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Wrath

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Swagdaddy said:
any advice on what I thought might have been a hernia through my abdominal wall but when I went to the hospital and got it checked they said it was just a "tear" with no protrusion so there was no surgical solution necessary , still hurts like after a year and ive also been forced into full dadbod mode
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Did they say you had a diastasis? Because that is not a hernia even though it does look like one. I saw a lot of them during my surg rotation and no surgeon would repair them even if they were impressively large. However if it is causing pain you might have a good reason to get another opinion.
 
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Noodleface

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No it's lower and center, it's not really pain but sort of hits me every once in awhile. Especially after I eat
 
TheNozz

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Hate to jump gun, but I’ve had two friends get appendicitis

Although I think that starts with vomiting and fever not diarrhea
 
Gavinmad

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Noodleface said:
No it's lower and center, it's not really pain but sort of hits me every once in awhile. Especially after I eat
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Maybe a stupid question but have you tried OTC diarrhea meds now that the fever has broken? The stomach pain could very easily just be from all the constant stress over the last 36+ hours.
 
iannis

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Yeah, that kind of pain is most likely muscle cramps.

That's why I asked if it was stomach (which is a lot higher in the body than what most people call their stomach) or a gut pain. A pain in your actual stomach would be more of a concern.

You're shedding along your GI tract. Sounds gross, but you're always doing that. If you had a portion get infected (which you did, the fever), it's sloughed off and you're regrowing it. That's why you're getting a twinge right after you eat. Eating induces the muscles to rhythmically contract (peristalsis). When that wave passes through the damaged portion you're getting a twinge. If it was stomach the pain would be more constant and more severe.

It all sounds grosser than it is. You should be back to 95% within 2 days. 100 within a week.

As far as what caused the infection... can't really guess. Could be food. Could be a virus you ingested. Could be a more mechanical type thing (a hard scrape along your lining allowing bacteria to root that aren't supposed to root there). Could be that your gut flora decided to declare war on each other because bacteria are assholes. But the good guys won. You just shit out Hitler. Be a Proud American.
 
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Lanx

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jeesus i caught like some kind of liberal flu while in nyc, my wife too. 100f, vomiting, shitting. Thank god i have a bidet, my ass don't smell and it's not raw from wiping rolls of toilet paper on it.

So, if you have runny shits or some weird crohens shit disease, get a bidet if you can, you don't want to wipe your asshole to the point of prolapse.
 
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Had a few strange symptoms lately and my Doctor has just said 'wait and see'.

For two weeks I had a patch on my stomach and a small patch on my back that felt sunburnt. No visible rash or spotting but if my t shirt touched it or any other contact it would be very painful like an intense sun burn.

That has since mostly gone however I got a strange stomach ache at the same time. At the top of my stomach in the centre would occasionally hurt a lot. Almost like a cramp but it would also give me a stomach ache. It's now only happening when I'm hungry and when I eat. After I've eaten and it's processed it the feeling subsides.

It didn't help that I got an AWFUL cold/flu that lasted about 10 days at the same time which made things confusing I think. Anyone ever experience anything similar? Doc has asked me to wait a few more weeks then they can do general bloodwork etc.
 
iannis

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Wait and see is the best advice. Sounds like a bizzare type of deferred pain.

It can happen because of the way your pain receptors map. You don't have them internally for the most part, they're primarily on your skin. So you will get situations where you have some sort of internal issue that you're feeling on your skin. There are maps for it, even. It's well understood and not weird at all. Something similar is why phantom pain happens.

There is a good possibility that it just goes away on its own and you don't have to shell out for expensive tests. If it does persist for a few more weeks the odds are also good that early intervention wouldn't make any difference.

And you did say that it's getting better, and the pain has moved. And that you had a 10 day sick. All of that points to "lets see if you heal up, this obviously isn't nothing but it's probably not a cause for major concern"
 
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moonarchia

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Lanx said:
jeesus i caught like some kind of liberal flu while in nyc, my wife too. 100f, vomiting, shitting. Thank god i have a bidet, my ass don't smell and it's not raw from wiping rolls of toilet paper on it.

So, if you have runny shits or some weird crohens shit disease, get a bidet if you can, you don't want to wipe your asshole to the point of prolapse.
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Or do you?
 
Kuriin

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Lanx Lanx Caught the manflu. When people (men) come in with a cold / flu, they are essentially helpless. I told a manflu patient that we'd likely have to intubate him in front of his wife because there's just no other fix.
 
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Noodleface

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I think I read somewhere there's scientific proof that manflu/mancolds ARE tougher than women versions

When I get sick I sleep one full day. Literally the entire day and usually good after.
 
Tarrant

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So I'be been having pains in my right kidney on and off for the last few years. Nothing major, just a burning pain that would come and go, last no longer than 10 or 15 seconds and when it did, it would do it on and off throughout the day and usually go away for a few months.

I brought it up to a doctor once and he didn't seem too worried about it, as I had no other symptoms.

Well fast forward a few years and like a month ago it comes back but its hitting me every few minutes and does it for like 6 days strait. Concerned I go to urgent care and they tell me I have blood in my urine and it's probably a stone. I get my primary to schedule a CT and today I go in for results, but also to get some eyedrops as I had a sinus infection go into my eyes. (super crappy thing top happen by the way)

So I ask about my CT and it goes like this...

Doctor: Well your right kidney (where my pain is) seems to be okay, its operating at a 97-101 and that's as good as it can do. The fact that you still show blood though is concerning so we should get you in to a kidney doctor.

Me: I see, okay.

Doctor: AS for your left kidney, that one is of course absent.

Me: *blink* wait...what? Well, where did it go?

Doctor: You mean it was never removed?

Me: Uh, no.

Doctor: Huh, well I guess you were only born with one kidney.

Me: How am I almost 40 years old and I am just now finding out about this?

Doctor: -shrug- usually don't know till something like this happens in people your age.

So yeah, i found out I only have one kidney and all those years I was taking 4 Tylenol at a time and I'd get yelled at and respond with "I have two kidneys, It'll be fine" seem to came back and slapped me in the face.

Anyways, my wife is going to see if she can get me into her Kidney specialist at UofM (university of Michigan) and see whats up.
 
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