Possible TIA's or Stroke?

[Cheryl H]

I have been diagnosed with Extreme IBS, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue. But in the last month or so I had been having increasing spells of dizziness. Then one day I had an extreme spell where my I could not get up off the floor, my left leg was numb and tingling, my left arm was tingling, the left side of my face went completely numb. My lips and around the eye were the worst, my speach was slurred, I was confused and feeling very much like I was impared. My eye sight went in my left eye. I felt like someone was slowly shutting off my brain. On the left side of my face I get pressure behind the left eye feeling just like there is a pulsating blood pressure point and it is about to pop. I get headaches sometimes peircing, sometimes not. I do not know if I should be calling them headaches or head hurts? As they are different from a normal headache. These spells come in varying stages, sometimes it is the whole left side of me, sometimes only the face and arm other times just the face. The numbness around the eye and lips never goes away now. They have done a CT scan, and a Carotid Doppler and have found nothing. They are sending me to a neurologist next and I have been fitted with a holter monitor again. They have done blood work on me and it seems fine. Diabetes runs heavily in my family, so do strokes. I used to have very high blood pressure, now it is very very low. I need someone to help me, I am very affraid of these spells and do not know what to do next. Please could someone tell me what to do? I also find that strobing light or intense light makes me dizzy and sick.

[raven33]

Hi No you are not to take a baby asperin at the first sign of a TIA.Because they might not be a TIA,it could all so be a hemorrage in the brain.My 33 year daughter has a blood clot on her brain,and she can not take asperin.It can cause the clot to losen.Which can kill her.She had a stroke on September 3 2005.The doctor said she is very lucky to be alive.So please don't be telling people to take a baby asperin,it can harm them not help them.Raven33.

[Tweetygurl]

I spotted one thing on your post which is you have low blood pressure, I have been told that this causes dizziness, Has your doctor told you why this is happening? also during the first signs of a TIA I can only suggest what I have been told to do which is to take asprin right away.

Good Luck..Tam

[tnt406]

HI CHERLY SOME TIMES A TIA OR STROKE WILL NOT SHOW UP ON MRI's IS THAT WHAT YOU HAD DONE?SOME MRI MACHINES ARE MADE SMALL,AND THEY DO NOT PICK UP EVERY THING THEY NEED TO.THE MOBILE UNITS ARE THE BEST ONES.THEY ARE BIGGER UNITS AND MAKE BETTER PITCURES THAN OTHERS.BY WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING IT SOUNDS LIKE A TIA.WHICH IS AMINI STROKE.HAVING DIABETES AS A HIGH RISK FACTOR ON YOUR SIDE OF THE FAMILY,DOESN'T HELP NONE EITHER.HOPEFULLY THE NEUROLOGIST WILL GIVE YOU SOME DEFINITE ANSWERS.I AM NOT A DOCTOR,MY HUSBAND HAS TIA's AND I KNOW THE SIGNS.BUT YOU STILL CAN NOT TAKE MY WORD.TAKE CARE OF YOUR SELF.TNT406.

[aidle]

Don't feel down if doctors can't find anything wrong with you.
It maybe a just a symptoms that may change your life for a better one.

The only thing you can do is to:

1. Think positively
2. Eat a healthy diet food
3. Enough exercise
4. Enough sleep

Remember...
Doing regular vigorous exercise without eating healthy diet food is actually useless.

If you work night shift for more than
10 years it's better to change.

Warmest regards..aidle
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