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"Know Your Strokes: Understanding the Different Types of Stroke"

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[shardechance]

𝖜𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖈𝖍, 𝖎𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚'𝖉 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊?

Teaser Tuesday for the critically acclaimed CORPSE UNTIL SUNRISE coming Oct. 30

[justnoodlefishthings]

Are u okay? Tomorrow I hope u feel better.

the blood vessels in my brain are trying really hard to kill me rn but i cant see a neurologist for like, a month. so im just existing in a constant state of muffled distress and agony

[wolfclad]

ooc . Sorry for the disappearing act, your girl was trapped in A&E hell.

[i-love-tubbs-the-cat]

answering med school insiders polls and getting the right answer is the most euphoric power trip

[nerdgirlnarrates]

The novel I’m reading includes a character having some version of a stroke with a hodge podge of every neuro symptom out there: bilateral upper and lower extremity weakness! Sensory deficits! Dilated pupils! Thunderclap headache! Raccoon eyes! Aphasia! Dysautonomia! This gal’s got it all!

[funwisdoms]

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: 10 Critical Insights for Understanding and Managing This Life-Threatening Condition

This comprehensive guide covers the essential aspects of subarachnoid hemorrhage, from its causes and symptoms to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.Understanding these critical points can help you stay informed and take proactive steps in managing

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: 10 Critical Insights for Understanding and Managing This Life-Threatening Condition Table of Contents Causes of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Aneurysm Rupture, Trauma Symptoms of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Sudden Headache, Decreased Consciousness Diagnosis of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: CT Scan, Cerebral Angiography Treatment of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Surgery, Blood Pressure…

[scratchingworkstoo]

she's not like other girls, she's had a

brain hemorrhage

[olaabuward]

Don’t scroll ,read to the end

Hello, my name is Ola. I’m a Registered Nurse (RN) with a Master’s in Public Health (MPH), a survivor of six wars, and currently trapped in an ongoing genocide. My father was killed, my brother kidnapped, and now we’ve been bombed again, leaving my brother Abood gravely injured.

I wanted to provide an update on our dire situation. After our house was destroyed for the third time, Abood sustained multiple serious injuries. His most critical are a subarachnoid hemorrhage and a globe rupture, threatening his eyesight. We desperately need to evacuate him to Egypt for urgent medical treatment to save his vision.

I had paused sharing about my campaign after the famine crisis, but now we are in an emergency. We need help to get my brother the care he needs to survive and, hopefully, restore his sight

Your support means the world to us. Thank you for standing with us through these unimaginable times.

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[justkidneying]

Cerebral Hemorrhages

The Layers of the Cranium

You have your skin and connective tissue on the outside, then the skull itself. Under that, you have three meningeal layers: dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater. Between the dura and arachnoid maters is a potential space (they technically aren't attached, but nothing is there. Between the arachnoid and pia maters is where CSF flows. The pia mater is basically stuck to the brain.

Epidural Hematoma

This is bleeding between the dura mater and the skull. You might see it if the temporal bone is fractured (or just hit), and the middle meningeal artery is ruptured. I have a whole post on it here.

You get this nice lens-shaped blood spot on a CT, as the blood is tapped between the skull and brain. It can't enter into the folds, just exerts pressure on the brain.

See the CT below. The blood is white (the black is a normal space within the brain, and the black at the top is the frontal sinus).

Subdural Hematoma

This is bleeding between the dura and the arachnoid mater. There are a bunch of what's called bridging veins in your brain that cross the subdural space, and their tearing causes this. The symptoms can start immediately after injury or develop over weeks. As the brain is compressed, you can have headaches, vision changes, dizziness, balance issues, nausea, and weakness on one side. As it progresses, you can see seizures, paralysis (including respiratory muscles), coma, and death.

On CT, this will look crescent-shaped. This is because the blood can move around between the layers and begin to surround the brain.

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

This is bleeding under the arachnoid mater (no shit, right?). This can happen due to an aneurysm rupturing or trauma causing a vessel to break. This is going to allow blood into the folds of the brain, as the pia mater is still adhered to the actual brain tissue. The main symptom that differentiates this is a thunderclap headache. This is a very sudden and severe headache (you should go to the hospital if you get one). The rest of the symptoms are similar to subdural ones, eventually resulting in death.

On CT, you can see the blood in the middle of the brain. Not as interesting looking as the other two, imo.

[childhoodgrave]

struggling to stay awake dehydrated and hungry and sweating and shakkng and my brain is like cough cough wheeze… weneed to draw.. horny… ezrah pictures.. and then i get a subarachnoid hemorrhage anc pass away

[transgenderer]

The Cheese Effect in MAOIs

A number of other MAOIs followed iproniazid onto the market, of which the best known were phenelzine and tranylcypromine. In 1961 there was a report in the Lancet of a patient who had a fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage while taking tranylcypromine. Subarachnoid hemorrhages are uncommon but occur frequently enough to make it al but impossible on the basis of a single case to implicate a drug that someone might have been taking. Reporting such a case in a journal like the Lancet, however, indicates a certain degree of suspicion on the part of the clinicians involved. This was one of seven such cases reported between 1961 and 1963. Some were fatal, but in those instances the subjects were taking more than one drug, making it impossible to finger tranylcypromine.

It also seemed that primary care physicians were noticing an increased occurrence of headaches in patients taking MAOIs. Examination of such patients suggested that some had blood pressure elevations, which could potentially tie in with the subarachnoid hemorrhages. Barry Blackwell, a psychiatric trainee at the Maudsley, drew attention to the possibility in a letter to the Lancet, which caught the eye of a hospital pharmacist in Nottingham named Rowe. He wrote to Blackwell detailing the occurrence of headache and hypertension in his wife, who had been taking a MOAI, after she ate cheese. Could there be something in cheese which cause a problem for people on these drugs? Blackwell and his colleagues were amused at the suggestion and dismissed it, not knowing that some of the American clinical trialists for tranylcypromine had noted headaches as a side effect. Max Lurie even suspected an interaction with the food that people were eating.

Gerald Samuel, working with one of the manfuacturers of an MAOI at the time, was less skeptical than the Maudsley doctors because the company had received two other suggestions of a similar nature. His remarks encouraged Blackwell and a colleague to take tranylcypromine for a week and then have cheese--nothing happened. The notion might have died at that point but that weekend Blackwell was called to see a lady who had taken phenelzine and had developed headache and hypertension--after a cheese sandwich. A patient in the hospital taking tranylcypromine agreed to take cheese with lunch and several hours later developed the increasingly familiar symptoms, as did two other patients in the hospital the afternoon after cheese made its weekly appearance on the dinner menu.

...

The medical profession only began to take the observations seriously when a scientific account could be given for what was happening. Ultimate it was shown that cheese contained tyramine, which appeared in the bloodstream after it was eaten. This could indeed increase blood pressure. The implicated was that the inhibit of monoamine oxidase in the wall of the guy allowed more tyramine than usual to enter the blood stream and hence the problem. The "cheese effect" was born. A variety of other foods were then shown to be problematic as well, including both wine and beer, beans, and other vegetables.

The Antidepressant Era, Healy

[cealtrachs]

Three years ago I was standing over my unconscious mother as she lay in the emergency room. She had just been in a terrible accident, and was bleeding from the base of her head and ear. Multiple skull fractures, multiple subarachnoid hemorrhages, broken cheekbone and eye socket, dangerous brain swelling on her ocular nerve and eardrum.

I didn’t know this, but she was about to be in a coma for three days. I did know, or, was told, that she had a 50% chance of surviving past 48 hours. I was also told that I wouldn’t be able to stay with her - it was the first wave of COVID, I was just incredibly lucky that I arrived at the hospital before they formally admitted her. I knew the hospital chaplain, and asked him to go pray over her. I didn’t feel anything at all - just buried myself in forms, as I was her health care agent, and insurance phone numbers.

This past weekend, my mother and I went to see the movie about the famous University of Washington rowing team. She loves stories about underdog athletes - Miracle on Ice is one of her favorites - and squeezed my hand in excitement during the racing scenes. In two weeks, she and I will visit a new Andrew Wyeth exhibit.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

I'm sorry.

it wasn't a true prank. No one today or for a very long time gives a shit about repaired esophageal atresia or a tracheo-esophageal fistulas that meant that when they put this 13 week prem on a ventilator it forced air through the fistula into the lower half of his unconnected esophagus and then into his stomach and causing a rupture, the stress of which caused a left side subarachnoid hemorrhage and life-long paresis and epilepsy.

It looks like you're in a place where you feel helpless and you have a lot of anger about that. I know how it feels to be in that dark place for decades, but it is inappropriate for you to lash out to strangers online. Especially towards those most likely to feel empathy towards whatever burdens you are currently carrying in life.

I will say again that I hope you find joy and community, but unfortunately I cannot be the one to offer you either.

[cabernet-and-calculations]

Incident Report 12282023, Incident Location: Site-██ On 12/28/2023 within room ███ at Site-██, an MTF team was dispatched to respond to a localized threat that was reported at 23:15:06. Upon arrival, the team discovered the door to the room to be open with two entities recovered from the room (see injury report). Much of the furniture in the room had been disturbed with several items being broken in a manner similar to enduring a blunt force. Upon review of footage, it was deduced that the equivalent of a minor bomb had been detonated within the quarters utilizing Type Blue methods. The individual behind the attack, ██████ █. █████████ of the ██████-██, "██████████ ██████", was spotted fleeing the scene shortly following the explosion and was traced to be attempting to escape through the Northern fire exit where they were caught and apprehended. ██████-██ has not claimed responsibility for this attack, it appearing to be a continued reaction of a splintered opinion forming within the GOI. Further monitoring will be necessary.

[Only visible to anons & muses with O5 clearance.] Injury Report 12282023-A, Incident Location: Site-██, O5-10 O5-10 was recovered alongside O5-12, unconscious. Physical examination showed bruising to the kidneys and spleen, minor internal bleeding, extensive bruising to the skin and muscles, moderate whiplash, and increased aggravation of the left eye and surrounding skin. Upon arrival, bleeding was staunched and its condition stabilized. Cognitive function appears normal, with some minor confusion presenting and severe fatigue. Injury Report 12282023-B, Incident Location: Site-██, O5-12 O5-12 was recovered alongside O5-10, unconscious and in critical condition. In a physical examination, it was determined that the radius of his right wrist had sustained a moderate fracture, the 7th rib on his right side sustaining a moderate fracture with the 8th rib on his right side sustaining a mild fracture, and a fractured skull and subarachnoid hemorrhage as well as extensive bruising across the body. Upon arrival, the hemorrhage was stabilized and the rest of the injuries were administered aid. Cognitive functions appeared to be partially disrupted upon awaking in the evening of 12/30/2023 with the presentation of confusion and agitation as well as lacking significant memory of the day leading up to the event. Motor functions cannot be accurately gauged at this time. More documentation will be provided as monitoring of his condition continues.