Burning or pain when you pass urine
Burning when you pass urine is usually a urinary tract infection, but chlamydia, gonorrhoea and genital irritation can cause the same feeling. It is…
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What's hurting? — symptom and pain guide
This is the symptom index. Every entry explains what the feeling can mean, what the warning signs are, and how urgently to act. Emergency guidance is always shown first and cannot be pushed down the page by a more relevant-looking article.
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Headaches
Most headaches are tension-type or migraine, and neither is dangerous — but a few patterns are serious. The pattern matters more than the severity: a…
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Sudden testicular pain
Sudden severe testicular pain needs emergency medical care immediately, not observation. It can be caused by testicular torsion, where the blood…
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Testicular lump or swelling
Most testicular lumps and swellings are benign — cysts, varicoceles, hydroceles or infection. But a hard lump that feels different from the other…
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