r/AskHealth Oct 07 '24

Sub under new management - Anyone can now make a post

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Hi all,

As the previous mods had gone AWOL, I have now claimed this sub from Reddit.

I have changed the rules and anyone can now make a post without prior permission being needed.

Please be patient while I go about getting this place in order.


r/AskHealth 7h ago

How does TB preventive therapy work?

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My partner was diagnosed with TB three days ago. GeneXpert +ve, AFB negative. Non resistant.

He has been given the first line of treatment from DOTS.

I have had exposure for months from the looks of it, and cannot go home as my parents have chronic ailments.

Here, we are stuck in the same room.

Hence, I am considering the preventative therapy.

Can anyone here tell me how it works, if they have taken it and what to expect?


r/AskHealth 8h ago

Top 30 Healthy Healthy Fat Foods

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r/AskHealth 11h ago

Lower Left Abdominal Pain

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r/AskHealth 8h ago

Why do I have weirdly purple and visible veins on my thigh?

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I'm a girl, 5ft2 tall and 63 kilograms

I asked google and it claimed that the reasons are low body fat and genetics BUT I'm fat asf and my mother said she doesn't have any visible veins on her body so i'm kinda worried rn


r/AskHealth 18h ago

Anyone else possibly infected with cyclospora?

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r/AskHealth 21h ago

do i still meet the criteria for pots?

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r/AskHealth 23h ago

Pain in pointer finger dominant (mainly between knuckle and middle knuckle) spreads down hand and wrist in a straight line and sometimes to the thumb PLSSSS help 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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r/AskHealth 23h ago

Situps Workout Benefits

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r/AskHealth 1d ago

Are these high liver enzymes normal?

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Hello everyone, please give me an answer.

So, my girlfriend had an infection several days ago and she was in the hospital for three days getting treated. In 3-4 days, she got better and came home.

But her blood tests still show an increase in her SGPT (ALT) and SGOT (AST).

AST (SGOT) - 58 U/L
ALT (SGPT) - 138 U/L

Can you please tell me if that’s normal after an infection. This couldn’t have caused any permanent liver damage right?


r/AskHealth 1d ago

Health Benefits of Decaf Coffee

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r/AskHealth 1d ago

Body cannot regulate its temperature

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In the past, I’ve been I’ve been very good with cold weather. I used to live in Bogota Colombia, in which night temperatures in colder days it could be around 9° or 12° (53f) at night or even 14° during the day. back, then I used to sleep with a regular pajama and even without socks. An important thing to consider is that Colombia‘s houses are not protected against the cold weather so it gets fresh air every time and it can get very cold.

3 years ago I’ve moved to Stockholm. My first winter was very good as I only felt that the problem was the lack of sun, however the past two years, I feel that my body does not longer regulate its temperature. I need to have several thermal layers in order to feel myself safe when I go to sleep, otherwise I feel that I cannot “concentrate” or get into a “relaxed” mood. If I am not wearing 3 thermal layers I feel that I have this kind of mist around my face, very similar when you cannot concentrate or you are feeling “tipsy”. This usually gets better once I put myself something warmer (despite already wearing tons of wool clothes).

I naturally start getting warm and then I try to remove one of the layers that I am wearing whether it is one pair of socks or removing one scarf and then I immediately starve start coffin or sneezing or I just constantly have runny nose, therefore I cannot sleep either.

Whenever this gets sorted out, I wake up every day at 3 AM no matter what and I cannot get back to sleep. After travel to other countries that have similar temperatures like Bogota and I cannot longer sleep without any thermal layers. In fact, I came back to Bogota a few months ago for a month, and I was wearing thermal layers during day and night. I feel that my body does not longer regulates its temperature when it is below 18 Celsius.

Even in summer I have to wear thermal layers. I am 30 years old. I eat healthy I exercise three times per week and I don’t have any allergies (that I know of). I have tried in the past taking antihistamines however that doesn’t help at all when I am having those symptoms. Sometimes when it’s summer and I go outside I can be without a jacket, but if I stay outside for a long time, then at the night, I will have a very strong coughing attack. That medicine doesn’t regulate or control. I got my hormones and blood test tested and everything was OK and I am desperate because I don’t know what to do. It seems like every winter that passes I need to have more and more layers as things start getting worse and worse and now I have to go to sleep with two terminal layers, a down vest and a heating blanket while on the other hand, my partner is of course melting all the time. I also have to sleep with a scarf (even in summer) otherwise I wake up with throat ache.

Doctors says it might be dust allergy but to be honest I don’t think so.

Please help me.


r/AskHealth 1d ago

Advice needed - to wait or not to wait

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r/AskHealth 1d ago

Help pls

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sore stomach
uncomfortable after eating
feeling full for hours
can burp up food hours after eating (foamy)
feels like it’s sitting at top of stomach
loss of appetite
can’t eat a lot when hungry
feeling sick when hungry even though i have no appetite


r/AskHealth 1d ago

think i overdosed on weed, advice needed?

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so im not a stranger to weed, 1-2 times a week for a couple of years id say. i had way too much last night around this time and i had a mini green out, took a melatonin gummy to try and sleep it off and went to bed.

its been 23 hours and my skin still feels really weird, and i just feel like shit. anytime i touch my skin it just lingers forever and almost feels like im melting? it's so weird, has anyone else ever experienced this?. any tips welcome!


r/AskHealth 1d ago

18F went to the hospital last night for throwing up blood and got sent home

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r/AskHealth 1d ago

Best Urologist in hyderabad??

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Can anyone suggest me the best urologist in hyderabad??


r/AskHealth 1d ago

Lasting effects… take ticks seriously

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If anyone has some tips please share i dont care how non useful you think they may be


r/AskHealth 1d ago

Top Foods to Reduce Cortisol Levels

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r/AskHealth 2d ago

Getting different health issues at 28

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What I mean by "sick" isn't just colds and flus (funnily enough, I'm almost never sick with a cold or a flu). I'm 28 and I keep getting different health issues.

To give you a bit of a background, I'm a pilates teacher and have an average 80/20 lifestyle where 80% is healthy foods and 20% is sweets and crisps. I very rarely consume alcohol, never smoked and sports is part of my every day life.

I keep getting all those very random health problems all the time. I sleep on my back and for whatever reason keep waking up with the worst migraines ever. Last year, I randomly got the most painful hernia in my lower back that still haunts me and requires me to attend physio. I have digestion issues. One of my eustachian tubes got randomly popped a few months back and now I have an inflammation that doesn't go away with any treatment. Two years ago, I kept getting random psoriasis and allergies that kept coming back - for no reason!!

Now the worst part: I've done multiple blood tests, including the most comprehensive ones and they're all good. I've done other tests like the MRI for my head, gastroscopy and colonoscopy for my digestion and intestinal issues and everything is perfect.

I'm also in therapy for the past 5 years.

I've reached a point where I just don't understand. 4 out of 7 days a week I feel unwell or something hurts. This can't be normal or does everyone else have similar issues? Could you share your experiences?


r/AskHealth 2d ago

Signs You Are Not Eating Enough

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r/AskHealth 2d ago

do i go to a&e

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18f, approx 70kg, dont smoke but vape, i take fluxoteine, promethazine and melatonin.

lower left quadrant pain, have had this before,
have had appendix taken out and an ovarian cysts in 2024.

was taken in by ambualcne in decemeber for 9 day hospital stay where had ultrasound that didnt show anything, had a hysterscopy where they removed some polyps and adhesions.
have had multiple of these trips, bloods show occasional infection but never the cause.

pain really bad, bowels are normal, throwing up almost constantly, not able to keep things down. tachycardic as well.

pls help thank u in advance


r/AskHealth 2d ago

Why did a seemingly healthy man die ?

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Hello everyone , so recently I had a family member pass away and I cannot understand medically why . For context my 84 year old grandpa with diabetes died on Friday . He took his insulin and was seemingly healthy for a diabetic old man . His primary doctor said he was fine at his last check up about a week or two ago. Then suddenly on Friday he says he has a stomach ache and we take him to the hospital. The doctor said his lactic acids were elevated , his blood pressure was very high , he had elevated heart enzymes tribonin that indicates something is wrong but his ct is good and his heart scan was okay . He is gonna be staying in the icu but they don’t know why his stomach was hurting that bad . He was admitted to the icu but the doctor told us he could come home in a couple days and go to an old people rehab place to take better care of his health . They put him on bp meds and morphine for the pain .Then friday morning he ate breakfast and took a nap after . He just suddenly died in his sleep and they did cpr for 20 minutes but he never came back . Im just trying to understand why this happened , I know he was an old man but the doctor said he could come home soon . I am trying to find closure maybe but getting a better understanding why i lost him ?


r/AskHealth 3d ago

10 Signs of High Blood Pressure

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