headach after stroke

[rcbtb]

hello my wife (36) suffered a stroke last oct 2007 , she presented differently and our local doctor did not see antthing wrong but agreed to send her to get a "eeg" and "ct" after waiting a week for the secueled test my wife lost right side movement, the test showed nothing and our doctor didnt know what was wrong , so i took her to the emergency room and the nero on call admittered her for test the next day the repeted the same test and still found nothing, a different nero on call suguested that it was all psycological and she should see a psyciatrist, about 1 hour later when my wife got back from the "mri" the same nero apologised and said that my wife had suffered a stroke and there were (5 ) dead spots in multiple areas of her brain, second day in the hospital i got my wife out of bed to walk the halls as we had been dooing several times before ! she made it 30 feet and passed out and hit the floor, when she came to she said that hwer upper right chest hurt and felt heavy and a head ach pain in the back of her head , the nurse called for a heart doctor and we explained and he said that her heart wasnt in her upper right chest, and called for a (ecg)  and saw right to left(or vis versa) "pfo" after four more weeks and two hospitals she had a (pfo closure) but was still passing out doctor ordered another (ecg) to see how the "pfo"was dooing and noticed that there were still micro bibbles passing thru did a ct of her chest and look there in her upper right chest was a large "AVM" because of the blood thinner she had to wait a week for that repair which was a 6 hour long operation, now after coughing up blood for two weeks she hoped to be on the recovery road , but the severe headaches still persist , the newest nero doctor told me to stop taking her to the emergency room when she passes out and hits her head , because they have done all the workups and that my wife is physically finebut that she should see a psyciatrist (i cant tell you how many times i have heard a nero doctor tell my wife that !! the fact is that we have seen the psyciatrist since a month after the stroke and she has been on and still is on many percriptions , and in theropy we have now hit the 6 month mark and she still passes out now after 30 or so feet .she can feel her self getting diorinted and she stops befor it happens , we have decided to stop taking the pain meds as they didnt do much for the headache and the nerohtin makes her sick so they tell us that there is nothing any one can do, i hope thats not true and thats why i told a small part of this story to some of you that might be able to help, her head ache is located in her cerebellum , and it not neck tention weve seen the pain doctors they say its in her brain, im a terrible speller so i hope youa"l can read between the lines  thanks


This discussion is related to HEADACHES AFTER STROKE.