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What Causes Ability To Speak Temporarily With Transient Ischemic Attack?
Question: in February 2013 wrong medicine and collapsed. twice now in a year I have feelings of not being in my body and not connected to the world, during which im not able to speak. im able to think it just not able to say them. this is always temporary. it starts with feelings of being an observer and then I lose my ability to speak temporarily?
Brief Answer:
Possibilities include TIA and seizure
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your symptoms and the current medical problems.
Based on the description, there are two possibilities- TIA and seizures.
In TIA- transient ischemic attack, the blood supply to a part of brain gets reduced for a short while. In this case, the frontal lobe on the left side of brain controls the speech; if the blood supply gets reduced there, you can develop an inability to speak.
In a partial seizure, "speech arrest" can occur in some cases.
Detailed evaluation would require doing MRI brain and EEG.
Both the conditions can be well treated with medications.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology) XXXXXXX Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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Possibilities include TIA and seizure
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your symptoms and the current medical problems.
Based on the description, there are two possibilities- TIA and seizures.
In TIA- transient ischemic attack, the blood supply to a part of brain gets reduced for a short while. In this case, the frontal lobe on the left side of brain controls the speech; if the blood supply gets reduced there, you can develop an inability to speak.
In a partial seizure, "speech arrest" can occur in some cases.
Detailed evaluation would require doing MRI brain and EEG.
Both the conditions can be well treated with medications.
I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology) XXXXXXX Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar
My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in
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