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“Your labs are normal.” People with fibromyalgia hear that sentence more than any other, usually right after describing months of aching, wrecked sleep, and a brain that won’t cooperate. Sometimes it arrives with a gentle suggestion to manage stress better. Normal labs are exactly what this condition produces. Fibromyalgia is a disorder of how the…

Someone’s arm goes numb for four minutes, then it’s gone. Speech slurs for a moment during a phone call, then clears up. By the time anyone else notices, the person already feels fine and quietly decides it was stress, or too much coffee, or a bad night’s sleep. That decision to wait it out is…

Most people carrying a brain aneurysm have no idea it’s there. That’s the strange, unsettling truth about this condition: an estimated 6.8 million people in the United States, roughly 1 in 50, live with an unruptured brain aneurysm, and the overwhelming majority never know it exists. Some are found by accident during an MRI ordered…

Usually, a headache is not dangerous and can result from physical factors. A headache is rarely considered a sign of serious neurological disease. Most headaches have less dangerous causes, such as dehydration or severe stress. Anyone who has a headache should know which brain tumor symptoms matter most. A headache alone does not mean a…