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Posted 11/4/2011 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
I have had aura migraines ever since my existence. However, on Sunday, Oct 30th I woke up at 6 am and started to feel my left side of the lips going numb. The numbness continued towards my nose and eye. Soon after I had a migraine like pain on the left side of the head. the pain was migraine like but excruciating more than a migraine itself and lasted about 20 minutes. When the pain subsided, the numbness just went away. Initially I thought I was having a stroke since my father died from a stroke. However, after this episode, I was ok the whole day. The morning of Monday, at same time, 6am the same feeling came back and this time it took a shorter time. On Tuesday, during the same time, the same feeling came back and this time it was very intense and lasted for almost 45 minutes. needless to say, from Sunday oct 30th up to today Nov 4th I have had to go through this pain at the exact same time every morning. Somethimes it's intense and lasts longer and other times it is less. I just came from the doctor who told me that it could be migraines but i did not believe it until I came to this forum after a google search. My only worry is, why is this happening to me at same time every day. I am scheduled for an MRI but I wanted to know if anyone ever had this weird scenario of numbness and migrain pain at the exact same time every day. Please help!
Posted 2/11/2012 10:53 PM (GMT 0)
I realize that this is an old thread but for what it's worth, I inherited these body numbing migraines from my father. Mine started at 12 years of age. They did seem to coincide with stress, appearing a couple of weeks after the event, and "residuals" lasting a couple of days. Well, I'm sorry to say, that while I only had them several times a year, I did find that playing with hormones later in life seemed to change things. When I was 43 years old, I had my thyroid removed, since I had nodules, and my brother had thyroid cancer so I was taking no chances. 4 months later I had a total hysterectomy. After these surgeries, my headaches were less frequent and much less severe. Some years later, trying to tweak my hormones to combat Chronic fatigue, I did go through a series of migraines, but eventually found the best combo of estrogen/progesterone/cortisol/thyroid. I no longer have migraines. I do know that there a genetic component as 2 of my sons inherited migraines, one has them more frequently, the other less frequently but more severely, both with aura, as I had.
I wish you all luck with yours. It is such a curse to live with. I can't tell you how many days, weeks, who knows, maybe months of my life were spent in bed, shades drawn, tears to relieve pressure, deep breathing to try to instigate the biofeedback training I had in college, and Excedrin migraine pills I took (back in the day, they would give me percodan or darvocet, which did nothing at all). Such a waste. It is nice to see that research seems to show the neurological component being primary. Maybe this will help lead to help or better yet, a cure.
Posted 2/29/2012 1:52 AM (GMT 0)
I have had migraines for years now, I am 32 yrs old and I went to the doctor cause my left side went numb and it scared me cause my mother is a stroke victim. The doctor did an mri and found that these were mini strokes but now they are more often than normal and I am afraid that i may lose function of my left side because they are getting worse.
Posted 3/8/2012 1:33 AM (GMT 0)
I am 42 years old. Started having migraines at age 35. Discovered they are hormonal. I do not have classic aura symptoms. Usually a spell of vertigo and the days later the migraine arrives. Lately I have been getting extreme numbness & tingling in my face & head. It moves from spot to spot. Scaring the crap out of me. Not sure if I should wait it out or go to the doctor. Been this way for 3 days now.
Posted 7/25/2012 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
I have been getting migraines for a couple of years now. I just read alot of the other posts from other migraine suffers and to my surprise they have had alot of the symptons I have had ( numbness in there hands-teeth-side of there faces- even having trouble with speaking.) I have tried many meds and none of them have helped- so I just deal with them, doctors have told me that they are brought on by what I have eaten before getting them- but that is not always true- I dont have to eat anything to trigger a migraine, they just show up whenever they want....
Posted 7/25/2012 10:45 PM (GMT 0)
Migraines can take over your life, it's hard to plan to do things because you know when one will pop up. And one does all I want to do is sleep in a quiet, dark place.......
Posted 7/29/2012 6:45 PM (GMT 0)
i have had this twice in my life first time was when i was 19 i got a very painful head ache and was violently sick as i got back to bed i started to lose the feeling in my hand, then my arm, then travelled down my leg to my feet, i was unable to speak but managed to get some sleep and woke up fine the next day. However the second one is different. I started suffering with dizziness since march this year (i am now 24 i think it has all stemmed from the coil but thats a dif story) i was back and forth to docs who diagnosed me with vertigo, viral infection, anxiety, ear infection, labrynthitis you name it but nothing was helping all the tablets made me worse. by this point i had dizziness, off balance, feeling of been pulled to my left constantly, head aches every so often, eye pain, light sensitivity (never been one for bright lights or even day light as a matter of fact) sound sensitivity, insomnia, ear pain, jaw cracking every time i yawned, crackling in my head, neck grinding when i moved it. i paid to see a private ENT as docs were useless, he diagnosed me with MAV (migraine associated vertigo) and gave me propranolol. this made me so much worse, became very jumpy heart palpataions, crying all the time, brain fog, lack of concentration. I ended up in A&E and whilst there i started to get the numbess again but this time on my left side of the body and it extended up to my head and my brain which went numb too, i was crying and couldnt speak to the doctors to tell them what was happening or to answer any of the questions they were asking me. my face even dropped, they thought stroke so was sent for MRI which came back clear. Now been diagnosed with migraine with vestibular dysfunction. put on amitriptyline and on the migraine diet. Constantly have the aura of zig zags in my sight, head aches nearly every day and off balance on and off each day. Its a very scary time for any one and i feel so sorry for all of you suffering too some worse then me. Hang in there we will over come it one day and have control x
Posted 9/20/2012 9:59 PM (GMT 0)
I have been under increase stress lately and have not been working as a nurse, but working on other things around the house,as I am an active person. Recently, I have noticed numbness tingling right side of face and right hand and pressure/pain behind right eye. I have been reading other postings with similar symptoms. I am freaking out and becoming very preoccupied with symptoms which seem to exaggerate. I wake up with the pain and go to bed with pain and seem to get no relief. I try alleve, motrin, muscle relaxants and even if severe xanax just to escape the thought of it being a tumor/aneurysm or something bad. I guess I will see a neurologist soon. Its been almost 3 weeks. I have to admit that hearing about the neck/shoulder pain is helpful. As I know my neck is having spasms and when massaged it is painful when deeply penetrated. Hoping its just muscular and stress related.
Posted 6/24/2013 2:15 PM (GMT 0)
Wow. I have never actually registered for a forum until I found this one. I am 26 years old and have had these migraines since I was about 12. I've been to doctors that all say its just migraines but they have never told me the type of migraine. I've had a MRI and no tumors. I just had a migraine yesterday so I'm home from work with what I like to call a "migraine hangover" I feel like crap! So, here is how mine start. I start to get tunnel vision and the "flash" or firework looking thing (aura) I guess. Then whatever side my migraine is going to be on, the opposite arm starts to feel strange and like detached from me or far away. I don't know how to explain it. Then it'll go numb as well as my hand and that side of my face. I then try to go to sleep immideatly because I get so freaked out by all of it. The dr gave me sumavel, anyone use these? I don't think they take the pain away completely though. So when I wake up, that's when I have the actual pain from the migraine. Ugh. I seem to be gettin them recently every other month or so. I have certain food triggers like wine and if I eat too many peanuts. But that's all really. And if I haven't been drinking water. Other than that, I'm not sure what triggers them. People say areas and that may be but I never know when I'm stressed until I get one! I take Effexor twice a day for anxiety. I was just changed to this back in February since its a little cheaper than cymbalta! (Insurance changed) I think I read on a post that Effexor "probably" helps with preventing migraines but I haven't seen a change. That was actually surprising to read because I hadn't heard that before. Anyway, thanks for reading and posting! I don't think my coworkers believe how bad they are and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one! Oh and now I have a typefor the migraine! Any suggestions?
Posted 9/15/2014 3:18 PM (GMT 0)
I have also had these kinds of migraines. I am currently 24, and have been having them since I was 16. It's taken almost 8 years for me to get a diagnosis because every time I visited a doctor or went to the hospital, I wasn't having a typical migraine, and nothing was showing up on the tests. We finally began suspecting what it was when I was 18. My brother got migraines, but it wasn't until he began having visual symptoms that we learned there could be other forms of migraines.
I don't get warning signals for the numbness, it sometimes comes on gradually, but more often is sudden. Usually it only lasts 30 min to a few hours. though once had full body numbness which lasted for a week. As far as I can figure exhaustion, stress, and not eating are (right now) the only triggers I seem to have. I do sometimes get migraines without auras, which are triggered by the same things. The numbness doesn't respond to medication, and it just has to run it's course. My non-aural migraines usually respond to medication, though being in a dark room helps as well.
For the years that we didn't know what was going on, it was terrifying. My first episode was frightening. My legs were numb but I could still walk (no well). Not knowing why I couldn't feel them scared me, and knowing that my parents and the doctors didn't know either made me anxious. Knowing has taken a lot of the stress out of my life.
My weirdest sensations are when my facial features go numb or tingle, especially my eyes. Sometimes when my ears go numb I have decreased hearing, and when it's my hands or feet sometimes I have coordination issues. I'm not really sure if my symptoms are a-typical of this kind of aural migraine or not, but this is what I'm experiencing.
Posted 2/5/2015 8:52 AM (GMT 0)
Happy to see I'm not alone with these migraines with auras. The first time this happened to me I was in 7th grade and had just gotten done playing basketball with friends. My left leg/arm/face/lips/tongue all went numb and I was confused and slurring my words. My Dad rushed me to the ER and the doctor's best guess after running tests and coming up with nothing was that I was dehydrated. He gave me a giant gatorade and I drank the entire thing and within about an hour I felt better. I never experienced a migraine with it during that particular episode. I'm now 23 and have experienced a handful of migraines since that day but none of them included that strange numbness on the left side, until last night...

I was sitting on the couch on my laptop and then my left arm started going numb. Followed by the left side of my face. The numbness was concentrated in my face, then moved to just my left mouth, and then to my tongue, and then again in my left gums. I was very concerned and scared. I tried drinking a ton of water/coconut water to rehydrate. The numbness subsided but then a terrible migraine set in. Pain relievers didn't really help and it took about 2 hours of pain before I finally fell asleep.

As for today, I feel as though my head is sensitive on the inside. If i lean over and the blood rushes to it then it starts hurting. Or if I yell it starts hurting. I really hope this doesn't start happening more frequently.

Note: Last night I also saw the shimmery patterns in my left eye peripheral vision. I didn't experience the slurred speech this time. I was sensitive to light on the T.V. and computer. And laying in a dark room helped a little bit with the pain.

Note 2: I'd also like to add that sometimes when I have to much sugar in a day I'll wake up early the next morning with a throbbing migraine. But those never include the tingling on the left side of my body/face.
Posted 5/7/2015 2:22 AM (GMT 0)
Hi. I also have hemiplegic migraines, or at least my neuro thinks so. It's a really weird, inconvenient thing to have. I'm happy to compare notes with others. I get the sudden onset of numbness and loss of control up the right arm arm, hand, face, sometimes the leg and torso. sometimes I have a headache, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have confusion, difficulty talking, difficulty swallowing, clammy skin. When the numbness goes away, I am left feeling weak on my right side.
Posted 5/9/2015 11:17 PM (GMT 0)
yes, the vision in my right eye has done a variety of things from lighting bolt type artifacts to complete blindness during the migraine.
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