>>684349644
Looks like a GSW.

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>>684349798
yes
as opposed to this

So....what am I looking at here?
I mean, I know it's the brain, head, etc....but....post bullet? Impaled wound? Cadaver getting shot?

I have pretty bad DDD in my lumbar vertebrae.

Lots of lower back pain, but the sciatic pain on my entire leg is by far more unbearable.

Had multiple surgeries and PT and drugs, nothing has worked other than lots of opiates.

Is it likely that I just have permanently damaged nerves and will always have the sciatic pain?

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>>684350335
first pic is a CT of the head after being shot
crossing the midline means they are more likely to die
here's a different one, pic related, showing more damage. the white stripe is blood.
not my patients btw
the other pic is a machete, doing what machetes do

Are serial killers born or are they made?

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>>684350699
sorry to hear that, anon
surgery, as you know, is not a silver bullet. if the nerve is injured permanently, surgery won't repair that. typical options include meds (baclofen, lyrica, etc; not narcotics) and perhaps spinal cord stimulator. hope you get relief. that a pain people can't respect until they live it.

>>684350803
nature v nurture.
if i knew that, i wouldn't be posting on 4chan
what do you think?

pic related
for all those that think the exit is easy
he looks rather cosy

>>684349644
Just took an imaging class and learned how to implement CT and other transmission tomography schemes, among many other things. CT makes pretty pictures, especially when you reconstruct the image cumulatively slice by slice. Radon Transform for life.

Hey man sometimes I get a explosion of pain at the back of my brain just to the left of my spine. It only happens when I exert in an odd position and will send numbness down my left arm

Am I having a stroke?

>>684349644
Are all of you as stupid as Ben Carson?

>>684351133
Well almost all the serial killers that i have Beard of had a rough youth. So i guess nurture

Is dbs safe for essential tremor have you preformed the op?

What part does Consciousness happen?

>>684349644
Do you have an opinion on what causes exploding head syndrome?

>>684349644
What part of my brain is making me think spiderman?

>>684349644
Is God Real And Have You Checked Those Digits?

>>684351133
My latest neurosurgeon had some nerve conduction tests and said it looked normal, gave some antiinflamitory drugs and that's it.

I've been on Lyrica before and it made me feel like I has MS. Shaking, dropped stuff, clumsy, and depressed. Didn't stop all the pain either.

Gabapentin was okay, but only before sleep.

Moved recently and the new doctors think I'm just finding for drugs, despite I've been disabled out of work for a year and have scars, mris, etc.

Feel like giving up.

>>684351286
its rather magical, right?
all of it: MRI, CT, XR, US
we're all superman with technology's power

>>684351324
not likely a stroke, anon, but it could be what's called cervical radiculopathy. an exiting nerve can be pinched when you put your neck in certain positions (try putting the ear to your shoulder like you are holding a phone on the left). stretching is a good first step but if it gets worse, see your doc

>>684351331
some of us are stupider.

>>684351387
could be. but they may have some structural defect (the nature of which we don't yet know) that predisposes them to it. i'm guessing it's a little of both

>>684351405
i don't do functional surgery, anon, like DBS for tremor or PD, so i can't speak first hand. how bad is it? did you see your doc?

>>684351462
there's a lot of ideas to explain it, anon, but the bottom line is that nobody completely understands it. it is rather cool though that it exists.

>>684351475
what's that, /b/ruv?

>>684351808
That would be the cancer.

>>684352262
think you're confusing spiderman with banana

>>684351808
see>>684352262
he has a point

>>684351821
i don't think so but it's not really relevant to my job
i had those arranged just for you, anon
appreciate the check

>>684351995
nah, don't give up, anon. fuck that shit. too much good stuff out there to experience. you need to find the recipe that works for you. i typically suggest people figure out what they like doing physically (sports/run/walk/hike/whatever) and do that. do that as much as you can. start slow and build. it's not a solution, but it can be a good supplement to the meds. be wary of more surgery and avoid narcs like the plague. hope you get some relief

>>684349644
What makes niggers so niggy, neurobiology speaking ?

>>684349644
would a skull piercing be posible?

drilling small holes in the skull on a side and the other, and then passing a not so thick wire completely through the brain? close the ends with spheres, maybe after you can pass electricity through the full skull piercing and feel something

>>684349644
hit me up with a synopsis of what you know about meninghitist. i got it over the summer and missed 3 weeks of my life

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>>684352798
perhaps >>pol can provide insight

>>684352821
sure. you could do that. the big question is why?

pic unrelated

>>684352261
>MRI
Now that shit is some crazy^2. CT is intuitive like casting shadows. MRI (or as physicist say, NMR) is pretty much an engineering marvel that draws from all sorts of great weird ideas (super conductivity, quantum spin). It's nuts the same machine can be used with dozens of imaging techniques by simply tweaking how spins are excited and indexed to glean different information from scans.

>>684352618
You don't see the difference? It's worse than we thought.

>>684352261
Exploding Head Syndrome is something that you can experience a few times in your life, never experience it, or experience it regularly.

It only happens to me when I'm overtired and forcing myself to stay up, and just as as I start drifting off I'll "hear" a really loud noise such as an airhorn, siren, gunshot, or even really loud laughter, and it jolts me awake. Other people also experience a bright flash of light along with the auditory hallucinations, and with some of them it actually wakes them up while they are sleeping. If you want more info you can check out the wikipedia page but that's the basics of it.

>>684353379
the difference is spiderman is funny and banana isn't. i'd be more worried about yourself tbph

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>>684352919
tell us about it, anon
short version meningitis: infection of the central nervous system; community acquired can be rapidly fatal if not treated, distinct from post-op which can be managed much more safely

>>684353379
right? those guys are fucking smart.

pic unrelated: it's an angiogram. MRA is a modern alternative, but it's no match for a good old fashioned squirt

>>684353582
interesting, anon. never heard of it. why only a few times in life? is it caused by something that gets better? or it needs to be a specific combo of whatever to trigger it?

>>684353659
They're both cancerous, but nanners are just obnoxious.

>>684349644
Dr. Dubs.

See, you Faggots? Real Grown Ups frequent /b/.

Nice to know I'm not the only one. Welcome, Doc.

>>684353940
it's all in how they're used, regarding spiderman. when it comes to banana, they're is never an inappropriate time to use one therefore the funny lasted all of the 10 seconds the first one was ever posted.

>>684349644
does everyone at your place of work mispronounce 'respiratory' as "respitory"

Fucking hate that shit. Everyone I have ever heard say it, says it wrong.
Every. Single. Medfag.
Every single medical TV show.

>>684352919
Smile on mighty Jesus
Spinal meningitis got me down :(

>>684354115
>there
my autism is showing

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>>684353940
In some horrible way I actually welcome Sally Sumo, where ever the fuck it came from, because it isn't as annoying as the banan

>>684354115
spiderman is actually humorous, and there are countless images.

I treat banana like I do anything else on the internet I don't care about, I subconsciously don't even think about it anymore and just scroll to the next non-banana thing without any effect.

>>684353884
>interesting, anon. never heard of it
It's only been recently identified, not too surprised

>why only a few times in life?
Idk because I avoid forcing myself to stay awake I guess

>is it caused by something that gets better?
No fucking clue, thought we were the ones asking questions

>or it needs to be a specific combo of whatever to trigger it?
Like I said it only happens when I'm extremely tired and drift into sleep while trying to force myself to stay awake. With others in happens while they are sleeping. The running theme appears to be sleep here.

>>684354167
what do you mean?
i was able to be saved because i was visiting family. one night i was just on the floor, somehow....

nonetheless, after the events i still do not believe in a god, which i feel as you were aluding to.

to the neurosurg, do you believe in some form od a higher power?

>>684354440
i feel the same way

>>684354229
Sally sumo? Haven't been on a ylyl in a while, what am I missing?

>>684353582
shit, I get that all the time. I think it started after I did shrooms for a month straight.

Mine sound like a deep and powerful 'whoomp' and happens at least a few times a week.

Oh and I also have severe tinnitus in one ear, might have something to do with it. If one ear is to the pillow, or otherwise unable to hear what the effected ear hears, the blocked ear rumbles and clicks as the unblocked ear hears sound, in real time.

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I just saw a neurosurgeon and he ruled out Caudal Equina. The problem is, well, I am still fucked up. He sent me back to the urologist, and they are running a CT on Tuesday. I don't understand how this CANT be a nerve problem from my spine or sacrum area. Can a neurosurgeon do something there if there ISNT signs of CES?

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>>684353940
gonna agree with anon, here
spidey can do the lord's work
banana? shits cancer.
pic related. this poor /b/loke got sucker punched with a banana

>>684354021
cheers, /b/ro
what you drinking? jack and coke here

>>684354129
i got one up on you, anon: centimeter pronounced 'sant-a-meter'
not sure how to make that phonetic. just imagine saying it wrong: that way
fucking pretentious

>>684354548
hahahah fair enough anon

>>684354550
nope
what happened after they found you down? call for an ambulance, you get admitted to the hospital, they do a spinal tap, give you antibiotics, you get better but have no recollection of the whole ordeal?

>>684354998
>Oh and I also have severe tinnitus in one ear, might have something to do with it. If one ear is to the pillow, or otherwise unable to hear what the effected ear hears, the blocked ear rumbles and clicks as the unblocked ear hears sound, in real time.
That's actually pretty neat tbh.

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>>684355010
sounds like your having some bladder issues, maybe some saddle anesthesia. if there is no compressive process on MRI, like a big disc or an abscess or a hematoma, then there is no clear structural explanation for the problem that would respond to surgical decompression. other neurologic shit can cause what you are going through, but surgery won't fix it. hope you get it sorted, anon.

>>684354998
i don't have any brilliant insight into what you're experiencing, /b/ro
as long as you can live with it, perhaps it will fade with time

this pic >>684351133
was trying to cut this artery, pic related

>>684355309
can't believe I used the wrong "affect", fuck me. Anyway, forgot to mention that the tinnitus probably came from sitting next to a 250 watt powered subwoofer for a few years, and I played loud music often. It was literally in my face off to the side by a foot.

The tinnitus is super fucking annoying, but I appreciate it being interesting.

>>684355024
[meninghitist]
after they had found me they took me to A hospital (i am 100% unconcious, and i dont remember any of it)
my parents did not like it for some reason so we went to another hospital, but the 2nd one did not have a MRI machine. this caused me to be transported to another hospital 30-40+ miles from my house. i do have a few stories whilst on the antibiotics

>>684355564
I can live with it, better that than the people who claim they can hear a never ending ultra low frequency sound all day every day. Was a documentary on it a decade ago. The people naturally gravitated to a conspiracy theory about a secret underwater navy experiment or some shit.

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>>684349644
So the Neuroscience Dept at Imperial just published a paper of the effects of LSD on the brain, concluding that the substance had an overall positive effect on the subjects. In addition, a recent study by the Norwegian University of Technology and Science colcluded that LSD, Psilocybin, and Mescaline have no negative long term effects, and are not linked to mental health problems.

So generally, in the academic and wider neurological world, what is the general concensus on psychedellic drugs, and would you agree that they should be legalised?

http://www.ntnu.edu/news/2013-news/lsd-survey
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/17/4853.full.pdf

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>>684355564
Yeah. Bladder issues. It basically stopped working. The sphincter muscle is the only thing that keeps me from pudding all over myself. I have been sitting to piss since the beginning of the year. Uro has given me 5mg cialis daily to shrink prostate. I have bulged disks on L4-L5, and L5-S1. My tailbone hurts like fire. Its been this way for about three years. The bladder problems only since last summer.

It's all really fucking depressing.

>>684355886
glad you made it out alive, anon. your parents were rolling the dice shipping you all over the countryside. green text that shit

>>684356040
my personal opinion is that government has criminalized unnecessarily many substances including LSD, pot, ad infinitum. it's sad, really. hopefully time will make the silliness go away, but the problem is all the hypocrites making the rules.

>>684356155
nice pic, anon. you draw it?

>>684356442
shit sucks, anon. "bulging discs" sound ominous but if you had a neurosurg (or ortho spine) look at your images and give the thumbs up, it's not cauda equina syndrome. if you have a disc with the pics, post up a sagittal T2 view in the midline

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Cheers, OP. Noce to have people like you here
Btw, have you ever tried acid ? Are you aware of it's potential ?

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>>684355722
Ugh. Tinnitus. A silent room is the loudest fucking thing ever. I have no clue why I have it. I think it's screwing up my hearing. Anyway, I have to have a ton of white noise at night, sound during the day, just anything so I don't hear that loud scream in my ears.

>>684350178
A little thrombin spray and a wet to dry and he'll be good. Oh. Tetanus booster might be wise.

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>>684356699
I have not and I am
def curious but would rather synthesize it myself than trust some joker to provide me with something reliable. perhaps some day if a /b/ro hooks me up i'll expand my mind

>>684356912
white noise is a good work-around. make sure you're not missing anything important, anon ,and ask your doc. an ENTfag may provide some useful input. if you are the speak-anon from above, though, it may be permanent.

>>684356934
that shit'll buff right out.

pic shows after putting humpty dumpty back together again. not sure what's up with the huge-ass drain

>>684356695
Fuck. Gave the disc to the urologist since a cyst on my kidney showed up on one of the scans. They do bulge out, but to the left. When I first hurt them, I was told u wasn't a candidate for surgery. Now years later, I have gone through physical therapy until the therapists said "we can't fix you", saw a chiropractor until I got the same response. I dislike narcotics, so I take Ultram, and I was getting steroid injections. I never got relief for my tailbone though. Not ever. It sounded like after all these years, they might be more willing to operate.

Here is what I wonder: when my mother and brother had their surgeries, things were a lot worse than the scans showed. Could I be suffering for a pinched nerve in the sacrum that isn't showing up on a scan? Or is than just totally unlikely?

Why is everyone on /b/ autistic

>>684357556
I have had my head checked out for years. I have had headaches for as long as I can remember. I am actually going through Botox treatment now. I sometimes wonder if constant sinus pain damaged my ears, or a q-tip obsession, but I know another member of my family suffers from it since my mom directed her to me for advice. She was not happy to hear the only ways to deal with it.

>>684358004
I'm not autistic. I'm just a very broken man.

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>>684357844
the thing to remember, anon, is that you can always find someone to operate on you (for a price). sad but true. if anyone offers the knife, get a second or third opinion that agrees before going forward. the reason is that you need to weigh the risks and the benefits. surgery's got risks, no shit. but if there is no benefit to speak of, why subject yourself to it? tailbone pain, without radiation down the legs (radiculopathy), is a tough one. there are some snake oil salesmen that will talk a big game and act like they can help you. don't let your pain cloud your judgement and lead you to make a regrettable decision. hope it works out, anon. sounds like a shitty situation.

>>684358004
bc we're /b/tards?

>>684358316
why you getting your head checked? pain or tinnitus? i'm sure they've done scans. did they ever see anything to explain it?

>>684358384
we're all broken in our own ways, anon. that's life.
tomorrow is another day. that thing you like to do? do that.
pic shows an anon that did what he likes, but he liked stupid shit and got himself all kinds of rekt

>>684357556
Well I guess this is your lucky day. Send me an email at this disposable adress [email protected] if you're interested

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>>684358839
appreciate it, anon, i do
you'll understand my situation: i have a lot to lose. i will live vicariously though you

pic related: you've blown my mind with kindness

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