Symptoms guide
Guides to common symptoms: likely causes, features that need urgent attention, what a clinician will ask and examine, and the usual tests.
215 guides
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- Back pain at night
- Black or dark poo after iron
- Bleeding after menopause
- Bleeding after sex
- Bleeding gums
- Blind spot in vision
- Bloating after every meal
- Blocked ear feeling
- Blood in semen
- Blood in urine
- Blood on toilet paper
- Bowel leakage
- Brain fog
- Breast lump
- Breast pain cyclical
- Breathless climbing stairs
- Breathless when lying flat
- Bruising after a blood test
- Burning feet at night
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- Calf pain when walking
- Cant switch off at night
- Changing mole
- Chest pain after eating
- Chest pain when breathing in
- Chest tightness when walking
- Cloudy or smelly urine
- Cold hands and feet
- Constant hunger
- Constant worry
- Cough after eating or drinking
- Cough lasting more than three weeks
- Coughing up phlegm every morning
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- Shoulder blade pain
- Shoulder pain lifting arm
- Skipped heartbeats
- Snoring with gasping
- Sore that wont heal
- Sore throat after general anaesthetic
- Sore throat lasting weeks
- Sore tongue
- Spotting between periods
- Sudden hearing loss one ear
- Sudden severe headache
- Sudden urgent need to pee
- Swelling in one leg
- Swollen glands in neck
- Swollen knuckles and finger joints
- Symptom abdominal pain acute
- Symptom abdominal pain chronic
- Symptom ankle pain sprain
- Symptom anxiety nervousness
- Symptom back pain lower
- Symptom back pain upper
- Symptom black tarry stool melena
- Symptom blood in stool hematochezia
- Symptom chest pain acute
- Symptom chest pain chronic
- Symptom chills shivering
- Symptom confusion altered mental
- Symptom constipation difficulty
- Symptom cough dry
- Symptom cough productive
- Symptom diarrhea loose stool
- Symptom dizziness lightheadedness
- Symptom dizziness vertigo
- Symptom ear pain otalgia
- Symptom edema leg swelling
- Symptom erectile dysfunction
- Symptom excessive bruising
- Symptom excessive thirst polydipsia
- Symptom excessive urination polyuria
- Symptom eye pain
- Symptom eye redness conjunctivitis
- Symptom fever high temperature
- Symptom floaters spots
- Symptom flushing redness
- Symptom hair loss alopecia
- Symptom headache cluster
- Symptom headache migraine
- Symptom headache tension
- Symptom hearing loss
- Symptom heartburn acid reflux
- Symptom hemoptysis blood sputum
- Symptom hives urticaria
- Symptom hoarseness voice changes
- Symptom hot flashes menopause
- Symptom incontinence urinary loss
- Symptom insomnia sleep difficulty
- Symptom irritability mood lability
- Symptom jaundice yellowing
- Symptom joint pain arthralgia
- Symptom knee pain
- Symptom memory loss forgetfulness
- Symptom menstrual irregularity
- Symptom muscle cramps spasm
- Symptom nasal congestion stuffiness
- Symptom nausea queasy
- Symptom neck pain cervical
- Symptom night sweats nocturnal
- Symptom nipple discharge
- Symptom painful urination dysuria
- Symptom pallor paleness
- Symptom palpitations racing
- Symptom panic attack
- Symptom pelvic pain
- Symptom poor appetite anorexia
- Symptom rash skin eruption
- Symptom rhinorrhea runny nose
- Symptom seizure convulsion
- Symptom shortness of breath acute
- Symptom shortness of breath chronic
- Symptom shoulder pain
- Symptom sore throat pharyngitis
- Symptom stiffness morning
- Symptom stridor noisy breathing
- Symptom syncope fainting
- Symptom testicular pain
- Symptom tinnitus ringing ears
- Symptom tremor shaking
- Symptom vaginal bleeding abnormal
- Symptom vaginal discharge
- Symptom vision blurred
- Symptom vomiting emesis
- Symptom weakness muscle loss
- Symptom weight gain rapid
- Symptom weight loss unintended
- Symptom wheezing breathing