Headache, dizziness, numbness

Headache

Headache is a general term for pain in a part or the whole of the head. Pain in the back of the head and neck (back neck) and behind the eyes is also treated as a headache. Many people are worried about brain disease when a headache occurs, but the brain itself does not have painful nerves (pain sensory nerves). So if you have no symptoms other than a headache, it is probably thought that your brain does not have bad disease. However, since the membrane (meninges) covering the brain and intracranial blood vessels have pain sensory nerves, sudden headaches, severe headaches that have never been experienced, suddenly peaked in a short time headaches, fever, and numbness or numbness in the limbs may cause headaches that appear as symptoms of brain disease such as meningitis, encephalitis, cerebral artery dissection, strokes such as subarachnoid hemorrhage. Therefore, it is better to go to the clinic immediately and receive an accurate diagnosis.

If you have had similar headaches for a long time, most of them are chronic headaches that are not life-threatening. Migraine and tension headache are typical. Recently, there are good treatments, so it is a good idea to see a neurology department, neurosurgery, headache outpatient clinic, etc. Even with chronic headaches, headaches that worsen over time may be brain tumors or chronic subdural hematomas.
Some chronic headaches are refractory. There is not necessarily a cure that can completely eliminate all headaches. It is necessary for the attending physician and the patient to collaborate in an effort to minimize the negative effects on daily life, work, housework, schoolwork, etc. due to headaches by using available treatments and treatments.

Dizzy

Vertigo is a collective term for the sensation that makes the eyes look round. In fact, it includes a wide range of symptoms, including the sensation that you and your surroundings turn around, feeling distracted, darkness in front of you, and things appearing double.

The most common cause of dizziness is inner ear vertigo (vertigo due to a semicircular canal failure, vestibular dysfunction), but some of them can be life-threatening due to stroke or heart disease. Also, these can also cause dizziness such as drug, hypertension, dehydration, arrhythmia, orthostatic hypotension, heat stroke, various neurological diseases, hypoglycemia, anemia, posttraumatic cervical syndrome, cervical dizziness, nasal dizziness, mental and physical stress, fatigue. In general, dizziness is often caused by inner ear vertigo, but there is a possibility of a stroke when you have these symptoms like blood pressure is higher than usual, suddenly no force is applied to one limb, one side of the face has become worse, Lu If you have symptoms such as losing rotation, things appear doubled, your face or limbs are dull, your ears are hard to hear, or you are unable to walk straight, so in that case let's visit a hospital and see a doctor.

Numbness

Numbness appears when there is a disorder in one of the sensory pathways (the sensory pathway from sensory receptors to the peripheral nerves, spinal cord, and cerebrum). However, the word numbness is used in many ways in everyday life. For example, it may mean dull sensation (decreased sensation), such as “feeling cold when touched”, “difficult to feel cold or heat”, “difficult to feel pain”, It may also mean an abnormal sensation such as “Jinging, Biri-biri”, “A feeling of being touched by a needle”, “A feeling of tingling”. Also, numbness may be expressed as movement paralysis (weakness), such as “It is difficult to apply force to the limbs” or “Movement is poor”.

One of the illnesses that many patients who visit the hospital for numbness are concerned with cerebrovascular disorders such as cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage. Usually, numbness due to cerebrovascular disorder is a unilateral symptom that suddenly appears. Sensory disorders often involve muscle weakness, but sensory impairment may be the only symptom. Cerebrovascular disorders may also occur when the hands around one mouth and one side are numb. Also, Limb pain and weakness are occurred for the reason that there is numbness of the limbs due to abnormalities in the spine and intervertebral discs that protrude from bone spines (bone spines) or spinal canals formed by deformed bones are compressing and stimulating the nerve roots branched from the spinal cord. Peripheral neuropathy of limbs is single neuropathy when only one peripheral nerve is damaged, multiple single neuropathy when multiple peripheral nerves are asymmetrically asymmetric, and when the disorder is observed symmetricaly like as the shape of glove or socks , it is called polyneuropathy. Even if just thinking peripheral nerve disorders, there can be various causes of numbness, such as those associated with strangulation such as carpal tunnel syndrome and radial nerve palsy, those associated with inflammation such as vasculitis and collagen disease, those associated with immunity such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, metabolic diseases such as diabetes and vitamin deficiency.

Numbness can be occurred by a variety of causes. Medical treatment may be sufficient, but depending on the cause, surgery such as orthopedic surgery or neurosurgery may be required. Identifying the cause is considered to be the most important for proper treatment. In addition, since numbness may hide a serious illness, do not leave it easily, and first visit the Department of Neurology.