I'm having an ultra sound on my heart

It's took them many years to follow this up I've been having tachycardia and arythmia for a long time now

In my experience, you often have to speak up and push some times, I know that that is difficult for a lot of people. But ocassionally it is the only way to move forward.

Awwwww bless yah

I'm a wally it's next Thurs xx

Get them to do a check for dimentia while you're there.

I've had that test I've got short term memory loss from a brain injury 9 years ago bless

They wouldn't comment on my prognosis, I had a fairly serious ICH about 18 months ago and I've also enjoyed the alcohol a bit too much over the years.

Is that a stroke I don't drink or smoke but at this present moment I've got the worst headache of my life time

What I mean is did you have a stroke I've been having blurred vision droopy mouth slurred speech and the worst pain in my head ever

Yes, there are two main types of stroke, TIA (minor one usually, a blood clot) which account for 90% of strokes and then there is the bleed on the brain (artery bursting). The latter quite often caused by hypertension. They are split into two, ICH and SAH, depending on where the bleed is located. Both the latter have about a 50% mortality rate.

Yes, I had a stroke. I had different symptoms to most people and I was lucky enough to go see my GP, who realised straight away, I went straight to hospital from the GP surgery.

I have no wish to worry you and it is not in my nature to be over dramatic, but knowing what I have learnt over the last 18 months, yours sound slike classic stroke symptoms and I would wandering down to A&E for a check.

Did you have mini strokes before your major stroke and amy specific warning signs has I have an irregular heart bear and tachycardia high BP and pulse too

I had different symptoms to most people. Don't forget, that my type of stroke only accounts for 10%, not the other 90%.

I felt very ill, in a weird way like I have never felt before. Then my legs started to go on me. When we got to the doctor's surgery, I sat in the car, whilst my wife announced to the receptionist that I was there. When the GP called, she went out to the car and helped me to walk in, I wouldn't have made it on my own.

I also had a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), in 2012, from an aneurysm I hadn't known that I had. By first symptom, was a 'thunderclap headache', I wasn't aware of any such thing at the time. It just caused instant, excruciating pain, right in the middle of my brain, I panicked, phoned upstairs to my daughter, said that something was REALLY wrong. Apart from remembering a bit about the paramedics and the first hospital I was at, the next thing I remember is that it was 6 1/2 weeks later. Apparently, when the surgeon tried to fix it, up my femoral artery, it caused a bigger bleed. They had to make a large burr hole in my skull, to stabilise me enough to go into my brain and clip the aneurysm, I was incredibily lucky, not simply to have survived, but to have not ended up seriously impaired afterwards, now I'm rambling.

If anyone is in any way concerned that they could be having any type of stroke, they should seek immediate medical assistance.

Yes, I was lucky too. Two months in two different hospitals, a blood plasma transfusion and a long spell as an outpatient in the rehab stroke hospital. Nothing much they can do for an ICH except monitor you and keep you safe. The fact that I had liver failure and went jaundiced whilst I was there (too much alcohol over too long a period) complicated matters somewhat, getting changed from stroke wards to gastroenterology and back again. The stroke consultants had to come in to gastroenterology sometimes and the gastroenterologists had to go to the stroke wards sometimes.

But apart from a few minor things that are easy to live with, I'm okay. I didn't like the fact that I was in a wheelchair the whole time I was in hospital and they did no physio. I was determined not to leave in a wheelchair, so I pee'd them off big time, by attempting to walk as much as I could. I ended up calling the ward nrse, nurse Ratched (to her face), because she was always telling me to stop or go back to bed. In the end, I walked out, with the aid of a walking stick.

It sounds as if you kept the nurses on their toes. Well done for walking out! Like me, you were dealing with more than one medical problem, I have MS, so it's a bit difficult, between MS and the aftermath of my subarach; to tell where one ends and the other begins, because some symptoms are hard to tell apart.

I just got fed up of not being told anything. I only found out about the blood plasma tranfusion 8 months after I left hospital and the hepatologist wasn't happy with my blood tests and asked me if I'd ever had a blood transfusion, to which I was about to say no, when he said, of course you have, we gave you one here.

I only found out about being detoxed in hospital when I got hold of the neuro consultants report at the stroke hospital and it mentioned that I'd been detoxed. I kept asking the hospital when I was going to be discharged (no answer) and what was going to happen with my legs and reduced use of right arm (no answer).

Finally I collared a senior nurse and said (this was on the Sunday) that I was leaving on the Thursday, that I would prefer to be discharged, but if it came to it, I would self discharge. On the Wednesday, I collared her and said, I haven't seen the consultant that you said would want to see me before I was discharged. Thursday lunchtime, I again said, well, I'm going in two or three hours when my wife gets here to take me home. Is there not some paperwork to be filled in, any medication, any instructions to give my GP and that consultant never truned up, so I never saw him. I said, otherwise, thank everyone for their help and you have a spare bed for the next patient this evening.

About an hour before I was about to go, a consultant turns up, asks me why I want to leave, tells me am I aware of how delicate my brain was and what would happen if I had a knock to the skull. Also asked me if I would stay if he told me that they had physio on the floor above. To which I said, maybe, if you had told me that about three weeks ago or even had you come to me on the Sunday/Monday and sat down and answered all my questions and put my mind at rest, as it is, my wife is probably parking the car up outside and I'm dressed to go home.

If they had just treated me as a human being, rather than a body occupying a bed, that needed to be fixed, just talked to me, I would have been a model patient, as it was, I tried to escape six times, including twice from the one step down ward. At least twice they had to call the security guards (for my own safety). If I could have walked, I would have been out of there. In fact in our ward of four, one person did do a runner during visiting hours. It was hilarious to see all these hospital staff running around panicking that they'd lost a patient. They asked us (ward patients) if we knew and we said no, but we knew exactly where he'd gone.