I go for ages without posting, then its 2 posts within 24 hours!
My husband mentioned this evening, very casually, that he’d felt like someone was touching - very lightly - around his temple area for about half hour this afternoon. Then it just stopped. This was the side that went numb during the TIA.
He had this feeling around a week or so after his TIA back in November. I remember the consultant saying at the time, it was probably some left over sensory change from the TIA and it would most likely resolve.
My husband doesnt seem too bothered about it, but it’s sent me into a bit of a worry. He said hed contact the GP if it keeps happening but as it stands he doesn’t feel there is a need to contact them.
He has been “using his brain” more recently at work, having taken on a new role.
I don’t know if this helps or not, or whether other stroke survivors will jump in, everyday, post stroke I have felt odd and, frequently, disconcerting sensations. I have had all this for almost four years and not had another stroke, touch wood, it’s easy to jump at shadows, I do everyday. Not to downplay anything, as each individual concern should be addressed accordingly, and we are not medically qualified to give advice, only experience. If you know what a TIA looks like or a stroke, then the signs will be quite clear, and there is nothing else that can be done but get it attended to. The brain is adjusting to the temporary damage of a TIA, it is momentarily befuddled and will misfire, or get signals wrong. This will cause the body to react and sense the world around it, and the inner world, from a less coherent cognitive capacity. In the early months, my right leg would stop working. Just stop. I had to will it into action. It didn’t cause me any serious harm, my brain just wasn’t firing correct signals to it. I always say, watch for patterns, if they repeat and don’t cause pain or dismantle his function, then it’s a matter of putting into practice mindful activities to ground the experience so that it doesn’t heighten stress. It’s not a matter of being complacent, just learning to validate.
I’m like Rups. Since my stroke 3¾yrs ago I’ve had random pains and such. Some last a day or a month. No rhyme or reason.
Yesterday’s & today’s has been a reasonable sharp fairly strong very intermittent pain over an eye - if this was year 1 I’d have spent a lot of hours today in a&e - validly. Now I’m more used to irrational stuff happening that needs longer to decide if intervention is really required.
It’s a balancing act. “Err on the side of caution” is the safest option.
Having said that random stuff is normal for me, daily
I have to completely rebuild my somatosensory cortex for my arm / hand. Often I feel something is touching my hand. It doesn’t quite correspond to the fingers rubbing up against each other. It usually happens in the evening or when my brain has been particularly stimulated…
Not so much touching for me, at times like a like a catterpillar strolling across forehead, down sides of face, Every week or so for minute or two. Was convinced at first it was one. But not concerned it’s just one of stroke things
AHH yes- you remind me this form of parathesia is sometimes call crawling ant syndrome or formication (that’s an m not an n!) - apparently it can be a symptom of the menopause!
Somewhere, on a rather larger capped mushroom, there’s a gathering of caterpillars, sharing a hookah pipe, reminiscing about the brow of that gardener chap and chuckling at how he thought it was all post stroke related.
