Any experience of a stroke in a younger person?

[justwanttoknowalittlemore]

Have namechanged. I am worried about my friend. We are both mid 20s and I know that in her late teens she had a stroke, for which she stil has regular check ups at hospital. She also came down with meningitis soon afterwards. Now, to look at her now there is no indication that anything is wrong. But yesterday she was taken to hospital by her dp as she was almost blacked out with dizziness. I spoke on the phone today and was really worried about her slurred speech She was in overnight and they have discharged her, with paracetamol and ibuprofen. Apparently her heartrate was all over the place yesterday. It worries me as I don't know what might happen to her, and also that we spend so much time together but I have never thought to ask her what to look out for, or what I should do n an emergency- this happened literally 2 hours after she left my house after spending the night here with her dd. She has slept a lot today. I just don't know what to do to help. She knows I will look after her dd if needs be. It worried me that she doesn't wear a medical bracelet (I don't know what their proper name is). Strangely enough, my first flat mate had suffered the same thing and she always wore one. Should I encourage her to get one? I am so worried about her If it had happened here I don't know what I'd have done, I may not even have realised anything was wrong.

Can you go over there?
Slurred speech is a sign of a stroke. Is she also diabetic?
I would go to the hospital with slurred speech with a history of strokes. The earlier it is treated the better.
People don't think of strokes as serious. A stroke is like a heart attack in your head.

Lou, I already went over there. I took her some more painkillers and some chocolate. It was just surprising to me that they had discharged her. Her dp was asleep on the sofa (I guess it has been a tough 24 hours for him too) so I couldn't pull him aside and see what was going on

Ok so if her speech is still slurred now that tell her DP to get her to hospital or ring an ambulance. Better to be sent home for false alarm then to have her incapacitated for the rest of her life.

My Goddaughter was diagnosed with Moya Moya Syndrome when she suffered a stroke at the tender age of 1. It took lots of tests and expert opinions to come to the diagnosis and she has since had brain surgery and also regular physiotherapy and MRI scans to pre-empt further narrowing of arteries in case of another stroke happening. The prognosis is quite scary but she continues to do well. They recently found a further narrowing of arteries on the other side of the brain from which they operated on so she is probably going to be going in for surgery again. But at least they are ahead of it all instead of behind it. I suppose knowing this what I would say is that your friend should get a proper diagnosis for what is going on instead of being fobbed off with painkillers. Any signs of a further stroke would have me calling for help or getting down to A&E. In particular as the consequences are too grave, plus she does have a responsibility to her little one. Good luck.