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I'm wondering how many people have suffered a health problem but not diagnosed properly. A few years ago I was watching an election late at night and this strange feeling came over me, it was a pins and needles feeling all over my body up to my head. To cut a long story short, I started taking double vision. I went to my old doctor who was ready for retiring and told him about my double vision and feel odd! I was worried I might get double vision when I was driving. He told me it was legal to drive with one eye and sent me on my way. Can you me driving with one eye closed... Other drivers must thought I was mad. After a long time I was diagnosed I had experienced a stroke! Can't begin to tell you how upset I was. A mini stroke but it was still a stroke!!!

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Bazmack48

Hi Lizzypick, my husband was admitted via A & E and they thought he had Addison’s disease. After lots of tests they are still unsure what is wrong with him. However, after a CT scan on his head they said at some time in the past he had suffered a stroke but has not shown any after effects. In March he will be wearing an ECG monitor for a week to see if anything shows up. He had a HA in Oct 2016 and had stents fitted. Our GP isn’t that helpful and has referred him to our local hospital to see somebody from the care of the elderly team ! We are both only 69 so we have a little chuckle over this. It appears we are always at the hospital since HA. Have a nice weekend.

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Carnival567 in reply to Bazmack48

Surely he should be seeing a cardiologist or a stroke specialist as well or instead of. 69 is hardly old,

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Bazmack48 in reply to Carnival567

He was under a cardiologist following HA but has been signed off into the care of GP. It depends on the ECG results as to who he sees next if at all. The care of the elderly referral was because hubby never seems to be 100% fit.

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Lizzypick in reply to Bazmack48

Elderly team indeed! I'm 68 and sometime I feel elderly but I AM NOT!!! Take care❤

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Bazmack48 in reply to Lizzypick

I know what you mean Lizzypick. Today I am feeling my age but most of the time I am very active and look after a large garden. We were told the care for the elderly team may reject him as he is really too young for this service. It is just one thing after another. We live near the sea and I went out to start changing things around in our front garden but couldn’t breath because of the cold wind although it is brilliant sunshine here.

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Lizzypick in reply to Bazmack48

It's bitterly cold and dank here in Cambridge. Take care of your breathing, it's not funny trying to get your breath❤❤

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Carnival567

I had the same problem, although I did get a bit further than you. I had pins and needles in my left arm and chest pains. I already had high blood pressure so my gp sent me to hospital. In there I had another attack, the SHO was convinced I had had a minor stroke but the consultant said I had had 'a funny turn'. It took another two years and another consultant to diagnose properly. He was very disparaging about the original consultant, who was of the 'old school' and a byword. That was more than twenty years ago and I have managed to get over it, mostly time and yoga, and I would have hoped it was a thing of the past, but obviously not. I can understand how upset you are, and it is very hard to deal with it. I hope you manage to put it behind you. All the best xxx

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Lizzypick in reply to Carnival567

When I saw another doctor he sent me for tests but when I told him the response from the old doctor I could tell he was gobsmacked! Old school right enough! I am over it and thankfully I haven't had another one. Take care❤❤❤

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Carnival567

Thank goodness neither have I, I was 49 at the time. Keep well xx

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hypercat54

How awful for you but at least it was diagnosed even if a long time later. I have heard a few times that women are less likely than men to be diagnosed with a stroke as often our symptoms are a bit different than mens which are seen as the norm. Hopefully things are changing now though.

As a woman over 50 though I have found that certain male doctors at my practise (always middle aged) have a disconcerting tendancy to treat older women as 'neurotic' and 'attention seeking' and dismissing their symptoms as imagination. x

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Lizzypick

We have a lovely woman doctor now and I try and go to her, she's a good listener and she's about the same age as me and she can empathize with you, take care hyper❤

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tamariki

My mother always said "funny turns were like someone walking over her grave". 18 months ago I went to the doctors with a bad case of shortness of breath. He sent me to hospital to get a stent. I heard the nurses talking and they said the cardiologist wouldn't do anything for me. The next morning when he was doing his rounds, he said the nurses were right. Apparently I had had a heart attack some years ago, and also one the night I was admitted to hospital. He said because of the state of my heart and my COPD, he couldn't tell which was causing my SOB, my heart or my COPD. After a couple of days in hospital, they sent me home with clopidogrel, aspirin, and a statin, which were in addition to my normal medication. So far it has worked.

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Lizzypick in reply to tamariki

That's terrible, hope your health has improved now tamariki❤❤

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Roessner541

Wow

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Roessner541

Wow. Did it do any permanent damage?

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Lizzypick

I'm sure my eyesight has deteriorated after all I was getting double vision. My glasses are now a lot stronger and I wear them all the time now whereas before I wore them as I needed them but not constantly!

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tomhatha

Re driving with one eye. I was told to close one when a vehicle was coming my way with lights on, when it was dark by the Army. It stops you from being blinded by the lights and when you open your eye you can see as you did before the lights were on you, if you don't close one eye it takes longer to get your sight clear again.

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Lizzypick

Didn't think of that Tom💞💞💞

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