What are you thoughts on tia vs stroke? It doesn’t seem so clear cut to me.
Most sources say symptoms fully resolve within 24hrs and leave no lasting visible damage. How come many people, including those here and case studies on the stroke.org website, have fatigue and weakness etc lingering far beyond this?
Love that Earth analogy haha.
And do you think some people are ‘fobbed off’ as a TIA even if they’ve had a stroke, or even possibly vice versa? Doctors are people at the end of the day and like all people, you will have some with differing opinions (in this case on tia vs stroke?!)
All this is new to me and it’s quite hard to comprehend how many with ‘tias’ have such significant lingering issues.
Thats a difficult one but a TIA is meant to be transient & mostly resolves quickly. Having had a stroke & a TIA in my experience, with the exception of fatigue, the TIA affects did resolve quickly i.e. the weakness in my arm & leg only lasted 30 mins or so. The fatigue…well that’s ongoing but I already had stroke fatigue so that may be part of the issue too.