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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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Brain Cyst - Can they be diagnosed with CT scan?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Dear Dr. Joshua,
I am trying to find out if a brain cyst can be diagnosed and said to be benign if only a cat scan was done. I was told today that I have one and I am very concerned because no treatment or follow up or futher testing was discussed. I can find [...]

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Narcolepsy or Epilepsy?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

I’m a 24 yr old female. For the past 12 yrs. I have had these hallucinations at night while sleeping. They range from a strange figure standing in my room to things falling on me. They are very real and scary to me. I literally run through my house screaming during these. I average about [...]

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Post traumatic stress disorder symptoms or physical injury?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

In November of last year I was hit right by spine with a literature textbook that was thrown across the room from a distance of about 5 or 6 feet. The day after I started having tremors in my whole body. I had MRI’s of my head and back that show good. I’ve also had [...]

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Headache, Nausea, Speech and Balance Problems

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

My daughter is 20 and very fit until a week ago when she passed out during a very severe headache attack, nauseous, very unsteady on her feet and slurring her speech as though she was drunk.
I took her to a British NHS hospital where she was admitted. A neurologist saw her, said it was migraine [...]

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Recurrent Guillain-Barre?

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Here is a follow-up question, please see a previous post:
Fever and Paralysis
Date of admission: 20-10-2003
Diagnosis:
- recurrent polymyalgia
- ? recurrent guillain-barre syndrome (polyradiculoneuritis)
Presentation:
14 years old female presented with weakness of all limbs, but more profound in lower limbs, with cough & greenish sputum with fever for 3 days.
Past History:
She had milder episodes of weakness in the [...]

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