[Charla]

My mother is a C3/4 Incomplete from an accident 10 years ago. The past 10 days she has been lethargic, falling asleep and slurring her speech. Three weeks ago she was in the hospital and was non-responsive for 3 days. This is the third year in a row this has happened, apparently from bladder infections. Her sodium was very low which they thought caused the non-responsiveness but the blood and urine tests from last week showed no bladder infection and her sodium level normal so nothing is being done to find out what the problem is.

Has anyone seen these symptoms or do you know of a specialist that can help? She has a family doctor, urologist and a psychiatrist more recently due to these symptoms who thinks it is Seasonal Affective Disorder. These symptoms seem quite severe for what I have read about SAD.

[edlee]

Could also be "mini" strokes. My father got them occasionally with some of the same symptoms. No permanent damage, we were told, but pretty disconcerting while he recovered from them.

They are, however, precursors to the real thing and should be diagnosed and treated as such.

I hope it's something simpler.
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