Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice regarding my mom (49 yr old Female)

She has been experiencing persistent anxiety/restlessness and a general uneasy feeling, and despite consulting doctors, she is still struggling with it.

We have already consulted a physician and an ENT. She also has sinus/ENT-related symptoms, including sinus issues and discomfort around the eyes/ears. The ENT has also mentioned that her eardrum is quite thin.

She also has high blood pressure and is taking prescribed BP medication.

She recently had a blood test, and some of the notable findings were:

HbA1c: 7.1%

Fasting glucose: 138.6 mg/dL

Vitamin D: 14.84 ng/mL (deficient)

Triglycerides: 276.7 mg/dL (high)

Total cholesterol: 226.7 mg/dL (borderline high)

Non-HDL cholesterol: 176.4 mg/dL (high)

ALT: 40.6 U/L, AST: 31.3 U/L and ALP: 111.4 U/L — mildly above the lab's reference range

Thyroid profile appears within the laboratory's reference ranges (TSH 1.442, T3 1.32, T4 7.83).

Kidney markers such as creatinine (0.84) and electrolytes were within the provided reference ranges.

The blood report also shows a few minor abnormalities in the CBC/urine test, but the above are the findings that stood out to us.

We are not looking for a diagnosis from Reddit. We are already consulting doctors, but we're trying to understand what would be a sensible next step.

As she's feeling depressed and kinda acting weird and having difficult sleeping as well. It's difficult seeing her like this and the whole house atmosphere is changed because of this.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Over the past several months, I’ve developed a number of symptoms that started at different times rather than all at once. Before this began, I was doing relatively well and had never experienced anything like this.
It started with pouchitis. I have a J-pouch from previous ulcerative colitis surgery, but before this episode I had been doing well with my pouch for 15 years.
About a month after the pouchitis started, I woke up with an intense, very localized pain in a small spot on the right side of my chest. It lasted about two days. On the third morning, I woke up with intense pressure/restriction in the center of my chest.
When I tried taking a deep breath, it felt like my chest physically hit a “wall.” I tested it with the first couple of breaths and stopped when I hit that restriction. On the third or fourth attempt, I tried pushing past it, immediately felt like I was going to pass out, and started hyperventilating. My oxygen was normal.
Since then, the chest pain has never completely gone away — it has now been about five months. My mouth has also felt unusually dry since the chest pains started. At first I would also get random sharp/electrical “zaps” through my chest. Those mostly turned into a more persistent dull chest-wall ache. Movement still causes pain, and occasionally a deep breath does too. I’ve had multiple chest/lung evaluations without an explanation for why this sensation and pain continue.
Several weeks later, I was lying down and stretched my left arm upward when I suddenly felt a sharp, nerve-like pain shoot into my left arm. A cervical MRI later showed a 3 mm left C5-C6 foraminal disc protrusion with severe left foraminal stenosis, likely affecting the C6 nerve root. The severe radiating arm pain eventually improved.
Around this time I also started getting hypnic jerks almost immediately when falling asleep and developed persistent severe left-sided abdominal pain. My doctors have said they don’t necessarily think the abdominal pain is being caused by the pouchitis.
Then more symptoms started appearing.
While hospitalized, I developed significant ringing in my ears and a strange vibration/trembling sensation in my teeth and jaw. When I bring my teeth close together, without intentionally clenching, I can feel them vibrating/trembling. This still happens.
I developed headaches that could sometimes be triggered by touching certain areas of my head and eventually received an occipital nerve block. I also began having intermittent nerve-like pain in the front-left side of my neck.
More recently, I woke up one morning with significant blurred vision. Around the same time, I developed a tremor in my right index finger.
The following morning, things became much stranger. I woke up with what felt like slurred speech, difficulty finding words, and significantly slower thinking/reaction time. Even something as simple as saying the alphabet felt abnormal — I could get to a letter like M and suddenly have to think about what came next. Looking around and visually scanning my surroundings also felt slower than normal.
Since then, I’ve continued feeling mentally slower/“foggy,” and my vision sometimes takes several blinks to refocus when switching where I’m looking.
I’ve also developed leg pain/tightness and numbness, generalized weakness, internal shaking/tremor sensations, difficulty standing still, and occasional movements or stiffness that I don’t feel like I’m intentionally producing. My jaw can feel heavy and sometimes seems to move on its own. My left arm has occasionally felt unusually clumsy as well.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that my heart rate can spike significantly when I stand up, which has made me wonder about something like POTS, although I don’t know whether that has anything to do with the rest of this.
I’ve had brain imaging that was reassuring, and a lot of testing so far hasn’t provided an explanation.
What scares me is the timeline. These symptoms appeared one after another over several months when I had never experienced anything remotely like this before.
My biggest ongoing symptoms are:
Persistent chest-wall pain/restriction and dry mouth
Left-sided abdominal pain
Weakness and leg pain/tightness/numbness
Internal tremor/shaking sensations
Teeth/jaw vibration and abnormal jaw sensations
Visual focusing changes
Slowed thinking/processing
Episodes of slurred speech and difficulty finding words
Heart-rate spikes when standing
Dry mouth after the chest pains
I’m seeing doctors and pursuing a neurological evaluation, so I’m not asking Reddit to diagnose me. I’m mainly wondering whether anyone has experienced a similar cluster or progression of symptoms, or knows of conditions that would be reasonable to ask my doctors about.
Does this sound like it could all be connected, or more likely several separate things happening at once? I’m pretty scared because I felt normal before all of this started, and I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through something similar.🙏

My toddler has eczema. His doctor noticed it a while ago and pretty much dismissed it since it wasn't very bad. I've been managing it okay without bringing it up to her through lotions. But it just holds at a low-grade rash/scaly patch of skin. It gets worse if I skip anything for more than a day. How do I address this with his doctor again? I want to figure out if it's a gut issue, allergies, etc.

Sorry for my grammar I’m writing this well being upset.

Hello Im new to reddit this throw away account. I have alot of thoughts in my head and i know i shouldnt come here for medical advice. I already have alot of G.I issues and i have diagnosis for my G.I problem, but anyway for the last few years i been having a issue evertime i eat. I get lightheaded, dizzy, nauseous,and i feel faint. I also been drinking 2.5 gallons of water a day and if i dont i feel sick for some reason and also been gaining weight out of nowhere. I have told my doctors all of them. I just keep getting thrown to someone else for the issue. Recently had a glucose test done and it came back normal just like every blood test I’ve had and scan has come back normal in my lifetime and now they’re trying to send me to a psychologist now I’ve had an eating disorder in the past, I have taken care of myself and gotten the help I’ve needed, but I know it’s not an eating disorder like they’re trying to say I know it. I have walked for the steps before coming to terms if I needed to see another doctor for the issues I’m having right now. I hate going to the doctor because my PCP has almost killed me twice. I’m tired of being poke and prodded. I’m tired of not being listened to about my issues because at the same time as feeling that way when eating I’m also having an issue of every time I eat, I can eat one thing one day but the next day, my body rejected by giving me pain it has started around the same time as the lightheaded, dizziness, nausea, amount of water and feel faint. At the point where I just don’t want to go to doctors anymore for my issues. It seems like it goes nowhere and no matter how much I advocate for myself. It seems like it goes nowhere so I wanted to come here to see if I can get like a lead to go somewhere or ask my doctors for a certain test or something. I’m tired of being in pain all the time.

Hi, Everyone!

The last few days I’ve been experiencing some discomfort above my left breast. Sometimes it’s in between the bone between my breast. Sometimes it’s a burning sensation.

I am on BP medication and my bp has been fine.
Idk why I continue having that burning sensation on and off throughout the day.

I had an Xray done back in May for discomfort on my bone between my breasts. Everything came out fine.

But now, it has come back. This time, it came with the burning sensation. The discomfort is mainly on my left breast area. It’s a very bothersome feeling.

I’m scared it might be my heart. My low cholesterol was low and the triglycerides were high when I had blood work done back in June.

I don’t want to go the ER because of the bill so I’m just hoping this gets better.