Treatment concerns

[alf496]

My mother is believed to have suffered a stroke recently but we are not being told anything, after about a week of numbness and pins and needles she has lost all use of the right hand, there has been some numbness and slight slurring of the speach, she is now unable to hold a proper conversation due to forgetting what she was about to say mid sentence and gets headaches in well lit areas like shopping malls. After loads of blood tests and examinations it is believed she has had a stroke but not confirmed, she has been discharged from hospital and given a date of three weeks before her first nuerological appointment, this is not even a scan. we are really worried we are being undertreated.

any suggestions, we just havent been advised anything by our health service

Concerned, Alf

[alf496]

Easier said than done dean, trying to get an appointment is nigh and impossible, the personal gp doctor cant seem to rush things through either, ive spoken to another couple of people in the same boat and it seems a month for a scan seems normal, well thats the sorry state of our NHS i suppose, only other option is to go private. The only bonus is the use of the hand is starting to come back now. I expect she will be back to normal by the time the scan comes around. She is currently on 300mg of aspirin and has been on blood pressure tablets for a long time already.

Jason

[oc1dean]

You need a CT or MRI scan done soon so they can find the cause of the problems, waiting will make it harder to determine what was the cause because the brain will reabsorb the blood if it was a bleed and if a clot the scar spot will become smaller. Is she being treated with aspirin or Warfarin?
Three weeks is too long to wait especially if that appt. might finally request a scan delaying it even longer. You need to find out the cause so appropriate action can be taken to prevent another stroke.
Dean