Stroke risk migraine
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However stroke can also present with similar symptoms. Do you have risk factors for stroke like high BP or high cholesterol?
It is important that you get further evaluation done to make sure it is migraine and not stroke. There are very effective medications are in the market today to abort migraine attacks and also to prevent migraines.
If it is stroke then you may need to take medications to control risk factors along with low dose aspirin to prevent further stroke.
I read that women who experience zigzag lines in their peripheral vision have a greater risk of stroke and heart disease. Is this true and if so, what course should I take to determine if I am at a higher risk and how I can prevent stroke? I am a 55 year old woman with no history of heart disease, but I do have hyperlipidemia controlled with medication. Thank you for any information you can provide.
Hi,
How are you? According to the American Heart Association, TIA is a "warning stroke" or "mini-stroke" that produces stroke-like symptoms but no lasting damage. This occurs when a blood clot temporarily clogs an artery. The symptoms occur rapidly and last a short time. The good thing is recovery is complete. It may recur and the risk for future stroke depends on the cause of TIA and management of risk factors.
Other diagnostic tests to check high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, and other causes of and risk factors for TIAs or stroke may also be done. If you have history of migraine headaches, you need to check with your neurologist also to determine if hemiplegic migraine is present. This type of migraine also present with numbness and confusion. Take care and do keep us posted.
I am 50 year female with FMD, diabetes , hypertension and have a history of silent strokes. SInce I am an risk for having a stroke how does one know that they are having one. I have gone to the ER with one sided numbness and tingling w/ a bad headache the ER Dr. will say TIA but when I see neurolist I am told migraine. How can I tell if it is a migraine or a TIA?
I can tell you my neurologist told me that those with complicated migraine (prolonged aura) have a higher risk of stroke. I am on daily asprin as a preventative and my neurologist had me stop taking birth control. I also have a PFO patent foramen ovale which makes the risk for stoke a bit higher with migraine patients and those with prolonged aura.
ve got a migraine, I need to lay down for a while type. Migraine is linked to an increased risk of stroke. My daughter now has migraine (she calls them headaches) most of the day every day, it is caused by the deterioration of blood vessels. You really do need to seek specialist advice because whichever way you look at it you have signs and symptoms that indicate permanent damage to the basal ganglia and must be addressed swiftly.
My main concern is that I recently started adderall for my ADD, and i know there is a very rare risk of stroke with it. (the first ocular migraine-only event happened months before the adderall though)
I'm honestly terrified of hospitals and have no insurance. So i was hoping to find out if a stroke can play out like that, in a series of events, or if it would have been all at once?
Risk factors for stroke include advanced age, hypertension (high blood pressure), previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), diabetes, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, atrial fibrillation, the contraceptive pill, migraine with aura, and thrombophilia (a tendency to thrombosis), patent foramen ovale and several rarer disorders. High blood pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor of stroke.
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To answer your question about stroke, there is a statistical link between migraine and increased risk of stroke, but most research indicates that the risk is quite low--but higher than it needs to be in smokers. That's a hint.
Go to your walk-in clinic to be on the safe side. They will take your history and examine you, always a prudent thing with a new experience like this, even though you're probably just going to be diagnosed with migraine headache.
The reason is the facial numbness and the arm. Migraine people have a higher risk of stroke. Also, because you are a women (right)? I would also check for heart attack since we get werid symptoms. You had the jaw thing going on and the arm sensation and those can be heart attack symptoms in a women. I believe they are all migraine but you should check. Do you still have the symptoms? The sooner the better , I would just go into the ER because they will get it all done .
Other causes of stroke-like symptoms, such as numbness of one side of face, include transient ischemic attacks, especially if the symptoms do not persist. You have had a stroke before and thus have stroke risk factors. Other risk factors include smoking, high cholesterol and blood pressure, and age. Other stroke like symptoms can occur from seizure activity and migraine.
The best approach to fully evaluate your symptoms is to be referred to a neurologist.
The final agreement was a complex migraine. Dr. indicated it has s/s of a stroke. I contine to have slurred speech, and r side weakness. I just cant seem to get up and get going with out some help.
The hospital tests were a normal, MRI,MRA, EEG, ECHO, Swallow Test, CT. The MRi did show a past small stroke.
The neurologist has indicated all is well with me. But I don't feel like all is well.
I am very concerned because between the time of the first ocular migraine i had months ago and today I have started taking Adderall for my ADD. Ive read adderall gives you a risk for stroke. Is it likely that this was just a migraine and not TIA or a stroke?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I have no insurance and it would be very costly go to the ER...
The chance of having a stroke approximately doubles for each decade of life after age 55, heredity, race, gender, history of previous TIA or stroke, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, poor physical activity, poor diet, hyperlipidemia etc.
I would suggest that you visit a urologist and rule out all the risk factors listed above and take appropriate treatment.
Best.
High BP is one of the risk factors for stroke but stroke can occur in patients with normal BP if there are other risk factors present like high cholesterol levels, smoking and alcoholism and overweight people.
You can discuss this possibility with your treating doctor. The diagnosis can be made only by a clinical examination and tests.
Hope this helps!
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