Anyone with stroke problems more than 1 yr ago?

[sara12345]

Anyone functioning well enough to answer, to discuss your coping with stroke deficits that have remained for a year ago or longer.  My stroke was more than 3.5 years ago and I still have some resentment about everything that I can't do.  I would like to get a better attitude about it.  But either way you are handling it, it would be helpful for me to hear about anyone else who still struggles with problems.

I feel that hearing from someone who is in the same position as I am, would be the best therapy for me.
Thanks in advance to anyone who answers this.

Sara

[sara12345]

Yes you were young, but people younger than you have strokes.  Mine was at age 56 and it was a major one.

[Dreamylyn]

what ages are some of you when you had your stroke if you dont mind i was 29 my first big one then mini's came after and to my knowledge it's been least 3 years since I've had any.

[Dreamylyn]

i had a stroke in 1994 an several mini strokes. i understand your being frustrated healing takes a long time. the best advice i can give is from my own experience. trial and error after i took matters into my own hands. the first mistake was going on a low fat diet the dr recommended. i died an 2 hours later they finely got me back to stable an put me in ccu. .. memory long and short term memory was effected was over a year before i learned what the potato masher was for in my kitchen drawer didn't know to use it or what it was for an my family yelled at me for repeatedly asking same questions over an over so i stopped asking what things was or how to use. i watched to learn and paralyses didn't last i was walking when i left the hospital... my best advice is to think positive and believe your body knows how to heal it's self same as if it was cut on the outside it heals it will do the same inside. give it what it needs in nutrition an you will see improvements my recent use of saturated fats incredible my memory is improving and my joints feel better i dont have the body pain like i did an all this thanks to saturated fats. this dont mean eat lard like ice cream... lol ... you can get these fats from meats coconut oil avacados so add your butter to ya veggies an so on think an cook like grandma... mine put bacon an pork fat an ham hocks in beans an veggies when she cooked them. gramps had bacon an eggs or sausage every morning for breakfast drank raw whole cows milk had a shot of whiskey before bed each night an a small slice of cheese then went to bed. they always had a garden to eat from luckily i asked one night why he ate the cheese he told me to protect his teeth. recently i learned about oil pooling in the mouth to prevent an cure cavities i guess he knew something bout it that didn't get passed on in main stream health practices. do your best good foods cant be beat add lots of fruits an veggies in smoothies.. the only supplement i'm on is cellfood DNA RNA  its the one that regenerates healthy cells. also i did post a summery of my stroke in a journal on my profile if you want to read or have questions you need a good few years to repair the damages but healing is something you can achieve over the years. cellfood research shows it ups the oxygen levels in the blood as well it's 78 minerals enzymes an amino acids there's several formulas to choose from that one also is cell repair is why i chose it. to me the less than $50 price for the month is cheap for the health benefits Ive received. research is easy now you have a subject.. so research natural healing try things log how you feel after a few months some changes happen fast in days some is over time even years so be patient with yourself you will get well.. eat well grow a garden if even just a few pots of salad greens or spinach greens loaded with chlorophyll excellent nutrition. hope this helps.

[charliephony]

george never refer to yourself as a stroke victim we are stroke survivors, did you have a crainotoctomy to relief the pressure off your brain, i had one two years ago now, but the site on my head still hurts, does yours hurt, please let me know.

[charliephony]

hi sara i had my stroke back in january 2012, like george i had pressure on my brain, had the surgery which still hurts up to this day, i have made lots of improvements, but it is still hard, we just have to keep on pushing, knowing it wont always be like this, even this sickness has  an expriation date, it will end, just hold on while there is life there is hope, everyday that we wake up we are closer to our healing.

[sara12345]

You sound like you've got a great attitude and are coping very well.  If you're like me, which you may not be, you may have other medical problems that will come about in the years to come.  So don't give up on any help out there such as physical therapy or a neurologist if you can't find a way to deal with it.  Wish you well.  Sara