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).

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

My father has beenin the hospital for 4 weeks becasue of ADEM. He was a healthy active 72 year old. Feb. 15th he went to bed with a headache, fever and vomitting. He was admitted to the hospital on Feb21 and diagnosed with ADEM on Feb 29th. He is lethargic. no appetite, no strength. He is not...

by lcarter over a year ago

Do I have a brain tumor?

I've been having brain tumor symptoms for 3 years now. Im 18 years old. Do you think it would've been diagnosed already? I am the biggest hypochondriac but I have some weird symptoms. In 2009 I found out I had a lazy eye (doesn't move or anything) but I can only see 24% it was only diagnosed as I...

by Guest over a year ago

Dizziness ...feeling foggy...heavy headed

Answered by a doctor

I'm a 63 year old male...three months have passed since I had an attack of vertigo...since then have had two MRI and have seen three docs and been in the ER twice ... My dizziness and heavy headed feelings come and go but the foggy feeling and fatigue is nearly constant. Very frustrating!

by John over a year ago

hit my head

? now the dizzy is still there, seems like its worst ,on back of the head. before i was dizzy all over. now its only mainly when i look up and to my left, to wear im worried usally have to grab something its scary cause i bont know when its going to happen.DRIVING :-|

by crazeanimal@comcast.net over a year ago

tingling and headaches

Answered by a doctor

hi i,m a 42 year old male that has had no injuries to my head.for about 2 months now i have been getting tingling on the back left side of my head.has gotten a little worse with time.also have gotten a couple of migraines during that time.also have been getting stress headaches everyday.can anyone...

by cherish22134355 over a year ago

knot on head

have been having pains on left side of my head, down into my jaw giving me toothaches. have swollen lymph node under jaw on left side and have found an unexplainable knot on top left side of my head that is a little tender. now, keep breaking out with bumps that look like mosquito bites but don't...

by stargazer over a year ago

Sharp infrequent pain on top of my head

Hi I'm 16 and I get a Sharp infrequent pain on top of my head I don't know what it is but it usually comes when I go out to parties but can occur when I'm just out or possibly in bed but not usually it has only happened in probably the past 10 months or maybe shorter than that and I have probably...

by AdeHun332619 over a year ago

Weird feeling in my head

Hey guys I really need someones help to tell me what is really wrong here in my head I have been feelin like this for four days now My throat feels like it has something stuck in it it does not hurt but it just is a bad feeling but no pain .also when i breathe i feel like im breathing too much...

by Guest over a year ago

Chronic headaches with 20 year old.

Answered by a doctor

I'm 20 years old. I have been having headaches for about 4 years. I'm not sure what causes them, I have them everyday from the time I wake and the time I go to bed. I have not slept a full nights sleep in 4 years and if I do sleep its about 2 to 3 hours for a 24 hour period! I have had an MRI and...

by skater_gurl05 over a year ago

Passout Feeling, Headaches and Weak

It's been about a week that I've felt what I thought was super tired since I haven't been sleeping great, but I knock out for 7-9 hours and I'm still just as exhausted as the previous days. I noticed my blood pressure was much lower than I'm use to (I tend to have high due to my heart problem and on...

by JadeR over a year ago