Good News Everyone!
I just came back from the hospital for my stroke-follow-up check-up. The technical term is "Doppler-Sonography" (ultra-sonography); and basicall it's an ultrasound of your neck. The reason I'm using this term is because I know I would have gotten funy looks if I had announced I was going to have an ultrasound.
And, as said above, I have good news.
The aneurism (which had turned into a ...I tried to look for the medical term in english, couldn't fine one, but the closest literal translation is vascular-wall-in-bleeding/hemmorrhage) is mostly gone, and there is blood circulation again in the previously blocked artery - yay!
The doctor says that you can still see in places that it had been there, or that there is a little bit still there, but it's almost gone!
There is an unusually thin vessel in my neck which could a) be due to the stroke thing or b) always have been there, but since there was no reason to look at it before, no one noticed, but there's no reason to worry.
I passed all the checks (like stand still and close your eyes, touch the tip of your nose with your index finger and "does pinching you there hurt?") and have to go back in three months for another ultrasound and to be really, really sure an MRT.
I don't like MRTs because they're incredibly loud and boring as hell - and you can't have any metal on you - not even in a zipper or in your bra, so I spent the first MRT half naked - but then we can know for sure. And maybe I can finally see a picture of my brain.
I got to see what the ultrasound looked like, but I can't really see anything on them - on the second ultrasound picture of my niece, we treated it as a rorschach test and guessed what we saw (Oh, it's the head! Where? There, and this is an arm. Oh wait, what if that's a leg...and then that has to be the body...which was is the baby facing?). On mine I had color and I could see a white and black background and blue and orange blobs. I still have no idea what I saw or what it meant.
The bad news aren't bad per se, mostly annoying.
I still have a headache and feel nauseous, but in particular the nausea had been bad this last week. I asked the doctor and he said that it couldn't be related to the stroke thing. He suspects that this may actually be a side effect of my pain medication I take for the headache. Nobody told me that the pain medication (in particular this medicine in liquid form) wasn't meant for long-term use. But I'm going to see the regular doctor this friday and have another blood test, so we can clear this up.
And in the documents they gave my doctor when they discharged me was a recommendation to go see a doctor specializing in neurology - which also nobody told me anything about.
I'll schedule an appointment for next week then. I do have some problems connected to speech - the act of speaking is fine, but you know those little moments when there's a word on the tip of your tongue and you can't get it out? I have these more frequently. And it's annoying.
But, all in all, good news.
Wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
And, as said above, I have good news.
The aneurism (which had turned into a ...I tried to look for the medical term in english, couldn't fine one, but the closest literal translation is vascular-wall-in-bleeding/hemmorrhage) is mostly gone, and there is blood circulation again in the previously blocked artery - yay!
The doctor says that you can still see in places that it had been there, or that there is a little bit still there, but it's almost gone!
There is an unusually thin vessel in my neck which could a) be due to the stroke thing or b) always have been there, but since there was no reason to look at it before, no one noticed, but there's no reason to worry.
I passed all the checks (like stand still and close your eyes, touch the tip of your nose with your index finger and "does pinching you there hurt?") and have to go back in three months for another ultrasound and to be really, really sure an MRT.
I don't like MRTs because they're incredibly loud and boring as hell - and you can't have any metal on you - not even in a zipper or in your bra, so I spent the first MRT half naked - but then we can know for sure. And maybe I can finally see a picture of my brain.
I got to see what the ultrasound looked like, but I can't really see anything on them - on the second ultrasound picture of my niece, we treated it as a rorschach test and guessed what we saw (Oh, it's the head! Where? There, and this is an arm. Oh wait, what if that's a leg...and then that has to be the body...which was is the baby facing?). On mine I had color and I could see a white and black background and blue and orange blobs. I still have no idea what I saw or what it meant.
The bad news aren't bad per se, mostly annoying.
I still have a headache and feel nauseous, but in particular the nausea had been bad this last week. I asked the doctor and he said that it couldn't be related to the stroke thing. He suspects that this may actually be a side effect of my pain medication I take for the headache. Nobody told me that the pain medication (in particular this medicine in liquid form) wasn't meant for long-term use. But I'm going to see the regular doctor this friday and have another blood test, so we can clear this up.
And in the documents they gave my doctor when they discharged me was a recommendation to go see a doctor specializing in neurology - which also nobody told me anything about.
I'll schedule an appointment for next week then. I do have some problems connected to speech - the act of speaking is fine, but you know those little moments when there's a word on the tip of your tongue and you can't get it out? I have these more frequently. And it's annoying.
But, all in all, good news.
Wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!