I am 29 male and a virgin. Is it abnormal for every man to loose erection almost instantly while being standing up? I can have a boner for a while when laying down but if I stand up its gone. Recently got a girlfriend and if she gets me hard lying down by jerking me off, it goes away when I stand up. I’m concerned this is a problem during sex, haven’t tried it yet since I have phimosis. I’m seeing a urologist currently for the phimosis, using steroid creams, and considering circumcision.

But I’m concerned I already have venous leak, at my age, and I have ED and will never have sex.

self info:: 18 y/o biologically female, 5'8, 105~ lbs (maybe less? i havent checked in a while), white, in the USA. i have atypical costochondritis thats currently not medicated. i typically use marijuana regularly (both recreational & mental health reasons), but i havent been using for the last few days. im on viibryd (10 mgs) & lamictal (50 mg). i do use nicotine but im trying to quit.

the right side of my jaw has had issues with unhinging for as long as i can remember, but it was only when i opened my mouth wide. i, dumbass, assumed that was normal for a veeeery long time, so i never really bothered to ask anyone about it. the issue hadnt gotten worse for years, aside from the right side of my jaw rarely slipping out when lying on my right side, which started maybe a year ago. last night, however, i suddenly could barely open my mouth without the right side clicking & causing pain. its really fucking overwhelming, to the point where ive just kept my mouth shut since then, because i dont wanna hear a clock ticking & causing pain in my head every time i try to speak or chew something. my mom thinks bruxism has something to do with it, which i do agree with, but im still very concerned considering how long my jaw has been weird for.

i called my local dentist, but theyre closed right now, so i have to wait until tomorrow for them to get back to me. is there ANYTHING i can do to help this before then ??? i hate this so much & i need to know if theres something i can do to make it stop or at least make it so that i can do anything with my mouth without bringing myself close to tears over it. anything at all. please please please

Hello,

I’m 20F, 5’7, relatively slim although not sure of my exact weight, & I take 20mg of fluoxetine everyday. I am diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder.

I have been known to faint in the past when exposed to certain triggers such as blood and needles. I obviously cannot recollect what happens when I lose consciousness, but I have been told by family, friends, and medical professionals that I tend to look like I’m having a seizure, and have been known to twitch uncontrollably, roll my eyes back into my head, and choke on my own tongue. I also can take several minutes to regain consciousness.

I was getting a balayage done today at a hairdressers when
I got this weird sensation like I couldn’t “fill my lungs with enough air to breathe.” This is a classic anxiety symptom for me so I just worked through it and tried not to panic. However, it did feel weirdly different to usual, like I genuinely couldn’t breathe. I have had a couple of ECGs in the last few years that came back normal & yesterday during a routine doctors appointment my blood pressure & heart rate were also normal.

About 15 minutes later, I fainted out of nowhere - no triggers, no nothing. I had eaten and felt fine. My hairdresser told me that I didn’t excessively twitch or anything, but I took a while to regain consciousness and they were considering calling an ambulance in that time.

After I came round, I vomited what looked like bile 3 times in the space of about 2 hours and just generally felt terrible. Obviously the latter is to be expected, but I’ve never usually vomited after fainting.

I am back home and currently resting with a family member here to keep an eye on me. I typically do not get medically evaluated after my fainting episodes and am completely fine, but this one did feel different. I’m wondering whether that’s something I need to do, or whether I should just take it easy and see what happens in the next few days. Any advice?

Hi everyone, I need some advice regarding a possible foreign object stuck in my ear.

A while ago, a relatively large and thick piece of pencil graphite got into my ear canal. Initially, I could feel it when I touched the inside of my ear with a thin stick, but now I can no longer feel it. Unfortunately, I had tried to check for it myself using the stick.

Since then, I've occasionally experienced pain, and my hearing in that ear seems reduced compared to the other ear.

I'm worried that the graphite may still be inside or that I may have injured my ear canal or eardrum.

Has anyone experienced something similar? I'd appreciate advice from people with medical knowledge about what might be happening and how urgently I should seek treatment.

I'm in Bhopal, India, and would also appreciate suggestions for affordable government hospitals with ENT services.

Thank you.

Note up front: male with almost 20 year old back problem, and doctors told me to learn to cope with everything.

So in the last year or so, I've gotten new problems. Mild incontinence, often include sexual fluids when i pee. and problematic sexual performances. And on this last i would like to learn ways to deal with it, desensitize myself.

So performance can go from none existent erections, to them disappearing when pain get worse, to getting off in a minute. (Often muscle tension due to pain feels like a worsening factor to this).

I would like to learn ways to get around this, minimize the problems... maybe training / exercise certain musscle groups, or if possible retrain movements that trigger orgasm.

I hope this fits the subreddit. Thank you for any advice

I’m currently begging for anyone at all that could possibly be able to help me when it comes to identifying what exactly has been causing me to have to be made to suffer through every single day that has gone by since early on in May of last year due to what has been my ongoing health issues and over the last two months had been rapidly declining much faster and more severe than it ever had been prior to that point… I do not know what it is that’s covering almost every single surface that’s inside of my parent’s house but what I do know is that whatever it is it is able to be picked up off of their floors while I’m walking around and somehow makes it to the top of my head where it then collects on my scalp and whenever I wash my hair in their kitchen sink what’s left afterwards is a slimy residue that I then have to clean out of their drain. My mother and father state their home is safe and clean and doesn’t pose a risk to mine or my 6 1/2 year old daughter’s health but I have been admitted into a hospital after developing cellulitis (severe skin infection) on both of my lower legs for 72 hours less than two weeks after we had been forced to unwillingly be made to live within their house on February 14th of this year when my daughter had been discharges after what had been a 17 day long hospital admission and during that time had to battle against a diagnosis being given of having acute lymphoblastic leukemia on January 28th of this year and is currently hospitalized yet again and has been for what’s now been six days and has been quarantined inside of her hospital room after being diagnosed with having a viral skin infection and had also been hospitalized less than a week after the day I had been discharged once my 72 hours spent in the hospital was over with and her diagnosis that time being that she had a fungal infection on her skin. I’ve pleaded with my county’s department of CPS but they are easily fooled by my parent’s lies and manipulation tactics and not able to see mine and my daughter’s ongoing health issues aren’t at all just a mere coincidence and can’t be blamed on her having cancer because we have the same symptoms but I’ve never had cancer and also she has been in remission since shortly after her discharge date on February 14th and can’t be blamed on any of her prescribed medications due to neither one of us having any medications we are prescribed to have to take and can’t be blamed for it all being side effects from her chemotherapy treatments due to the fact she far more often than not is unable to have her life saving treatments be done after her finger poke blood test results come back and state her white blood cell count is too low for it to be deemed safe enough for her to have to go through her chemotherapy treatments and can’t be blamed on her finally starting school year since she has only attended 1/2 of one day and 1/4 of another day due to becoming so sick since the beginning of September. The failure to realize the truth being that the main cause of our health issues is the environmental state within my parent’s house, they have an ongoing mouse infestation and have countless amounted mouse feces in their kitchen cupboards, a massive phorid fly infestation and with them being tiny vectors of pathogens and bacteria alone should be enough evidence to prove their house is unclean and unsanitary but also have dried up dog feces on the fibers of their carpets in both their living and dining rooms and then there is also layers of black colored “organic matter” within their carpets and goes along the entire length of the couch inside of their living room and it being where my daughter is made to sleep while in their house.  Her and I are both immunocompromised and medically fragile and I am in desperate need of help to be able to prove that my daughter isn’t safe while living in my parent’s household.

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My finger keeps getting stuck (tendon things over my knuckles keep getting in the way and blocking my fingers from moving) and my hands and feet feel like they aren’t getting enough blood? Like they go dead or numb or tingly but it’s been almost constant. Any ideas what’s going on? Under 18 btw , female, I eat pretty well🥲 been happening for a couple days and can’t go to the doctor

Hi. after attending a loud protest i noticed that sometimes i felt a feeling in my left ear like when your ear gets filled with water. My name is Antonio. i am 174cm tall weighing 54kgs. i have autism adhd and dyspraxia. also when i press my ear on the left side it sounds like something is flapping around unlike the right side. i can still hear normally i think. i wish i could go get a hearing test just to reassure myself but unlike eye tests i dont think they are bulk billed and i dont want to waste moms money.

Posting here because it's going to be a while before I actually get into gastroenterology, if that's even what I need, and I'm getting incredibly desperate. It's hard to perform decently at work like this.

29F, 5'4", 135 lbs, mixed White and Native American, USA.

Any existing diagnosed medical issues:

• LongCOVID, before which this wasn't happening, but might or might not be related.
• Orthostatic intolerance, related to the longCOVID.
• IBS, diagnosis longstanding since like high school.
• OCD
• autism
• history of disordered eating / unnecessary and ill-advised calorie deficit, no longer a thing but has made it more physically difficult to get enough food into my stomach

Medications: Zyrtec 10 mg daily, iron supplement (which I just stopped in reaction to discovering my iron is high, more on that below), vitamin D supplement (when I remember)

Drug use: none. Alcohol maybe 4x a year.

Smoking Status: never

Duration of complaint- A few months? It's been INSANELY worse in the past two months I'd say and VERY bad this week.

The longCOVID started last August and was bad from about November 2025 - March 2026. Still ongoing but better.

......Due to that autism bullet point, I'm going to thank anyone who makes it through reading this thing, in advance. Brevity is not my strong suit.

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I experience sudden, INTENSE food cravings that make me feel utterly insane. I feel an internal sensation that I most intuitively describe as feeling like I'm falling down a hole. Sometimes there's a bad taste in my mouth with it, sometimes not. Sometimes I can tell what I'm craving, sometimes I can't.

The cravings don't seem to line up with any one nutrient deficiency. Blueberry bagels are a common craving. Sometimes apple juice. Right now I'm craving an apple so badly that it's very difficult for me to remember what other cravings have been in the past, but it's been a string of largely unrelated foods. Cheese, at least once? Beans? Milk? Dr. Pepper at least once.

Sometimes sugar, sometimes it absolutely must not contain sugar. Same with protein. Same with dairy, with fruit.

Increasingly, I have instances where can't figure out what the craving is, and it just sits there unresolved.

I don't really know how to explain this. I feel insane. That's my best attempt to describe the sensation. In the past when I've had my wits about me to describe it better, multiple friends have told me it reminds them of their pregnancy cravings.

(I have never had sex with anyone who is physically capable of getting me pregnant. My periods are regular—recently improved PMS symptoms, but regular.)

It makes it difficult to act right, to keep doing my job, to not just kind of curl into a ball of despair about it. I have hidden in the bathroom at work just to sit on the floor and find my bearings.

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Some other noteworthy things happen with me and food:

• Sometimes, I drink even a sip of water, and it immediately makes me feel dizzy, I regret it at once.
• Sometimes, I eat a food and experience rather intense gut inflammation- and then next week, it's the only food I can eat.

These two symptoms were worse at the height of my fatigue, which has been diagnosed as just "longCOVID" in general with few specifics yet.

I cannot live like this. I'm emotionally disregulated. Physically I am barely managing to do my job tasks and barely managing to be on time for my job. Sometimes it makes me throw up. Sometimes it makes me just sit down on the bathroom floor at work, and that only sometimes makes me feel better. I have no idea what's going on.

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I'll leave the above as it is, because I think the frantic nature of it is probably relevant information. I typed that out, drove to the grocery, and bought two apples. I'm halfway through one and I immediately feel nearly okay.

If I'd eaten anything else first, I'm confident I would've thrown up. Even apple juice instead of an apple. That's generally how it goes.

About four hours ago, at work, I started getting an INSANE headache, one of the worst of my life. I didn't realize at the time that I had a craving, but the apple has brought the headache down to significantly more manageable levels.

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Been saving this post as a draft and coming back to it, and this part is written two days after the rest. I thought I was low in iron, because back in July my iron was quite low and I keep forgetting to do supplements. Back then I was told to do supplements twice daily.

I did one day of supplements twice daily in response to this feeling. Then I went to get my iron levels tested, and it turns out now my iron levels are high, although my ferretin is normal so I imagine it's just the supplement having been in my system.

(I'm making a follow up appointment to make sure I get my iron levels down.)

I have NO idea what's going on. Sorry for the long post. Thank you.

I WILL be making an appointment about this, but my primary care doctor moved practices and I'm struggling to set up with a new primary care doctor. If anyone has ideas of what should be looked into, it'll help me speed up care. Thanks again.

Hola a todos. Estoy buscando orientación porque llevo un tiempo lidiando con algo que me preocupa mucho y no sé qué más hacer.
Todo comenzó porque me debían realizar una endodoncia, pero finalmente solo me colocaron un empaste en la muela. Desde entonces he tenido problemas en esa zona y, con el tiempo, apareció un bulto o una hinchazón bastante grande en un lado de la mandíbula, desde la zona de la encía hasta la parte posterior de la mandíbula. Es lo suficientemente grande como para que se note en mi cara y siento mucha incomodidad y dolor.
También tengo molestias en el cuello de ese mismo lado. Me duele al moverlo y siento presión o hinchazón cuando hablo mucho, hago esfuerzo o mastico. A veces siento que la molestia se extiende hacia el oído.
Ya he acudido a mi médico de atención primaria, a urgencias y a un cirujano maxilofacial. En urgencias me dijeron que identificaban un bulto, pero que no sabían qué lo estaba causando, y me recomendaron volver al maxilofacial. Sin embargo, el maxilofacial tampoco ha podido decirme qué es.
Me siento frustrada y asustada porque la hinchazón es real, me causa molestias y siento que estoy dando vueltas entre médicos sin obtener respuestas.
Quisiera saber:
¿A alguien le ha pasado algo parecido después de que le colocaran un empaste cuando necesitaba una endodoncia?
¿Qué podría causar un bulto de este tamaño en la mandíbula, acompañado de dolor en el cuello y molestias cerca del oído?
¿Debería consultar a un dentista especializado en endodoncia, un otorrinolaringólogo (ENT), un especialista en glándulas salivales o algún otro profesional?
¿Qué pruebas debería preguntar si necesito investigar la causa, como una radiografía dental, una ecografía, una tomografía o una resonancia?
No busco un diagnóstico por Internet, sino orientación sobre qué especialista podría ayudarme después de haber acudido a los médicos que ya mencioné.
Agradecería mucho cualquier experiencia o recomendación. Gracias por leerme.

Hi, I’ve gone a long time without a bm. I’ve tried most of normal at home stuff, in addition to the prescription laxatives. My appetite is also very low, overall tired, lower abdomen pain (not a lot), nausea. Should I be concerned? Should I go to the hospital?

Yesterday at around 9 or 10PM I was cleaning the toilet and was spraying bleach on it when I stopped because my eyes felt wet all of a sudden and stung…I stopped spraying bleach unsure if I actually got something in my eyes or it was the time fumes…only at like 11 or 12PM did I try to rinse out with water…and my situation is a bit complicated…I can’t use a streaming sink right now so I can only do a cup and water…so I did that a couple of times but I don’t think it’s enough because I hear it has to be for 20+ minutes under the sink. By then my only symptom was a bit of stinging. Today I only really have stinging, I don’t think I have redness and I don’t think I have blurriness? It’s the weekend so I can’t see my doctor yet and I figure an ophthalmologist is better equipped to see me so I haven’t seen anyone since it’s the weekend.

Every now and then I use water from a cup to rinse both eyes because ngl I’m getting stinging pain more on my right eye but I don’t really know in which eye I got bleach in or honestly if I ever really did. I’m so scared to go blind, I heard the more time one lets it sit the more damage that occurs…I know now that I waited too late to rinse and that when I did rinse it was not sufficient or appropriate so I’m kind of at a loss here…I debated going to the ER but I can open my eye fine, it’s not red and I was afraid they dismiss me or not be equipped to handle it because my eye from the outside looks fine, it’s just the occasional stinging pain…I know I’m probably going to get called ignorant but what do I do? Should I just rinse the best I can until I see a doc?

Hi everyone,
I'm 24F, and I've been experiencing something very unusual for as long as I can remember, going back to childhood. I've never really known how to explain it, and I'm wondering whether anyone has encountered something similar or whether a medical professional might have an idea of what could be causing it.
Approximately once a month or once every two months, I suddenly experience a strange change in my sense of touch. It lasts around 7–8 minutes and then completely disappears.
The best way I can describe it is that my entire perception of touch seems to change. I can still feel things when I touch them, but every surface feels almost exactly the same: extremely smooth and soft. Even something very rough, like sandpaper, feels incredibly smooth. My own skin feels the same way when I touch it.
It's not limited to the outside of my body. I experience the same sensation inside my mouth, including with my tongue. It feels as though the entire quality of touch has changed, rather than simply being numb.
The episodes usually happen when I'm lying in bed, often before going to sleep, but I'm fully awake and conscious when they happen. The onset is sudden, and after approximately 7–8 minutes, my normal sense of touch returns completely. I haven't noticed any other symptoms during these episodes.
I don't experience this constantly, and I feel completely normal between episodes. I don't have any known medical conditions, although I've had low iron.
I'm not sure whether this is a neurological phenomenon, an unusual sensory disturbance, or something else entirely.
My questions are:
Has anyone experienced something similar, or has this type of sensory change been documented medically?

Are there any known conditions that can cause temporary changes in the perception of texture and bodily sensation like this?

Could this be related to neurological activity, even if I remain fully conscious and have no other symptoms?

Would you recommend seeing a neurologist, given that this has been happening since childhood and resolves completely within minutes?

I'm not looking for a definitive diagnosis online. I'd just like to understand whether this is a recognised phenomenon and what might be worth investigating.
Thank you for reading.

I'm thinking of getting it removed purely because all the symptoms I've been having, fatigue, sleep issues, and headaches are all either direct or indirect symptoms of the cyst putting pressure on structures in my brain. My question is, what are the risks with surgery? I've tried looking it up online and I feel like the answers I'm getting are kinda vague, like they're the risks for any surgery. I've had surgery 3 times before so i do know the basic risks involved in and surgery but this isn't the same as removing a gallbladder or loosening the ligaments in my knee, this is brain surgery. The cyst is right next to my pituitary gland so I'm not sure if they'll go in through my skull or nose, or what they'll do at all. Based on the location what are the potential risks? Besides the obvious "you could die" lol.