Common Stroke Signs (Most Know) Uncommon Signs (Most Miss)
Face drooping Sudden total blindness one eye
Arm weakness Explosive “worst ever” headache
Slurred speech (obvious) Vertigo + normal ears
Nausea with no stomach illness
Light hurting like never before
Two Stories That Still Haunt Emergency Rooms
David, 52 – Woke up, stood, and the world flipped upside down. Thought he had an ear infection. Took a motion-sickness pill and went back to bed. Massive cerebellar stroke twelve hours later. Today he walks with a cane and can’t drive.
Monica, 48 – Felt nauseated at work, vomited once, then felt fine. Coworkers teased her about pregnancy. That night she lost the ability to speak or move her right side. The ER doctor said, “If you’d come in with that vomiting, we could have saved so much brain.”
Same early warnings. Two different choices.
What To Do The Second Something Feels “Off”
Even if symptoms disappear in minutes — call 911 and say the magic words:
“I think I just had a stroke symptom that went away.”
Paramedics and ER teams treat resolved symptoms as seriously as active ones because time lost = brain lost.
