Learn The Warning Signs of Stroke
When you are having a panic attack you may think you are having a stroke. Here are the signs of stroke, so you can test and differentiate the symptoms between stroke or panic attack.
Early Warning Signs and Symptoms of a Stroke. The various symptoms of a stroke are elaborated.
A stroke or brain attack is a medical condition that demands quick medical attention. It happens that many strokes do not cause severe pain and due to this there is delay in treatment and considerable brain tissue damage.
Stroke symptoms:
When brain cells are deprived of oxygen, they do not perform the usual functions. The area of the brain that have been affected and the amount of brain tissue damage decide the symptoms. Small strokes do not result in any symptoms, but cause damage to the brain tissue. Such strokes accompanied by an absence of symptoms are called "silent strokes". The symptoms of the stroke come on in a minute or an hours. There is generally no pain accompanying these symptoms. The symptoms may appear and disappear or disappear completely or become worse in a span of a few hours. One third of all the strokes take place during the sleep. Hence, the symptoms are noticed after waking up. The different symptoms of a stroke are as follows:
- weakness in the arm or leg or both on the same side : there may be a mild weakness or total paralysis. A total numbness or a pins-and-needles feeling may be present on one side of the body or part of a side.
- coordination problems : stumbling is possible or there may be difficulty picking up objects.
- weakness in the muscles of the face : the face may droop or look lopsided. There may be slurring in speech as it is not possible to control the movement of the lips or tongue.
- dizziness : there is a feeling of being drunk or dizzy or difficulty swallowing.
- difficulty speaking : speech may be slurred or while speaking the words won't make sense.
- sudden headache : there is a very sudden and severe headache.
- vision problems : there may be double vision, loss of peripheral vision or blindness.
- loss on consciousness : the person may become unconscious, stuporous or hard to arouse.
- sudden confusion
- difficulty walking
- vomiting
- dizziness or lightheadedness
- sudden loss of balance or coordination
- numbness, paralysis or weakness on one side of the body
- seizure
Signs of a TIA
For many people, a stroke has no warning. However, a possible sign of an impending stroke is a transient ischemic attack (TIA). This is a temporary interruption of blood flow to a part of the brain. The symptoms of TIA are the same as that of a stroke, but they last for a small time which may be some minutes to 24 hours. These then disappear and do not leave apparent permanent effects. A TIA shows a serious risk that a full-blown stroke may follow. The symptoms are as follows:
- when oxygen to the eye is reduced, there may be poor night vision. About one-third of TIAs are characterized by temporary lost vision of one eye.
- If the cerebral hemisphere is affected, the patient can feel problems with speech and partial or temporary paralysis, numbness, tingling and drooping eyelid generally on one part of the body. In case the stroke injuries are on the right side of the brain, the symptoms are seen on the left side and vice versa.
Types of strokes
There are two main types of strokes:
Ischemic stroke : In this the blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked. Due to this oxygen and nutrients reaching the brain cells are blocked. These cells begin to die in a few minutes. Due to atherosclerosis, the plaque can restrict blood flow in the artery or lead to a blood clot that can block the flow. When a clot or other small piece of material lodges in an artery in the brain, it is called an embolic stroke. Irregular heart rhythms lead to such embolic strokes and these are preventable.
Hermorrhagic stroke : A blood vessel within the brain leaks or ruptures causing a intracerebral hemorrhage. High blood pressure is the prevalent reason of intracerebral hemorrhage. In a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a small bubble on an artery causes leak under the lining of the brain.
By Abhay Burande Published: 10/5/2007
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Like depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this may be another condition in which stimulatory pathways are out of balance with inhibitory pathways. Although pathology is caused by an imbalance of opposing stimulatory and inhibitory pathways, overactivity of a stimulatory center (as seen in a complex partial seizure disorder) is a less common cause of pathology. More commonly, there appears to be a failure of normal inhibitory (or feedback/counter-regulatory) control.
Panic is triggered by a perception of imminent harm. There is a rapid acceleration of the alarm reaction. Thus, individuals with the illness of panic disorder find this pathway triggered too readily by events that may not warrant such a level of alarm. The counter regulating mechanisms fail to dampen the speed of acceleration of the alarm reaction. Any fear can potentially trigger a panic attack in a sensitized individual. Once someone experiences panic attacks, there is then fear of the cues associated with triggering the panic attack, as well as a fear of the attack itself. Once fear is triggered in a susceptible individual, they are increasingly sensitized to the fear and the vicious cycle of fear, which ensues. This process occurs in multiple systems simultaneously. The fear of the panic attack or the fear of the fear is often greater than the fear of the cues, which are associated with triggering the attack.