Nervous System Disorders and Diseases

Ask questions and share information about nervous system disorders and diseases here. Talk about vascular disorders (stroke, transient ischemic attack or TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage and hematoma, and extradural hemorrhage), infections (meningitis, encephalitis, polio, and epidural abscess), functional disorders ( headache, epilepsy, dizziness, and neuralgia), structural disorders (Bell's palsy, cervical spondylosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, brain or spinal cord tumors, peripheral neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome) and degeneration (Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's chorea, and Alzheimer's disease).

I Take Clarithromicin antibiotics

Hi everyone, Sounds like our hospitals are making a boat load of money on tests that ALMOST always come up negative. This doesn't hurt or make me sick. I Take Clarithromicin antibiotics. Sometimes there are sinus issues that are almost or are undetectable. 7-14 days depending on severity is how...

by Guest over a year ago

Cause of fainting spells in young child who is otherwise healthy.

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What can be the cause of a child having periodic fainting spells usually once he has fallen down or gotten hurt from a typical child accident in which he may barely get hurt. He has had this on and off I think she said around 8 times and he is now 6. The first occasion was when he was 15 months old....

by Jackie61054312132 over a year ago

shooting pain in the lower right side of the back of my head

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I have these intence shooting pain in the lower right side of my head, right past the neck and up to the top of my head. I had a sore sensative feeling on the skin of my shoulder I chalked up to a change in bathroom soad or something, and when it spread to my head it didn't worry me unitl yesterday...

by bobby1983 over a year ago

Seizure and neck jerking

My boyfriend has been having seizure like activity for the past year right before he goes to sleep or when he gets tired. I call them neck jerks because it is a jerking to the left and to the right. Sometimes they are severe. He will wake the next morning and his neck will be very sore but he does...

by Guest over a year ago

feeling of seprateness of head from whole body and vibration which can be seen in neck.

hello sir my age is 28 years. i want to ask that i have been suffring from neck and head vibrarion .which doctors saying that this is only enxiety and somatoform dissorder.but i could not able to find its origin.i have anxiety about my head that its going to seprate from my body.i feel that my...

by ravit verma over a year ago

Phantosmia/ smelling smoke and a lump on my head, are these two symptoms connected?

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About 7 months ago now I started to smell cigarette smoke, often. I'm a non smoker, none of my friends or family smoke so it's not second hand. I casually mentioned it to my neurologist around that time, he sent me for an extended EEG, which I was told showed no signs of seizure. I've had seizures...

by NatesSweetpea218531 over a year ago

started to behave weird_clear throat and tilt head back

i am 14 and for a few months now i have started to do things that i have no control over my brain just decides when i do it.my behaviors are usaully clering my throat and tilitng my head back and this behavior could happen many times a day. i would be grateful if someone could give me some opion on...

by qwerty9147 over a year ago

idk what goes here

I am 13Lately i have been tired and getting headachesI go to sleep at the same time every night AND take a nap on my bus to schoolBut later, i get sleepy and need to rest my eyes and i can barely stay awakeI also get headaches towards the after noon, but sometimes happens in the morning

by Headaches and always tired over a year ago

CCD-31-F considering pregnancy

Thanks to all who've posted. I'm 31 female w/ CCD. I think I was diagnosed around 3 years of age and no one in my family seems to have it. My case is pretty mild I think. I walk w/o a cane or walker but stairs are tough and I get tired if I over-exert myself. I have a noticeable limp. I'm...

by Leigh over a year ago

Tingling going down my back and legs

Answered by a doctor

Hello, For about two weeks, i have been experience tingling in my back and legs. It happens when I bend my head forward, as long as am standing or sitting straight it doesn happen. So could this be a pinched nerve. I haven't been to the doctor yet.

by lagnew over a year ago