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Looking for a book that lists diseases and their symptoms? Can someone help me?

I'm looking for a book that contains diseases and genetic disorders, with their symptoms listed. I'm not looking for information about the diseases or disorders, just the symptoms. Does such a thing exist? I've looked on the internet, but I haven't had any luck. I'm looking for a book to cover a broad range of diseases and disorders (not just autoimmune disorders, for example, but many, many diseases and disorders).

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1. your best bet might be to pop to your local library and see if they can find a suitable book in their database then search amazon-like sites for books you find, beyond my knowledge that there are general medical text books given to nurses and training doctors I'm not sure what else you'd be able to find without a bit more knowledge of medical profession based journals and books, sorry, hope this helps
2. Not sure if this will help, but it's a site where you start looking via symptoms. http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/ It is a pain in the rear to navigate, but you CAN find some interesting stuff on it.
3. Jeraldo: I saw your other questions. I get the same strange sensations in my legs under the same condition.I have never found another person aside from yourself who experiences this. I have a rare disorder called myotonia congenita, but I don't know if it's from that. Myotonia congenita is an ion channel disorder. My muscles do not relax properly after I do something like stand up or shake someone's hand. I sometimes have to wait a few seconds for them to relax on their own. I also sometimes get burning and weakness. This does not happen all the time. I have good days and bad days. You need to see a neurologist and they need to do an EMG. This will allow them to listen and observe the electrical signals within your muscles. Have them test in multiple areas. Let me know if they find anything.
4. I am sure I have answered this once... There are many. Both for lay people and those in the medical profession. You are probably better without one if you are a lay person. You will end up imagining all sorts of scary diseases that you do not have at all. See a doctor. Use the web with caution. Information is there, but you have to learn to interpret it as well. You will imagine you have all sorts of diseases you do not have. Look up feeling dizzy, symptoms of diabetes, symptoms of dehydration, symptoms of anaemia... ...to name but a few. It can be unhelpful and confusing.