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).

headache on left side of forehead

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I have been experiencing some terrible headache on the left side of my forehead. I don’t know what this could be. It doesn’t react to usual painkillers. I would like to find out the possible cause of this and how to solve this. I will visit a doctor, but I would like to have some info...

by park440141726 over a year ago

43 year old with headache issue

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hello, new to the forum and hope you can help. yesterday evening, I had a strange headache, never before experienced. once I had eaten dinner, it went away. this morning, after a good breakfast and enough liquid intake, it came back, but more prominently. To describe the sensation: like the feeling...

by adi.walker139148 over a year ago

strange headache left front top side of head

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New to your forum - hope you can help. yesterday evening a strange headache, never before experienced, occured. I am male, 43 years old, vegetarian, non smoker, non drinker. once I had eaten dinner, it went away. this morning, it reoccured, stronger and more prominent than before. the best way I...

by adi.walker139148 over a year ago

headache on one temple

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I am having a pretty much continuous headache on one temple, and apart from hurting, it is really affecting my moods as well. I feel unable to work and keep shouting at my husband and kids, and I am really not like that normally... What can I do to get back to normal? Can you please help me?

by marcela1311140382 over a year ago

headache on back right side of head

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I have headaches fairly often. But I have never had a headache quite like the headache I woke up with this morning before. It was a headache on the back right side of my head, and it was really throbbing and pounding. When I stood up, I almost fainted. Is this something serious? Do you have any...

by zacharia429139843 over a year ago

numbness in top of right side of head

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wednesday night I was having dinner, I must have blacked out, because when I awoke 30 minutes latr, I had food particals in my hair, I got up washed off and went to bed, I had eatten better than 3/4 of my dinner, the next morning, I showered and was combing my hair and noted that the top right...

by Guest over a year ago

Occipital Neuralgia while Pregnant

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Hi all, my gf just recently found out she has Occipital Neuralgia. Cat scan and Sinus scan both came back clean. Well about three weeks after this we were lucky enough to find out that we are going to have a baby. Now my question is this, she can not take the normal pills for this due to harm to...

by Guest over a year ago

Car accident 3 months ago told I have nerve damage in my kne

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I am tired of my knees hurting and burning. Can not wear anything but dressess , skirts or sweat pants and then they sometimes burn and hurt. what can I do shoud i get nerve test done. Will it show how much damage done?

by Guest over a year ago

"Clicking" in head and vertigo

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For about a year or two now, I have experienced a strange sensation at random intervals. While sitting at a restaurant, walking around town, or in just about any situation, I get this very uncomfortable feeling in my head. To start, it is almost like a feel a click, or a switch flipped, or...

by Guest over a year ago

Pathogenesis of denervation atrophy and fasciculations

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Hi, i am really struggling to find explanations for the explanation of Lower Motor Neuron Signs. Fasciculations- i understand they occur pathologically due to muscle denervation causing reduced Ach in synaptoc cleft and up regulation of post synaptic nicotinic receptors. Ach binds to the receptors...

by Guest over a year ago