Chronic stress brain damage

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Avatar m tn My partner collapsed , dizziness, fainting and vomiting. a few days ago, she was taken to the hospital where they told her that due to her high blood pressure problem, she had damaged her brain ?
Avatar f tn i had a chiari decompression surgery 3 years ago and my odontoid process removed to let more room for my brain in. i also still have a syrinx which is a buildup of cerebral spinal fluid. im wondering if i had damage to the vagus nerve during surgery or from my cerebellum pressing on my brain stem for so long. i am currently taking the anti nausea and anti emetic pill zofran and an acid reducer. so if anybody has any ideas or anything that could help me that would be great. thank you!
Avatar m tn Hi im a 28yr old male i was using some face wash over a month ago and got it up my nose by mistake it was a small dab a few weeks after this happen i had anxiety woke up scared for no reason one morning also been depressed and if something woke me up from my sleep it felt like my brain was still asleep kinda like it was slow to wake up like my brain couldn't wake up at first or something like it took my brain a min.
Avatar m tn The answer to the question is as follows: TX is a powerful treatment that can in some, or even many cases, produce a wide range of side effects, and post-treatment side effects that may last for days, weeks, months, years, or in some cases it appears permanently. The first goal is to get rid of the virus, especially in those whom it has advanced beyond early stages, or seems to be causing significant physical or cognitive problems.
Avatar f tn I cannot stress enough about how rest is for stroke recovery. After a stroke your brain has a bruise, or a dead spot. Your brain tries to re-wire around to dead spot, and does. But the best work it does is when you are asleep. The brain never sleeps. For me, right after my stroke, I had to have cat naps all day. It was not like me and I tried to fight it. But I finally realized that when I let my body told me what it needed to do, I started to recover more quickly.
Avatar m tn Ok thank you for the reply i was just thinking what if i got exposed to some kind of chemicals or neurotoxins ? would it showin the brain? is their a brain scan that would show neurotoxicity? we do have a dog that pees alot in the house he is older could i be getting exposed to ammonia? and a few days before i started feeling this way i also ran out stove to self clean and it smelt like chemicals but i ran it before and it never hurt me evan if we cook in it after that.
757137 tn?1347196453 As Dr. Gould always answered this question the mental health expert forum, nobody knows whether these meds can cause long-term damage. Nobody's done the studies. If you good protracted withdrawal syndrome, you'll come across a British psychiatrist who has done probably the most work on benzos. According to her, benzos at the least cause the brain to lose its ability to learn to adapt to stress.
Avatar f tn All of the effects of opiates are reversible-- save the damage to veins during chronic IV use, or the brain damage from a hypoxic arrest during overdose.
Avatar f tn my mum was admitted to hospital with liver problems as she is an alcoholic,she was in there for 2 weeks and couldnt keep no food down so they put her on nill by mouth and after another couple of days put a line in to feed her however she had a cardiac arreset early hours in the night and was out for 16 mins before they brought her back,hosptal now says she is serverly brain damage and wont pull thro its been about another 2 wks since she had the crdiac arrrest and now the hospital have said they
Avatar n tn were can i go for them to do an x-ray on my brain to see if is damage i been smoking marijuana for 5 years and i could feel my brain fried i need information on were can i go to check my brain
1820055 tn?1317147610 high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, and high cholesterol. If these factors are well controlled, the damage to the brain can be stabilized and further damage prevented. Other causes of these changes in the brain can be migraine. People with migraine often have plaques on their MRI that are of unclear cause or significance.
Avatar f tn due to chronic sinus infection, infection covered optic nerve in the left eye and shut down the signal to the brain, caused blindness. needed surgery: they scrapped infection off of optic nerves causing total blindness in both eyes in 2002, total blindness was for three years, then i started seeing shadows and shapes, now i'm visually impaired. so now the question is how to replenish the optic nerve because i have chronic pain all the time. is there any treatments available????
414333 tn?1226191493 I have heard that long term use of benzos can cause brain damage, this bothers me because all I ever wanted was to get well and I trusted a duck(DOC) Quack Quack Lol...... I have never been on high doses but I have been on Klonopin 0.5 mg for about 5 1/2 yrs. and I am currently withdrawing off Ativan fun stuff!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know if this is true?This bothers me I used to be really smart.....
Avatar m tn Hi there. I'm sorry to hear what happened. Unfortunately, there can be events in the medical field that are really unexpected and have little explanation, and what happened to your father maybe no exception. Off hand, I can think of causes like an embolism (blood clot that lodges in the blood supply of the brain) or a transient arrhythmia (problem with the electrical conduction of the heart). However, these would have shown up in the scans and EKG respectively.
4198232 tn?1365556650 Is it ture that eating tuna can cause brain damage to your baby during pregnancy
Avatar m tn Can Klonipin help with permanent Neuorological brain damage, do to an over dose on LSD? Thank you Clay Woodward.
Avatar m tn Hi....I think u mean damage to the brain...not brain damage unless it is untreated. There is a condition called syringomyelia and it can be caused from a trauma or even whiplash, another condition that can be there since birth, but triggered during or after a trauma is chiari malformation. U should always get checked if u have a head trauma.....Natasha Richardson died shortly after falling while skiing.....
Avatar f tn , you have done permanent damage to your brain, Neuro receptors, and areas of the brain that allow pleasure. Your years of untreated chronic pain, are the reasons for your depression and insomnia. If you do not recieve pain management and get your pain under control and lower your stress, I cannot help you." So here I am, does a formor addict deserve to be in pain for the rest of their lives? Our family's concerns more important than quality of life?
1138687 tn?1548643978 response thru evolutionary process when at a time it was useful to (and still can be useful) to almost shut down the parasympathetic nervous system and give maximum energy to the SNS to help you run away from a tiger for example. Our brain can be under a lot of stress and chronic stress can have significant impacts on your nervous system. There are several ways to help your situation ranging from relaxation techniques to counseling.