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 have felt like I am in motion at all times when I am awake, I am not a diabetic

I have felt like I am in motion at all times when I am awake for the last 400+ days. The motion is throughout my whole body. When I lay down it feels like I am being rocked. I sometimes hear what sounds like my heatbeat/pulse in my left ear. I have already been to a ENT 3 times. The...

by Guest over a year ago

Heavy head pressure, feeling dizzy for weeks

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Hi, I'm a 24yo previously healthy and active male and I've been feeling quite bad recently. I woke up about 2 weeks ago with what felt like sever head pressure all round, a feeling of dizziness although nothing is spinning and a stiff feeling on the back of my neck. Life seems...

by sam076350577 over a year ago

Pineal Cyst In Menopause, they never used contrast, can it be a tumor?

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Last July I stated to get the worst migraines I've ever had. My migraine pills would do nothing to relieve them. Then in August I started to have severe vertigo attacks and would feel off balance. My first vertigo attack I went to the ER after 8 hours. They did a CT scan...

by Guest over a year ago

uncomfortable deep numbness or heaviness in my hands and feet for years

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I've had these same strange feelings in my hands and feet for years! When it is really bad it goes up my arms and feet. I've tried to explain it to my doctors as an uncomfortable deep numbness or heaviness but it doesn't quite explain it. I rub my feet and hands together constantly and that makes it...

by Guest over a year ago

Does anyone get feeling like everything is rushing to your head? Can it be a form of migraine?

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Does anyone get like everything is rushing to your head?? Like your head is swelling???? Is this a form of a migraine??? It almost feels like you are going to have a stroke....Has anyone experienced this???

by Guest over a year ago

Extreme nausea and heartburn with paralyzed right diaphragm

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I've been through every test and medicine for treatment of nausea and heartburn, but have not read until now that it could be caused from my paralyzed diaphragm which I think is caused by my inherited Fascioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy. The doctors do not think the muscular dystrophy is...

by Ms. Hertich over a year ago

Sharp Head Pain Above and behind ear

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Hi, can anyone give me a clue as to why I am suffering from sudden sharp head pain above and behind my right ear? It has only occurred in the last couple of days. The pain is coming often, sometimes several times a minute, its very sharp, makes me wince and catch my breath and is then gone. There is...

by Ishaag Ali over a year ago

Tingle and slight numbness on both sides of head above ears

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Mostly happens when I eat... go figure. I worked restoring my house and was looking up at the ceilings ad working on them and the trim and sheet rocking etc., for 5 weeks. That was a few months back but this has started. My neck hurts on the right side in the back at the top of my...

by Guest over a year ago

Equilibrium sensitive - pain left side of head, especially after making love

I've gone to the doctor on and off for the last three and a half years, for my equilibrium being off and pain on left side of my head. I feel like cattle, five minutes of what can we do for you, then pop pills. I'm a 44 years old male with a family, I'm getting worried for it's not...

by Michael over a year ago

I am waking up tired and fatigued and it takes longer for my wounds to heal

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Im only 14 years old,however these days Im always waking up tired and fatigued no matter how much sleep I get,I was in track and cross country so theres no possibliity Im just unheatlthy,Ive also noticed that my wounds are taking a lot longer like substantial amounts of time to heal,its really...

by Guest over a year ago