Thank you firstly for reading. Apologies if it’s long, I’ll try to keep it as short as possible.
yesterday morning I woke up and thought my voice isn’t right, the left side of my face also felt strange as I’m wasn’t quite right. I looked at myself in the mirror after noticing my left foot seemed to take longer to hit the floor than my right and seemed it didn’t really know what it was supposed to do. So when I looked in the mirror I noticed the left side of my face wasn’t drooping but didn’t have same symmetry as the right. When I smiled it looked like I just come out the dentist after an injection on my left side. the foot thing did panic me as my body just wasn’t in sync at all.
I went to a&e as the first thing that did worry me was is it a stroke with my left side not working. When I arrived I went straight though to triage and was sent to resus. I was told it gave the same symptoms as a stroke. Whilst there my left leg didn’t have same strength as right and from what i gathered for a while my left eye wasn’t same as the opposite one. After being there a short time I then found it difficult to speak, I had to think about what I was saying and I started to find difficulty speaking and stuttering my words too.
I went for a CT head scan which came back okay.
I was then transferred into a room in A&E where I was being monitored until there was a room in the admissions ward to see the stroke specialists. Must also say at this point all the staff were so lovely. Rather hot doctor in resus but let’s not go there 😂
up to admissions ward and saw the stroke specialist/consultant who was also lovely, she said ct scan was fine but would be referred for an mri. As it’s the weekend would have to wait until next week but to stay in that night. She asked me symptoms from when I realised things weren’t right so I started from when I got out of bed that morning and my voice was odd until I got to that ward.
she said she didn’t think it was a stroke but mri would show either way. Mentioned that it could be a migraine as sometimes they show stroke symptoms without a headache.
stayed in overnight and saw consultant next morning, she said she’d be happy for me to go home and go to clinic outpatient next week for mri. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go home as obviously scared after what happened and especially as don’t know why it happened.
I thought about it for a few hours and decided to go home as she had no worries about this.
whilst in the ward I spoke to another patient who said they had a mini stroke or tia I think it’s called and he had same symptoms as me but little less.
also on discharge I noticed it wasn’t my consultant who wrote discharge letter but a trainee doctor who had seen me at initial
dosvussion with consultant day before but whom i didn’t speak to. On this letter it says very briefly that I was admitted with voice disturbance and mentioned when I smiled in Mirror. This all happened before I got to hospital. Nothing is mentioned from when o got there like the not being able to speak, the high blood pressure, the leg weakness, the mouth not being symmetrical, nothing at all.
also says I declined admission over the weekend for an mri due to childcare commitments which also isn’t the case, childcare wasn’t an issue and the reason I left was due to being told they couldn’t see any problems and to visit outpatient for scan. I at no point asked to go home.
sorry for long thread. Thanks for reading and any advice would be appreciated.