Yes 2 weeks is a short period of time. I have improved so well in that time. I'm just a little so n so and what everything back like yesterday. Missing my work family in the office and the gossip ?
Love my job and want so much to get back. But I know this will not not happen overnight. Alot of work ahead to get my body and mind back.
How is everyone else coping with having a stroke? Have you gone past the shock of it?
Aww thanks x I am glad I joined this site and forum. Reading other people's stories is helping as sometimes you do feel alone.
I never knew a stroke would have so much impact on the emotions side of things. From being loud and bubbly to what I feel now is a huge change.
I had my stroke three years ago but had epileptic seizures a year apart after so you don't know what will happen but you do yet over the first shock and try to just live a day at a time. It involves a new approach to life. Best wishes Hilary
Hi I am Marylin. I am 77. For the past 6 years I have been my husband's carer. He had a stroke which affected his ability read, write speak and comprehend. I had a TIA 6 weeks ago followed by an endarterectomy. I am suffering with extreme fatigue, I am finding it very difficult to do anything apart from looking after my personal care and taking a daily short walk. I cannot summon up enthusiasm for anything. I do wonder if I am fighting my medication, a thirteen pill concoction of statins, blood thinners, digestion pill and painkiller. Not to mention I am terrified of having another event. I was on a high does of blood thinner before the last TIA. The one thing I learned from husbands TIA was to let him do what he was capable of doing and be prepared to spend hours rectifying hi errors. We play a constant guessing game trying to figure out the word he is trying to say. My blood pressure remains sky high but all our GPS seem to have vanished I haven't been able to get to speak to a Dr on the phone, let alone actually see one face to face which doesn't help the anxiety, counting my blessings I am alive, battled scarred but alive.
Hi Marylin, Just to say keep fighting despite your present circumstances. I hope you get medical support soon.
Hi John,Thankyou for your encouragement, I will beat this inertia but it isn't going to be a quick recovery. I have escaped with a weak left hand and a desperate longing to swear at people who keep telling me how Well I look when. I am feeling totally exhausted. How long since your stroke?
Keep exercising Jayne both brain. And muscle. I could not move my left hand at all, but 6 weeks later I have regained all movements by remindingt the muscles what they can do and Cursing it when it won't obey me. It did ache but that is disappearing. It is re educating body and brain and it does hurt. Rest when your body tells you it has had enough. My husband found playing Petanque most helpful after his stroke, gentle exercise in fresh air helped take his mind off things he couldn't do. Petanque requires no skill and helps concentration. Try it.
My big stroke was five years ago, but in May I had a mild second one at the height of the first Covid wave. Funnily enough, although I dreaded a second one, when it came I was quite stoical. My first stroke was a haemorrhage one, but the MRI scan reveal that was completely healed. The second one was a tint clot so now I am on blood thinners. I can walk reasonably well and have sufficient use of my left arm and hand. My weak hand will get fingers stuck in things like belt buckles and, oddly, is sensitive to anything made of plastic and metal if they dig into the fingers even a little.
Like you, I get extremely irritated by people who tell me I look well, but I refuse to let it get to me. I would classify myself as partly disabled, but many of my friends and others don't seem to acknowledge this. If I say some things are difficult they usually say, 'but you look well'. At the other extreme people want to help me when I don't need it.
Overall, though, I refuse to get angry or depressed. I can't change the outcome of the strokes, but I can carry on doing as much as I can and enjoying what I can. To do otherwise would mean the stroke has won and I won't let it.
Thank you. Most things are coming back now. Just the silly things. My idea of time has gone. Yesterday could be last week to my brain and visa versa. The aches and not sleeping very well.
My chest pain us still there and still in hypertension stage 2. They have doubled my tablets but it is still very high. Changed my diet as well.... Watching salt levels etc. But it has only been 4 weeks today since the stroke.
Time is the thing you need to give yourself, it is early days, recovery seems to be a long slow process with lots of hiccups along the way. There are so many things to change. Gentle exercise seems to help me with blood pressure and sleeping. I am still getting periods of exhaustion when I just have to sleep for an hour. Listen to your body. I have watched my husband recover from his stroke of 6 years ago, it has taken several years for him to plateau.
So pleased that you are progressing. Judy
Thank you
Seen nurse and doctor today. The tablets I'm on are causing severe asthma so they have given me a course of steroid tablets. That should help with the breathlessness and chest pains. I will then be able to do more ecercise then. They are also thinking about about changing my blood pressure tablets. So at least the Dr is helping me now x
Hope you both are doing well. One day at a time x
Hi everyone. I had my stroke on Dec 19th and spent a week in Lincoln Hospital and got out on Christmas eve, back home my husband Jim does a great job in looking after me as does my local stroke unit, I have therapists visiting most days and have been given several different bits of kit that makes my life easier.
The stroke affected my right side and my leg and arm are quite weak, my leg is much stronger now and I use a walker to move around at home, my right arm is very weak and as a natural left hander find it hard to do the exercises my O.T. wants me to do, but hopefully I will get there.
I guess one thing in my favour is that as a keen 68 old cyclist I have a good level of fitness.
Be great to hear from other folk in my position