"Overlapping symptoms" refers to when different medical conditions or diseases share similar signs or symptoms, making it difficult to distinguish between them based solely on those similarities.
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If you're a woman under 40, you recently gave birth, or are a man, or you already have a condition such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, or an autoimmune disease, which have many
overlapping symptoms with thyroid problems, your doctor simply may not order thyroid lab testing.
Differential diagnoses
of overlapping symptoms of more commonly known diagnoses that mask a dissociative disorder will be described, such as ADHD, psychosis, bipolar disorder.
Depression is a common misdiagnosis because of
overlapping symptoms such as poor sleep, depressed mood, and diffuse body pain.
Mindful Medication Management means I provide needed prescriptions for anxiety, depression, cognitive impairment / dementia, and sleep disorders while using an integrative approach to help uncover possible causes such as nutritional deficiencies, hormone imbalances, or other
stressors overlapping symptoms.
This assertion is based on
several overlapping symptoms and features, including trait impulsivity, emotional lability, high rates of depression and suicide, and a high likelihood of childhood abuse and / or neglect.
Neurodegenerative diseases are very complex and often have
overlapping symptoms.
Fibromyalgia is characterized by diffuse and
overlapping symptoms.
If you have fewer than five symptoms, but have some of
the overlapping symptoms from other chapters — for instance of estrogen dominance or high or low cortisol, then read on, because adrenal and sex hormone issues can mask thyroid symptoms and vice versa.
Because these health conditions can have similar or
overlapping symptoms, testing is the only way to know for certain which type of adverse response is occurring.
They often create diverse and
overlapping symptoms, and patients with chronic fatigue often have multiple infections that demand detective work and a lot of connecting the dots.
Because cats with suspected hyperthyroidism are often geriatric and concurrent illness such as diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal cancer or chronic kidney failure can have
overlapping symptoms, diagnosis of hyperthyroidism in these cats can be complicated.
You'll notice that many diseases have
overlapping symptoms, so skilled veterinary care and keen observation is critical.
Trying to diagnose what is wrong with a bird at home or even in the store is almost impossible, as many diseases can have
overlapping symptoms.
In cats, there are several poorly - defined diseases with
overlapping symptoms, difficult diagnoses, and less - than - ideal treatments.
Module 1 Title: Neurobiology of Trauma & Dissociation and Evaluating Dissociation in Children and Adolescents Presenter: Frances Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT Abstract Childhood dissociation is often misunderstood or missed with children with complex trauma due to lack of understanding of the animal stress response system and
overlapping symptoms that can mask dissociation.
Specifically, the child's reported symptoms met DSM - IV criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD; a common DBP diagnosis for children in public mental health services) plus some ADHD symptoms that were sub-threshold for diagnosis, to reflect
the overlapping symptoms typically occurring in DBP populations.