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Health: start with what it is about
Nine lists on this site sort 198 different pages for health and care by what they are about. Start with the part of you, or the worry, that brought you here. Each box below is one list: its name, how many pages it holds, and its own groups. Pick a group and the list opens at that group.
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The nine lists
Mind and mood
What do you feel, or what were you told?
- Thinking about suicide, or worried someone is
- Hurting yourself, or after a suicide attempt
- Low, empty or heavy for weeks (depression)
- Moods that swing from very high to very low (bipolar)
- Worry that won’t switch off, and panic (anxiety)
- Thoughts you don’t want, rituals you can’t stop (OCD)
- Something frightening happened, and it keeps coming back (trauma, PTSD)
- Hearing or seeing things other people don’t (psychosis)
- Feelings that hit hard and fast, or anger that takes over
- When eating has become a fight
- Drinking, drugs or gambling, and an urge right now
- Sleep that won’t come
- When someone has died
- Feeling alone, or finding your people
- The way your brain works: attention, autism, learning, tics
- Memory, or a hit to the head
- Plan ahead, while you are well
- Before you call or go in
- Care or medicine you can’t afford
Heart, blood and hormones
What were you told, or what do you notice?
- Chest pain, a face that droops, or someone who collapsed (heart attack, stroke)
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- A heart that flutters, races or skips (atrial fibrillation)
- Short of breath, swelling, or heart failure
- High cholesterol
- Blood sugar that goes too low or too high (diabetes)
- Blood sugar higher than normal, but not diabetes (prediabetes)
- Tired and cold, or racing and shaky: the thyroid
- A low blood count, low iron, or sickle cell
- Hot flashes, night sweats, and the years around menopause
- Where diabetes and high blood pressure can reach: the kidneys and the eyes
- Medicine or a doctor you can’t afford
- Before you call or go in
A cough, a fever, or trouble breathing
What is going on?
An upset stomach, heartburn or constipation
What is going on?
- Something swallowed, a poisoning, or a reaction to a food, right now
- Belly pain that could be appendicitis
- Throwing up, diarrhea, heartburn, constipation, gallstones or an ulcer
- Celiac disease: when gluten damages the small intestine
- IBS: belly pain and bowel changes that keep coming back
- Lactose intolerance: gas, bloating or diarrhea after milk
- Diverticulitis: pouches in the colon, and pain low on the left
- Crohn’s disease: weeks of diarrhea, cramps and weight loss, or living with it
- Blood in the stool or the toilet, black stool, or blood in vomit
- The liver: fatty liver, high liver enzymes, cirrhosis, swelling, or yellow skin
- A baby or child who is throwing up, has diarrhea, or is constipated
- Nausea in pregnancy, hepatitis, a fight with food, or a sick day with diabetes
- Before you call or go in
Kidneys, bladder and urine
What is going on?
- Burning when you pee, a bladder infection, or a kidney stone
- Pink, red or brown urine, or blood found on a urine test
- Leaking urine, or a sudden need to go
- A weak stream, trouble starting, or getting up at night: the prostate
- Kidney disease, dialysis, or kidneys no one has checked
- A child with a bladder infection, or a child who wets the bed
- An infection that is not getting better, bladder leaks, high blood pressure or diabetes
- Before you call or go in
Pain, bones and joints
Where does it hurt, or what happened?
- A back that hurts
- A stiff, sore lower back that is worse after rest (ankylosing spondylitis)
- Back or neck pain, with legs, arms or hands that burn, tingle, go numb or feel weak (spinal stenosis)
- A child’s back that curves to the side (scoliosis)
- Joints that hurt, or arthritis and gout
- Joints that hurt, with psoriasis, a swollen finger or toe, or pitted nails (psoriatic arthritis)
- Joints that hurt and swell a few weeks after an infection (reactive arthritis)
- Long arms, legs and fingers, loose joints, and a heart to keep watch on (Marfan syndrome)
- Bones that break easily, from a small bump or for no clear reason (osteogenesis imperfecta)
- Bone replaced by scar-like tissue, with bone pain, bowed bones or breaks (fibrous dysplasia)
- Bones that grow too dense and break easily, with low blood counts or infections (osteopetrosis)
- A hand that goes numb, tingles or feels weak, often at night (carpal tunnel syndrome)
- A child or teen still hurting after a fall, a hit or a lot of one sport (growth plate injuries)
- A child’s joints that hurt, swell or are stiff (juvenile arthritis)
- Shoulders and hips that ache and stiffen after 50, or a new headache at the temples (polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis)
- Weak bones (osteoporosis)
- Weak bones in a child or teen (juvenile osteoporosis)
- Bones that grow larger and weaker (Paget’s disease of bone)
- Bone that loses its blood supply (osteonecrosis)
- A hip that hurts and limits what you can do, or a hip replacement ahead (hip replacement surgery)
- Pain that has lasted for months
- Pain all over, with fatigue and trouble sleeping (fibromyalgia)
- Joint pain with fevers, rashes or tiredness that come and go (lupus)
- Dry eyes and a dry mouth, with joint pain or tiredness (Sjögren’s disease)
- Headaches and migraine, or a hit to the head
- A bone that might be broken, a sprain, or a joint out of place
- Pain in the chest, or in the arm, jaw or back
- Pain that comes with something else: sickle cell, shingles, a fall, or a job
- Before you call or go in
Eyes and sight
What is happening with your eyes?
- An eye that is hurt, or something got in it
- A pink, red or sticky eye in a child (pink eye)
- Losing side vision, high eye pressure, or glaucoma in the family (glaucoma)
- Vision getting cloudy, faded or full of glare (cataracts)
- Diabetes and your eyes (diabetic retinopathy)
- Straight lines that look wavy, or a blurry spot in the middle (age-related macular degeneration)
- Straight lines that look bent, or a blurry spot in the middle, from a hole or wrinkle in the macula (macular hole, macular pucker)
- Suddenly a lot of new floaters, flashes of light, or a curtain over your vision (retinal detachment)
- Spots, threads or little cobwebs drifting across your vision (floaters)
- Eyes that burn, sting or feel scratchy (dry eye)
- Eyelids that are red, itchy, swollen or crusty (blepharitis)
- An eye that is suddenly red, painful, blurry or bothered by light (uveitis)
- Blurry far away or up close, squinting, or needing glasses (refractive errors)
- A child who squints, shuts one eye, or has an eye that drifts (lazy eye)
- Mixing up colors, like red and green (color blindness)
- Sight that is fading, and living with low vision
- Glasses or an eye exam you can’t afford
- Eyes that come with something else: dryness, a rash, a red face, sore joints, a headache at the temples, a thyroid
- Before you call or go in
A rash, an itch, or something going around at home
What is going on?
- Something is happening right now
- A rash, blisters, an itch or head lice
- Other sick days, each with a part on keeping it from spreading
- Painful lumps or boils that keep coming back
- Patches of skin that lose their color
- Pimples, blackheads, or deep, painful lumps (acne)
- Blisters or sores in the mouth or on the skin that will not go away (pemphigus)
- Skin that blisters or tears at the slightest rub, often from birth (epidermolysis bullosa)
- Skin that is dry, thick and scaly all over, often from birth or the first year (ichthyosis)
- Thick nails and painful calluses on the soles, often from birth (pachyonychia congenita)
- A red face, flushing, or bumps on the cheeks and nose
- Hair falling out in round patches
- Fingers or toes that turn white, then blue, in the cold
- Skin getting tight, hard or thick
- Before you call or go in
Looking after a baby or child
What is going on?
- Something is happening right now
- Fever, coughs, sore throats, pink eye, hand-foot-and-mouth, tummy, ears, UTIs, wet beds, head lice, eczema, chickenpox, scabies, flu, RSV, COVID-19, whooping cough and measles
- Bitten, stung, or a rash from a plant
- A health problem that lasts: a child’s joints (juvenile arthritis)
- A health problem that lasts: a child’s back that curves (scoliosis)
- A health problem that lasts: a child’s weak bones (juvenile osteoporosis)
- The first year with a baby
- At school
- Child care, custody and keeping a child safe
- Before you call or go in
No group matches those words. Try one word, press Show all, or search the whole site.
Other ways in
- Search this site: type what is going on, in your own words.
- Start here: a few questions that lead to the right page, for more than health.
- The phone list: the helplines the guides lead with, on one page.
- Low-cost care: when you need care and cannot afford it.
- All the free tools.
Good to know
- A page can be on more than one list, so the 289 pages on the lists add up to more than 198.
- The names, counts and groups here are read from the lists themselves each time this page is built. This page adds no health facts of its own.
- The order of the lists is not an order of how serious anything is.
- Everything here was written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast. It is not medical advice, and no doctor has reviewed it. The pages are for the United States.
A way to find a page, not a doctor. General information for the United States. It is not medical, legal or financial advice.
This page and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). The list names, counts and groups are read from the nine lists when this page is built. The page was checked by programs, not yet used by people. It runs no analytics or tracking (privacy). Also in Spanish: Salud: empieza por el tema.