Gender: Female
Date of birth: 1989
Nationality: Pakistani
Family history: No-one has such a disability on either side (maternal or paternal)
My problem is: Whenever I suffer through fever I become unable to walk, before I used to have dis weakness in my legs only but the second last time I had this fever I even got this weakness [...]
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Neurology
Fever and Paralysis
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Numbness, Fatigue, Facial Twitching
Monday, February 26th, 2007I am hoping that I may get any kind of idea of possibile condtions that could cause the symptoms I am experiencing. My pcp has ordered brain MRI with and w/o contrast which I will have in few days, however I am not scheduled for f/u for 5 wks. which is a long time to [...]
Continue readingBrain Abscess - Brain Surgery
Friday, February 16th, 2007My sister has a brain abscess that originally was located in the center of the brain and she developed spinal meningitis. A week ago, the CAT scan showed the abscess had moved to the “right ventricle”. The doctors are puzzled about the bacteria and are unable to find out what the bacteria is and have [...]
Continue readingSevere 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 [...]
Facial Weakness - Facial Nerve Palsy?
Monday, January 29th, 2007I am a thirty-five-year-old female who follows an active and healthy lifestyle. However, over the past year and a half, I have been experiencing some symptoms on the right side of my face that concern me: eye discomfort (sensation of pressure and a feeling that something is in my eye), particularly upon waking; eye twitching; [...]
Continue readingEye Symptoms a Sign of Brain Aneurysm?
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007By way of brief background, I am young (24 year old male), athletic (former personal trainer), do not smoke, use drugs or drink heavily, and have no medical history of any clinically significant illness or injury. I have been taking low doses of Adderall (10mg or less) occasionally for the last 3 years. [...]
Continue readingVertigo, dizziness, neck pain, disc degeneration
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Dear Dr. Joshua,
I have been experiencing very severe pain starting in my neck, and radiating across my shoulder, down my arm and into my thumb. This started just before Christmas. I have been seeing my Chiropoactor who suggests that I have a “C6 impingement”, but based on my pain level, he suggested I go to [...]
Whiplash injury symptoms?
Sunday, January 14th, 2007I have had neck/back pain since a young child. I am 31 now. I had whiplash from being startled by a spider in June. I started doing Yoga which helped until Sept. when I started having severe muscle cramps in my legs and feet. My hand began to “wobble” back and forth when I would [...]
Continue readingMigraines, 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 readingBrainstem Stroke and Short-Term Memory Loss
Monday, January 8th, 2007In Jan. 1990(at 51 yrs of age), I had a “Pontine” stroke. Prior to that I hadn’t been considered a “stroke candidate”, as I watched my cholesterol,plus wasn’t overweight, or had high blood pressure, etc. I had been a bicycler, swimmer, & runner, plus ate “healthy” food, so a stroke was very unexpected. [...]
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