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"acid flashback" hahaha.
Get it sorted please.
Hope all is OK this am DezB and appropriate medical investigation is taking place (or preferably already has).
Another +1000 for getting into A&E, even if you're waking up feeling OK this morning. TIA can be the precursor for another bigger event within a couple of days.
Does anyone know where he lives and can check on him? GF lost her stepfather to a stroke earlier this year and I would rather not see that happen again.
Morning all, Dr called at half past bleedin midnight, went through all the symptoms, like ‘no’ er ‘no’, ‘nope’! and seemed happy it was probably a nerve thing; said to call 111 if anything showed up again, otherwise see GP in morning, which is what I’m doing.
Feel absolutely fine (except maybe a cold coming on).
As long as you’ve COMPLETELY recovered
Yep, that. Thanks Doc 🙂
So apart from right sided numbness, paralysis to your right leg and a loss of coordination you had no symptoms of a tia.
Correct!
Everyone knows I’m an idiot! no point changing that perception 🤪
I reckon he borrowed someone else’s wooden leg, but this one has a real foot.
How long has your emoji face been drooping like that? 😉
At least you're seeing another doc this morning. Was that other one just a phone consultation?
Yep, dialled 111 on advice from here. Never heard of it before, so that was great advice.
I'd bank it mate - you're a shoo in for halloween if you shuffle to the door dragging one helpless leg behind you and drooling out of the slack side of your face
Oh and to add to the 'bloody wierd' stories I had an episode of feeling a bit funny which apparently led to convulsions and then blacking out, except I was 6m underwater at the time. By the time my dive buddy got me to the surface I was blue, unconscious and they couldn't find a pulse but a bit of O2 assisted CPR brought me round. I got stroppy when they started talking about cutting my kit off and then I was able to walk to the ambulance. Got discharged from A&E about 8 hours later with no confirmed diagnosis. Bloody wierd.
dialled 111 on advice from here.
I would've assumed a bit more ass-covering from them on this kind of thing. Don't underplay it too much when you see the doc. Show him/her the video!
Dez probably played the symptoms down or made light of them on the phone.....
Phone Brother, Ride Home, Upload Youtube Video, Start Thread on Forum
P.B.R.H.U.Y.V.S.T.F.
Its not quite as catchy an acronym as F.A.S.T is it 🙂
F.A.S.T
I've forgotten what that stands for. Is it 'Feeling All Super-Tingly'?
Don't talk to me about cutting kit off - Ambulance crew were about to hack hundreds of pounds in kit off me when I broke my back. Erm nope, they took my gloves, overshoes, shoes off, and made them be careful with the £140 soft shell. Only had to cut the arm off the merino base layer. Phew.
I’ve forgotten what that stands for. Is it ‘Feeling All Super-Tingly’?
I am! apparently, I’m off to the tits & ass clinic 😁
I’m off to the tits & ass clinic
Maybe you’ll get lucky and have a stroke 😉
Is this now approved STW procedure in the event of a medical emergency? If so shouldn’t saxonrider have to explain himself for ignoring this and going straight to the air ambulance?
Incidentally OP... your brother should read this thread.
You're both men of a certain age - you'll have friends families and colleagues of similar ages. This stuff shouldn't be a surprise to either of you and it should be stuff you can spot and respond to appropriately when you see it.
The worst that can happen, frankly, is that you don't die. Clearly you've not had more than a scare - you've maybe got an early warning and so on. But the opportunity your brother gave himself for real, long term, horrifying regret is pretty profound.
Funk me, I hate hospitals, but even that would have seen me going straight to A&E.
Even if I was told it was fine on the phone by a professional, obviously something went wrong inside you - i'd probably want to know what that was, in case it happens again & I was to die.
+1 - what if a bus had been coming as you meandered across the road and collapsed into a field? I don't think I'd shrug that off as 'weird, but I feel OK now so I'll assume it won't happen again'
Take it easy Dez.
Hope all is good with you now, but please try and get some sort of diagnosis. Look after yourself.
Having me ECG and bloods done.
Aren’t nurses lovely 😊
Strangely enough I'm sitting waiting for an ECG as well. In for a medication review this morning and Dr took my bp, heart rate showing around 40 which is lower than it should be apparently. It says on line is a symptom of being super fit 💪 but I doubt it's that.
I had a TIA a few years back. Nothing as fun as DezB's experience, I just became completely unable to make sense of written words or to remember any but the simplest words myself. I went downstairs and said to Mrs Owg 'bad thing, head' which was all I could manage - she took me straight to A+E where I was whisked straight through.The immediate care in the hospital was absolutely fantastic, and I got a full health check over the next few weeks with scans of every description. The reason for this is that 1 in 6 TIAs lead to a full blown stroke within a month, which can obviously be devastating and is expensive for the NHS. Wasn't allowed to drive for a month, but e<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">ventually discharged with a clean bill of health.</span>
Aren’t nurses lovely
You won’t be saying that when TJ is snapping on his rubber gloves and looming over you 😉
Nah TJs now OFFICALLY lovely thanks to his efforts with the Gnusmobile. No amount of cockwomblery can ever shake that halo (but don't take that as an open invitation TJ).
And DezB - TTIUWP!
Well I'm out of there with a clean bill of health, doc said it is coz of all the cycling. Hoping you get a similar result Dezwold 👍
What is TTIUWP??
Couldn't do me bloods cos I ate breakfast 🙁 Gotta go back tomorrow. Man, I hate that hospital, but I will go back, promise.
This Thread is Useless Without Pictures!
I've got one of my shaved chest, but I don't think that's what you meant 😀
What is TTIUWP??
I wondered that too and thought that by some massive coincidence the purist had suffered a stroke whilst typing out a reply!
Aren’t nurses lovely
You won’t be saying that when TJ is snapping on his rubber gloves and looming over you
He would get a free massage and hug though 😉
Dez if this gets really serious ,leave me your music collection 🙂
FAST = Face (Drooping), Arm (Cannot raise above shoulder), Speech (Slurred), Time (To dial 999).
In my cass (Actual TIA) the only one that presented was arm but it was still enough for doctors to take it very seriously.
Dez - Can you update this thread with the bikes you own. Ooh and stereo equipment too. That way we can fight over who gets what.
Dez, if this gets really serious, please don’t leave me your music collection
funkmasterp gets the Dansette. Perchy gets the PiL collection 🙂
In light of DebZ’s travails, I thought I’d check my HR data. It’s ok though, wrist based always read a bit low don’t they? 😬
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32?? you’re either on the way out or on the way back! 😆
That's a real ****ing into a coma progression. Allegedly...
Definitely the former DebZ. Ooooh me ****in knees!
Not to pike on to the already good advice (don't f%*@ about with strange symptoms, even less f&#@ about with sudden onset strange symptoms). I used to play football with a mate who buggered up his ankle. Complained that it was taking a long time to get better. Did physio for a couple of months, felt better, started playing. Me and another guy could see right away he wasn't right, could stop, or turn well, took ages to settle his balance to receive or pass the ball, because of his "good" leg not the bad ankle. We both told him to get the other leg looked at. Mentioned it to his physio who told him to see his GP. Week later sees GP. GP books him in for a nerve conductance test. Week later bikes to hospital for test. 4 and 1/2 minutes after test begins is trussed up like an s &m chicken and on way to operating theatre. 5 hours later having had 3 ribs permanently removed and surgeon having had a good rummage around he is alive. Turns out the nerve being impinged was the one that caused his heart to beat and lungs to breathe. As surgeon told his wife, a bad sneeze, wrong movement, or bump on his bike and he would just cease to be.
TL:DR. Strange symptoms should not be ignored. Ever.