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since then shes been having TIA's all the time and the this week she had another big one. this time it was her right side of her brain and is still having TIAs around it continuously.
she was "ok" when she went into the hospital could kinda walk and just lispy from her dropping lip but has just gotten progressively worse.
she cant talk, can't move her entire left side, cant swallow. has a feeding tube, says shes hot all the time when shes cold to the touch, restless, has blood clots on both sides of her neck.
shes started to vomit and ripped out her feeding tube..
they gave her a 30% chance of survival
has anyone else expierenced the same thing? i'm 27View Thread
can you have seizures after you had a T.I.As. the reason i asked is i had a T.I.A. last november 2nd , then november 6th wile at therpy i had a grand mul seizure two mins after that i had another seizure. is this some thing i should be conserened about.
then while in the hospital dr did a bunch of test and then told me it was a pseduio seizure that i had, i'm so confused .. the DR never explaned it to me what the heck is a pseduio seizure .
on the lighter note we are going to a different DR for a second opion ...View Thread
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Just recently, my relatives have insisted on taking her to the US - from San Joaquin, Iloilo to Miami, Florida. I don't think it's good a good idea, but they form the majority. What are the risks and pros and cons?View Thread
At the hospital, after an MRI and x-ray with contrast, I was told that I Had had a series of tiny strokes - most of them older, but one recent. I'm 48, height/weight proportionate, I eat fairly healthy and work out regularly but I've been on medications for about 10 years for hypertension.
The next day, a neurologist told me that I had Wallenberg. The strokes had been on the left side of my brain. My left eye was droopy and I could barely feel touch on the right side of my body. I could not feel hot/cold at all on my right side.
It's now 1 month later. Reading other posts, I believe that I was lucky compared to what many others have been through. I'm getting the nerve sensation back on my right side - feeling temperature more and more but it's still not 100%.
I'm back to working out at the gym doing cardio but often feel a heavy numbness in my right knee only when I'm on the treadmill.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with the ongoing nerve numbness issues, It would be appreciated. I have a friend who is recommending I try accupuncture.
Good luck to everyone and take care of yourselves!View Thread
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Earlier that day I was at an estate sale on my knees sorting thru vinyl records. I then stood up to walk out the door to drive home. But when I stood up I suddenly felt dizzy and had a funny taste / smell sensation come over me. It was like someone was burning rubber in my mouth. I made it to my car and while I was driving home (about a 5 mile drive) I started feeling the worst headache of my life. I made it home but when I got there I suddenly lost my balance which was causing me to stumble and fall all over my house only to have my fall broken by me bashing head first into every wall as I kept getting back up and falling again. This happened about 10 times around my house, including falling down my first flight of stairs head first into a retaining wall. I simply couldn't keep my balance. I finally managed to stumble into my bed to lay down around 12pm thinking I was just tired and needed a nap. What I didn't know is that was I was having a massive cerebral brain hemorrhage.
My brother found me 6 hours later. And when he found me unresponsive passed out on my bed he called my mom over. I vaguely remember my mother standing by my bed saying "I think he's had a stroke". She and my step-dad didn't wait around for an ambulance at that point. They put me in the car and drove straight to the ER.
I woke up the next day in the ICU with 65 staples in my head after having a craniotomy to drain the massive bleed and to remove a 4 inch blood clot. My first question in the ICU to the surgeon when I awoke was... "Can I ski this year?"
Fast forward exactly 2.5 months from the day of the bleed... I stepped back onto my downhill skis and clocked in at a downhill speed of 62 mph. So all things considered I walked away from something that should have left me dead or left me with with a major lifelong disability.
I'm a software developer and film editor and was back working 4 weeks after the day of the stroke.
I do suffer from a mild visual field loss in my upper left field of vision. Which isn't so much of a problem. I've adjusted to the visual loss mostly. But I still have my fingers crossed they the vision thing will resolve itself. I know it's wishful thinking but I wholeheartedly believe it will resolve itself.
Which brings me to my main question. I wake up everyday with a hazy feeling and it lasts all day long. The neurologist I'm seeing put me on dextroamphetamine which does help a little. But the hazy feeling I've had since the hemorrhage is getting annoying to put it simply.
I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has had the same prolonged hazy groggy feeling after a hemorrhage and I'm wondering if it's ever cleared up.View Thread
He had been on atenelol up until the quad ripple heart bypass in Nov.2012, and had just started cholesterol medicine. He's been on insulin and pills but has stayed very active for his age, which is 74 almost 75, and still worked up until the heart surgery last yr. as a interior/exterior painter for up to 40 yrs.on and off. He quit smoking when he had the first stint put in and does not drink. He stays outside 99% of the time because we have a little farm, and that has always been his passion as he was raised on 80 acres of farmland as a boy.
There are many questions I have, but here is what I have been wondering; his dislocated shoulder, which I've been told is "commom" among stroke patients; in which if that is the case, why is there not a preventive measure put in place, is there anything that can be done to get this healed up?
Another thing is that he sometimes sees things that are not there. I've read that sometimes dimentia may occur in some stroke patients. Is hallucinations also common with right brain stroke patients?
One more thing is that he has just recently had a skin tear in the careless process of transfering him from a hoyerlift to his bed at the rehab unit at this nursing home he is in. Today we noticed that his left hand and fingers and left foot is swollen. The wound looked a little white and pussy looking and also had swelling around it. We got the nurses attention on it and she doctored it again. Could the swelling in the foot and hand be caused from the wound? I was there yesterday, and did not notice his hand being swollen and had spent quite a while with him and went to the dining room and watched him eat so I would have seen this. I am concerned, but don't know what to do if I should do anything. He is all I got, and want to do the best for him so he can get better.
He also has had a hernia in the left groin for years, and get's very enlarged. He says it get's like that when he has not been able to have his bowels move. Can dr's. operate on this so he is not in alot of pain from this? He has complained about it hurting him.
Thank-you for your response on my questions. I am going to do the best I can for him with Hospice when he comes home. We just celebrated 18 yrs. of marriage and want him to enjoy however long we have left together. How long do people go on like this? I've ready to endure however long, just was wondering.
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He had been on atenelol up until the quad ripple heart bypass in Nov.2012, and had just started cholesterol medicine. He's been on insulin and pills but has stayed very active for his age, which is 74 almost 75, and still worked up until the heart surgery last yr. as a interior/exterior painter for up to 40 yrs.on and off. He quit smoking when he had the first stint put in and does not drink. He stays outside 99% of the time because we have a little farm, and that has always been his passion as he was raised on 80 acres of farmland as a boy.
There are many questions I have, but here is what I have been wondering; his dislocated shoulder, which I've been told is "commom" among stroke patients; in which if that is the case, why is there not a preventive measure put in place, is there anything that can be done to get this healed up?
Another thing is that he sometimes sees things that are not there. I've read that sometimes dimentia may occur in some stroke patients. Is hallucinations also common with right brain stroke patients?
One more thing is that he has just recently had a skin tear in the careless process of transfering him from a hoyerlift to his bed at the rehab unit at this nursing home he is in. Today we noticed that his left hand and fingers and left foot is swollen. The wound looked a little white and pussy looking and also had swelling around it. We got the nurses attention on it and she doctored it again. Could the swelling in the foot and hand be caused from the wound? I was there yesterday, and did not notice his hand being swollen and had spent quite a while with him and went to the dining room and watched him eat so I would have seen this. I am concerned, but don't know what to do if I should do anything. He is all I got, and want to do the best for him so he can get better.
He also has had a hernia in the left groin for years, and get's very enlarged. He says it get's like that when he has not been able to have his bowels move. Can dr's. operate on this so he is not in alot of pain from this? He has complained about it hurting him.
Thank-you for your response on my questions. I am going to do the best I can for him with Hospice when he comes home. We just celebrated 18 yrs. of marriage and want him to enjoy however long we have left together. How long do people go on like this? I've ready to endure however long, just was wondering.
thank youView Thread
I read your piece about secondary prevention of stroke as well as talking to my neurologist about my risk of having another stroke. With neither source where did I hear what I have since learned that most stroke survivers have sleep apnea. And that those who have had a stroke have a greater chance of having another stroke from sleep apnea with a greater chance of mortality and poor rehabilitation.
I had no sleep apnea before my stroke having a sleep study which even included a scope down my esophagus all night. But since my stroke I have not only obstructive, but central brain sleep apnea. I'm having difficulty wearing my CPAP mask due to severe bruising on my skull after a Prolia injection has caused this problem long after the side effects should have gone away. My endocrinologist spent a long time trying to learn when the side effects would go away and came up with nothing. And both the neurologists giving me nerve block, trigger point and Botox injections to treat my 24/7 migraines think that I should not wear the mask for 1 to 2 weeks respectively after the injections so that the liquid is not squeezed out. So now I just got a special mouth piece ordered which I have not yet obtained to try and it doesn't control the central brain sleep apnea.
So how worried should I be?View Thread
I read your piece about secondary prevention of stroke as well as talking to my neurologist about my risk of having another stroke. With neither source where did I hear what I have since learned that most stroke survivers have sleep apnea. And that those who have had a stroke have a greater chance of having another stroke from sleep apnea with a greater chance of mortality and poor rehabilitation.
I had no sleep apnea before my stroke having a sleep study which even included a scope down my esophagus all night. But since my stroke I have not only obstructive, but central brain sleep apnea. I'm having difficulty wearing my CPAP mask due to severe bruising on my skull after a Prolia injection has caused this problem long after the side effects should have gone away. My endocrinologist spent a long time trying to learn when the side effects would go away and came up with nothing. And both the neurologists giving me nerve block, trigger point and Botox injections to treat my 24/7 migraines think that I should not wear the mask for 1 to 2 weeks respectively after the injections so that the liquid is not squeezed out. So now I just got a special mouth piece ordered which I have not yet obtained to try and it doesn't control the central brain sleep apnea.
So how worried should I be?View Thread
Back in 2006 I waited 6 months for a brain MRI.I had lost my sight for a few hours, had balance problems and some tingling ( not all at one time) The neurologist suspected inflammation on my brain stem. I received a letter stating my MRI was normal.A year last Xmas, I had a terrible attack,suddenly had a severe jump like sensation in my head. I fell over to the right.I have had these jump like sensations in my head for years,they usually lasts about 3 seconds,and I always fall over to the right but this time it lasted around 15 seconds and it caused my heart to speed up.I felt horrible afterwards. I had a brain and cervical spine MRI in Nov. I paid for this scan and have been told I had had a possible ischaemic affecting the left cordate in 2006 but they were looking for inflammation on my brain stem at the time, so did not notice this! I don't have high bloodpressure or smoke.I weigh 105lbs eat healthily and I was 46 at the time.I'm very worried.I'm in the UK and the health service is rubbish where I live. I am so afraid.I have taken cod liver oil for 25 years and the last 5 years had1- 2 glasses of red wine a day. I have been told I should now take aspirin but after 6 years of no treatment I'm terrified. The neurologist was rubbish saying he did not know what these attacks are, but the srtoke was caused by a blockage in my brain.This means nothing to me and I'm now afraid to go to sleep incase I have a massive stroke and wake up paralysed.Thanks Scarlett.View Thread
It started with a typical migraine prodome kind of phase. I felt emotionally strange, extremely tired, yet oddly alert. As I said, its difficult for me to tell, reality tends to have a trippy air to it anyway. I was in a store, shopping. And I couldn't shake this sensation, that the floor wasn't truly solid. In my mind's eye, I could almost see it dissolving or pulling away, and my feet were anticipating the surface beneath me to stop existing, and for me to fall through. I ignored it.
When I arrived home I was more or less half conscious. Drifting in and out of being alert. At this point, some part of my mind became aware of the odd state, and I jolted into being hyperalert. My head had a fizzing feeling inside of it, and my right eye had a sensation like it wasn't working, or my field of vision was narrowing. I tested peripheral vision, I tested ocular muscles, pupils responded to light and tracked movement properly. I felt less than conscious, but couldn't find any measurable motor deficit. Facial muscles were fine, arms and legs were fine (I have allergies as well, and my left arm going limp is a symptom of some of them. Its hard to tell) Speech and memory was fine. I felt extremely tired. My face had waves of tingling on and off, but nothing sustained. Eye kept the sensation that it wasn't there however.
I never fully slept. I could move, but I just didn't want to. The urge or drive wasn't there. I felt a bit of drool trickling out of my mouth but it didn't seem to matter. I remember mumbling the lines to some song I haven't listened to in years half aware of my surroundings. I slept quite poorly.
Today I woke up. Feel really weak and spaced out, the right side of my brain feels numb and like theres a tight band wrapped around it. Eye feels like it exists, yet does not exist. Feel really apathetic and emotionless. Moreso than usual. I can't find much real....deficit, that I haven't experienced before. I have migraines at least 6 days a week. Eliminated all known triggers. Since I have a lot of neurological allergies, frequent migraines....this one was pretty different but its hard to tell. I feel strange and I just....I just don't know.
Anyone experience anything like this, or have any kind of input? I tried to keep it short.View Thread
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