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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).

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 User avatar Guest

Anxiety and terrible feelings in my body

Around three months ago, I was driving and started feeling dizzy and after a while i started feeling like i was out of my body, then i would start having palpitations and weakness all over my body. on one occassion i had serious palpitations, my heart was throbbing throgh my chest, tinglings in my...

by User avatar eni206763

Central Core Disease Myopathy

Answered by a doctor

Hello All, I am from Canada and I have been suffering with CCD since birth. My grandmother, father, and both brothers have it since birth as well. I thought my family were the only ones. My doctor says that CCD is a branch of Muscular Dystrophy but extremely rare. Like many posts on here, I also am...

by User avatar Ryjety294356

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 User avatar Feliks

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 User avatar The good

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 User avatar dsivey804363764

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 User avatar Jwicker6363751

Heavy head, dizziness, tingling fingers + numbness, lack of concentration ...just need some answers

Answered by a doctor

Iv been reading the thread about heavy head / dizziness problems and see that although everyone posted their symptoms, there still has been no answers. I wanted to restart this thread in the hope that someone will have some answers. I have suffered these exact symptoms for 3 years now, constantly...

by User avatar frustratedgirl

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 User avatar Guest

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and had only 2 seizures in my entire life, I'm on Lamictal

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I was diagnosed with JME in December of 2017 and I'm 19. I've only had 2 seizures in my entire life (one in August 2017, one in October 2017), but I've never had any jerks growing up. I've had 2 EEGS which came back with milliseconds of abnormal activity. I take Lamictal and still...

by User avatar Emily