I've always had headaches, but now this. Over the past few years, I've started getting migraines, and since then I've been gradually been getting them more and more frequently. My neurologist has given me a prescription for Maxalt, which usually works if I have one with me to consume. But on days where I wake up with ine, or I just don't have any with me, I'm fucked. Aside from the pills, I try to remember vitamin D.

Is there anything I can do to ease any of the various pains or vomiting? Force my body to digest the foods in my stomach? Or more I can do to prevent them from happening in the first place? I'm losing my social life because of it, and losing money because I'd have to call in to work if I wake up with one. Please help.

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There this guy i saw on youtube called Paul Alexander (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplA6pq9cOs&t=2s) and he claims to be the last surviving person living in an iron lung.
He must be in his sixties and has apparently written a memoir and became a lawyer but I'm not quite convinced he has polio and has been faking it the whole time. Is it easy to fake being crippled from the neck down for money or to avoid work?

so, i jumped from a car when i was a teenager and fucked up my shoulder on one side, lucky to be alive
i also broke my left leg a few times, it's super fucked up and tilted out about 30
degrees to the left
Some serious injuries to face and head, too, but I think they're mostly cosmetic
I had numerous untreated fractures in my ribs and a basically infinite number of scrapes and bruises accumulated over a tough period of my life, and then on top of that, extreme weight loss and gain
The lower part of my back is fucked up, too, there could be many reasons, car accidents, falls, etc. It's something about the flexibility of the lombard. When I do a deep squat, I have to round at the very bottom to avoid a sharp pain.

My body is super fucked up. I have a home gym now and work out there and cardio outside.

So, I wanted to check with /med/ about my recovery plan..

I soak with epsom salts for various random pains and sores, and receive massages sometimes. My skin hurts basically all the time on some affected regions and it's not really clear to me why but I think it is the recent weight loss. so, i jumped from a car when i was a teenager and fucked up my shoulder on one side, lucky to be alive
i also broke my left leg a few times, it's super fucked up and tilted out about 30 degrees to the left
I had numerous untreated fractures in my ribs and a basically infinite number of scrapes and bruises accumulated over a tough period of my life, and then on top of that, extreme weight loss and gain
The lower part of my back is fucked up, too, there could be many reasons, car accidents, falls, etc. It's something about the flexibility of the lombard. When I do a deep squat, I have to round at the very bottom to avoid a sharp pain.

My body is super fucked up. I have a home gym now and work out there and cardio outside.

So, I wanted to check with /med/ about my recovery plan..

I soak with epsom salts for various random pains and sores, and receive massages sometimes. My skin hurts basically all the time on some affected regions and it's not really clear to me why but I think it is the recent weight loss.

I'm worried I have serious strength imbalances and other things that impair performance and free movement, but not sure how to check them out. My PCP basically can only see me for half an hour every six months. I've considered going to a specialist but I'm not really sure where to start.

When I am done getting myself in shape again, I expect my body to be riddled with scars in various places, but I want it to look basically like a thin, cut muscular man. I've asked on /fit/ for various things so this is just the medical side of it.

"It's fatty tissue cancer. Destroy the fat and all will be well."

Taking a commissioned painting to a friend. Can anyone ID this Molecule? It doesn’t make any sense to me.

So I had a small umbilical hernia repaired via suture last week and I'm paranoid about buying it open again. I'd feel/see it if that happened, right? Pic unrelated, my cat

You ever have a UTI so severe that even so much as looking at a toilet causes your bladder to collapse with the force of a neutron star and you have to piss RIGHTNOWNOWNOW, and you just manage to get your dick out in time before a stream of condensed agony floods out with you unable to stop it and you're trying very hard not to shriek as your dick lights on fire from the inside because it's fucking three o'clock in the morning?

Anyone?

I'll continue. I like some pain with my sex, which is how I got in this mess in the first place. a fun session of sounding which is normally fine but I didn't take the time to properly sterilize my equipment first so after I pee, I'm turned on but my ureter is still so bacteria-laden that jerking off feels like broken glass inside my dick and that's TOO painful to be fun and I can't get release.

I've got blue balls and plasma piss. 0/10 combo, would not recommend.

I basically went and saw a doctor the second I felt something amiss and I'm on some pretty heavy duty antibiotics, but got dam am I miserable as fuck right now.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

/med/ I have this weird cycle of feeling great and crappy every day. I abused my body for two decades of hard labor, drugs and filthy dirty living. Thankfully, I don't have any serious STDs (that I know of or show up on tests.)

I gained a shitload of weight due to rehab. I was down to like 207 with maybe 8% bodyfat or maybe even less prior to that due to homelessness and time spent in jail. In rehab, they pumped me full of strange medication that made me feel awful and sick. I'm off of it now, smoking weed and cigarettes, and just enough alcohol for withdrawals.

Basically, when I get up, I feel great. I go about my day, do shit, have fun. Then, when night time comes, I smoke a few cigarettes outdoors because my woman doesn't smoke nicotine, and come back in. I smoke all day, so it shouldn't be unusual. Anyway, I lay down and suddenly I feel this feeling like I'm sweating out poison in a fever dream and it makes it difficult to sleep. What on Earth could be going on? Just the nicotine and hard living before that catching up? How can I treat/cope with it besides enduring it? I'm already on a really nutritious diet of spinach, chicken, fish and minimal carbs like oatmeal other than that, and exercising daily.

don't fucking give anti-anxiety meds to alcoholics and "recovered" alcoholics. they get hooked on them and then they end up dead because guess what alcohol is an anti-anxiety med and they are already hooked on that. I am so fucking sick of seeing this. Don't do it. It's fucking murder, if they can't afford therapy let them go back on fucking alcohol if that is all they can afford

rant over

Tldr:
First visit to first regular doctor for 28 year old Male - what say/request?
Patient lives in Colorado, USA, has pretty decent insurance. Doesn't know how to medicine

Unrelated pic is my dinosaur treehouse base atop a rock formation in Ark
Will provide more pics if anyone is keen, but entirely unrelated, I'm just proud

SO.
Insurance at my dream job is about to kick in, got the second highest PPO plan, includes dental
General doc visits are $25, specialists $50, as a generic price reference
I've never had regular medical consultation with the same person before
Want to make the most of it, but don't want to be an asshole patient
Living in Colorado, USA. Lived in Australia for years prior (not sure if relevant information)
Male, turning 29 in 8 months

As I setup first double appointment with what will become regular doc, I plan to disclose my:

• Diet (mostly meat, soylent, fiber supplements, weekly veg only stir fry)
  
• Alcohol intake (1-3 drinks 6 days a week, compulsory dry day each week)
  
• Other drug usage (daily THC vape, weekly amyl inhalation, always solo)
  
• STD risk profile (bisexual, moderately colorful history)
  
• Sleep patterns (as reported by a Fitbit)
  
• Heart rate (as reported by a Fitbit)
  

Request:

• Lung capacity/health feedback (smoked for 12 months, bonged casually for about 5 years)
  
• Liver feedback (cycled between low to moderate risk profile, always regular but rarely to excess)
  
• Baseline STD panel of whatever's commonly catchable (done most things, always used condoms)
  

Invite:

• Dental recommendation

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how do you go about finding all natural products? just for daily things like soap, shaving cream, lotion and stuff like that?

i found one site thats pretty GOOD but i mean not perfect. everything on there still has like one or two questionable looking chemicals in it but its still a pretty good resource. i find some shit on amazon where everything in it comes from some sort of plant but then its like $25 or $15 for one thing and then 8 dollars for a small tub or this and 8 dollars for another small tub of this so its like 50-60 dollars just for a few things like 4 or 5 things. and its still hard to find just to find one product takes a little bit of looking and then to find other ones to compare it to or cheaper is fucking HARD and then even if you find products i have to open up like 23 tabs to compare them and read a long ass list of ingrediants to make sure they all come from some sort of plant source and its hard to find more than one that is just purely natural and organic

so basically finding a whole laundry list of everything i need for regular use is really fucking hard

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Shaman MD - Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:57:58 EST ID:GPSHBg0h No.55740 Ignore Report Reply 1556305078509.jpg -(3385495B / 3.23MB, 3112x2171) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55736 You're not gonna find something that's purely natural in ingredients, at least not for cheap. I don't know what's available where you are, I'm in Europe. Also if something is natural it doesn't 100% make it better and safer in all cases. The only advice I can give is to use as little of this crap as possible. I only use baby soap and baby shampoo, they're not 100% natural but they're definitely safer than the adult alternatives. You can even make your own stuff from natural ingredients you can buy from dedicated websites but that's just a pain in the ass. What you do, comparing the products yourself, is your best option (it's what I used to do) but it's a lot to learn and a lot of work. If you want skin health advice I can help you. (Pic unrelated)

I know /benz/ is there but this is really about this specific psychiatrist's "approach" to get me off Xanax which to me sounds pretty wrong.

I've been taking 6mg a day for years. My prior psychiatrist prescribed them to me like they were candies. With this new doc I made it very clear I wanted to taper. He was glad to hear that.

However, he told me he wouldn't prescribe any benzos AT ALL. Instead he wants me to get hospitalized in order to withdraw. What the fuck? We're not talking about opiates here. Tapering off 6mg Xanax takes a long ass time. He must know that.

I asked him, what if I don't want to get hospitalized. He said that I would have to get them somewhere else. And that in case I find myself in WDs I should go to the ER and ask for Xanax basically. Seriously now?

By the way I do not abuse Xanax. I've been stuck on this huge dosage for a while now.

To recap my choices are:

1) Get hospitalized.
2) Refuse and when the WDs hit, rush to the ER. Which should get me hospitalized too...
3) Get benzos somewhere else and form my own taper plan.

What do you guys think about his drastic approach?

To me it sounds completely insane considering how benzo WDs work and how dangerous it would be for me to end up cold turkey if I can't get any. I'm pretty mad about it to be honest. This was our first appointment and I didn't expect this.

By the way, the Xanax addiction is the sole reason he wants me in a hospital. I didn't have time to talk about any other issues.

Thanks in advance for your opinions.

How do I stop the doctor from pumping me full of IV Dextrose when they see my blood sugar is at 3.0 mmol/L? I eat low carb so obviously my blood sugar is low, but as soon as I mention ketones to them they freak out, run a urine test that comes at at >16 mmol/L, and nearly shit their pants. I've been held down and forced IV Dextrose against my will.

Yo /med/, the score is I just got prescribed a trail dose of prozac (20mg daily) for depression and severe mood swings to cut a long story short what drugs can I still do. I'm no neurologist or expert in pharmakinetics so if we could keep it simple. That would be grand. From my understanding I can't do speed or acid, don't do mdma, only kicker is I'm using 20mg of diazepam daily and I drink 2_4 cans of beer and like a smoke. Any advice on what I can't mix would be great or even a how prozac works for retards would be grand.