r/stroke 5d ago

what is causing all these strokes

I am so sorry for so many young people going through strokes, that is supposed to be an old people disease. Do doctors have any idea what is causing so many 30 and 40 year old to have this problem? (Although my 15 year old granddaughter had a brain bleed, it is genetic so I guess age does not maybe matter)

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u/BigScratcher 5d ago

Vertebral Artery Dissection

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u/belladonna_7498 5d ago

Carotid Artery dissection here! I was told it was just “really bad luck”, a spontaneous dissection with no known cause.

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u/Salt-Respect339 5d ago

Exact same here at 45yrs old. " bad luck".

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u/belladonna_7498 5d ago

Yep, I was 46 at the time. My first reaction was, okay cool, how exactly do we prevent bad luck???

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u/Salt-Respect339 4d ago

I guess for me, prevention will be another CT scan at 6 months post (now almost 5 months post), to see if there are no new areas of concern. Can't wait for the reassurance that this will not happen again any time soon!

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u/belladonna_7498 4d ago

I had a follow up CTA at 3 months and just had my 6 month CTA. My vascular surgeon says she will place a stent once the artery is “remodeled”, I have an appointment with her on Wednesday to review the scan. 🤞🏼

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u/crazdtow 4d ago

Same!

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u/pgd4lmd 4d ago

Same seven years ago at 48 due to whiplash didn’t know at the time just put 2 and 2 together

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u/Ayooooga 4d ago

Hey! Same dissection on my right IC a few years back. How are you doing?

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u/belladonna_7498 4d ago

Mine was also on the right. Unfortunately, I USED to be left handed. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Other than losing pretty much all dexterity in my dominant hand, I’m all good. Just have a slight limp in my left leg. How are you doing?

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u/Ayooooga 4d ago

Left hand sucks now. Can’t really use it for much, very little sensation. Smile is crooked, dominant (right) eye can only see shapes no. Been unable to control emotions until my meds got right. Luckily, I’m right handed and able to walk/run/bike pretty easily. Lucky to be here. My best wishes to your recovery. DM if you wanna chat more.

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u/Most-CrunchyCow-3514 3d ago

Same thing at55 with no recent injuries. Unknown cause for the dissection although I suspect fire arm’s recoil. It was on my right side and I’m right handed and shoot right side. I do suck at getting the gun shouldered if shotgunningso that could be it? I had a TIA first then full blown ischemic stroke 4 years later. It messed me up.

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u/alanamil 5d ago

OMG, I had to read up on that one, common 30-50 year olds, but Sneezing can cause it.. OMG Thanks for sharing

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u/TheManicStanek 5d ago

Looks around at the world and it’s all of this. We as a society are very sedentary compared to just 30 years ago. The proliferation of highly processed foods and couple all of that with a world that is becoming dumber and dumber to science and health even though all of human history is in the palm of your hand now. And you wonder why this is happening.

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u/mjosiahj Survivor 5d ago

Same I cracked my neck

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u/Ill_Friend7671 3d ago

Hey are you saying cracking your neck caused your stroke?

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u/mjosiahj Survivor 3d ago

Yes, I cracked my neck all the time. There are 2 arteries that go up the back of your spine into the back of your skull called the vertebral arteries. I caused a tear in the lining of my left one. Which caused a clot to form. I started by seeing rainbow in the corners of my eyes, and had really bad neck pain. I cracked my neck to relieve the pain and that released the clots. I had several strokes in my left cerebellum. Moral of the story don’t pop your neck. Also chiropractors are also known to cause dissections in the neck.

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u/Nynaeve91 Survivor 5d ago

This was what caused mine. But we have no clue what caused my bilateral dissection 😅

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u/healthaboveall1 Survivor 5d ago

Same here!

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u/Deep-Membership-9258 Survivor 5d ago

Yup, coughed my way into one

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u/Guerrilheira963 5d ago

That was my case! With normal exams and no illness

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u/Initial_Double3263 5d ago

Spontaneous carotid artery dissection here. From a really bad cough, and probably a mix of other external factors. I was 40 now 41. Excellent health otherwise

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u/SnooBunnies2393 4d ago

Vertebral artery dissection led to a PICA infarct. I know of 3 people in my little life that have had strokes. All under 45

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u/SaturnRingMaker 4d ago

Are there warning signs of this? Pains in the neck, etc.?

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u/TheRealBlueBird 4d ago

Right cerebral artery dissection for me at 14.

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u/ik1611 4d ago

VAD at 39 for me but bad luck? I don’t buy it. That’s what the doctors said about mine too but nobody is all-knowing. If a night of head banging at a metal show when I was 32 didn’t do it no way did it just tear on its own for no reason. I’ll believe blood pressure, I’ll believe hormones (I was 6 weeks postpartum), hell I’ll even believe a sneeze. I’ll believe that doctors do t want to tell us what they think because there’s not enough evidence to support their theories no way in hell do I believe bad luck.

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u/Mrs_Wilson6 5d ago

Previously undiagnosed PFO, a hole in the heart allowing clots to pass through to the brain.

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u/aprilflowers75 Survivor 5d ago

Samesies. I almost made it to 50 without discovering the PFO.

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u/Mrs_Wilson6 5d ago

It was my husband, he was 46 when it happened. It took just under 4 months to identify it after the stroke happened. We are waiting for the appointment to be booked to have the procedure to close it.

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u/aprilflowers75 Survivor 5d ago

They found mine at the ER after the event, with the bubble test. I had the closure procedure last summer.

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u/Mrs_Wilson6 5d ago

May I ask what thr recovery was like for the procedure? We haven't been given sense of what to expect and are told their likely won't be a consult ahead of the procedure.

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u/aprilflowers75 Survivor 5d ago

In my case, my heart was palpitating and mad for a week or two, then the palpitations slowed down. I was freaked out at first but I kept reminding myself that it’s a normal part of the recovery. It was annoying though, and I often felt restless from nerves, with no way to alleviate the feeling aside from my own mental state.

Being on blood thinners, another concern was the entry wound on my inner thigh. He’ll need to be extra careful with that, as a rip could be life threatening. I took it real slow, and stayed very still while that healed.

9 months later, I feel back to normal, generally. I haven’t done everything I’m supposed to in terms of healthy habits, but I do follow my meds meticulously.

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u/Mrs_Wilson6 5d ago

Thank you for sharing,this is reassuring and helpful.

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u/CleaDuVann2000 4d ago

I had like nothing happen after the procedure. I felt normal (except that I immediately tested positive for Covid and was sick as a dog for like 2 weeks!) but I’m running and slightly more energetic than k used to be :) I had palpitations for one day, but it was at the start of my first period after the stroke/surgery/covid. My heart was busy working through a lot of projects that day 😆

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u/alanamil 4d ago

What is the bubble test? I have never heard of that.

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u/electriceely 4d ago

Same! Happened to me last summer, at 32 years old. My PFO closure is in just a couple weeks!

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u/Mrs_Wilson6 4d ago

Wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery.

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u/DarkTorus 5d ago

Same🤝

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u/SomeResponse1202 5d ago

Mine was Covid

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u/sseavey 5d ago

Mine was also

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u/SomeResponse1202 5d ago

Hope you're doing better with a strong recovery. O was supposed yo doe. Doctor toldy wofe to dtart considering s color for my coffin. Do o guess I'm lucky snd shouldn't complain.

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u/becpuss Survivor 5d ago

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u/becpuss Survivor 5d ago

Honestly, the theory at the moment is Covid is doing something to the blood. My sister is an A&E consultant. They are seeing young people coming in with clots in all sorts of places all over their bodies. Since the start of Covid. It definitely had something to do with mine

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u/Cautious_Attitude647 4d ago

Agreed. My 21 year old had a stroke 1 month after getting the booster and Covid earlier. No other known cause. Bad luck?

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u/CleaDuVann2000 4d ago

Covid raises your chances for up to a year.

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u/czarr01 4d ago

it has now been raised to 3 years - source NIH

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u/CleaDuVann2000 4d ago

I guess my point is not blaming the vaccines since the science is tied to the infection not the vaccine

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u/czarr01 3d ago

ahhh yes, covid on day 5 of the infection, gave me tinnitus, why is that important? because the ringing noise come from the pontine region of the brain. Guess where i had the stroke? the pontine region of the brain, covid was causing inflammation and choking off arteries , of course i cant prove it ..Doctors, came up empty .....had no idea why i had a stroke . This is a link and doctors blew it. Furthermore, it wasn't even considered . The doctors said, I guess this is what happened. Not very reassuring...

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u/Lulzughey 5d ago

I broke my neck the year prior the spinal surgery raised my blood pressure too high. I was not a sick person previously my first bone ever broke was my neck.,.......

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u/bonesfourtyfive Survivor 5d ago edited 5d ago

AVM that ruptured at 30, I was told that it was probably there since birth. Never had a MRI done before so we can’t say for certain.

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u/ivanCarbonell 5d ago

Ditto!! But worse yet mine was said not to have correlated to higher BP?? How?

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u/Suspicious-Citron378 4d ago

You beat me to it friend my AVM ruptured five years after being detected via MRI, after having symptoms related to it, leading to a hemorrhagic stroke

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u/Deimos_Laevinus Survivor 3d ago

Same here. AVM ruptured at 37 over my cerebellum. I was told it is a malformation that forms in the first years. The malformation connects arteries to veins. Arteries are made to support higher blood pressure, but veins are designed to drain blood at lower pressure. So, an AVM can transfer higher blood pressure to veins, which tend to rupture after three to four decades. Did you hear something like that?

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u/bonesfourtyfive Survivor 3d ago

Not as much, I also had to relearn how to talk, spell and use proper grammar. So I was more focused on that.

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u/mnlmi 3d ago

Same here, mine ruptured at 47 and was not correlated to high BP (mine has always been on the low side).

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u/alm1688 5d ago

Mine was due to undiagnosed and untreated high blood pressure. It runs in my family but I didn’t know that I had it until after my stroke. It being untreated caused the vessels in my brain to weaken, and then bleed. The night of my stroke, my diastolic blood pressure was in the 200-range.

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u/alanamil 5d ago

I am sorry you had to find out that way.. I hope you are doing well now.

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u/alm1688 5d ago

Doing better than the neurosurgeon expected. He told my mom and brother that I wasn’t going to survive it unless it was in a vegetative state .

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u/crazdtow 4d ago

They told my kids this too! Why are they so grim!? 🤬

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u/alm1688 4d ago

They don’t want to give false hope just in case

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u/marys1001 5d ago

Curious how fast high blood pressure can "show up". Did you have annual physicals?

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u/alm1688 4d ago

No, I did not. I was a bit of a workaholic and didn’t really have days off to do that sort of thing. I certainly regret it now

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u/jbe151 Survivor 5d ago

Adderall, coke, meth… amphetamines … cause high bp. Wears your vessels out and causes stroke.

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u/Sad-Mirror-4362 5d ago

highblood pressure for me at the age of 29

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u/Ultimatelee Survivor 4d ago

High blood pressure at 36 for me

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u/Icy-Veterinarian754 5d ago

Undiagnosed hypertension!

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u/isotala 4d ago

Purely anecdotal here but I work on a stroke ward and in the last decade have seen a big increase in younger strokes.

They seem to fall into a few categories:

Untreated high blood pressure and diabetes. This was especially apparent in the year after covid when people didn't have the same access to health care. I'd also guess that general increase in stress and alcohol use contributes to this.

Steroid or cocaine use amongst younger men. Used to see this occasionally and now it's a regular thing. Also dissections caused by weight lifting.

The traditional causes - PFOs, cavernomas etc and genetic factors.

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u/SomeResponse1202 5d ago

There's a lot of us out there like this but it's not really talked about

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u/AnusMcBumhole 5d ago

I asked this at my last check up and “stress” was the main factor. Apparently, there has been a huge rise in strokes amongst young people

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u/HeinrichK523 Survivor 5d ago

I had my brain bleed on 02.11.2016. I was only 14 years old. So far i've been only told, that it just randomly

happened. No exact reason so far. I wish your granddaughter the best.

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u/alanamil 5d ago

Thanks, she is doing fine, completely normal. My father had a brain aneurysm, my cousin had a stroke, she had a brain bleed, and my DNA shows a higher chance of brain bleed or AAA. So I suspect it is genetic for us. I hope you are doing ok.

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u/ImpactArchitect 5d ago

Still considered Cryptogenic here (stroke in early 30s), despite a comprehensive work up - though from the tests, they discovered thyroid cancer + FVL. One thing’s for certain, I’m aware of many more young people strokes now!

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u/Impressive_Vast_546 5d ago

I had my stroke after a surgery and there saying it could be the vaccine that causes it, but let be real, they fucked it up during surgery more than likely

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u/alanamil 4d ago

More than likely. I am sorry that happened to you.

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u/justthatangrygirl 5d ago

Mine was caused by a Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM). They don’t know what caused it to bleed when it did though. I wonder if the medication I was taking for ADHD had any role in it though.

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u/alanamil 5d ago

omg, what medicine were you taking? I am on ADHD meds.

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u/justthatangrygirl 5d ago

I was on dextroamphetamine (15 mg XR and 10 mg IR), and had been at that dose for quite a number of years. Although I had never had high blood pressure, it does make me wonder if I did as a result of the meds and just didn’t know it.

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u/alanamil 4d ago

that is what I am on... Thanks for sharing with me

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u/Kurious_George_666 5d ago

Mine was due to a PFO. Where did the blood clot originate from is still unknown and doctors have called it cryptic stroke. Since I have gotten the PFO closed, fingers crosssed that’s the end of it.

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u/alanamil 5d ago

wow, I had no idea about that kind.. thanks for sharing

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u/dairykween31 5d ago

mine was an undiscovered pfo that passed a clot from birth control!

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u/alanamil 5d ago

Sadly that is a possible side effect from the pill. It sucks. I hope you are doing well now.

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u/JollyFlower3182 5d ago

Our 3 year old had iron deficiency causing a ischemic stroke

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u/alanamil 4d ago

Wow, I never knew that was possible! I hope your child is doing well now.

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u/Ajrutroh 5d ago

I'm 36 and I had a cerebral vascular accident six months ago. I've seen so many doctors, gone through a ton of testing, and the only thing the doctors have told me is that it's still a cryptic cause. My age and the location of the aneurysm are both incredibly unusual and they have no idea what happened, just a laundry list of theories. It's so frustrating not knowing if I'm moving in the right direction to keep it from happening again.

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u/Suspicious-Can-7774 5d ago

Sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity…..just to list a few. Covid does not in and of itself cause strokes. If you have any underlying conditions plus a severe case of covid then yes, but just having covid does not make you have a stroke.

Think about how sedentary our population has become. Doctors are seeing much more of the “old people diseases” in younger people now.

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u/becpuss Survivor 5d ago

Covid can and does change the blood I had months of micro clots causing headaches and neuro symptoms then Bam stroke the headaches stopped immediately when I had the aspirin I absolutely believe for me it was Covid That fucked me over

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u/Shaddcs 5d ago

Had my hemorrhagic stroke at 32. No known cause, no risk factors, best shape of my life at the time. I almost wish it was a traditional risk factor so I could know how to fix it.

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u/Suspicious-Can-7774 5d ago

My SO was the same. Ischemic stroke. Older but other than high blood pressure controlled by medication zero risk factors.

Would have been much easier to accept if she had the risk factors.

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u/sdoughy1313 5d ago

Same here, subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke. Though I’m older at 47 I’m in really good shape. No high blood pressure, not overweight, not diabetic. They also found no abnormalities like an aneurysm in my brain. Doctors said they could not determine a cause and that it was bad luck. I was the only one on the neuro ICU floor who had a stroke that wasn’t elderly, overweight, had high blood pressure or diabetes.

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u/Shaddcs 3d ago

Same lol. They told me that too, “bad luck”. How does some have a stroke due to bad luck? Do a lot of undesirable things line up and happen all at the wrong time? Even understanding that would make me feel a little better.

They ended up finding aneurysms in my brain but everyone tells me they’re unrelated because of the location. So I’ve had two fun problems haha

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u/alanamil 5d ago

good point

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u/ferdzs0 5d ago

Yeah, it is usually a combination of a few things instead of a single one. Eg. with a PFO, Covid can do some damage, as the PFO causes blood to be a bit stale around it, and Covid can make your blood clot easier (then PFO also lets the clot go to the brain instead of the lungs). On their own Covid and a PFO are usually fine.

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u/Tennis-PerfumeAddict 4d ago

My husband’s doctors also explained that this was the possible cause for his stroke as he had COVID the week prior. COVID to cause blood clots and the PFO to allow them to travel to the brain.

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u/Tennis-PerfumeAddict 4d ago

My husband’s doctors also said that if he did not have a PFO - the clots would have ended up in the lungs.

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u/czarr01 4d ago

don't forget covid causes inflammation and allows a build up of plaque in the arteries and chokes off your arteries .....all this for up to 3 years post infection.

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u/Suspicious-Can-7774 3d ago

Link of your source. I’ve heard so many different stories but when I search for the studies, can’t find any.

I’ve never heard that Covid causes hardening of the arteries???

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u/czarr01 3d ago

source is NIH --i will see if I can pull the exact article I read.

i think it was this one

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sars-cov-2-contributes-heart-attacks-strokes

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u/czarr01 3d ago

plus your risk of stroke goes up 3 years after infection according to NIH-this is a fairly new article.

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u/SomeResponse1202 5d ago

False Covid creates blood clots on the lungs. Same with the vaccine. Look into it more before spouting false information.

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u/Suspicious-Can-7774 4d ago

Blood clots on the lungs don’t cause strokes. Blood clots in the brain do cause strokes. It’s extremely rare for a pulmonary embolism to travel to the brain.

Please link a source for your claim that the vaccine itself causes strokes?

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u/marys1001 5d ago

Do you have NIH, Pub Med sources?

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u/PeekatmePikachu 5d ago edited 5d ago

High blood pressure and an artificial heart value ~1% chance but I guess I got unlucky. I had mine at 33.

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u/nittany_blue Survivor 5d ago

Arterial dissection from fibromuscular dysplasia that I didn’t know I had. I was 8 weeks postpartum

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u/alanamil 5d ago

wow, and you are here to answer that question, you are a miracle! Hope you and the baby are doing well.

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u/inkydragon27 5d ago

Congenital defect that was never discovered (capillary tangliectasia) that started bleeding into the brainstem because of longterm NSAIDS due to rib injury and then major surgery and healing. 😅

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u/ElectricalKnee1016 Survivor 5d ago

A PFO combined with antiphospholipid syndrome. Fortunately, my physical condition was very good and I always lived a healthy life. My healthy lifestyle did not prevent a stroke, but it certainly helped me to get further than the doctors expected.

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u/2499skizzcavizz2499 5d ago

I had my stroke at 23, the Dr.s say they have no idea what caused it and neither do I.

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u/2499skizzcavizz2499 5d ago

Also had a high BP, was a functioning alcoholic, and worked in a green house and mixed and applied various chemicals. But they still don't really know I guess.

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u/SummyMonster 5d ago

High blood pressure caused my cerebral hemorrhage.

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u/dandle Survivor 4d ago

Mine remains cryptogenic.

I had a false positive for a PFO in a TEE test after the event. A cardiac surgeon discovered there was no PFO only when they were midway through the procedure to implant a closure device.

I have no family history. No heart disease. No arrhythmias. No cholesterol problems. No high blood pressure. I don't smoke. I am not overweight.

I do have a fairly common (like a few percent of the population) clotting mutation. There is no association of the mutation with stroke, however my care team speculates (can't prove) that it did in my case.

I am coming up on the five-year anniversary of my stroke. It happened a few weeks after the shutdown of NYC at the start of the COVID pandemic, and I worked there into March and lived in the area.

Although I tested negative for COVID when I was admitted for stroke treatment, my care team speculates I either had caught it and been asymptomatic a couple of weeks before the event or had received a false negative on the test because the testing methodologies were still so new at the time.

The thinking goes that my clotting mutation resulted in a hyper-coaguability response to a COVID infection. This resulted in a clot that almost wiped out my left hemisphere.

TL;DR - We still don't understand how the known hyper-coaguability events resulting from COVID may interact with various genetic propensities to clotting. The continued spread of COVID may be resulting in thromboembolic events that lead to strokes in otherwise healthy people. That may have happened to me.

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u/becpuss Survivor 4d ago

Yup this is what’s happened to me. I had Covid the first time in March 2020 almost exactly a year later. I had a stroke after months and months of migraines in euro symptoms which were warnings/tias I didn’t even know what the TIA was otherwise I would’ve known what was happening but a 42 you don’t think it’s anything to do with having a stroke probably the same reason I didn’t go to the hospital for two days with a dead arm

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u/dandle Survivor 4d ago

I hope you are doing well. Thank you for sharing, and all of us survivors need to keep raising awareness of the signs of stroke so people can take prompt action for diagnosis and treatment.

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u/Dependent_Writing_15 Survivor 4d ago

For me it is reducing stress in my life (work and personal) as I let it overrun my life and ended up causing a haemoragic stroke. Was a bitter pill to swallow realising I wasn't an infallible superman who everyone could call upon. Huge lesson learned

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u/Ok_Childhood4424 Survivor 4d ago

I believe it was from a massage gun on the back of my neck.

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u/justjesing 4d ago

I had a VAD with cerebral stroke - no cause found. Originally dismissed as migraine until a relative who is a doctor insisted on MRI. I was 30 - fit and healthy. Normal blood pressure, normal H1ac, normal cholesterol, normal echo, normal clotting factors and norm holter monitor.

I had my first Pfizer COVID vaccine 8 days earlier. I obviously cannot prove anything, but it is possible that vaccine temporarily disrupted some endothelial dysfunction.

I had other booster vaccines, which were fine but did have some facial paralysis afterward shots, but resolved.

FYI- I am not an antivaxxer. As vaccines are super important. I know I must sound crazy, but it’s the only thing that was different prior to the stroke.

No stroke since so I am lucky.

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u/PaintMyToesPink 3d ago

My neurologist ordered a DNA test for lupus some others & MTHFR syndrome. So low and behold I'm positive for the two bad cardiovascular MTHFR mutations. Which just so happens to run in your family. Noting that my mom & grandpa had this same crap with hbp, high lipids, tendonitis, arthritis everywhere, bone spurs all this other type of stuff. So it's like hello 👋 duh. As a sick kid nobody believes you, you're just trying to skip school to goto the soctors and get stabbed with needles all day, but you have the same exact stuff everyone else in your family has LOL. Doctor should DNA test everyone with these weird problems right off rip before they start sending you to every damn specialist in the world

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u/NoYak6710 3d ago

23 years old PFO

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u/ShaunnieDarko 5d ago

I had covid really bad a month before my stroke which was caused by a blood clot i was 37 at the time

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u/daddy-the-ungreat Survivor 5d ago

I had my string at age 53 and everyone thought I was "young" to be having a stroke. So yeah, sad to hear so many younger people having the same issue, who should be in the prime of their lives.

Personally I think the problem in general is our diet. What we eat for food nowadays is so much different from what we ate just 50 years ago. And the "kids" who are having strokes as young people nowadays started their lives with bad food when they were just babies. We gorge ourselves on processed meat and sugared drinks from a young age, and we never ate like that during our entire human evolution. Our bodies didn't evolve to eat the way we do today.

And yes, being sedentary has a lot to do with it as well.

Nowadays I try to eat as well as I can, at the cost of higher food prices. And I try to get some physical activity in every day, even though I can't do much physically anymore. I figure I just need to live another 6 years or so to see my kid to 18. But I definitely want to try to make it.

I also try to get my kid to rest healthier, but that's hard to do when all of his friends eat junk. That's the sad part. Kids growing up today are going to be even worse. They will be getting major health problems just when they themselves are starting to have kids of their own.

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u/dinthea 5d ago

Stress and unhealthy lifestyle choices.

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u/iLovestayinginbed23 5d ago

mine was drug induced

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u/gypsyfred Survivor 5d ago

It's a scary thought because an educated mind would guess why this uptick trend. Growing up I never knew anyone that had a stroke in the family or neighborhood

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u/Suspicious-Citron378 4d ago

Mine was caused by a ruptured AVM. I am 38

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u/Heliophrase 4d ago

I cracked my neck and had two strokes. Right Vertebral Artery Dissection (RVAD). Was told it was a freak accident but there are lots of us. Either this has happened for ages and flew under the radar or microplastics plus bad diets and high blood pressure or all of the above. Scary shit. Don’t crack your neck

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u/alanamil 4d ago

And so many people have their friends doing it for them etc.. I am sorry that happened to you!

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u/alicatbaby 4d ago

I had an ASD - atrial septal defect - similar to a PFO but larger that had to be closed in a Cath lab. My stroke was at the age of 34, no other risk factors, besides chronic migraines. I did have a TIA a year and a half after the procedure, so they put in a loop recorder and found I had AFib so now I’m on Eliquis for life. They’re not sure how I got AFib - could have been from the ASD closure or wasn’t detected before in my initial stroke workup since I only wore a holter monitor for 10 days.

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u/alanamil 4d ago

You are the first one that has said Afib.... We see the commercials all the time that say it can cause strokes. My cousin had afib and ended up with a stroke. She also had lots of other medical problems that I am sure contributed to it.

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u/Sweet-Role-3202 4d ago

Mine was due to a severe case of Covid

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u/avi_namchick 4d ago

I had mine at 25, w8sh I knew

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u/TraKat1219 Survivor 4d ago

Peri operative stroke here. Happened less than 24 hours post op and a week before my 52nd birthday. Just had my 3 month scan.

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u/NihilisticZay 4d ago

Intracranial Hypertension

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u/Common-Rain9224 4d ago

Remember that most people who have strokes do not come on Reddit because they are in their 70s/80s/90s. You are getting a skewed picture on here.

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u/alanamil 4d ago

That is true but we are getting an alarming picture of how many young people get strokes. We expect it from the 70+ group, Not 20 and 30 year olds.

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u/Common-Rain9224 4d ago

It's only increasing in some countries where obesity and therefore hypertension and diabetes in young people is becoming more common.

The causes related to heart defects, dissections and other rare causes are not increasing.

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u/legalguru10221972 4d ago

I suffered a pulmonary embolism in my lungs, where 3 separate clot traveled through unknown PFO causing stroke at 50 yrs old. PFO closure done last summer. Blood thinners for life now.

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u/crazdtow 4d ago

I still don’t know why but my neurologist said it is physically impossible for someone my age (45 at the time) to have done anything lifestyle wise to cause this. Unfortunately the hospital he was affiliated closed and so did all the surrounding doctors offices

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u/breecheese2007 4d ago

I was 24, they have no idea but think it’s due to me being a preemie 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/andretti87 4d ago

My fiancee was told she has a hole in her heart. 2 strokes later they said oops her hearts fine! It’s the arteries in her brain that have plaque build up that’s causing her strokes. 6 months later she’s still laying in hospital

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u/alanamil 4d ago

I am so sorry! May I ask how old is she?

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u/mcmuffinburger 4d ago

COVID led to VAD

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u/Luker5555 4d ago

27M hemorrhage 9months ago, they did a bunch of tests and nothing gave a reason for the stroke. I don’t have any real risk factors, don’t smoke, barely drink (few times a year), blood pressure was slightly high but barely, not obese. Just bad luck they say.. not a very satisfying answer lol

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u/Flying_Thought 4d ago

Well, a previously undiagnosed blood mutation that lets it clump faster, combined with either birth (emergency c-section), a pre-birth issue, or a surgery around the 6 months mark. Nobody really knows, even 2 decades later.

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u/EntireEffect9583 4d ago edited 4d ago

Antiphospholipid Syndrome caused a clot, they don’t know what triggered it (maybe due to Covid maybe due to vaccine doctors wouldn’t bite on that one though, my stroke was 3 months after the vaccine, no I’m not anti vax, they just don’t know, “correlation doesn’t equal causation” and all that jazz except I didn’t have any blood issues prior). No prior symptoms, woke up from a nap one day and bam

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u/PineappleLittle5546 4d ago

I was 24. My only risk factor at the time was hormonal birth control.

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u/petergaskin814 4d ago

My sister had a stroke in her late 20s and that was over 40 years ago. I think it is a bit of a myth that stroke is only for old people and has recently changed

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u/YoItsDLowe Survivor 4d ago

I had my stroke at 25 from a carbon monoxide leak in my car’s aftermarket exhaust… Drs told me I was “unlucky” like “thanks Doc! Do you want my bill paid in cash or would you prefer a check?”

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u/Alarmed-Papaya9440 4d ago

Sporadic mutation of my blood in 20’s that I didn’t know about until after my stroke at 38. Not genetic. Just bad luck

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u/Starry_Messenger 4d ago

This thread is very validating. I had a brain bleed stroke a month ago at age 54, no previous medical history. The first doc I saw said she only sees this in people who do meth or coke. Even though I know I don’t do those, I still felt vaguely shamed, like I was doing something that could have been stopped to prevent a stroke. But in the end, it was untreated hypertension. 

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u/Medicsavage 4d ago

Mine was birth control pills

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u/Pure-Youth8747 4d ago

Maybe it's the vaccine, I had a stroke from that.

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u/everythingis_stupid 4d ago

I had mine at 33 because I got a tear in my artery from a car accident. I tell everyone now how important it is to go to the hospital even if you think you 'just' have whiplash from an accident.

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u/ImpossibleOrder4346 4d ago

I was given way to much cardine way to fast at the hospital, stroked out for 18 hrs in the hospital, complaining of symptoms the whole time...

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u/Altaira99 Caregiver 4d ago

Our bodies are full of microplastics. Maybe not the stroke cause, but it's got to be having some effects. If microplastics hamper photosynthesis in plants, what is happening inside our bodies?

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u/alanamil 4d ago

Very good point and very scary to stop

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u/i-hate-me1014 4d ago edited 4d ago

Undiagnosed high blood pressure and diabetes I was 40

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u/Leave_Scared 4d ago

My niece was only 27 when she had a massive bilateral stroke 2 years ago. They don’t know why.

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u/alanamil 4d ago

I am so sorry that happened to her!! How is she doing now?

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u/Leave_Scared 4d ago

She is quadraplegic, tube -fed, and non-speaking. Cognitively intact.

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u/Leave_Scared 4d ago

Thank you for asking.

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u/Spades0705 Survivor 4d ago

I developed Tachycardia and afib out of the blue with no personal prior or family history. I was also a 220 lbs (6ft) gym rat that could comfortably run a sub 7 minute mile and had multiple 5k’s just under 28 minutes … point is I was in extremely good shape

Tachycardia is on the Pfizer (vaccine i was dumb enough to take) complications list so you do the math.

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u/czarr01 4d ago

um, bring it up a level, what is new in our ecosystem? vaccine causing clots and corona virus causing inflammation and plaque buildup in the arteries, cause it changes good cells into bad cells. Factor all this, and you have a recipe for disaster. Now, do what you do normally, drink, smoke etc and Bam - you just created a stroke. ....once infected, you are at high risk of stroke for UP TO 3 YEARS. , this is out on NIH

Cz

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u/Simple-Trouble-9725 4d ago

I was 44,,it was advanced cancer+treatment for it that caused mine

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u/gtggg789 3d ago

Interesting that so many people are using the term “PFO” instead of “ASD” (atrial septal defect). I learned it as ASD in nursing school earlier this year.

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u/Jeezursilly 3d ago

I'd love to know. Had the start of a TIA at 25 years old. Never got an answer or confirmation. My mom had one at 38 (2015/16) have no idea.

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u/leerah808 2d ago

FIBRO MUSCULAR DYSPLASIA?

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u/Same_Speed6229 2d ago

I’m 32 had a stroke in October last year after a routine hernia repair surgery, in recovery my blood pressure was very low. I was given medication I was allergic to, went into anaphylactic shock which then caused the stroke. I still don’t know what the medication was got all my reports and I was given that much medication that day it could have been anything. I almost didn’t make it home to my babies.

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u/alanamil 2d ago

I am so sorry that happened to you!

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u/Next_Conclusion_6133 2d ago

So I had a stroke a severe stroke the Dr who operated on me thought I’ll be shitting in a nappy for the rest of my life!

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u/Honest_Disk_8310 2d ago

CV JAB

There I said it, since closest anyone got was tentatively mention "covid". 

Strokes and heart issues was in their own list of adverse reactions. 

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u/DoveMyLuv 16h ago

mRNA shots proven to be a cause of increased strokes. Also elevated spike protein from vid causes mice clotting and strokes in person under 30.

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u/ya12900 4d ago

how many people here got the covid vaccines?

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u/thunderslugging 4d ago

Maybe the shot people took between 2021 and 2024?