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).

Headaches, dizziness, tiredness, back pains.....

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Hello my name is David and I'm 18 years old student. Okay so I have been having these for a while now: Headaches (on the front and the sides of my head) Dizziness Blackouts not faints (It happened twice at college before as I was sat in class. I kind of turned off, I lost my vision plus my head went...

by David over a year ago

Epilepsy(front temporal lobe), ADD &!! Addiction

Anybody else as lucky as I am?? Did you get sober then found yourself thinking "OK now I have sobriety what do I do with it?" What now!? Hello!! Where did everybody go!? LOL!! Seriously, I truly have never had the issues with health as I do now that I am sober. Surely I am not getting old!! Couldnt...

by Guest over a year ago

Right eye drooping and Right side of mouth

I have noticed over the last few months that the right side of my mouth does not go up as far as the left when I smile, and that the right eye lid is closed a little also. What could it be....It has become quite noticable expecially in pictures.

by Rhonda Smith9148 over a year ago

Pressure In head

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Ok, i am 16 years old, and I went through like 2-3 weeks of heavy coughing, im talking "i wanna die" coughing, i dont know what it was from... Anyway, about 3-days passed after i had gotten over the horrible cough, and i coughed ONCE and out of nowhere INsidemy head in the front left, and in the...

by Guest over a year ago

Strange ache in back of head

Help. I woke up one day after getting very little sleep with an dull ache in the back of my head, it lasted about a week. I thought it was a tension headache, which i've had before, but it came back, and I noticed that when, I burp the ache goes away. The ache isn't constant but only when I feel...

by cmueller197913664 over a year ago

Need help with archnoid cyst

My son is thirteen years all and was complaining about black out episodes. I took him to have an eye exam and on a visual field the optometrist found and inflamation on the optic nerve. He ordered me to consult a neurologist and he order a brain MRI. I just got the findings an I am very concern....

by adelyn138305 over a year ago

Possible seizures while sleeping?

i've been noticing weird things lately, like unusual tiredness throughout the day, every day, really bad blurred vision, sometimes double vision, and didnt really decide to tell anybody or ask any questions until i wound up in the emergency room the other night, due to what the e.r. doc said was a...

by Guest over a year ago

inferitle and nausea at night

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Hi. I am 20 years old and very depressed and stressed out. For the lonest time I have had problems but now I'm just getting tired of them. I am taking metformin because I have PCOS. At night I feel nauses and dizzy to the point of wanting to throw up. Randomly my heart will race like it is going to...

by MicCan255639 over a year ago

Ongoing effects following viral encephelitus

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My son had viral encephelitus when he was four and was in hospital for three months. He is now in his thirties and suffering from many of the problems already mentioned on this site such as depression, mood swings, memory loss, bone pain, anxieties and mistrust. My question is this: Has anyone...

by Trackersearch over a year ago

Blackouts and constant headache since then.

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Hi, Im a 16 year old female. Four days ago i feel perfectly normal and healthy. Then threee days ago, while i was in school during the assembly under the sun i didnt something i never before. I fainted. I dont believe its due to the heat because i am very used it to for the pass 4 years in school. I...

by Guest over a year ago