Young woman felt like she'd 'pulled a muscle' before suffering rare stroke

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A young woman said she felt like she'd 'pulled a muscle in her shoulder' before suffering from a rare stroke.Daisy Vass, 22, was at a friend's 21st birthday party on the night on Saturday, April 15 when she began to feel a tightness around her chest.She said she didn't think the pain was anything serious and brushed it off.

It wasn't until the next day when knew 'something wasn't right'. Speaking to MyLondon she said: "On the Friday during the day I had a pain in my right shoulder, I just thought 'oh I’ve pulled a muscle' and didn’t think anything of it.

On Saturday I woke up and it was still hurting. But I just put some Voltarol on it and hoped for the best. "We got to my friend’s house at around 4, and everything was fine, and then at seven, I had this pain that went all the way around my torso.

It was like someone had got a belt and really tightened it as tight as they possibly could."It's hard to describe, you know when something is so painful it completely takes your breath away?"So I said to my partner at the time, ‘something’s not right, I don’t feel good, something’s really wrong here’, and then my left arm completely seized up."Daisy said she thought she was having a heart attack and quickly phoned 111, who scheduled an appointment for her at the hospital that evening.However, by this time her other arm had also seized up, but she was still able to walk with assistance.