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Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by kayoone »

patio11 wrote: post #73

My mother had a stroke. The fallout is very, very hard for the patient and their family. Diet and exercise are, apparently, the easiest levers you have to control for stroke risk. Trust me: this is the best of all possible reasons to care about those. You do not want to go through it and you do not want your family to go through it. Specifics elided for privacy but suffice it to say that it combined elements of a hea…

Diet and exercise should really be taken care of by everybody. Lowers the risk of strokes and heart attacks considerably. In most of these young patients the reasons are due to other (most often undetected) issues like PFO though. That's also why i really have issues with health care in the US, as many people avoid checks to save costs. In germany, whenever you feel something is really wrong, you can just walk into ER and costs will be covered, no matter what.

Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by tluyben2 »

I had a TIA when I was 28 (over 10 years ago) and under heavy stress (high blood pressure; they did not find any other causes; I was healthy as I could be, just extreme stress from my own business at that time); I swore after that to never be stressed again (and took measures to make sure that is possible, like living in southern Spain for large parts of the year) and haven't been since. I even forgot how it felt. My life is so much better that I now thank this TIA. Stress is pure hell and whatever business people think they get out of it; it's bullshit IMHO; I have had way more business success than ever without stress than I had with.

Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by rmc »

patio11 wrote: post #73

My mother had a stroke. The fallout is very, very hard for the patient and their family. Diet and exercise are, apparently, the easiest levers you have to control for stroke risk. Trust me: this is the best of all possible reasons to care about those. You do not want to go through it and you do not want your family to go through it. Specifics elided for privacy but suffice it to say that it combined elements of a hea…

If you want to do something nice for your family, look after your own health.

Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by huehue »

tluyben2 wrote: post #102

I had a TIA when I was 28 (over 10 years ago) and under heavy stress (high blood pressure; they did not find any other causes; I was healthy as I could be, just extreme stress from my own business at that time); I swore after that to never be stressed again (and took measures to make sure that is possible, like living in southern Spain for large parts of the year) and haven't been since. I even forgot how it felt. My…

I can relate to this.

At 28 I had to deliver a project with a very tight schedule and ended up working 70 hours a week. It was fine for about two weeks, then started to have a permanent headache, then chest pain, then collapsed in the gym. After a doctor check up it turned out I had a 24h average blood pressure of 190.

It all went to normal again after taking forced holidays.

I swore to never put anything before my health.

Don't overwork guys, it's just not worth it. Screw the rat race. Your health comes first, it's your most valuable possession.

Stress is always there even if you don't see it, and by the time you do and symptoms arise it's almost always too late.

Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by yousifa »

This is the best piece I have read in a while. It is amazing how something so small could affect our life. We are so delicate. Do you actually see objects as shapes and colors (as in, was the part of the brain that translates the signal into images lost) or was that you can not figure out what it is that you are looking at?

Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by canadev »

tucaz wrote: post #77

About 15 years ago my father had a stroke at our house. I was about 12 years old and at home at the time along with my grandmother. We didn't know what was happening. At one second he was okay and in another he was on the floor. It was almost impossible to put him back at the bed even with the help of one of our tenants. We called my mother at work and the funny thing is that before she came home to take him to the E…

Thanks for sharing.

Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by stoicy »

spindritf wrote: post #15

Well, I just popped an Aspirin for no reason.

Aspirin indeed often has a blood-thinning effect. As such it may help reduce the risk of blood clots. That's the best case scenario, and even then it merely treats the symptoms, not the root cause of blood clots.

Blood clots and cerebral hemorrhage are the two sides of the coin. By popping an aspirin you shift the odds from blood clots to hemorrhage.

If I had to choose one of them, I'd take the blood clot.

Re: I Had a Stroke at 33

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Post by weddpros »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #94
weddpros wrote: post #57

I was 32 when I had a stroke (March 4th, 2003). It was a different kind of stroke, affecting a different part of my brain, essentially related to vision. I was half blind, but I only realized something was "strange" when I saw myself in the mirror: I had only one eye. My brain knew I should have two: I was half blind. The first diagnosis was migraine with aura (blindness in my case). But the aura should have lasted n…

> It was a different kind of stroke, affecting a different part of my brain, essentially related to vision. I was half blind, but I only realized something was "strange" when I saw myself in the mirror: I had only one eye. My brain knew I should have two: I was half blind. There's something going on here beyond just loss of raw visual input. If you lose an eyeball, or hold your eye closed, and look in the mirror, you…

My eyes were just fine: it's the brain that was the cause here. When it occurs, I can close one eye then the other and still not see in half of my FoV.

Part of my brain was not irrigated and did not function properly...

There was nothing in /var/logs: I couldn't perceive that I was half blind. syslogd crashed :-)

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