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).

My thumb is twitching involuntarily

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My thumb is twitching involuntarily , i'm healthy young and fit , i've got a regular notorious diet .But my thumb keeps twitching and i keep thinking it's because of Parkinson's decease , coz my grandmother's got it (as i could inherit it ) , but the symptoms of Parkinson's only start...

by Tankado over a year ago

Burning inside my head

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Idk if this s have to do with the age or genetic s ....But I felt like burning from inside after my 25 age ...I m almost 30 now , so 5 year s its following a strange feeling like (something s burn inside) ...I don t know what is or what is not ...I suppose its normal but anyone don t talk about it...

by Coby over a year ago

numbness one one side of body from neck down later developing in an internal burning sensation

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About 4 months ago I woke up about 3 am with a numb feeling in my right arm. Thinking that I had slept wrong I went back to sleep. About 5 am I awoke and my whole right side was numb from the neck down, also I could not stand as I had no balance. Went to hospital where CT scans and MRI's were...

by bigbill47 over a year ago

head pressure/ numbeness top of head

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Two weeks ago I experienced a massive headache across the top of my head. I do have migraines, but this one did not present itself as one. I had no light sensitivity, visual problems or nasuea - just the severe pain at the top of my head for several hours. I finally took a sleeping aid to see if...

by Tania over a year ago

An unknown Neurological Disease or Condition?

I woke up January 2006 with tingling feeling in feet; progressively the sensation moved up both legs; felt like vicks or deep heat had been rubbed all over my body (a burning sensation); would have dizzy spells; right side got worse; legs would go into spasm after walking too far a distance; I was...

by dwoman219136 over a year ago

Pressure Weight Top of Head Crackling

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Pressure on top of head accompanied by some feeling of light-headedness and reportedly crackling, is a brain parasite - likely neurocysticercosis, but could also be a round worm. Also golf ball sized headache is indicative parasite is still viable.The only test is a blood test and the sample MUST BE...

by phaqt over a year ago

Headaches with buzzing noise and eyes sting(hurt) everyday

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Hi. Its been over a month and half I get headaches everyday and burning eyes. Headaches occur sometimes on different sides like right side, back left side and front side or sometimes all sides and buzzing noise. I weigh 230 pounds and my height is 5'4. I;'m 19 years old. I use to eat a lot and now I...

by sagarswan216313 over a year ago

Parkinson's and pre-existing depression

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About a year ago, aged 66, I was diagnosed with PD after brain scans. I had previously assumed that my increasing LH weakness was linked to mild childhood polio damage on that side, so was probably a bit later in being diagnosed than I would otherwise have been. My question relates to depression...

by Jacey44206914 over a year ago

headache on my temple

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I woke up with a throbbing, horrible headache on my temple this morning. I have since taken tylenol and the headache did get a little bit better, but no more than a little, I am sorry to say! What could be causing this? I didn't drink or anything like that, and I had a good night's sleep, or I...

by moshe287204340 over a year ago

24/7 headache & poor vision!

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Hi, I have had 24/7 headaches for the past month now. I went and had my eyes tested and they say they are fine apart from one part of my eye when I look in a certain direction, they have given me a new prescription. The headaches still occur and I am at my wits end! I went to my doctors he said I...

by J.Grace203792 over a year ago