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).

life expectancy for someone with huntington's disease

Hi, guys. My brother started experiencing some movement problems. It is a neurological disorder and a doctor called it huntington’s disease. I must admit that I have never heard about this disorder before. I would appreciate if someone could give me more info. What is the life expectancy for...

by shannon_154777154777 over a year ago

My little brother

My little brother is about 11 and was just diagnosed with Tourettes. He is starting to take some meds to help him control his ticks and tempers, but my older sister doesn't know and she yells at him all the time. When she does this i see that he starts to tic his head really bad and can't really...

by Jemi over a year ago

Head aches. Throbbing and stabbing pain in the sides of my head.

Answered by a doctor

I'm 15 years old and I've been experiencing head aches for nearly a year now, I haven't told anyone about it as they were ignorable at the start, they only used to happen at least 1-2 times a week but I knew they were regular, I've found as the days pass by they seem to be getting progressively...

by Guest over a year ago

I am scare one day while I am driving feel dizy and causes big acident

I have been feeling dizyness all most a month. Sometimes my bed it looks it moving around so badly. Other time I can't walk untill it is gone. I don't know what it is cousing me to feel that way. I am scare one day while I am driving feel dizy and causes big acident. What can I do? Need advice.

by Hello, over a year ago

surgery recovery times for brain surgey

I had meningioma at c2-c3 level which got operated 4 months back. During post operative period I was on ventilator for 39 days. I had problem like extreme pain in shoulder and hands, hallucination, couldn't sleep in flat position, sleeping disorder, breathing pattern change, no bowel and bladder...

by sachinjraj289740 over a year ago

The costs of good night sleep

It should come naturally but the modern living forces us to pay billions of dollars to get a good night sleep. Sleep today is being compared to sex, something that we all need and want, have to have but have trouble getting it. What is worse, more and more are paying to get it. The “sleeping”...

by Lori2592 over a year ago

a strong strectch in my head ...

hi..i m 20(f) year old ..i have problem in my head and face from last one month. in a day i feel a strong stretch in the back head for 1-2 minutes.. sometimes feel my chicks very heavy...plz sugest me some treatment

by Guest over a year ago

snapping head to one side or the other, saying damn out loud

As cliche as this may sound but I think I might have turrets? I'd heard the term though didn't know what it referred to, I would just call what happened my "spasms", it didn't occur to me that it could be turrets till I had heard of someone that had an extreme case of it and some of the...

by evenhead70143 over a year ago

restless leg snydrome

aloha, i've been having problems with restless leg snydrome for a decade now and i've been taking lorazapam for it and it worked. but last month my doctor started changing the directions on it and he didn't discuss it with me. I didn't know what lorazapam was wither. i've never asked for my script...

by Guest over a year ago

pineal gland cysts

Answered by a doctor

ok so we was just told about a month ago that my 4 year old little girl has a pineal gland cyst she has headaches eye probs and seizuers and i was wondering what side effects come with having the surgery to remove it and if people have good outcomes with the surgery plz if u would i really need help...

by proudmom0f3 over a year ago