If you suffer from a stabbing or burning pain near your vagina, it has a name, and more women than you think have it. According to one study (Reed et al, American Journal of Obstetrics [...]
The rectum is the lower portion of the colon. What are the odds that any rectal bleeding is a sign of colon cancer? “Most often there are no symptoms in early stages,” says Dr. Maxwell Chait, [...]
Because symptoms of ovarian and colon cancer overlap quite a bit, women need to be extremely vigilant about what’s going on in their bodies. Is there a way to tell the difference between ovarian cancer [...]
Believe it or not, frequent burping can be caused by several different cancers. A symptom as seemingly harmless as burping can actually be a sign of cancer. “Cancer can affect motility of the GI tract, increasing [...]
Fibromyalgia symptoms vs. depression symptoms: Just how similar are the symptoms of these conditions anyways? After all, both cause pain, and both can cause brain fog and fatigue. Fibromyalgia can leave a person feeling very depressed — after [...]
Many with fibromyalgia experience a fever-like feeling, but there is something you can do to help alleviate this. If you have fibromyalgia and feel like you have a fever, this doesn’t mean you actually have [...]
It’s no secret that fibromyalgia can cause pain in your scalp, and many frustrated patients suffer with this problem. The pain of fibromyalgia is body-wide, so it shouldn’t be surprising that it extends to the [...]
Fibromyalgia may actually be the cause of your shortness of breath and tight chest, so here’s what a top FMS doctor says you can do about it. “Shortness of breath, or a sense of breathlessness, [...]
A leading fibromyalgia expert comments about muscle twitching and what you can do about this. Many people with fibromyalgia experience twitching of their muscles. This can be very annoying and even interfere with sleep. “Muscle [...]
Pain at the top of your head can be caused by fibromyalgia, and a top fibromyalgia doctor explains why and what to do about it. “Fibromyalgia can cause a host of different pains, most often [...]
Fibromyalgia can sometimes cause a pinprick sensation in your skin. Why is this? “Fibromyalgia can cause a whole range of nerve sensations including pins and needles (mostly in the hands and feet – called paresthesias),” [...]
Pain in the belly following gastric bypass surgery can have a number of causes, and it's not even that uncommon. Also keep in mind that a major cause of this is the fact that you [...]
If you’re suffering from pain all over your body but also from insomnia, find out what you may have. If your entire body is suffering from pains or aches, and you have trouble with sleeping, [...]
Does pain in your wrist make pushups difficult and you've now noticed a little rubbery lump in your wrist? The lump may be tender if you press on it. It’s not rock hard; it gives [...]
If you're experiencing sharp pain when breathing, this may mean something quite serious that needs fast medical attention. This can also mean something that's nothing to worry much about. Breathing that's accompanied by a sharp [...]
Though the site of swollen ankles in elderly people is quite common, this commonality does not rule out a potential life-threatening cause of this symptom. Ankle swelling in an older person can mean a very serious medical [...]
If the twitching in the bottom of your foot is driving you mad, this article is a must-read. Twitching in the bottom of the foot may at first seem innocent enough, and at the [...]
Anxiety can cause muscles to twitch, and this includes stressing over this very situation. It’s common for a person, who’s been experiencing twitching muscles, to notice an increase in frequency and/or a “spreading” of the [...]
If the arch of your foot has been twitching lately, you need to read this information. Twitching in the arch of the foot can be very annoying and distracting, but this doesn’t mean it more [...]
Are you flustered over all those tiny red bumps on your neck and wondering what’s been causing them? If you have a situation on your neck that can be described as “tiny” or “small red [...]
What looks like a neck rash may not even be a rash and instead be skin cancer. You’ve developed a neck rash and it may seem like nothing more than an annoyance, but it can [...]
Can a woman tell the difference between stools that have beet juice mixed in them and poop that has menstrual blood mixed in? I’ve got this down, having ingested my share of beets, and of [...]
If you had beets several days ago and are now wondering if the red in your stools is blood, there are some signs to look for that distinguish beet red from blood red in your [...]
A negative CT (CAT) scan after hitting your head doesn’t guarantee that bleeding in the brain won’t eventually result. It still might, and when it does, it’s called chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH). This happened to [...]
Burr hole drainage is a standard treatment for chronic subdural hematoma, but what if the patient then complains of frequent and/or really bad headaches, or even nasty neck pain? How common are headaches or neck pain after [...]
A chronic subdural hematoma is a very slow bleeding in the brain. Just when you thought you were in the clear for having a brain injury, this kind of bleeding could rear its ugly head. [...]
Burr hole drainage of a chronic subdural hematoma If a chronic subdural hematoma causes symptoms, does this mean it cannot resolve on its own, without medical treatment? After all, many elderly people (and [...]
The symptoms of a stroke and a chronic subdural hematoma are strikingly similar -- nearly identical -- and in some cases ARE dead-on identical, even though the causes of these conditions are quite different. For [...]
You may need to really be on the ball to catch the early symptoms or signs of a recurring chronic subdural hematoma. These new-onset symptoms won't necessarily be the same as the original ones. The [...]
Is it possible for a chronic subdural hematoma to be fatal, being that the bleeding in the brain is slow? Chronic subdural hematoma, unlike the acute (rapid bleeding) version, gives the patient plenty of time [...]
If a person vomits after coronary bypass surgery (CABG), is this significant? One must also consider how long after the coronary bypass surgery that the patient began vomiting. Has the vomiting been ongoing since immediately [...]
Abdominal pain after coronary bypass surgery can be mild or considerable, and make the patient think something is wrong. Pain can be frightening, especially after coronary bypass surgery (also known as CABG). “This is an [...]
Still having chest pain even after your coronary bypass surgery? It's understandable for a person, fresh from coronary bypass surgery, or even several weeks out, to think he's having a heart attack or something wrong with [...]
Of course you’ll have no appetite in the days right after coronary bypass surgery -- but what if the appetite suppression persists? Your appetite a few weeks after coronary bypass surgery may still be somewhat [...]
Chest pain is frightening and if you're in the ER, there's a test you'd better request. A test that research shows is very reliable for detecting a heart problem. The best test, shown to be [...]
One cause of depression can be a thyroid problem: more specifically, an underactive thyroid, also known as hypothyroidism. Yes, you read that right: hypothyroidism can lead to clinical depression. The disease of hypothyroidism, when the [...]
Medrol can cause very nasty side effects like psychosis -- called steroid psychosis. And it's not uncommon for ER physicians to see this. My mother’s neurosurgeon said “one percent,” and then “half of one percent,” [...]
What a shame that the drug companies can't make an antidepressant like Cymbalta that doesn't have a discontinuation syndrome, but there's hope if you want to get off this drug and similar ones. Antidepressants like Cymbalta, Effexor and [...]
Antidepressant weight gain happens, but there are ways to fight back. Here are solutions to weight gain from antidepressants. There are two types of weight gain from antidepressants. It’s the second type that can have [...]
If someone is on Dilaudid at the hospital, and not long after shows confusion or cognitive impairment, it may very well be the drug talking, which is an opioid narcotic painkiller. Every single time my [...]
