Symptoms:
- Weakness or total inability to move a body part
- Numbness, loss of sensation
- Tingling or other abnormal sensations
- Decreased or lost vision (may be partial or temporary)
- Language difficulties (aphasia)
- Inability to recognize or identify sensory stimuli (agnosia)
- Loss of memory
- Loss of coordination
- Swallowing difficulties
- Personality changes
- Mood and emotion changes
- Urinary incontinence (lack of control over bladder)
- Lack of control over the bowels
- Consciousness changes:
- Sleepiness
- Stupor, lethargy
- Coma, unconsciousness
Signs and tests:
An exam may show:
- Blood clots in the retina
- Reflex problems
- Muscle weakness
- Decreased sensation
- A bruit (an abnormal sound heard with the stethoscope) over the carotid arteries of the neck
The following tests may be done: