anyone have anything like this???? afog like feeling.

[4babies01020305]

I was wondering if anyone has had anything like this happen since their stroke. I describe it as a fog or my effects, but  if i get an adrenalin rush it sends me backwards. Panic attacks, working to much, doing to much in a day, etc.... I get forgetful, dizzy, confused, emotional, and sooooooooooo exhausted etc... i don't know how else to describe it. i recovered really good other wise but this is frustrating. I have other health conditions that makes this even harder. My stroke was may of 07 i was 26, now 30 and lost!

[writeleft]

Hi Kelly,

What you are describing sounds exactly like I have felt, and still do at times. I can so clearly remember sitting in my back yard realizing I could not think! I knew I was thinking of something, but it would disappear in an instant, and all I could think of was that I could not think! It was terrifying.

Thank goodness, time and patience won out. A wonderful friend (and stroke survivor) has a mantra which he uses that I love...AAA Access, Accept, Adapt.  The accept part is the hardest I think, but the key. I have found it especially helpful to meet as many other stroke survivors for friendship and support, as this is a very unusual and difficult thing to do all alone.

Wishing you the best...it does keep getting better.

[positive_cynic]

Hi Kelly,
I will answer your questions on your site instead of here that is more public and it is a long story. But I do want to tell you something about your friends. You are 100% correct that they don't understand. I know they try, but it is just too hard to make somebody understand. I know they don't get it at all because I used to be the leader, the funny guy with a quick response to make everybody laugh. I was always so sarcastic that it might hurt me now because I don't think they believe me. I mean they all knew I was in the hospital but my stroke only happened on my left side - so it was all mental. I walk fine so I guess if you don't have a limp or something, you must be ok, right? Well, the mental side is just as hard as the physical side. I had to re-learn how to read and write. I am still not near as good as I used to be, typing and make sentences and I talk even worse. Big crowds really bother me now. Even a party with 6-10 people or more make me nervous and I always have to leave.

I mean, I don't except them to understand and I don't talk about it much, because there is not much to say about it. It seems like every one thinks that I'm better and things are back to normal, but that is not true at all. My new "normal" is the way I am now and I think I am better in so many ways. I never get mad anymore about anything, unless I am mad at myself. Anyway, you hang in there my friend. You are fine. All of your emotions and feeling are normal from your stroke.
God Bless,
Tim

[4babies01020305]

Its so funny though how the doctors think they know but exsactlly unless they have had one they don't know. I did research on mine as well. To this day they can't tell me why i had mine which scares me. However i think i have an idea. Its so nice to to finally have somewhere to go, where I'm understood, don't get me wrong my friends try but again they have no idea.

So do they know what caused yours? What was it like for you? How are you now? I'm still new to this so is there another good site to go to? I found this one by accident. I also want to thank you for writing me it was comforting.  I hope this are going good for you and look forward to talking to people who understand.

God Bless  You As Well,
Kelly  

[positive_cynic]

Hello 4babies,
I want to tell you to not get worried about how you feel. One thing about a stroke is that they sure don't give you any pointers on how to live after the stroke, right? :-)

I was in the worst place possible with nowhere to turn after my stroke. But I wasn't going to let it beat me. I quit asking my doctor what to do and and researched strokes on my own (after I could read and write again). And I found that I was not alone. I found so many forums and other stroke survivors to talk to and knew exactly what I was going through and they could understand all of the emotions that come with it. I don't fault the doctors from what I was wondering after my stroke. It is not their fault because they could not possibly know how you feel, unless they had a stroke themselves.

A stroke is just not like a medical problem. Your brain has been altered and your brain is who you are. A stroke is not like a broken bone that is better in 4 months. It is different with every person and there is no "rule" about what happens after a stroke. But I do know that I have found many friends that stroke survivors and we all understand some of the weird things that can happen to you after a stroke.

God Bless,
Tim

[goatrainer]

i have the fog also, and liteheaded, panic attacts, different pains all over. my stroke was 10, and it still scares me. panic makes it much worse.get tired and lethargic after a little working of any type.  i have not recovered as well as i expected, have left side problems. it is frustrating, and worrisome, but doc says normal. you are not alone ,so dont be lost, watch the weather also, it seems to affect me with the fog feeling in high pressure systems