# Adventures with TIA **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-tia/761702 "2016-08-04T00:19:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-tia/761702/1 "2016-08-04T00:19:43Z")
I had a little fun this weekend… so much fun that I don’t remember most of Sunday (just like college). Here is what I remember… “this mix is more of a paste than a marinade.” Yup… that is it. I don’t remember going to the grocery, buying the ingredients, following the recipe my wife picked out, grilling the food or eating it. but I for some reason remember that the spices weren’t what I expected. There were probably a few other things that happened but food is the most important (and I’ve been told it was a lazy day and I napped a lot of it). I think it is kind of funny the one little thing I do remember. The next thing I remember I am furious at my son and trying to figure out what he is doing to me. He had me at the ER, and I had experienced a TIA or Mini Stroke. My right side movement and hearing had gone (they came back). I would tell you more but unless you want to hear about 6 hours in the ER I really can’t give you more details. Good news is there is no permanent damage and I’ve got a ton of scans and doctor visits scheduled now so I’m under good care. Bad news is I’m now a high risk for a regular stroke. Maybe I can use this as an excuse for my poor spelling. Yes, I did later apologize to my son (and thanked him). ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-tia/761702/2 "2016-08-04T00:33:06Z")
Glad you are OK **Spud**. Must have been a scary thing. I hope they figure out what to do before anything worse happens. And you now owe your son big time. And never mind about the six hours in the ER. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-tia/761702/3 "2016-08-04T00:38:03Z")
My mother in law had a severe one of those - maybe ten years ago. She’s still with us. Stay on whatever blood thinners the neurologist is recommending. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-tia/761702/4 "2016-08-04T00:48:33Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > And never mind about the six hours in the ER. I can condense it… horrible cable reception but really nice warm blankets. > [@Dangerosa](#): > > Stay on whatever blood thinners the neurologist is recommending. Right now it is just Baby Aspirin… but I insisted my nurse call it “big boy” aspirin before I would take it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-tia/761702/5 "2016-08-04T01:06:15Z")
Been there, done that, got a T-shirt from 1300 miles away. Nothing like keeling over while half the country away from home, on a business trip. Wound up on adult aspirin and Plavix. If offered a choice, Plavix is the way to go, nice and stable, unlike Coumadin. They never said what caused the 3 TIA’s that showed on the MRI, just dropped a stent into the Circle of Willis, and called it done. Biggest PITA was learning to walk again. Now I know why 2 year olds are so pissed. Came out of the whole thing with Ataxia and Neuropathy. And two fist-fulls of meds a day. I figure I have expensive pee now. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-tia/761702/6 "2016-08-04T03:19:40Z")
My doc says I’ve had a couple of them. They were very mild, I didn’t even seek attention, I just told the doc about them later, he said that’s what they were. He told me to take 81 mg aspirin, I figure there is nothing magic about the number 81, so I break real ones up into quarters, close enough and a lot cheaper. That was 20 years ago, and I’ve had no recurrences. They were not associated with another event, which (when I described it later and he saw my wavy printout) my doc says was a mild heart attack. He ran the tests and gave me a stent and told me to go home.