Migraine/numbness?

I am glad to see that I am not the only one with this. I had my last attack this week. I have complete numbness on the left side, my mouth, poor vision in the left eye. The head pain follows. It feels like I am having a stroke. It is very scary. They started about 2004. I have been to several doctor but cannot get any kind of answers. I also "funny" afterwards like tingling in my left arm and face for a few days. Does anyone else experience that? I am also having some sharp pains in my head afterwords for a few days. Thanks for any help.

I'm also very reassured to hear that there are so many people who get this sort of migraine!  I've been having them since a teenager (i'm now 36) and they were worse when I was pregnant.  Strangely I also had migraines immediately after giving birth! 

I start off feeling a little strange and then my eyesight is affected - often I can only see half of objects and faces.  The numbness then usually starts, normally in my hand or arm on one side and then it seems to travel up to my mouth, lips, tongue, gums, throat etc.  My leg/foot are sometimes also affected.  I get the sensation that my voice is echoing in my head as I speak and I too have experienced difficulty with speech and thought. 

Once I tried to telephone a relative to tell them I was unwell but just couldn't get the number right even though I know it off by heart.  I tried to look it up in my address book but just couldn't find their name.  In hospital I was trying to tell the midwife that I was getting a migraine and I kept calling it a miblaine - I also couldn't tell her my name properly. I used to get a lot of nausea and vomiting also but can manage this better now.  I make sure that I eat a piece of toast immediately when I get the initial symptoms and 2 paracetamol.  Generally I start being sick if I have an empty stomach and take paracetamol.  As long as I have eaten something the nausea and vomiting doesn't generally take hold and although I feel a bit groggy for the next few hours, the headache doesn't become too severe either.  The other key is to rest.  Sometimes the symptoms disappear after a little while so I start to do things (once I even went to work - big mistake) and then it comes back. 

I hope that my experience will help some of you to manage your migraines too!

i am 17 years old and today is my first migraine on the right side of my head, but before the numbness came i had a slight headache and then came home from work took one Exedrin giblet. after i took it my tongue went numb, then the conner of my left eye, the my left hand. (i have with the other four migraines have hand my left hand go numb and my lips but it has never been on my right side of my head.) also i haven't had flu like symptoms or chickenpox's. so do i have to worry about Reyen's syndrome? and is there anything i can do to prevent them from happening?

Does any one know if playing sports can cause a migraine? im like scared because i get the same exect migraines as you guys but i had never actually thought about it so i ask my self can running cause migraine? im asking this because one day i went to go play soccer with my buddies yet that they it was the first day of a cold front so i was playing rite as soon as i got home i just set down at the living room and bam i got the migraine so i could ask my self from what did i get sick of? was it because of the playing soccer part or was it because i was sweating so much and it was so cold and suddenly just got in side my house being it so warm? i don't know would any one know how to answer this??

I was so happy to read this forum. I am 27 and for the last two years I have had about 6 episodes of strange numbness. It starts in my right hand and moves up my arm sometimes.. Then goes to my lip, tongue, palate and jaw. It has freaked me out so much. However after about 20 mins it just disappears. I had one two days ago and then straight after I got a terrible migraine. I have been asking doctors what this is for ages and no one seems to know. It was only recently where one doctor said it is a migraine. I couldnt beleive i found this forum with people with exact same symptoms. what a relief.

  ive never heard of numbness associated with migraines before but the other day my foot went numb n at first i gnored it but when i stood up both my legs wnt an immedietly after the numbness travelled up my legs to my arms then my face an eve my tongue i managed to stand up then kept bumping into things an my brain felt really muddled an i couldnt spell or even get the right words out i became really scared at this point but bout half hour later all the symptons started to go an i suddenly felt a massive stabbing pain behind my left eye and then i got the biggest most painful migraine ive ever had it lasted hours i have never had anything like that before although i have had migraines thats all i am very glad im not the only one this has happened too because i was very frightened it cld be a barain tumour or my biggest fear having a stroke does anyone know what its called?

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Loxie,

You are now suffering from classic migraines, which I suffered from since I was 15. Just this past year, I was hit with the far scarier and more unpredictable version with no visual aura and the crazy stroke like symptoms described by others above. Classic migraines are at least predictable and quickly treatable. In the past year, I have been to the ER three times. I just was released today, after 3 days, and no diagnosis. Most doctors, paramedics and medical personnel thought I was a bit nuts and thought "panic" attacks were the answer. I have suffered from them in the past and knew that was not the case.

They admitted me as a cardiac case and ran countless heart tests on me - wasting a ton of money...though at least I know I have a healthy heart. Then I forced the neurology issue and I am glad I did. Not that they figured it out...I waited for hours today to be released, for the neurologist to tell me that my brain MRI looked normal except for some white spots that indicate migraine. He said nothing about Hemiplegic migraines. One of my best friends, whom is a family care doctor in the area, asked me what was said and when I told him, he said that it sounded like I was having atypical migraines. He said it explained the other 2 episodes I had experienced this same year. I started researching and I ended up on this site.

I was driving home after dropping my son off at school on Thursday morning and was on a bridge with no where to pull over when I felt this sudden out of head experience...my eyes felt very tired and heavy and I just knew I was going to black out. I started talking loudly to myself and shaking my body to stay awake (must have looked like a sight). It was about 3 minutes, that seemed an eternity, before I got to a spot where I could pull over. At this point, my hands and lower arms went numb and cramped up. I had to shake them for about 5 minutes to get them back to normal. Then I decided to drive the five minutes to home...same talking to myself and shaking myself thing as before. When I got there, I was shaking uncontrollably and my eye was twitching. I didn't know what to do, so I called 911. The paramedics got there and as I thought they would, tried to convince me it was a severe panic attack, but they took me in anyway...and so ensued the 3 days of testing until my doctor friend called it and I started researching. I am actually excited and relieved to know that I am not crazy and to find out what I can do to start treating or preventing it.

Anyone else experience anything like that?

Hey, I had my first migraine with similar sounding symptoms just yesterday (I am still feeling some of the symptoms as I type this). I am a 20 year old male with no previous history of migraines or even really bad headaches. However, the main difference between myself and most of the other people who have posted on here is the order in which the symptoms occurred. Yesterday morning I woke up with what could be described as a moderately painful headache. Nothing that was too far out of the ordinary (I chalked it up as just being the result of dehydration). Anyways, by the time I got out to work, which was an hour and a half drive because I live in the middle of nowhere, my headache has escalated so much that it was already one of the most painful headaches I had ever had. I waited at my work truck in hopes that it would just pass, but I was very sadly mistaken. The visual auras was the next symptom. I was getting very dizzy from all the blurriness and squiggly lines. After about 2 hours of that, is when the numbness began. It began in my left arm, and eventually both my arms, both my legs, my chest and my mouth and tongue went completely numb. Not knowing anything about migraines, I was very confused and concerned about what was happening to me. The next to follow was the loss of speach. I could not form any coherent sentences. It was so frustrating being able to picture the words and sentences in my head but being completely unable to produce the correct sounds. Anyways, eventually I got a two hour ambulance ride to the nearest hospital, vomitting well over 30 times in the process, just from the migraine alone. 7 hours in the hospital later, the doctors believed that this was the work of a very extreme migraine. I even got the CT scan like a few other people on here, and I even got a lumbar puncture spinal fluid tap. If anybody else goes to the hospital for a migraine like this, make sure u get the morhpine. Trust me, it makes everything a lot better.

I see this was posted almost a year ago, but I am hoping someone can reply.  I too started having left side facial pain with a severe migraine that just knocks me down.  The pain is so intense I feel like my face and head are going to explode or implode.  The eye does not hurt but the temple area and in front of my ear hurt horribly.  Yes, I too get the tingling numbness sensation on the left side of the face and my tongue.  No one has given it a name yet but because of the 5 and 7 cranial nerve involvement - the doctors say this is Bell's palsy.  I have had 3 attacks in the last 4 weeks.  Yesterday was the worse I got a Morphine shot to ease the pain.  I started Lyrica last night and Vicodin for the pain.  The pain has eased up or maybe it feels that way because my mood right now is numb - but the pressure and hearing sensitivity is still there.  I did well on steroids - but once off the pain came back. Anybody else going through something similar?

I had classic migraines for about  5 years (age 20-25).  For about the last 15 years (age 25-40) they have been diagnosed as "complex migraines".  The first time I had one with the numbness, I went to the emergency room, thinking I was having a stroke.  Back then the numbness only lasted about 10 minutes to a few hours with no other symptoms.  I will still look in the mirror and smile to make sure both sides are even.  I could go months without one and then get 2 in one month.  With each one they have lasted longer and longer.  And have been worse with more and more symptoms each time.  Today I get them about once every 4 months, but they last about 5-6 weeks.  It seems to go away a little and then come back in full force, so it could be I'm just getting them one after another for weeks? My symptoms now are ...it starts with the aura.  Numbness in my fingers goes up to my face and head and then down my leg to my toes.  After the first day the pain starts, its an aching pain in my muscles followed by weakness.  It is always my right side, never the left.  There's pain in my joints also.  The headache is usually minimal, mostly just right side but sometimes both, but always feels different on each side.  I can move my arm and leg, it's just very numb.  The second day I am usually very nocuous , but only a few times have I ended up puking all night.  My last one lasted 6 weeks, but it could have just been many all in a row?? I have had MRI's and nothing.  I do have Patent foramen ovale (hole in my heart).  They originally thought this could be causing the migraines but since it's is limited to only the right side they don't think it has any thing to do with it. If anyone has any information that could I help.  I would appreciate it very much!

Hi ravenschild54,

I lived in Manchester for 15 years, whereabout are you there? I live in Essex now. Are you seeing a Neurologist who is a Headache Specialist?? If not please feel free to email me and I will put you in touch with a good one!!!

take care

Ann

question for all of you, I have the numbness in both hands as well as both feet, this occurs daily, but I also have times where I cant say certain words, I know what I want to say but cant say them, other times I cant read, write or spell, most, this all happens daily, it makes working hard, I get the pain every third day now and it last up to two weeks, nothing I take helps, my doctor tells me that if I dont get my migraines under control I will have stroke, he says these are just normal migraines and I just need to ride them out, the only thing I am on is 100mg of topamax Oh and I cant spell worth a darn anymore, its all freaking me out.