Mini Stroke?

[Ghas1]

Hi

Strange thing happened Friday. Nearly 1 year post Stemi heart attack and stent, 7 months post GI bleed, had strange moment. Wife was talking about her sisters whom I have known for over 30 years. For the life of me I could not place their name anywhere! This went on for about 5 minutes with the wife getting more irate! Couldn’t get the right words out ( normal gibberish wife said)and right hand slightly heavy.

All over and back to normal in 10 minutes. Visited A&E had bloods, Ecg and CAT scan. Nothing shown but thought had mini stroke. Sent away within hours with the hope of a telephone call from stroke team in next 7 days.

Very anxious. Can anyone offer advise on usual timescales and next tests to be done?

Thanks

[Nathan53]

My Brother In Law had a similar experience to you about 3 years ago. In case you don't have much information see att link nhs.uk/conditions/transient...

I am presuming you are on aspirin / anticoagulant. If you don't here from stroke Nurse within a few days give them a call or ask for a telephone appt with GP to discuss. If you experience similar symptoms to last time ring 999. With the right treatment prognosis is good just try to relax and make sure you are reviewed nhs.uk/conditions/transient...

[Ghas1]

Hi Nathan53

Thanks so much for reply and link

[Sunnie2day in reply to Ghas1]

I had a TIA in 1982 while in the last trimester of my pregnancy with the youngest. Straight to hospital, bloods and CT scan (to check for blood clots), a few other things I don't recall as I was pretty fuzzy the first 48 hours after the event. mostly I remember not being frightened during the event, and terribly frightened after although my event, like yours, lasted about ten minutes, if that.

In the end it turned out to be idiopathic (no tumour, no pre-or-present diabetes, etc) hypoglycaemia. I was quite shocked to be told hypoglycaemia can cause TIA and even full-on stroke symptoms.

Hopefully you'll hear something from the stroke team very soon. Try not to worry (ha!) until you do hear from them.

[Ghas1 in reply to Sunnie2day]

Thanks Sunnie2day for the reply. Feeling much better as days go on. Still waiting for that phone to ring!

[Sunnie2day in reply to Ghas1]

The wheels are slow but the oxen do grind They're all a bit distracted just now with the pandemic but if it were me, if I didn't hear anything 14 days after the event (14 days including weekends), I'd be telephoning the GP to get her/him to chase up the stroke team follow-up. Something caused that TIA and you need to know what that cause is.

Please be sure to update us as you go along!

[Ghas1]

Saga continues- rang stroke secretary yesterday as I hadn’t yet received appointment with stroke clinic. Guess what? They hadn’t received referral from A&E. Then spent hours waiting for call back to confirm that they had now received it. Got fed up and rang them again. Spoke to a fourth person who eventually sorted appointment tomorrow - Good Friday. So anxious now that I can’t sleep!

Will let you know outcome.

Thanks