What this blog is for:
My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.
Hey Dean. It's a wet and miserable day where I live and my spastic muscles are going crazy. I feel like a pretzel. I want to ask about another phenomenon, though. I had a right-brain hemorrhagic stroke, so my left side is affected. A few months ago the neuropathy on my left side began to creep over to the right. It started with my lips, and now I have no sensation on either side of my mouth. I've also started to lose sensation on my right palm and the sole of my right foot. my right ankle is also starting to feel like my left: weak and painful. Not yet to the same extent, though. I have a good PCP and I went to him with it and he ordered another CT scan and when he read it, said he saw nothing that would explain what was happening. He did say that diabetes might cause it, but bllod tests have shown that I don't have it. He set me up with an appointment with my neurologist and he literally threw up his hands and said he had no idea. Have you heard of this? The symptoms migrating from non-affected to affected side that is. I know you,ve heard of clueless neurologists.
ReplyDeleteI have no clue, maybe you should ask your Great stroke association. I know that was facetious, there is probably no one in the world that knows the answer.
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