Mini Stroke (blood pressure, surgery, doctor, heart)

[Ming Ming]

My best friend had a Mini Stroke a couple weeks ago. She didn't even tell me when it happened and mentioned it to me causally as if it was not a big deal. She was talking fine and acting fine. She mentioned wanted a tummy tuck and I was like how safe is that after having a mini stroke???

I know she takes adderall, she claims only 5mg to ADHD. She says it gives her energy but I think she is taking more and using it for weight loss because she lost a lot of weight recently. She had a baby almost a year ago and her BP went up to 200/140. They got it down finally but she went off meds claiming her BP was fine.

Now she says she had a mini stroke because her BP sky rocketed! She refuses to talk about it and some idiot doc is giving her adderall. I don't know much about mini strokes, I did some research and it said they are caused by hypertension of clots but didnt say her risk for further strokes or treatment.

She is so vain and I m starting not to trust her doctors. Should I tell her top stop the adderall in spite of her doctor giving them to her still even after the mini stroke? It just seems so odd to me for someone to be taking speed under these circumstances.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Ming Ming

My best friend had a Mini Stroke a couple weeks ago. She didn't even tell me when it happened and mentioned it to me causally as if it was not a big deal. She was talking fine and acting fine. She mentioned wanted a tummy tuck and I was like how safe is that after having a mini stroke???

I know she takes adderall, she claims only 5mg to ADHD. She says it gives her energy but I think she is taking more and using it for weight loss because she lost a lot of weight recently. She had a baby almost a year ago and her BP went up to 200/140. They got it down finally but she went off meds claiming her BP was fine.

Now she says she had a mini stroke because her BP sky rocketed! She refuses to talk about it and some idiot doc is giving her adderall. I don't know much about mini strokes, I did some research and it said they are caused by hypertension of clots but didnt say her risk for further strokes or treatment.

She is so vain and I m starting not to trust her doctors. Should I tell her top stop the adderall in spite of her doctor giving them to her still even after the mini stroke? It just seems so odd to me for someone to be taking speed under these circumstances.

mini strokes can be a signal of what is ahead or can be a one time thing, but it shouldn't affect the surgery; her blood pressure is another issue. All she can do, is be honest with the doctor and take his/her advise. My husband had his first mini stroke about 25 years ago, didn't have another until 3 years ago and hasn't had one since, he is on pretty strong blood thinners; one is relatively new and is working wonders, but of course he can't take them for days before surgery.

[Ming Ming]

I think she told me in the past her BP was normal/low in the doctors office, so probably why they weren't concerned. She does have a history of really high BP but blamed it on post surgery which may have been the case but she also said she had a BP spike with the mini stroke. Sounds like ot me her BP is not being treated properly.

[NCRNStudent]

I'm a nursing student, and I will graduate nursing school is 8 months. Maybe I can clear things up for you a little bit. A, "mini stroke" is called a transient ischemic attack, or TIA. It occurs when blood flow to a part of the brain stops for a brief period of time. A TIA is often a warning sign that a real stroke may occur in the future if nothing is done to reduce the risk factors.

Unlike a stroke, a TIA does not cause brain tissue death, and there are no lasting effects. A TIA may be caused by numerous factors, these include: a narrowing of part of an artery in the brain, a blood clot that travels to the brain from another location in the body, damage to a blood vessel, or a blood clot that forms in an artery in the brain. High blood pressure (hypertension) is the number one risk factor for TIA and stroke. Other risk factors include: increased cholesterol, atrial fibrillation (an irregular heart rhythm), diabetes, family history, increasing age, and race (African-Americans are at an increased risk).

More than 10% of people who have a TIA will have a stroke within the next 3 months.

[jtur88]

I've had several of them. My doctor advised me to take 81mg aspirin daily, about seven years ago (I was in my 60s), and I haven't had one since.

They were very strange. In one of them, I sat down at the computer, and looked at the keyboard, and couldn't remember how to make it do what I wanted it to do. After a few hours, everything gradually went back to normal. In another one, my vision went blurry for about a half a day, gradually coming back to normal.