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).

Sleepy, dizzy, not hungry, and weird pains in my head eyes and lower back and chest

Answered by a doctor

I've been having problems for a while where I could sleep for hours on end and get up and still be super tired and then want to go back to sleep and then get up again and still be tired after that I started getting bad headaches since I was in kindergarten they had diagnosed me with ADD saying...

by KaylaRed over a year ago

Current Energy feeling in my body, it is not painful, just weird

I have a story i have a vacum cleaner that shocks anyone that uses it anyways im having this energy feeling like a electical waves or current sensation though out my body its not painful just wired feeling and was wondering if getting shocked when i vacume cause these...

by Baby k over a year ago

I have been having this tingling sensation only in my sleep, intermittently

I have been having this tingling sensation only in my sleep, intermittently. It would come and go as it pleases. I know I do not have any diseases or infections, so that is definitely out of the question. It doesn’t feel bad. It doesn’t feel wrong. It actually feels quite good.

by Curious over a year ago

Blackout with eyes open, hearing and site loss after legs are strained on, vomiting.

Answered by a doctor

When I was 16 I was skateboarding and I fell and hit my head on the cement, I stood up and my hearing went away and my eye site and I blacked out with my eyes open. Then a year later I was at the gym doing a light leg workout and the same thing happened, I had to run to the locker room with no...

by caitlinjohnson1363996 over a year ago

Shaking, blackout and falling when standing up

Sometimes when i stand up, my vision becomes spotted until it fades to black entirely, I try to grab a hold of something because I know I will fall. My legs and arms shake uncontrollably and I lose all ability to hold myself up so I fall to the ground even if I am trying to hold onto...

by Guest over a year ago

I have had horrible head pressure for 3 years already:

Here's what I figured out, in my case it's nothing that they could find on any scans because most likely it is the nervous system's own functional nerve pain that I feel in my head and the ONLY thing that works for me is lorazepam (Ativan) and here's why: It suppresses the...

by Feliks over a year ago

Continuous Headaches whenever I sit down, they are accompanied by back and neck pain

Hello .I have been having headaches whenever i sit down for the past two months.These headaches have been accompanied by neckaches,back pains and sometimes eye pains. i dont know what exactly is wrong with me .I recently had a minor accident but these pains begun before this accident.Please help...

by The good over a year ago

Encephalitis-Hearing Loss Later in Life

Hello, I had encephalitis around the age of one and had seizures. I am an now 45. For the most part I have lived a healthy life and never gave much thought about the illness. Over the last couple of years, I have had issues with migraines and last year problems with my hearing. I was told that I am...

by dsivey804363764 over a year ago

Shock waves through body and Nerves

( Shock Through my whole body )if feels like I got shocked waves through my body’s nerves system all at once and what ever I’m doing or holding even if it comes at the wrong time I drop or throw all by itself across the room, like my cell phone my iPhone went with me about 3 to 4 footer...

by Jwicker6363751 over a year ago

Blacked out and have constant headache since my surgery

Yesterday I was job shadowing my physical therapist and in his words “came very close to passing out”. I had gotten a bad hot flash (which I’ve been having since surgery in October) and then got super dizzy and light headed. He said I went down on my knees and bumped the front of my head on...

by Guest over a year ago