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Enlarged abdominal lymph nodes

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Ok- so I am 24 and was having some abdominal pain and constipation that I thought may be related to my anxiety/panic disorder. I went to a gastro and had a CT of the abdomen and a colonoscopy and endo…(where they put a camera down your throat).
Everything was normal except for some lymph nodes that [...]

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Heart Murmur

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

I just found out that I have a heart murmur and Costochondritis. Is a heart murmur dangerous? The doctor noticed the heart murmur through the stethoscope and the tests he did. I have to go for more follow-up appointments to make sure the heart murmur doesn’t get any worse.
Also, why am I feeling the pain [...]

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Chills and other symptoms

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Recently I’ve noticed a few things changing.I’m a twenty year old male. 275 lb., 5′10″.
I’ve been experiencing chills with no fever. They are a strange sensation that feels like a void in the area where my head meets my neck. It may not be a chill, but it certainly feels like them - I generally [...]

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Nausea after eating

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Hello I’m 20 years old my dad caught diabetes when he was in his late 40s and yesterday I eat some rice crispey for breakfast and sometimes I add sugar in the rice crispeys for it to taste better when I have 2 bows of it and I started to feel nausea and when I [...]

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Concentration problems and fatigue

Monday, November 30th, 2009

I’m a 25 year old female who has been experiencing constant fatigue (no matter how much sleep I actually get), a lack of concentration and occasional headaches and occasional rapid heart rate. I am within my healthy weight range (I’m 5′4″ and 121 lbs), although I’m trying to lose a few pounds with gradual diet [...]

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Abdominal pain

Monday, November 30th, 2009

First off i am a Male and 17 years old.
About an hour ago, when i was getting up from my desk at school, i felt a sharp pain in the middle-right side of my body, just above the hips. Now, I feel ok when sitting down and hunched over, but i get the sharp [...]

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Nocturnal Enuresis

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Ok, well like a few months ago I drank (water) as usual a bit before bed and woke up wet… Was very weird and scary, I always woke up when I had to and went to the bathroom, I thought maybe it just was something wrong that night, didn’t happen again till I again drank [...]

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Sweating issue

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

I am a 28 year old female, and I am having some sweating problems. It seems the older I get the worse it becomes. I profusely sweat from my face, including my neck. I do not sweat anywhere else. It really causes problems in my everyday life. If I do anything physical I start to [...]

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Hypothyroidism and pregnancy

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

I am 27 years old and 6.5 weeks pregnant. During my first routine prenatal screening my doctor diagnosed me with underactive thyroid. My TSH level was 11.8, and my free T4 was 13.
She prescribed me 0.05 mg levothyroxine yesterday, which I’ve started taking.
I am concerned about how this untreated condition may have affected my pregnancy [...]

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Excessive sugar intake and headaches

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

I have been addicted to sugar for over 15 yrs and if I don’t have enough of it I will pass out. The thing is I was told could be Diabetes so was tested 14 yrs ago and it was borderline, I was pregnant at the time, they said that was normal. About the last [...]

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