Lindsay Lohan's father thought he was ''having a stroke'' at the gym.

Michael Lohan, 52, was rushed to hospital this week when he started to feel extreme pain while her was exercising.

The formerly estranged parent of the 'Liz & Dick' actress was scheduled to do an interview when he felt ill and headed to the hospital to find out what was wrong.

He told Celebrityviplounge.com: ''I was in the gym lifting weights and started to get a really bad pain in my head and I thought I was having a stroke.

''It felt like someone had their hands on my head and were twisting my brain and then I went in and had a cat scan on my brain and it turned out that one of my veins seemed to be having some trouble getting some blood flow through and so they treated that but I have a heart stent and I'm on a hundred different types of medications so they were checking to make sure it wasn't an aneurysm.''

Michael has been admitted into medical care a lot recently but he claims he is well enough to get back to his active routine.

He said: ''It was horrible. It really was. I'm feeling a lot better now. I rode my bicycle and I feel fine.''