Feeling Dizzy When You Bend Over? Don’t Ignore It! It Could Be a Warning Sign of a Stroke Risk You Don’t Know About.
Symptoms that occur only occasionally, such as dizziness after bending over, may seem normal and often go away on their own. However, for some older adults, these symptoms may be a warning sign of a more serious condition.
Medical examinations may reveal severe narrowing of the major arteries that supply blood to the brain. If left untreated, these arteries can eventually become completely blocked. If severe arterial narrowing is left untreated, it may lead to paralysis and loss of speech.
Arteries Narrow Gradually
Many people may think that a stroke happens suddenly or that a blood vessel becomes blocked all at once.
In reality, arterial narrowing develops gradually and accumulates over many years without obvious symptoms.
As we age, the arteries that supply blood to the brain gradually become narrower due to the buildup of plaque.
This gradual narrowing may continue until the artery becomes partially or completely blocked, eventually leading to a stroke.
What Causes Arteries to Narrow?
- Arterial narrowing is associated with several risk factors, including:
- Being overweight
- High blood cholesterol that is left untreated
- High blood pressure
- Snoring
- Sleep apnea
These factors can affect the health of blood vessels. Over time, they may cause the artery walls to thicken and plaque to gradually accumulate inside the blood vessels.Unfortunately, many older adults experience no warning signs until the narrowing becomes severe enough to significantly reduce blood flow.
What Happens If an Artery Supplying the Brain Becomes Blocked?
The brain controls movement and function on the opposite side of the body. If an artery supplying one side of the brain becomes blocked, the patient may experience:
- Weakness or paralysis on one side of the body
- Numbness
- Difficulty speaking
- Inability to communicate
- Loss of the ability to perform daily activities
The severity of these symptoms depends on the location of the blocked artery, the length of time the brain is deprived of blood flow, and how quickly treatment is received.
Severely narrowed blood vessels, how to treat?
The treatment guidelines depend on the severity, location of the blood vessels, and the assessment of a specialist.
In some patients, doctors may consider using medication to control risk factors, such as antiplatelet drugs and lipid-lowering drugs, including making serious behavioral modifications.
If the blood vessels are severely narrowed, doctors may consider treatment with procedures to help open the blood vessels, such as balloon angioplasty and stenting, as appropriate for each patient. Therefore, detecting abnormalities before blockage occurs is important because it helps doctors assess and plan treatment appropriately.
Preventing narrowed cerebral blood vessels, how to take care?
In addition to treatment according to the doctor's recommendations, controlling risk factors and modifying lifestyle behaviors are important.
You should take care of your health by:
- Controlling weight to be within an appropriate range
- Checking and controlling blood lipid levels
- Controlling blood pressure
- Screening for sleep apnea if there are abnormal snoring symptoms
- Drinking enough water
- Exercising with cardio appropriately and regularly
- Taking medication and strictly following the doctor's advice
Suddenly happening out of nowhere” might not be what you think
When a stroke occurs, many people often say that they were previously healthy and never had any abnormal symptoms, so why did a stroke suddenly happen?
The truth is, blood vessels may not narrow or clog up in a single day, but we just “never saw” that inside the body, the blood vessels are gradually changing and narrowing more and more every day.
Minor symptoms such as dizziness, lightheadedness, or abnormalities that occur with the body should therefore not be overlooked, especially for those who have risk factors for stroke.
Know early, prevent paralysis
This case is considered another example of detecting abnormalities before a serious incident occurs, because if the blood vessels become completely blocked, the consequence could be paralysis, loss of speech ability, and affect the lives of both the patient and family.
Health checks and risk assessments while there are still no severe symptoms are therefore another important option in healthcare.
Because a stroke does not happen “suddenly out of nowhere,” we just may never know that the blood vessels are gradually narrowing until the day a blockage occurs.
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Reference:
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