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Symptoms Beginning With W
9 symptoms in this guide begin with the letter W. Every name links to a plain-language page covering what the symptom can feel like, the conditions it can be associated with, its red flags, and what a clinician may do.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W
| Symptom | Category | What it can feel like |
|---|---|---|
| Waking up breathless | Lungs & Breathing | Waking up breathless means being woken from sleep by a feeling of suffocation or air hunger, often needing to sit up or stand, or dangle your legs over the bed, before… |
| Waking up tired | Mind & Sleep | Waking up tired means starting the day unrefreshed despite spending enough hours in bed — heavy head, grogginess that takes hours to lift, and reaching for caffeine to… |
| Watering eyes | Head & Senses | Watering eyes mean tears spill over the lid and run down the cheek, rather than draining away silently through the tear ducts into the nose. It is a plumbing problem, a… |
| Weak urine stream | Urinary | A weak urine stream means urine flows slowly, in a thin or spraying stream, taking longer to empty the bladder, sometimes with dribbling at the end. Like hesitancy, in… |
| Weight gain | General | Weight gain means your body weight gradually increases over weeks to months. Some of it is fat gain from eating and activity patterns, but weight can also rise because… |
| Wheezing | Lungs & Breathing | Wheezing is a high-pitched whistling sound made when breathing, most often breathing out, through narrowed airways. It is a sound doctors listen for with a stethoscope… |
| White patches of skin | Skin | White patches of skin are areas that have lost some or all of their pigment — ranging from the milk-white, sharply bordered patches of vitiligo to the faint, scaly pale… |
| Widespread muscle aches | Muscles & Joints | Widespread muscle aches mean pain felt across much of the body — both sides, above and below the waist — often with profound fatigue, unrefreshing sleep and difficulty… |
| Wrist pain | Muscles & Joints | Wrist pain most often follows a fall onto an outstretched hand, overuse of the tendons, or ganglion cysts appearing on the back of the wrist. Because the small wrist… |
Please note: This page is educational information about a symptom. A symptom alone cannot diagnose any condition, and the causes listed here are possibilities, not a diagnosis. If you are worried about a symptom — especially one that is new, severe, getting worse or not going away — please see your own clinician, who can examine you and arrange tests. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.