Hi. Was trying to send this off my email program and its locked up i dont exactly know
why. Copy and pasting it into yahoo directly.. :P

yesterday , i was sitting at my computer and doing.. something. dont remember what right
now. And very suddenly I felt... Like i was here but not here? Im not entirely sure how to
explain it. Like nothing really mattered, and i wasnt really in my body but i was, and
almost surreal. And at first all i knew was that i was supposed to click my mouse. Not that
i was on my computer or at home or anything spacific, just, click the mouse. And i had
some thoughts run through my brain but they were all almost just like.. passing thoughts.
I knew i was supposed to click my mouse and it wasn't clicking, and the realization came
to me that.. well its not clicking because, i cant feel my hand.. why can't i feel my hand..
well i dont think thats good. I thhink that repeated? But it was so.. lala land almost? I
seriously dont know really how to explain it.. then somewhere in there i realized that hey i
cant feel my arm either, I'm not sure if its because I tried to move my arm when i couldnt
mvoe my hand or what but the thought got triggered that it wasnt just my hand.. But i
didnt care it was just like.. a side thought. oh, yeah, k... i dont think thats good.. and then
as suddenly as it was there it was gone and everything was back. a couple minutes later i
got this horrible migriane on my left side, which is where i usually get them.
(to be 100% clear i use the mouse with my right hand , so it was the right side that all this
happened on jus realized i didnt say this spacifically)

The reason it even occured to me that it might be a TIA is because my mom had one in
the left brain a few years back, due to a PFO. I didnt go into ER, the one here is horrible
and by the time i could have gotten in (they dont take anyone seriously unless theyre
dead) i might as well have waited to see my dr this morning which is what i did.
In raelity who knows, the only known risk factor is that i also have a PFO, im only 26, and
eat a decently healthy diet, etc. I saw my PCM today and he basically said, im glad you
have a neuro appnt today or id tell you to get in right away. I wont diagnose it cause im
not a specialist, but my opinion is that it is probably a TIA. So unofficially, thats the
guess... We'll see what the neuro says today i suppose.

-Nina

--- In PFOSupport@yahoogroups.com, Carolina Maldonado <cmaldonado82@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I had a right brain TIA about a year ago. But it all started out with horrible headache
that I thought it was a migraine. And then it was just pain on my right side of my head.
What did you experience? I did not go to the ER right away, I went a couple of days later
when the pain was still there, and they told me right away that I had a stroke. And that I
was lucky that it was on the right side of my brain.
> Carolina
>
> Nina Houston <ninahouston@...> wrote:
> can anyone who has had a left-brain Stroke or TIA please describe it? I had a ..
very unsettling experience a little while ago and its worrying me. Thankyou.
> -Nina
>