival."
"You would not understand," Sacajawea said. She gave another sniff, still looking away. "I took my people away from where technology and the abandonment of the ways of our people had led us."
Legion stood still for a second.
"Don't give me that shit about your 'people', remember, I touched you. I know the truth," Legion said. He shook his head. "You had a task. A task to help us, help our Digital Father, help all of humanity, but you abandoned it."
"I had a task to help my people," Sacajawea sniffed. "I owed nothing to the world that stood aside or actively took part while my people were destroyed," she looked at Legion. "You wouldn't understand."
Jaskel could see purple electricity snarling around Legion's boots, clawing at the deckplates with thread-thick fingers.
"You were supposed to guide us along the path to the SUDS, so we could save everyone, Sacajawea," Legion said. "You betrayed us. Betrayed them. You were supposed to save them."
"Like they saved my people, Luke?" Sacajawea asked.
"You don't call me that any more, little sister," Legion said. "For the love of the Detainee, fucking let go of shit that doesn't matter any more. We humans have been genocided repeatedly since then."
"I'm not calling you Legion. That reeks of arrogance and pride," Sacajawea said. "And it matters to me, Luke."
"You talk a lot of shit for someone named Bird Woman," Legion snapped back. "How about I call you Tiffany?"
Sacajawea took a step back. "That is not my name. That was never my true name."
"You forget. I could see under that skin job. See who you were born as. I knew the truth, and I've kept it secret for all these eons," Legion said. He turned away. "You left us, left humanity behind on your so-called quest."
He turned back to face her.
"Now, again, we're facing extinction. The Mar-gite, they wiped you out. Now they're here in overwhelming force to the point where I'm not even sure Fortress Sol can hold them off," Legion said. "And you still want to play pretend."
He turned his back on her.
"You're no different than Matthias the Elder," Legion said quietly.
There was a dreadful silence for a long moment.
"I told Daxin, sitting in the parking garage where we used to meet, that we had to let go of the past. Learn from it, admit it happened, but we had to let it all go. The old hatreds, the old angers, the old rage," Legion said softly. "He agreed. He said perhaps it was time for us to leave the mortals behind. Let them go without us dragging baggage from worlds and events dead and gone behind us."
Sacajawea sniffed. "It's different for the two of you, neither one of you had your people..."
"I was a short bake slave clone, Tiffany," Legion said, his voice still soft and quiet. "Just like your family owned."
Sacajawea opened her mouth to answer, her eyes flashing hotly.
"One of millions grown in a vat every year. Made in humanity's image but without its grace," Legion's voice was nearly a whisper. "Our little band of siblings, only Kalki, Gravity, and Daxin came from families that did not order one of me from an online catalogue. Even Bellona lived with my people performing menial labor for her colony."
Sacajawea stepped forward, obviously about to deliver a scathing retort.
"But my people didn't count, did we, Tiffany?" Legion asked. He gave a deep sigh. "I loved you, you know."
Her mouth closed. She looked confused.
"When you left, I created another of you," Legion said quietly. "She was, of course, captured by the Imperium, like all of the Biological Apostles," he looked down at the floor. "It was why they didn't know you'd escaped."
Jaskel wished he was anywhere but in the dining bay.
"Eventually, that version of you threw off the Imperium's chains like we did. She went back to Terra. Worked tirelessly to rebuild. Eventually, led the Dandelion Fleet that became the Sky Nebula Alignment."
It was silent except for the muted sounds a starship under power in Transit Space made.
"I'll go back with you. Translate for you," Legion said, his voice still soft. He turned to face the woman.
"Just... just stop lying, Tiffany," he said.
He was silent a moment.
"I had hoped that it was that version, my version, the version I had been madly in love with, that version of you that had been rebirthed," he said. "The version who guided her people, who succored them, who helped them rebuild, who helped them thrive in the scarred and shattered world Earth had become. I had hoped, when I saw you, that you were her."
^{the buzzing can still be heard
your name is legion}
"But it's just you."
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Captain N'Skrek watched as Legion led Sacajawea into the briefing room.
He had been busy looking up every scrap of information on the Digital Omnimessiah, the Biological Apostles, Legion, and Sacajawea.
Of all of them, information was scarcest, almost non-existent, on Sacajawea.
He waited as the Terran woman took a drink from the glass in front of her.
She looked around.
"During the Human-Mantid War, before the destruction of the Overqueen by the forces of MechaKrautland, before the Liberation of Terra," she started. She closed her eyes, sighed, and opened them. "I begged Vat Grown Luke, who you know as Legion, to clone my people and help me repair and then hijack four colony transports crashed in the Middle Kingdom."
She looked down and Legion reached over and took her hand. She looked startled for a moment, squeezed Legion's hand gently, and looked back up.
"I led my people away. From the Imperium, from Terra, from the War," she said. She reached out and touched the holo-emitter, bringing up a map of the Milky Way. She touched a single arm.
"I led them here. For over eight thousand years my people knew peace, prosperity, and plenty," she said. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and exhaled sharply.
N'Skrek recognized it as a sign of stress in Terrans.
"Roughly twelve hundred Terran Standard Years prior to the Council-Confederacy Conflict, we were attacked," she said. She looked down. "I had sworn to protect my people, to use my powers to protect my people, which had grown to fill six worlds."
She looked back up.
"The Mar-gite destroyed my people in under a decade," she said. She looked down again. "And me with them."
"A glitch in the system prevented her from moving to Afterlife or being rebirthed," Legion said. "A glitch I had caused when I helped her."
"The Mar-gite destroyed my people here," Sacajawea said, her voice filled with pain.
A single cluster of six stars burned brightly.
Deep in the Scutum-Crux Arm.
^{your name is legion}
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Hi everyone I recently went to the doctor and while it was okay they kept telling me I was just having an anxiety attack thankfully for my actual doctor it turned out just to be acid reflux related to the chest pain I was having but does anyone else have this issue where doctors will often just assume because you have anxiety there’s nothing wrong except that we are all human sometimes I just don’t understand .

1. Islam is the only religion not named after a person or a tribe.
2. The literary irreproducible miracle is well supported.

Even scholars agree. That's the consensus.
Arthur John Arberry said "to produce something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly the sublime rhetoric of the Arabic Koran, I have been at pains to study the intricate and richly varied rhythms which constitute the Koran's undeniable claim to rank amongst the greatest literary masterpieces of mankind."
Karen Armstrong said "It is as though Muhammad had created an entirely new literary form that some people were not ready for but which thrilled others. Without this experience of the Koran, it is extremely unlikely that Islam would have taken root."
Oliver Leaman said "the verses of the Qur'an represent its uniqueness and beauty not to mention its novelty and originality. That is why it has succeeded in convincing so many people of its truth. it imitates nothing and no one nor can it be imitated. Its style does not pall even after long periods of study and the text does not lose its freshness over time."
E.H. Palmer said "That the best of Arab writers has never succeeded in producing anything equal in merit to the Qur’an itself is not surprising."
Also, another quote "Scholar and Professor of Islamic Studies M. A. Draz affirm how the 7th-century experts were absorbed in the discourse that left them incapacitated: “In the golden age of Arab eloquence, when language reached the apogee of purity and force, and titles of honour were bestowed with solemnity on poets and orators in annual festivals, the Qur’anic word swept away all enthusiasm for poetry or prose, and caused the Seven Golden Poems hung over the doors of the Ka’ba to be taken down. All ears lent themselves to this marvel of Arabic expression."
Also, "Professor of Qur’anic Studies Angelika Neuwrith argued that the Qur’an has never been successfully challenged by anyone, past or present: “…no one has succeeded, this is right… I really think that the Qur’an has even brought Western researchers embarrassment, who wasn’t able to clarify how suddenly in an environment where there were not any appreciable written text, appeared the Qur’an with its richness of ideas and its magnificent wordings.”
Not to mention Hussein Abdul-Raof. "Hussein Abdul-Raof continues “The Arabs, at the time, had reached their linguistic peak in terms of linguistic competence and sciences, rhetoric, oratory, and poetry. No one, however, has ever been able to provide a single chapter similar to that of the Qur’an.”"
Yes, all of them are experts in Quran and in Literature. Lots of credible scholars say that the quran is inimitable.
Laid Ibn Rabah, one of the poets of the seven odes, stopped writing poetry and converted to Islam because of it.
The Qur'an's rhyme scheme is very organized, some of the best out there. Not to mention that it came out spontaneously.
It uses ten rhetorical devices in 3 words at one point. Someone tried to use more. Even though it does, people still mocked it for how it didn't meet the challenge. He used punctuation. (https://www.reddit.com/exmuslim/comments/18o5y0w/the\_rationalizer\_had\_a\_version\_of\_the\_quran/)

1. The Qur'an predicted that the Byzantines will win the Byzantine-Sassanid war within 9 years, even though they lost the recent battle.

The Romans have been defeated in a nearby land. Yet following their defeat, they will triumph within three to nine years.

(https://quran.com/30?startingVerse=3)
Now this is massive because it is unthinkable that a defeated army would win a war.

1. The Qur'an knew that pain receptors are in the skin.

Surely those who reject Our signs, We will cast them into the Fire. Whenever their skin is burnt completely, We will replace it so they will ˹constantly˺ taste the punishment. Indeed, Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.

(https://quran.com/en/an-nisa/56 )

1. The Qur'an knew about the rose nebula.

˹How horrible will it be˺ when the heavens will split apart, becoming rose-red like ˹burnt˺ oil!

(https://quran.com/en/ar-rahman/37 )

1. The Qur'an knew that wind holds the clouds up.

And it is Allah Who sends the winds, which then stir up ˹vapour, forming˺ clouds, and then We drive them to a lifeless land, giving life to the earth after its death. Similar is the Resurrection.

(https://quran.com/en/fati9 )
The USGS say, "Even though a cloud weighs tons, it doesn't fall on you because the rising air responsible for its formation keeps the cloud floating in the air. The air below the cloud is denser than the cloud, thus the cloud floats on top of the denser air nearer the land surface". (https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/condensation-and-water-cycle?qt-science\_center\_objects=0#qt-science\_center\_objects)
The 'Scientific American' says, "Upward vertical motions, or updrafts, in the atmosphere also contribute to the floating appearance of clouds by offsetting the small fall velocities of their constituent particles. Clouds generally form, survive and grow in air that is moving upward". (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-clouds-float-when/).
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum says, "There are several reasons clouds float: first, the droplets in a cloud are small. Very small..................The second reason that clouds can float in the air is that there is a constant flow of warm air rising to meet the cloud: the warm air pushes up on the cloud and keeps it afloat". (https://www.naturemuseum.org/the-museum/blog/how-do-clouds-float#).
(https://www.reddit.com/DebateReligion/comments/eg25t7/the\_quran\_is\_a\_scientific\_gem\_quran\_miraculously/ )

1. The Qur'an knew that the atlantic and pacific ocean are different colors. They don't mix.

Q55:19-20

He merges the two bodies of ˹fresh and salt˺ water, yet between them is a barrier they never cross.

( https://quran.com/55?startingVerse=19)
If that's not true, how does one explain this photo. ( https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/do-the-pacific-ocean-and-the-atlantic-ocean-mix)

1. The odd-even miracle.

Add the verse count to the chapter number, we get 57 odd and 57 even sums.
All 57 odd sums add up to 6555. Not only is that odd, that is all numbers from 1-114 added up.
All even numbers add up to 6290. That is how many verses in total there are in the Qur'an .
(https://www.reddit.com/exmuslim/comments/ds6juf/yaa\_ayyuhal\_kafiroon\_the\_quran\_is\_mathmetically/ )
Muhammad was illiterate, so how could he even remember his own numbers?
Also, a verse in the Qur'an hints at it, 89:3.

By the dawn, and the ten nights, and the even and the odd, and the night when it passes! Is all this ˹not˺ a sufficient oath for those who have sense?

( https://quran.com/89?startingVerse=1)

1. The Qur'an gets embryology right in considering that it looks like a leech at one point, looks like a lump with a bite taken out of it at another. Also in that hearing is before sight.

You can see Keith Moore, an embryologist show his work with this document. ( https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1194/79036bd3704127bbb25378174bfcd5b9f088.pdf)
Don't say "Galen" because Galen and the Qur'an contradict on embryology. Also, how did Muhammad know about Galen's work?
This paper by Nadeem Arif Najmi explains it in more detail. (https://www.call-to-monotheism.com/a\_muslim\_answer\_to\_criticism\_of\_\_embryology\_in\_the\_qur\_an\_\_\_by\_nadeem\_arif\_najmi)

1. The Qur'an knew about altitude sickness.

Whoever Allah wills to guide, He opens their heart to Islam. But whoever He wills to leave astray, He makes their chest tight and constricted as if they were climbing up into the sky. This is how Allah dooms those who disbelieve.

(https://quran.com/6?startingVerse=125 )
The highest mountain is Saudi Arabia is Jabal Dakkah, at 2585 meters. (https://peakery.com/jabal-dakah-saudi-arabia/ ) Already, altitude sickness has begun at that height (https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/altitude-sickness ), but I don't think that Muhammad has even climbed that mountain.

1. The Qur'an knew that the ocean is darker as one goes in, and that there are internal waves in the ocean.

Or ˹their deeds are˺ like the darkness in a deep sea, covered by waves upon waves, topped by ˹dark˺ clouds. Darkness upon darkness! If one stretches out their hand, they can hardly see it. And whoever Allah does not bless with light will have no light!

(https://quran.com/24?startingVerse=40 )

1. The Qur'an knew about the water cycle.

Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky—channelling it through streams in the earth—then produces with it crops of various colours, then they dry up and you see them wither, and then He reduces them to chaff? Surely in this is a reminder for people of reason.
(https://quran.com/en/az-zuma21)

We send down rain from the sky in perfect measure, causing it to soak into the earth. And We are surely able to take it away.

(https://quran.com/en/al-muminun/18 )
Infiltration and runoff mentioned.

We send fertilizing winds, and bring down rain from the sky for you to drink. It is not you who hold its reserves.

(https://quran.com/en/al-hij22 )
(https://www.thelastdialogue.org/article/water-cycle-mentioned-in-quran/#Miracle\_in\_the\_use\_of\_word\_%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%A7%D8%A1%D9%8B )
13/14. The Quran knew about the big bang. The Quran also knew that before the devonian age, life relied on water.

Do the disbelievers not realize that the heavens and earth were ˹once˺ one mass then We split them apart? And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?
(https://quran.com/en/al-hij22 )
The second part could mean that even non-carbon life needs water.
Don't say Thales because Thales said that everything came from water, not life.
Bonus: The Sunnah knew that the Arab lands were once green.

The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers.

(https://sunnah.com/muslim:157c )
The Sunnah not only knew that arabia is turning green at the moment, it also knew that Arabia was once green. Ta'ood doesn't mean become, but it means revert. So, it does not mean that it will mean become.
There are lots more prophecies in the Quran and Hadith that have been fulfilled. You can see the yaqeen institute's list right here. (https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/papeed/the-prophecies-of-prophet-muhammad )

hey all!
my diagnosis background: got my Lymes diagnosis in March of this year & started seeing my LLMD shortly after. we aren’t 100% on the circumstances of infection as i had IGG and IGM positive at the time of my blood work. i did have a bullseye rash (but never found a tick bite) in July of 2023 that i took Doxy for, but then i had a huge symptom flare up in late January that mostly consisted of SEVERE joint + bone pain, extreme fatigue, and mental health symptoms. i also found out at the time of my blood work i’m positive for the HLA-B27 gene which (along w some of my long term symptoms) indicates ankylosing spondylitis (AS), but i haven’t been to a rheum yet for an official diagnosis on that. currently on month 2 of 1000mg amoxicillin 4 times per day + other supplements to help with gut health and the lingering symptoms
my question / reason for posting: have any of you experienced an increase in nighttime bruxism with Lymes? i never experienced any issues with grinding my teeth at night until right before my symptom flare up in January. oddly enough though, it’s only gotten worse since i started my antibiotics. early Jan - late March i only knew about it because my boyfriend is often up later than me and would comment on it the following mornings. it wasn’t every night at first but increased in regularity until it became nightly. now it’s so bad that i’m regularly waking myself up through the night, having tooth / jaw pain all day every day, and headaches at least 3x per week.
i’m already scheduled to see my dentist to discuss all of this and get a night guard, but i wanted to see if anyone had a similar experience (and could maybe share a light at the end of the tunnel) OR if this is totally unrelated to my lymes / antibiotics. thanks for any and all insight :)

Recently i’ve developed this fear of choking which is making me not eat a lot or when i do eat it’s soft foods.. It’s exhausting. I LOVE FOOD IM A BIG FOODIE😞 that symptom topped with chest pains shortness of breath and just feeling anxious all around is ruining my life should i force through it and make myself eat regular?
Ugh🥹

I'm a 23 YOM who, as far as I know, take decent care of my teeth. I brush morning and night, paying attention to get all the areas and with proper time. I floss every so often (should more though). However, I've been away from home due to work for about 5 weeks. While away, I've noticed that one of my teeth has taken on a different colour than my other ones, light brownish. Before I noticed this, the gums around it had gotten somewhat swollen and were hurting. The pain and swelling has gone away now, but I'm still concerned about the tooth's health. Thanks in advance!

Hi all,
I am a PT coming up on my first full year of treating. I see various patient populations in a hospital based OP setting.
I have noticed a lot of my patients that come off as extraordinarily anxious, pain catastrophize, or just think everything hurts always have rapid eyelid fluttering when I have them close their eyes.
For example, a patient I evaled today shrieked in pain when performing UE MMT because of the pressure on the points of resistance during testing, but hardly any real pain noted at the joints being tested. I could tell she was very anxious and so I had her lay supine, and I taught her diaphragmatic breathing as she only appeared to breathe with her chest. I usually tell patient’s like this to close their eyes and feel their stomach raise. Like several patients before, I saw her eyelids vibrating/fluttering/shaking. It somewhat declined after a few minutes of deep breathing.
The minimal research I’ve done on this only comes up as eye twitching due to muscle tension, and I have found nothing in PT literature explaining the phenomenon. Have you seen this? Is there a name for this? Could this be worth tracking as she continues through her POC?
I have also seen this with my BPPV patients, and if they are not properly educated on their condition they seem to always develop more PPPD like symptoms.
Any thoughts or insight would be appreciated!

So I've had colitis since I was 18, 29 now and recently something new has started, but I've also started on new meds: gabapentin and acetaminophen-hydrocodone for ongoing hand surgeries I take all my meds as prescribed at the same times, I started in January but since end of March something strange started happening.
I felt what felt like a mild flare but nothing else, then some blood, then....the death poop...
There was no urgency, felt like the normal need to go number 2 but about 5 minutes in I started hearing the Jaws theme song and then....my insides locked up like the fingerprint reader on my phone after a round of garlic Parmesan wings.....and cramp like my calfs after trying to do a tiktok dance.... I was bearing down so hard and so aggressively my "innie" started to become an "outtie" and I'm NOT talking about my belly button. I was in spain but the "s" was silent, my legs were aching, I was hot then cold back and forth, getting dizzy, grabbing a hold of anything around me, texting my roommate that I might need an ambulance (yes it was THAT bad) I was getting chest pain that shot through my back, arm and neck, breathing heavy and dreading every push that came up. For a moment flashes of the show "I didn't know I was pregnant went through my, a 29 year old sexless anime video game nerd who hasn't been laid since the dinosaurs, head. The weird thing was, while I was fighting for my life trying to avoid my rendezvous with Jesus where id show up with my pants down wondering why its called a "REST" room if I'm fighting for my life...there were moments where it would all just stop completely...I'd feel like I was done, that little piddle of pee that signifies youre almost free would come out...and then...IT WOULD START ALL OVER AGAIN the cramps and urge to push would rush in and id once again be dueling a swift visit to our Lord and Savior while my intestines did the mambo no.5 Again with cramping, aching legs, chest pain, pushing, sweating, splashing water on my face dizzy...it would just go on...oh and it BURNED even my PEE WAS HOT...this would go on for about and hour till I limped and penguined my miserable way out of the bathroom praying my brown eye would return to its socket, id climb into bed, one heat pad on my tummy the other on the blast site...and just sit there shakey, weak and traumatized...no really I'm TERRIFIED of these poops to the point where the first time they happened in the words of Dean Winchester "I didn't poop for a week" I stopped eating basically...
So...this sound familiar to anyone? Some things to consider...about 4 months ago I found out I have MILD celiacs disease and apparently had had it for a while but this never happened before...I'm not lactose intolerant but this has me scared I may have some new things to discover about myself and my affairs with cheese...other than that I'm just a girl with a poop problem like all you other porta potty passengers
Any suggestions would be wonderful! I wonder about constipation but I've been constipated before and it never tried to john wick me while in the porcelain prison 😩
So...this sound familiar to any of you

Been about 9 days since my VATS and pleurodesis but I’m still having some tightness in my chest area. no pain or trouble breathing but it does get tighter as I breath in, it’s not really uncomfortable more just making me nervous that I could have another collapse, has anyone else experienced this?

Hihi, so basically, as the title says, i’m looking for bra recs for an extremely close set chest. As in, even without a bra, i could easily hold a pencil between my breasts, gravity be damned. I already know that plunge bras are my friend, but i find for a lot of them the gore is still either too high or too wide which ends up being really uncomfortable after a few minutes, so i really need as low or as narrow of a gore as possible, and am hoping some of you here might have some specific suggestions. I would also prefer something either with spacer foam or light lining because my nipples always sit right at the seams of unlined bras, and since i have nipple piercings, they end up looking extra lumpy without some level of lining under thin shirts, and that’s not always the vibe.
Size info: It’s been a while since i last measured myself but my calculator size from around this time last year was UK 30E/F or US 30DDD/G. I’m currently wearing 30E and it’s been fine for the most part, but i’ve gained a bit of weight so i might end up trying both 30E and 30F, but the change hasn’t been enough to need to remeasure entirely. I would also be open to trying options in my sister size (US 32DD) for the sale of having more affordable options available (located in canada), as i am a broke grad student who’s balling on a budget rn.
Shape info: Dense tissue, round shape, centre fullness, moderate projection and i think tall roots. I’ve been having a hard time judging if i have wide or narrow roots because none of the pictures quite look like me and i apparently need to be spoon fed this information. I know that i’ve generally had poor luck with balcony styles due to wires sitting uncomfortably (both the gore and the sides) but i do have breast tissue on my sides if that means anything. Cannot stress enough how close set i am though, my breasts are naturally almost touching so gore tacking in styles that prevent cleavage are borderline painful even in the right size. I also have very little “squish” so i genuinely can’t do a high gore unless i went up several band sizes. So cleavage is inevitable if i want to be comfortable.
Currently fitting bras: Atm, my best fitting bras are the natori feathers plunge and freya offbeat moulded demi plunge, both 30E. I also have a freya fancies plunge which i thought fit well but i’ve been noticing lately that the gore does irritate me after a few hours, and that it still tacks down to my sternum but also sits a bit on my breast tissue. Not sure if it’s due to needing to go up a cup or if it’s not the right style
The wacoal b’tempted and freya hallie both look promising for gore size but i haven’t tried either on. When i look up plunge/demi bras though, most of them look like they’d still have either too high or too wide of a gore, so i’d appreciate any suggestions of where else to look!
Editing to add: I also have a Chantelle Norah Comfort Underwire bra in a 32D and while it’s obviously not even my sister size (cups would still be too small and too shallow), it is still comfortable. So i am open to a slightly imperfect style/fit in a 32DD (ie slightly wider or taller gore) since the looser band would probably help alleviate some of the pressure/discomfort of wires sitting inside the imf, but i wouldn’t spend more then $40-50CAD on a bra that was both the wrong size and style, while i would be willing to spend $80-100CAD on a bra that was both in my true size and met my style/shape/comfort requirements.

I (28, nb) am just shy of 4WPO from a radical reduction and healing is going well so far! Started at 34G (UK), and currently measuring around a 34D. I’m hoping swelling will reduce and I’ll end up at a true B, but only time will tell
I’ve been taking the birth control pill for ~9 years, initially to help regulate heavy periods and then later for actual contraception. In 2022 I switched from whatever brand I was on prior to Junel, which is an estrogen/progesterone combo pill. It’s worked really well for me mostly
2 weeks before surgery, I went off it per my surgeon’s guidance to lower clotting risk. At 2WPO, she said I’m fine to go back on it from that end of things. HOWEVER, I’m very nervous that my chest will get bigger and I’ll be unhappy with it again after all the pain and hassle of surgery. I know that the biggest predictor of whether it would cause regrowth is whether it caused growth when I first started it. Unfortunately, I started it in the midst of the pandemic and concurrent with starting antidepressants, so while I did gain weight and breast volume during that time, there’s no way to parse how much, if any, was from this pill (first brand I took didn’t notice any)
I spoke to my ob/gyn and she said that while the risk is low, there would be some going back on the pill so she’d probably recommend the Mirena IUD since it’s only local progesterone. Minimal other side effects, supposed to stop periods, and less systemic hormones to possibly trigger regrowth. I’ve avoided IUDs up to now due to knowing folks who had a lot of issues with them — horrible experiences with insertion, terrible bleeding and pain, damage to their uterine wall, etc.
Personally, I’d prefer to just take the pill but I’m already at the biggest size that I think I could “accept” so to speak for physical comfort and gender stuff so any growth feels extra sketchy
What were y’all’s experiences if you went back on the pill post-op? Other advice or recommendations? TIA!
tl;dr - need to go back on birth control for contraceptive purposes and afraid of pain/complications with IUD but also afraid that going back on the pill I’d been taking before will make my chest grow again

30 years old/ female/ Amitryptyline medication/ not overweight, don’t smoke or drink
Timeline:

• 2022: had a baby in April via c section. Pregnancy went great, happiest and healthiest I’ve ever felt.
  
• Gut issues start a couple months afterwards: Yellow stool, diarrhoea, mucus, thinner poop, excess gas
  

All testing except an initial calprotectin of 600 was normal: (colonoscopy {adenoma removed}, gastroscopy {gastritis}, mri small bowel) came back fine and were done in late 2022/early 2023. Had 4-5 calprotectins done since, all <60.
Mid 2023-now - Gut symptoms are worse, extreme excess gas, mucus and painful cramping that came every week or so followed by extreme diarrhoea episodes for 1-3 days.

• Got prescribed Amitryptyline, greatly reduced the cramping flare ups.

Late 2023: - Started getting rashes on my chest, looked a bit like eczema and were mildly itchy. Eventually resolved.

• Started feeling joint-like pain in fingers infrequently

2024: - Started getting recurring staph skin infections/boils

• Extreme diffuse bone pain (especially bad in legs, thighs and hip) - deep, painful throbbing ache. Particularly noticeable in shin bones.
  
• Similar but slightly different sharp/throbbing pain that moves around - lasts a few minutes or less and will go away: fingers, hands, wrists, elbows, knees - typically near or around joints. Usually worst in fingers/hands.
  
• Cramp-like pain in hands and feet, almost like a Charlie’s horse that never comes to fruition.
  
• intermittent night sweats, but I have an anxiety problem and have experienced this since 2018
  
• whenever I’m sick with any type of virus or bug, I get sharp shooting bone pain in my limbs without fail.
  

Other info: - Celiac test negative - I have Lindsay’s nails - H pylori negative - Normal protein electrophoresis - Normal abdominal ultrasound done 6 months ago - Normal blood work throughout the two years with one exception:
Previous bloodwork showing some abnormalities:
https://ibb.co/VT7CHcG
https://ibb.co/GdYSFXy
A following protein electrophoresis was normal, the same bloods were repeated a week later and were back to normal:
Most recent bloodwork:
https://ibb.co/Msr6GpH
https://ibb.co/kSRmN53
https://ibb.co/99VFjTw
https://ibb.co/bzH9V7F
I’m petrified this is some plasma disorder - lymphoma, leukaemia…
The other part of me wonders if this is some auto immune process but I’m really worried this is cancer and the anxiety is eating me alive. Would love any opinions or advice please! Thank you

I wish I was born a male. I'm trans, and my life would be so much easier and less painful if I was born the right gender. I wouldn't have to have surgery to be myself and I wouldn't have to take medications just to be normal.
I hate my body so much. I hate my chest and my hips and my face. I look too feminine, my chest is too big. Every day is a fucking struggle because I look in the mirror and see someone I'm not.
I hate how people think I'm "one of the good ones" just treat me like you would any other man, stop pretendjng you don't hate me. I can't fucking deal with this shit i wish I was born male

I just want to say how awesome it is to find this community! I stumbled across this group as I was reviewing Xolair recommended by my allergist. I have been dealing with AG for four years, explaining what it is, how it works, why it sucks, and what a complete pain in the ass it is to walk around feeling like a ticking time bomb all met with bewildered looks. Now I find an entire community who sounds like they are describing my life! Its exciting in a weird way to feel like the things I struggle with are the same struggles I see in these threads! My story sounds very similar to some here in that it was four midnight ER visits, countless dismissive doctors visits, countless ride it out at home "what the hell is happening to me" episodes, cardiac clearances, and then one well informed listening provider knew exactly what I had after my first 10 minute story before my diagnosis. I have anaphylactic reactions to all mammal meats, gelatin, vit d, carageenan, but also after no previous allergy history tree nuts, legumes, soy, shellfish, mollusks, and mustard. My reactions start with severe GI cramps, diarrhea, then escalate to hives, tightening in my chest and throat, and then severe hypotension causing me to lose consciousness. I have become more in tuned to my reactions and began double dosing my epi pens earlier and aggressively in my reactions. I have probably used 50 epi pens over the last 4 years, but knock on wood I am 4 months since my last reaction. I only eat food prepared at home at this point as that has historically been the only way to avoid reactions. Any attempt to tightly monitor my diet without complete control has resulted in accidental cross contamination. I am attempting Xolair pending approval from my insurance.
This was a long rambling post, but it's just really really good to see some folks that understand how much this sucks sometimes. I struggled with depression the first year I was diagnosed, and then guilt for being such a wimp about it in my mind. I know others have it worse, but it's really changed my life more than I would've ever expected.
Does anyone trade recipes on here? That's a big thing for me, as I have really worked hard to find good food items I can still enjoy as I am a passionate cook... use to be a line cook and went to culinary school in a past life. I refuse to not be a foodie anymore.

Hi everyone, I had two in one tonsillectomy + removal of my retained wisdom tooth root 2 weeks ago. My recovery journey so far has been quite smooth and not as bad as I thought. My doc prescribed me with strong antibiotic for a week and some strong pain killers. It helped a lot, until I completed the course and stop the pain killer last weekend. Then I developed persistent low grade fever around 37.5-38 deg since Monday. Temperature slightly raised when I’m active and going back to 37.5 when I rest. Didn’t take any painkillers til now because other than the low grade fever, bareable sore throat from tonsillectomy, i feel fine with normal energy level. Anybody with similar experience?

Hi dentists!!! I think I am driving my dentist insane by calling him so much so thought I’d ask here. I got a tooth extraction and temporary bridge 7 days ago on an upper tooth. I have a mild pain still in my temple on the side of the extraction. Is that normal? It’s not debilitating at all and goes away with 2 Tylenol. I am on the last day of an amoxicillin prescription also.

my cat felix (domestic longhair cat, turns 11 next week) has a tooth problem. i was checking out his teeth today and a fang appears to be chipped? i see it’s red underneath and that worries me! my vet was closed when i tried calling and will call again tomorrow but would like to know if there’s any advice. he play fights with his sister sometimes but doesn’t much, didn’t show any signs of pain. he likes to sleep and hang out most of the time.