@b13moore
My experience was identical to yours. At the end of May, I experieced the distorted vision in only one eye; that night I researched the symptoms and decided I had had what was referred to as an "eye" stroke and immedicately drove myself to the ER. They did a CT scan and discharged me with low dose tatin and labeled it a TIA. Within the next week, I became disoriented, because I lost a great deal of depth perception. Because I was unable to obtain an appointment with a neurologist, I went back to the ER and after an MRI was diagnosed with a stroke in the occipital lobe. Like you, I have found it very difficult to obtain treatment because I have noone of the other standard stroke symptons; however, my vision has not restored itself although I am better in familiar settings. Another added barrier to treatment has been obtaining an appointment with a neruologist so I have no idea if the medications I am on are correct. They were prescribed by the ER doctors but I have little faith in them as after doing more research I realized they should have put me on anti-clotting medication. I am not on 40 mg of statin and Plavix (anti-clotting) 75 mg daily. My personal research indicates I will continue on these the full 3 month time frame. I have constant headaches, which is uncomfortable and frightening since the TIA was preceeded by a lingering head ache and now I cannot take other medications to relieve them. I would not describe my headaches as a migraine; they are just a continous dull ache.
Interested to know if others with this type of stroke are/were on the same medication protocol, if you recovered more vision, and what the time frame was? Any therapy regime that was helpful?