Another 4 days in hospital and… The cause of my stroke is found. Carotid artery dissection. Hooray!
As you may know, I’ve had millions of checkups of millions of things, I’ve been visiting doctors patiently for the past two years and increased my actions in this field after second stroke. And finally! FINALLY! Some doctors decided to send me to angiography.
And angiography showed a problem. It was conducted by brilliant specialist in the best Polish hospital (I have to thank my friends and my luck here)… But I didn’t expect much. Really I didn’t. I had just slight evidence that this procedure is needed.
My first angio CT scan didn’t small aneurysm or something like that. Something to be controlled, not to be removed.
Now we know that the problem has been bigger.
Actually this dissection is too small to have stent or some kind of balloon angioplasty. The procedure in the neck is very dangerous itself. I got better meds. Bye bye, aspirin!
Angiography is a procedure in which your arteries are the road for a cable with some kind of camera to watch my own arteries! and they weren’t well enough. It could have been the reason of my two strokes. I’m happy that we found out this. The day I had answer has been the happiest one for the past 2 years. I mean it.
And I didn’t eat anything till supper!;) So imagine how huge it is;)
I think i had slightest stroke after that (my face dropped bit more;p but now it’s ok).