Where do I begin on this update, ( health)...So my cardiologist orders a echo and an event cardiac monitor....we have to eliminate everything thing else before I can say for sure it's small vessel disease...she orders an echo and cardiac event monitor....So I wait for a couple of weeks( I think it was a couple of weeks) and I call them and then I get them both scheduled....
About two weeks and half ago I had a spell of weird sensation on left side of head, then numbness on left side( all of the left side)then chest pain...So I message hubby and ask him about it and he says to call my mom and so I did....Mom tells me to call my cardiologist...so I do.... and they tell me to smile, raise arms up and does one go down some , I say well yea....so they tell me to go to ER
I get to ER...Don't know what my blood pressure was, all I know is I whisked back to a hall room(an ER room in the hall)an EKG is done( after EKG is done , I see the tech give it to the doctor to show him) CT scan done...iv started , labs....Then doctor comes by and states that I think we need to have some observation....I'm like huh...then next I 'm moved to other room upstairs...
So moved upstairs...nitro patch, blood thinner, another lab, and more pricking of my finger....another doctor comes in....and states that I need a MRI, and echo. And a carotid scan. I tell him I have an echo scheduled on Monday....He says no this is a different.....so I lay there , wondering what was seen on the CT scan and what did the EKG show....Then, nurse comes in and tells me that soon I will be moving to another room...and that this room is only for 24 hours...I'm like huh....
So I get the MRI done and then moved to another room....in the stroke unit....I'm like did I have a stroke...TIA is mention but not for sure....another blood thinner shot, vitals, nitro patch, pricking of finger for sugar test....meds given...they upped my cholesterol med...
So waiting for the other two tests, feel weak of left side some....so next day....still waiting for the other two tests...another doctor comes in and mentions a TIA, an complicated migraine( in which I have never heard of )...my phone in room doesn't work, ( at this hospital your meals are like room service, ya call up what ya want and they bring it)…..so next day( again)...another doctor comes in, Still saying TIA an umbrella term...he says...I'm like huh.....a nurse comes in and educate me on TIA and strokes....and here I am like Did I really have a TIA....the echo is done ( a bubble echo)...and finally the other test is done....PT is done( and is ordered for rehab)...the initial results look good on the two tests I have been waiting on...and nurse gives me my discharge instructions...One is to follow-up with primary and she will release me to drive...( my diagnosis is a TIA)
I go home, then the heart monitor is going....wait let me back up some....I got to get my echo done, the one that my cardiologist has ordered....and the tech comes out...and ummm ya already had one in the hospital....I' m like the hospital told my this was a stress echo....then now go to get the event monitor...
So I called to get my follow-up appointment with my primary...I already have an appointment with my neurologist ….and make for that day...( make it easy, one trip and two appointments, I live about hour and half away),....the monitor has start letting off a beeeeeeeeppppp. and im like what in the world....I guess its catching something odd in my heart rhythm....
So I go to my neurologist appointment and he says I had a complicated migraine , not a TIA.....I'm like what....my bp just happens to be high, my face does have some numbness while at appointment ( I don't tell him this)and he ups my aspirin to 325 mg daily...anyway...I then go on to the primary ...and my bp is down...and I hear the nurse tell my primary outside of the door my bp...primary comes in....and I ask well can I drive yet...and shes like Im not the one to ask about this ...do ya talk about this with your neuro doctor...and I'm like no.and she also states that we need to watch my sugar level , cause it has been running high...then she says...well I will send him a email...then I ask about if I need to be on blood thinner...again she asks if I talk to the neuro and I'm like no....
I leave her office and send a message to my neuro about whether or not I can drive...he messages me back Who gave ya the restrictions...Im like the ER did...then he messages me back no restrictions....
I felt like I was getting the runaround...with these doctors and I'm so confused...
Then I think ok....if I'm driving and I have an episode of Tia or complicated migraine and have an accident...??/?????
Then yesterday, ...I felt all jittery, then major headache...took my migraine med ,plus my nausea med, ...I was still nauseated after that...headache was still there, had numbness on left side again...high bp....so off to the ER....was diagnosed with a complicated migraine ...the migraine came out of nowhere...doctor stated that the MRI was ok....( I have not seen it and compared it to the others),....
it wasn't a stroke ...because if ya had numbness it would be on the right side and not the left.....and I'm like what......then he told me that he has come across a lot of complicated migraines even those that took away people's sight...So of course I googled it...according to the sites I went on stated that complicated migraines are rare...and not understood...
Instead of going back to neurologists...I just message him...about my visit to the ER...and about the ER doctor suggesting that I take something everyday to prevent these migraines,...and he has prescribed something...for me....
I have had a headache all day....( have not taken new med yet)...My opinion, I don't think the doctors really know what is going on....... I think that since my calcium level is tiddering on the high level, and my sugar level has also....I think it has been doing this for so long that both have been messing with my health...these are only my opinion....
Well that's it for now
