{"id":1269,"date":"2014-06-13T07:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T07:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/self-help-4-stroke-plugin-upgrade.local\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2015-05-29T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T09:57:36","slug":"medication-why-have-i-been-prescribed-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Medication to help reduce the risk of stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bottle_pills_300.jpg\" alt=\"Bottle of tablets\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bottle_pills_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bottle_pills_300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Why have I been prescribed this?<\/h3>\n<p>After a stroke, medication plays a big part in your living a long and healthy life.<\/p>\n<p>Medications are used to help: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>manage your symptoms<\/li>\n<li>improve your quality of life<\/li>\n<li>help reduce the risk of another stroke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the fact that medications are effective people often do not like taking them and do not take them consistently.<\/p>\n<p>To increase chances of taking your medications consistently, you must really understand what they do.<\/p>\n<h3>Why has my dose changed?<\/h3>\n<p>After having a stroke you will most likely be on medications for life. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the prescribed medications start off at a low dose and are then increased gradually over the next few months. People often think that increasing the dosage is a bad sign, but it is routine. <\/p>\n<div class=\"brainwave\">\n<h3>Key point<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Your tablets are an essential part of your treatment<\/li>\n<li>If you are worried about side effects, speak to your doctor or pharmacist<\/li>\n<li>It is very important that you not stop or change the dosage of your tablets before discussing it with your doctor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why have I been prescribed this? After a stroke, medication plays a big part in your living a long and healthy life. Medications are used to help: manage your symptoms improve your quality of life help reduce the risk of another stroke Despite the fact that medications are effective people often do not like taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6862,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/6862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}