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).

Back Head Pain Issue

Answered by a doctor

My Mother is having back head pain for the past 6 months. but it comes once for a month. She is in 60s. what would be the problem. can you prefer any doctors in coimbatore to specialise in coimbatore. please reply as earlier. ? Regards Kavitha

by Guest over a year ago

Cloning treats Parkinson's disease in mice

US researchers have made to successfully treat animals with their own cloned cells and get them free from Parkinson’s symptoms for 11 weeks after the treatment. The success they had reached gives hope that therapeutic cloning may be used to treat people with the disease one day. In Parkinson's...

by Mick over a year ago

Sickening Dream, Pregnant With Parasite or Creature

Everytime I dream that I am pregnant (no kids, no pregnancy scares) I dream that I am pregnant with some sort of creature. Last night I dreamt that I was pregnant with a dragon-like creature. I would look down at my belly and see the skeleton outline and the creature was trying to get at me. I...

by HealthIsNumberOne72046 over a year ago

Teenager unsure about seizure diagnosis

in February this year i had a seizure in my sleep. i woke up with extreme pain in my back, sever headache and a bitten tongue. when i went to my GP they said to get an EEG done. this came back irregular with slowing in the left side of my brain. they recommended getting an MRI done to make...

by Guest over a year ago

Burning Headach around Shunt area

I keep having burning headachs around my shunt area and abdomanal pain .Test are not showing anything but I am still in pain and can,t seem to find any answers some of my headachs feel like I have been hit with a basball bat

by Kapnd over a year ago

Treatment for Peraphal Neuopathy caused by trauma????

Hello,I was involved in a motor cycle accident 15 years ago. I suffered major injuries to both legs, including a dislocation of my right knee. I tore the main artery in my leg and had a vein graft - I almost had my leg amputated from above the Knee. I also suffered nerve damage and as a result...

by stephen1076247649 over a year ago

Please explain what is Syringomylia.

I m suffering with low back pain with burning sensations in the back and I m now using Pre gabalin 150 mg twice a day. (30% relieve) This is caused due to major road accident on the Motor bike way back in 1996 and injured L1 & L2 Pl advise if this is curable and is there any permanent remedy...

by Imtiaz Abdul Haq over a year ago

symptoms with my lp shunt

hi i have had a lp shunt for 4 years and ive always had a few problems with it getting blocked. now in the last 3 months a lump has appeared on the left side of my stomach (the side where my shunt is)these are new symptoms and yesterday i had a really bad pain a pain which made me feel sick, when i...

by tinkerbellmmj80149561 over a year ago

I am having migraine headache

Answered by a doctor

i am having migraine headache -from 15 yrs . i am using paracetamol almost on daily basis. i am really scared of the long term usage of the drug .could u please tell the effects of this drug on long term use.

by Guest over a year ago

Is Lorenzo?s oil effective for adenoleucodystrophy?

I just read on someone's blog that Lorenzo's oil could do a great deal for adenoleucodystrophy patients, helping their health to improve. Sadly, I couldn't find any reliable research on the subject and I was wondering whether anyone here has any views on this. If you have a personal success story, I...

by matthiew856200802 over a year ago