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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Collapse, have you had this?.......
I was in the supermarket wednesday night when I felt everything spinning. My face went numb and I felt very weak. I told a member of staff what was happening and immediately had to lie down and sleep on the floor. I thought when I woke up that all was ok.
I stood up slowly and told them I was fine. I took 3 steps and fell unconscious. Off to the ER again. When I woke up in the ambulance they were asking for my details and I could not say anything. I kept trying but my tongue felt floppy, I felt so weak, felt very sick, the room was spinning.
The paramedic seemed to not believe me. I was in the ER for 2 hrs. The on call doc came to speak to me, he asked me what I wanted him to do!! I said "I don't suppose you are allowed to authorise a contrast MRI are you?". He said, "no" and said there was nothing they could do so discharged me.
It was by then 2a.m. I was stranded at the hospital, my husband was at home with my daughter so I walked, in that state back to the supermarket to my car in the dark.
It's madness.
So did I have a TIA? How can I get the doctors to believe my symptoms? Have you suffered anything like this?
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I am a 36 yr old female who has played football, as a hobby, for 13 yrs. In July 2012, during a game I was slammed to the floor by two angry guys who hit into me so hard that one of them broke their ribs.
This knocked me back onto hard ground leaving me unconscious. I awoke to chronic head and neck pain, sickness and the inability to see or balance.
The paramedics made me walk to the ambulance, instead of placing me on a spinal board, where I was taken to the ER. I was hospitalised with suspected brain hemorrhage for 1 week, then on complete bed rest for 1 month, in a wheelchair for 2 months.
I have been left with PCS, moderate constant head pain, little short term memory, no memory of the accident, balance and sight problems, depression and exhaustion.
The worst problem is collapsing regularly. This has finally been diagnosed as Hemiplegic Migraines , these cause my brain to regularly shut down when I am tired and I then feel the full effects of a stroke (without the bleed on the brain!!) of which the symptoms last 2-4 days.
I have had 6 CT's, 2 MRI's and am under 3 specialists.
I believe everyday is one more towards improvement. Mainly I believe in the power of acceptance not the weakness of complacency or resignation.
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