* facial drooping
* arm weakness
* speech difficulty
* numbness
* vision loss
* severe imbalance
and then feel completely normal again shortly afterward.
This may be a **transient ischemic attack (TIA)**.
A TIA is sometimes called a “mini-stroke,” but the term can be misleading because the event still represents a serious warning that a full stroke may occur later.
Symptoms that disappear should still be treated as an emergency.
## Remember B.E. F.A.S.T.
A simple way to remember several important stroke signs is:
