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Posted 11/12/2014 8:50 PM (GMT 0)
Hey all!

I know a lot of anxiety sufferers get migraines so I thought I'd run my questions by all of you. I posted on the migraine forum but no one really uses it!

Has anyone ever had pain with their aura? I woke up this morning with a slight headache on my left side and feeling generally weird. I went back to bed and got the hand/mouth numbness. It went away and then my migraine got worse per usual.

I have never had any headache with my aura. I usually start with visual symptoms, then feeling weird and confused, speech difficulties, numbness and after about 30 min will get pain.

Called my nurses hotline and she didn't think I had a stroke but I wanted to check with you potentially experienced migraine people to ease my anxiety. Which has been triggered by this migraine, yay :\

Thanks!
Posted 11/12/2014 9:27 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Aj

Well my migraine symptoms do not always follow a discernable or predictable pattern...so it is possible that this was just an anomoly.

Another possibility is that you had a tension headache that just happened to conincide with the coming on of your migraine...and you experienced a crossover of your symptoms.

Have you taken anything for it? Any relief yet?

I hope that you are feeling better. You did the right thing in calling your medical health care provider, just to check this new for you sx...

...but it sounds like everything is going to be fine once you ride out the migraine.

Feel better soon!

Scaredy Cat
Posted 11/12/2014 10:23 PM (GMT 0)
SC,

Thank you for your words of comfort! I took excedrine migraine so I think the caffeine amped me up a little. I'm perscribed a triptan but have never taken it and I'm too scared to.

Now I've worked myself up that I have temporal arteritis which I know is ridiculous but I googled myself into more anxiety. Whoops 😔
Posted 11/13/2014 3:17 PM (GMT 0)
AJ.,

I hope that you are feeling better today.:) Did your migraine go and stay away?

Yes, try not to google symptoms if you are prone to anxiety regarding your health. It can send anyone over the edge!

If you are challenged by health anxiety, we have some great self-help material specifically for this in our Resources. Let me know if you want me to pull up the links for you.

Hope you have a peaceful and pain free day.;)

S.C.
Posted 11/14/2014 9:39 PM (GMT 0)
SC,

Unfortunately not feeling better yet. Taking a day of rest to give my brain a break :) doctor said it could be my SSRI causing it and I've been under a lot of stress as well.
Posted 11/14/2014 9:46 PM (GMT 0)
Oh...s/e's...I didn't even think of that...

Did you just recently have a start up? From what I understand, it can be rough at first...for a few weeks, until your system adjusts.

Wishing you quick relief! Use those coping skills!

S.C.
Posted 11/14/2014 9:50 PM (GMT 0)
I have had migraines since I was a teen (I'm 35 now)
Anyway I get a lot of the numbness when I get migraines. Even after all these years I still feel like I'm having a stroke. I have slurred speech and horrible balance. I've even experienced difficulty breathing with it. I also get ocular migraines where I will lose vision in one eye and it's replaced with white zigzagging light. I've had multiple mri's of my brain done and it's always fine. I hope your headache goes away. Try an ice pack or those cooling fever strips for kids. They work wonders!!
Feel better!!
Posted 11/14/2014 10:05 PM (GMT 0)
I'm 51 and have an extensive history of migraines. While *most* of the time, I can pretty much predict and/or anticipate the symptoms, there's always one of those oddball events that are just a little different.

I get some similar symptoms (and not all at the same time, mind you, it varies). I always found the speech thing to be a doozy. My Husband says that sometimes I sound drunk. But truth is, it hurts like a bugger to talk (too much head pain) so I try to conserve my verbal output. That in itself can be distorting.

If you're not getting relief through your regular methods, you may want to try Urgent Care, perhaps check in with your doctor on Monday and explain your symptoms haven't subsided?? Just a few thoughts.

My PMD (I'm a CP patient, so I have a Pain Management Doc), has told me that she has some patients who have migraines which can last for DAYS! Wowza! Sure put mine into perspective.

Let us know how you're coming along, okay? :)





M.
Posted 11/15/2014 2:24 AM (GMT 0)
SC,

Yes just started em. I contacted my doctor because my migraine made my anxiety come back so he perscribed me 20 mg from 10 mg but now I'm scared to take them! Oh well, my anxiety was debilitating too so I need to try something. Kinda feels like a rock and a hard place situation. Continuing biofeedback this Tuesday so I'm excited about that!

Bambi,
I have all the aura symptoms too. They're very frightening sometimes. Yesterday they started while I was working on a college project in the middle of a cafe and had to tell my group members well sorry, can't see you anymore. Don't know what's going on. Frustrating! Funny enough, cold doesn't soothe my migraines, I crave heat for them. Always wondered why everyone else prefers cool?

Merrida,
The change up in symptoms definitely caught me off guard but hearing other stories of irregularities eases my worries. Bodies are just weird sometimes!

I got a referral for a neurologist just because I've never been and I've had migraines all my life at random intervals. I think I'm in an intense postdrome and have been all day which I'm sure you'll all familiar with! Feeling better at the moment and all your replies truly do help in the recovery process. Thank you!!
Posted 11/15/2014 3:23 AM (GMT 0)
I don't get auras with my migraines but I really had no idea that people with anxiety were prone to migraines! I've had mine since I was 13 and I'm now 31.
Posted 11/15/2014 6:18 AM (GMT 0)
PM,

According to doctors I've had and literature I've read there's a lot of comorbidity when it comes to anxiety/depression and other disorders and conditions. Our bodies and minds are unimaginably intertwined! And honestly science doesn't have a lot of answers about much of anything.

Migraines with auras and anxiety/depression run in my family among other pathology. I'm sorry to hear you suffer from migraines but yay you skip the aura :) do you have any warning signs you're about to get one? My aura has always been my sign it's time to prepare for hibernation for a few hours/days lol.
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