5 ‘Silent’ Stroke Symptoms: If You Don’t Notice Them, You Won’t Get Timely Treatment

You’ve almost certainly heard of the FAST scale – it’s still considered one of the best ways to notice when someone needs to call an ambulance. The name of the test is an abbreviation of four words: face (face), arm (hand), speech (speech), time (time). FAST lets you notice the “noisy” symptoms of a stroke.

If a person is asked to smile or show his teeth, a twisted grimace is obtained: the lips on one side will remain “sagging”.

A seated or standing person cannot raise and hold both hands at a 90° angle: one will either be lagging behind or immobile.

After a stroke, speech becomes slurred and garbled: a person cannot clearly pronounce the simplest sentence and sometimes is not able to speak at all.

If you notice at least one of these signs, urgently call an ambulance – the person needs medical help.

There are also less obvious signs – what cardiovascular specialists at the American Vital Heart and Vein Medical Center call the “silent” symptoms of a stroke. “You can have a stroke without even noticing it,” doctors warn.

This situation is very dangerous – a violation of the blood circulation of the brain causes serious damage to the organ, and if a person does not receive the necessary treatment in a timely manner, he will develop serious health problems.

As scientists have discovered, the subtle symptoms of a stroke include:

The doctors at Vital Heart and Vein urge anyone experiencing these symptoms to seek medical attention. “This should be done even if the problems have disappeared and not reappeared,” experts say.