It really is fascinating Simon.
A whole new world there.
I’ll see if I can copy an excerpt from my book about it.
I doubt anyone else in the UK has had it done. In China now it is also unlikely ; patients are shielded from the Doctor who might still know enough to perform this.
It’s sort of a lost art / procedure.
ciao, Roland
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Aged garlic and Ceylon cinnamon are good for keeping blood pressure down.
My mother’s brain bleed came from low platelets. She never had high blood pressure. I don’t know if she had pain or not when she had the stroke. We found her in her bedroom. She was conscious and mumbling a lot of nonsense. All she ever said about her stroke was that she saw black tigers with red eyes coming for her. God love her! It hurts to talk about it. I pressed her for more information, but she just didn’t remember, or didn’t want /care to share.
Did you have a left side or right side stroke? Vision problems are more common with right side strokes. My mother had a left side stroke in the front of the brain.
@Rupps: God bless you, too! You had a bilateral stroke. I never heard of that. You had a stroke on both sides of your brain. So, you had no feeling on either side of your body? That must have been so awful. Which side is worse, left or right? Do you walk at all? How is your speech, arm usage? I am here to listen.
My mother couldn’t understand other people talking for about 2 months, and then everything just came back almost perfectly, except saying the wrong word sometimes. They just chalked it up to spontaneous recovery, which, they say, happens in the first 3-6 months after the stroke. Again, my mother just went more or less insane from her stroke - she didn’t have the physical issues/pain that you all have. Sure, she had to learn to walk again and use her hand, but it all came back by 6 or 7 months. Her speech and memory were also excellent, as well as her reflexes and balance.
If you don’t mind my asking, do you any of you have preserveration? That’s where you cannot let go of something, such as an idea, temperature, having to go the bathroom non-stop. It’s sort of like OCD. My mother had this so, so bad.
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My stroke was left side of brain / right side of body
Yes, speech centre is left side of brain. I had aphasia for a week.
No, I don’t think I have preservation
I also have good memory, concentration and no fatigue.
The exception is 2 or more conversations at once…
and clutter in a restaurant, for example. I’m improving though.
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You have good concentration. That is excellent. A lot of people with strokes do not. Good for you! My mother’s concentration was absolutely terrible. They told us straight away that was from her stroke. She never did regain it, although once in a great while, she was able to pay attention when she truly wanted to. I think her apathy contributed to her bad concentration, too. Who knows?
What is your mobility like overall?
I knew a man in New Zealand who had a stroke 10 years. His concentration is still so bad that he can’t read more than a paragraph at a time. It’s very, very hard for him. He’s done everything to get his concentration back, but to no avail.
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Hi again, Matthew,
I’m 58 yrs old and the dr that scanned my brain after my stroke said I have a young brain. My focus is phenomenally good, and you would never believe I’ve had a stroke… that is until I get up and walk. My mobility is a problem. I can walk 500 steps (Left + right) on a good day with a walking stick, but that will improve with time, hopefully. I work and exercise as much as I can. I’m a hard worker and motivated. My stroke was a serious one, half my body was paralysed… it’s hard to believe how far I’ve come, really.
ciao, Roland
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500 steps is excellent, Roland. I didn’t know you were that ahead of the game. 
Yes, you’ve come very far indeed, friend. Very proud of you. You have a beautiful spirit.
As far as your qigong is concerned, you need to get those hips moving if you can. Hip rotation is one of the fundamental movements in qigong. If you cannot do it, visualise yourself doing it. Why the hip, you ask? Because according to Chinese wisdom, stagnant energy in the hips is the source of all disease.
You’re right about the immune system getting compromised after a stroke. Your body can remain prone to infections for quite some time. But after a year or so, I think your immune system should be not be as compromised. I’m not sure, here, though that it is what I believe I read somewhere (but you read things all the time that contradict each other lol).
I have had amazing success with qigong. I do it consistently; you need to as well, if you really want it to work its magic. It has done wonders to help balance my emotions and relieve me of some of my physical issues.
Mingtong Gu, by the way, is an excellent qigong teacher.
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Thanks for you tips on the hips, Matthew, I am sold
I swing my hips every day… and I’m pretty good at those sort of movements… for some reason I love doing so too. I have a few different movements.
500 steps on a good day 50 on a bad day
I’ve also started using a treadmill (short spells) in my garage
Good to know the immune system is not completely wiped out… it makes sense that it dips and then perks up again. let’s hope
I will keep going on the qigong and look up Mingtong Gu
Thanks for these great tips, it’s very gracious of you
ciao, and speak soon, Roland
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