Passing Mucus when Pooping – Solved
I’ve been debating for a while about this post and finally decided I should share. I mean, this is an anonymous blog, right? Well – who knows if it really is anonymous. I wasn’t even sure...
Category: Hypochondriasis
Posts about hypochondriasis, or unexplained somatic complaints that seem serious to me but are just as likely nothing major.
Hand Numbness – Causes and Evaluation
So numbness in the hands is one of the vaguest symptoms you can have, and it can have a multitude of causes from anxiety to paraneoplastic syndromes (a side effect of certain cancers). I of course assumed it...
Viral gastroenteritis sucks
It all started with little F’er 2.2 having some diarrhea. No biggie – it happens, or so they say. Of course, it quickly turned into painful diaper rash on top of diarrhea. Still nothing I haven’t...
Sharp stabbing pain in top of ankle
This is one weird, but horrible, pain I’ve got. I first had this about a year ago. It came out of the blue and was a sharp stabbing pain, like a dagger. The location was odd...
How I made sure I didn’t have lice
So 2 weeks before one of my little F’ers comes home from overnight, we get a call that there has been an outbreak of lice at camp. Our lucky child happens to have nits but no...
Recreational water illnesses for fun
Being spring break where I have the little F’ers for a week, I decided to take the four of them to the neighboring water park. Oh how I love the smell of chlorine (not really). It...
Don’t need to overcook that matzah brei
I made fried matzo also known as matzah brei this morning for me and the little F’ers. I am not much of a cook, but usually I make pretty good fried matzo. I couldn’t find my...
Rat Droppings, GI Symptoms, and Hypochondriasis
I discovered a tag line for my blog: “Learning Medicine Through Hypochondriasis”. It came to me yesterday at our Seder when everyone was sharing their illness concerns and it became clear that we are a genetically hypochondriacal family. ...
Rat Droppings in the Grill
After the nice cold winters we get in the Midwest, we took off the cover to our new grill we bought last year and the smell caused a flashback. Not quite to PTSD criteria, but bad...