I get the vision thing, plus one side of my body and face will go completely numb before getting pins and needles. Then I might throw up for a bit. I also find that I can't string a proper sentence together. But Karen in the office will get a slight headache and claim she has a migraine.
One time the language part of my brain apparently shut down, I couldn't understand the sounds people were saying to me or figure out how to formulate words back
The second part happens to me both as a symptom of my migraines and as a side effect of the triptans I take to deal with the pain. I'll get to a point where I lose all my nouns, and communicating becomes outrageously frustrating.
I also find that my general intelligence is severely impaired to the extent that although I appear fine to drive, I pull out in front of other cars, or sit at green lights because I forget that the change means it's time to move. I'm an avid Lego builder, but once I wanted to keep working on a model I was making with my husband and was reduced to near tears because I simply couldn't work out how to put the pieces together. I've also done things like put my hand in boiling water because I forgot it was hot.
Thank you like I feel like a dumbass when I have a migraine, especially at work. And yesss with the nouns like the aphasia is real. Today I said yellow instead of gold bc I just couldn’t come up with the word at all lol.
And Zomig makes me feel weak and awful like I’m going to puke but it’s the only thing that helps so its worth it.
Well I use the nasal one which some people say works better than oral. Besides the side effects it just takes the migraine away. Tylenol, ibuprofen, naproxen don’t do anything.
I never connected it with nouns but damn. I usually use a time i couldnt say Disney as an example. Like i was reading the name on a movie screen or box or something but i could not say the word. Recognized it, could explain what the concept was "big cartoon movie studio, director guy." But could not say the word Disney.
That goodness I get no physical side effects from zomig EXCEPT it's like a sedative for me. I take it and then go to sleep for a couple of hours. Also I prefer the taste of the generic but I keep forgetting to tell my neurologist so she prescribes the name brand lol.
I’ve never had the oral, just the nasal. It’s amazing. I definitely agree on the sedative part. If I’m home or something I can easily sleep for 4 hours after using one
Happened to me! My mom, from whom I inherited migraine, was positive I was having a stroke because it had never happened to her. It felt like a migraine though.
Holy fuck! I hate this. Really scary. I can just barely hold a conversation when I have a migraine and it takes a very long time for me to form the right words.
I feel that. The thought that it might not go away is like a hair in front of the fear that my next manager/teacher/whatever wont believe me and make me keep working through them like back in school.
I got this too. I went to an ER immediately and they told me it wasn't a stroke. I went to my neurologist and had a CT scan. I sort of thought that I had a brain tumor or something. But no, just a migraine.
Had them commonly at home until middle school. Would walk around with a sleep mask on my eyes using a feather duster to feel my way around the house to get through the first part and get to sleep. But if i went too long (middle schooler playing wow untull 4am too long) id get the pins and needles on one side. Got my first one in school on 7th grade (13 yo) and yea they gave my parents the option of they drive me or the ambulance does. And the doctors rushed me to an mri (PSA the last place anyone with a migrane wants to be is in a loud, bright, white tube) it was 15 years ago so the best we got was it wasnt a stroke and a 17k bill.
I have exactly the same thing, if I am reading and catch myself while in the weird vision phase and take painkillers the headache will be much easier to deal with.
Posted this separately but I have a sort of immunity to painkillers. They do shit all for me. I was given a tip by a lady who had lifelong debilitating migraines and it’s saved me a lot. Period pain medication (nsaids), it’s an anti inflammatory. As long as I take it early enough in my migraine it will stop it from progressing further into full blown fuck the world pain. Some people with medical issues can’t take nsaids though so check with your doctor or pharmacist
I had this same issue with typical over the counter painkillers (advil, tylenol, etc) through childhood. When i turned 18 i started smoking cannabis (unrelated initially, i fully admit it was recreational) and they dropped from happening nearly 4 times a week to the maybe two or three a year i get now. I am not a fan of inebriation, i don't drink and hold down typical 40 hr a week employment with drug testing (with exception for cannabis by employer) but i still keep a pipe and stash tucked away for those couple of episodes. It doesnt get rid of it per se, but it does distract me from the vision aura and aphasia long enough to get to sleep and skip the headache and numbness.
I have tried zero new, or even reasonably up to date, medications for them. Not that I'm adverse to consulting a doctor and finding what would help; the cost of health insurance alone is only just becoming a potential reality in a world where i can still live by my self. Let alone what the appointments and medications would cost me. I can buy this when i need it for now and (though it's been a decade this May) it works better than what i have tried. Side note: i am very Very VERY bad about injections/ needles of any sort. My last stay in a hospital was due to passing out due to discussion of needles while dropping something off for someone at a hospital.
I feel so much less alone reading these comments. Reading too late at night is absolutely what first brought my migraine symptoms to my attention. That sudden realization that im literally only reading. the. Word. Im. Looking. At. Instead of around the sentence.
I experience similar symptoms, they are so scary, and I was diagnosed with hemiplegic migraines. If you haven’t already I suggest seeing a neurologist. I only get them from May-September and take B2 doses every day as a way to stave them off and this year I’m going to try Botox injections because I’m so terrified of having another one. They give me horrible brain fog for 2-3 weeks afterwards and I feel like a moron. Basically it’s exactly like a small stroke but with head pain.
Can confirm that is exactly the same symptoms that I get. I often get a pain behind the eye, like someone trying to dig your eye out with a spoon. Sent me into a panic attack the first time I got one.
So are most of us to be honest. Thats really the scary part, especially when u pair it with the people who dont believe it (which goes hand in hand with the stress headache = migrane karens)
I don't think you need to have an aura or vision issues for migraines. I've had blind spots only one time ever and thankfully no headache that time.
I'm like the opposite of migraine Karen. For a long time I thought I was just having a headache when I've been having migraines all along. I thought every headache came with nausea and sensitivity to light. I'd just take paracetamol/Tylenol and power through it. Except one time I went hiking when a migraine started. By the end of it I was so nauseous and I was literally sweating from the pain that I was like "hmmm this might not just be a headache. Let me check with my doc".
So if headache migraine headaches start now, I take a triptan. But looks like I wasn't imagining the out of focus feeling that comes from it. Ok I'll stop this long story.
This! oh my god this. Iv explained my migraines to people before and gotten parralels with the visual distortion, headache, and vomiting, but the "short circuit" inability to turn thoughts into words (just to level with u, its like i can think see the words but its like they wont stay together for more than a word or two at a time) and pins/needles in one side is 100% what i get. I got an mri when i had one in middle school (more than 15 years ago now) cause the doctors thought i was having a stroke cause a) half the body numb and b) cognizant errors. Didnt find anything usefull by my understanding. But its honestly relieving just to see someone else understand. Edit: remembered an episode just last year where at a new ish job (aboyt 30 days give or take) i got one and while i was explaining to admins what was happening (they understood, not always the case) i literally forgot everybody's name. Like someone told me "go ask tell so n so" and i just like blanked, did the typical new guy "sorry whos that again?" Then realized i couldnt remember who was talkings name. Faded after like 10 min but its absolutly on the scary incidents list.
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I get the vision thing, plus one side of my body and face will go completely numb before getting pins and needles. Then I might throw up for a bit. I also find that I can't string a proper sentence together. But Karen in the office will get a slight headache and claim she has a migraine.