Grand Mal Seizure Epilepsy or seizure disorder, is a symptom of a brain dysfunction. When a seizure occurs, it’s like an electrical shortage in the brain. Everything goes haywire. However, a person must repeatedly have seizures to have it called by the terms epilepsy or seizure disorder What causes a seizure? Seizures arise when there ...
In my mind, enduring three pounding headaches – each lasting weeks – in 15 years didn’t make me a typical headache patient. Several doctors shrugged their shoulders and labeled each episode an atypical migraine after MRIs failed to suggest anything else. However, my new neurologist wondered aloud if I wasn’t experiencing a series of events ...
You’ve just awakened in bed, dripping in sweat. Your breathing is labored, and your hands are clammy. The images are still firmly planted in your brain: a furry purple monster was just chasing you through McDonald’s; you finally escaped, only to find yourself naked-and face to face with a two-headed buffalo in the middle of ...
Migraine headaches affect nearly 30 million Americans, according to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Two main types of treatments for migraines are used to fight back: 1) Relieving pain and other symptoms during a migraine attack. 2) Reducing the number of future attacks and the length and severity of attacks. To relieve ...
Thirteen months ago I was diagnosed with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis. This is the form of MS that has episodes when I feel fine and my body is essentially healthy and periods of time when the myelin, the substance that coats my nerves and brain, is destroying itself. The problem with myelin destroying itself ...
