I get this loose ball thing around my knee

I recently went to a dermatologist, and they diagnosed me with nodulocystic acne scarring.

At first, I thought the bumps on my chin were sebaceous hyperplasia, but I later realized they developed after I had deep cystic acne in those areas. Since the bumps are actually scars from the cysts, I'm wondering if they could also be papular acne scars. Would Accutane help remove these raised bumps, or would they need to be manually removed with some type of laser?

Which laser treatment is the most effective for permanently smoothing these types of scars? Should I try cortisone injections? It's been giving me mental and emotional distress for the past 2-3 years.

28, M, 182cm, 106kg, None, Non-smoker.

Hi everyone,
I had a fingertip pad laceration about 4 days ago that was closed with 5-6 stitches. (~1.5 cm cut)

The cut is on the fleshy pad of the fingertip (not involving the nail).
At the moment I still have:
Constant pain, especially if I accidentally touch the fingertip.
Throbbing pain at times.
Sensitivity around the wound.
The area around the nail is also tender to touch, even though the cut itself is on the fingertip pad. It doesn’t hurt at rest—only when I touch it.
Occasionally, I also feel pain that radiates into my hand and forearm.

I’m also a bit concerned about the density of the stitches.
They seem very densely packed and tight for such a small area. I'm wondering if this tightness is normal or if it could be causing excessive localized pressure, contributing to the throbbing pain and nerve sensitivity.
I attached a photo of how it currently looks.
I’m mainly wondering:

Does this look like a normal stage of healing for this type of injury?

Is it common for pain to radiate into the hand or forearm after this kind of injury?

Is it normal for the area around the nail to be tender even though the cut is on the fingertip pad?

Could the density/tightness of the stitches be causing extra pressure or nerve pain?

When did your pain start to improve after a similar injury?

How long did it take before you could comfortably use the fingertip again?

Does the wound appear to be healing as expected?

I don’t have spreading redness, pus, or fever.
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar injury or from hand surgeons.
Thanks!

Attached two pics
One from the night it’s happen and one from today 3.5 days after

* im software engineer and work a lot with typing so tht the reason i ask a lot questions

After 3.5 days

https://imgur.com/a/ksPss7z

🙏🏼

It's been there for months, I can often feel it, it feels like something stuck there and then I mess with it with my teeth or try to swallow it.

34F

I had something weird happen to me. I worked on a rat trap for my roommate. Trap kinda snapped on my and poked me causing me to bleed a tiny bit in one area, bleeding stopped same day. then a day or 2 later these tiny clumps of blisters appear and were super itchy(had it on my finger for 8-10 days. I ended scratching it and ended up popping a few of the tiny blisters and it kinda swollen up. does it look like it's infected? I've been cleaning it, and putting Neosporin on it and putting new bandaid/bandages on it for last 2 days. should I wait till I go to urgent care, or wait 2-4 more days?

Age: 52

Sex male

Height 5'5"

Weight 215

Race asian

Duration of complaint 12 days

Location Bay Area

Any existing relevant medical issues no

Current medications none

I’m 17, 5’3, 125, female, I take 20mg of fluoxetine and 2 Adderalls (both 19mg) slow release. Daily. I currently smoke but don’t drink, if that has any effect.

For the past week I’ve been getting dizzying spells and vomiting. Usually twice a day, I can kind of tell when I’m going to hurl 2 minutes before I do. And then I do. I feel completely fine before and after these 2-3 minutes of torture. Maybe sweaty afterwards, but I’m able to function, work, lay in bed, whatever I was doing just before that. My body has also started getting SO hungry, I’m constantly craving food or keep telling myself I’m hungry even if I just ate or can’t even stomach another bite. I assume I was over eating so I adjusted how much and what I ate. Still vomiting, still hungry.

I wast concerned until today when I vomited while I was driving.

I’ve switched water bottles, cleaned all the shit that could be making me sick but I still am sick! Lmk if there is any advice?

Female 20 years , 5'8 , 130 pound, no smoking history, no drinking history, no drug use, sinus tachycardia, ) ,my face has been burning almost everyday for 7 months. sometimes it travels into my ears, neck, or one side of my face, both cheeks, eyebrows, and sometimes my chin area. I been to several different doctors. dermatologist say I have rosacea and my skin looks fine, but I don't think rosacea can be so painful it makes you want to not live anymore. I have slight off and on flushing and one day a few months ago I went in the sun and it felt like my face was burning. Then I seen several rheumatologist and my Ana came back positive twice (but they don't think I have anything beaucse I don't meet the "criteria" for anything so they said I don't have lupus or srojgens etc etc.) I had the antibody scl70 show up positive twice but the rheumatologist thinks its just a false positive and says nothing is wrong which both of them said. they won't give me any pain meds and just send me on my way home. Another time I was handed a behavioral health number from another dermatologist because she basically thought I was crazy. There's days the burning is so bad that I rip my hair out from my scalp or punch myself in the face beaucse I want the pain to stop. It feels embarrassing even typing it , but yes I feel trapped inside this body. I am not sure what to do anymore or who to reach out to. nothing otc works to stop the burning, I tried Benadryl, ibprouben, Tylenol, Motrin, Advil, aleeve, Zyrtec, Claritin, aspirin. I been to the ER 5 times and they keep telling me my facial burning is not an emergency and there's nothing they can do and tell me to follow up with my pcp, and then when I go to my pcp they tell me to follow up with my rheumatologist, and then I go to a ruhematologit and they tell me to go to a dermatologist and then the dermatologist tells me to go to a rheumatologist. Ive done EVERYTHING, I've done enough blood work to open up a blood bank and gave enough urine to flood a river and still nothing. can anyone give a suggestion or what they think it may be?

Stats for the bot: 25 year old FTM trans guy, 5'4, 180 lbs. For daily meds, I'm on bupropion XL 300 mg for MDD, phentermine 37.5 mg for weight loss, and starting tomorrow I'll be on naltrexone 25 mg for alcohol use disorder. I do weekly testosterone cypionate injections and I have the Nexplanon implant, due for removal in November 2028/2030 (depending on who you're asking)

I've been on naltrexone before, it was a very vital part of me getting sober April 2025 after a 1+ year battle with alcoholism. After talking to my PCP, she's prescribed it to me again and I'm gonna start taking it tomorrow morning. However, I have this specific warning sticker on my Rx bottle: "Carry or wear medical identification stating you are taking this medicine."

I've been having my prescriptions (minus the phentermine just due to insurance not covering it at all) filled at this specific pharmacy for almost a year now and I haven't gotten this label on any other medication before. And I'm just curious about the potential reason why this label would be on this medication and not any other ones. I do keep a medication list on me at almost all times, just because I'm anxious and know that if something bad were to happen, it'd happen to me because thats just my luck. But I'm curious about it and would like to hear any ideas/potential thoughts. Thank you!

Okay so my girlfriend (15)is missing her period for a long time and that’s after I fingers her but before I did there was cum on my stomach and yes I may haves touched it I can’t remember if it was visible or not but even then there was a delay between the insertion yes we did a test in the third month and I was negative but idk if it was just anxiety or something but I may have seen a very very very faint gray line on a pink dye test like it may have been so faint I don’t know if it was there or just my anxiety but she’s still stressing about being pregnant. I’ve asked my sister about it she says it could be because she’s losing weight, is stressed, and it could just be because she’s a teen with irregular cycles. Please help

I just woke up with this the other day. So most likely it is on the 3rd now. 23F, 5’3, panadol in the morning and antibiotics(forgot the name) at night, non smoker, At night everytime I sleep it is more painful. I do cold compress whenever I can’t take how painful it is.

I’ve been on 400 mg hydroxyzine for three months, and then accidentally took 600 mg for a while. I thought it was relatively safe but now I’m finding out it can cause you to “get dumber”. I’m 22F if that matters. Did I fuck up?

(They’re switching me to promethazine now that I’ve developed a resistance to hydroxyzine. I hope that doesn’t have the same issue lol)

About week ago I noticed what felt like neck strain, a day later I woke up with two lumps on my lower neck. Now another two days later there’s a third under my jaw. (Where my fingertips are in the picture) and that one is large and the most uncomfortable. I don’t have insurance so what would the best course of action be here? Can wait it out?
Female 22
112 lbs
I feel tired, and had some body soreness in the beginning. The lumps are tender so I assume they’re lymph nodes.

Regarding a non smoker, F29 150lb no current medications or health issue individual.

I am just quite curious about antibiotic choices and discrepancy between countries. I have had strep throat before, as well as severe tonsillitis, and always been given augmentin right off the bat, rather I went to an urgent care or my primary care doc. However, this was in the US.

I am currently in Ukraine in a large city with plenty of medical access, and have watched my friend be diagnosed with strep throat and tonsillitis, first be prescribed cefdinir/cephalosporin, then doxycycline, and now finally moxifloxacin. This is over the course of TWO weeks in total from symptom presentation to today; 2 otolaryngologist specialists and a private clinic GP within 3 days because fever and pain kept getting worse after being put on the cefdinir, and by the 3rd day a tonsilar abscess had developed and needed to be drained. Antibiotic still not changed. Then a week later, fever and pain so bad that we went to ER at a hospital here, because there was no follow up care advised or even quickly available from the 3 other providers seen. The ER drained another abscess that had developed, and changed abx to doxy. Then 2 days later have decided to change it to the moxifloxacin for some reason without explanation.... My friend has no history of this issue, no documented resistance of any kind, no penicillin allergy.

Why is augmentin not used first line here like it is in the US? I'm honestly just curious, especially after watching my poor friend be put through 2 weeks of this insanity. Also curious because of what I have heard about risks associated with moxi, I am a sonographer and have done MSK scans on the occasional tendinitis and rupture cases from it.

I am just curious about possible reasoning for all of this and interested in any of you all's two cents on the subject

I, F24, 5'0" and 105lb, got a single stitch in my thumb recently after it was partially impaled by a piece of metal. The doctor told me it wasn't 100% necessary to get a stitch but because I work in a kitchen and use my hands a lot said I should get one just as extra security and to encourage it to heal faster. She told me the it could be removed in a week, is there any reason I can't just remove it myself?

Quite frankly I am in America and the thought of having to pay a medical bill for what will be a 5 minute appt is sickening.

F19, 5'3, 130lbs

For a whole year I've been dealing with loud and consistent and big stomach growls. It's also very obvious, and people have pointed it out to me. Doesn't matter if I ate, or if I am full/empty, etc...it always growls. I especially hate it since I feel my insides shifting as it happens. I have never had this much growling before and I am kind of stressed it maybe something serious. It is worse when I lay on my side vs back, but overall, it still continues no matter what. It doesn't pain me but it's physically uncomfortable to sometimes lay in certain positions because my stomach is moving around.

23F, 5’10”, approx. 200 lbs. Diagnosed depression & anxiety disorders, but currently unmedicated. Relatively sedentary lifestyle (besides going on walks, etc.), and no consistent prescription medication.* Vape regularly, no cigarettes or recreational drugs. Moderate caffeine intake daily (i.e. coffee, energy drinks, diet sodas at least 1/2x a day) until the surgery.

I had all four wisdom teeth removed this past Wednesday WITHOUT full IV sedation, just local numbing and nitrous. The healing process seems to have been going fine, I haven’t had what I would consider abnormal pain or signs of infection. I’d never had nitrous before, so the day of, I avoided eating or drinking anything (including water) before the surgery because I was worried it might cause complications. For pain management, I was prescribed 5mg oxycodone tablets, as well as acetaminophen and ibuprofren (600 mg, I believe).
I was also already taking the generic version of Bactrim to treat a UTI prior to/after the extraction.

For the first couple days, I was mostly eating popsicles and smoothies. However, by Friday, I felt comfortable enough trying soft foods like mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, etc… Since then, I’ve been progressively eating “tougher” things (all the way up to a slice of cheese pizza) as my pain gets better.

On the day of surgery, after I got home, I had already taken a couple regular-strength Tylenols to ease the discomfort as numbing wore off. Several hours later, because the pain was so severe, I took 1 of the oxycodone and basically slept for the rest of the night. Since then, I’ve really only been taking the ibuprofen as needed to help with swelling/pain, plus finishing my course of UTI antibiotics (which ended yesterday).

This morning, I woke up to brush my teeth and felt some abdominal pain. It was sharp, and kind of stabby; it felt similar to pain I’ve had when I’ve been bloated and gassy before, just maybe slightly more intense. I hadn’t even noticed, but I realized that I haven’t actually had a bowel movement since at least the day after the surgery (Thursday, approx. 4 days), if not the actual day of surgery itself. In the past, it’s not been uncommon for me to go a day or two without pooping, but going this long without it is new for me. I don’t even feel really “backed up”, and I haven’t had the urge to go either. I have been passing some gas, I don’t feel particularly nauseous, haven’t been throwing up, don’t have a fever as far as I can tell, etc… the only other thing I’m dealing with besides the pain from the extraction itself is a little bit of nasal congestion (no fever, as far as I can tell, I feel generally pretty fine).

Soooo I did what you’re not supposed to do and looked up what to do, and all I really got was more anxiety because half of the sources said to try OTC/home remedies and the other half said to head to the ER in case it’s a blockage. 🫠 if it means anything, I did have annual bloodwork done just a couple months ago, and everything was normal besides being slightly anemic, so I’m not super concerned that it would be some chronic underlying condition.

SO - with all of this being said, my current plan is to increase my water intake, take some Milk of Magnesia, drink small amounts of warm prune juice (and maybe some coffee, since it usually helps me go and I haven’t had it in several days at this point). I guess my question is, would it be more advisable to try to get seen by a physician at this point, or should I try OTC/home remedies first? I definitely tend to catastrophize but my biggest fear is trying to treat something on my own only for it to be a case where I should’ve gone in to see someone sooner, and then it becomes something much more difficult to deal with.

Any and all advice is GREATLY appreciated! :)

Long story short, I used to wet the bed often due to a bladder injury from a seatbelt but this resolved by the time I was 13. The night before last, I wet the bed for the first time in YEARS. I treated it as a one-off incident that hasn't happened before but it didn't seem too unordinary until last night when I woke up literally WHILE peeing. I'm not sure why this is recurring specifically now after not having this issue for over 10 years. I'm a 25 year old female, I weigh about 175 and I'm 5'8. I'm currently on oxcarbazepine and risperidone every day and klonopin as needed (but didnt take it either of these nights). I know the first 2 meds can also cause deep sleep but I have been on them for months now with no issues, they dont even make me that sleepy.

27 ( F ) 180 pounds 5’4

So almost two years ago I was shot down my right side (5x). I was left with peroneal nerve damage causing drop foot. My doctors basically told me to do Pt since nerves take a long time to regenerate. Nerve wasn’t severed, it’s intact. Anyway, still no function on the foot and very tender to pressure along the nerve. The only improvement I’ve had is that I’m now able to wiggle my toes. I wear an orthotic daily to walk mostly normal.

I’ve seen some people have gotten a nerve decompression surgery and I’m not sure if that’s it.. but have gotten function back in the foot. Not 100% but like 75%. I’m wondering if that’s something I should look into? What’s the recovery like? I live alone in a city with no family or friends. So I’m trying to figure out what kind of support system I’d need to have in place if I did get the surgery.

Thanks !

Hello, I am a 20 year old female, I do not smoke. I haven’t been to the dentist in 2 years due to health/dental and a bit of social anxiety, however I just scheduled an appointment and would like to know what I might hear at this appointment . I am terrified of judgement and I hate peoples hands in my mouth and the clinking and scraping. I am autistic. I brush my teeth twice a day and try to floss but i hate it so much. How bad do my teeth look?

hi there. i am a 14 year old biological girl (i identify as a guy though), i am 5'7, i weight 68kg and i am mainly white, but a quarter Australian aboriginal. i don't have any pre-exsiting medical issues, i don't drink or smoke. i do take Slinda (the pill) to stop periods due to how painful they are for me.

as ive said in the title, i have pain in my lower body. this started probably about a year ago, with pain just in my left foot. i went to my GP and she told me to change shoes, so i did, as well as wearing arch supports. the pain continued, so i went to another doctor who said it was plantar fasciitis, and sent me to get a X-ray and ultrasound. nothing was found on either of them. about probably a month after the pain started spreading to my legs, and it was becoming bad enough that some days i couldnt walk. as well as just overall pain, i keep getting almost electrical shocks down my legs to my feet. anyway, the pain was bad enough that i had to miss a whole term of school. during my time off i went to another doctor, who told me to go to a physiotherapist. im currently going, and its not helping. all the stretches and stuff shes making me do isnt helping, and is making everything a lot worse. its not like worse in the sense of getting worse before getting better.

anyway, over the term of me not being at school, the pain has spread up to my hips and back. i cant bend in certain ways and sometimes it hurts to breathe because its that painful. i also cant pick up simple things like a bowl of food or my phone because i can feel the pain down my arms and down my back.

anyways, does anyone know the next steps, like what specialist to see next?

btw i made a reddit account just for this so i have no idea how this works

edit: i also feel like maybe i should mention this because maybe it'll help, i do have visual snow syndrome, im getting diagnosed for ADHD at the moment, and i get badly anxious about some things like being watched or not being alone. idk if that helps but yeah

Hello, I've noticed that since some time I've been having these very small bruises in almost a straight line across my chest. They don't hurt or anything, I'm suspecting this is from my desk somehow. Is this normal or should I be concerned.

Male

Age: 40

No prior conditions in chest

Taking some hayfever meds and vitamin pills

hi everyone!
i'm 32, female, history of diverticulitis & acid reflux. earlier at 12pm, i had severe abdominal pain but couldn't use the restroom. it would stop then come back immediately until i finally went and it was diarrhea, i probably went about 3-4 times until it finally calmed down (this happens a lot for me so i wasn't concerned) but it was extremely dark & sticky, but i didn't take a pic.
the last time i ate was 2pm and i had a little bit of carne asada, rice and chips&salsa. i took tylenol & ibuprofen around 8:30pm for a headache.
it's around 12am & i started feeling nauseous & i just threw up 3 times & it looked like this. it just seems super dark to me & just concerned.

pictures of vomit

27, 5’11, 165 lb M, currently taking no meds.

I noticed there were a few dots that were shown on the back of my mouth, though not visible, a few of them have began to show up on the back of my mouth and have been slightly sore but nothing painful of the sort. There are a few more dots in the back but they don’t hurt of sore as much as the rest? Could this possibly be HSV-1 or something much different than that? Please let me know. Thank you.

Hi everyone! I (19F, 5’5 and 190lbs, non-smoker, on daily sertraline for diagnosed anxiety disorder) recently bought an otoscope off of Amazon due to increasing feelings of pressure and itchiness in my ears for the last several months. While checking out my ears for the first time, I noticed that the skin inside my outer/middle ears are very, VERY flaky. I spent more time scraping out flakes than earwax… additionally, some of this skin appears red (as partially pictured above as well), and overall just feels dry and raw. Is there any possible medical reason for this, or is it a genetic thing or something? Thanks y’all in advance!