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What Your Doctor Will Look For at Your Appointment If you’re having symptoms of vertigo, you’ll probably see your primary care doctor first. Your physician will consider various factors, ask you questions, and perform procedures to help come up with a diagnosis. Vertigo Symptoms Explaining your symptoms to your doctor is the first step to figuring out what’s going on. People with dizziness often have trouble describing their specific complaints, which can make a diagnosis challenging....

A growing body of evidence suggests that our frustration isn’t all in our heads. We have two very real problems: obesity can increase the risk of asthma and asthma can contribute to obesity. “The idea that obesity and asthma may be linked has become more widely accepted,” says Beth A. Miller, MD, associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington and director of the UK HealthCare Asthma, Allergy, and Sinus Clinic....

The goal is to strike a balance between the upside of fewer seizures — and better quality of life — and the downside of bothersome medication side effects. If medication proves ineffective at controlling seizures, other treatments may be required, such as epilepsy surgery, dietary changes, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy, or responsive neurostimulation. (3) But before you stop taking anti-seizure medication for any reason — including continued seizures, unacceptable side effects, or any other reason — talk to your doctor about stopping the drug or changing therapies....

You might be reading dozens of articles telling you to prioritize self-care practices, like exercise — and you might be wondering when the heck you have time to fit them in. When it comes to your fitness (and other ways you may take time for self-care), experts say now is not the time to think of those practices as a chore or burden. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, working out probably isn’t (and shouldn’t be) your top priority — nor are more specific fitness goals like gaining muscle or losing fat, says Lisa Lewis, EdD, a licensed psychologist in private practice in Boston....

The average Labor Day consumption is more than three alcoholic beverages per person, according to a survey of 1,000 Americans conducted by Alcohol.org. And any time you drink to the point of intoxication, there’s a risk of a hangover, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Hangovers can manifest in a variety of ways, but physiologically speaking, they are the result of drinking more than your liver can process at one time....

“It really makes sense to start screening earlier,” says Chien-Wen Tseng, MD, MPH, a member of the USPSTF, which helped develop the updated recommendations. “Many people don’t know they have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, because they’re not aware of the symptoms or don’t have any symptoms. Screening is a safe, effective way to find out and, with prediabetes, make lifestyle changes” that prevent the progression to the full-blown condition, says Dr....

Drake has always been active, having played football and run track at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduation — and after an MS diagnosis — he competed in the CrossFit games, won the Warrior Dash (one of the most grueling 5K mud run obstacle races on the planet), and represented Team USA on Netflix’s Ultimate Beastmaster, a sports entertainment competition in which elite athletes face an extreme obstacle course known as the Beast....

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Everyday Health: You write about the frustration of having to wait for biopsy results over a long weekend. Theresa Brown: I hated that it was a nurse who told me I’d have to wait four days to find out if I had cancer — even though my results were already on the radiologist’s desk. When I asked if I could call the radiologist directly, the nurse told me she was leaving for the day so I wouldn’t be able to get my results....

The infected patient had traveled by road from Guinea, arriving in the country’s largest city, Abidjan, on August 12. Shortly thereafter, he began experiencing a fever and was admitted for treatment at a local hospital, where collected samples revealed that he had Ebola virus disease. Earlier this year, Guinea had battled a four-month long Ebola outbreak, which had been declared over on June 19, 2021. So far, health authorities have found no indication that the current case is linked to the earlier outbreak in Guinea, but further investigation and genomic sequencing is underway to identify the strain and determine if there is a connection....

The study followed 1,133 mothers for an average of almost 15 years, including 139 women with a history of gestational diabetes. None of them had diabetes prior to their pregnancy. They all had periodic glucose tolerance tests that compare blood sugar levels before and after consumption of a sugary drink, to determine if they developed full-blown diabetes or slightly elevated blood sugar known as prediabetes. By the end of the study period, even women with healthy blood sugar levels were 2....

The brain controls so many functions throughout the body that symptoms manifest usually far from the brain. An otherwise active person might collapse on the tennis court, for instance, while someone else might speak unclearly. (1) Symptoms relate to the location of the tumor (usually frontal or temporal lobe if in the brain), increased pressure on parts of the brain near the tumor, and size of the tumor. Symptoms vary from person to person, depending on these factors....

Yes, you should see a doctor for blood in your stools — whether or not you have Crohn’s disease. In patients with Crohn’s, bleeding usually signifies active disease in the large bowel or the perianal area. Perianal problems in patients with Crohn’s disease include fissures, fistulas, hemorrhoidal skin tags, and perianal ulcerations. Fortunately, many of these problems can be resolved if you and your doctor initiate the proper treatment in a timely fashion....

Fundamentally, CLL cells are abnormal and short-lived, unlike normal lymphocytes which persist in some cases for decades. The CLL cells must be replenished from a relatively small pool of cancerous stem cells. Any number of things can cause these cells to be produced at a slower rate or increase their rate of destruction, which might lead to variability in the CLL counts. It is not uncommon for counts in CLL to go up and down depending on what else might be going on in a person’s body....

HS is a challenging disease to manage, and even when you get an accurate diagnosis, it can be private, uncomfortable, and unpredictable, says Elizabeth Seng-Tamaccio, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University in New York. But people often don’t get the correct diagnosis at first and may experience hurtful comments from doctors, partners, or family members who don’t understand that HS is a disease, not a hygiene problem, she says....

Let’s face it: Summertime weight gain can be a real bummer, though experts say it’s fairly common. During a one- to three-week vacation, adults tend to gain a little less than 1 pound (lb), according to a study published in March 2016 in Physiology & Behavior. But the good news is that getting back on track isn’t as hard as you think. Here, we lay out eight common summer weight gain traps....

The type of treatment someone with a listeria infection requires depends on the patient and his or her symptoms. RELATED: The Signs and Symptoms of Listeria Infection Healthy, nonpregnant individuals with normal immune function may not require any treatment — or even feel sick enough to warrant a call to the doctor. (1) While these people may experience mild symptoms after eating food contaminated with listeria bacteria — such as a stomachache or diarrhea — symptoms will typically subside by themselves within one to three days, though they can last for up to a week....

I wish I could be out socializing with my peers, and although this shouldn’t be impossible, it seems beyond me to figure it out. Getting out involves mobility, the right car, the right mobility device, the right time of day, and so on. Conversations with friends mean so much: They help me identify who I am and where I stand in this world compared with others in my age range....

Prescription drugs are the most common, and usually the first, type of treatment given for Parkinson’s disease. DBS can be used on one or both sides of the brain. Whichever side of the brain it’s used on, it will mainly affect the opposite side of the body. If you get DBS surgery, you may have to return to the medical center frequently for a few months to have the stimulation carefully adjusted....

While there’s no cure for Parkinson’s, there are medications and surgical treatments that can help improve symptoms. PD treatment plans usually include complementary and supportive therapies as well, which can include exercise, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG are therapeutic approaches that address two different issues in Parkinson’s: LSVT LOUD is designed to help improve speech and voice function, and LSVT BIG aims to help people increase the size of their moments to improve balance and daily function....

Then I endured the worst stretch of skin health in my life. Psoriasis covered more than 95 percent of my body, and I was overwhelmed by feelings of depression. My dermatologist referred me to the Psoriasis Treatment Center at the University of California in San Francisco. One nurse told me that their patients moisturize every two hours. I just nodded my head in agreement, not mentioning how my lotions and creams sit idle most days....