I was in and out in about 15 minutes and then told the consultant would call or write. I guess it’s just the way things are done.
I can’t help but feel a little ‘in limbo’ at the minute.
Thank you for asking
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Mrs G16, Hi -
At least you’ve got it done. Yes it’s normally a wait does annoy me as you are left in that limbo. Hopefully not too long a wait. Plse say how it goes if that’s ok?
Have a good evening 
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I am in the same boat. 49 and my only real risk was high cholesterol. Never smoked. Sober for 13 years. Trained all my life. My stroke happened at the end of jiu jitsu class. My neck was manipulated (choked) a few mins before but it wasn’t bad. Had loads worse.
I think its just fate sometimes. If card is marked its just your turn. I am thankful I was so healthy when I had my stroke. I think this helped me loads in having not too bad an outcome (so far). I had not felt that great for about a year before hand though so maybe something was brewing.
I wouldn’t overthink it personally. Random stuff happens all the time in our world.
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Yes hopefully not too long.
Next wait is for driving licence.
Then my MRI.
Then hopefully return to work and then there’s no stopping me haha.
Thank you
Natalie
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Back in December, 1998, my doctors told me that I had leukodystrophy, and that MIGHT be why I had my first three (strokes). I had #4 on May 11 of last year. Now, when I ask Google about leuokodystrophy, it claims that it is a genetic mutation. This tells me that life is trying to branch out, and I regret very greatly the fact that because my wife cannot bear offspring, that this leukodrystrophy once so scary to me, cannot continue. When I was young, life was so much simpler than it is now. What my parents knew was everything. And I asked them back then. They said that if anyone had a stroke, it was extremely unlikely that they would survive. It didn’t matter that we didn’t know anyone who’d actually had a stroke. Then I had stroke #1, #2, and #3. And I was different. I reacted differently. I’d never had friends growing up. This screwed me up even more than I thought back then. I think of this now as my third life. What do you know about the world? What do any of us know? I went to university in 2001, because I wanted “education”. The university charged me several thousand dollars, which I did not pay back yet. But that was only a small part of my education. My education will continue until I leave this world and go on to the next. And I was a fool to expect anything different. After #1-#3, I was different. Now after #4, I am different again. One might say, “reset”. Who knows what new skills I’ll have to learn for life #3?
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Hi Gnasher, yes all the time. Fit as a fiddle, didn’t drink or smoke, ran marathons and played football.
Always looked after myself but got to 53 and boom, life changer.
What it has taught me though is yesterday’s gone, tomorrow’s not guaranteed, so live for today.
Take care👍🏻
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Like you, I have a good diet, have never smoked and don’t drink to excess (a glass or two of mulled wine over Christmas and occasionally treat myself to a nice bottle that lasts a week) so having a stroke was not on my 2025 bingo card.
I’m glad you’re having therapy. I started CBT last week after a month of evaluation by a neuropsychologist on my stroke team and honestly, I wish I had started therapy years ago.
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Hi Gnasher.
My wife died after a sudden stroke almost 3 years ago, aged 69.
She was fit, ate healthily, didn’t smoke or drink.
She had been retired for 5 years so no work stress.
HOWEVER, I needed answers so I started reviewing her ‘minor medical’ history.
Those little incidents that get pushed aside as ‘one of those things’.
As a research scientist myself (retired) I wanted answers.
Part of that involved investigating health issues of my wife in the previous few years.
Going back through her diary. I wondered whether there were warning signs months before.
Eight months earlier, she had her first ever migraine, and had 3 more in the following months. I’ve had migraines since I was 14 so it was regarded as ‘one of those things’.
A couple of times she separately noted a stabbing pain behind one eye. A check by her optician could find no reason for it.
Two months before the stroke she had a severe episode of vertigo which, when checked out, was assigned to BPPV, an inner ear problem.
I have since found that her blood pressure was around the bottom of the hypertension range.
In July/August 2020 her diary records a series of 6 headaches – she never had headaches.
I have also found out that, way back in May 2019, her optician referred her to the local eye hospital. All I know about that is that her lens prescription was unchanged but she was advised to “optimise control of her blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar”.
Are these symptoms just isolated events or could they be connected and even related to her stroke?
Has anyone else got similar stories?
Nothing will bring my wife back but, if such information can save even one person, this needs further investigation.
Are there significant pointers to what may be to come?
One thing I have discovered whilst researching this is the effect of magnesium supplements.
I started taking magnesium about 2 years ago and my migraines have now ceased completely.
There are similarities between migraines and stokes. Since many of the symptoms of migraine can mimic the start of a stroke, I’m wondering whether magnesium supplements could positively affect the nature of a stroke, maybe to even prevent it? It’s a cheap and safe supplement that can have a beneficial effect on many bodily functions. Many people are thought to be deficient….
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Great that you are getting therapy. It does help to just talk things over with someone who is not in your circle and without judgement. I have had about 5 weeks I think so far and am finding it useful. I can’t believe how much I have held in for so long.
Yes my mood is still dreadfully low as I imagine it is for most people especially after a stroke and I constantly feel something bad will happen but I feel I am learning how to deal with things a lot better than I was rather then bottling it up.
I am so sorry to hear about your wife’s passing.
I had a stroke (subarachnoid haemorrhage) in October. Prior to this I had a chest infection that lasted nearly 4 weeks and then had an ear dysfunction so was given antibiotics. About 5 days after the antibiotics finished I had a migraine with aura which I have never had in all of the years I have suffered migraines a couple of days later I had my stroke. I explained this to the consultant and nurses whilst in hospital but it just got brushed off so I assumed it was not linked and was told I may never find the cause.
I suffered migraines since about 10 years old (now 40) and have had tried several different medications. The only thing that ever worked for me was sumatriptan which I only take when a migraine comes on. I know there is warning for previous stroke with these so am cautious and have taught medical advice (unfortunately not enough clarity) and only take now when absolutely necessary. A few people have mentioned magnesium so I am going to look into this.
Thank you for sharing and trying to find some answers for your wife and others. I am sure she is looking down on you and is so very proud of everything you are doing 
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You’ll probably never truly know but all those symptoms your wife had coukd be connected but could equally be unconnected.
I know when I had my stroke about 3 weeks or so before I had a pain in the one side of my face that went up behind my eye - a sharp pain in my eye. I didn’t think much of it at the time but when I had my stroke I mentioned it to the drs & they said it was related. I think they even documented it on my discharge letter.
I hope you get the answers you’re looking for.
Best wishes
Ann
A year or more before my “official” TIA I had a number of vision issues and episodes of very high blood pressure. I had some GP appointments and a couple of calls with 111 in that time and was once sent to A&E, but the possibility of a stroke was never suggested to me. Eventually it was put down to stress and eye strain as I was working long hours, the screen on my work laptop was very poor and the problems seemed to resolve themselves after I got a better one. Fast forward to my TIA last February, I had an MRI at the TIA clinic which showed shadows suggesting that some of those earlier events might have also been TIAs. I think it one of those situations where the absence of FAST symptoms meant that warning signs were missed.
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One of the beauties of this forum is there are people like you willing to share their experiences and trying to help others. It is a wonderful thing that we do.
As I spend more time on this forum, I find myself wondering and asking questions - a bit like “What is the meaning of life?” etc.
And why I am adding this comment is that recently, my thinking and information I am gathering is leading me, personally, to change the way I think and see things. One of the things I personally have come to conclude and accept is that no matter how much you know about what causes strokes and what precautions you take, if you are meant to have a stroke you will have that stroke! This way of thinking/talking can sometimes lead to heated discussions and we’ve all seen them or even taken part in them. There are the fors and againsts about why this can or cannot be true and of course we are all entitled to have our own views based on what we know and how we see things.
Why do I think as I do now? It’s based on being a full time carer for a stroke survivor and all that entails, coupled with the shared experiences of the members of this forum.
If I am meant to have a stroke I will - no matter what I do it will happen. This has happened to me in other walks of life e.g. I have been recruited by an employer when I didn’t think I would and the other way round. I have fallen in and out of love when I should/shouldn’t have etc. etc.
My Mum was never a candidate for stroke (healthy lifestyle, lived to a ripe old age etc.) but in the end, she had the stroke - it was meant to be (she also subscribes to this way of thinking).
When I say “never” a candidate, strictly speaking this is not true, because actually we are all candidates, as I think I can suggest has been proven by more than one member coming on this forum saying “I was healthy” or " I was only young" but I still had the stroke. According to the information on the ether, 25% (that’s 1 in 4 in old money) of the world’s population may/will have a stroke.
I won’t bore you (more than I already have) with further stats, but you can easily type “how many people will have a stroke in their lifetime” in the Google search engine and read the results yourself. Be careful when you read the information and with the numbers you see.
You may come across things like
" * Preventable: Over 90% of strokes are considered avoidable by managing risk factors like blood pressure, diet, and exercise."
You may feel reassured by that or even encouraged to say "OK, I will mange the risk and in so doing I might avoid a stroke. “Might” - yes, there is still that 10% that is not avoidable even by managing risk.
Who will tell you which group you fall into?
They can’t even tell you after you’ve had a stroke, why you had it, so how are they going to predict it.
OK, so here is where the next group of members come in - it is the “Big Pharma” doing all this - they just want you on their meds … I shall leave that for another day.
I’ve stirred the pot enough already.
Fellow members, please do not be alarmed by the ramblings of a madman - these are just my own personal views and they mean nothing to anyone expect me, unless you choose to consider allowing them to mean something to you.
Life is for living, and living is free.
Life is too short …
Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
These are things that I believe in and what I live for.
Namaste|
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Hello @ManjiB
Thanks.
My views about life:
The meaning of life is to drop all the greed.
When greed drops away—what remains is kindness.
To choose kindness over greed is to live a meaningful life.
If we learn to accept life how it is, whatever God has
given us, we will see that life is such a beautiful adventure
that every moment of our life is not boring.
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Nay, Big Pharma couldn’t orchestrate such a thing, the insurance companies wouldn’t let them 
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Hello @BHAGYODAY - how nice is it when you can do that?
Thank you for sharing your views.
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