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Cerebellar Stroke - experience/treatment/recovery
Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: May 5 11:27pm | Replies (515)Comment receiving replies
Hello everyone, My husband and I are very new to this... he is 56yrs old and in great health but thursday at 1am he ready to punch the time clock at work... he had felt absolutely fine... when he stood up he felt week on his right side and nauseated my son in helped him to the car but he could hardly walk so he took him to er ... by the time he got there he could not open his eyes or even move without throwing up...his eyes would not focus they took his vitals and said it was vertigo and that his vitals were fine... they were very busy so they parked us in a room... a couple hours later we saw the doctor he took a preliminary Ct scan and an MRI and checked his heart....they were still calling it vertigo but since nothing was helping him to stop throwing up they said they would admit him and preform ultrasounds on his neck and heart and sent him for another more detailed MRI... the next day they told us it had been a cerebral stroke... we are lucky..his left side is weak, he has problems writing and he talks with a very slight mumble if he is sitting in bed talking to you it is very difficult to tell that anything is wrong... However he has no balance and at this time cannot even use the walker...this is very new..but we have no insurance so they are talking about sending him home as soon as I can get a ramp for the home... they also said we would get OT and PT visits at least once a week... we know we are lucky but at this point we are so overwhelmed and lost in the whole process...any advice is welcome
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Hi @4santajoe. The symptoms you mention that resulted in your husband going to the hospital were very similar to mine. The only thing I can add is I had a dull headache in the back of my head, which when I explained that along with my other symptoms to the admissions nurse, they wasted no time getting me in for an MRI then shipped me out to a hospital better suited to deal with strokes. The unfortunate part is I did not go to the hospital until the next day. My right side was also weak, I couldn't write, brush my teeth well, comb my hair well, feed myself using my right hand, all of that fun stuff you take for granted. I did not have bad balance issues that kept me from getting around on my own though.Coming down stairs were tough and I would bump into the walls every now and then, had a tendency to drift into anyone walking beside me for a little while. It sounds like it has only been a few days, so hopefully his balance will improve in time. The other stuff for me came back (and in some cases, is still coming back) with a lot of in home rehab, Everyone one is different, but for me, it took the drive to do the rehab daily, a lot of time and a lot of patience. I focused on a few things at a time that I had difficulty with and kept working until they got easy, then moved on to the next things. I would get discouraged and angry at times, but I found that if I focused on the progress made, all was good. It's been 13 months for me and I find myself still working to get better (i am tapping my right foot to a beat as I type, still a little tough for me to do, but better than what I could do 6 months ago!). There are a lot of good exercise recommendations for stroke recovery online that may help. Feel free to reach out if you have questions! It helped me quite a bit being able to ask questions on things I experienced and how people may have gotten through certain challenges in this forum.