That's why persistent, unexpected and unexplained symptoms should be taken to your doctor.

You cannot send everyone with unexplained symptoms to hospital.

Estimates of primary care consultations with medically unexplained symptoms range from 15% to a high of 66% in specialty settings.

Association with depressive and anxiety disorders increases with the number of unexplained symptoms reported, but medically unexplained symptoms as a whole are not necessarily associated with depression and anxiety.

In the same way, someone with psychological issues such as depression or anxiety will sometimes experience physical manifestations of these affective fluctuations, often in the form of medically unexplained symptoms.