Suggest treatment for cerebral edema
Patient: had horrible brain swelling about 3 months ago could not move neck and the pain went from left graduall to the right waited a month to visits to emergency room no test just mri because of past tbi felt death and buzzing went to neighbors allergy doctor gave me levofloxacin started disappating in 24 hours tokk for two weeks. side effect always have had to clear throat since 12yr old 42 now seem to clear itwhile taking came back. the question is my nodes on either side of my occipital pit have never been fully recovered and in constant pain should i get tested for tb or west nile or what fungal infection bacterial or what Doctor: I read your question carefully more than once but unfortunately I am afraid it was really difficult to understand what really happened to you.You speak of treating cerebral edema, which can have many different causes (stroke, tumor, infection) which must be identified and treated accordingly. Then you say you waited for a month to visit the emergency room which makes the cerebral edema a little questionable because it is a very serious finding with the patient often in a coma. Afterwards you say you had no tests but a MRI, which actually is the best test to detect edema, but tell us nothing of its findings. You close it out telling us to have taken treatment by allergy doctor and got better.So I as a doctor started out thinking you had a dramatic life threatening condition like encephalitis and ended up thinking it looked like the more benign sinusitis or rhinitis.So please try to ask your question again. Try to avoid fancy medical terms like cerebral edema which might not be correct, and tell us your symptoms in plain simple words (headache, vomiting, nose congestion and discharge, fever etc) using as many details as possible to describe their onset, character and frequency. Include also your age, previous conditions and results of tests like MRI.Me or my colleagues would love to help you but you have to help us to evaluate your case properly.