I would be very appreciative of some help
on this matter. My father has been
suffering 'attacks' over the last nine
years, with a high degree of regularity.
From the sounds of his symptoms he has
been suffering from tias.
'garbled/confused' speach, loss of motor
function in one side of his body, loss of
balance, diziness.
However I cannot find any information
pertaining to tias of such regularity, he
usually suffers from such attacks every
month (around the same time), but
sometimes once every 2 months - and this
has been going on for 9 years with the
same degree of severity each time.
He refuses to see someone about it,
because he has a distrust of doctors and
he is worried that he will have his
driving licence taken from him, and as he
lives out of town this would seriously
disrupt his way of life.
If you could shed any light/advice on this
matter, i.E. Tia's of such regularity, I
would be able to perhaps convince him to
go and see a specialist about it.
Thanks very much for your time.
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