What are the symptoms of a stroke?

Stroke is a common phenomenon. Only by correctly understanding the precursor symptoms of stroke can we solve the problem of stroke in time. No matter what type of disease it is, it needs to be discovered and treated in time so that you can recover faster. Each disease exists independently, and it has its own causes and symptoms. In fact, understanding the causes of the symptoms is the key to early treatment.

Only by discovering the disease in time can corresponding treatment be carried out. The only way to discover the disease is to understand the precursor symptoms of the disease, so that it can be determined in time whether the disease is present. The principle is the same no matter what type of disease you have. So what are the symptoms of a stroke?

Although stroke comes suddenly, there is also a pathological evolution process before the onset of the disease. There is a stage in which the cerebral circulation is slightly disturbed but can recover. Clinically, it manifests as various premonitory symptoms, which often appear a few minutes to a few days before the stroke occurs. In summary, there are four types:

(1) Headache and dizziness, which may be accompanied by spinning vision, nausea, and vomiting. The form and feeling of the headache are different from the past, the severity increases and becomes persistent, and sometimes fixed in a certain part of the body. This is a manifestation of blood pressure fluctuations or cerebral vasospasm, and is often a precursor to hemorrhagic stroke.

(2) Various movement disorders: such as weakness on one side of the limbs, or difficulty in movement, unstable holding of objects, sometimes accompanied by muscle spasms. Although there is no roadblock when walking and the consciousness is clear, the person may suddenly fall to the ground, or want to walk in the middle of the road, but involuntarily lean to the side of the road and become unstable; suddenly slurred speech; difficulty swallowing, choking and coughing; crooked mouth and drooling. There is another symptom called "one and a half syndrome", which is also a common symptom in the early stages of cerebral stroke. It is characterized by the inability of one eyeball to move up and down or to rotate left and right, and the other eyeball cannot rotate in other directions except to move outward. The mechanism is that the extraocular muscles of one and a half eyes cannot move.

(3) Sensory impairment: numbness of the lips, face, tongue, limbs, ear canal, hearing loss, transient blurred vision or blindness.

(4) The individual suddenly changes his/her normal personality, behavior, and intelligence, such as becoming withdrawn and taciturn, depressed and anxious, or irritable and talkative, losing normal comprehension and judgment, laughing or crying for no reason, and having difficulty controlling himself/herself. Sometimes, when he/she suddenly sees an acquaintance and knows who he/she is, he/she cannot call out his/her name, or even the name of daily necessities, and feels drowsy all day long. The last three symptoms may be transient, recurrent, or gradually worsen, and are often precursors to ischemic stroke.

The above introduces the symptoms caused by the precursors of stroke. Only by correctly grasping the precursor symptoms can we diagnose diseases such as stroke in time, so that targeted treatment can be carried out. People who have suffered a stroke will experience different symptom reactions, but as long as there is a method that can help with treatment, it can be tried so that they can recover their health.