Recognizing a stroke:

I know I've posted this before but people are just not recognizing it when it happens. This is probably the only thing that can leave you paralyzed, brain damaged, can happen to young people as well.
Since the last post four people had been struck.
It is so important to keep track of your blood pressure, take medication if it is high. Drugs are a factor also. Anything that makes your heart race can cause a rupture or send a blockage to your brain. No surgery can repair a stroke!
So awareness and fast action can prevent someone from being brain damaged.



Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking
three simple questions:

S ------ Ask the individual to SMILE.

T----- Ask the person to TALK, to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE. (Coherently)
(i.e. . . It is sunny out today)

R------Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.


NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue
if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other,
that is also an indication of a stroke.
If he or she has trouble with any one of these tasks, call 911
immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.


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There's also TIA's(Transient Ischemic Attack) and as the name implies, the symptoms are temporary fooling a sufferer into a false sense of security. The symptoms that Darlene posted also apply here. Needless to say, a visit to the emergency room is warranted.

 

I believe the TIA's are a prelude to a real or real big one.
My mother before having hers would tell me the pains she had in her head, I said it was likely nothing. She also said there were hair like lights off to the corner of her sight. She went to an eye doctor and said her sight was fine.
These were all warning signs I discovered later.
Strokes run in my family so it should have been a heads up, plus her doctor was one who crammed in as many patients into the day as he could not giving much attention to each individual.


PS nice link Halo

 

Hi Darlene,

Thank you very much for the valuable information. Everyone needs to be aware of those warning signs.

 

Thanks for posting this info!!

About 3-4 weeks ago I made a quick trip to the emergency room. Left side of my face was sagging badly, couldn't speak well, couldn't smile, entire left side of my head was numb.

They think its just the begginings of Bell's Palsy, which is more of an inconvenience than anything else. Nothing can be done to treat it. But they were nice enough to let me know if I experience numbness in my left arm or leg, I should high tail it to the ER cause I'm probably having a stroke.

Guess it can be brought on by stress, which I have an overdose of these days.

You gotta love ER's...

 

That had to be scary, hope your recovered now? Stress can do awful things to the body.

 

Thanks for the post darlene.

My wife is getting treated for TIA's at the minute.

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068981/

It is really important to know the symptoms to look out for.

 

My dad had a stroke back about 7 years ago. It was in the morning and we were unloading a food truck (we both worked for the same company) and all the sudden he lost most of his motor controls in his right arm. He wasn't slurring his speech and his face didn't droop but he did get a lazy eye and all the sudden feel weak in the right side of his torso area. Of course the dipwad likes to be a hrad ***, so he took an aspirin and kept on working...even drove everybody to lunch (his arm controls had since come back after the aspirin) so then finally mom convinced him to call his doc who is actually a close friend and he told him to get his $#@ to his office pronto...or else. Come to find out he had indeed had a MASSIVE stroke and had to stay in the hospital for observation for 24 hours just to make sure he had stabilized. Fortunately after a couple weeks of resting he was back to normal...aside from getting worn out a lot easier now.

To make a long story short...don't question it...go to the doctor/hospital immediately...even the symptoms have appeared to subside!!!!

Roger

 

Good she caught it, best wishes

 

:waveSimple things to remember thanks Darlene

 

You know I have talked about this with my family (scares me, runs in the family) but people still don't react fast enough which is crucial, a few min can mean the difference whether a person is paralyzed.
My youngest daughter called one morning hysterical saying her father had a stroke. I asked if he was alive, she said yes, then I asked what hospital he was at.
She said he was still home and that one of his sisters was on her way over from a neighboring town to go to the hospital with him and his brother who was visiting and first noticed his speech slurred. I couldn't believe no one called 911.

Another couple we know - Suddenly he left home insisting he didn't live there and didn't know who his wife was. She thought he had taken an overdose of one of his meds.
He was unattended for days.
Dang hope I'm not around any of those folks if I have one.