You will need to demand that your doctor remove all the stressors from your hospital environment.
1. Poor sleep
2. No objective diagnosis of damage.
3. No path to 100% recovery.
4. Nocebo comments about no further recovery/plateau.
5. Worries about cognitive decline with no stroke protocol to fix that.
6. Fatigue.
7. Spasticity which your doctor has no idea how to cure.
http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/health-medicine/how-stress-promotes-atherosclerosis/
Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease characterized by the
“hardening” of the arteries. This is caused by the accumulation of
deposits mainly composed of cell debris, fats, cholesterol, calcium, on
the inner walls of arteries leading to vessels’ narrowing and decreased
blood flow. These deposits are called plaques and they also contain
platelets and immune cells (leukocytes), in particular inflammatory
monocytes and macrophages. Enzymes produced by the immune cells can
partially degrade the plaques causing their disruption and cause
formation of blood clots that will occlude the vessels and block oxygen
supply to different organs and tissues. If a clot occurs in vessels of
the heart or the brain, it will elicit a heart attack or a stroke
respectively.
Link between stress and atherosclerosis
There is evidence that chronic stress increases the risk of
atherosclerosis, but no mechanism linking the two phenomena has been
demonstrated so far. Since stressful emotional states can affect the
function of the immune system, Heidt and colleagues of the Massachusetts
General Hospital hypothesized that stress increases the activity of
inflammatory cells in the plaques facilitating their rupture, as you can read in their recently published article.
To test this possibility the scientists measured the effects of
various forms of stress (including isolation, damp bedding, overnight
illumination) on the number of leukocytes in mice. They found that
compared to the controls the stressed animals had significantly more
circulating immune cells. This was the result of increased division of
the hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which are the immature precursors
of the immune cells, and subsequent increased production of leukocyte
progenitors in their bone marrow.
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