Had a stroke!

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Can I give you a little unsolicited medical advice? First have the neuro do a complete workup--MRA of the cerebral vasculature, carotid dop scan, echocardiogram, etc--make sure no stenosis (blockage) or clots. Secondly, after you stabilize and are out of the hospital--have a complete inflammatory workup. Half of people in the US that have strokes or heart attacks have normal cholesterol, no hypertension and no diabetes (which all do greatly increase your risk)--what they do have is arterial inflammation. This causes plaques in the wall of your arteries to become inflammed then rupture into the lumen and then 'the shit hits the fan' (fancy medical terminology there... ). If you don't look for inflammation you won't find it. Up until just a few years ago most doctors did not believe this... now more and more are. At the very least get a VAP (15 test Advanced Lipid Panel), myeloperoxidase, LP-PLA2, oxidized LDL level, hs-CRP and a sed rate. Normal 4 test lipid panels do not tell the whole story--lots of people get lulled into a false sense of security by normal results and think they are doing well when in reality they are a ticking time bomb. Good luck and hope all turns out well...
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Can I give you a little unsolicited medical advice? First have the neuro do a complete workup--MRA of the cerebral vasculature, carotid dop scan, echocardiogram, etc--make sure no stenosis (blockage) or clots. Secondly, after you stabilize and are out of the hospital--have a complete inflammatory workup. Half of people in the US that have strokes or heart attacks have normal cholesterol, no hypertension and no diabetes (which all do greatly increase your risk)--what they do have is arterial inflammation. This causes plaques in the wall of your arteries to become inflammed then rupture into the lumen and then 'the shit hits the fan' (fancy medical terminology there... ). If you don't look for inflammation you won't find it. Up until just a few years ago most doctors did not believe this... now more and more are. At the very least get a VAP (15 test Advanced Lipid Panel), myeloperoxidase, LP-PLA2, oxidized LDL level, hs-CRP and a sed rate. Normal 4 test lipid panels do not tell the whole story--lots of people get lulled into a false sense of security by normal results and think they are doing well when in reality they are a ticking time bomb. Good luck and hope all turns out well...
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Thank you! I have been looking into the "inflammatory process" thing and making a huge change in my diet, exercise and sleep. I'm really thinking this and an extremely high stress period with work and it's results of severe anxiety and depression.

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Thank you! I have been looking into the "inflammatory process" thing and making a huge change in my diet, exercise and sleep. I'm really thinking this and an extremely high stress period with work and it's results of severe anxiety and depression.

Great, glad you're making changes--there is even a lot of evidence that long term, chronic stress itself is pro-inflammatory.