List of medical symptoms
Medical symptoms are complaints which indicate disease. They are noticed by the patient and cause people to go and see a health practitioner. It is rare that a person would visit a doctor and complain as follows: "Doctor, I have amaurosis fugax." They are more likely to complain of loss of vision. This list is not exhaustive but might be useful as a guide.
Symptoms by presentation
My ... hurts
I feel:
- Fever
- Paresthesia (numbness, tingling, electric tweaks)
- Light-headed
- Dizzy
- My mouth is dry
- Nauseated
- Sick
- Short of breath
- Sleepy
- Sweaty
- Thirsty
- Tired
- Weak
I can't:
- Breathe normally
- Hear normally:
- Move one side – arm and/or leg
- Pass a bowel action normally
- Pass urine normally
- Remember normally
- See properly:
- Sleep normally
- Smell things normally
- Speak normally
- Stop passing watery bowel actions
- Stop scratching
- Stop sweating
- Swallow normally
- Taste properly
- Walk normally
- Write normally
Medical symptoms
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Where available, ICD-10 codes are listed. When codes are available both as a sign/symptom (R code) and as an underlying condition, the code for the sign is used.
When there is no symptoms for a disease that a patient has, the patient is said to be asymptomatic.
- General
- anorexia (R63.0)
- weight loss (R63.4)
- cachexia (R64)
- chills and shivering
- convulsions (R56)
- deformity
- discharge
- dizziness / Vertigo (R42)
- fatigue (R53)
- hypothermia (T68)
- jaundice (P58, P59, R17)
- muscle weakness (M62.8)
- pyrexia (R50)
- sweats
- swelling
- swollen or painful lymph node(s) (I88, L04, R59.1)
- weight gain (R63.5)
- anorexia (R63.0)
- Cardiovascular
- arrhythmia
- bradycardia (R00.1)
- chest pain (R07)
- claudication
- palpitations (R00.2)
- tachycardia (R00.0)
- Ear, Nose and Throat
- dry mouth (R68.2)
- epistaxis (R04.0)
- halitosis
- hearing loss
- nasal discharge
- otalgia (H92.0)
- otorrhea (H92.1)
- sore throat
- toothache
- tinnitus (H93.1)
- trismus
- Gastrointestinal
- abdominal pain (R10)
- bloating (R14)
- belching (R14)
- bleeding:
- Hematemesis
- blood in stool: melena (K92.1), hematochezia
- constipation (K59.0)
- diarrhea (A09, K58, K59.1)
- dysphagia (R13)
- dyspepsia (K30)
- fecal incontinence
- flatulence (R14)
- heartburn
- nausea (R11)
- odynophagia
- proctalgia fugax
- pyrosis (R12)
- Rectal tenesmus
- steatorrhea
- vomiting (R11)
- Integumentary
- Hair:
- nail:
- Skin:
- abrasion
- anasarca (R60.1)
- bleeding into the skin
- petechia
- purpura
- ecchymosis and bruising (Sx0 (x=0 through 9))
- blister (T14.0)
- edema (R60)
- itching (L29)
- Janeway lesions and Osler's node
- laceration
- rash (R21)
- urticaria (L50)
- Neurological
- abnormal posturing
- acalculia
- agnosia
- alexia
- amnesia
- anomia
- anosognosia
- aphasia and apraxia
- apraxia
- ataxia
- cataplexy (G47.4)
- confusion
- dysarthria
- dysdiadochokinesia
- dysgraphia
- hallucination
- headache (R51)
- hypokinetic movement disorder:
- hyperkinetic movement disorder:
- insomnia (F51.0, G47.0)
- Lhermitte's sign (as if an electrical sensation shoots down back & into arms)
- loss of consciousness
- Syncope (medicine) (R55)
- neck stiffness
- opisthotonus
- paralysis and paresis
- paresthesia (R20.2)
- prosopagnosia
- somnolence (R40.0)
- Obstetric / Gynaecological
- Ocular
- amaurosis fugax (G45.3) and amaurosis
- blurred vision
- Dalrymple's sign
- double vision (H53.2)
- exophthalmos (H05.2)
- mydriasis/miosis (H570)
- nystagmus
- Psychiatric
- Pulmonary
- Rheumatologic
- Urologic
- dysuria (R30.0)
- hematospermia
- hematuria (R31)
- impotence (N48.4)
- polyuria (R35)
- retrograde ejaculation
- strangury
- urethral discharge
- urinary frequency (R35)
- urinary incontinence (R32)
- urinary retention
