What does Parenting think? (NPR, but medical related)

sadeathe · April 2014

I was feeling fine this morning. I played with my son, did some chores, the normal routine for us. I put him down for a nap at 12pm and dinked off until 1:40pm when I felt really tired. I fell asleep after 2pm and woke up to hear ds playing in his room and I felt drugged. I felt like I was walking through jello and I was having difficulty thinking. I felt like I was moving very slowly. I used the restroom, went up to ds, changed him, and brought him downstairs.

It was about ten minutes after I woke up that I called my mom and I sounded weird, like slurring speech. She noticed it immediately and told me to call dh and tell him to come home. I did. About twenty minutes after I woke I started feeling alot more alert; I still felt weird, but not like I was moving through jello. Mom thought I might have had a stroke.

Dh got home and got me to check and see if there was anything weird, like a spider bite, going on with my body. Nothing looked weird. He asked me if I had taken anything other than my vitamins this morning and I told him no. We talked about carbon monoxide poisoning, but everything where we live is electric.

I'm going to get a doctor's appointment tomorrow to get checked out. Has anyone heard of anything like this before? It seems very random and out of the blue and I'm a bit freaked out.

Sorry to come out of lurkdom like this...

RondackHiker · April 2014

Go now.

I wish you'd gone as soon as your husband got home, but please go now.

TiffanyBerry · April 2014

Also, there is a type of migraine that can manifest very similarly to a stroke. (A friend of mine had one - she was checked thoroughly for a stroke because of the symptoms before they discovered what it was.)

Still, I'd go in ASAP, and not wait until tomororw.

MamatoA2010 · April 2014

Sounds like a stroke to me. Definitely go to the doctor like yesterday!

jen39171 · April 2014

(Lurker alert): I sometimes feel that way before I get a killer migraine. My husband gets migraines like that occasionally, too, to the point where he looks at things and can't think of what they're called and can't remember names of people or places. Then he throws up and has an awful headache for a day or two.

kellyrn9956 · April 2014

I have neurological migraines like that. They present just like a stroke. But the first time I had one, I had no idea and ended up in the ER. Especially if you're on hormonal birth control. Please be checked out.

sadeathe · April 2014

Well, I did go to the ER last night after my heart beat felt irregular. The blood work, urine sample, ekg, and whatever other tests they did on me all came out normal, except I was borderline dehydrated, so they gave me some liquids before they discharged me. They told me to come back in ASAP if I get any more of the same symptoms. I really wish the docs had found something conclusive.

Because we live in an older home, today I went and got carbon monoxide detectors for the two bedrooms and a radon detector kit.

LovelyRita - I did dismiss it until the heart thing. That really freaked me out. I think part of the dismissal was that I was having a hard time processing what had happened.

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