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Female Over 60
Interview 05  

Interview 05

Age at Interview: 71
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 26
Background:

Brief outline:Discovered following pregnancy.


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Describes how she has suffered from years of migraines and has had three mini strokes.

 



Palpitations are horrible because the heart beats so fast and it's quite irregular, it's jumping here and jumping there and then it flutters and then it goes away and then comes back again. It's not very pleasant, especially if you're lying down and you want to go to sleep, and you hear that thumping in your head and you can't get rid of it.

I also used to suffer from migraines for years and years and I often thought afterwards that I wonder if that was anything to do with blood pressure before I knew about it. I had them for 20 something years, dreadful ones where I used to have an injection for it sometimes and about every month, or every 5 weeks, I would not be able to go to work because my head was dreadful. I feel there's a lot of pressure there that needs to disperse but it won't, it just hangs about there. And I think when you get to bed and you can't lie on either side because this thumping goes on and on, and so you eventually lay on your back, and then once you turn over it starts all over again.

I have had three mini strokes, and when my husband was alive- I can't remember when this happened- but about 5 years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night and I found I was hanging over the bed. I didn't know at that time that I'd been unconscious so I couldn't get myself to move, I couldn't get myself to think or anything and that's not like me.
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