I Had a Mini-stroke a few days ago!
Last Thursday morning, I started feeling kinda tingly all over. I went downstairs to my workout area and did Cathe Live Senior Fit 2 for about 35 minutes but then felt really badly so I stopped and went back upstairs. I sat next to my husband and he realized I wasn’t doing so well. He said, “You’re having a stroke so get ready – I’m taking you to Emergency”. He had to tell them what was going on. Very quickly, they did a CT scan and gave me some TPA – the medication that helps with the kind of stroke I was having. They were asking me all kinds of simple questions and having me do some physical things (“squeeze my fingers”). I didn’t do very well. They put me in the ICU for the night and asked those simple questions and had me do the physical tests about every half hour and then every hour. By morning, I was doing fine on all the tests. The next morning, they did an MRI on me. A physical therapist, an occupational therapist and a speech therapist all came in to see me. I told the PT and OT that I worked out every morning so they watched me and, by that time, I was doing fine so they didn’t even stay. The speech therapist still gave me all her tests, but I did fine on all of them.
Early the next morning, the Neurologist on my case came in and told me that the MRI showed I didn’t have a full-blown stroke so I asked if it was a mini-stroke and she said it could have been. She told me to start taking 81 gm aspirin every day. Another doctor told me later I should increase my statin from 10 gm to 40 gm. I went home that afternoon. I’ve been a bit dizzy since I’ve been home (only had bad balance before) and am going to see my GP on Friday.
This was really scary for me! I wanted to let everyone know about it because I consider myself pretty healthy (exercise, eat well, never smoked, and drank very little when I was much younger) and yet I had a mini-stroke. My mother had a very debilitating stroke when she was 89 (I’m almost 70) so I assume it was hereditary. I want to warn everyone to be careful and don’t assume it won’t happen to you. I have no idea why the stroke suddenly came on but I’m sure glad my husband recognized what it was. He probably saved my life.
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