Men's Health
The emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made us appreciate how important it is to quickly develop treatments and save lives. The race to develop a vaccine for this novel coronavirus began as soon as the pandemic emerged.
Family health history is a record of the diseases and health conditions in your family. You and your family members share genes. You may also have behaviors in common, such as exercise habits and what you like to eat. You may live in the same area and come into contact with similar things in the environment. Family history includes all these factors, any of which can affect your health.
Stress affects everyone: Everyone feels stressed from time to time. Some people may cope with stress more effectively or recover from stressful events more quickly than others. There are different types of stress all of which carry physical and mental health risks. A stressor may be a one time or short-term occurrence, or it can be an occurrence that keeps happening over a long period of time.
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohn's disease and microscopic colitis are the other common IBDs. Ulcerative colitis can be chronic, or a long-lasting disease that causes inflammation - irritation or swelling - and sores called ulcers on the inner lining of the large intestine.
Tips On How To Talk To Your Healthcare Provider
How can I describe my pain to my health care provider?
Describing your pain accurately and thoroughly may help your health care provider find the cause of the pain and treat it.
Information that is helpful to your doctor includes:
- How long you have had your pain
- Where you feel the pain
- Whether your pain is in one spot or spread out
- How the pain feels and how severe it is
- Whether pain is constant or comes and goes
- What activities make pain worse or improve it
- How your pain limits what you can do
- How often the pain occurs and how long it lasts
- Anything that triggers the pain
Keeping a pain diary or record of your pain is a good way to track your pain triggers as well as symptoms over time. Be as specific as possible. Some words that can help you describe the way your pain feels include:
- Aching
- Cramping
- Fearful
- Gnawing
- Heavy
- Hot or burning
- Sharp
- Shooting
- Sickening
- Splitting
- Stabbing
- Punishing or cruel
- Tender
- Throbbing
- Tiring or exhausting
