slurred speech 
dillygirl
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I am a 48 year mother of two. Since May I have been experiencing trouble with my speech and ability to chew food with ease. The symptoms have gotten much worse since October and I now sound as if I´m drunk. It is extremely difficult for me to speak clearly and I find that at the end of the day I am exhausted from just working on my pronunciation. I often gag when brushing my teeth and sometimes when I take a sip of water or anything liquid it comes back out. Recently the thumb on my left hand has become weak - I literally cannot zip up my coat with the left hand or undo buttons or buckles with it. I also have noticed that I have a lot of tics on my body. At the moment I have one by my rib cage.
I have been to a neurologist, who ordered an MRI - it came back clear. I have also been cleared of Myasthenia Gravis. I was then sent to the speech therapy department at the hospital and they sent me back to neurology. I am scheduled to have another MRI with color contrast.
I have no pain, but I am getting more and more depressed. I am a teacher and my students have begun to notice my speech problems.
Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts?
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- Re: slurred speech UserX
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This is a reply to # 1,311,609Yes, that is part of my story before I found out about nerve interference and chiropractic. I had the symptoms you mentioned, plus the feeling of water dropping in my eye at times, my right side was weak. Even my tongue, while I too had the difficulty with speaking it had the drop of water feeling too, and on my right foot. There were more symptoms, pain in my neck, all mainly on my right side. etc. It seemed like stroke symptoms but I knew it wasn't that. I had heard a little about chiroptactic and so I asked at the local HFS for a recommendation. I went, I wound up with a wonderful chiropractic doctor. He took x-rays did some tests and told me what was wrong. I began having treatments and he completely healed me of every symptom. Plus he caught the fact that I had candida and dealt with that with standard process supplements. I felt like superwoman after about a year of seeing him. Of course it was pretty often in the beginning, less often later. It was the best and most healthy period of my life. I was about 30 and it motivated me so much that I went on to become a chiropractor. I quit seeing him when I began chiro school and in subsequwnt years he passed away. I kind of let my healty habits go in more recent years and I have some health issues to deal with again. But, I am 51 now.
I highly recommend that especially since you've been through the medical route that if this next test turns up negative also, that you seek out a chiropractor. If you have used one in the past and had no real help, find a better one. As in medical doctors there are great ones, mediocre ones and bad ones. Good Luck to you!
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- Re: slurred speech peggyaus
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This is a reply to # 1,311,631Slurred speech can be a precursor to stroke.
When my dear mother had a stroke last year she had classic signs of stroke for months, but noone picked it up. Wish I had known of the classic signs of stroke before it happened. Now she is on Warfarin. She has lost sight in one eye.
I would be asking the doc about this, and research ways of preventing stroke if you think this may be a sign.- Re: slurred speech Hveragerthi
16 y
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This is a reply to # 1,311,775Warfarin (Coumadin) is a nasty drug. It not only interacts with numerous foods (greens, ginger, vanilla, cayenne, etc.) and drugs, it also greatly increases the risk of death from hemorrhage and hemorrhagic stroke. Something the doctors fail to mention to their patients.
- Re: slurred speech peggyaus
16 y
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This is a reply to # 1,311,817Yes Hv.
My mother is 80 and listens to conventional docs and docs only. I too worry about her diet now which has no greens in it at all with her commencement of Warfarin; not to mention the risk of falls and wounds scares me to death. She already has had a couple of falls.
- Re: slurred speech peggyaus
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- Re: slurred speech Hveragerthi
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- Re: slurred speech peggyaus
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- Re: slurred speech Hveragerthi
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This is a reply to # 1,311,609First thing that comes to mind is a stroke.
Bell's palsy or some other viral infection is also a possibility.
How soon before you have results on the second MRI?- Re: slurred speech #38782
16 y
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This is a reply to # 1,311,816Yes, like some other posters here, I too thought of the possibility of a stroke in the making.... Here´s some info I have from a previous poster, re identifying a stroke and immediately being able to react appropriately - hoping you wont need it.... Getting a good chiropracter to do a check up with also sounds like very good advice!
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
o S Ask the individual to SMILE.
o T Ask the person to TALK to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (coherently... i.e. It is sunny out today)
o R Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke. If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 911 immediately!! And describe the symptoms to the dispatcher
- Re: slurred speech #38782
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- Re: slurred speech Insight
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This is a reply to # 1,311,609I'm no expert in these matters, but the first thing that comes to mind is cayenne pepper. It increases blood flow, and apparently people have stopped heart attacks and strokes cold with this pepper. If it has the strength to do that in the midst of an attack, it definitely has preventative powers against these and other deteriorations.
Also look into vasodilation therapy. I've heard some good things about it.- Re: slurred speech Hveragerthi
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This is a reply to # 1,312,164Not a good idea in this case. She is on Coumadin (Warfarin) and cayenne pepper will potentiate the blood thinning effects.
Also to prevent stroke damage the stroke must be caught and dealt with within a 3 hour period. For example, ozone therapy given within this time frame has been shown to reverse any damage from strokes. After the window though the enzymes released lead to permanent damage.
- Re: slurred speech Hveragerthi
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- Re: slurred speech UserX
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