My mother whom is 75 and very very health consicous had a extreme onset of confusion Tuesday. She started having an eye pain, then confusion, speech was highly impaired and it was very difficult for her to get accross anything, severe headache. Again this was sudden. She would type on facebook and text and everything was a mess. She thought she needed to go to the eye doctor because she d been having eye heatlh problems which she has to receive shots for. She hasn t had a eye injection in three weeks now. When she arrived there she did not have an appointment they called an ambulance because she wasn t making any sense! She knew something was wrong and drove to the eye doctor with her hazards lights on. She arrived at the hospital ER and they immediately performed a cat scan and MRI which showed no signs of stroke . She arrived at hospital at 2
first thanks for giving a nice history of events what all happened. Your mother is a 73 yr old diabetic, hypertensive, n had high cholesterol;but she was healthy n keeping fit. With these risk factors for stroke, sudden onset of headache with eye pain, confusion n impairment of speech with EKG confirming atrial fibrillation any neurologist will first think of embolic stroke to brain vessels from heart or a form of transient ischemic attack TIA) n that's why she was put on blood thinners. But in old age electrolyte disturbances like low sodium, potassium,magnesium can also lead to acute confusion n sometimes severe Chat Doctor. TIA would have resolved or the electrolyte disturbances would have been corrected.hence she regained consciousness.