Lacunar Infarct Info Please

[BeWytched]

I had a lacunar infarction in 2004 in September and in October.  The first one occurred while I was lying in bed with my husband and my right arm suddenly started to feel as though it was lit on fire and my muscles were burning.  I got extremely hot on my entire body like being boiled and then I was like an ice cube in a freezer.  I could not speak or move for awhile.  I don't know how long it was.  When I was able to speak I slurred the word hospital to my husband who was lying next to me and was unaware it had happened.  He asked me to repeat the word and I did but I was very frustrated to have to do that as it was hard just to get the word out.  When I was able to say it again he realized something was wrong.  I am a disabled female age 42 who suffers mobility issues with my legs and use forearm crutches full time and have been diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.  I tried to use my crutches but I was too weak to do so.  I was carried to our van and brought to hospital.  The doctor came in and without doing any tests told me I was just having female stress problems and he gave me ativan and sent me home.  I did not feel any better a couple of days later when I went to my doctor who immediately sent me to see a neurologist who then sent me for an MRI.  Two days after the MRI which happened two days after seeing the neurologist the doctor called me and told me I had had a lacunar infarction.  He told me that I needed to increase the dose of aspirin I was on to a regular strength dose.  I also have a rare condition called Takayasus Arteritis which affects my blood vessels and this was what they figured caused the lacunar.  They think my artery or other vessel spasmed and blocked blood flow to my brain.  I am very frustrated as I find myself having problems remembering words that just a moment ago I had in my head.  I do repeat my conversations and have now learned to ask the person I'm going to speak to to stop me if they have already heard it.  I have found depression affected me as well and still cry a lot with very little stress.  With my condition of Takayasus the scarey thing is that I may have more than just the two lacunar's affect me.  Takayasus has caused me to have no blood flow to my heart while having an angiogram at age 31, two strokes and stopping breathing last year and actually dying.  Luckily my hubby was there to smack me in the face in a panic while shaking me.  Boy was I sore after I woke up.  I couldn't figure what had happened.  I do get a good chuckle out of it now though.   My question is what does a lacunar infarct affect?  Will I ever have my mind back to the way it used to be and do I have to worry about having another one?  Thanks for your help.  Have a great day and an even better tomorrow.