Blood Pressure?

[rem]

New Year's Eve, I was working at home before going out to dinner. Probably due to the workout of working t home, I started feeling kind of weird. Having already being diagnosed with and being pharmaceutically treated for high blood pressure, I felt that is was high just from a feeling that I get. I went out to dinner and started having cloudy/blurred vision in my right eye. Later a left sided headache started that would not go away and fearing a stroke or something was taking place we were off the the ER as the fireworks were going off at midnight. 4 1/2 hours later, they diagnosed with high blood pressure and blamed it on my body needing a change of prescription. An EKG showed no irregularities. They prescribed perkocet for my pain and sent me on my way. The headache eased with the perkocet but there still remains a slight pressure in my left side felt in my eye and ear. Little pings of pain still happen on the left side of my head. I saw my Dr. Tuesday and was prescribed a different version of the Benicar that was previously prescribed. He gave me a supplemental BP med Metroprolol to take with the Benicar.I do not smoke or drink but know that I'm physically out of shape somewhat. I'm scheduled for a CT scan this Friday but wanted your thoughts.

[Dr. Joshua]

Hi, thanks for your question. Here's the answer:
http://askdoctorjoshua.com/2007/01/04/temporary-vision-loss-and-severe-headache/

[rem]

Sorry about the lack of details. I'm a 41 year old white male. 220 lbs. My week has not been too fun wandering what my problem is. After 2 trips to the ER, 1 exray, 2 CT scans, 2 Dr appopintments in one week, today, a MRI quickly showed an "acute" stroke. The multiple testing events that took place were not (in my mind) enough to get me answers when I had no idea what was for sure happening. The 1st CT scan reported that I had significant brain tissue loss or deterioration. This was disturbing and not much detail was given to me since an MRI was then next on the list to confirm the results. The MRI was nearly a week away and with trying to be on my own crusade, I made another ER trip to another facility looking for more answers resulting in the second CT scan. That was reported to not have any more deterioration than any normal person of my age. I have an appointment Wednesday with a Neurologist to see where we go from here but the thoughts are very strong of an acute stroke. I'm having mostly left sided effects of the following. An average of medium head pain, eye pressure is continuous but not to bad, weakness in the the left arm. Disorientation continuing, confusing or slurring words, continually mispelling or transposing words. In the last couple of days, I've experienced less mobility in my tounge not allowing me to reach back to my further left teeth. I am now getting what I think is better help and I hope that I can recover most of my motor function, coordination etc. back as I've always been a hands on guy fixing all of my own repairs.

Thanks for your response.

[Dr. Joshua]

Thank you for the update. Let us know how things develop.