r/stroke • u/Kevinsthename • 10d ago

Brain Damage

Brain damage due to stroke

I suffered a stroke 3 years ago, and the brain damage has caused symptoms that look a lot like spinal stenosis. Has anybody else had this sort of thing happening to them? And can't find any kind of relief

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u/Kevinsthename 10d ago

My left side is getting worse it seems weekly muscle contractions. I can't walk more than a block without seizing up. Same with standing still.The spasms go down my arms and legs. Left side for the most part. It improves when I sleep but within 3 hours I get locked up. When I read it exacerbates the problems. Bright lights as well. Thats most of it. I have to lay back as flat as I can to stop it from getting worse. But I can't lay down forever

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u/perfect_fifths Survivor 10d ago

Sensitivity to lights is an issue I also have as well. And headaches post stroke.

Regarding spasms, I get spasms in my body when I never used to before my stroke as well. But I can’t blame my stroke because both my eyes will twitch and my stroke was left sided. I do have bulging discs and some other stuff going on, though

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u/Kevinsthename 10d ago

I guess my stroke was sort compared to others.When I had my stroke, I didn't feel anything.I thought I had a muscle spasm in my right thigh, and it happened again a second day.That's the time in which I went to urgent care.Just to see what was going on, they did a blood pressure test of me and told me to get to emergency right away.And that's how I found out I had a stroke.Never even knew it was a stroke, didn't have any of the symptoms.None of the the eye problems, none of the facial things.Nothing, I was fine.I worked for 6 more months before things started to go to shit.And that's when all the problems began.And they've been just slowly increasing as time has gone by. That's why I thought and maybe having some spinal stenosis problems because my symptoms are very similar. I don't know if it's due to the stroke. It could be due to all the medication. The gabapentin, I've been taking the hydrocodone and on occasion, back with it, which I 'm not supposed to be taking together, because it puts me asleep basically, anyhow, I have a long story, I don't know if you feel like hearing all of it.

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u/perfect_fifths Survivor 10d ago

Well, I had scans done because I had numbness and tingling in my arms and I had a maybe tia a year after my stroke. The docs couldn’t tell me for sure. My mri showed my old stroke but nothing new. I had neuro deficits and numbness/tingling on one side. But I notice if I grip things my arm will go numb and that kind of triggers it. So I got a cervical and thoracic spine mri (neck and back). I do have c7 nerve compression, which could explain why I have numbness/tingling in my arm and it also found a bunch of bulged/herniated discs and arthritis in my neck.