For the activity we had to identify what diseases our classmates had based on their symptoms. We interviewed individual patients and guessed what their disease was based on their symptoms. We then had to select one disease and write a paragraph on it. I chose to write about osteoporosis. Throughout this project, I learned many things about the endocrine system. I learned what the endocrine system was along with some of the diseases that dang include hypoparathyroidism, acromegaly, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, cushing's disease, growth hormone deficiency, grave's disease, turner syndrome, and osteoporosis.
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Today i had a patient come into my office with some symptoms they hadn't seen before. I asked them symptoms and the amount of time they had been feeling the way they had, and I believe this disease is osteoporosis. Some common symptoms are, back pain, sore body, depression, restricted mobility, loss of height, easily occurring fractures and stooped posture. My patient had a fractured hip, which could mean weaker bones due to lack of calcium. A lack of calcium can lead to a deficiency in a mineral needed for bone growth. They also had body pains, these occur when the body absorbed more bone than it produces. The combinations of all of these symptoms lead me to believing that my patient had osteoporosis.