'Sundowning' Is The Dementia Symptom We Don't Talk About Enough
September 21, 2025
Disorientation and confusion underpin most of the other sundowning symptoms and behaviors. As the day is ending, people may start to be uncertain and confused about what’s going on in their environment.
“For example, if their family is preparing dinner, the patient might…
Many of us have heard of the DOOM pile.
An acronym for “didn’t organize, only moved,” a DOOM pile could be a junk drawer with receipts, bills and other papers you’ve put off sorting. It could be a cardboard box in the corner of your bedroom full of desk clutter from…
Cancer Patients Are Opening Up About The One Early Symptom They Wish Wasn't Ignored
July 1, 2025
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“Any mole that changes at all! My sister was diagnosed with melanoma at 22 and died at 30, all because of a mole not getting checked and removed at the first sign.”
“Editing to add: melanoma is so treatable when caught early! And yes, it hurts…
People Are Recalling The Symptom Of A Severe Disease They Wish They Hadn't Ignored
June 26, 2025
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“Constipation and hemorrhoids. It’s not something most people talk about much. It turned out not to be hemorrhoids or constipation. It was colon cancer.”
—GiveUp-WatchItBurn
“I had a patient in the ICU very early in my career who hadn’t…
Most Women Ignore This Symptom As A Subtle Sign Of A Heart Attack, But It Could Be A Matter Of Life And Death
June 14, 2025
In a recent segment on the “Today” show, Chantrise Holliman, a mother, wife and heart health educator based in Georgia, shared the story of her heart attack and what seemed like the fairly benign symptoms that accompanied it.
Holliman experienced nausea, vomiting and…
“In the past, as new variants have come on the scene, there almost invariably have been questions about distinctive symptoms, and after a while, when you gather a lot of data, turns out not to be the case — all of these symptoms have occurred before,” said Dr. William…
Cancer Patients Reveal The Symptom That Made Them Think Something Might Be Wrong
May 25, 2025
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“My friend Cathy was probably late 40s or early 50s. She and her husband wanted to live off the grid and participate in the world only on their terms. One day, she and her husband came down the mountain to visit; they lived two hours north. She mentioned that…
When your sympathetic nervous system is activated, you may hyperventilate or breathe too quickly or shallowly. That’s where the feeling like you can’t get enough air comes in.
And unfortunately, what may feel instinctual can make matters worse. “Paradoxically, the…
People With ADHD, I Want To Know What You Thought Was Normal But Turned Out To Be A Symptom
February 20, 2025
Maybe you’ve always needed a background distraction — music, TV, coffee shop noise — to focus on study, sleep, or chores, and didn’t realize until later that a lot of people simply do those things in silence. What was that like?
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