I had my stroke about two years ago.
I woke up and half my vision was gone. Everything on the left side was white, like a flash had gone off. If I covered my right eye, the left side was white. If I covered my left eye, the left side was white.
I Googled the symptoms. It said I was either having a stroke or I had a brain tumor. Either way, go to the hospital...now.
We did. They did some screenings - I showed no symptoms of a stroke other than my vision - so they set up a CT scan to check out what they were certain was my brain tumor. They said it wouldn’t be able to detect a stroke, if one existed.
Funny that...my stroke was so massive that it did show up on the CT scan. Worse, because they had no idea when my stroke actually occurred, they couldn’t give me any of the cool nifty keen drugs that reverse the damage.
I was told that my situation had no protocol. They couldn’t even give me blood thinners because it may make the bleeding worse. They did do a contrasting dye scan which gave them a really good look at what they couldn’t do anything about.
They kept me in the hospital for three days and then sent me home, half blind, with a prescription for blood thinners. Yay.
I did some research and discovered there were some vision exercises I could do to improve my situation. Two years later I have recovered about 80% of what was lost. I still get really nasty headaches, and I have a persistent blind spot, but otherwise you would never know I had a stroke.
My 27 year old daughter had a stroke in her brain stem.
End of July last year. 1 week in ICU, 2 weeks in rehab hospital. She was able to go back to work in January, but still has some limitations. Scared the hell out of my wife and I.
Wow! I didn't know that was possible. Good for you!
I had what they called an eye stroke. Lost most of my vision in my right eye but not totally blind. I am curious about the eye exercises. Not sure if it will help me at this point but I would try voodoo if it helped.