Hi,
For how long has your daughter experienced this type of migraines?
Has she been experiencing headaches of lesser severity before?
Is there any family history of a similar condition?
Firstly, a cerebrovascular disorder or a stroke has to be ruled out first.A milder form of cerebrovascular disease is a transient ischemic attack or TIA.TIA may be difficult to differentiate from that of complicated migraines.
I suggest that your daughter should have a thorough work up done.Evaluation of the heart (EKG and 2DEcho), neck vessels and clotting factors may be able to help.A cranial MRI or CTscan may be necessary to rule out an intracranial involvement.Also, an EEG may help rule out a seizure.
One differential for your daughter's case is a hemiplegic migraine.Other differentials will be a TIA, a seizure disorder and a basilar migraine.
Discuss this with a specialist.Hemiplegic and basilar migraines are complicated migraines and require close supervision.
HI, I had something similar happen in December. Please, tell me about her face and her tongue. When you mention her body froze up.What do you mean?
Sounds epileptic to me. I am a migrainer myself for the past 15 years and I have done tons of research in order to understand them. Epilepsy and migraine disorder are very similar and stem from the same area in the neurological system. The beginning stages of classic migraine w/ aura (which I suffer from) and epilepic sezures are the exact same. I am surprised that the neurologist did not pick up on that. Look up the symptoms of an epilepic sezure, I believe the ones you listed are symptoms. Maybe get a second opinion? Good luck.