Yet doctors (and patients) can overlook symptoms and attribute them to more common causes, such as: stress, drug or alcohol useAlso MigraineAs a result, some the patient never fully recovers“A few minutes are critical when it comes to saving brain tissue and brain function,” said Lloyd Jones.
An insider shared the story of three young people whose symptoms were not taken seriously, what they believed was at least partially due to age. Here’s how they paid the price and what they wanted in return.
A 20-year-old man was sent home from the ER with a diagnosis of migraine despite being unable to walk.
When Xavier Ortiz was playing basketball, some of his fellow nurses noticed his wobbly eyes. They urged him to go to the emergency room, where he met his girlfriend, Natasha Sanchez, told an insider.
But the clinician said it was a migraine, gave Ortiz IV fluids and painkillers, and sent him home, Sanchez said. I had to take it to my car.
The next day, Ortiz began having seizures in bed. An ambulance took him to the hospital, where clinicians suspected he was on drugs. The next day, a second neurologist examined Ortiz’s brain for the first time. brain scanthe family learned that he had suffered a severe stroke and had only a 3% chance of survival.
Ortiz, who lived in New Jersey and graduated from college shortly before his stroke, survived, but was unable to speak, walk or care for himself a year after the stroke. said her stepmother, Jackie Ortiz.
She wonders what would have happened if her husband had taken Xavier Ortiz to the ER that first night. It is his nature to stand up to authority figures such as doctors, According to research, Doctors are less likely to gaslight men than younger people or women.
Jackie Ortiz said: “Maybe things would have been different for us.
Brittany Scheier takes care to eat well and move well after her stroke.
Doctors encouraged Brittany Shire to confess. “They kept asking me, ‘Did you do drugs? Are you okay?’ [if you did],”” Texas-based attorney told an insider.
But Shire, who was 27 at the time, had nothing to reveal except that she had celebrated her birthday at the winery the day before. I ran to and threw up.
“Suddenly I realized I couldn’t move the right side of my body. I tried to get up and I couldn’t. I tried to reach for something and I couldn’t,” Shire said. Her vision narrowed like a pinprick and she screamed for her roommate. Her roommate carried her limp body to her car and took her to her emergency room.
The clinician ordered a CT scan 5 hours after her arrival. Shire had had a stroke. “It was just shocking,” she said.
Shire recovered after months of medication and various outpatient treatments. She couldn’t be left alone as she had to relearn how to drive and her depth perception and coordination were making walking difficult.
“I keep hearing, ‘I was listening to the doctors, maybe they were right,'” she said. But “nobody lives in our bodies. We know when we’re not okay.”
Jenna Goldman (left) recovering from a stroke in hospital and two years later.
Jenna Goldman
26-year-old felt unseen in ER due to age
Jenna Goldman was learning how to deal with occasional but debilitating eye migraines. told an insider.
But one day in 2020, those tools stopped working.Goldman Marketing and Events Expert In New York, he developed numbness on the left side of his body, could not move or speak, and began sweating profusely and vomiting.
“I felt like something had taken over my body and thrown me to the ground. I didn’t know what was going on,” she said.
But in hospitals overwhelmed with COVID patients, Goldman was not a priority. “The lights were so bright, I was in so much pain, I wasn’t drinking water. I was just messing around so badly and no one was going to treat me,” she said. “They just think I’m a girl with migraines.”
The next day, Goldman had an MRI, which revealed he had multiple ailments. Stroke her brain.
Goldman underwent physical therapy for three months, but after more than two years, she still had trouble concentrating, got tired easily, got hot easily, and lost feeling in her left side.
Doctors eventually linked her stroke to birth control pills. increase the risk of stroke — especially among people with ocular migraines.
“If my gynecologist had told me migraines and birth control didn’t go together, I would have stopped anything estrogen-related.
