Yes, you can have appendicitis without a fever. Roughly 30 to 50 percent of adults with confirmed appendicitis arrive at the emergency department below 100.4 °F, and the share is higher among older adults and among people in the first 12…
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Yes. Constipation and diarrhea can occur together, and the pattern has a name: overflow diarrhea, sometimes called paradoxical diarrhea.
Consider the explanationYes, cervical myelopathy can lead to paralysis, but complete paralysis is uncommon and usually follows years of untreated or rapidly worsening spinal cord compression.
Consider the explanationYes, you can get your lymph nodes removed, and the exact question, can you get your lymph nodes removed, is answered with a qualified yes: the operation exists, but it is reserved for specific diagnoses.
Consider the explanationYes, but almost never at the doses found in a standard multivitamin. Vitamins can cause ringing in the ears, known as tinnitus, mainly at megadose levels.
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Yes, TMJ disorders can cause facial numbness, though it is far less common than jaw pain or clicking.
Consider the explanationTrue aphasia without any brain involvement is essentially nonexistent, but aphasia without permanent, visible brain damage does occur.
Consider the explanationYes, TMJ disorders can cause chest pain, but only indirectly, through referred pain, strained breathing muscles, or a shared nerve pathway. The jaw joint itself has no anatomical connection to the ribcage.
Consider the explanationYes, you can be allergic to ants, and the reaction is a venom allergy rather than an allergy to the insect's body.
Consider the explanationYes, pregnancy can cause severe vision loss and, in rare untreated cases, blindness, but permanent blindness is uncommon. The usual pathway is not eye damage alone; it is vascular, neurologic, or metabolic stress.
Consider the explanationYes, steroids can cause uncontrollable shaking, though the shaking is almost always an action or postural tremor rather than the resting tremor of Parkinson's disease.
Consider the explanationYou cannot get shingles if you have truly never had chickenpox, because shingles requires latent varicella-zoster virus that only infection or vaccination leaves behind.
Consider the explanationStress does not appear to cause cancer to come back, but the qualified answer matters more than the headline.
Consider the explanationYes. You can drink water while fasting, and plain water does not break a fast in any meaningful metabolic sense.
Consider the explanationYes, you can get PTSD from a car accident, and roughly 9 to 13 percent of crash survivors develop it within a year. The trigger is not the bumper damage but the moment your brain flagged the crash as life-threatening.
Consider the explanationVinegar usually irritates the throat rather than burns it, but the distinction is dose-dependent and not absolute.
Consider the explanationYes, spray paint can be used on wood, and it bonds well when the surface is sanded to 220 grit, the moisture content sits at 6 to 8 percent, and each coat stays under 1 mil dry film thickness.
Consider the explanationYes, you can be addicted to marijuana, and about 1 in 10 people who ever use it develop cannabis use disorder at some point.
Consider the explanationCan someone die from pain? In the great majority of cases, no. Pain is a protective nervous-system signal, not a circulating poison, and a healthy adult cannot be killed by a 10-out-of-10 pain score alone.
Consider the explanationYes, you can compost olive oil, but only in small, well-diluted amounts. The safe working ceiling is about 1% of the pile's volume per addition, which for a typical 1-cubic-yard backyard pile works out to roughly 2 tablespoons.
Consider the explanationYes, you can get an Adam’s apple implant, but it is a niche cosmetic operation rather than a standard medical treatment. Surgeons call it laryngeal prominence augmentation.
Consider the explanationYes, you can build muscle at any age, including your 80s and 90s, because the cellular machinery for growth never switches off. What changes is the dose required.
Consider the explanationIn most states, OCD alone will not get you a medical card, because it is not a listed qualifying condition. A small group of states names OCD outright.
Consider the explanationYes, you can die from appendix surgery, but it is extremely rare. Modern appendectomy carries an overall mortality rate of roughly 0.1 percent to 0.5 percent, meaning fewer than 1 in 200 patients die.
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