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).

Severe headache + occasional lightheadedness + sudden pain through the left arm

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I am a 39 years old male from India. I am suffering with a severe headache from last couple of days. The headache originated from the frontal lobe but now it is spreading over the entire head (in front side as well as in the back side). My BP is 124/84 and Pulse Rate is 76 but very fibble and...

by chatterjee_indranil282149 over a year ago

Extremely nauseous, dizziness, blurred vision, heavy feeling in head/ears...

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This has happened so many times and nothing seems to help so please, someone else try and help me out.I'm tired of trying to take dimenhydrinate [motion sickness medication] without gagging on the taste of the pill and making things worse. I'm tired of having to stop what I'm doing and go sit in a...

by Matt_N over a year ago

noticeable veins around both ears across temple area with a large patch of red skin on upper forehea

Started out around both ears painful areas where veins protruded. Next day spread across temple areas and towards back of head. Low fever pain in leg joints. Day three large tender sunburned like patch of skin on forehead thats tender hot and itchy

by mike knight270985 over a year ago

pain, tingling and numbness in my hands and feet

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please help!, for over a year I have been going to the Dr trying to find out why my hands and feet go numb. They tingle as if what people call (going to sleep). I shake them and it will eventually stop for a minute and then start hurting again. It hurt so bad that it will wake me from my sleep. I...

by Guest over a year ago

life expectancy for quadriplegics

I really don't know if the life expectancy is any different for quadriplegics than it is for average people, but it is something that I want to know about. Are there any differences in the life expectancy of quadriplegics, because they have no use of their limbs? Does this condition lead to any...

by gery970166056 over a year ago

PHN in both shoulders

Having had shingles 3 months ago I am suffering all the pains of PHN in both shoulders, arms and hand and on the chest where the rash was. I am also concerned by other symptons, Loss of apetite: I feel starving hungry but having eaten a couple of fork fulls. I feel totally full and sick. I have...

by Guest over a year ago

What is wrong with me?

When I was 10 I started getting really bad headaches and back eye pains. I also black outs constantly. I haven't been to a doctor in 3 years because my mom refuses to take me. Anyways. More about this pain, I have headaches all the time they never stop. My eyes hurt alot of the time and they black...

by Thejester1317 over a year ago

Education link to rise in Parkinson's risk

Parkinson's is a degenerative motor system disorder that causes co-ordination problems and tremors. The cause of the disease is not known, although it was previously thought that genetics and environmental factors played a major role in developing the disease. Gathered medical records of people who...

by Lori2592 over a year ago

left hand numbness and headaches

about 3 weeks ago my hand kept falling asleep and kept feeling pins and needles in my forearm and hand... my arm also left sore . 8 months ago i was in a car accident i was seeking physio since then but this randomly ... there is a lot of pain in my neckk and left shoulder .. i have been going to...

by tima123 over a year ago

terrifying sleep disorders where I can't wake up fully

I know I already have a host of sleep disorders, and have had polysomnography testing done that determined I have too many alpha spike arousals through the night (50 in 3 hours during the test). I have insomia, occasional nightmares, occasional sleep paralysis, occasional confusional arousals and...

by Delaval over a year ago