6 months post stroke

Hi sue. Not sure how well l can explain but will give it a crack. 

To me me it is chronic fatigue breathing - our lungs are like muscles and it affects me like a tired muscle. Just taking those breaths is tiresome and trying to then push out words is like a fatigued runner trying to run; it’s bloody hard. So you end up not having the strength to take the deep breaths and power out the words; no matter how much you want to. Then once you’re through the cfs hit, you power the words back out. This point is where l really need to focus as this is where the training or retraining is l think. Hope that helps sue. Cheers. Greg

Hi Greg,

That is a really good description of how I found my 'talking' over the years since my stroke.  Some periods of high anxiety I would experience exactly what you describe.  The effort to push words out was so difficult. The effort combined with holding onto the words I wanted to say in my mind to form a conversation.  Ahhh how very complicated communicating has been in the past!

I don't experience this when I am talking anymore and haven't for some time but those times when I did were very confusing indeed. 

Thanks for sharing Greg!! Have  a good day :-)