Though pain in the neck that makes its way down to the left shoulder usually has a benign orthopedic cause, lung cancer can also cause this symptom. “Pain in the neck and shoulder region can be hard [...]
Chondromalacia patella and bursitis are common conditions that involve the kneecap, causing distinct pain. But does one have any unique characteristic that the other one doesn't? “Bursitis usually involves inflammation of the prepatellar bursa,” says [...]
Liver disease can cause a strong body odor, but just what does this mean? What body part does this stink come from? Is it the entire body or some localized area like the armpit? You [...]
A GI doctor addresses the question of can liver disease cause a bleachy odor. Have you ever seen references online stating that liver disease can cause an odor in the patient that’s like bleach or [...]
If you begin noticing your body is starting to smell bad, but you feel fine otherwise, is it possible this can be early liver disease? What if you wash and shower and it doesn't go [...]
At least four hours a day of sitting is dangerous to health, increasing mortality, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, blood clot risks and more. Do YOU have the “sitting disease”? Who would have ever thought that [...]
Don't walk barefoot on your treadmill desk, even if you love to go around your home barefoot. Walking barefoot on a treadmill desk is not a good idea. In fact, there’s really no logical reason [...]
Men who have a desk job have an increased risk of heart failure even if after work they hit the gym like a warrior--not exactly the news you wanted to hear, right? If you work out [...]
Stent graft technology for the repair of an ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm is a marvel of medical advancement. Stent technology continues to evolve; soon, endovascular repair (stent grafting) will be more common with ascending aortic [...]
Why doesn’t the show, “My 600 Pound Life,” corner the enabling spouses and require them to explain their actions? The enabling spouses on “My 600 Pound Life” need to explain why they continue bringing huge [...]
Exercise will NOT make microscopic colitis worse. So don’t use microscopic colitis as an excuse to avoid working out at a gym, even if you’re having diarrhea 20 times a day. “Generally speaking, exercise is [...]
Do you ever wonder if all the good things you eat are being passed out of your system by your microscopic colitis? Does this disease make healthy food come out withthe diarrhea? Let’s say a [...]
Is that low backache you have a part of your microscopic colitis? Or is it just a coincidence? But if it's a coincidence, why does the timeline include diarrhea? “None of my microscopic colitis patients [...]
Did you know that the joint aches of microscopic colitis can occur many days before the first day of a new flareup of diarrhea? A small percentage of people with microscopic colitis experience associated but [...]
Microscopic colitis can be chronic or intermittent. It can also be transient, which isn’t necessarily the same as intermittent. For example, I’ve had only two blatant rounds of a microscopic colitis flare-up over a period [...]
Can the symptoms of a microscopic colitis flare be small enough to appear below the radar? Can the signs be so subtle that they fail to register on your awareness map? Microscopic colitis is not [...]
Ever wonder if the joint aches you get with your microscopic colitis will over time cause damage to your joints, possibly weakening them or making them permanently stiff? “Joint pain” doesn’t always mean damage or [...]
“Microscopic colitis can manifest itself with multiple symptoms or hardly any symptoms at all,” begins Dr. Fine. “Microscopic colitis can manifest itself with multiple symptoms or hardly any symptoms at all,” begins Jeffrey Fine, MD, chief [...]
Celiac disease is much more common than you think, which begs the question if whether or not a bowel movement sample can indicate the presence of this condition. BMs and Celiac Disease Most celiacs are [...]
The mechanism behind microscopic colitis can lead to joint aches in some patients, and this symptom has a distinct characteristic. Not all joint aches feel the same, and this goes for those linked to microscopic [...]
Does every person with microscopic colitis experience fatigue? Fatigue is often included in symptom lists for microscopic colitis. I was diagnosed with lymphocytic colitis in May 2010. I’ve read a lot of patient self-reports of [...]
Here’s a finely detailed description of what a low ab cramp feels like from microscopic colitis. One of the more common symptoms of microscopic colitis is a low abdominal cramp or ache. “Lower abdominal cramp” [...]
Pelvic pains or aches can have numerous causes, including microscopic colitis, but what exactly does this feel like? There are two distinct types of pelvic aches that are brought on by my microscopic colitis, an [...]
Find out from a doctor whether or not the brain really turns to mush if a brain dead person is kept on a ventilator. “No, the brain cells do not turn to mush, any more than [...]
An internal medicine doctor explains what life-like processes continue occurring while a brain dead body is on a ventilator. A person is declared brain dead, but the family insists on keeping that person on a [...]
An internal medicine doctor answers the question of hair and nail growth in a legally dead (brain) body. A person who has been declared brain dead, but is “breathing” due to a ventilator, and being [...]
When one child out of several in a family has been diagnosed with ADHD, it's not uncommon for the parents to suspect that birth order had something to do with it. To some parents, it [...]
Can a Person Be Immune to ADHD Because of a High I.Q.? Some people wonder if IQ can be too high for an ADHD diagnosis. I know this question may seem quite silly, but it’s [...]
A psychologist who specializes in ADHD talks about fidgeting. Many people who’ve been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) would like to know if fidgeting is a behavior that comes with this collection of [...]
A psychologist who specializes in ADHD comments on leg shaking. “Leg shaking, like fidgeting, is often associated with anxiety or hyperactivity related to ADHD,” says Dr. Robert Myers, creator of the Total Focus program at [...]
Here is what a psychologist says about the connection between walking on one’s toes and ADHD. Where did the idea ever originate that walking on one's toes is a symptom or indicative of attention deficit [...]
An expert on ADHD answers the question: Can attention deficit hyperactivity disorder cause bad sense of direction? A bad sense of direction can be evident in children when they ride their bikes or navigate the [...]
Did you know that microscopic colitis can cause joint aches? The exact mechanism is not clearly known, but have you noticed that often, either in the days (or weeks) preceding a microscopic colitis flare...you have [...]
If you have elbow tendonitis, it can greatly interfere with the deadlift. The type of elbow tendonitis that I had is called medial epichondylitis (golfer’s elbow). Just a little gripping would aggravate it. My initial [...]
Why can there be a time lapse between joint-pain onset of microscopic colitis and the onset of diarrhea? It’s possible for a flare-up of microscopic colitis to consist of, initially, some joint aches (some patients [...]
Is the mechanism of joint pain or aches in Crohn’s & ulcerative colitis the same as that in microscopic colitis? "Enteropathic arthropathy" is the name for joint aches caused by inflammatory bowel disease. The two most [...]
A gastroenterologist comments on microscopic colitis and one of its associated symptoms, joint pain. Symptom lists for microscopic colitis sometimes include “joint pain,” though the pain may feel more like an ache or dull discomfort. [...]
Here’s fascinating information on the possible connection between prostaglandins & pelvic cramping in microscopic colitis. Can microscopic colitis cause pelvic cramps (low ab cramps or aching) even if there’s NO diarrhea going on? I’m not [...]
Here’s what a gastroenterologist has to say about diarrhea, microscopic colitis and exercise. Microscopic colitis is a benign though sometimes disruptive inflammatory bowel disease whose claim to fame is watery diarrhea -- and lots of [...]
Find out what a G.I. doctor has to say about intermittent fasting and microscopic colitis. Can intermittent fasting help relieve the symptom of diarrhea in microscopic colitis? “At present, we do not know enough about [...]
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