I thought drink was spiked on hen do..but I'd had a stroke

Scans reveal a problem caused by hole in heart

- KATIE PEARSON

A WOMAN thought she had been spiked on a hen party night out before discovering she'd had a stroke.

Joanna Whitelaw, 27, was celebrating with friends in her home city of Edinburgh when her body "suddenly went numb" and her vision blurred.

Friends rushed her out of the bar, fearing her drink had been spiked, and got her boyfriend, Callum Elliot, to take her home, where she spend the rest of the night being sick.

The following day, Joanna went shopping but grew concerned when the vision in her right eye didn't return.

She was also experiencing pins and needles down the right side of her body, so went to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to get checked out.

Medics were baffled when three CT scans couldn't find anything but an MRI scan eventually revealed that Joanna had suffered a stroke.

Further tests revealed it had been caused by an undiagnosed hole in her heart that required surgery to fix.