right arm weakness

[jess32691]

My boyfriend has been having these really severe headaches around and above his right eye. they make his vision in the right eye blurry now and sometimes they mess with depth perseption and he has fallen from them. also he has had some right sided facail numbness leading into his neck and top shoulder. now radomly his right arm just went almost limp he cant even open a can of soup. and ideas as to what this could be? I work on a neuro floor in the hospital so i see this all the time but to get him to go to the doctors is hard. so if i have an idea as to what it is I will scare him into going lol. thank you



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[Gio77Italy]

3 years ago I woke up with numb lip, like a beginning of Bell's palsy, I had bad coordination and bad perception of depth for weeks after. I would go short when trying to catch objects. nobody cared so I did nothing.

recently I had MRI but for a different reason and nothing showed up.

[Gio77Italy]

there are some details I hadn't noticed yesterday, headache and bad depth perception are symptoms of a stroke or TIA.

therefore yeah it is worth a trip to the ER or Neurologist. CT scan or MRI

[caregiver222]

He needs to go to an emergency room, as of yesterday. Make him an ultimatum. He goes to an emergency room or you go somewhere else. Quite clearly there is a possibility of a life-threatening problem, and the range of outcomes may range from blindness to quadraplegia and incontinence, as well as loss of sexual function. He is acting irresponsibly.

[Gio77Italy]

if it was so sudden maybe it's from an infection, probably viral.

his cognitive functions might have been slowed down a bit too.

too early to go to a Neurologist. rather do blood tests, CBC+ESR.

test him with the Romberg's test, it will take a minute. often is linked with problems in the optical nerves.