You aren’t supposed to have nausea before a bowel movement. This is not normal. Though the fecal contents may be causing mechanical pressure resulting in the biting pain of “having to go really bad,” there [...]
Stage 1 colon cancer has a very good prognosis, and stage 4 is pretty much a death sentence. How long does it take to go from stage 1 to stage 4? “The process of advancing [...]
If you’ve been hearing or feeling gurgling in your upper stomach or chest, cancer as a cause is not impossible. But the odds of this being benign in nature are piled in your favor – [...]
Discomfort behind the breast upon swallowing has different possible causes including cancer – but not breast cancer. Furthermore, a heart problem may be a possible cause that occurs to the person experiencing pain in this [...]
Usually, a lump caused by breast cancer cannot be seen simply by looking at one’s breasts. But it’s not impossible for a tiny hard red lump on the skin over one’s breast to be caused [...]
Under what circumstance would arm lymphedema prevent a woman from flying in an airplane? […]
Being that very elderly people have such thin skin, the question comes up of whether it’s safe to submerge their sprained ankle in ice water. […]
It’s not a pretty sight: peering inside your mouth to see that your tonsils are red and irritated looking. The tonsils are in the path of acid reflux that makes it into the throat. The [...]
Pain under one’s clavicle in the chest area can have so many causes, and for those worrying that this means esophageal cancer – unfortunately, this IS a possible cause. […]
Whole grains are good for someone with type 2 diabetes, but is it a far reach to think that whole grains can outright prevent this metabolic disease? […]
Have you been trying to convince yourself that your symptom pair of a racing heart and arm pain is anxiety rather than a heart problem? […]
The patient said she had continuous stomach pain day and night that got worse eating. Her doctors could not find anything wrong. […]
Is there a such thing as a slow motion heart attack? The “Hollywood heart attack” occurs in just seconds, but can real life heart attacks take hours to unfold? […]
You abruptly wake up from sleep gasping, feeling like you haven’t taken a breath for a whole minute. Is this your heart? Could it be cancer or sleep apnea? […]
Not treating GERD can lead to cancer, but what could happen if you neglect to treat LPR? LPR is common, and it’s common for people to seek treatment, as its symptoms are often not easy [...]
You had your knee replacement surgery eight weeks ago yet the knee is still pretty swollen and hurts. How normal – or abnormal – is this? […]
Whether you’re a younger adult or a middle-ager, it is never normal to get swollen stiff knees that hurt when you bend them after playing basketball. […]
Is there anything one can do to prevent the actual need for a hip replacement surgery? This isn’t about avoiding surgery with conservative treatment for a bad hip. It’s about outright preventing the cartilage in [...]
An orthopedic surgeon has simple and smart solutions for men and women who have pain under their kneecap upon rising from a seated position. […]
Here are the complete guidelines specifically for housework following a hip replacement surgery – from an orthopedic surgeon. “After a joint replacement, you can return to almost any reasonable activity of daily living,” begins Barbara [...]
Who’d ever think that walking on a treadmill can cause stress fractures to the feet, but it actually can. Does this mean that if you’ve never had a stress fracture in your foot, that you [...]
Do you hear something thumping or fluttering around inside your ear, like a tiny moth flapping its wings? The good news is that you probably don’t have an actual moth inside your ear, if for [...]
It may happen soon after a big meal or a few hours after: a racing heart well over 100 beats per minute and lots of anxiety. You may have connected the dots early on, or [...]
The spasticity of multiple sclerosis doesn’t come in just one flavor. MS is an autuimmune disease involving the damage of the protective myelin sheath around nerve fibers and cells in the spinal cord and brain. [...]
An ICD is implanted into patients with long QT syndrome to recharge the heart should it go into sudden cardiac arrest. So why aren’t ALL people with long QT syndrome given this implantable cardioverter device? [...]
Do you find that nearly every time you sit down to play a video game on your computer, it isn’t long before you can feel the pounding of your heart? […]
Have you noticed that sometimes, when your index or middle finger is against ANY part of your body, you feel a pulse—and you realize that this heartbeat is emanating from your fingertip? […]
If you’re having chest pain at night in bed, it sure would be more reassuring to know it’s from sleep apnea than a heart attack or heart disease. Those who’ve never been tested for sleep [...]
Can too much of a great thing ever be bad – at least when it comes to HDL cholesterol? This is the “good” cholesterol that’s supposed to be high. But if it’s as high as [...]
Can that pain in your calf that keeps coming and going, on and off, possibly be a DVT? A deep vein thrombosis classically causes calf pain that’s hard to ignore. […]
Can waking nearly every night with left or right temple pain mean an aneurysm or a brain tumor? […]
Both chronic heart failure and ALS cause weakness and fatigue. For both conditions, here is a detailed rundown of the differences and maybe some similarities between fatigue vs. weakness. […]
A person who’s diagnosed with a heart attack in the ER based on an elevated troponin result may not have had a heart attack after all. The European Heart Journal has a 2018 study (Thygesen [...]
Red food clumps or particles in your poops can mimic the appearance of blood smears or clots from a disease. Here’s how to tell whether the red you see is food vs. blood. [...]
Heart disease, not heart attack, is what we’re talking about here, and the symptoms of the disease itself in women are quite different than in men, says Momina Mastoor, MD, a board certified cardiologist in [...]
A surprising study shows that even hardcore exercisers in middle age could have severe degrees of coronary heart disease: very blocked arteries. This is especially true if the athlete has other risk factors for CHD [...]
If you suddenly have tingling and numbness in your fingers and have risk factors for a heart attack, there may be more to what’s going on than just some pinched nerve somewhere. […]
Is it true that if you have only the one symptom of chest tightness, and no other symptoms, that you could still be having a heart attack? You probably already know at least a few [...]
It's not about self-love. Perhaps some plus-size women want to be covered up at the beach to protect against skin cancer. Maybe the next full size woman you see covered up at the beach already [...]
“I wish I had your confidence!” Now wait a minute here. Do you really think you can tell that a plus size woman is confident simply because she posted an Instagram image showing a lot [...]
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