Stroke: Symptoms
Typical stroke symptoms may include:

• Sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body.
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes.
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination.
• Sudden severe headache with no known cause.
  

Other less common symptoms include:

• Sudden nausea, fever and vomiting - distinguished from viral illness by the speed of onset (minutes vs. several hours or days).
• Brief loss of consciousness or a period of decreased consciousness (fainting, confusion, convulsions or coma).