Medical Advice Thread - Does this look infected?

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Forsaken Wanderer said:
sorry saars me again i'm a retard i once again am asking for your advice.

I seem to have a virus, maybe the flu, I woke up at 2am this morning with a very swollen throat or tonsils (not sure which) and I took anti inflamatories that did seem to help and I could swallow better. I'm worried I'm going to have the same thing happen when I go to bed tonight and I worry a lot about not being able to breath if there is too much swelling and dying alone at night.

Is there anything common that would be good to take to help with this?

I'm probably having to go to work tomorrow so i need all the help i can get.

thank you.
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Zinc lozenges, vitamin c, hot drinks (especially salty ones, like soup broth), and sun exposure if you can. Good luck fellow kiwi!
 
Rootless Cosmopolitan said:
Zinc lozenges, vitamin c, hot drinks (especially salty ones, like soup broth), and sun exposure if you can. Good luck fellow kiwi!
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That is very helpful thank you, it was very swollen again when I woke up this morning, I'm laying on the couch with a hot drink now.
 
Not sure if this is the right thread but, I've finally started taking ADHD medication because I finally got a test done. What can I expect to happen? Will I even notice myself. I also really don't want to placebo myself saying to myself "wow it's been 2 days and I feel so different" i don't think this falls under that but I'm a hypochondriac and I can't help it so I don't wanna to in my head about it. I just want some info from someone who's been taking meds for ADHD
 
Hello frens. I'm starting to hit an age where stuff starts popping up and it is well known that doctors love dumping pills on you. So have high cholesterol and hyper tension. The told me to take valsartan daily (currently doing it) and for cholesterol nothing specific yet but was suggested a pill called fluocol while getting sold shit about how it's "natural" due to being based on red rice or some shit like that. Thing is while looking into it, I saw a site mention "similar secondary effects as statin", this triggered a huge synapse where I remembered reading in a couple of threads here how that shit is basically poison. I also asked an AI for the hell of it and it gave me the same list of secondary effects, though it may be getting it's wires crossed.

Getting to the point, my gut is telling me to not take the cholesterol thing and I'm also dubious on the hyper tension pill, they sold it to me as "for the rest of your life" sort of deal, but I've been losing weight recently and feeling like shit after long walks since taking it, so even though my levels aren't exactly well below the threshold, I do want to believe that I won't need it for the rest of my life.

Also, eggs. Will they kill me or should I eat 15 a day like Gaston?
 
Dumcumpster said:
Not sure if this is the right thread but, I've finally started taking ADHD medication because I finally got a test done. What can I expect to happen? Will I even notice myself. I also really don't want to placebo myself saying to myself "wow it's been 2 days and I feel so different" i don't think this falls under that but I'm a hypochondriac and I can't help it so I don't wanna to in my head about it. I just want some info from someone who's been taking meds for ADHD
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It may take a bit to take effect since it has to build in your system what I take makes me tired at first and then suddenly things are less distracting or i can more easily bring my attention back.
 
ShitLurker said:
Hello frens. I'm starting to hit an age where stuff starts popping up and it is well known that doctors love dumping pills on you. So have high cholesterol and hyper tension. The told me to take valsartan daily (currently doing it) and for cholesterol nothing specific yet but was suggested a pill called fluocol while getting sold shit about how it's "natural" due to being based on red rice or some shit like that. Thing is while looking into it, I saw a site mention "similar secondary effects as statin", this triggered a huge synapse where I remembered reading in a couple of threads here how that shit is basically poison. I also asked an AI for the hell of it and it gave me the same list of secondary effects, though it may be getting it's wires crossed.

Getting to the point, my gut is telling me to not take the cholesterol thing and I'm also dubious on the hyper tension pill, they sold it to me as "for the rest of your life" sort of deal, but I've been losing weight recently and feeling like shit after long walks since taking it, so even though my levels aren't exactly well below the threshold, I do want to believe that I won't need it for the rest of my life.

Also, eggs. Will they kill me or should I eat 15 a day like Gaston?
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1 gram of niacin (not niacinamide) 3 times a day - this will cause flushing due to vasodilation and histamine release from mast cells at first, but your body will get used to it quickly and the side effect will disappear

several grams of vitamin C at least 3 times a day - there's a simple rule to ascorbic acid intake: the more the better, there's hardly any disease that doesn't respond to sufficiently high doses of C, from common cold to cancer

10 grams of ascorbic acid (crystalline form) spread throughout the day is a maintenance, prophylactic dose in full health; any kind of disease, acute or chronic, means increased demand
 
niggercattle said:
1 gram of niacin (not niacinamide) 3 times a day - this will cause flushing due to vasodilation and histamine release from mast cells at first, but your body will get used to it quickly and the side effect will disappear
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Niacin will make your blood work look better, but it seems to have zero association with improved mortality, which is what you (should) actually care about. You can fuck around like a pussy, or you can be an adult, and take real drugs.

ShitLurker said:
Hello frens. I'm starting to hit an age where stuff starts popping up and it is well known that doctors love dumping pills on you. So have high cholesterol and hyper tension. The told me to take valsartan daily (currently doing it) and for cholesterol nothing specific yet but was suggested a pill called fluocol while getting sold shit about how it's "natural" due to being based on red rice or some shit like that. Thing is while looking into it, I saw a site mention "similar secondary effects as statin", this triggered a huge synapse where I remembered reading in a couple of threads here how that shit is basically poison. I also asked an AI for the hell of it and it gave me the same list of secondary effects, though it may be getting it's wires crossed.

Getting to the point, my gut is telling me to not take the cholesterol thing and I'm also dubious on the hyper tension pill, they sold it to me as "for the rest of your life" sort of deal, but I've been losing weight recently and feeling like shit after long walks since taking it, so even though my levels aren't exactly well below the threshold, I do want to believe that I won't need it for the rest of my life.

Also, eggs. Will they kill me or should I eat 15 a day like Gaston?
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Red yeast rice doesn't have similar secondary effects to a statin, it is a statin. If you were going to take statins, then you should take one that will produce the desired improvement in lipids, with lowest risk of side effect, not the one that's the most "natural"

Statins aren't poison, they're the most life saving class of drugs in cardiology. Yes, some people have bad side effects. These side effects are by far most common at the max doses, which are only slightly more effective than middle of the range doses.

The primary side effects are the potential to induce insulin resistance, muscle soreness/weakness, and brain fog, which may potentially progress to increased dementia risk, in some relatively small subset of the population, although there hasn't really been research into this. If you want to avoid the brain fog, take a hydrophilic statin. If you want to avoid risk of insulin resistance, pitavistatin isn't associated with it. It should be pretty easy to notice if you start developing muscle soreness and weakness, and guess what? If that happens, it doesn't mean you're doomed to a lifetime of suffering. It means you change your medication.

You can also look at ezetemibe. It blocks absorption of dietary cholesterol. Incredibly well tolerated.

5 mg ezetemibe plus 0.5 mg pitavistatin daily is enough to keep my lipids at a level where it is literally impossible to develop plaque, based on current medical understanding.

You could also consider pcsk9 inhibitors, like repatha. They're more expensive, although they've come down quite a bit in price over the past several years. Typically, for insurance to cover them, you'll need to be prescribed a statin first, and tell your doctor that you're unwilling to continue taking it due to side effects. I'm also pretty sure the company has a policy where if you write them a letter saying you can't afford it, they give it to you for basically free. The rates of severe side effects are low enough that you can basically say there's effectively zero risk, as far any individual is concerned.

While some older blood pressure medications can have concerning side effects, intelligent use of modern drugs has, again, effectively zero down side. Sure, you can and should work on losing weight and improving health. But it doesn't make sense to actively cause damage to your kidneys, every single day, until that happens. Unless you're incredibly unlucky, and among the very few people who get adverse effects from it, there's no reason to stop, until AFTER you've made enough health improvement to maintain normal blood pressure without it.

Feeling like shit after long walks isnt a side effect of valsartan, its a side effect of dieting.
 
So I don't know if anyone has experienced this or does currently but in my throat nearly 24/7 I feel right behind my Adam's apple what feels like something I need to clear my throat for. It kind of feels like I have some mucus or something that no matter how hard i cough it won't get unstuck. I just wanna know if I'm dying or anything.
 
I lifted my leg in a normal fashion while getting on a ski lift last week and heard a "click" while doing so - since then my knee has been audibly clicking when I bend it, especially so when I walk on it or otherwise put weight on it; the clicking while bending my knees goes away if I push my kneecap toward the floor while doing it. I've also noticed that the knee eventually clicks if I keep my leg straight and pull it toward my chest or reach down to grab my ankles. There is one single click each time, like a bone is reaching a threshold before snapping back into place, there is no pain whatsoever, I can walk normally, and I see no visible differences between my two knees, but I'm starting to get annoyed that it hasn't fixed itself yet. I ski very aggressively and at a relatively high level, and there was no pain for the remaining three days of the trip despite hearing the clicking. Any advice would be appreciated... I fucking hate doctors.
 
So I woke up in the middle of the night feeling an intense stinging pain in my leg, right below my knee on the inside of my calf, it made me feel slightly nauseous and I started to break out in a cold sweat, and then when I went to the bathroom I was dizzy, disorientated and fainted, and then fainted again and I'm pretty sure hit my head on something or the ground. But now I feel fine. I didn't actually get stung or bit by anything either, I checked.
 
so if you elevate a foot after breaking a toe, does it count if you're standing on one foot with the busted one up on your standing desk with your arms and keyboard a bit below shoulder height?
 
Why do my eyes get all unfocused and cross-eyed when I'm very sleepy? It makes driving while tired pretty dang scary. Happens anytime anywhere though. It becomes a serious challenge to refocus/uncross my eyes, and once I manage to do so, they're unfocused again in about 2 seconds.
How can I prevent this from happening? :[
 
It turns out my tonsils have been infected for a few weeks, on anti biotics now. Sometimes you can't just ignore your ailments and wait for them to go away apparently.

Sorry for ugly leg pictures, Is there an easy fix for dry legs? Will I get OnlyUseMeBlade holes?
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Forsaken Wanderer said:
It turns out my tonsils have been infected for a few weeks, on anti biotics now. Sometimes you can't just ignore your ailments and wait for them to go away apparently.

Sorry for ugly leg pictures, Is there an easy fix for dry legs? Will I get OnlyUseMeBlade holes?
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Nigga ew. Get yourself some shea butter or body lotion, you dry ass cracker.
 
Is being able to poop into a sock a good litmus test for determining a healthy digestive system?
 
i smell like ashes and every time i try to google it it just says it's an olfactory hallucination please help
 
Help me please.
I went to bed with my pillow just sliiiiiightly too elevated and the neck strain made me wake up with a killer migraine. I want to puke, but there is nothing in my stomach to even get out.
Any quick home treatments for migraines? Of course it happened on a holiday so I can't go to the pharmacy and get my usual meds for it.
 
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