Identify your diagnosis in one short step

Are you struggling to identify your condition. Or maybe you don’t even know you have a condition but there’s something deep down in your inner critic bugging you to go find out what’s wrong with you.

The link on the next line goes to the full YouTube Episode if you missed it.

EP01 – Find Your Chronic Diagnosis Quickly

Symptoms and signs suggest the presence of a particular disease and sometimes they just indicate an increased risk of developing a specific condition. So how do you find out what you’ve got and avoid the endless time waster of wondering whether you’ve got something or not.

Early diagnosis means early intervention, and early intervention is the key to a pathway of positive recovery.

From experience, I can suggest you may not even know you have the condition in the first place.

Both my serious conditions were a surprise to me when I was diagnosed. 

You see, the symptoms for the top ten chronic disorders are general by nature and in many cases subtle. Follow the link to subscribe to our Trinity Titan newsletter and grab a free copy of the Find Your Chronic Diagnosis Quickly Guide if you haven’t already got yours yet.

In the guide you will see the top ten conditions, their symptoms, and how your medical team will screen for them. You have to remember, as patients, we are not trying to diagnose ourselves, we are trying to collect our symptoms and signs together as a syndrome. 

So what is the best way to find a diagnosis? It’s quite simple really, GET TESTED.

The majority of the top ten chronic disorders occur over fifty. Which means you’ve got time. That doesn’t mean you have time to wait. Do it now if you are either side of fifty.

My first chronic disorder was Prostate Cancer and I beat it metastasizing by one month. I don’t know about you but that’s a close call. One month later, and I would have been fighting an incurable cancer like lymphoma. Just to make that scenario a little more scary; the Covid lock down hit about a month after my surgery. Imagine if I’d missed that window…

Are you missing any windows right now?

There is not one particular test to cover all these disorders but you have the background to take action. What I mean by that is, you are a certain age, a gender, you have certain lifestyle habits and your genetics predispose you to certain conditions. That combination of casualties is what is called the Essence of life in Chinese medicine or Epigenetics in western medicine.

You’ll find a short questionnaire in the Find Your Chronic Diagnosis Quickly Guide. If you haven’t got your copy yet, sign up on the form just below.

I caught both my conditions through a general all encompassing check using my answers from the very same questions.

As I said before, early diagnosis is the best way to start to beat a diagnosis, BY FAR. If there is something ticking away inside your body you want to know about it. If you know about it, you can do something about it.

So if you are around the age of 50, don’t just sit on the fence waiting for the unknown to take you down, get up and get yourself tested and make it a priority.

Remember the free Find your chronic diagnosis quickly”guide has a questionnaire that will help you identify your diagnosis in one short step, so get cracking and download the free guide and we’ll include you in our weekly newsletter where you can follow the story to beat a diagnosis.

I’m Conrad Bligh, I’ve beaten death twice, now it’s your turn…

See you on your next step along the pathway to Beat A Diagnosis.

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Reference Papers and Studies

At Beat A Diagnosis we use the AI driven medical search engine, Consensus, because it ranks results from multiple sources to provide the most relevant and agreed-upon answers to subjective queries. Consensus are not sponsors of Beat A Diagnosis, we just believe you can’t leave something like a chronic disorder to subjective chance.

The following citations and associated links are related to the papers and studies we researched while compiling the statistics in the free guide titled: Find Your Chronic Diagnosis Quickly

Citations

Heart Disease

Pencina, M., Navar, A., Wojdyla, D., Sanchez, R., Khan, I., Elassal, J., D’Agostino, R., Peterson, E., & Sniderman, A. (2018). Quantifying Importance of Major Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation, 139, 1603 – 1611. https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.117.031855.

Lu, L., Liu, M., Sun, R., Zheng, Y., & Zhang, P. (2015). Myocardial Infarction: Symptoms and Treatments. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 72, 865 – 867. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12013-015-0553-4.

Jurgens, C., Lee, C., Aycock, D., Creber, R., Denfeld, Q., DeVon, H., Evers, L., Jung, M., Pucciarelli, G., Streur, M., & Konstam, M. (2022). State of the Science: The Relevance of Symptoms in Cardiovascular Disease and Research: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation, 146, e173 – e184. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001089.

Breast Cancer

Sun, Y., Zhao, Z., Yang, Z., Xu, F., Lu, H., Zhu, Z., Shi, W., Jiang, J., Yao, P., & Zhu, H. (2017). Risk Factors and Preventions of Breast Cancer. International Journal of Biological Sciences, 13, 1387 – 1397. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.21635.

Pashayan, N., Antoniou, A., Ivanuš, U., Esserman, L., Easton, D., French, D., Sroczynski, G., Hall, P., Cuzick, J., Evans, D., Simard, J., García-Closas, M., Schmutzler, R., Wegwarth, O., Pharoah, P., Moorthie, S., Montgolfier, S., Baron, C., Herceg, Z., Turnbull, C., Balleyguier, C., Rossi, P., Wesseling, J., Ritchie, D., Tischkowitz, M., Broeders, M., Reisel, D., Metspalu, A., Callender, T., Koning, H., Devilee, P., Delaloge, S., Schmidt, M., & Widschwendter, M. (2020). Personalized early detection and prevention of breast cancer: ENVISION consensus statement. Nature Reviews. Clinical Oncology, 17, 687 – 705. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-020-0388-9.

Daly, A., Rolph, R., Cutress, R., & Copson, E. (2021). A Review of Modifiable Risk Factors in Young Women for the Prevention of Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer : Targets and Therapy, 13, 241 – 257. https://doi.org/10.2147/BCTT.S268401.

Prostate Cancer

Poppel, H., Roobol, M., Chapple, C., Catto, J., N’Dow, J., Sønksen, J., Stenzl, A., & Wirth, M. (2021). Prostate-specific Antigen Testing as Part of a Risk-Adapted Early Detection Strategy for Prostate Cancer: European Association of Urology Position and Recommendations for 2021.. European urology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2021.07.024.

Carlsson, S., & Vickers, A. (2020). Screening for Prostate Cancer.. The Medical clinics of North America, 104 6, 1051-1062 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2020.08.007.

Barry, M., & Simmons, L. (2017). Prevention of Prostate Cancer Morbidity and Mortality: Primary Prevention and Early Detection.. The Medical clinics of North America, 101 4, 787-806 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2017.03.009.

Stroke

Swartz, R., Bayley, M., Lanctôt, K., Murray, B., Cayley, M., Lien, K., Sicard, M., Thorpe, K., Dowlatshahi, D., Mandzia, J., Casaubon, L., Saposnik, G., Perez, Y., Sahlas, D., & Herrmann, N. (2016). Post-stroke depression, obstructive sleep apnea, and cognitive impairment: Rationale for, and barriers to, routine screening. International Journal of Stroke, 11, 509 – 518. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493016641968.

Jones, S., Bray, J., Gibson, J., McClelland, G., Miller, C., Price, C., & Watkins, C. (2021). Characteristics of patients who had a stroke not initially identified during emergency prehospital assessment: a systematic review. Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ, 38, 387 – 393. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-209607.

Kaur, M., Sakhare, S., Wanjale, K., & Akter, F. (2022). Early Stroke Prediction Methods for Prevention of Strokes. Behavioural Neurology, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7725597.

Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease

Chang, A., Bell, S., Byrnes, C., Dawkins, P., Holland, A., Kennedy, E., King, P., Laird, P., Mooney, S., Morgan, L., Parsons, M., Poot, B., Toombs, M., Torzillo, P., & Grimwood, K. (2023). Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) position statement on chronic suppurative lung disease and bronchiectasis in children, adolescents and adults in Australia and New Zealand. Respirology, 28, 339 – 349. https://doi.org/10.1111/resp.14479.

Labaki, W., & Rosenberg, S. (2020). Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Annals of Internal Medicine, 173, ITC17 – ITC32. https://doi.org/10.7326/AITC202008040.

Qaseem, A., Wilt, T., Weinberger, S., Hanania, N., Criner, G., Molen, T., Marciniuk, D., Denberg, T., Schünemann, H., Wedzicha, W., MacDonald, R., & Shekelle, P. (2011). Diagnosis and Management of Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline Update from the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, and European Respiratory Society. Annals of Internal Medicine, 155, 179 – 191. https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-155-3-201108020-00008.

Diabetes

Katsarou, A., Gudbjörnsdottir, S., Rawshani, A., Dabelea, D., Bonifacio, E., Anderson, B., Jacobsen, L., Schatz, D., & Lernmark, Å. (2017). Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrdp.2017.16.

Lewis, D. (2023). A Systematic Review of Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency Prevalence and Treatment in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.. Diabetes technology & therapeutics. https://doi.org/10.1089/dia.2023.0157.

Du, Y., Rayner, C., Jones, K., Talley, N., & Horowitz, M. (2018). Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Diabetes: Prevalence, Assessment, Pathogenesis, and Management. Diabetes Care, 41, 627 – 637. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc17-1536.

Immanuel, J., & Simmons, D. (2017). Screening and Treatment for Early-Onset Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Current Diabetes Reports, 17, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-017-0943-7.

Alzheimers

Atri, A. (2019). The Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Spectrum: Diagnosis and Management.. The Medical clinics of North America, 103 2, 263-293 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2018.10.009.

Breijyeh, Z., & Karaman, R. (2020). Comprehensive Review on Alzheimer’s Disease: Causes and Treatment. Molecules, 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25245789.

DeTure, M., & Dickson, D. (2019). The neuropathological diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Molecular Neurodegeneration, 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13024-019-0333-5.

Kidney Disease

Qaseem, A., Hopkins, R., Sweet, D., Starkey, M., & Shekelle, P. (2013). Screening, Monitoring, and Treatment of Stage 1 to 3 Chronic Kidney Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians. Annals of Internal Medicine, 159, 835 – 847. https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-159-12-201312170-00726.

Fink, H., Ishani, A., Taylor, B., Greer, N., MacDonald, R., Rossini, D., Sadiq, S., Lankireddy, S., Kane, R., & Wilt, T. (2012). Screening for, Monitoring, and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 1 to 3: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and for an American College of Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline. Annals of Internal Medicine, 156, 570 – 581. https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-156-8-201204170-00004.

Drawz, P., & Rahman, M. (2015). Chronic Kidney Disease. Annals of Internal Medicine, 162, ITC1. https://doi.org/10.7326/AITC201506020.

Arthritis

Sparks, J. (2019). Rheumatoid Arthritis.. Annals of internal medicine, 170 1, ITC1-ITC16 . https://doi.org/10.7326/AITC201901010.

Lin, Y., Anzaghe, M., & Schülke, S. (2020). Update on the Pathomechanism, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Cells, 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9040880.

Ledingham, J., Snowden, N., & Ide, Z. (2017). Diagnosis and early management of inflammatory arthritis. British Medical Journal, 358. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3248.

Obesity

Barlow, S., & Dietz, W. (1998). Obesity Evaluation and Treatment: Expert Committee Recommendations. Pediatrics, 102. https://doi.org/10.1542/PEDS.102.3.E29.

Valk, E., Akker, E., Savas, M., Kleinendorst, L., Visser, J., Haelst, M., Sharma, A., & Rossum, E. (2019). A comprehensive diagnostic approach to detect underlying causes of obesity in adults. Obesity Reviews, 20, 795 – 804. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12836.

Styne, D., Arslanian, S., Connor, E., Farooqi, I., Murad, H., Silverstein, J., & Yanovski, J. (2017). Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 102 3, 709-757 . https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2016-2573.

Yumuk, V., Tsigos, C., Fried, M., Schindler, K., Busetto, L., Micić, D., & Toplak, H. (2015). European Guidelines for Obesity Management in Adults. Obesity Facts, 8, 402 – 424. https://doi.org/10.1159/000442721.

Hypertension

Williams, B., & Firth, J. (2020). Essential hypertension: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. Oxford Textbook of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198746690.003.0378.

Sitepu, S., Sipayung, S., & Hayati, K. (2023). The Influence of Daily Physical Activities on Blood Pressure in Elderly Patients Suffering from Treated Hypertention at Grandmed Hospital, Lubuk Pakam. JURNAL PENGMAS KESTRA (JPK). https://doi.org/10.35451/jpk.v3i1.1723.