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    • July 3, 2013 at 2:23 pm
    Everymoment
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      Hi,

      Hi,

      So some of you may remember me from a while ago. I had vulvar melanoma stage II clear SNB (5 years ago). That was my 4th melanoma and according to the doctors nothing spread. Last PET was probably 5 years ago and it came back clear. I am now 35. I have had crazy symptoms over the past month and at it turns out I have had a stroke. They doctors have no idea why (I don't have a single red flag for stroke and there has been no stroke in my family) and they say that my symptoms don't match that of a stroke because I am having issues all over. My symptoms are dry mouth, dry eyes, disoriented which comes and goes, shortness of breath, burning in arms/pins and needles, when walking at times I can't tell where my feet are being placed, numbness on face (both sides), sometimes food/water tastes smells weird and the oddest thing is my toesnails have horizontal ridges. I have had an MRI of my brain which shows the stroke and an MRI of my spinal cord which shows nothing. I have had a CT scan of my head which showed a sinus infection and a CT of my chest which showed a very small nodule. I had a nodule about 7 years ago and it's probably the same one. No one was concerned about it.

      So then I started reading. I read an article about a girl whose first sign that her melanoma spread was she had a stroke. Has anyone every heard of anything like this on this board?

      Thanks,

      Everymoment

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