Posted on 11/29/2024 6:32:00 PM PST by Az Joe
Anyone ever have one of them there mini strokes?
What'd it feel like? What happened?
Were you monitoring your BP/HR/BO at home?
How'd ya end up?
Wow. Poor guy. Sounds like he just didn’t care.
My wife’s brother got to a similar point in his 70s. Didn’t smoke, but just didn’t care any more. Literally drank himself to death.
If you need to ask this question go to ER now! The window for the use of clot busters for stroke is only a few hours. Go to the ER now!
I worked for a neurologist. It was not uncommon for the doctor to order a CT because a patient told him they had some slight numbness or speech trouble a couple of weeks back. They were always surprised to find the CT showed evidence of a stroke.
OK, good ending!
Let us know how things turn out for you
will do, thx
It’s always unnerving when all the tests don’t find anything. I’m in the middle of that right now for occasional abdominal pains. Lots of tests and...nothing. MRI schedule for January.
Best of luck to you, BJ. With any luck, nothing else will happen and you’ll live a long, happy and uneventful life.
I had a, “silent stroke”, a type of ischemic stroke, about three years ago. I can only pin it to this point in time because of a few things:
1.) I woke up one day with the right side of my face drooping some and my smile was uneven. Because I’m living with my mom, I asked her if she noticed it as well, but said I just looked tired. I went back to sleep.
2.) I had a COVID shot that year, the Johnson & Johnson. My demographic, women in their thirties, did worst on that one; but it wasn’t an MRNA, so I went with it. I never got another, and I refuse to administer them.
A couple years later, I woke with my left arm numb, and because I have an a/v fistula in it I wanted to make sure I didn’t have a clot, so I went to the ER. They did an MRI to make sure it wasn’t neurological, and they asked if I knew I’d had a stroke a couple years prior. I said, “No, but it makes sense.” I told them what I’d noticed, and it was confirmed that I’d had a lacunar stroke.
My memory has suffered some, I’ve grown rather clumsy and tend to drop things, and I occasionally trip over my words. That’s about it. Sadly, my memory was poor beforehand from being on gabapentin while my brain was still developing as a teen, so my childhood memories are kind of gone. I hate that. My nearly seventy year-old father can remember childhood clearly, and I can’t.
Gabapentin slows the firing of synapses in the brain in order to slow nerve signals and prevent pain and migraines, which is what I’d been taking it for.
Just an endless piling of things for me; my whole life has been a medical battle.
I honestly noticed no other symptoms, and the effects are subtle enough that people don’t believe me when I say that I’ve had a stroke. My face was only droopy when I first noticed and returned to normal the next I woke.
If you are concerned you or a family member has had a stroke, seek medical attention immediately. You may not be as fortunate as I was.
Ty
I had a good friend die from the exact same circumstances as you describe.
I had a stroke in my legs 6 years ago immediately after having an MRI for my Back that left me unable to walk for the most part, I woke up the next morning and all my back problems were gone and it did absolutely nothing but make my legs look like I was Alien. It went away once 3 years ago and came back a month later then did the same thing a few months ago. They call it a Thrombotic Event.
You need to go to the doctor for an exam. He will likely prescribe blood thinners.
Tough old bird.
I think I had a TIA a few years back. My eyes literally went crosseyed for a week or so, I lost some night vision in my left eye, and my left pupil is ‘tonic’, it takes much longer to adapt to dark than my right pupil.
Thx.
Im headin into the ER soon.
ok, thx
will do
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