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What Causes Severe Headache And Elevation In The BP Level While On A Flight?
65 y/o female acute onset during flight. bad headache. face and lips numb,vomiting, pins and needles feeling in legs, cannot sit up leans to one side and cannot straighten up. rise in blood pressure, cannot keep food down. r/o stroke and tia with cat scan and mir. just returned from the Middle East last night. taken off plane and transported to hospital.
Mon, 13 Nov 2017
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Thank for asking,
Really appreciate your concern, your symptoms could be related to central nervous system it may be due to TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack), it could be due to nonspecific reasons, it may be due to wrong or monotonous posture for long time, for the better differentiation CT brain is must and it can only R/O the possibility of cerebral pathology including stroke, hope this information helps.
Thank for asking,
Really appreciate your concern, your symptoms could be related to central nervous system it may be due to TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack), it could be due to nonspecific reasons, it may be due to wrong or monotonous posture for long time, for the better differentiation CT brain is must and it can only R/O the possibility of cerebral pathology including stroke, hope this information helps.
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