I had my first incident with aphasia when I was 14 (in school, I suddenly lost my peripheral vision in one eye and almost completely lost it in the other and what i could see was like looking through a waterfall, i had an intense headache, a sense of being 'disconnected' -when i looked down at my own hands, it's like they weren't mine- and an inability to understand any form of language be it writing (i've read what I tried to write, it's quite funny reading it back), reading, understanding other peoples speech or speaking myself and the scariest was not being able to form worded thoughts- as in when you panic and you do the whole mental 'don't panic, everythings okay'). The first thought of my teacher was that I was having a stroke but when I got to hospital and had recovered enough, they told me it was an aura migraine but only explained the visual symptoms and disregarded the language side (Which had really freaked me out). It's a comfort to find out that it is in fact aphasia and that it's not as dangerous and scary as it seems.
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I had my first incident with aphasia when I was 14 (in school, I suddenly lost my peripheral vision in one eye and almost completely lost it in the other and what i could see was like looking through a waterfall, i had an intense headache, a sense of being 'disconnected' -when i looked down at my own hands, it's like they weren't mine- and an inability to understand any form of language be it writing (i've read what I tried to write, it's quite funny reading it back), reading, understanding other peoples speech or speaking myself and the scariest was not being able to form worded thoughts- as in when you panic and you do the whole mental 'don't panic, everythings okay'). The first thought of my teacher was that I was having a stroke but when I got to hospital and had recovered enough, they told me it was an aura migraine but only explained the visual symptoms and disregarded the language side (Which had really freaked me out). It's a comfort to find out that it is in fact aphasia and that it's not as dangerous and scary as it seems.
January 16, 2016 - 5:35amThis Comment
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