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).

Exercise .. dizzyness and exhaustion

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Im 16 and im a dancer. I have been a dancer for almost 13 years. Recently over these past 6 months, when I dance I get really dizzy to the point where i feel like im going to faint, sometimes my arms or hands get numb, and i feel really weak. It has been concerning me because I dont know...

by Dizzyness and exhaustion over a year ago

I'm 15 and I can't sleep. Help?

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I'm a 15 year old female and i'm having a lot of trouble sleeping. I'm currently on a student exchange for 6 months and i'm going home in 1 month and i haven't had the easiest exchange and i had some problems with sleeping because i was so miserable and i was having about 3 hours of sleep a night....

by moonman2308235156 over a year ago

Some suggest seizures, others say muscle spasms

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Hi!Just looking to see some input of others. I understand that no one is a doctor, and I should always go see my doctor, blah blah. I get it. I'm just looking to get some input from others who have experience with this sort of thing.Okay! Now, for story time:About 5 months ago, I was drinking a...

by danaeskid over a year ago

Dizzy at nightfall!

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Recently, I've been getting dizzy at around 8 or 9 PM, and it sometimes lasts all through the night. I even wake up dizzy. Everything starts swirling in circular motion (as though I'm on a ship). My parents think my blood pressure is low. I'm possibly dehydrated (it's Summer time, and I'm an...

by Viam over a year ago

pressure in head after painting

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Hellolast night when I went to bed an uncomfortable high pressure feeling developed quickly in the top of my head as soon as I lay down. If I sat up it disappeared. It stopped my sleeping for a couple of hours and I opened the window and tried to have as much fresh air as possible. I have not...

by Sue over a year ago

New user... Confused with many symptoms

Hi, I am a new user on here and I am hoping that someone can help me. I just moved to AZ from NY (not sure if this is a factor) and am losing my mind. I have gained 50 pounds in 4 months, I have headaches nearly every day (750mg as much as twice a day) I am tired all the time (even if I get 10...

by jayleensmama232088 over a year ago

headache, heavyhead, nausea, seizures and irritated to everything

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so since a year or 2 ive been having unconcious seizures where i faint n come back in senses in 2 days!! after that ive been feeling sooo weak that my balance got severe too :( doctors have no idea what this is... please someone help im very desperate in need of help!

by katie over a year ago

NUMBNESS IN LEFT LEG AFTER 3 / 4 WEEK MY LEFT BODY

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HAI BEFORE 4 YEARS I HAVE PROBLEM START NUMBNESS IN LEFT LEG AFTER 3 / 4 WEEK MY LEFT BODY NUMBNESS WE GO TO HOSPITAL Dr REFER TO SURGERY SPINE . BUT THE PROBLEM NOT SOLVE AFTER SURGERY Dr giving medicin OXETOL-150 & LONAZEP 0.5 TWICE A DAY IF ICANT TOOK THE MEDICIN I DAY THE NUMBNESS START...

by RAHMAN over a year ago

back pain

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I don't know if the feeling that i feel is the same with the others. I feel this maybe8 years ago but i ignore it. I thought hat it is only a stress that's why, but recently when i stand up from my chair and bend my body downward i feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable in the sense that when i bend my...

by alvin over a year ago

18 year old with bad mentation, hospitilized for spasms and possible chemical imbalance

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Hello my name is Mark, I recently took two tabs of Lysergic acid diethylamide, or at least I thought they were. Im not going to dwell into the experience, but after around the 10 hour mark I started getting a immense pain in my head followed by involuntary spasms of my entire body. The pain is...

by Steadyhealerthier over a year ago