Half body numbness, vision problems and migraines.

[Ronnie_ca]

I have this half body numbness, vision problems and migraines since I was only 12 years old. It never happened more than once in 6 months period, some times it happens only once in 3 years but rare.
When ever this kind of problem occurs, my whole day and the next gets reserved with pain. Some times it triggers by bright sun shine or a camera flash. My vision starts getting impaired and then I cannot see objects clear (see mostly shadows). Some times it directly triggers by suddenly numbing my right hand fingers (I believe this happened to my left hand side body as well) and then slowly moves to my other right hand side body parts i.e. arm, leg, lip, nose and eye etc. I usually try to sleep so by the time I will wake up I will be start feeling better but it never happened. By the time I wake up after an hour or so, I will be having severe migraine pains on the left hand side of my head. I take Excedrin, Advil, Tylenol or Ibuprofen to get rid of this pain but no help. Some times I stay home and some times my family members take me to the hospital so the doctors can do something for pain but it never helped. I usually get big vomiting too. Another important point is that I cannot even speak correctly, I would be speaking incomplete and wrong words, this starts happening after half of my tongue gets numb and I believe one of the reason in speaking wrong and crazy words is that perhaps half of my brain gets numb as well.
I have never done an MRI but got some other brain scans done including blood test, blood sugar, uric acid and blood pressure etc. but everything looked normal. Please help me to diagnose this problem. I apologize of writing such a long essay. Thanks

[Lauren980101]

When I first got this a few months ago I was freaking out like crazy because I thought I was having a stroke. I'm only 20 so I wasn't even reasonably expecting it to be a stroke at first, but the symptoms made it an immense worry.

Firstly, I had the symptoms of a migraine aura, which is (unfortunately) usual and common for me, but then, things became extraordinarily worse. Half of my body became numb and I had difficulty speaking. There were some words that I literally forgot how to pronounce and some words which I knew how to pronounce, but physically could not mouth properly and began wording gibberish. I became very confused and wasn't fully comprehensible of my surroundings, like I was a five year old who was aware, but things were just too complex for me to understand. I was panicking so much and was worried I was dying, but it is an incredible relief to find out that other people have (unfortunately) exactly the same symptoms as me to know I'm not alone. I continue to get these every couple of months.

[Chelsande]

no no no im sure the nerves on one side aren't as great as the side that's never numb but no the numbness doesn't stick around that I can notice...I would most definitely be hounding a doctor if it did.

[Chelsande]

living in montana I would have to go out of state for any type of accurate testing to be done and im not really sure I want to be some doctors guinea pig :S... I've been on different medication since I was twelve cant really tell you the names of them its been so long... ive gone the supplement direction taking natural calm which works well but tastes pretty discusting I also chew some natural painkilling plants if I have been out foraging lately. I have also been to see a migrane specialist and I threw him for a loop with the caffeine trigger...most peoples migranes are a result of a lack of what triggers my migranes...he did want to do some testing but mostly they just load me up with samples and say "tell me what works" I was even on a combination of three different migrane medications at once and it was so confusing it was like "take these two right away and if its persists take the third one and a second pill of one of the first two" I was probably 19 at the time so like I said the medication names illude me.

[AshleyMack]

The other night I was just sitting here listening to music on my laptop when all of a sudden I started seeing bright like diamond shapes and I thought it was just cuz I was lookin at the screen so I turned the lights off and laid down. Then a couple mins later my arm went completely numb and tingly and also my lips/face. As they were doing tests only then did my headache kick in. They told me I was having a complication/aura migraine. A few hours went by and then my feeling came back but I also got very sick to my to stomach for a couple hours after. They told me it was nothing serious but if it happens again to go to the hospital as I may need medications. Since then I've been getting headaches and numbness but nothing as serious..

[optimus1223]

Hi , my name is ***@****,  first of , bless you all for sharing your most fearfull moments . I too have severe migrane it just started im 32 yrs started with a unstopable headache that lasted days....nothing worked and then  went tru stroke like symptoms that rush me to hospital more then once, however im glad to see im not alone and finally i can relate, is hard to explain right? People think im crazy because they cant find nothing wrong test wise , mri,mra,mrv all came back negative. Blood work is super, healthy as a horse. I used to work out hardcore ,lost a lot of weight but over a year took a lot of supplements witch contain ( creatine ) is a legal supplement powder you mix with water and turns you into the HULK for about a good 2hrs. I used to lift weight as well, but i think thats what did it for me . In the gym they call it ( CRACK JUICY ) it gives u a big rush is like a gallon of coffee before every workout and i used to go almost 7 days a week. Well, after explaining thia to my neurologist she said that might of been the case in myself. Well i went tru so many faces of symptoms i thougth i was dying , now is been 3 months No more gym finally gain back a bit of wait. Cuz i didnt want to eat lost appetite ,nausea, dizzyness out of focus, unable to drive and walk by myself . Fear of sleeping and not waking up because also i developed palpitations in my stomach and truout my body.  Im really scared because i have a 10 yer old princess and im so afraid of leaving her. My family was worrt to death about me . Now lost all my muscle weight, eating better and my vision is coming back with treatments. No coffee, no more gym, no more protein juice.  Devoted myself to god and it has help me a lot . I strongly recommend it.  Is the best meditation out there, now only symptoms i have are  body palpitations and numbness of left body comes and goes but it happends often.  My doctor said it will all be treated and is the symptoms of MIGRANE. Please feel free to email me, it would really be nice to talk to someone to relate .

[sara12345]

I am so sorry to hear about your trials with your migraines.  Before I had a stroke which caused 24/7 severe migraines which I still battle, I used to get severe migraines every time just before I had my period, then after menopause the timing was all over the place.  Several of my friends found that taking hormone replacement that helped their migraines, but you are obviously not that age.

My migraines were severe enough in the past that I would vomit and nearly pass out if I got out of bed.  I found that Esgic was the best abortive medication to help them, which allowed me to conduct training sessions.  It is similar to Fiorcet.  Hope you have been given some kind of abortive medications to help your migraines.

I really wish you the best.

Sara