#Ischemic attack

[antxnous]

Is Caesar’s model supposed to have that half smile or am I crazy

[naomiknight-17]

Since I've been studying medical terminology, I sometimes sprinkle it into my regular speech both for practice and fun. Because I am a nerd

So usually, if my brain is tired and I can't make coherent sentences, I would say "I can't do words" or something similar

But now I say "I am experiencing an acute transient aphasia" which basically means the same thing, but makes me practice science words

The other day I was visiting Mom's place, as I do at least twice a day every day to care for her diabetic cat, and I was really stressed and tired and couldn't keep up conversation

So I tried to use my phrase, but I was so foggy I just kept going "I'm having an acute... a transient... uh... transient..."

And Mom, who works in medical administration, goes

"... ischemic attack?"

"NO I AM NOT HAVING A STROKE!!"

[lament387]

HELP I- 😭🩸 On my first day Of school I decided to have a transient ischemic attack and new bluds yelled "WOW MINISTROKE" and i introduced myself (i have a hematologist voice lol) and they all got a brainbleed

[familythings]

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[trendykun]

Recognize the Signs: How to Act FAST to Spot a Stroke and Save Lives

Introduction to Stroke Awareness

Stroke is a medical emergency that occurs when there is an interruption of blood flow to the brain, causing brain cells to die. Recognizing the signs of stroke and taking immediate action can save lives and improve recovery outcomes. The importance of stroke awareness cannot be overstated, as timely intervention can mean the difference between life and death, or between full recovery and permanent disability. Read more....

[missnikkiann]

Recently, I was on our Twitter friend LupusChick's podcast:

Empowerment in Illness.

I was able to tell my story, and, hopefully, that testimony about my Progressive Illness may help at least one person.

LupusChick was my first Chronic Illness and Spoonie friend on Twitter (back in 2007, when it truly was "Twitter").

If you don't know what a "Spoonie" is, you can research: The Spoon Theory.

LupusChick and I found so many Twitter Spoonies who were living with very aggressive illnesses while we all were trying to maintain a peace that surpassed our own understanding.

Being debilitated by illness can be very isolating; LupusChick had taken me on as a little sister.

When I wasn't at my modified "best" (Spoonies get that!), she took it upon herself to fly from one end of the country to another, just to boost my spirits and ensure that I would definitely be okay.

Before I end, I want to mention something that often gets lost in the chronic healthcare circus: caretakers.

The information we provide is just as important for those tending to the chronically ill, as it can be a disorienting and overwhelming task for us veterans, let alone those dealing with newly diagnosed loved ones and patients. I'd suggest caregivers find and read: The Spoon Theory. It's a quick read and gives the most essential information that is needed from day one.

Lastly, I thank you in advance for showing patience with those patients whose illnesses cause cognitive issues.

I have a degrees in English, Political Science, and Business Management; I also did my Masters in Journalism, but my illness doesn't care about those accomplishments and is determined to deteriorate whatever "brilliance" I once had with words. So, many mistakes will be made and handled without much fuss (to do otherwise would only trigger more of my determined mini-strokes).

Be good.

Be patient.

Be in the moment.

~MissNikkiAnn

LupusChick's Twitter:

https://x.com/lupuschick?t=yL3F0lvlF-tt6JwBSwl6RQ&s=09

[ricisidro]

#Heartdisease is the main cause of death in the #Philippines from January to September 2023, according to Philippine Statistics Authority. (PSA). There was a total of 85,192 cases of #ischemic heart disease or 19% of total deaths within the given period.

https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/636317-heart-attack-alone-explainer

[fkra4furniture]

Understanding Transient Ischemic Attack

A transient ischemic attack (TIA), also known as a mini-stroke, is a temporary disruption of blood flow to the brain. It occurs when a blood clot or plaque buildup briefly blocks an artery in the brain, leading to a temporary loss of blood supply and oxygen to certain areas of the brain. Despite being temporary, TIAs are often a warning sign of an impending stroke and should be taken…

[willowfae82]

my mom suffered a stroke the other day. she's in the hospital, for probably the next week. if y'all could think healing thoughts her way i'd appreciate it.

she's 76 and has other neurological issues, so. not entirely unexpected but still.

[txhospitals123]

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[politicalantibody]

SIGNAL BOOST!

If we truly had a Liberal media, they would be all over this like flies over an orange turd!

I can't believe the lack of coverage

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Amnesia

References (Types; Causes, Symptoms; Treatment; Prevention)

Amnesia—the partial or total loss of memory.

The inability of an agent to retrieve memories that would normally be retrievable.

The loss may be temporary or permanent.

Amnestic disorders - a group of disorders that involve loss of memories previously established, loss of the ability to create new memories, or loss of the ability to learn new information.

2 Types of Amnesia

Retrograde Amnesia - To the loss of memories made prior to the onset of amnesia. Often occurs in conjunction with head injury and results in erasure of memory of events or information from some time period (ranging from seconds to months to the whole of a person’s past) prior to the head injury. Over the course of recovery and rehabilitation from a head injury, memory may be restored or the period of amnesia may eventually shorten.

Anterograde Amnesia - The inability to recall events or facts introduced since the amnesia began (i.e., the inability to retain new memories). It is more common than retrograde amnesia. Although individuals with anterograde amnesia have difficulty with the establishment of memory from that time at which the amnesia started, they may clearly recall events that happened before the amnesia began. It is possible for a single individual to have both anterograde and retrograde amnesia depending on which part of the brain is damaged.

The diagnostic manual used by clinicians, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, lists 3 classifications of amnestic disorders:

Amnestic disorder due to a general medical condition

Substance-induced persisting amnestic disorder

Amnestic disorder not otherwise specified

Dissociative Amnesia

Part of a different group of disorders, the dissociative disorders.

It manifests as an inability to remember information that is personally important but possibly traumatic or stressful.

Previously called psychogenic amnesia.

This disorder can arise in a person of any age.

The memory impairment in this disorder is reversible, and memory loss can be of several types:

It can be localized - the missing memory covers a defined period of time, or

it can be selective - only bits and pieces of a situation are recalled.

There are also 3 less common types:

generalized (memories covering a lifetime are missing)

continuous (memories are missing from a specific time period up to the present)

systematized (only memories from specific categories of information are missing, such as the names of family members)

Other Types

Transient Global Amnesia - Causes delirium (a period of waxing-and-waning confusion and agitation), anterograde amnesia, and retrograde amnesia for events and information from the several hours prior to the onset of the attack. It has no consistently identifiable cause, but researchers have suggested that migraine or transient ischemic attack (TIA) may be the trigger. The individual experiences sudden confusion and forgetfulness. Attacks can be as brief as 30 minutes or can last up to 24 hours. In severe attacks, an individual is completely disoriented and may also experience retrograde amnesia that extends back several years. While very frightening for the individual, transient global amnesia generally has an excellent prognosis for recovery, with no lasting memory deficit.

Childhood Amnesia - Coined by Anna Freud in the late 1940s, refers to the fact that most people cannot recall childhood experiences during the first 3-5 years of life. It has been suggested that this type of amnesia occurs because children and adults organize memories in different ways. The differences are based on the brain’s physical development and communication among the different areas of the brain involved in developing memory. Others believe children begin remembering facts and events once they have accumulated enough experience to be able to relate experiences to each other.

Causes

Amnesia has multiple causes.

Most cases are traceable to brain injury related to physical trauma, disease, infection, and drug and alcohol abuse.

Example: In Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, damage to the memory centers of the brain results from chronic use of alcohol coupled with malnutrition.

Infections that damage brain tissue, such as encephalitis, also can cause amnesia, as can stroke. Other causes include various types of dementia (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease), traumatic brain injury (e.g., concussion), accidents that involve oxygen deprivation to the brain or interruption of blood flow to the brain (e.g., ruptured aneurysms, near-drowning), tumors in the thalamus and/or hypothalamus, and seizures.

Sometimes procedures such as surgery or ECT can produce amnesia.

Dissociative amnesia is thought to be of psychological origin, caused by a psychological disorder or trauma.

Symptoms

Symptoms of amnestic disorders may include:

difficulty recalling remote events or information

and/or difficulty learning and then recalling new information.

In some cases, the individual is fully aware of the memory impairment and frustrated by it;

in other cases, the individual may seem completely oblivious to the memory impairment or may even attempt to fill in the deficit in memory with confabulation.

Depending on the underlying condition responsible for the amnesia, a number of other symptoms may be present as well.

Treatment

A neurologist and/or psychiatrist may be involved in diagnosing and treating amnestic disorders.

Depending on the underlying condition responsible for the memory deficit, other specialists may be involved as well, such as occupational and speech and language therapists may be involved in rehabilitation programs for individuals who have amnestic disorders as part of their clinical picture.

Traditional Treatments

In some cases, treatment of the underlying disorder may help improve the accompanying amnesia.

In mild cases of amnesia, rehabilitation may involve:

Teaching memory techniques.

Encouraging the use of memory tools, such as association techniques, lists, notes, calendars, and timers.

Memory exercises may be helpful.

There are no specific drugs to treat amnesia.

However, treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, such as donepezil (Aricept), are being studied to see if they may also be effective in treating amnestic disorders.

Prevention

Amnestic disorders are preventable in so far as brain injury can be prevented or minimized. Common sense approaches include:

wearing a helmet when bicycling, horseback riding, or participating in potentially dangerous sports;

using automobile seat belts; and

avoiding excessive alcohol or drug use.

Brain infections should be treated swiftly and aggressively to minimize the damage due to swelling.

Victims of strokes, brain aneurysms, and transient ischemic attacks should seek immediate medical treatment.

NOTE

Although memory loss is often the earliest sign of a progressive dementing disorder, it is important to remember that memory loss need not be a harbinger of dementia. Therefore, it is recommended that a patient with memory change should be carefully evaluated to rule out treatable causes of the memory loss.

It should not be assumed that memory loss is just a part of normal aging.

Sources: 1 2 3 More: Writing Notes & References ⚜ On Anatomy ⚜ Memory

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved on our archive

By Stephanie Soucheray, MA

Full vaccination against COVID-19 protects recipients from serious cardiovascular disease linked to COVID-19, according to a new study in the European Heart Journal.

The findings come from a review of more than 8 million adults in Sweden who were followed up in national healthcare registers from the end of December 2020—when COVID-19 vaccination began—until the end of 2022.

Among the 8,070,674 adults included in the study, 88.5% received at least one dose of vaccine, 86.9% at least two, and 67.9% three or more. There were 1,668,508 new cases of COVID-19; 40.3% occurred before the first dose of vaccination, 3.7% between the first and second dose, 34.3% between the second and third dose, and 21.7% after the third dose.

Outcomes included inflammation of the cardiac muscle or the pericardium, cardiac arrhythmia, heart failure, transient ischemic attack (TIA), and stroke.

Individual vaccine doses linked to increased risk Overall, vaccination was associated with decreased risks of cardiovascular disease by about 20% to 30% compared to no vaccination.

The authors note, however, that some cardiovascular effects have been seen after individual doses of the vaccine, especially among older men.

There was a 17% higher risk of extrasystoles, or extra heart beats, after dose one and 22% after dose two. While the overall the risk of stroke was lower in vaccinated people, there was an increased risk of TIA.

"It should be noted that for outcomes showing slightly increased risks (myopericarditis, TIA, and extrasystoles), the incidence rates were generally lower than for the other outcomes that showed decreased risks," the authors said.

"The increases in cardiovascular risk we saw following COVID-19 vaccination are temporary, and do not apply to the more severe conditions," said study author Fredrik Nyberg, PhD, in a press release from the University of Gothenburg. "On the other hand, full vaccination significantly reduced the risk of several more severe cardiovascular outcomes linked to COVID-19, such as heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. This emphasizes the protective benefits of full vaccination."

[angiethewitch]

me: yeah life is going great right now im selling art and I really enjoy my job and things are looking up

life: WRONG! transient ischemic attacks 😈😈😈😈😈😈😤😤😡😡😈😈🔪🔪🔪☠☠😈😈

[contentment-of-cats]

Thrawn, age, illness, and injury.

Ahsoka talk below.

Fandom can be shallow and disappointing. First up, it's possible to dislike the representation of the character without shitting all over an excellent actor whose body of work is more than Disney can bound with contracts and Filoni's scripts. Disney got a full on smack in the face with Jon Boyega (who like Kelly Marie Tran got the shit end of the stick in 2 out of 3 of the sequels), you can bet that there are NDAs and 'you can't say mean things about us even if they're true' clauses.

Mostly I want to talk about age, illness, and injury and the way that people take it as a personal insult to their existence.

Let's start with the man himself. According to the Official Timeline (because everything eventually gets retconned and there is no actual canon) Thrawn was born 59BBY. He was 59 (two years older than I am now) when the space whales yeeted himself and as yet unknown other ships into the dark. Counting forward from the official timeline, he is at the very least 68 years old. He was in exceptional shape before the space whaling, yes. And no, he is not fully human, but is 'near human' - the Chiss evolved from human origins, their blue color explained in canon by something in the Csillan hydrosphere.

But let's look at this.

That is pain.

I'd guess about a 7 or 8.

Those tentacles are tight enough to hold him still, the twisting could induce torsion injuries to the spine and pelvis, cause spiral fractures to bone, dislocate joints, and compress/crush organs. Even with my Chiss physiology headcanon, I can't see anything but pain, crushing and twisting injuries, possibly with internal bleeding.

Additionally, I think that there could have been some kind of brain injury. While some of it could be the makeup and the lighting (or unlighting as the case may be), I think that the droop of one side of his mouth could be from nerve damage somewhere. My mother had a droop like that after a 'baby stroke' - transient ischemic attack.

He and Ezra were alone on the bridge, and he shot Ezra. Further, I can't see Ezra doing anything to help Thrawn after the credits roll. Once those Imps break through the blast door, he's going to be lucky to survive the fist minute.

In the great in-between that moment and the new canon?

So Thrawn, at the end of nine years is not just nine years older, but has managed to get his ship operable without a shipyard, not starve to death after the two years of consumables were gone, and not die of his injuries. (I've posted my theory that the survivors went into coldsleep to preserve the supplies.) Filoni has retconned bacta treatment into a magic potion - except when it isn't. The man is so inconsistent and wishy-washy that I could drive a 1960 Cadillac Eldorado through the smallest plot holes.

Y'all were expecting the buff blue daddy after all that. Elon Musk and 'dad bod.' I get it though, a lot of people invest in the concept of youth and health, go to extremes to hold onto it, even worship it - and denigrate the people who visibly age, are ill, or injured, or disabled. So many of the posts about Thrawn's portrayal in Ahsoka carry the stench of ableism and ageism. As for hating the character for his portrayal, blame Filoni instead.