Stroke

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My "warning" sign was different than what's listed.
I had a sudden change in the way sound was perceived. Everything sounded as if I had been placed inside a large tube with ambient sound echoing in a circular manner. It was an environment similar to the many cement walkways or small hallways that we all sometimes walk through.
Immediately after this event, I found myself lifting my left arm and placing my left hand on my right forearm. I could feel my left hand with my right arm but I couldn't feel my right arm with my left hand, which was the give-a-way that I was "no longer in Kansas".
It's been two and one half years since my stroke and since then I have regained feeling in my left side (within 24 hours under hospital care) regained my job as a full-time transit driver and have also qualified for an FAA pilot privileges medical certificate under Section 67.401.
A suspected cause of my stroke was atrial fibrillation due to hyperthyroidism (near-storm phase). The previously prescribed use of Verapamil to slow my heart was cause for much concern by the personnel in the hospital emergency room on the day I arrived with stroke symptoms. The previously prescribed use of Propylthiouracil (PTU) to treat my Grave's symptoms along with my inability to immediately contact my physician to report changes which I had become concerned about (heart too slow) due to limits of insurance coverage to provide such care also played a role in the chain of events that would eventually link towards a stroke.
So then, when it came to warning signs, I could go back weeks of time or even longer.
There must be a better way to describe these events here on Health Channels Forum. The sudden change I went through was not so much a warning but the stroke event itself as it had been in progress. I say this because beyond the cerebrovascular accident (stroke) itself, many other things happened until I was hospitalized 30 hours later. But that's another story.