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Why Is My Left Side Of Face Drooping And Will I Regain My Speech After A Stroke Like Incident?
hello. i just has a stroke like incident again. i havent had one in almost a year. they dont know what causes it. i had 4 now. 2nd to the last my whole body to my bottom lip was paralyzed. 3 months i usually can work out of it a bit.with rehab. my left side of my face droops no feelin. the right eye droops. the one i had yetserday, took my speech. when i try it wears me out. walikng is kinda of wobbly. will i get my speech back? im so tired and exhausted today. i was sent home with oxygen on(8) 2xs a day for 10 minutes. this one really exhausted me. also im 43 woman (native american).
Mon, 20 Jan 2014
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
It is unfortunate that you are getting repeated episodes of stroke, leading to various deficits.
I would like to reassure that your speech would improve with speech therapy and your walking would also improve with physiotherapy.
You would require investigations to find out the reasons for recurrent stroke. This would include doing MRI and MR angiogram of brain, blood sugar, cholesterol, and homocysteine testing.
You should be on daily aspirin, statins and any risk factors identified should be also treated.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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Thank you for posting your query.
It is unfortunate that you are getting repeated episodes of stroke, leading to various deficits.
I would like to reassure that your speech would improve with speech therapy and your walking would also improve with physiotherapy.
You would require investigations to find out the reasons for recurrent stroke. This would include doing MRI and MR angiogram of brain, blood sugar, cholesterol, and homocysteine testing.
You should be on daily aspirin, statins and any risk factors identified should be also treated.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar
My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in
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