Symptom Subjective

Symptoms are an important tool for diagnosing and assessing a patient's health status. They can be different and manifest themselves in the form of physical or psychological manifestations. Among them there are so-called subjective symptoms, which are based on the patient’s subjective feelings and experiences.

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Subjective symptom

A subjective symptom is a symptom identified when interviewing the patient. These are complaints of discomfort, unpleasant or unusual subjective sensations (pain) and experiences (fear, uncertainty, etc.).

Subjective symptoms reflect the patient’s response to certain changes in the body and are closely related to the emotional state. Changes in the psycho-emotional background can affect the patient's assessment of the severity of symptoms. Therefore, to obtain reliable results, it is important to take into account the entire range of complaints.

Features of symptomatic complaints

There are some clinical recommendations for assessing the importance of subjective complaints for a doctor:

- Against the background of a healthy life, symptoms can appear in all patients without exception. But sometimes they can be hidden, unmotivated and require special clarification. - Complaints can often be associated with the patient’s lifestyle, underlying diseases, and stress. In some patients, this symptom may not be associated with pathology in general, but with the fact that they are accustomed to seeing a doctor after