Hemiplegic migraines

Posted By paula on October 18, 1998 at 20:56:50:







Please,  I am interested in any information that you can give me on Hemiplegic Migraines.  I have a patient that was diagnosed with this diease and I cannot find much on it.  I have some information from the physican as on how to care for him, but I need something that I could use in helping to deal with the parents.  As you can imagine thier fear and concern when the doctor told them of the slim chance of their son having a stroke, and  the frequency of these "spells" are nothing to be overly concerned about and that they have to live with this and there is nothing they can do.  The patient has been having frequent "spells" at least q.i.d. lasting form anywhere from 15 minutes to 1hour.  He has some severe enough to have left sided paralysis and drooping of the mouth, and some as mild as just dozing in class.  He is still in school but with the frequency and longer duration it is becoming  difficult to keep to a normal routine as possible.  Please give me some information that I could pass on to the parents so they can adjust to their sons diagnosis.