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I have a kidney stone. Last night my urine went from fairly normal to pink. Had a return of pain, nausea, and slight chills since my main episode of symptoms a week ago. Felt better in an hour and fell asleep. Woke up and it looked reddish brown when I went again. I think people usually say red/brown = go to ER? But that could just be blood that got weird from being in my bladder overnight, right? Image 🔗 for those who care to look: https://imgur.com/kSRQ7Gu

I never considered myself to be smart, but I never thought I was stupid. As Artemis and I left Athena's oasis, I couldn't help but ponder the enormity of what had just happened. My mind was beginning to clear up and reflection set in as I followed Artemis through solid objects, down rabbit holes, through fire, sleet, and bodies of water.
The fire didn't burn me.
The cold didn't freeze me.
The water didn't drown me.
To think that my stupid human brain caused me to err in judgement to such a degree that I would step into the domain of godhood where I didn't belong... all because I was horny. I cringed the thought away. Yes, it was the hottest thing that had ever happened to me, but the way Athena looked at me; it sent chills down my spine. There would surely be consequences for this, but Artemis had clammed up completely, and wasn't answering my questions.
"Artemis?" I whined. "Hey... I'm sorry. I didn't know this would happen."
She stopped in the middle of the woods. We stood surrounded by a captive audience of oak trees; it was eerily silent. She turned and cast me a long look before walking into one of the larger oaks. I sighed and followed her through it. On the other side, we were back in Thyra under a familiar violet menagerie of stars and planets. She had stopped, finally, sitting down and leaning back.
I stepped in front of her. "Artemis? What, umm... Whatcha doing?"
"Waiting," she said plainly.
I looked around at the desolate canyon.
"... Waiting for what?"
"Judgement," she sighed. "This will be the first place Father will look for me when he hears the news."
"Father?"
"You may know him as Zeus."
A little bit of sweat gathered around my temples. He was the main guy. Like the biggest name in Greek myth. Everyone knows Zeus. But judgement... what was about to happen?
"I thought we were going to go hunt some beast in the Underworld or something." I looked down at my rifle and ran my hand along the length of the barrel. "I was scared at first, but now I want to see what a weapon kissed by Hephaestus can do."
I scoffed. I didn't know where that kind of verbiage came from. Kissed by Hepheastus? What was I, a poet all of the sudden? When I looked up, she looked sick. Her face was sagging and her eyes were lifeless. She leaned back and laid flat on the ground, her arms and legs outstretched as though she were dead.
"I too was eager to hunt," she said in a forlorn tone. "But that was before, in my miserable judgement, I welcomed you into divinity."
That was the first time she'd confirmed it with her own lips and it struck me for the first time that this was truly happening. The weight of it fell on my shoulders and did my level best to suppress it down. I didn't want to think about the implications just yet.
"I thought it was just a blessing," I said, sitting down next to her. "I didn't know there was a limit..."
"Athena tried to pry you from my breast, but you were stuck to it like a stubborn babe. You refused to listen."
"I didn't even realize it!" I defended myself. "Why couldn't you have just blessed me in a different way? Why did it have to be so weird?"
"Each god and goddess may bestow blessings, but for each it is different, and tied to their domain," she answered. "I am the goddess of the hunt, but also of nature, childcare, and birth. My blessing is bestowed as such that reflects my divine purpose." She cast me an annoyed glance, "You are the one who has decided it is weird."
I set the rifle down in front of me and leaned forward, thinking carefully. I didn't want to dig my hole any deeper with Artemis. I didn't need her mad at me too. "I'm sorry," I said finally. "But on earth it's kind of a sexual thing."
"Your species is perverse," she said, closing her eyes. "Am I to blame for that too?"
"No!" I said quickly. "I'm not blaming you for a damn thing, but-"
"The blame lies with me entirely," she cut me off. "I brought you here. I took you to Athena's Oasis. I fed you the milk of the gods with my own breast. Who else is to blame but me? My father will certainly say as much when he finds us."
I swallowed. I didn't know what to do. I was in over my head; way out of my depth to such a degree that I wondered if maybe it was just a good idea to keep quiet and sit still. But I had one question that was burning behind my eyes.
"What's going to happen to you?" I asked.
She opened her eyes and stared at the sky as she contemplated. "... I suppose I'll be reduced to my base components and be remade a more capable daughter. They call it rebirthing."
"Artemis," I said softly. "That sounds like dying."
"There is no death," she refuted. "Only rebirth. I will be remade."
"Yeah, it still sounds like death to me," I pressed.
"It's the closest thing to death that goddess can experience," came a familiar voice from behind me. I turned to see Apollo walking slowly toward us. "Sister, sister," he chanted. "What have you done this time?"
I wasn't overwhelmed by his beauty this time, but I still felt my chest tighten. It was the same feeling as seeing an ex from a long time ago in a public space like the mall or the grocery store. A flutter of something that once was there, but nothing substantial.
"Word will spread," Artemis said, her voice cracking. "And when Father has discovered what I have done, he will do what is right, I am certain of it."
"Will he?" Apollo asked. "Because Father has never been one to overreact, yes?" His tone carried the faintest hint of sarcasm.
Artemis didn't respond.
"I can't help but feel responsible for all of this," I said, getting to my feet. "I'll accept full responsibility."
"That will not be up to you," Artemis said, sitting up and hugging her knees.
"You may assume all the responsibility you like," said Apollo, turning to face me. "But there is not a single god or goddess on Mount Olympus that will accept that. You were a simple-minded human when you erred. It is what your kind does. Would you curse an acorn for falling from a tree?"
"I get it, I get it," I rolled my eyes. "But it's not fair. Artemis didn't know I would fuck up the way I did. She doesn't deserve to die!"
"Make no mistake," Apollo said sternly. "It will not just be her, but Athena and Hephaestus for participating in this little charade." He turned his eyes toward the cracked canyon floor and sighed. "... And of course, I as well."
"No!" Artemis was on her feet.
"I will be punished for failing to alert Father to your wily machinations," he looked up at her. "I turned a blind eye. And I did it while Brian was still a human."
Artemis held his gaze for a second before turning and looking at me. "... The Fates," she whispered.
"The Fates?" I looked between the two of them. "What's going on?"
"Father will speak with the Fates," Artemis said as though in a panic, returning her attention to her brother. "They know all that is and all that will be."
"For humans," Apollo clarified, turning to me. "The Fates have no knowledge concerning the gods and goddesses. But everything that transpired around you while you were human will be a part of their knowledge."
"So Zeus will talk to them..." I began to put it together. "And you'll have no plausible deniability. They'll have seen you interacting with me here."
"Hephaestus and Athena as well," Apollo nodded. "None of us can deny what we've done here." He looked at his sister and scowled. "Because we trusted in her to know what she was doing."
This was a mess. A complete disaster of my own making. I was such an idiot. I should have known better than to trespass against the gods. For had I known that Artemis would pay such a price, I would have never chased such an audacious undertaking. I held one hand to my head and felt that same nausea that had overtaken me back at the oasis. My inner dialogue was changing. I was thinking in a voice that wasn't really my own. I could feel myself slowly changing somehow.
"Forgive me," Artemis said to her brother.
"He may," came another voice to her left. In the blink of an eye, a newcomer had manifested. "But I will not. I trusted you to know better, Artemis."
After only a moment, I recognized him. It was Hephaestus, but human-sized and not all glowy and scary. He also bore a nasty scar across the right side of his face. I hadn't noticed it in the shadowy forge, but it was distracting. He stared daggers at Artemis, his strong arms folded across his chest.
Artemis buried her face in her hands. "I did not mean to risk you all alongside me," she sobbed. "I am so ashamed."
"As well you should be," Apollo spoke furiously. "Father already detests Hephaestus. He will be rebirthed as well."
"He detests me," Hepheastus, turned to Apollo, "Because I dared to suggest he was wrong about something. Though, if you ask me, the old man has hated me from the moment he laid eyes on me."
"Stop, stop, stop," I lifted my hands. "Just... let's just think about this for a second. Why do we have to wait around for Zeus to find out?" I asked. "We could just, y'know, get out of here. Nobody has to be killed over this, we can just leave, can't we? He doesn't know anything yet!"
"You imbecile," Apollo seethed, putting his face inches from mine. "You know nothing about anything. Keep your moronic human notions to yourself for so long as they persist within you."
That broke my heart. I wrestled with the emotions that roiled within me. I took a step back and inhaled, holding the tears back. I wasn't going to cry. I was a grown-ass man. So why did I feel like a toddler in time-out?
"Actually," came a new voice from behind Artemis. We turned to see Athena caressing her chin thoughtfully. "While his primal human instincts compell him to flee... in this case, it might not be the worst idea."
"You've hit your head, yes?" Apollo asked. "You would take a human's side? So much for a goddess of wisdom. Take your council elswehere."
"Mind your manners, Brother," Artemis spoke up. "That is Athena you are addressing. You will hear her speak."
We all stood in a moment of tense silence. Athena began to pace around the gathered gods, patiently choosing her words before she spoke them.
"Father has had a hot temper as of the last few hundred years," she began. "Don't act like you all haven't been weary of him; that you haven't shared whispers of concern with your siblings."
Everyone turned their eyes away from her, as though unwilling to accept it. But I could tell from the expressions on their faces that she was telling the truth. Something was going on with Zeus, it seemed, but what? Why were his kids so afraid of him?
"He has been rebirthing gods and goddesses for small offenses as of late," Athena went on. "I, for one, have been living in fear of his ire for some time now. He is not the same as he once was."
"Do not speak ill of Father," Artemis came to Zeus's defense. "He is facing difficulties!"
"That is..." Apollo trailed off. "A hefty accusation," he said finally, staring the goddess down.
Athena stared back with equal ferocity. "Then why, Apollo, did you keep your sister's little venture to yourself?"
He remained quiet. I didn't know the gods bickered like this. I always assumed they were some big happy family just living in paradise, but it seemed like there was at least some degree of treachery afoot.
Afoot?
I winced.
"Your silence says it all," Athena smirked before turning serious. "What little empathy Father once possessed is gone. We can all wait around to be rebirthed to Father's liking," she passed her eyes over us. "Or we can flee. The worst thing that can happen to us is rebirth either way."
"I have yearned to leave his gaze for eons now," said Hephaestus. "I will join in an escape effort."
"There would be little effort required," Apollo announced. "There has never been an attempt to leave the pantheon. It would likely be as simple as walking through an open doorway. But this discussion is traitorous; blasphemers, each and every one of you."
"I will run with Athena," Artemis announced.
"Sister!" Apollo scolded.
"Athena is more than my sister, she is my best friend," Artemis balled her fists. "If it were anyone else who suggested it, I may not have listened. But Athena's wise words have guided me through great trials."
"I am with them," Hephaestus said to Apollo. "You can stay here with the accident," he eyed me angrily.
Artemis looked as though she wanted to come to my defense, but ultimately said nothing.
Another arrow through my heart.
"Hephaestus," I began my sentence without anywhere for it to go. "I... I might not be..." I flailed. Suddenly, I had a question. "Wait," I pointed at him. "Why can I understand you now?"
"Because, dear Brian," Athena answered for him, walking up to me and placing a hand against my forehead. "You are a god now. It doesn't matter whether Hephaestus likes it or not, you are divinity born of mankind."
"Well," I glanced around without moving my head. "What am I the god of?"
"She is checking," Apollo said. "Be quiet while she divinates your domains."
I felt a tingling sensation around my forehead. It tickled, and I couldn't help but giggle a little. It made Artemis smile and my heart soared.
"You are..." Athena spoke, closing her eyes, her concentration tightening. "The god of indulgence and isolation," she announced, opening her eyes and smiling at me. She removed her hand and stepped back, leaving me in a stunned silence.
"Did you just call me fat and lonely?" I blurted out.
Athena lifted her hand to her mouth and dimples manifested on her cheeks. Artemis did the same, but couldn't stifle her laughter. Apollo snickered and turned his head. I stood there with my mouth wide open as Hephaestus began to chuckle to himself. But he didn't look happy about it. He would smile and laugh before scowling it away, and then start laughing again as though he were being tickled while in a terrible mood. The others adopted an expression not dissimilar to mine and stared at the god of the forge.
"I can't stop," Hephaestus managed between breathy laughter.
"By the stars," Athena murmured. "I don't believe I've ever seen Hephaestus laugh."
"Nobody has," Apollo said in equal wonderment.
"That is your sense of humor?" Artemis asked, aghast. "It is so... childish! So unexpected!"
"I have no sense of humor!" Hephaestus barked, finally getting his laughter under control. "He did something to me!"
"I didn't do anything!" I threw my arms up.
"Perhaps," Athena smiled at me. "He also holds the domain of humor. I didn't search for it."
"Great," I said angrily. "I'm 'Hilarious', the fat and ugly Greek god of comedy, I love it."
Hephaestus exploded in a renewed fit of laughter, once more prompting the others to laugh again. I stood there in the center of it and frowned.
"Can we get out of here now?" I shouted.
They laughed harder.
This sucked.
Writing Prompt Submitted by u/blablador-2001

First day on 5 mg of Letrozole was uneventful. I felt a mild headache and some bloating in the pelvic area, similar to what I feel during ovulation.
Second day on Letrozole gave me headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomitting, diarrhea, and anxiety. It felt like the equivalent in sickness to having the worst flu of my life (but with different symptoms). I had to take sick leave from work cause I couldn’t function.
My REI told me to stop Letrozole, but report back in a few days for bloodwork and monitoring. Hopefully I can still proceed with the IUI as planned. I ovulate on my own, and don’t necessarily care for producing more than one mature egg at a time. I don’t expect the IUI to work, since I have unexplained infertility and according to my REI, IVF is the best option for unexplained infertility. I need to do two IUIs for insurance purposes before IVF is covered.
The only issue fertility testing found was a lower AMH/follicle count for my age (just turned 33). So I technically have DOR, but my AMH is still 1.1 and my last ultrasound showed 16 eggs.
Experiencing such bad symptoms on Letrozole makes me more than a little nervous for the side effects of the medication I’ll have to take for IVF. This whole experience has me thinking that maybe I’d be better off continuing to try without intervention. My husband and I weren’t super keen on having children to begin with, but my struggles with fertility for the last 8 months made me yearn for a child. Now I have my reservations again. I still do want a child, of that I’m certain, but I’m feeling more willing to just wait and let it “happen when it happens” if it does at all, instead of rushing to make it happen. My husband feels the same.
Is there anyone who had a bad experience with Letrozole/clomid and did ok with IVF meds?

My mom had follicular lymphoma when she was 40 and was able to get it resolved, but has found that it has relapsed last year. She started treatment on Rituximab+Revlimid (R2) at the end of March and this is specifically for relapsed patients. I did not find out about her cancer (nor the previous one) until one week before her first Rituximab appointment - and only because she needed a ride, so it felt like I was playing catch up on all her medical records for a bit. I do not live in the same city with her, she lives with my brother and dad, who have both been doing as much as they can as well, but they do not have flexible jobs (brother in IT agency traveling to local clients, and dad a semi-long distance trucker so he's only home 3 nights of the week). I am a small business owner so I have a bit more flexibility, so I flew back to be her appointment person during her first round of treatment. She is physically capable so at this point my only job was to drive her to and from appointments and also help talk with doctors (she does not fully understand English).
During her first IV of Rituximab, she had a reaction where she had chills and they had to pause and IV Benadryll into her (this seems common in this sub?). After her chills went away, they finished the Rituximab IV over the course of the next 4 hours. She started her Revlimid the same day as well. From then, she had 2 more injections of Rituximab over the next 2 weeks but the following blood test, they found that her WBC had gone below the ideal level and decided she should pause her injection that week. The following week, her WBC was still the same, so they skipped that week as well.
After that, she somehow caught a fever of 101 and we brought her to the ER that day on April 23rd and she was in the hospital until May 10th. During this time in the hospital, they gave her a constant IV of electrolytes + antibiotic IV. They did a ton of tests (CT Scan, Ultrasound, MRI, Spinal Tap, etc.) and did not find any sort of infection, but new problems came up.
During her time in the hospital, she had some awareness but there were moments where it seemed like she might have been delusional or imagining things - just generally not herself and it felt very off. They said her MRI showed some abnormal amount of white matter (?). She became very weak and lost her ability to move as much (again, prior to the ER, she was taking walks daily by herself, carrying things around the house like rice bags, cooking and feeding herself, etc. so she was physically capable). She couldn't lift her left hand or left leg and they were both swollen (not a stroke though). She wasn't able to feed herself anymore and didn't even have the energy to suck water from a straw. She couldn't stand on her own when they gave her physical therapy either. One of the therapists made a comment about how she would now require 24/7 care. It was shocking how much her body declined during this time. She also had a fever almost every other day in the hospital.
Finally, when she hadn't had a fever for 48 hours, they decided she could be discharged but wanted to take a second CT scan and ultrasound to ensure there were no blood clots in her body from her lying in the hospital for 2 weeks. They also decided she should be on antibiotic IV at home, so they did a midline insertion to put a line into her arm. That same day when she was doing physical therapy for that day, they found that her O2 levels dropped to 85%, but she doesn't have a history of breathing problems. After finding this out, they decided to look back at the CT scan and found that there was "more liquid in her lungs than when she first came in" - they decided they could not discharge her that day and they wanted her to go home with an oxygen tank to use at home, so we would have to wait for that to arrive at the hospital before she could be discharged. The general doctor also wanted to do a procedure to extract the liquid from her lungs, but the pulmonary doctor said there is a possibility it's from lying down here for too long without movement and that it could go away without interference. I decided I didn't want to put her through another procedure because of the psychological stress she's had with being here for so long and her other procedures during her stay (bone marrow biopsy, spinal tap, midline insertion).
In addition, this process has been emotionally taxing. She's asked every day in the hospital if she could go home, started berating me about how I'm not aggressive enough with doctors to tell them to let her out, how I just want to leave her in the hospital to die, etc. While this was all painful to hear, I'm trying to remember that she's also not fully herself during this time, but everyday still felt like a battle to stay calm and do what's best for her.
Finally when she was discharged, she's been bedridden at home. We were optimistic about getting her to start standing and eventually walking again, but it seems she has even less energy here than at the hospital (not sure if this is due to the lack of electrolyte IVs at home?). We do try to get her to eat but she's losing energy to even chew or swallow pills so we have been trying to give more soups and liquids. She's talking less and moving less.
Because of the nature of my brother and dad's jobs, I've been the one present at the hospital most of the time, and after getting discharged, I'm the one who's at home making meals, feeding, changing her diapers, etc. They do take over when they are home. When she was discharged, my husband also flew down to help out, with lifting her up and down (lol I am not as strong as I'd like to be), feeding her, and taking care of general things around the apartment.
I had a call with her oncologist yesterday and he confirmed that Rituximab was not working for her and that this scenario only happens to <5% of patients. He said the only option now is to wait for her immune system to come back before starting a different chemo.
I guess I am just looking for shared experiences / support because it feels so defeating right now. It feels a little hopeless too because since coming home, she's been doing worse. If this continues to decline, I expect we would bring her back to the hospital. I don't want to be negative or give up hope, and I know that her immune system can't just get back to normal overnight. It feels sad that lymphoma is known to have "positive outcomes" (???) and that she's having such a rough time through it. As a caregiver, I also feel exhausted and guilty/selfish that I miss my life.
I recognize that this has only been 2 months and there are worse scenarios to be in as well, I'm trying to be grateful that her body is still fighting, that I have my dad, brother, and husband to also share the workload with. I am starting the process of applying for IHSS to possibly find a caregiver as well, though I am not sure how this will pan out because my parents absolutely hate the idea of strangers in their home especially while my mom is vulnerable, and they hate the idea of hiring caregivers (we are an Asian immigrant family and they believe in the idea of kids being the caregivers).
TLDR: Mom has follicular lymphoma and is going through rough treatment process with many setbacks. I feel hopeless.

I have had non stop bloating, feeling of fullness, belching for 4 days and started today day 5 with watery diarrhea. No fever or additional symptoms. Nvr experienced this. I do have acid reflux.

I have had non stop bloating, feeling of fullness, belching for 4 days and started today day 5 with watery diarrhea. No fever or additional symptoms. Nvr experienced this. I do have acid reflux.

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It started with my 4.5 year old daughter the week before mother’s day. Stomach cramps, vomiting, followed by a few days of diarrhea. She gets better the friday before mother’s day and my 1 year old son projectile vomits over me twice and my husband twice that same day . His has been a real kicker. he was lethargic all weekend and saturday night got a fever. Took him to urgent care on mother’s day and they said he has an ear infection. Because he just had amoxicillin for a different infection a few weeks back they prescribed cfedinir. This medication has its own issues - runny stools. He has been fussy and now has a runny nose andd cough and popping a tooth! I get the illness monday. Felt like I was on my death bed with vomiting and diarrhea. my in laws came to help. Next day i was better but trying to recover so my mom helped out. now my mom and mil are throwing up and my son is STILL fussy and his daycare provider required 100% symptom free. what is this virus from hell??? How long till the next one?? I’m worried about my son, the illnesses he gets from his sister kick his ass. I don’t think he’s been to a full week of daycare since february.

I started Zepbound at the beginning of the month and just took my third injection on Tuesday. So far I’ve had mild nausea but today I’ve had terrible diarrhea, sulfur burps and have just felt like garbage. Imodium isn’t doing anything, neither are Tums. I’m drinking as much water as I can stomach and eating a couple saltines here and there and it’s all going through me. This has been going on since 6 this morning. It’s now 3PM with no signs of stopping or slowing. What should I do?

I need help before I let myself feel stupid in front of my new coworkers lol.. I'm doing volunteer coding for a non profit that sees people in low resource communities.. so the documentation is not exactly proper. I'm already struggling with my first case LOL.
"6 months pregnant G3 P1 ab1. say is at 6 montyhs, nio vitamins- just throws them up. Having sharp cramping pain on the right, The pain is worse when she lays down. Good fetal movement. No bleeding.. Lots of diarrhea,6 times/ day has mucus, watery, sometimes a bit of blood. She looks well though. No fever. The diarrhea comes and goes. This far into pregnancy. Metronidazole is fine for the dysentery. Her first birth was in 2016, in Brazil. Had C section for failure to progress after 24 hours. Baby 4300gram. advised to return for eval in 4 weeks, and that she needs to be in a hospital for close managment due to risk of needing another c section-It was a large baby. Declines PN vits."
Any advice on how and in which order to code this? I might be over thinking it. The company says to code a Dx if even it says "suspected" or "possible" so idk if i'm coding dysentery or diarrhea.. SO i'm thinking either of one those, gestation, and the history of previous pregnancy? I finished my program like a month ago and feel like i suddenly forgot everything!!!

I’m nervous I am giving up too soon? Should I wait for four weeks?
I’ve had bad nausea and diarrhea for a week now. She says I should be seeing improvement by now.
Will I have withdrawal symptoms from taking 20 mg for three weeks? I’m scared to switch to something else.

Hello - I've recently received a PET scan for FUO. Since last July, I've been experiencing right sided abdominal pain which received no diagnosis. Last fall, I became severely ill with GI symptoms (primarily nausea) followed by chest/rib pain and neuro symptoms (shooting pain down right leg, headaches, etc.). My period had completely stopped during this time, which was likely due to the stress my body was under. They've since resumed, albeit painful ovulation and period cycles with frequent bloating all month long. Colonoscopy did not show any reasoning for my extreme bloating or abdominal pain. In January I began experiencing frequent fevers. I ended up with infectious disease and neurology referrals, and after extensive workups that did not provide any insight, we moved forward with a full-body PET Scan. Everything came back normal except the following:
ABDOMEN/PELVIS: In the posterior left adnexal region there is a 43 x 23 mm ovoid low density structure with moderately increased uptake in the peripheral posterior portion maximum SUV 7.7.
IMPRESSION: 1. Moderately increased uptake within the peripheral posterior portion of a 43 x 23 mm ovoid lesion posterior left adnexa. Findings may simply represent a physiologic ovarian cyst within an otherwise somewhat prominent ovary. In this particular patient chronic tubo-ovarian abscess or other fallopian tube or ovarian pathology could be considered. Recommend pelvic ultrasound with transabdominal and transvaginal imaging for further evaluation. 2. No other potential source of fever demonstrated.
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The thing this I've had two ultrasounds (results below) in the past year, and my current OBGYN was quite dismissive of the results and is insistent that my symptoms are not GYN related. I'm currently waiting to see a new GYN next month, but wondering if this is urgent and should not wait that long. I'm really struggling to go back to my current OBGYN because of my experience there, and I'm not sure she'd do anything with these results. She largely double downed last time that my past US results were not a cause for worry or concern, and to manage with OTC pain relievers. No further action or testing needed.
Could the ultrasound and a CT (in relation to abdominal pain) I've had missed this?
Would love to know based on your experiences, how hard I should advocate for myself and if there's any specific testing I should explicitly ask for.
I have alot of medical fatigue and feel dismissed despite feeling so awful all the time. If you've read this far, thank you and sorry for the novel.
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February 2024 Ultrasound:

• Myometrium: Single fibroid seen
• Right ovary: appears normal with a 21mm hemorrhagic corpus luteum containing retracting clot
• Endometrial thickness, total 4.9mm
• Endometrium: within normal limits
• Fibroids:
  • Uterine fibroid D1 11 mm
  • Uterine fibroid D2 8 mm
  • Uterine fibroid D3 9 mm
  • Uterine fibroid mean 9.3 mm
  • Uterine fibroids findings: Intramural. Anterior. Right lateral wall

November 2023 Ultrasound:

• Uterus
  • Endometrium: 4 mm cyst , no solid masses
  • Endometrial thickness, total 9.8 mm
  • Fibroids: Fibroids identified
    • Uterine fibroid D1 30 mm
    • Uterine fibroid D2 25 mm
    • Uterine fibroid D3 25 mm
    • Uterine fibroid mean 26.7 mm
    • Uterine fibroids findings: transmural FIGO 2-5 with 10 mm cyst
  • Right Ovary:Appears normal
    • Rt ovary D1 27 mm
    • Rt ovary D2 30 mm
    • Rt ovary D3 12 mm
    • Rt ovary Vol 5.1 cm³
  • Left Ovary: Appears normal
    • Lt ovary other findings: seen transabdominally only
  • Left Tube: Size 38.0 mm x 18.0 mm x 24.0 mm
  • Impression: 1. Heterogeneous mildly thickened endometrium with a 4 mm cyst. Clinical correlation recommended for potential hyperplasia or polyp. If clinically appropriate, repeat ultrasound could be performed in 4-6 months to evaluate for persistence. 2. Findings cost consistent with a degenerated fibroid. 3. Normal ovaries.

My sister has been in and out of undiagnosed illness for a few months, which symptoms were nausea, vomiting, and fever. The fever keeps her restless and insomniac most nights and the sweat from the chills gives her sensory issues of fabric clinging to her skin.
She's also very scared of throwing up and has been refusing both soft foods and fluids for the past 18 hours. She's already a nightmare to feed on her normal days due to AFRID but this takes it to another level I didn't think was possible. I know she's parched and showing dehydration symptoms but she is refusing water, pedialytes and the likes. All I'm holding her onto now are ice chips and pedialyte popsicles to keep it at bay. Any sort of food has been out of the question even her safest ones, and I know she's starving, but she keeps insisting she will throw up and she deathly hates doing so.
Just watching her sleep or lay down is hurting me. I'm waiting for my partner to get home so we can rush her to the A&E but I made the mistake of mentioning it to her beforehand and she absolutely freaked out. She hated hospitals and needles and all the likes but our only option left is to get her on IV. Now she's refusing to sleep out of fear and I don't want to wring her body out of whatever energy she has left by having a meltdown when the time comes to go to the hospital. Any advice on how to handle all this is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Veozah took away most of my hot flashes right away. Soon I developed stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea & a weird feeling of dizziness/headaches, a new unrecognizably lower level of deep dark depression/anxiety, plus almost paralyzing fatigue. I’m doubled over with stomach aches and nausea the past two days, so I’m done. I’m going to tell my doctor tomorrow that I want to stop.
Most reviews of Veozah are good, so I’m wondering if anyone else had similar symptoms? Are these also HRT symptoms?
I’m afraid to tell my doctor that I want to try HRT because she didn’t sound enthusiastic about it. I don’t know how I can function unless I take something to help.

I used to have periods to where I could take a Tylenol and go on with my day like normal but ever since my lupus diagnosis in 2021 it’s just been getting worse and worse every month. I know lupus causes hormonal changes during that time but I didn’t think it would make it this bad. I’ve gone through so many things because of lupus like nephritis, pleural effusion, heart problems and the typical joint pain, etc, without strong pain medications but this is just insane. The only pain medicine that has actually helped me during my menstrual cycle has been morphine during a hospital stay, and well that’s not really an easy thing to get prescribed for just a period and it’s not a good thing to continuously take.
The on and off fevers for two days, the nausea, stomach cramps, my legs have so much pain, I turn blue, my whole body shakes randomly uncontrollably like shivers when you’re cold, but I’m not cold. I’ve never felt so horrible in my life. I’ve brought it up to my rheumatologist and my primary care doctor and everytime it’s just blown over like nothing. I’ve also been given a few prescriptions for menstrual pain and they never helped so I’m at a loss, I’ve tried heating pads, warm baths, those soothing oils, etc and still nothing. Everytime it happens I feel like I need to go to the hospital but wait times are 9+ hours so I stay home to deal with it, I have no idea if this is just lupus causing this or something else on top of it but it’s driving me crazy to the point where (this is gonna sound super crazy) ever since I turned 18 I have asked multiple times to have a hysterectomy because I feel like at this point it’s my only option to get rid of the pain and it triggering my lupus, but of course I know they say “wait until you’re older” “it’s not that serious” when to me it is that serious and I’m unsure of what else I could do for it. I always just thought lupus caused a slight elevation in the amount of pain from a period but I definitely thought wrong about that.
Does anyone have anything that’s helped them during this time? I’m willing to try anything at this point.

My mother has underwent 4 treatments of FolFiriNox and thankfully she’s handled it tremendously well. not only has she handled it well but the pain in her stomach and nausea has gone away almost entirely. Diarrhea seems to be her only pressing symptom.
The oncologist believes we should take a 2 week break due to risk of infection because her bloodwork was a little low in terms of white blood cell count. He said she isn’t below the threshold but just to be safe he wants to take a break.
We all agreed with him and I think it’s better to be safe than sorry. But I’ve got to ask what do the people here think? Is it common to pause a treatment or two? Would like to hear yalls story.

So last week I woke up in the middle of the night with cramps and diarrhea. I was super nauseous as well but didn’t throw up but was as close as I’ve been in a long time. Then over the weekend my husband gets a bug. He is back to work Monday and seems better. This morning I’m back to cramps, diarrhea and nausea. How is this fair or reasonable? I thought I’d lived through my once every many years bug.

hi friends! i've been having a very weird time lately -- i'm starting to think i'm having issues with my cortisol levels, but i wanted to see if anyone had any similar experiences and how it all played out. first, let me say that i'm trying to get a doctor's appointment to have my levels tested. i've been trying to do this for a few years but something or other always gets in the way (like stupid doctors who agree to do something and then fail to tell me they can't), and now i'm waiting on a new-patient appointment that's about two months out, so in the meantime i'm trying to piece it together on my own. it's surprisingly difficult to learn about cortisol dysregulation outside of standard stress!
starting with the symptoms -- i've been waking up feeling absolutely atrocious. i've never been a morning person, but a normal amount of sleep still leaves me exhausted and i've been waking up feeling even more nauseous than usual and with this shaky/weak feeling all through my body. it makes it very difficult to physically get up because my body feels too weak to move around that much, and even though i'm not physically shaking it feels like i'm trembling internally. my prime symptom with POTS is GI issues, but i generally don't get diarrhea. right now i'm going on day 3 of it, which is highly unusual for me. at first i thought it was something i consumed but, again, it's been 3 days, so it really should've passed. i don't know if this is related, but i also have wickedly dry eyes. this has been an ongoing issue for a while, but these days i can't keep my eyes open when i first wake up unless i use eyedrops. opening my eyes also makes all of my symptoms (especially the nausea) worse, even in low light.
i've been doing some reading on issues with cortisol levels, and so far it seems to track. all of this is something that comes and goes (except the diarrhea lol that's new), but it usually isn't consistent. like i'll wake up fine one day, feel like shit the next, and then be fine the next day, and i don't really think it's been this bad before. i also noticed that my base level stress picked up a few weeks ago, but not for any particular reason? i met a friend in person for the first time and had them stay for a few days, and for some reason i was on edge the entire time, and it seems like i haven't been able to shake it since despite ample rest and relaxation in the meantime. i'm stressed about a work project now, but it's not really anything new. even when i'm lying down doing nothing i feel like something inside me is stressed out, but it's different than the usual mental anxiety.
all of this is just super weird! i'm really tired (pun not intended) of having such a difficult time waking up in the mornings, and it's starting to get in the way of work since i'm waking up later and later. i feel great at night, though. i've been staying up too late, but that's mostly because i actually feel fine and can get more done, and i'm usually not even tired until like 2 am. i've also hit pause on the coffee (i say as i take a sip of coffee) and have instead been drinking black or green tea when i'm desperate for energy. this is my first cup of coffee in a few days, but i only drink half-caf. has anyone had an experience like this? did you ever get answers or solutions? i really don't want to have to just deal until i can get in to see this new doctor in july.
tia!! x

54f here. I was completely sober for over two years. In th he last year I've been drinking off and on with mostly bad results. Sunday I drank two margaritas in a can (12.5%) rather quickly with no food. I've had nausea and diarrhea ever since. Is my body just not able to handle alcohol anymore? I could see a day or two, but four days later?!

Grant Genereux's blog says the Ozempic ingredients are: "Medicinal ingredients: semaglutide. Non-medicinal ingredients: ... phenol, and water for injections." and that a Mayo Clinic Endocrinologist says the most common side effects of Ozempic are "nausea, followed by abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea" which closely match the CDC.gov website's common side effects of phenol poisoning: "Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea".
Then says: "Even though the claim is that semaglutide is the active ingredient in OZEMPIC, I’m thinking that’s not true. Semaglutide is probably just in there as the cover story and for patent protection. My bet is that the real active ingredient is the phenol."
Specific claims:

• That injection of aqueous phenol was used in Nazi Germany as [an] execution drug. (And implying that "phenol, and water for injections" is "aqueous phenol").
  
• "there’s a known history with the pharmaceutical industry using phenol compounds as weight loss drugs? Well, wouldn’t you know it, it turns out there is. Dinitrophenol (DNP) was quite a popular drug sold in the 1930’s. That is until it started to kill too many people. Nonetheless, it did cause rapid weight loss".
  
• "there’s very little difference between the toxicology of Dinitrophenol and the nice aqueous phenol “preservative” in Ozempic. They both have very similar material data safety sheets".
  

Not mentioned in the blog post is other brandings of Semaglutide, here the medicines.org.uk page for Wegovy with active ingredient Semaglutide, section 6.1 says it contains Phenol and section 4.1 says "Wegovy is indicated as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity for weight management, including weight loss and weight maintenance".
Here the medicines.org.uk page for Rybelsus with active ingredient Semaglutide, does not mention Phenol, and it is not indicated for weight loss, 4.1 says "Rybelsus is indicated for the treatment of adults with insufficiently controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus to improve glycaemic control as an adjunct to diet and exercise".
A good debunking might include:

• why the Phenol is necesary. Why Ozempic and Wegovy with Phenol are used for weight loss, and Rybelsus without Phenol isn't, when they all have Semaglutide active ingredients.
• some explanation of quantity of phenol in Ozempic, compared to these other claimed uses.
• some debunking of the Nazi injection thing more detailed than "dose makes the poison lots of things can kill people".
• some difference between phenol + water, aqueous phenol, dinitrophenol, more detailed than "different chemicals are different".
• some way that the FDA would spot/stop this if there was anything to the claims, with more support than just asserting that.

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Hi everyone! 12w + 5d FTM looking for some advice and encouragement. I just got over a bad upper respiratory virus and now I’m sick again. Both times, when the colds started, my morning sickness suddenly increased and I actually vomited. Maybe I wasn’t eating enough or the fever was causing nausea? I’m so afraid I’ll spend all 9 months sick and that my baby will be harmed by all these viruses. Looking for some encouragement and if anyone else had increased nausea/vomiting while sick?