>>55132
No experience here, but it doesn't look good OP.

>subs, benz, johnnies, and vyvanse
>smoker
>obese
>heart problems presumably

Might be time to change your tune before a heart attack or stroke hits you.

Looks like you may have an enlarged left ventricle but I can't see very well plus ischemic heart disease. Signs that your heart is working hard. Would be good to be able to compare it with an earlier ECG. Can't really measure anything though, looking at it on my mobile phone.

Obviously talk to your cardiologist if you have any questions bc I'm a 2nd year med student. But I'd consider lifestyle changes if your cardiologist doesn't think you need any pharmacological treatment.

I would have taken a look at your b&e, glucose, lipids and blood pressure as well.

You're very young. Get exercise/walk, lose weight, eat better and quit smoking.

>>55136

>You're very young.

Not OP, but when doctors say this, what do they refer to?

"You're very young so you should really be in better shape"?
"You're very young so you can still manage to get your health in order"?
"You're very young so <insert whatever>"?

I've gotten this from doctors and for some reason I forgot to ask for a clarification, but what does this mean? I realize you can't speak for them, but what did you mean by it?

>>55141

it means doing bad shit to your body has an increasingly bad effect as you age. its the doctors' light-hearted way of saying "you can do this now without being fucked but later you can't so stop now before you're fucked."

u also gotta consider it requires water to metabolize those substances and the coloration of urine could just be due to waste metabolites being excreted. increase h2o and decrease the fuckin speed

>>55082
You generally shouldn't be feeling constant pain anywhere between your haircut and the bottoms of your feet. So yes, go see a fucking doctor. If you have an infection you've just let it grow and spread for a week, which may make it much harder to fight off.

>>55083
Well, went to the ER after experiencing urinary urgency. They did a CT scan, and while it showed no stones, my Kidney was actually inflammed. They didn't have doctors in, but they wanted to keep me overnight to await further diagnostic testing, to rule out anything damaging.

>>55084

Are you ok, OP?

Advice for anyone: if your pain goes to 6 for more than a short time, go to hospital.

>>55082
Hey man, this might be a long shot but the same happened to me when I was younger. I was racking up quite the er bills going back and forth and they never saw anything(they were prob convinced i was a drug seeker because long hair jeans etc) I still have all of the ct/mri/xray discs somewhere and i've thought of digging them up and looking again for myself. At any rate though I ended up doing a lot of research and gave up pop and milk, started drinking distilled water and homemade lemonade they said it would break up stones and dairy causes stones and inflammation in the kidneys/bladder. It was a night and day change within a couple days. I got lax and a year later it returned. Fed up at this point because the gallbladder attack was an unimaginable pain I took the advice of a doctor I had found online to cut out the dairy and crap again cold turkey and again, it went away. This caused me later to become obsessed with research long story short i went entirely vegan and my health has been perfect since. I understand it would be hard for a lot of people to think about but it saved me a lot of hell. I was tired of racking up the er bills and my life has benefited in every way

DICKS EVERYWHERE

people too often conflate traditional chinese medicine of the intellectual class of historical china (five element theory, yin/yang concept, chi, meridians, acupuncture, etc.) with rural folk medicine (tiger blood gives u a bigger dick, eating the wrong vegetables summons ghosts, drinking piss cures cancer) and thus dismiss it all. this also goes for reflexology (which comes from europe), crystal dipshittery, aura faggotry, and "chakra healers" who laypeople assume are all the same as an acupuncturist.

traditional chinese medicine is legit, and it works, if you can sift away all the stupid shit the modern consumerist world heaps alongside it. i personally had a grade II sprain in my lumbar spine (confirmed by MRI) completely cured through a handful of acupuncture sessions with an old expert. also been to a popular acupuncturist in taiwan, he cured my chronic foot pain in 1 session. anecdotal sure, but the studies are out there. the us army wouldnt be paying for it to treat ptsd if there wasnt scientific evidence of its efficacy.

you may say the model of the 5 elements and the meridians is foolish, but the same can be said about the old "nuclear model" of the atom, which we have now replaced with the "probability cloud" model. although the model may not be 100% accurate in its immediate representation of the thing it models, the systems of logic and rationale applied through it can still be used to solve complex and advanced problems that perhaps a western approach would not.

>>55099
I'm glad to see some good press for chinese medicine. Americans don't often know, but in China most people regularly seek out both traditional and modern medical treatments.

>>55131

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtjtdrdddCs

>>55133

oh my fucking christ. i've encountered these faggots' videos before. they have some shit head clickbait title and they end up talking about themselves the whole time in every video. X'd right the fuck out as soon as i saw those cockmonglers

One thing we need to acknowledge as a SOCIETY is that soap products are harming us and ...our children! ANTI-BACTERIA IS ANTI-LIFE! Anti-biotics should be used like VICODIN!! Only once in a while!

When my younger brother went to daycare
I STORMED IN AND CONFRONTED THE "TEACHER"
How dare you use those products on my little brother
fat bitch

>>55114
Yeah that's all true, but you aren't doing your cause justice by coming off the way you are.

Widespread use of antibiotics, primarily in our food systems (in factory meat farms), is placing artificial evolutionary pressures on bacteria and other micro-organisms, and is causing the emergence of bacteria resistant to our antibiotics. We're abusing a valuable medicine to the effect of rendering it useless in the long term.

Similar criticisms could be made about the infiltration of business-economics in our vaccination programs, which are IVing into children upwards of 20,000x more mercury and formaldehyde than is permitted by the EPA's maximum exposure limits. And let alone the fact that mere exposure and a direct shot to your blood-brain barrier are very different things, or that developing humans are far more vulnerable to the effects of mercury and formaldehyde poisoning than adults, or that the diseases which we vaccinate against had already declined substantially over 100 years ago around the time when we started living in more sanitary environments, or the fact that we can treat measles, mumps, rubella, influenza, and tetanus effectively without harsh vaccinations.

I don't mean to sound like a hippy dippy faggot, but I believe we are born in this life for our greater consciousness/soul/spirit/whatever to have a chance at possibly learning wisdom. reincarnating into different lives to learn different truths. i have a friend whose mother was mentally ill and unable to speak or really communicate, just staring at the floor all the time. after her mom died she spoke with a psychic who confirmed numerous private details between her and her mom, and the mom basically said she was learning nothing in her life so it was time for her to move on, so not to grieve for her passing. i know thats just a random story but, if your child's entire life would be without mental/social/spiritual/primal/intellectual activity, just eating and shitting, what is the purpose? where is the potential for self-actualization? humans can shoot a horse's brains out for a broken leg without a second thought, but terminating a malformed child is suddenly unthinkable. im not trying to persuade you, as this is an extremely heavy decision no one else can make or honestly understand, but from where i am looking it seems like such a life would be a waste of time, emotion, and resources for all involved, especially the child.

>>55124
this is so so true
and
important

thank you for sharing this message, spirits of the earth bless your home and hearthfuck medical science

Really this is down to what you consider to be a person.

Will it be a person? Is it a person now if you abort it quickly?

Abortion will fuck you up, be prepared for that. It's not an easy thing. But then keeping it clearly won't be. And we aren't exactly short on human beings right now. I think people should have fewer children and make them count.

Why will your child be a vegetable? If this is a certainty and it's not a very developed embryo I'd say abort it but I'm not the one carrying it or dealing with the consequences.

>>55120
If you keep it, and it does (for whatever reason the doctor had) suffer from defects, you will need support. Is this feasible? Consider also that genetics are not everything and that a life can be meaningful despite impairments. We live in a highly logical world as humans but we are lost to its meaning all the same.

If you don't keep it, you will need to internalize and carry on in life with this experience and whatever it brings. You should consider carefully what ethos you really follow; are you a christian/religious, or just heavily influenced by your culture? You don't deserve to suffer for a choice you have been made to believe is evil. We must respect our innate morality but remember that the universe is indifferent.

>>55040
Yeah, I've had the same feeling before when a mole directly in the center of my chest, almost as if it were a holy trinity with my nipples, was removed to test for cancer when I was a kid; luckily nothing was there, but it all comes down to identity and who you see yourself as; there was once a survey for how people felt once they were tested positive for HIV/AIDS, and at first people obviously did not like it at all but once certain people found out that their positive was a false-positive, they were actually more disappointed and even sadder than when they found out they had contracted HIV because they lost their identity.

Sooner or later you'll identify whom you are without your gallbladder, but the more important thing is to truly know who you are and accept it.

99.9% of the time this is "sciatica" due to piriformis syndrome, i.e. the piriformis being chronically hypertonic and impinging the sciatic nerve, often due to improper gait or standing/sitting posture, which eventually leads to inflammation of the myelin sheath of the nerve, causing tingling/warm/cold/burning/numbness/weakness. do piriformis stretches, here are 3:

>the "pigeon pose" from yoga, making sure to keep your front shin perpendicular to the direction you are facing

>lie on floor on back. cross the sore leg over your good leg, shin on thigh, then reach through and pull your bottom knee up to your chest

>sit on a chair, cross one leg over, shin on thigh. keeping your chest out and chin out, lean forward at the waist until you feel a stretch in the butt area.

also you can use a foam roller (don't get the stupid gimmicky ones with bumps or grids, just get a flat cylinder), tennis ball, or lacrosse ball to massage the area, sitting on it tilted to one hip at a time.

also applying heat (my favorite is a hot water bottle) - can be electric heating pad, Thermacare patches from walgreens/walmart, microwavable pouch of beads or seeds or whatever, or even just some fist-sized stones heated up in a pot of water then wrapped in a thin cloth - to the area for 1 hr or more will help.

basically when muscles are tight, heat, pressure, and stretching will alleviate it. if after genuinely trying these things to relax the piriformis your symptoms do not change, then it could possibly be a disc or spine issue, meaning you would need to try chiro/pt and maybe ortho surgery, but this is very rare and wouldn't just appear out of nowhere in most cases

it could possibly be the early stage of a sarcoma/carcinoma, but it could also just be an unusual pimple, a result of acne, psoriasis, a burn (were you blackout drunk recently?), an allergic reaction, or just sensitive skin with no discernible cause. if you smoke or drink, try to reduce that. otherwise, just observe it. if it grows in size or changes shape/color/texture, see a doctor about it. if you are a fancy nobleman then see an oncologist, or at least dermatologist.

>>55117
It appears to be shrinking both in area and bumpiness, but also getting darker red.

>>55047

It gets louder for me if I am in contact with a lot of loud noises during the day, so avoid them.

White / brown / pink noise will drown it out and help you sleep. And you get used to it with time, it won't always be annoying for you, but you are probably stuck with it forever

This is horrible! I've never had tinnitus, or if I have it's only lasted 2-5 seconds out of the blue and never returned. I hope you guys can find some peace.

>>55102

>Got mine 6 weeks ago from combining quinine with doxycycline

This is the first time I hear about this. Is it possible to get tinnitus without being exposed to loud noise?

>>55115

i mean, the whole thing is down to electrical and chemical reactions. im sure its possible to fuck up those reactions in a way to give a false positive of a high pitched ringing. or maybe to fuck up the bones, eardrums, etc., even without loud sound. im no ENT though

>>55118
As far as I know, tinnitus is provoked by the physical destruction of the hair cells inside your ear.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I wonder how drugs could produce a similar effect.

I don't know. See a doctor. If you can't, then call a pharmacy in your area or visit one and honestly explain your situation. Tell them all the medications you take, including supplements. I would also suggest telling them that you're bipolar in case benzo withdrawal can lead to mania or depression, at least one of which you're predisposed to, as it could help them somehow.


Benzo withdrawal can kill you. Seizures aren't the only terrible thing you'll have to deal with. This isn't the time to experiment if you don't have to.

>>55103

I agree, ten years is a fuckton of time to be on benzos, you should probably come clean and tell your doctor or pharmacy.

I take lamotrigine/lamictal too for bipolar disorder and I don't think it would help you to get off benzos faster. It's gonna take a LONG time to taper; you don't want to experiment and screw it up.

I took 3 mgs of Clonazepam for about two years in my most recent prescription (taking benzos on and off for 5-6 years). While tapering off Clonazepam, I happened to be taking 200mg of Lamictal a day for mood stabilization, so that was considered a buffer against any threat of epilepsy, according to my psychiatrist.

I was really afraid while tapering off Clonazepam, but no two people withdrawal the same. I think the biggest threat is psyching yourself out. I hope you get out of this, too, because after years of using this stuff it really, really starts to change us.

I had a very painless withdrawal, no physical side effects and a very short period of stressing over whether or not I would have a panic attack or something. I never did. I dropped from 3 to 2.5, to 1.5, to nothing. About a span of 30 days in between each drop.

One thing I wish I hadn't done: read a bunch of shit on the internet about benzo withdrawal. You're psyching yourself out. I did the same thing. You will DOUBTLESSLY find posts about people having a hard time, but take it slow and it really helps if you can tell someone in your life what is going on. I think the most psychological agonizing part of withdrawal is feeling alone. You got any friends, good friends? Family? Love is a potent thing when you're up against fear.

I wish you peace of mind, whether or not you're going through the taper, because no one deserves to be chained to a substance like this.

Taking Lamictal won't necessarily make your withdrawal any better, so it might still be better to stick to a normal taper schedule, to reduce risk of relapse

>>55105

its the same as white people but with the darkness of the skin color overlaid. so on a black person there is still a brown/black component of the bruising, its just a little harder to see because there is less contrast. think of tattoos on a black person

go to worldstarhiphop and watch the videos of them fighting, remember to make notes