But, I think, it’s midterms week, and I probably just need to sleep it off and it’ll be fine. Right? So I go to bed, wake up for my 8 am, and the numbness is all worse. Eventually (at like 10 am) I finally asked a friend to drive me to the ER. The ER doctor was horrified that I had ignored a very obvious sign of a stroke for at least 12 hours. It ended up being a complex migraine brought on by, essentially, a caffeine overdose and sleep deprivation. I adjusted parts of my lifestyle (including monitoring my coffee intake) and haven’t had a repeat episode.
Patient here. For six months in 2014, I complained to my family doctor that it felt like I swallowed a super ball and it had gotten stuck and that walking to the mailbox and back caused me such labored breathing that I needed a ten-minute break to catch my breath. I was also coughing up quite a bit of blood from time to time. He was getting annoyed by my complaining and would just keep prescribing steroids
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