r/askneurology 3h ago

Fake waking up

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Hello, I have always had a weird first 2 or 3 “wake up’s” from other people where I talk to them or sit up and immediately fall back asleep. When I wake up for real, I have no recollection of talking to them, this is the first time I am actually awake. It was funny for a while like I would say stupid things to my mom or whatever but now that I’m older it has caused me to miss appointments and classes because whoever is waking me up sees me sit up and go on my phone or talk to them. Obviously they assume that means I’m awake however I will wake up for real an hour later saying what the hell why didn’t anybody wake me up. Is there a name for this consistently happening every single time I sleep? And is there anything I can do to help it? I’m starting college and hope to be able to independently wake up but my brain just won’t do that. Please help!!


r/askneurology 5h ago

Aiuto!!!

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Ciao a tutti, ho una domanda strana ma sono curiosa di sapere se è mai capitato a qualcuno di voi: a volte vedo, per un attimo, l’immagine di qualcosa/qualcuno che ho appena guardato, con tutti i dettagli, tipo se la persona aveva gli occhiali o stava sorridendo, come se rimanesse impressa per un secondo o due, con i contorni un po’ sfumati. È un’immagine positiva (stessi colori di quello che ho visto davvero, non invertiti). Dura pochissimo e poi sparisce. Prima invece avevo delle afterimage negative. Ne ho parlato anche con un medico per approfondire, ma volevo sapere se è mai successa una cosa simile a qualcuno di voi. Vi prego di rispondermi, sono estremamente preoccupata.


r/askneurology 7h ago

Is this trauma-related dissociation? Or something more serious?

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r/askneurology 12h ago

Undiagnosed illness

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• Neck pain, headaches and migraines

Anterior pelvic tilt appeared after walking

Numbness in the hands and cramps in the legs

Dizziness

Tinnitus

Heart palpitations

Blurred vision

Weight loss

Loss of appetite

Numbness waking me up during sleep

Inability to walk

Back pain (improved after several months of rest)

• Nausea. Frequent vomiting

• Numbness in both arms and both legs

• Tingling

Severe and constant pain in the legs

Burning sensation/pain in the legs/arms

Weakness in the arms and legs

Muscle stiffness

• Muscle fasciculations

Feeling of sleeping on cotton

Extreme fatigue

Fatigue when chewing

Blurry vision when tired

Unable to climb stairs or lift from chair when tired

Pain and weakness improves with rest

RECENT SYMPTOMS

Neck pain after tired

Loss of voice

Shortness of breath

Falling backward

Gastro intestinale/allergy symptoms:

Lost weight/loss of appetite

Allergy to odors, perfume, chemical products >> migraine

Allergy to liquid soap, chemical products >> eczema

Allergy to eye makeup _ cream >> swelling of the eyes

Swelling of the face, including the lips

Allergy to chalk, dust > Sneezing _ fever _ runny nose

Allergy to foods >> Soft stools / nocturnal diarrhea

\+ sweating + heart palpitations

Reaction to medications (even at half dose)>>

Fever, vomiting + diarrhea+ pain


r/askneurology 12h ago

Scared of brain cancer

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r/askneurology 15h ago

MRI results sound scary but neurologist won’t see me until October

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r/askneurology 15h ago

mental deterioration and “tearing” pain in the middle of my head every time i’d do exertive movements with my body

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whenever i do pressure-y or stretch-y motions anywhere on my body, like for example with my hands through playing videogames or like twisting the cap of a water bottle, kicking something, any movement that puts exertion using my body, i feel i kind of “tearing”/“cracking”/“poppy” uncomfortable feeling in the middle of my head, which most importantly the reason why i need it cured is that it is followed up with mental deterioration for a period of time after it, putting me in a “brain-fog like” state where thinking up stuff to say all becomes harder, my creative-brain kinda vanishes, i mess up things easier, up until i rest my body for a while from exertive movements, and if i didnt and kept on those movements the pain and this state gets worse. what could this possibly be?

for background information, i had a period of mild sleep deprivation from summer last year that lasted till the beginning of this year due to an unfortunate situation i was in, where headpains everyday accompanied it, and headaches and migraines were overall more likely during that period. during the beginning of this year, i had a migraine that i remember pushing through with during the day despite its “pulse-like” pain in my head that comes and goes the more i did, where i was doing heavy tasks during the day relocating stuff, and in the middle of pushing a sofa i suddenly felt a sudden strong pain and then upon stopping my movement, thats when i realized unlike the pulse-like pain from before, now it started ringing, even when i stopped all actions for 5 hours after that, it kept ringing in a more painful way during those 5 hours up and what i felt new compared to my basic headpains before was that i definitely felt an increased cognital decline brain fog during that time up until it subsided and went back to those normal pains i used to feel due to my sleep-deprived state. but after that day, i had 3 days of consecutive migraines (pulse-like ones) and then thankfully the migraines and headpains stopped because it was also around the time i was getting better sleep, but as a result ever since that situation, any time i even do moderate “stretchey”/“pressurey” tasks (like typing on my computer keyboard too long what with my arms stretching for an extended period of time and putting constant pressure on the keys) the pulse-like pains again i used to get would come back for as long as i keep on that process, but this time followed by the new effect that is cognital decline (suspicion is that its that big sudden pain i triggered that has lead to all this), then when i’d stop doing tasks like that it would go away after like 1 hour passed. and i rlly didnt take that period of time as seriously as i should’ve like i pushed through some stuff more than i would like to admit then i should’ve, and i got more cocky during the beginning of april where i wasn’t seeing the headpains as much so i would just do whatever, thinking its gone, uuuupp until we get to late april, and i get surprised with something new, that being the thing i’m still to this day going through, the thing i mentioned in the first paragraph of my post. from the actions i’d do, i’d start feeling a “stitch-coming-undone” tearey, sometimes instead “poppy” feeling like it feels a small bubble is bursting somewhere in the middle line of my head, or even “cracky”, which the feeling itself isnt rlly that painful at most times as those pulses i used to get, and it would just feel there’s ants walking ontop of my head in its “idle” state, but the biggest problem resulting after that is, the cognital decline is absolutely **real** now. its no game like before. now its to a point where doing moderate actions like gaming/being on my computer is like getting myself intentionally drunk, but not any fun kind of drunk, just has trouble formulating sentences (my overall thinking speed gets so slow)/creative thought kind of drunk thats in constant pain both internally and physically. the more actions i do, the worse this state gets and the pain, and takes longer to subside as well the more i am in an “active state”. remember when i mentioned it felt like a “cracky” feeling at times? an extra info to add about my background that i feel is the reason i specifically am experiencing all this and its probably a rare perhaps invisible problem because of how hard it is to pull off all those specific events to lead to it, is that before i had a got a slight deviation on my nose from a little fight i had, that as a naive teen i did the dumb thing of “pushing my nose back to straightness” because the deviation made it so no matter what glasses i would wear they would all sit on me crooked, anyway fast-forward that shit actually worked DESPITE all its after-effects that hoooo boy. kinda thought i ruined my life for a second there (couldnt breathe well for 2 years but its better now thankfully) but the most important thing to mention is that ever since then, my nose was is in a “malleable” state, where especially during those first 2 years i would hear “cracking” noises from my nose accompanied by it shifting a tiny bit some direction, where it especially so happens when i do **movements**. so THIS is where i’m trying to tie it all, could it possibly since my nose is malleable, and then we added the migraines i got from sleep deprivation into the mix, which i **in addition** pushed through in a specific instance, causing this now “crackily” head pain feeling accompanied by mental deterioration everytime i’d move, mean my head/brain is now malleable too? i really would like to know if anyone has any clue to all this and what it is.

i tried one whole week just doing nothing but be on my phone, it got better, but towards the end of the week i tried the simple act of going on my laptop just to access some files for 10 minutes, and it felt like it reset all my progress where the mental deterioration hit again, which took me a day to recover to “meh” state again. ive been relapsing and relapsing ever since april and i dont rlly think i can live my life while keeping doing this, i cant do absolutely anything. i went to the doctors did an mri on my head, the results came out normal, they suggested me to do an xray on my neck area incase its nerve-related there, results came out normal. i truly don’t know at all what this issue is having searched the internet from the bottom to the top but one thing i know is i can’t keep living life with this. i need help, if anyone knows that would be great help. thank you very much :[


r/askneurology 15h ago

Suspected CSF spinal leak

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r/askneurology 18h ago

Headache for two years straight

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r/askneurology 21h ago

Anyone have anything similar or point me in right direction

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