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).

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multiple sclerosis, brain atrophy and shogrens syndrome

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I was diagnosed with Multiple Schlerosis 13 years ago, but looking back, had it for 27 years. Although still mobile with weakness on left side, damage to one eye and other typical ms problems, I started forgetting more things. Cant find 'time' and dates, days of the week, months etc., and huge...

by poon88907 over a year ago

over a year ago by poon88907

What is restless leg syndrome?

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Hey, I would appreciate if someone would answer what is restless leg syndrome. Thanks in advance!

by Guest over a year ago

over a year ago by tammylynn87591

Problem with dizzy standing

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I just cant stay standing up in one place like in line at the bank or at the grocery store because right away i feel dizzy and i like to take care of this problem so i can find a job what ever it is not always looking for a job that i have to sit down , i had this problem since i was little i...

by Guest over a year ago

over a year ago by CaroleL.

constant headache and now numbness

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for the past 2 years i have had a headache not bad all the time but it never seems to go away. sometimes it gets really bad and puts me on my tush. here lately i have also experienced numbness in my left leg after i exercise and the headache always gets worse with serious dizzyness where i cant...

by Guest over a year ago

over a year ago by Guest

I have a head pressure similiar but exactly like a headache.

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I have a head pressure similiar but exactly like a headache. It only happens at night and when I recline it gets so severe I cannot sleep. When I get up and shower and move around it gets better, but returns again the next night? Do you have any ideas what this is?

by Guest over a year ago

over a year ago by Guest

Sarcoidosis, stomach periphal neuropathy

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I have had sarcoidosis for the past 13 years and now the skin on my abdomen,upper intestine, feels raw, like there is no skin on it....if I touch it it is very sensitive. Does anyone know anything that might help me. I suffer from intense peripheral neuropathy. thank you.

by curves714 over a year ago

over a year ago by curves714

PML and HIV encephalopathy

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My son was recently diagnosed having HIV encephalopathy and PML. He was placed in a hospice program, with the outcome of being terminal. He has been in there care, my wife and I are taking care of him, in our home. We have seen him progress both up and down, daily, but he still does not have the...

by kentdpeters over a year ago

over a year ago by kentdpeters

for some years now i have had numbness on top of left knee 9 inch long 6 inch wide

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i have had numbness on top of my left knee on and off for 20 years, been absent for about 5 years but now its back sometimes accompanied with pain, i have been diagnosed coelac this year after loosing alot of weight,a condition i'm told had been present for years,i reported diarohea for 3 weeks...

by ian humphries over a year ago

over a year ago by ian humphries

Vertigo and brain cancer connection

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Hello, folks. A close friend of mine had some problems with vertigo. At first, she didn’t know what it was. She went to a doctor. After several tests, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. I am interested in the relation between these two entities. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.

by natty137075962 over a year ago

over a year ago by justin105085386