Ischemic Stroke (Blood Clot Related)
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Muscle stiffness frustrations
Hello, I had an ischemic stroke at 57 that effected my left side. My main complaint has been muscle stifness/spasms from my shoulder area down to my hip and knee. It's been over a year (13 month) since my stroke, I've had two rounds of...
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Aphasia Recovery and The Hill We Climb ... Together!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, After my stroke and aphasia (loss of language), and as I got better, I started to describe my experience of having fallen off a cliff and climbing back up to describe what I had seen “down there.” My ability...
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Walking and Exhaustion
I have a problem. It has been 2 1/2 years since my stroke. I was paralyzed on the left side, but have gotten most of my funcion back. I know I need to walk for my health, getting coordination back and for my heart. They say we should
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Post Stroke Dwelling on Death
I had a stroke 2 1/2 years ago. Up until that time I lived each day totally immersed in the day, enjoying it and not dwelling on what negative things might be lurking in the future, like illness and death. Since my stroke, I find that I don't...
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Speech Therapists are the Trim Tab of Aphasia Recovery
Dear Stroke Survivors, A trim tab is a rudder within a rudder. It takes a lot to turn a big ship and requires huge rudders to change course. But they are so big that it often takes another rudder within the rudder. There's a tiny sliver at the
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8 months since my world changed
It has been 8 months since I suffered a stroke due to a spontaneous carotid dissection. I'm 51 and was very active prior to my stroke. In fact I was leaving the gym when I noticed I couldn't see out of my right eye. About an hour later I lost
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advocacy / social worker help. vasculitis -> stroke while traveling out of country now being denied services / diagnostics in California
Hello everyone! I'm hoping I could get some tips/pointers on where to go for help. My sister had acute vasculitis that lead to a stroke while working abroad on a work visa. She received care and some rehab before moving back to california. Now she...
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Happy Birthday...
Monday is my birthday. The 8th Birthday I've had since I suddenly developed a severe cardiac disorder after a viral infection decimated the electrical system in my heart. The 8th Birthday I've had since we were told, "Without an immediate...
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TIA & PLAVIX
HELLO FRIENDS I HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF ISCHEMIC STROKES AND MY PROMARY DOCTOR PUT ME ON PLAVIX75 MG FOR MANY YEARS NOT TO CONTROL BLOOD CLOTS. LATELY I HAVE BEEN HAVING NOSE BLEEDS THAT DON'T STOP FOR SEVERAL HOURS. FIRST TIME I WENT TO THE EMERGENCY...
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Aphasia Recovery and Language Repair: Darning the Damaged Neural Fabric from a Stroke
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Over the years since my stroke and aphasia (loss of language), I have continued to educate the public about how the brain works and repairs itself using metaphorical stories about stroke and aphasia recovery. When I
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