Which is more tolerable for preventing sleep apnea: sleeping upright or sleeping lying down with a CPAP machine on? This is a million-dollar question to people diagnosed with sleep apnea who can’t stand using a [...]
Who’d want to fake sleep apnea and try to fool the sleep study test? A person wanting to scam an insurance company. A young man wanted to know if he could fool a sleep study [...]
People who find the CPAP device very uncomfortable may end up using it inconsistently and wonder how bad their sleep apnea can still be with this approach. Some people can’t tolerate sleeping with a mask [...]
This isn’t about deliberately nasty comments to those with acne, but so-called well-meaning comments that are actually quite hurtful, rude and thoughtless. […]
There are numerous causes of fishy smelling urine, and you may be wondering if cancer is one of them if you’re suffering from this situation. If your urine has a fishy odor, it’s exceedingly unlikely [...]
It may seem that the most plausible explanation for Stephen Paddock’s Vegas shooting rampage is a brain tumor. The idea of a brain tumor causing Stephen Paddock’s premeditated savagery has not been broached by the [...]
Numbness on one side of a large portion of the body is not normally caused by diabetes. Other causes can be an emergency. It also depends on how much of the body you’re referring to. [...]
One of the classic signs of anemia is a feeling of overall weakness and fatigue that may seem to originate from the muscles. Symptoms of anemia can be anything from mild to severe, and there’s [...]
Have you tried Amitzia as a treatment for your IBS-C? Many people who suffer from IBS-C notice that over time, laxatives that once worked begin to lose their steam. They ultimately become ineffective and the [...]
If one pupil is dilated this CAN be from an aneurysm. One dilated pupil usually represents a recent change in the aneurysm or possible small sentinel (early warning) bleed. In the case of bleeding, usually [...]
“A CT scan can show signs of Crohn’s disease,” says Alan Gingold, DO, a board certified gastroenterologist with Central Jersey Ambulatory Surgical Center. A CT scan can easily show the thickened bowel wall that comes [...]
People are misdiagnosed with stroke more often than you think because stroke mimics so many conditions – including cancer. […]
Some melanoma mimickers are other forms of cancer, but most are benign. Many people will present to a doctor with what they fear is melanoma, when in fact, it turns out to be a benign [...]
Relentless lip picking is a habit of anxiety, as is nail biting. However, people will usually notice lips a lot more than nails when they interact with you. […]
Frequent picking of acne scars will do a number on your skin — and a very unsightly one. Is there any hope ? Even if you don't have the money or insurance to pay for [...]
A mole gets removed, then a long time later it starts itching like mad. One woman feared this meant a few mole cells were left behind and turned into cancer. And that the cancer was [...]
Rather than worry that scratching a mole raises melanoma risk, you should be concerned that a mole that bleeds from the lightest scratch IS melanoma. However, this is not likely since often, scratching can cause [...]
At what point should you stop waiting and waiting and finally get a suspicious looking mole checked by a dermatologist? It’s easy to just say, “You know you should get that suspicious mole checked when [...]
Do you have a relative just diagnosed with a brain aneurysm and are wondering if you should get a screening MRI every year? There is a type of brain aneurysm called familial aneurysm. And it’s [...]
Both sciatica and deep vein thrombosis can cause a lot of calf pain. What’s troubling is that not all DVT pain comes with visible symptoms that strongly point towards this condition. So the patient is [...]
Frequent diarrhea can result after gallbladder removal and persist for months. But there is no clear answer as to how common this problem is, especially the longer the time lapse following the surgery. [...]
It’s not unheard of for a man to wonder if the change in the way food tastes is somehow connected to his recent radical prostatectomy. The patient needs to make sure that this is not [...]
Do not put off having a CT scan if your doctor wants this done just because you fear getting diarrhea. The diarrhea after a CT scan happens to many people, a well-documented side effect of [...]
Some of your flares of seborrheic dermatitis can be made worse by stress, but stress can actually cause this condition as well. […]
You may fear you have multiple sclerosis only to learn that it’s actually cancer; there are over 100 mimickers of MS and here are 44 of them. […]
When pancreatic cancer is suspected, a CT scan is the first imaging study done. There are three types of CT scan for pancreatic cancer detection. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most vicious cancers because [...]
If you’ve been noticing a weaker grip lately, this doesn’t necessarily point to carpal tunnel syndrome, though this condition CAN cause a weakened grip. In fact, carpal tunnel syndrome can weaken the grip enough to [...]
Your suspicion is correct: A hard lump inside your nose can be cancer — and there are numerous different kinds of cancers that can cause a self-detected lump or bump inside the nose. [...]
You may be wondering if a sinus headache is necessarily accompanied by excess mucus from your nose. Perhaps the absence of mucus has you worrying that your “sinus feeling” headache is actually a brain tumor. [...]
Though a burning feeling inside the nose isn’t all that uncommon, neither is the No. 3 killer of Americans: cancer. So it stands to reason that one might wonder if cancer can cause a burning [...]
Chronic muscle twitching (fasciculations) at various locations of the body can actually be caused by a gluten intolerance, and the effective treatment could be an elimination of gluten. […]
The botulinum toxin type A, aka Botox, has been shown to be effective at treating benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS). […]
There are far more conditions that mimic ALS than you can imagine: at least 22. “Potentially curative treatments exist for certain ALS mimic syndromes,” states a report in the Iranian Journal of Neurology (April 2016), [...]
Throwing up in the mouth while asleep or overnight is not a literal vomiting up of contents from the stomach in the way you would after eating bad meat or from a bad reaction to [...]
Constipation after removal of the gallbladder is actually common, and is not an indication that something went wrong during the surgery. For the procedure, an anesthetic is required to paralyze the bowel so that the [...]
Yes, there’s overlap with the symptoms of labyrinthitis and a brain tumor. A brain tumor can cause so many more symptoms than what is typically described in pamphlets. The vast array of symptoms that a [...]
If your vomit is tarry black, there’s more than one disease that can cause this, but the black itself is old blood. Vomiting blood is always bad news and requires immediate medical attention. [...]
If you have diabetes and are wondering if it’s related to an unsettling black patch on your toenail, you’ll want to head straight to a dermatologist first rather than to your diabetes doctor. A slowly [...]
How panic attacks cause chest pain are due to several ways, including a few that involve the heart. What’s quite fascinating is that the body mechanisms involved in a panic event may work in concert [...]
Is it possible for a thin person who regularly exercises to develop type 2 diabetes? Though 20% of type 2 diabetics are not overweight, what about their exercise habits? Let's take that a step further. [...]
