In continuation of our discussion last week, I want men to be careful with their health. Please show thyself a man in good health. Three  minor symptoms that may signify inner danger were already discussed

Leg Pain With Swelling
One of your calves may be killing you. It's swollen and tender to the touch, and may even feel warm, as if it's being slow-roasted from the inside out. Do not massage the leg, it could be a Deep-vein thrombosis, or DVT, which occurs when blood pools in your lower legs and forms a clot. Next thing you know, that clot is big enough to block a vein in your calf, producing pain and swelling.

Massaging or rubbing the legs can dislodge a big clot running up to your lung, where it can kill. It causes acute chest pain with difficulty in breathing(pulmonary embolism).

Physicians can dissolve the clot with drugs, or outfit vulnerable veins with filters to stop a clot before it stops you. The other cause of leg pain but without swelling in claudication that can signify inner ischaemic events. Watch out for that next leg pain and do not tough it out.

Transient Chest Pain
A heavy ache  in the chest that comes on suddenly and then goes away just as quickly. Otherwise, you feel fine.

It may be as simple as indigestion. Or it could be a heart attack. "Even if it's very short in duration, it can be a sign of something serious," says John Stamatos, M.D., medical director of North Shore Pain Services in Long Island, United States and author of Painbuster.

A blood clot may have lodged in a narrowed section of a coronary artery, completely cutting off the flow of blood to one section of your heart. Many of sudden deaths  in the country is really disturbing. Without prejudice to what the Forensic Pathologist will come up with as the cause(s) I want to point out that greater percentage will actually be heart attack. If it were to be other causes like stroke, no matter how severe, most of the patients would have reached hospitals before they die.

How much wait-and-see time do you have? Really, none. Fifty percent of deaths from heart attacks occur within 3 to 4 hours of the first symptoms. You're literally living on borrowed time.

A blood test checks for markers of damaged heart tissue. Treatment: angioplasty or bypass.

Sharp Pain In The Abdomen
All the metaphors apply—knife in the gut, bullet in the belly, skewer in the stomach—except this attack is from within.

Since the area between your ribs and your hips is jam-packed with organs, the pain can be a symptom of appendicitis, pancreatitis, or an inflamed gallbladder. In all three cases, the cause is the same: Something has blocked up the organ in question, resulting in a potentially fatal infection.

If the pain is in your lower-right abdomen and your white-blood-cell count is up, it's probably appendicitis (out comes the appendix).

Pain in your upper abdomen with high white blood cells usually means an inflamed gallbladder (goodbye, gallbladder).

And if it hurts below your breastbone and certain enzymes in the blood are elevated, then pancreatitis is probably the culprit. (The pancreas stays, but a gallstone may be blocking things up. If so, the stone and the gallbladder may have to come out.)

Let me end this with the comment of  T.E. Holt, M.D., a physician in North Carolina, who tells this story about one of his patients:

A man came in, dragged by his daughter because, she explained, he had been steadily losing weight and was covered in big lumps. The lumps had been growing for 2 years, maybe more, she said.

I had no doubt, from the moment I saw him that this man was dying. He had lumps as big as my fist on his forehead and his back, and as I came closer and moved around him, more came into view. When I pressed deeply into his belly, I felt a solid rock where there should have been yielding space.

It was metastatic sarcoma, a rare cancer of the connective tissue. Four months later, the man was dead.

Let me assure us that we shall not die but live and you will cross over to New Year into your greater honour. Merry Xmas and Happy new year in advance. As you merry, maintain a healthy heart.