Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Worried about Warfarin

I am increasingly concerned about Jo being on Warfarin. She did not suffer an ischaemic stroke but did suffer a brain haemorrhage in 2000, which Warfarin is a risk factor for. As she has one untreated aneurysm that risk factor is doubled.

She has been experiencing; hot flushes, shortness of breath, drowsiness and coughing. The first two are signs of low blood pressure and the second two of increased intercranial pressure. She is also experiencing difficulties keeping her left foot from leaning over to the left, a symptom we have seen before but which had abated post-cranioplasty, which is also the case for the drowsiness and coughing.

After speaking with the Neurological Consultant he agrees and Jo has stopped taking Warfarin.

Posted by Unknown at 09:35

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.