What do stroke victims think?

Stroke impacts the brain, and the brain controls our behavior and emotions. You or your loved one may experience feelings of irritability, forgetfulness, carelessness or confusion. Feelings of anger, anxiety or depression are also common.

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Can stroke victims think clearly?

If one of the parts of your brain that control cognition is damaged by a stroke, then this can affect your ability to do certain things. If your cognition is affected, then you could find it difficult to concentrate or remember certain things.

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What does stroke feel like for the victim?

Understanding What a Stroke Feels Like

While individuals cannot feel blood supply being cut off during a stroke, they may exhibit some very distinct signs of a stroke including slurred speech, arm weakness, and facial drooping. These signs, among others, can cause a variety of physical sensations and emotions.

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What do stroke victims struggle with?

A stroke can make everyday activities challenging. These challenges may be due to several stroke-related conditions, such as limb weakness, numbness or paralysis, communication challenges, vision challenges and one-side neglect challenges.

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What does a stroke do to your personality?

Personality changes after a stroke can include: Not feeling like doing anything. Being irritable or aggressive. Being disinhibited – saying or doing things that seem inappropriate to others.

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Stroke survivor, Jayme Kelly, shares her story of survival and recovery

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Are you ever the same after a stroke?

You are still the same person, but a stroke may change the way you respond to things. It's not always possible to go back to the way you were before a stroke, but you can get help and support to make the best recovery possible for you. It can be hard for the people around you if they feel you've changed.

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What is the average life after a stroke?

Unfortunately, researchers have observed a wide range of life expectancy changes in stroke patients, but the average reduction in lifespan is nine and a half years.

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What should you not say to a stroke victim?

Here is what they had to say:
  • 1. “ ...
  • “You don't look like you have had a stroke” ...
  • “You are not working hard enough to get better!” ...
  • “Are you better now?” ...
  • “ I relate because I get headaches and feel tired too! ”

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Do stroke victims know they had a stroke?

Most stroke patients are unaware of the warning signs of stroke and present late because they misjudge the seriousness of their symptoms. Even when patients know that they are having a stroke, most do not seek immediate medical attention.

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What to expect 6 months after a stroke?

After six months, improvements are possible but will be much slower. Most stroke patients reach a relatively steady state at this point. For some, this means a full recovery. Others will have ongoing impairments, also called chronic stroke disease.

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Is suffering a stroke painful?

A stroke keeps blood from reaching the brain and leads to brain tissue damage. About 10% of people who experience a stroke eventually develop severe pain that is called post-stroke pain, central pain, or thalamic pain (after the part of the brain typically affected).

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Is it painful when someone has a stroke?

Pain, numbness or other unusual sensations may occur in the parts of the body affected by stroke. For example, if a stroke causes you to lose feeling in the left arm, you may develop an uncomfortable tingling sensation in that arm. Changes in behavior and self-care ability.

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What are good signs after a stroke?

Here are seven signs that you are recovering well from a stroke.
  • #1 You Make Your Best Progress Right Away. ...
  • #2 You Are More Independent. ...
  • #3 You Can Cross Your Legs. ...
  • #4 You Find Yourself Sleeping More. ...
  • #5 You Find the Need to Compensate Less with Technique. ...
  • #6 Your Spastic Muscles Are Twitching.

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Do stroke victims recognize family?

Symptoms of Prosopagnosia After Stroke

In severe cases, a survivor with prosopagnosia can't recognize familiar faces after stroke – even the faces of close friends and family. Other individuals may have trouble distinguishing between two unknown faces, or even between a face and an object.

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Are people aware after a stroke?

After a very serious stroke, someone can be unconscious or in a coma for some time. In a coma, the person has very little or no awareness of what's going on around them. Locked-in syndrome is a very rare condition where someone is conscious, but unable to move or speak.

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Does your brain go back to normal after a stroke?

The short answer is yes; the brain can heal after acute trauma from a stroke or brain injury, although the degree of recovery will vary. The reason the brain can recover at all is through neuroplasticity, sometimes referred to as brain plasticity.

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How likely is a second stroke?

Even after surviving a stroke, you're not out of the woods, since having one makes it a lot more likely that you'll have another. In fact, of the 795,000 Americans who will have a first stroke this year, 23 percent will suffer a second stroke.

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How long does it take brain to heal after stroke?

The most rapid recovery usually occurs during the first three to four months after a stroke, but some survivors continue to recover well into the first and second year after their stroke. Some signs point to physical therapy.

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What do stroke patients complain of?

After a stroke, around 30% of survivors experience pain. This is most likely to happen soon after a stroke, but can also develop sometime later. Types of post-stroke pain include muscle and joint pain such as spasticity and shoulder pain. Headaches are more common soon after a stroke but should reduce over time.

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Should stroke patients watch TV?

When communicating with a stroke survivor who has communication problems (aphasia), it is helpful to: Be patient. Eliminate distractions. Turn off the TV, limit extraneous noise.

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How do you emotionally support a stroke victim?

Psychological care tips for Stroke caregivers
  1. Listen to the patient's thoughts and make sure the patient is supported by you no matter what. ...
  2. Encourage communication between your loved one and other stroke survivors. ...
  3. Promote creative or stimulating activity. ...
  4. Spend some time in the community.

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Can a person live 20 years after a stroke?

We showed that even 20 years following stroke in adults aged 18 through 50 years, patients remain at a significantly higher risk of death compared with the general population.

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Can you live a full life after a stroke?

In the 65- to 72-year age group 11% survived 15 years after stroke. In the age group <65 years 28% survived 15 years. For all age groups survival was poorer in stroke patients than in non-stroke controls. Long-term survival improved steadily over time.

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What is considered a massive stroke?

A massive stroke commonly refers to strokes (any type) that result in death, long-term paralysis, or coma. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists three main types of stroke: Ischemic stroke, caused by blood clots. Hemorrhagic stroke, caused by ruptured blood vessels that cause brain bleeding.

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Can stroke patients understand you?

After a stroke, you may have difficulty speaking. It may also be difficult to understand others when they speak or gesture to you. Reading and writing may be difficult. Your speech pathologist will work with you to develop a rehabilitation program.

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