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Just found out I’ve had a silent mini stroke (TIA). Had this?
After a fall, my doctor ordered a CT scan, and an “incidental” find was a silent mini stroke (not TIA) in a small vessel. Age indeterminate, so not sure how long I’ve had it.
I’m scheduled for Carotid artery Doppler, and a coronary artery CT. Doctor put me on .81 aspirin, and awaiting results of scans.
I’m quite concerned that this increases my risk for a large stroke, or more mini strokes. I’ve changed my diet, losing weight, getting cholesterol down (which wasn’t overly high) and watching BP, (which is normal). I’m 73 and otherwise in good health…. I thought!
Have you had similar findings? What have you experienced?
Thank you. I love our Mayo Clinic group.
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I had TIA, didn’t realize until routine brain MRI for MS two months later. Remember mentioning to someone that I couldn’t get my body to do what I wanted. Went to bed for days. Then I had stroke a couple months later. Hospital, all the in-home therapies for months. Probably wouldn’t have been able to ID stroke if not for info given after TIA. Best wishes.
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You are so right that knowing about the tia’s helped us stroke when it happened
When I had a stroke and they did an mri they discovered I’d been having multiple tias. Wish I had known
Only indications of any problems was that my foot would “fall asleep”
occasionally after I’d been working at my computer
Didn’t find that odd at the time. Wish I had
Two days ago I was on my boat fishing. I had been on the water for about five hours. As I’m an avid fisherman, I had forgotten to take my blood pressure med that morning.I was sitting on a seat and rigging up a line for a different soft bait, when I could not focus my eyes. I was seeing a different picture in each eye. Then when I would close one eye, it wouldn’t track to a moving object. A you can imagine, that was quite spooky. I had one line in the water and cut that with my knife I managed to stow the trolling motor, fired the engine up, and took off for my sons house where I store my boat on his lift. Five minutes out I texted my son and told him to meet me at the lift and that it was an emergency. Less than 15 minutes later we were at the hospital. After telling the people in the front, what happened, They admitted me. My blood pressure at the time was 156/86. My normal blood pressure is in the normal range unless I forget my blood pressure med. During the next 24 hours, I had a CT scan, both with contrast and without, heart, x-rays, MRI, and more blood tests than I can repeat, all of which were negative. The doctors diagnosed it as a TIA. As anyone who has ever been admitted in a hospital, there is not much rest. Your nighttime sleep is divided between blood pressure monitoring, stomach injections for dissolving clots, changing out intervenous fluid bags, and other activities the nurses have for you. Naturally, when I got home, I was pretty tired. The next day, however, I should’ve bounced right back according to the doctors. Instead, I’ve been exhausted all day, with three naps of about an hour each, I normally work full-time on commercial aircraft, so my energy level is way up there. A nap for me is usually 10 to 15 minutes. My age is 74, and I’m in peak health for my age. After a TIA, is it normal to be exhausted like this?
@wingkeel
Very scary that missing one dose of Eliquis can lead to a TIA. Glad you were able to get help. I was recently in the hospital for 24 hours due to a TIA with aphasia. Like you, I didn’t sleep a wink. How do you normally react to missing a night of sleep? One thing that always makes me really tired for 2-3 days afterwards is the contrast used for scans. Maybe you too? Hope you feel better soon.
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That means that 90% of the people who a TIA will =not= have a full stroke within 30 days!
@californiazebra Holy Smokes! I never considered that the CT contrast dye might have a detrimental effect on me. That might be where my fatigue is coming from. While my fatigue is not as pronounced as it was yesterday, it is still there.
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2 Reactions@californiazebra Sometimes we get so focused on our health that we forget cause and effect.
This morning, I developed a headache, which is in and of itself concerning. Of course, I began to worry and ask questions like: Should I go to the hospital or call my doctor? The more I worried about it, the worse the headache became.
I'm a three-cup-a-day coffee drinker. For four days now, I haven't had a cup of coffee. Guess what the #1 symptom of coffee withdrawal is? You got it, a headache, so I made myself a nice cup of mushroom coffee, and almost instantly, the headache went away.
@wingkeel
It sounds like no coffee may also be your fatigue issue. Wow, 3 cups! I can’t tolerate 3 sips of caffeine. I remember when my mother gave up caffeinated sodas. She had a headache for 2 weeks.
Those headache s are probably related to withdrawal from caffeine. In the past, I would have a withdrawal headache and not relate it to my huge normal consumption of coffee.
Then I was able to warn my friends who were “giving up” coffee to develop a plan for a gradual decrease in caffeine. I guess that goes for other caffeinated drinks as well.
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