Say that symptoms for a disease lets say… "cwncqncenc" disease (i made that up) and symptoms were… headache, stomach ache, ulceration, fatigue, and if the patient had 3/4 of those symptoms and lives out the rest of their life with that disease and without that ONE symptom… what cause them to be immune to that certain symptom?

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  • Mike:

    It’s not really "immunity" if you don’t get a particular symptom but still have the disease.

    "Symptoms" are often subjective, like tiredness/fatigue. They are described by the patient themselves. Others (more correctly called "signs") are more objective, and might be noticed by a doctor (eg, yellow skin).

    Some symptoms are very broad-ranging and could be a consequence of a large number of conditions. Three of your examples fall into this category – headache, stomach ache, and fatigue. Ulceration is more specific.

    Whether or not these symptoms appear in a particular person might depend on a number of things, including their individual tolerance to pain/discomfort (eg, a mild headache in one person might not even be noticed in another), their overall health, and the relative severity of the disease itself (eg, a minor infection by a virus, or a major infection by the same virus).

    So which symptoms appear can vary from person to person, and it’s possible that a person might never get one or more of the possible disease symptoms, even if they have the condition for life. There will however normally be one or more symptoms/signs that everybody gets all the time, and it is these ones which really define the disease.

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