Transvaginal Ultrasound Pain Intolerable? Cause and Solutions
If any penetration, including that from a transvaginal ultrasound, is unbearably painful, it’s likely you have a particular condition that’s often misdiagnosed. […]
Doctors Explains How Fast Uterine Cancer Grows
Many uterine cancer patients want to know how fast this disease grows, and many women who fear they might have it also want to know its growth rate. So just how fast can uterine cancer [...]
Can Ovarian Cancer Cause Numbness in a Leg?
If you’re experiencing unexplained numbness in a leg, this could be caused by ovarian cancer. But is it most likely ovarian cancer? The answer depends on whether or not you’re experiencing other symptoms that are [...]
Detailed Exercise Guidelines After LEEP
Many women are eager to return to exercise after LEEP but do not have exercise guidelines. Here are detailed guidelines so that you can feel confident during your recovery. LEEP stands for loop electrosurgical excision [...]
Can Symptoms of an Ovarian Cyst Feel Like PMS?
An ovarian cyst often does not produce symptoms, but in other cases may cause symptoms similar to PMS. However, the cause of the ovarian cyst may also be causing PMS-like symptoms. Classic Physical Symptoms of [...]
Just How Bad Is Smoking for Brain Aneurysms?
Maybe you think your smoking will magically escape lung or mouth cancer, but ever consider a brain aneurysm? Smoking is a risk factor for developing an aneurysm. But a study out of the University of [...]
Can Periomenopause Cause High Blood Pressure?
High blood pressure, the so-called silent killer that can lead to a stroke, can be caused by periomenopause – many years before the actual onset of menopause. […]
Can Cervical Cancer Cause Leg Pain?
“Advanced cervical cancer can cause leg pain from the growth of the tumor possibly compressing nearby nerves,” says Mylaine Riobe, MD. Leg pain plus swelling is highly suspect for cervical cancer. The nerves in the [...]
Making Brain Aneurysm Surgery Safer: No General Anesthesia
If you need surgery for a brain aneurysm, you should ask about the possibility of avoiding general anesthesia. There is a safer technique that you should ask your surgeon about. […]
Fear of Diabetes Makes Non-Diabetic Often Check Blood Sugar
Do you have “diabetichondria” & often prick your fingers for blood sugar readings even though you don’t have diabetes and your doctor in fact says you’re healthy? Diabetichondria is out there, and it hurts: all [...]
Normal Blood Sugar in a Plus Size Woman Doesn’t Mean Healthy
Just because a plus size woman has normal blood sugar does NOT mean she is healthy. A blood sugar reading is not the only metric for good health in the body. However, many body positivity [...]
Asymmetric Moles and Melanoma: Detailed Guidelines
There is so much more to the “A” for asymmetry in the ABCDE guidelines for checking moles for melanoma signs. It's crucial to know that the concept of asymmetry can easily be open to a [...]
Three Easy Ways to Cure Obsessive Pulse Taking Anxiety
There are three tricks that will go a long ways in ending your anxiety and obsession over taking your pulse, even if you take it a hundred times a day. […]
What Kills More than Obesity: Loneliness or Rejection?
According to a study, loneliness kills more than obesity. But what about the health effects of rejection? There are those who, by others’ standards, are lonely (because they are alone). But these alone-people may be [...]
Dream Meaning: Bit by Animal, Wound Bleeding, Can’t Find ER
In the dream you’re bit by a small animal, usually a raccoon, squirrel, etc., and the wound begins drawing blood. Then you’re in a mad rush to find an ER but never get to see [...]
Cancers that Can Cause Pain Under Right Ribcage: 11 of Them
Pain under the right ribcage has a ton of causes, and 11 are cancer. A nagging pain under the right ribcage that won’t go away can be a symptom of cancer; do not take a [...]
Deadliest Brain Tumor: Glioblastoma Multiforme vs. DIPG
The DIPG brain tumor is the deadliest – more vicious than glioblastoma multiforme. What makes diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma especially brutal is that most diagnoses occur in children between age five and nine. [...]
Why Does Acid Reflux Interfere with Breathing in Healthy People?
You already know acid reflux can sometimes cause problems with breathing, but just how does this happen in otherwise healthy people? There’s more than one way that acid reflux—or the more serious variant, GERD, can [...]
When Is Anemia a Symptom of Cancer?
Some cancers can cause anemia when they cause internal bleeding or disrupt red blood cell production and function. Anemia is the inadequate supply of healthy red blood cells. Anemia can be caused by many factors, [...]
What Does Early Detection Mean for Melanoma?
Here’s a simple explanation of what exactly “early detection” of melanoma means. Melanoma is actually highly curable when caught early. The problem is that the opportunities for an early detection are often passed over! [...]
What Causes Angina Threshold to Change During Exercise?
Here are two explanations for what can cause angina threshold to change during exercise or physical activity. Angina refers to chest pain, usually from blocked arteries causing impeded blood flow through the heart. [...]
What Can a Mass on the Pancreas Be Other than Cancer?
"There are many different types of masses that can occur in the pancreas,” says Jordan Winter, MD, a hepato-pancreatic-biliary and oncology surgeon and Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. [...]
Time It Takes for Pancreatic Cancer to Cause Symptoms
Pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed after it starts causing symptoms, but does this mean it necessarily grows faster than “less deadly” cancers? […]
Accutane Can Cause Tinnitus? Case Report that It Does
Yes, Accutane can definitely cause tinnitus, as was the case of a 15-year-old boy who developed the ringing in his ears. Tinnitus has been commonly described as any of the following sounds that only the [...]
How to Spot a Melanoma that’s Flesh or Pink Colored
Some melanomas are flesh or pink in color; not always an “ugly black” or “scary brown.” So how can we spot a pinkish-beige melanoma during self-exams of the skin? “An amelanotic melanoma can appear pink [...]
Can You Be Too Old to Get Prostate Cancer?
“The incidence of prostate cancer increases dramatically with age,” says a report by Sandeep Mistry, MD and colleagues. […]
Six Surprising Warning Signs of Heart Trouble
There are six surprising signs that warn of serious heart trouble. Don’t assume that the absence of the classic chest pain and trouble breathing mean there can’t be anything wrong with your heart. These signs [...]
Exercises that Will Strengthen Bones Even if You’re “Old”
These exercises will strengthen the oldest of bones, no matter how “out of shape” or old you feel. Fact is, most people do not do the very exercises that strengthen bones. Perhaps the most important [...]
Why the Standard American Diet May Be Killing You
The standard American Diet (SAD) is dropping people left and right. SAD is so bad for the heart. If you eat what everyone else eats, why would you have a healthy diet? Do you KNOW [...]
How to Overcome Obsessing About Your Blood Pressure Readings
Do you check your blood pressure tons of times every day, always thinking about that BP monitor, disrupting your concentration at work? Does even a systolic reading of 152 send you into panic mode, even [...]
You Can’t just “Think” Yourself Healthy in Body if You’re Obese
There’s more to being healthy than having normal blood sugar and pressure; obesity cannot be any healthier than is smoking. A clinically obese woman may be able to train for a 5K or go on [...]
Angina vs. Atypical Angina: Is Atypical Heart Related?
The term angina refers to chest pain brought on by a heart problem—specifically, ischemia or a shortage of oxygen due to restricted blood flow through the coronary arteries. […]
What Is the Worst Cancer a Child Can Get?
Cancer can be deadly to any child if not caught early enough. But the worst cancer that a child can get is a particular type that no matter how early it’s caught, it will always [...]
Can Melanoma Be Yellow?
Every time you see a picture of a melanoma, it’s either black, grey, some shade of brown, magenta, red, bluish, purple or pink, but never yellow. However, the color of yellow is absolutely possible in [...]
Can a Melanoma Be Smaller than Six Millimeters?
Though six millimeters is the measurement that often comes up in the “signs to look for” lists for melanoma, it can be the size of a pinpoint. The picture above shows a four millimeter tumor. [...]
Can Getting Lightheaded when Standing Harm Your Brain?
Ever rise from a chair after sitting for a while and feel lightheaded or that the room is blacking out? Could this eventually harm your brain? You then must pause in your tracks with your [...]
Ingenious Way to Reduce LASIK Starbursts when Night Driving
You will kick yourself for not having thought of this brilliant solution to reducing LASIK starbursts when you drive at night. I had a Eureka! moment when I was staring out my kitchen window at [...]
What Percentage of Acoustic Neuromas Are Malignant?
Yes, there are cases in which an acoustic neuroma, a normally benign brain tumor, starts out as malignant. […]
Time Span Between Tinnitus of Acoustic Neuroma & Hearing Loss
Tinnitus and hearing loss that are caused by an acoustic neuroma don’t always come on at the same time, even though this symptom duo is rather common among those with an acoustic neuroma. [...]
Small Acoustic Neuroma: Watchful Waiting vs. Transcanal Removal
Why suffer the ongoing anxiety of watchful waiting for a small acoustic neuroma when you can just have it be done and over with via transcanal removal? Watchful waiting may sound like a brilliantly conservative [...]
