Strokes and young women

[M.P.]

I just suffered a stoke 1 1/2 months ago. I am a 29 years old female.I had a seizure and went unconscience(my first time ever)which led them to find 2 blood clots in my frontal lobe by a cathera through my groin,leaving my left arm paralized for only 4 days, and with rehab seems to be getting better.My speech is ok, but is not the same, my head constantly is pain even with pain killers.I now take coumadin,dilantin, nerve damage medication and pain killers every day.I was also told I will not be able to get pregnant under these circumstances.I also see a therapist for post trauma.My life is not the same and never will be. There are no words I can express that girls will understand, only the one's who have experienced it. I just want young girls to be aware that smoking and taking birth control pills (1 reason they think this happened to me) is no joke. My question is: Us girls are looking for a way to not get pregnant so bad, we overlook the importance of side effects. What can I do to let young girls know THIS IS SERIOUS please help me the more young girls asorbing this info can save someone's life.

Someone cares,
M.P.

[M.P.]

Thanks for your reply. I'm very glad everything has worked out for you and you were able to have a baby.I just want everyone to know that the stoke itself did not cause me not to be able to have children it was the medication. Coumadin and dilantin are very serious medications that could harm a pregnant woman or a fetus.Every person's stroke is different, like snowflakes.Sometimes its not the stoke its the after-care medications that gives you the problems.

[C.F.]

I also had a stroke when I was 29....2 weeks after I gave birth!  Now, 4 yrs. later, the doctors still don't know for sure if I should get pregnant again.  They don't know why I had a stroke in the first place.  Both of my corotid arteries are occluded.  I went through 4-6 weeks of instense therapy (OT, PT, and speech) all of this with a newborn!!!  It takes some time to get back to "normal," but you seem to be on the right track.  It took me a while to see a therapist to unload all of the post traumatic stress.