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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Headache, Nausea, Speech and Balance Problems
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Severe Headache For Over A Month After Spinal Tap
Monday, February 12th, 2007Hi,
On Christmas Day I was suddenly hit with a head pain that my husband had to help me to a chair ..I was holding my head i could not scream the pain was bad!!! But then my left arm had a shooting pain that made me unable to use my hand was like paralized.My husband [...]
Migraines, Spells - Seizures? Arteriovenous Malformation?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007Let me start by saying, off and on for most of my adult life (I am 35) I have had passing out spells and migraines…sometimes together, sometimes totally unrelated to one another. In the past couple of years I have started having what my husband believes to be seizures. I always have a horrible headache [...]
Continue readingTemporary vision loss and severe headache
Thursday, January 4th, 2007New Year’s Eve, I was working at home before going out to dinner. Probably due to the workout of working t home, I started feeling kind of weird. Having already being diagnosed with and being pharmaceutically treated for high blood pressure, I felt that is was high just from a feeling that I get. I [...]
Continue readingPseudotumor cerebri, symptoms of elevated intracranial pressure
Monday, December 4th, 2006I have been diagnosed with Pseudo Tumor Cerebi roughly 2 years ago (due to my weight and being on bith control). I had an MRI (which was normal) and a spinal tap(which they said was in the higher, normal range). I was prescribed Diamox 500mg. They worked wonders (but the manufacturer has [...]
Continue readingHeadache, Seizures, AVM
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006How valid is a CT scan result? Isn’t it possible that if , let’s say an aneurysm, is very tiny it may not show up? I have a metal clip, so MRI’s are no good for me. I had an AVM removed years ago. I had a migraine last year that was the worse I [...]
Continue readingNumbness followed by headache
Friday, July 28th, 2006First of all I have no health insurance and that is why I am asking for advice online before I go to the doctor for nothing. Today as I was sitting on the couch my left arm went numb as well as my hand and fingers only on the left side. Later I noticed the [...]
Continue readingEye Pain after Aneurysm Embolization
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Last year I had three unruptured aneurysms successfully embolised (I have never had an SAH my aneuryms were found completely by accident during an MRI scan which was carried out as I had had an episode of Bells Palsy from which I made a full recovery and also some ear pain and my ENT [...]
Continue readingPremature Menopause? Menstrual irregularity, obesity, fatigue, bloating, headache
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006I am a 42 year old female and lately I have been becoming tired easily. First started about a week ago, body aches and tired a lot. I was going to bed early and getting plenty of rest. Then I started my period early it had only been 10 days since I [...]
Continue readingHeadache, Epilepsy, Child, Symptom, Dizziness, EEG, MRI, CT
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006My daughter is twelve years old. She has over the past several months been having severe headaches, dizziness and been extremely tired. A few weeks ago, she passed out quite unexpectedly and with little warning.
She had bloodwork done which returned normal. She was also sent for an EEG. The brainwave pattern indicates that she has [...]
