 [ Symptoms ] friend had swelling on the brain and was on ventilator but breathing over it wondering if family removed to soon his blood pressure was high and he was adjatated and they were giving him pain medicine so i always thought that if you brain cells was not working at all that you would not be able to feel any pain he would also get the hiccups the more i would talk to him the more he would breath over the machine i guess my questions is if they would have gave him more time could he maybe have come around even if he would have had to learn to do somethings all over again [ Disease ] no these two conditionssymptoms are independentnot related the only possibility would be that cellulitis of the leg can cause you to have stress and stress can tighten the neck muscles get your medical provider to examine you