How straightforward has your "stroke journey" been?

I'm new to posting a new topic so I hope I'm doing this correctly. On 17th August my husband had a 'turn' at work and his boss drove him to the nearest medical centre. She says now she wished she'd called an ambulance but she thought he looked distressed and she was trying to keep him reassured. Apparently his vision went blurry, he wasn't able to work and he didn't speak back to co-workers normally, went sweaty and grey coloured. When he arrived at the medical centre his blood pressure was 220/120 or something close to that. By the time the ambulance was called he'd been given GTN and his blood pressure was about 160/120. The first doctor he saw at emergency informed him that they could do a CT scan but it wouldn't show anything so they were going to send him home. We were kind of ok with that on the day because we figured it was an isolated thing, and he'd be ok with bp medicine (that his GP started him on the same day). That isn't what happened and he's had a lot of symptoms and neurological symptoms / changes. About 2-3 weeks after the incident at work a general physician specialist diagnosed that he'd had a TIA. A week or so after that he was finally referred to the stroke outpatients clinic, who he saw today. They pronounced without questioning him, or even asking for his story of what happened that he had not had a stroke or TIA. They said his continued headaches were 'new migraines' OR 'migraine equivalents' OR his sleep apnoea OR Vasospasm. None of which he remembered. His recollection was to relay to me that "they told me my high blood pressure and blood pressure medicine was causing all my symtoms"Thats all he took out of what they'd had to say. The other 'reasons' I got from the junior doctor who called me back this afternoon. She could not answer to me why symtoms they blamed on blood pressure occurred 2 weeks prior to his medication beginning (he had new medication added after 2 weeks). She couldn't explain to me why symptoms she blamed on extremely high blood pressure were occurring even when his blood pressure was within the 'normal' range. Basically the entire appointment didn't add up at all. For instance when I asked her whether they'd bothered to investigate their theory about high blood pressure causing the sudden onset headaches, her reply was that my husband hadn't offered the information to them that the headaches occurred even when his blood pressure was ok. Again I had to point out to her he's having trouble communicating, and did they ask him outright? My other favourite part of most of those reasons is that his symptoms came on suddenly, he has had most of the underlying other problems for a long time with no significant, unmanagable impact on his life. Now he can't function without a permanent headache! Is it always this difficult? I am not asking for a response from others about our specific circumstances, the level of detail is just a bit of a vent tonight, however I am truly interested in whether this is a common occurrence - do people float around in no man's land regarding treatment when they don't tick the boxes correctly? I would be quite fine if my husband hasn't had a stroke, terrific - but why was he not referred for more investigations to follow up their wild and varied 'diagnoses' of the cause of his problems?