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).

i suddenly feel too weak to stand, things sound quiet (dimmed), i can see mainly red and blue

Hi, the problems i keep having is when im standing up or if i am already standing up still, moving about i suddenly feel almost to week to stand, things sound quiet (dimmed), i can see mainly red and blue almost like eluminus paint splats that eventually stop me from...

by Guest over a year ago

Black Out, I thought that I was going deaf and blind

I'm a 14 year old girl. I woke up this morning and I was awake for a good hour or so and moving around. I started to feel a bit light headed and everything started to blur and then there was muffling in my ears and I thought I was going deaf and blind. I thought I was going to throw up so...

by �� over a year ago

Dizziness, zoning out, fainting and temporary memory loss when yawning and stretching

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I'm an active 14-year-old girl with no known illnesses. The only problem is whenever I am to yawn and stretch I feel dizzy and zone out. It has been like this for the past year or so but this month it seems to have gotten worse. For example: I was standing at the top of the stairs when I yawned but...

by Becky351626 over a year ago

painful swollen and tingling hands and fingers

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For the past 3 months, I wake up with my hands and fingers tingling and swollen, very painful. If I sit up in bed, it seems to go away. As soon as I lay back down, the pain returns immediately. The swollen part never goes away, but the tingling pain does, only when I am awake. I am 57 yrs old and I...

by Guest over a year ago

My head feels so HEAVY?

Aloha guys, Just observed this heaviness couple days ago>> hope this is not serious though i also have a very low wbc and so i don't want to get worry? Thanks that it is not a serious thing. GOD BLESS!! I'll pray for all of us who got the same heaviness of head! Mahalo...

by Aloha over a year ago

when I get up fast from laying down i experience a blackout

i have the same symptoms except they started when I was 12 I'm currently 13 but it seems to happen when I get up fast from laying down for no more than one or two minutes or for 5-10 min when I haven't eaten anything and do somthing active I'm not to sure what it is so if anyone can reccommend...

by Guest over a year ago

Headache after sitting on the chair

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Hi, I can really relate to what you're going through. About a year ago I started noticing feelings of strong pressure, although they tended to be more in the front of my head than the back. They would appear only when I was sitting down in a chair and doing reading or computer work. The feeling is...

by vishalbhatele over a year ago

Strong Headaches after noticing brownish dot next to my eye and dilated pupils

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It's summer, I stay home more often. For the past 3 weeks or so, I noticed both my pupils were really dilated and noticed a strange tiny brownish dot next to my eye. Of course I freak out and start researching my symptoms. After reading some articles I start to get really bad anxiety and can't sleep...

by Guest over a year ago

each time I stand up I go very dizzy and my sight goes black and blurry

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Hi, for the past 6-7 months I have had this thing where each time I stand up I go very dizzy and my sight goes black and blurry I can feel myself shaking but there's nothing I can do about it also I can't here very we'll and then I fall to the ground but there's nothing I can do to stop myself I...

by Guest over a year ago

Pains in head and chest pains with stringy poo and irregular bowel movements

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I've been having weird pains in my head and chest irregular bowle movements for three days my fiance says its from stress and anxiety not to mention my nose and a lot of muscles on my body twitching I think something May be wrong but have no primary care doctor or no insurance I'm a 23 year old male

by Larry over a year ago