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Dr. Jaren is a neurologist licensed in Michigan. HealthTap virtual visits with Dr. Jaren are a good way to get neurology service of many kinds. These can be used for obtaining a second opinion, discussing issues of a routine return visit, obtaining a medicine refill, or discussing symptoms of a tremor, memory complaint, headache or numbness. Since we do not order tests on HealthTap, a virtual visit is not a substitute for a formal office consultation.
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Neurology
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United States: California, Michigan, Washington
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A 37-year-old female asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
Kids & strokes: There are many reasons why a youngster could get strokes. Sickle cell anemia comes to mind as a possible cause. Congenital heart disease is a possib... Read More
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Inguinal ligament: Maybe the ligament itself is injured? But there is no pain with palpation? It is not likely to be from your lower back spondylosis. That would be m... Read More
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A 42-year-old male asked:
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Most of these: Trigeminal neuralgia may cause facial symptoms like those you have described. It would not cause pain in any of the fingers however.
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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May not be MS: If those are your MS symptoms, you may be ok. At least, you may not have MS. Primary progressive MS may cause atrophy or weakness, but those other s... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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Can't see relation: Can't see a relation between these two. The blood draw injury should not cause symptoms in your calf. What kinds of things make your calf feel worse... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Metallic taste: Sometimes people have a sense of smell as a symptom prior to or associated with a seizure. I am not aware of an unusual taste, although taste and sme... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
Not normally: Sometimes Huntingtons is referred to as "HD". It is also a trinucleotide repeat disease. Huntingtons is the most appropriate and most widely used na... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Floaters: Floaters are common for people to experience during their lifetime. They are cells within the fluid inside the eye, sometimes they briefly distort th... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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Out of breath: That sounds ok. With certain exercise, you will not be able to maintain a high oxygen level, which causes you to breathe faster and more deeply.
A b... Read More
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A 60-year-old female asked:
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Eyelid twitching: Eyelid twitching often occurs with fatigue, and if vision is poor during reading, it may occur more often. It may occur independent of vision. It is... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
The answer depends: The answer depends on what you consider minor and what part of the brain the stroke affects. Say for example, a small stroke that affects the pons ca... Read More
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A 65-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Answer varies: The bioequivalent dose actually depends on the dose that is needed, your metabolism, what other medicines you use, an your experience with these medic... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Many causes: These are symptoms of nausea or dizziness. There are many possible causes. Medicine side effects? Infection? If movement makes it feel worse, peri... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Types of strokes: You must be referring to the hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke types? The hemorrhagic stroke is caused by leakage of blood from a blood vessel. The is... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Xanax (alprazolam) & preg tests: No - xanax (alprazolam) cannot affect home pregnancy tests.
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Soreness: It could be you are sore from over exercise, or from little muscle injuries from playing the two sports. Do you normally exercise this much? If not,... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Lithium and tremor: A small, fast tremor affecting the hands when they are held up is a common side effect of lithium. If this correlates with a higher blood chemistry l... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Meningitis: The pia and the arachnoid are part of the meninges, the lining around the brain and the spinal cord. The dura is another layer of the meninges. Toge... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
No- not pregnant: No, you could not be pregnant after a miscarriage and a D&C. Your tests though may still show signs of your recent pregnancy. Test again in one ... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Little interaction: As far as I know, there is little interaction between these two. It should be ok to use them together.
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Some solutions: It is important to consider if you feeling of deja vu is related to seizures or not. It may not be related. Ways to help figure this out are to talk... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
It should be safe: It should be safe to use xanax (alprazolam) and nyquil, but please be careful you do not feel excessively sleepy afterwards. Especially if you drive ... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Myopathy & supplemen: For mitochondrial myopathy, supplements that may help are carnitine, creatine and coenzyme Q10. See this link for more details
http://mda.org/diseas... Read More
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A 39-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Moving objects: The feeling of movement could occur if there are problems with the 8th cranial nerve, which helps you with balance and hearing, or the cerebellum, whi... Read More
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A 40-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Normally 1-3 days: Sunburn pain normally lasts about 1-3 days. It will help to stay out of the sun in the mean time. Cover up and be protected!
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Orthostatic hypotens: MS can cause orthostatic hypotension. There are many other causes too. Diabetes mellitus is probably the most common cause of this condition in the ... Read More
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A 40-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Slow reduction: Medicines like this are reduced slowly to prevent the chances of withdrawal symptoms. One of these can be seizures. When a medicine like depakote is... Read More
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A 30-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Get the right advice: For someone who has a symptom of brain fog, I recommend they meet with a psychiatrist and undergo cognitive testing. Vitamin B12 deficiency may cause... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Prob benign: Do you mean 3/4 inch in circumference? Sounds like muscle imbalance. ALS normally does not affect one arm by the way.
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A 20-year-old female asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
Was it the Milk?: Oatmeal is normally pretty easy to digest. An allergy to oatmeal is probably not the cause of this.
Sometimes milk can cause these symptoms. Lactos... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
Post concussion: There are several symptoms that can occur after a concussion. It takes time to recover, and there are steps that are taken to be sure the symptoms do... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Not MS- ur ok: These sound like symptoms, but not necessarily MS symptoms. For most people, it is the first clinical attack, which lasts 24 hr or longer, which is t... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Paresthesia: A feeling of prickling or touching or tingling is what we call paresthesia. When it occurs all over, it is a good idea to get some lab work done. Ch... Read More
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A male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
REC- stop smoking: Perhaps you should stop smoking. You may already have found there is a change in your blood chemistry from smoking these two things, why would you wa... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Inner ear + eyes: When the labyrinths are affected, your control of visual movements can be affected, causing focus to be slightly abnormal. That is not anxiety, it is... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
MS information: Signs of MS may be loss of vision in one eye, double vision, numbness, weakness or incoordination, especially as transient "attacks". Risk factors in... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Spinal tap: If you mean chiropractor care by adjustment, the answer probably varies. I recommend you wait at least two days though.
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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Prob not MS: With the normal MRI tests, it is probably not MS. If the numbness area is large, an EMG may help.
You may find this tool helps the information about... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
Dr. Olav Jarenanswered
Neurology 21 years experience
Muscle or nerve?: It would help to know what part of our arm has the pain and twitching. A muscle or nerve issue is not out of the question. Consider the radial nerve... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Sometimes not always: Sometimes non-epileptic seizures occur when someone is under a lot of stress, or is struggling with stress of various kinds. One should not assume ho... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Amazingly, sometimes diabetes is discovered after neuropathy is discovered. Diabetes also affects the eyes, the kidneys, and it accelerates changes i... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Tongue twitching 4/4: Please do not worry about this. Sleep well, eat well, get some exercise, visit with friends and family, enjoy the summer.
I hope my other posts ha... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Not really: Seizures are normally caused by things that irritate the surface of the brain, or at least cause the neurons in the surface of the brain to discharge ... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Medicine metabolism: The answer varies, but it should be 85% out of your system within 4 days. Not everyone is the same, so hard to be sure for you.
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Answer varies: The answer to your question depends on your age and your medical history. Progesterone is important to many things, especially fertility. Other time... Read More
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A female asked:
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Neurology 21 years experience
Blood patch 2.0: After a blood patch is placed, the blood patch resolves. There is no risk of a blood clot with this procedure. There are no long time risks. The bl... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Eye exam: Sometimes and eye exam will reveal evidence of conditions that affect your vision. You are clever to examine this. If they do not find a cause, they... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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Suggestion: Have you tried using a moisturizer on your legs after your shower? Have you tried a different kind of soap?
This symptom suggests some kind of skin ... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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What do you mean?: Do you mean, how are certain diseases treated? If so, which ones?
There are too many possible answers to this question.
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Good questions: Those are all good questions. You should not get sciatica in your calf only- perhaps it is a little different. So you have calf pain on one side, SI... Read More
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Oct 25, 2014
Impressed by answers which convey an expanded perspective regarding complex clinical issues, providing doctor education, and patient understanding. These approaches reify the value of Dr Jaren's cont...Read More
Jul 28, 2014
Dr. Jaren gives intelligent, thoughtful and easy to understand answers. He's a great resource, especially for Neurologic questions.
Aug 13, 2014
Based upon the materials presented, Dr. Jaren has reputable training and experience
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This made me feel good. Thanks! Thank you fo reassuring me about ALS. Breathing issues getting worst -Chiari, CFS blood flow issues, other Heat intoler/mast cell activation disorder
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you. It's lateral, not posterior. Never had before, ever. sudden onset, no relief yet. Healthy, fit, strong otherwise. New this week, headaches
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thanks so much! that is what I was thinking but my mom has been tired since beginning it (also a busy time in her life). I didn't think it was relat
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, IA
Graduated 2002MD
Residency
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM
Completed 2006
Awards
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Top Doctor, First Place, Traverse City Region - Summer
2014
Top Neurologist , First Place, Michigan - Summer
2014
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