Hi Leah. I live in Australia, and I always thought that my life pre stroke was one which anybody would be glad to have bee living, albeit it was very fast paced, and not a lot of ME time, but I did not want ME time since I did not, particularly, like my own company. It is, now, 15 years since the stroke, and, although I look like someone who has recovered, the damage the stroke did to my hypothalamus has caused terrible emotional problems that cannot be exercised away. I still suffer from shocking fatigue, and have, within the last year, figured that the stroke brought on Adrenal Failure, and this is what is causing the multiple miserable symptoms, that until now, both I, and ignorant doctors have blamed on the "all strokes are different" scenario. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get a specialist to consider anything excerpt "it is the stroke" so I am still trying to get treatment for the adrenal failure, at present.
I am just offering this to you, for consideration, if you still suffer from the terrible fatigue, which you have likely been advised is a common symptom of a stroke. Yes it is, but not ongoing for years. Looking at your life, and thinking of what mine was, I suspect that both of us may have been heading along the pathway to AF before we even had the stroke.
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Hi Leah. I live in Australia, and I always thought that my life pre stroke was one which anybody would be glad to have bee living, albeit it was very fast paced, and not a lot of ME time, but I did not want ME time since I did not, particularly, like my own company. It is, now, 15 years since the stroke, and, although I look like someone who has recovered, the damage the stroke did to my hypothalamus has caused terrible emotional problems that cannot be exercised away. I still suffer from shocking fatigue, and have, within the last year, figured that the stroke brought on Adrenal Failure, and this is what is causing the multiple miserable symptoms, that until now, both I, and ignorant doctors have blamed on the "all strokes are different" scenario. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get a specialist to consider anything excerpt "it is the stroke" so I am still trying to get treatment for the adrenal failure, at present.
I am just offering this to you, for consideration, if you still suffer from the terrible fatigue, which you have likely been advised is a common symptom of a stroke. Yes it is, but not ongoing for years. Looking at your life, and thinking of what mine was, I suspect that both of us may have been heading along the pathway to AF before we even had the stroke.