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

Symptoms may not look like a stroke My husband woke up one morning feeling a bit dizzy when he got out of bed. He started to vomit soon after and couldn’t keep anything down all day. I assumed that he had some sort of gastro. The vomiting continued and I was concerned that he was becoming dehydrated. So, I took him to hospital. Much to my surprise the A & E doctor, after examining him, was doubtful that it was gastro-intestinal in nature and was of the opinion that he’d had another stroke. The CT scan showed nothing and he was kept in hospital over night, given some anti-nausea medication and hydration, and discharged the next day to have an MRI a few days later. The MRI (his first one for a couple of years), revealed that he’d had a stroke in his Cerebellum (hence the vomiting and reduction in balance) and a further six recent strokes in addition to many more microbleeds since his last MRI. The radiologist was somewhat perplexed given the number of bleeds and it took him a long ...