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Health Boards Botox Injection  
11:33 18-Mar-07   [Replies: 25, Views: 2096]    By: Unnamed
Hi again everyone: Just want to update you all a little bit. I recently saw a orthopedic surgeon about my drop foot and my knee snapping back and he suggested I have a botox injection to rela...
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Health Boards Dad's Confusion - Is this normal?  
20:09 17-Mar-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 409]    By: Unnamed
About 1.5 years ago, my dad (age 78) underwent triple bypass heart surgery and hasn't been the same since. He has suffered some TIAs (confirmed by MRI) and diagosed with vascular dementia. Damag...
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Health Boards Dad Needs to Regain Strength-Need Suggestions  
11:29 16-Mar-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 335]    By: Unnamed
My Dad had a stroke in mid-October 2006. He had a tiny bit of slurred speech, which has since resolved itself, and is left with weakness on his right side. He started out not being able to w...
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Health Boards right calf pain walking - no pulse foot-PAD?  
09:45 16-Mar-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 974]    By: Unnamed
Just turned 50 yesterday, and have been having severe right calf pain after only walking less than half a block, which started 10 days ago. I went to my PCP on Monday who referred me to an ortho s...
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Health Boards 43 year old diabetic mum suffers from heart attk & strokes - help  
00:15 15-Mar-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 315]    By: Unnamed
My mum is a 43 year old diabetic who on Feb. 9th suffered from a massive heart attack, after about a week of sitting up and seeming normal she began to suffer from congestive heart failure, and sh...
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Health Boards Please send advice.  
17:43 13-Mar-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 344]    By: Unnamed
I had a "mild, mini-stroke" about 5 years ago. I was by myself, and was too weak to get to a phone, so I slept for about 4 hours. I didn't know until several months later that even min...
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Health Boards Please help!!! Possible Stroke, but dad also has Alzheimers..  
07:42 12-Mar-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 307]    By: Unnamed
hello, i am new here and i need help. my dad is 67 years old and is in the early stages of alzheimers. physically he is so healthy, probably healthier then most 30 year olds. he eats very well...
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Health Boards Can't believe the hospital sent her home!  
21:34 11-Mar-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 336]    By: Unnamed
Hi there, A week and a half ago my mom (66) had a bilateral thalamic stroke. She was pretty much unconscious for 3 days. She was discharged from the hospital 9 days later. We had no idea she w...
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Health Boards what is a silent stroke  
13:44 7-Mar-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 479]    By: Unnamed
i hear of people having them and not even knowing it and then sometime after that having a stroke ...
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Health Boards temporary paralysis  
16:43 5-Mar-07   [Replies: 10, Views: 1841]    By: Unnamed
For the last 10 yrs i have been suffering from blackouts followed by a temporary paralysis down one side of my body every 1 to 2 years each time i am left with temporary speech problem (dysphasi...
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Health Boards Auto Accident - Dad OK  
11:46 28-Feb-07   [Replies: 9, Views: 468]    By: Unnamed
My father had a minor stroke ten years ago and takes Coumidin. My father was in a pretty bad car accident last Friday - he hit a SUV head on in front of him. His air bag went off and hit his fac...
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Health Boards did the Dr (nurses)mess up?  
12:49 26-Feb-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 299]    By: Unnamed
My sister (49 yrs old) had a massive brainstem stroke 3 wks ago. They gave her a 1% chance of surviving the day. They did surgery & said the bleed was too massive. Anyhow, she became their 'm...
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Health Boards Hearing loss after stroke  
09:52 25-Feb-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 297]    By: Unnamed
I am not sure what is going on. Last October I suffered a right sided stroke and underwent a craniotomy along with a clipping of an aneurysm. I went through PT OT and Speech rehab with wonderful a...
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Health Boards Tia ???  
19:06 20-Feb-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 335]    By: Unnamed
I thought that I was just having a migraine headache. I had this sudden headache and all of the sudden while I was looking at the monitor the words were wavy and my husband asked me a question an...
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Health Boards Women's Stroke Dialogues  
14:54 16-Feb-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 737]    By: Unnamed
I read about Women and Stroke Dialogue programs that are supposed to be hosted by our local hospitals...does anyone know anything about this? ...
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Health Boards Cerebellum Stroke after-effects- need your experiences with this type ..  
14:04 13-Feb-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 464]    By: Unnamed
re: After-affects from a cerebellum stroke hi, I was on here weeks ago about my friend having had a < cerebellum stroke >. Robert aged 52, has been out of hospital for a week now ...
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Health Boards Vertebral Artery Dissection  
01:27 12-Feb-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 306]    By: Unnamed
Well first off, I'll give a little background about myself. I'm a 20 year old male college student who is extremely physically active. I am a moderate alcohol drinker, but do not partake in any ...
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Health Boards What is a TIA?  
11:03 6-Feb-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 297]    By: Unnamed
And can you have one & not know it? ...
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Health Boards stroke/head trauma  
00:09 6-Feb-07   [Replies: 17, Views: 1617]    By: Unnamed
My wife had a minor stroke that caused a fall and severe head trauma, a double whammy. She had bleeding on the brain etc. This occurred over 8 weeks ago. She has had sever headaches from day one a...
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Health Boards stroke makes smokers forget their addiction  
21:19 30-Jan-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 783]    By: Unnamed
Strokes in the insula make it very easy to quit smoking, scientists have shown. Has anyone heard about this finding? More importantly, has anyone ever lost their addiction to smoking after suffe...
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Health Boards On-going stroke patient trials/studies requiring volunteers  
13:49 30-Jan-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 249]    By: Unnamed
hi, I have had multiple TIA's in the past years and would like to take part as a volunteer in an on-going stroke patient study trial. If anyone at this forum living in the U.K. is at presen...
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Health Boards long vision blurred & distorted, slight stutter & some numbnes..  
13:32 30-Jan-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 212]    By: Unnamed
hi, a friend of mine has had a stroke or possible TIA's located by the scan on the back of the head area (possible brain stem episode). This friend who had previously 20/20 vision has now blurri...
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Health Boards Is anyone that has had a stroke......  
15:20 28-Jan-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 284]    By: Unnamed
back to running or jogging yet? I was just wondering if that come back.My 2 & 3 year olds like to run from me when I tell them no. ...
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Health Boards Cognitive Rehab  
17:48 23-Jan-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 303]    By: Unnamed
Does anyone out there have experience with cognitive rehab? My aunt, age 74, had a large right brain stroke on December 1st. She was discharged to an in-hospital stroke rehab facility on Dec 7...
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Health Boards Could it have been?  
15:36 17-Jan-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 527]    By: Unnamed
I posted yesterday, thinking that I might have had a mini stroke..(still not sure) didn't go to the doctor because it all went away within 2 hours, but it scared me, went numb in my left leg..foot...
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