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).

neurocognitive test/closed-head injury

I was in a car accident and suffered from whiplash so bad in fact i have a herniated disc in neck and severe headaches daily. Ive also been experiencing smell and taste loss and dizzyness and nausea. Mri and cat scans are normal. my neurologist ordred me to have a neurocognitive test. What does...

by Guest over a year ago

Headaches and dizzy spells

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Hej my name is Patrick and I´m 69 years old, my neck aches and I get headaches also I have had a couple of dizzy spells bad ones at that, yes I do smoke sbout 12 a day, and I go dancing at least once a week some times 2 or 3 (Linedancing) so Iám fairly active, Iàm still a blood donour 141/70 so...

by Guest over a year ago

Pressure against head, exaggerated movement causes small pain, sore throat

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It started from the trip back from Taiwan... It started with chills all over my body, and I figured out I might come down with a flu or a fever, but it didn't, even when I reached home. I have now a sore throat that slowly increases in intensity, now to the point that swallowing saliva...

by Guest over a year ago

High bp and hole in the heart

My husband is 38 non smoker not really overweight has a hole in his heart and now his bp is high. My daughter has a bp machine and I have been testing him for a week or so today he was 158/103

by Donna over a year ago

bad concussion from black eye and 2 bumps to the head during a drunken new years brawl.

Im a 22yr old male. I got into a fight on 1/1/2010 and was really drunk. Sadly it's bad way to start off the new year. I got punched resulting in a black eye. I also hit the concrete on my the right side of my head resulting in bump and also received a bump on the back left of my head as well. There...

by T3hq137084 over a year ago

Mortons neuroma 3 years ago

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I had a mortons neuroma op 3 years ago on my right foot. (underneath). As a result, I had painful scar tissue, tingling, sharp electric shock sensations in 2 toes. I asked for a second opinion, and the surgeon a foot specialist decided it needed doing again. The nerve had stuck to the bone, and...

by jbbbb2 over a year ago

A girlfriend Confused

Hello I am new to this and need some advise.... I have been dating this guy :-D for about two months now and I think he has Terrets, even though he has not told me yet. When we go out to eat he is fine, I think he controls it but when we are at his house and watching TV i noticed that his head...

by Notsure15315 over a year ago

4 yr old shaking episodes

Hi I have a 4 year old son, for the past year he has these shaking episodes. He can feel them start. He will scream and start crying, "Momma Momma I'm shaking I'm scared." I will pick him up and hold him tightly and tell him to take deep breaths, He is alert the whole time and has to lay down...

by Guest over a year ago

Sharp Head Pain

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Ok, this all started the end of Sept. 2012. I started feeling pressure in my head and a headache that just would not stop. I had a panic attack and freaked out and went to the ER. I was given a CT scan, EKG and had blood work done and all came back fine! They sent me home and the symptoms persisted....

by MrsMeek over a year ago

Brain implant makes mute man speak

Researchers from the Boston University in Massachusetts worked with a patient who has locked-in syndrome, a condition in which patients are almost completely paralysed — often able to move only their eyelids — but still fully conscious. They enabled him to speak by using a speech synthesizer to...

by simone2593 over a year ago