My son in-law age 26 woke up during the middle of the night with numbness to his entire left side. His tongue and mouth were tingling. He went to the ER and they told him he slept wrong, didn t do any tests. Soon he felt better and they told him to go home. About 3 hours later he got a severe headache and then shortly after started vomiting. He went to work but decided he should go home as he would get a worse headache every time he stood up or bent over. He wanted to go home to sleep said he was tired. Could this be the sign of a stroke?
Hi, Thanks for writing in. From the history, it can be a stroke like condition or an infection relating to the brain. Severe headache and vomiting preceded by a one-sided numbness requires complete investigations including imaging scans like CT scan or MRI scan brain. Sometimes there is what is known as an evolving stroke and this can come with varied symptoms which are often of short duration and improving with time. This might be followed with severe symptoms of similar nature or entirely different symptoms. Severe headache and vomiting are symptoms that should not be ignored, and I suggest he consults doctors at the ER and gets investigated in detail and also do brain scans to make certain thinks are not serious.