I've just got back into a town after a dungeon crawl and suddenly people are telling me I don't look so good. Now, I'm assuming that means I've probably been poisoned or have contracted a disease... But what stats can I look at to see if that is really the case and what poison or disease it might be? I'm having problems finding out.

Bring up your inventory menu, go to magic, and at the bottom of the list there is Active Effects look in there. Also if the woman at the Alchemy shop in Whiterun tells you that you are sick don't believe her she is lying, it's good for business.

You are. If anybody says anything about you looking sick or pale just take a cure disease potion or pray at a chapel.

I had a negative effect decreasing one of my skills and it didn't show up where you say. I thought it would show up there, but it didn't.

You are diseased. Go cure yourself.

Aha! Much thanks!

Ya you can thank the crappy ass "console port" UI for this...

They wan that "streamlined' "clean" gameplay interface...

Basically they felt a few small icons for buffs, debuffs, or screen border flashing was just too [censored] cluttery...

So instead they make you navigate through 3-4 menus, hoping your mouse actually works that time, to see your "Active Skills"...

I didn't realize my "Active Skills" was poisoning myself...

Dumbed down [censored] game... Can thank the Ritalin fueled ADD console crowd for that.