@caty.
What an awful experience you had to go through. Some people are just ignorant, regarding the communication. I was fortunate and the ambulance person spoke to me the whole journey. I wish you the best of luck for your future 
Yeah so vertigo was my main presenting symptom and the one that lingered.
The NHS physio signed me off after one or two visits because I was ‘better than what they usually see’ / not trained on vestibular rehab.
I went to a private neuro rehab physio who specialises in brain injury - dizziness is the usual concussion symptom they would deal with so they were very experienced in my condition.
This was in like October or November. I did vestibular exercises 3-5 times a day, when I got well enough that I needed more space to do them I was outside in the ice and rain doing them, never missed a session.
I went on holiday on the 27th December and that was when I noticed it had massively improved. So I stopped rehab and just continued with life. Around Feb / March it had almost entirely resolved.
Now it’s only noticeable when I’m exhausted
You can look up ‘vestibular rehab’ on YouTube ans you will find the same or similar exercises I did. They help but you need consistency with them
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Thanks for your kind words.
I still get frustrated I can’t train martial arts and still have some residual symptoms sometimes, plus the usual fear of it happening again. But this is fading.
Could have been a lot worse.
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@Jbob - you too should be proud of your achievement. I expect your achievement will be inspirational to many just as Matt’s achievement is.
In other walks of life an achievement of 70% or more is usually seen as excellent and sometimes even 60% + if the degree of difficulty is such and so for a stroke survivor, I would like think any improvement has to be a positive and a building block to improve from - after all the only limit to what you can achieve might be what you put on yourself.
Well done all you inspirational stroke survivors 
Please keep on sharing your wonderful achievements with us.
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Thanks, Matt. That is really helpful. Good luck with your progress to 100% recovery!
SueBT
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Fantastic to hear that you are doing so well. Gives me hope of further improvements. I am a year into my recovery now and have improved massively especially around speech but still struggle with anxiety over driving which is wierd, fatigue, memory issues and when tired my stutter worsens but I still feel improvements are possible. Next up working out regularly again. Onwards and upwards
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Just gotta get back slowly and consistently and build up!
I was back in the gym 2 weeks exactly after my stroke, and I was in the hospital for 5 of those days lol.
Don’t get me wrong it was very easy and basic stuff. But I credit that to quicker and better recovery. At least to some degree anyway.
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Yeah, prior to Stroke ran loads, had done Crossfit but moved to Golf and was playing regularly and all that has stopped for now. Will keep building slowly but is frustrating . Gotta keep moving forward.
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Thank you Matt, it is so good to hear positive news. I just hit my 6 months from a right thalamus stroke at 81 yo. I will post at some point on where I am but so happy for your recovery. People mean well and just do not know what to say. Usually I get “you do not look like you had one”…'cause basically looking at me there is not much difference as not any real muscle loss. They cannot see the incredible stiffness,trembling and aching in my body or the crazy things my brain does. But, we are all still here and that is a glorious thing.
All the best to you ,
Lane
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This seems quite common. Like there’s a way we should all look. I had someone, who I was on the phone to, say to me the other week you don’t sound like you had a stroke. Hmmmm. I took the opportunity to educate her on strokes 
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