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What Are The Symptoms Of A Stroke?

My brother just told me that two weeks ago he lost control of the left side of his mouth and arm. He said that when he went to take a drink of water it flowed out because of lack of control. He said it lasted about two hours and seems fine. Although, when I got home I thought it seemed as he was slurring his words a little but did not think twice about it until now. He seems fine, has control and does not seem to be slurring now but is there any way to know if he had a stroke at this point?
Wed, 31 Jan 2018
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welcome to hcm ...all the symptoms you have described come under stroke ..it is of two types ....1..mini stroke called tia transient ischemiac attack ..here symptoms last less than 24 hours and patient may fully recover
2 ..stroke ..here symptoms persist more than 24 hours and usually leave some residual paralysis etc
but now you should know why it occured
as stroke occurs in high bp ..high sugar level ...high lipids or dehydration or cardiac arrhythmia irregular heart block
please visit emergency
your brother needs Hb ..TLC ..DLC ..Sugar level ...ECG...chest xray...neck xray ..lipid profile ..serum bilirubin ..sgot ...sgpt ...serum urea ..serum creatinine ...etc
i think cause of TIA will be found
if you have any further query then you can come back to hcm i will definitely help you withregards dr varinder joshi
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What Are The Symptoms Of A Stroke?

welcome to hcm ...all the symptoms you have described come under stroke ..it is of two types ....1..mini stroke called tia transient ischemiac attack ..here symptoms last less than 24 hours and patient may fully recover 2 ..stroke ..here symptoms persist more than 24 hours and usually leave some residual paralysis etc but now you should know why it occured as stroke occurs in high bp ..high sugar level ...high lipids or dehydration or cardiac arrhythmia irregular heart block please visit emergency your brother needs Hb ..TLC ..DLC ..Sugar level ...ECG...chest xray...neck xray ..lipid profile ..serum bilirubin ..sgot ...sgpt ...serum urea ..serum creatinine ...etc i think cause of TIA will be found if you have any further query then you can come back to hcm i will definitely help you withregards dr varinder joshi