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Near fainting spells and other symptoms

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

For awhile, I’ve been having this near fainting spells that come and go lasting a couple seconds at the most. This morning was the worst with my face feeling tingling, heart racing, feeling sick to my stomach and feeling tired after the episode.
Strange thing 99% of the time, it happens at work. My job requires [...]

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Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Symptoms - PSP diagnosis and treatment

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

I am 70 years old and have an identicle twin sister. We both have a history of heart disease - hers being much more serious. She had quintupple bypass in 2001 and did well. I have had 3 angioplasties, and am doing quite well. My sister has had 2 more heart surgeries since then, and [...]

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Penis pain

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Whenever i begin to get an erection, my penis sorts of hurt inside, like its dry or tight and unable to contain the blood inside, for me to acquire and maintain an erection. what could be the cause of this??
Also, when i retract my foreskin behind the glans, there is this tight ring of skin, [...]

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Acetaminophen-codeine withdrawal

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

I have been taking acetaminophen with codeine for about 8 years now I have been taking it for migraines I take 8 pills in the morning and 8 pills at night, I know I am addicted and it’s not like I take them for a buzz because I don’t get a buzz not anymore not [...]

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Trigeminal Neuralgia

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Hi, I’m 17 and have bilateral trigeminal neuralgia in all three branches of the nerve. The shocks of pain are mainly triggered by heat and its disrupting my everyday life as I cant do any exercise that increase my body temp too much and at school its absolute torture. I was on Tegretol for a [...]

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Tingling, numbness and other symptoms

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I had tingling in the back of my neck, right side middle. it would happen 10-15 minutes every 2 days, well over the past 3 months it has advanced to being tingling and numb to touch all the time.
I have recently begun experiencing hallucinations that I am vaguely aware of while my body continues doing [...]

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Guillain–Barré Syndrome

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

In January of 2009, my mom woke up suddenly at night and felt tingling, numbness, weakness, and other strange sensations in her legs and hands. Two days later she went to the ER, they refereed her to a neurologist who initially thought she may have Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Her sxs got worse for about three weeks- [...]

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Episodes of vision changes and other symptoms

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Everyone I’ve asked around keeps saying it might be my blood pressure dropping low, and I don’t have insurance, if anyone could give some advise would be greatly appreciated.
Anywho, you know when you stand up too fast sometimes you get the ‘bloodrush’, and you feel slightly disorientated and slightly blackening vision? Well, it’s been coming [...]

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Arachnoid cyst

Friday, March 20th, 2009

My 14 yr old son recently underwent a CT scan of his sinuses due to a diagnosis of chronic sinusitis. Haller Cells were evident bilaterally, with bilateral maxillary and ethmoid sinus inflammation (mild to moderate) with suggested small underlying polyps and a septum deviated to the left.
An incidental finding on the axial images of [...]

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Vision loss, headache, tinnitus & other symptoms

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Starting in May of this year, I began to experience vision loss in my right eye. The loss appears as a heavy fog that started in the lower left quadrant of my visual field and proceeded to encompass most of the field over the next three months. I have slight pain that seems to be [...]

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