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I have Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: How are you coping?

Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: Mar 30 1:44pm | Replies (142)
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@keithl56

Unfortunately there is not much you can do other than maintain a healthy life style. My neurologist said that you can not roto root your brain to clear out the areas of ischemia. He just doubled my daily aspirin. I had another scary mini stroke several weeks ago and another MRI showed additional infarctions. I'm only 64 but am afraid that since this is a chronic condition that over time it will take its toll. My CAC score is over 1000 so my coronary arteries are blocking as well, but at least there are treatment options for that. Just try to be positive since some things are beyond our control.

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debbic715 | @debbic715 | May 13, 2021

Thank you Keithl56 for your reply. I shall have to find out what my CAC score is. I looked up what CAC means. I have started a half dose enteric coated aspirin because aspirin has always made me nauseous. But taken with a meal this seems to be ok. Ive also been prescribed a statin. This is all new to me! It makes me very nervous. I was told id had some mini strokes, but ive never been aware of anything out of the ordinary but they tell me they can see the”scars” from them.
Do you have problems with memory. They told me this condition can lead to dementia

Thanks again for your reply.

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