Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Symptoms: Let's talk about it.

  Amyloid Spells: What are they? This is a term that I only recently became familiar with. If you do an online search you will probably come up with something like this   Amyloid spells, also known as transient focal neurological episodes (TFNEs), are brief recurrent neurological episodes that can occur in people with CAA.   They can mimic seizures or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and are often misdiagnosed. Amyloid spells are caused by the deposition of amyloid-beta protein in the walls of blood vessels in the brain, leading to vessel fragility and potential neurological events.   So .... this explain s a lot. My husband's new neurologist   explained these at his last appointment. When asked about what signs and symptoms he had experienced since the last appointment we discussed: Days when his memory appeared to be worse than usual Difficulty writing and/or reading Sensory changes in his face and arms Additional confusion when confronted with tasks Repo...

  The first major stroke caused by CAA One night two years later, my husband was acting sort of strange. He was very quiet. Didn’t say a lot. I asked if he was Ok. I even asked if he was annoyed with me. He said no but didn’t say a lot else. He was due to go out that night to see a film with some friends which he did (driving half and hour there and half an hour back). When he returned home he seemed OK. The next day he just didn’t seem to be himself. Still quiet, said he had a bit of a headache and was tired but that he was OK. I had a funeral to attend some distance from home (I needed to go and there was not enough to make me think I should stay) but I just felt in my gut that something was not right. I rang him a couple of hours later, he was not making any sense in his speech and I could not understand what he was trying to tell me. He also sounded very confused. I immediately thought that he’d had a stroke, I called a family member who lived locally who went around to see ...