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).

More intervention for Migraine Sufferers

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Hundred Millions of people world wide suffer from headaches and migraines daily. Alone in USA there’s more then 10 millions migraine sufferers. This study comes from team of headache specialists led by Stephen D. Silberstein, director of the headache center at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson...

by Guest over a year ago

Strokes more common in women than in men

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Last national statistics tell that strokes affect more women then man. Strokes affect women in significant numbers and are gaining more attention from physicians and researchers, who are studying gender differences in symptoms that could improve treatment. Overall, stroke is the country's third...

by zarah1399 over a year ago

prognosis for Alexander disease?

A friend's little girl (she is only four weeks old at the moment) has been diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder Alexander disease. I really feel bad for the couple, and I am wondering what the prognosis is for people suffering from Alexander disease? How old is the little girl going to be? I did...

by simone292143911 over a year ago

My thumb has been numb for too long

So my thumb has been numb now for two weeks and it all started after I had a pic-line in my arm and I'm pretty sure that us the cause. The doctor told me that the lining of the pic-line might have been leaning on a nerve. So I believed him at the time but then when they took it out of my arm it...

by matthew over a year ago

Is this Anxiety? Or something else?

I am fourteen years old, and I think I am suffering from Anxiety. My symptoms: -I worry a lot. -I worry about what people think ALL THE TIME -I dont like socializing much because im scared of being shut down.. idk -I cant get to sleep as I worry heaps. -I get nervous a lot -I have little mini...

by Guest over a year ago

Interaction between tourettes and spinal cord stimulator

I have been living with chronic pain for 6 years from discs which have now been fused. In additon, I had an accident that dislocated my shoulder and other pain from constant twitching most especially in my neck, shoulder, and wrists most predominantly. I actually twitch all over. My doctors have...

by Sabe over a year ago

Headaches and Dizziness

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Im 14 years old. Im healthy and I'm very athletic. But recently I've had alot of headaches. A bruise showed up and I have hit anything at all. I sometimes get dizzy, and I'm also more tired than I have ever been. But its off season for all of my sports. Please tell me whats wrong. Im scared to tell...

by Guest over a year ago

I've been having these neck ticks..does that mean I have Tou

For the past month and a half I've been having tics in my neck. Its been causing me great pain in my neck and shoulder blades.I stood in front of the mirror for ten minutes and watched myself do it.Everytime I go to bed, it happens uncontrollably and it has been keeping me up through the night for...

by Guest over a year ago

painkiller drug withdrawal

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Writing on behalf of my adult daughter who has intractable pain [has had two surgeries for TMJ - neither of which were successful]. Her pain, as well as pain meds, has been increasing over the years. She was once addicted to percoset and went thru withdrawal on her own, but was left with such...

by rmmmorgan155771 over a year ago

Sudden onset of pain in temple area

Hello Oh I am so relieved to see this is a problem others are having if you know what I mean? I just woke out of a sleep with sharp pain in the Temple area and shooting down the side of my head and it is painful . I have a wonderful imagination and thought of course at first it was an anyurism...

by susan4 over a year ago