Common Disease Mistakes

There are numerous common medical mistakes that are known. For details of mistakes for each condition, choose one of these diseases:

• ADHD
• Adult ADHD
• Allergies
• Alzheimers Disease
• Asthma
• Bipolar
• Breast Cancer
• Cancer
• Celiac Disease
• Colorectal Cancer
• Contraception
• Contraceptive Pill
• Copd Emphysema
• Crohns Disease
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Gerd
• Heartburn
• High Cholesterol
• Hypertension
• Impotence
• Insomnia
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Migraine
• Multiple sclerosis
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis
• Overactive bladder
• Overview
• Psoriasis
• Smoking
• STDs
• Ulcerative Colitis

Diagnostic Mistakes

The conditions that are known to be overlooked in diagnosis, misdiagnosed as another disease, or diagnosed too often, include the following:

1. ADHD
2. ADHD in Adults
3. Hypertension (High blood pressure)
4. High cholesterol
5. Diabetes
6. Asthma
7. Allergies
8. COPD
9. Emphysema
10. Lung cancer
11. Breast cancer
12. Colon cancer
13. Bipolar disorder
14. Depression
15. Crohn's Disease
16. Ulcerative colitis
17. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
18. Irritable bowel disease (IBS)
19. Celiac disease
20. Metabolic syndrome
21. Heart disease
22. Heart attack
23. Chronic pain syndromes
24. Fibromyalgia
25. GERD
26. Barrett's esophagitis
27. Rheumatoid arthritis
28. Lupus
29. Lyme Disease
30. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
31. Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
32. Von Willebrand's disease
33. Hemochromatosis
34. Wilson's disease
35. PCOS
36. Mycoplasma
37. Appendicitis
38. HIV/AIDS
39. Type 1 Diabetes
40. Pancreatitis
41. Gallstones
42. Sinusitis
43. Ankylosing spondylitis
44. Thyroid disorders
45. Hypothyroidism
46. Hyperthyroidism
47. Graves disease
48. Hashimoto's thyroiditis
49. Adenoiditis
50. Psoriasis
51. Eczema
52. Cirrhosis of the liver
53. Hepatitis
54. Heart failure
55. MVP
56. Arrhythmias
57. Prostate cancer
58. Benign prostate enlargement
59. Ovarian cancer
60. Inflammatory breast cancer
61. Overactive bladder syndrome
62. Interstitial cystitis
63. Gestational hypertension
64. Eclampsia and Pre-eclampsia
65. Alzheimer's disease
66. Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT)
67. Myelodysplastic syndromes (pre-leukemia)
68. Lactose intolerance
69. Anemia
70. Melanoma
71. Metabolic syndrome
72. Obstructive sleep apnea
73. Parkinson's disease
74. Migraine
75. Osteoporosis
76. Chlamydia
77. MTBI
78. Hypoglycemia
79. Reactive hypoglycemia
80. Glaucoma
81. Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
82. Chronic bronchitis
83. Toxoplasmosis
84. Otosclerosis
85. Age-related macular degeneration
86. Aneurysm
87. Abdominal aortic aneurysm
88. Middle ear infection
89. Salmonella food poisoning
90. Cryptosporiosis
91. Peripheral Neuropathy
92. Menopause
93. Andropause
94. Rectal cancer
95. Acromegaly
96. Cushing's syndrome
97. Addison's disease
98. Carbon monoxide poisoning
99. Gonorrhea
100. Deep vein thrombosis
101. Pulmonary embolism
102. Meningitis
103. Meningococcal disease
104. Endocarditis
105. Hyperparathyroidism
106. Hypoparathyroidism
107. Diabetic gastroparesis
108. Diabetic diarrhea
109. Infectious diarrhea
110. Multiple sclerosis (MS)
111. Genital herpes
112. Chronic kidney disease
113. Narcolepsy
114. Brain tumor
115. Stroke
116. Long QT Syndrome
117. Epilepsy
118. Temporal lobe epilepsy
119. Muscular dystrophy
120. Mesothelioma
121. Autism
122. Asperger syndrome

More Common Health Mistakes

• ADHD: medical mistakes -- under-diagnosed in adults; over-diagnosed in children
• Allergies: medical mistakes -- misdiagnoses, rare allergy types.
• Asthma: medical mistakes -- over-diagnosis, hidden causes, rare types.
• COPD & Emphysema: medical mistakes
• Cholesterol: medical mistakes -- diagnostic errors, rare hidden causes.
• Contraception: medical mistakes -- failures and problems.
• Diabetes: medical mistakes -- misdiagnosis, rare curable types.
• Hypertension: medical mistakes (high blood pressure) -- hidden causes, rare types.
• Obesity: medical mistakes -- hidden causes.
• Crohn's Disease: medical mistakes -- misdiagnosis, alternative diagnoses.
• more mistakes...

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