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Speech problems

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AJLang

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Has anyone got any thoughts on this please. My GP has said to speak to my neurologist but he hasn't been very helpful about it. Now that they're increasing it is getting very upsetting. Blood sugars are fine.
2pm THURSDAY March 23rd

couldn’t speak at all for about 2minutes then when I could speak it didn’t make sense in total this lasted about 3-4 minutes then two or three minutes of being able to speak normally then the cycle repeated itself of bouts of not being able to speak, then not making sense and then being able to speak normally repeated three more times over about 15-20 minutes. Everything else was fine and I could type a note to my partner on my ipad even whenI couldn’t speak.

This has happened three times in the last week - even when I'm in the middle of a sentence when I know what I want to say.
Last Thursday 50 minutes
Last Friday 15 minutes
Yesterday several minutes
 
Umm , I don't know much about this area but that is sounding like ischaemic stroke territory. I hope for your sake it isn't.
 
Hi @AJLang. Can't add anything other than to remark that it seems odd that both GP and neurologist seem to be taking it a bit lightly. Keep pressing.
 
I've had a couple of incidents similar to that. Where I either couldn't speak or spoke in a slurred manner whilst otherwise feeling perfectly OK except for a bit of flashing light in my vision. On both occasions hubby called the ambulance and I was taken to hospital where I had a CT scan which proved I had not had a TIA. A third occasion I saw the flashing lights and put myself to bed for a couple of hours. Hubby rang the GPs office and they told him to bring me there ASAP. It turned out to be really high blood pressure (196/110), known as a Hypertensive crisis. Not saying yours is the same at all. Just a thought.
 
Hi AJ, a couple of years back I had something similar happen once, I was typing an email and as I was watching the screen what I was typing was just random letters, it lasted about 2 minutes but I got it checked and they did an MRI and didn’t find anything recent but did discover that there had been some small damage in the past, I was put on ASS Tablets to keep my blood thinned a bit. I spent 3 days in hospital having a lot of tests so they took it quite seriously. An ocular migraine was mentioned as the most likely cause.
I would follow it up sooner than later with a neurologist if you can
 
Thank you everyone. When it happened in March my GP suggested that I contact my neurologist and he wrote back to say that he "suspects" that it's silent migraines and that there was no need to change my medication. When I spoke to my GP about this latest lot as suggested by my GP I have emailed the neurologist again and asked for a CT scan - although I guess that I have to accept that it may be because of the silent migraines. I just wish that I had definitive answers rather than the last letter from the neurologist sayings that he "suspects" that it's because of silent migraines - and that's when I'd only had four of these events in 18 months - now four in six days like the last week (I had another brief bout of it yesterday). I guess I have to hope that it is "just" silent migraines because I'm sure that any other potential causes would be a lot more serious.
 
Fingers crossed for you @AJLang, hopefully it is just the migraine thing.
 
Sorry to hear this @AJLang - hope you can get some answers, and get some reassurance. never nice when it’s something that keeps happening, but you don’t know why. Are they checking for signs of a TIA?
 
Hello Amanda, I`ve had similar turned out to be a problem with my throat, sent to the Neurologist got it
sorted eventually, take care. xxx
 
Thank you everyone. I emailed the neurologist last week asking for a CT scan and he has just emailed me to say that he has arranged one to be on the safe side. I’ve also an NHS speech assessment this afternoon which I am arranged myself. The assessor is coming to my house for the assessment xx
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Sorry to hear this @AJLang - hope you can get some answers, and get some reassurance. never nice when it’s something that keeps happening, but you don’t know why. Are they checking for signs of a TIA?
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No Mike until the email just now no checks had been arranged. Everything has been by phone.
 
Hope this afternoon's assessment and/or the scan give yoi some answers, fingers crossed.
 
Thank you Silentsquirrel and Lucy I‘d been worried about TIA’s but because the issue is intermittent the speech and language assessor was really reassuring. She thinks it’s a combination of the impact of silent migraines and in addition because of those it‘s causing me to be subconsciously worried about speaking which leads to it happening more often. She is going to arrange for an NHS speech therapist to have six sessions with me at home to help me to get my brain working again and I‘ve my first sets of exercises to help with word finding. She also said that it’s good that I have the CT scan for reassurance.
 
Sounds positive!
 
Excellent! My friend gets migraines that function the same way as a TIA - he can be totally paralysed on one side but not actually be having a stroke. Bodies are weird. I asked him about your condition and asked TIA or migraine? "Yes" so fingers crossed it's definitely the latter.
 
Thank you everyone. I'm guessing that with current NHS pressures it will be quite a long while before I know when the CT scan is but I'm definitely feeling more reassured now xx
 
That is very scary, I hope you get sorted asap. They're doing scans in our neck of the woods as from this week, I'm going with my son on Wednesday for an evening appointment to Salford Royal. Maybe you need to mither them a bit?
 
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