Following your doctor's and pharmacist's orders after a stroke is crucial to controlling the conditions that could increase your risk of another stroke.

Why Not Comply
Many stroke survivors are patients for the rest of their lives. They remain under a doctor’s care, taking medicine and living with dietary, exercise and stress management prescriptions. Living this way is called “compliance” or “adherence.” It means “doing what your doctors tell you to do.”

Quick Tips for Following your Treatment Plan
Success is a team effort. We want you to be successful in following your doctor's recommendations.

Clot? Not!
Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapies are at the heart of preventing recurrent strokes. Although neither antiplatelet nor anticoagulant drugs can break up a clot (that’s a job for tPA and other clot busters being tested), both types of drugs are effective in keeping a clot from forming or stopping the growth of one. A lot of antiplatelets and anticoagulants are available to stroke survivors, and it helps to understand them.