New migraine/MS thread

[wadeheather]

Check this out! It's the first aura vs. MS info I've really found and supports what I said/asked in the prior two threads:

http://books.google.com/books?id=d34SGKjhXoIC&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=migraine+vs+multiple+sclerosis&source=bl&ots=SPaG98J2Km&sig=G0XgWUbHt818IZE0Zy4-UDZHN0U&hl=en&ei=gGrDSuOFOsutlAe9kPHIBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=migraine%20vs%20multiple%20sclerosis&f=false

If it doesn't automatically end up on pg 157 - that's were the info is:

"Prolonged aura (greater than 60 min), especially in the context of white matter cerebral lesions, could be indicative of ...SLE, MS....."

ding, ding, ding!

[goofysmom1]

This whole headache/migraine thing that we are seeing here on the forum is really fascinating to me.  I wish there was more info out there.  

I was about 28 when I went through a year of regular migraines - never had them before and they just suddenly stopped.  About 5 years after that is when my hip pain began (which I believe is spasticity)...

Fast forward to  the last couple of years and my now "suspected" MS and I began having different types of head pain - ice pick/sudden (only last a minute or less), one isolated migraine, plus a different kind of headache that seems to come with relapses.  Not migraine, not tension, I really don't know how to describe it.

So all of this makes me wonder about why doctors are dx'ing migraines when there are other symptoms (of MS or some other autoimmune) also?  I am thinking kind of like the whole "somatic" "anxiety" types of dx - maybe the easy way out?

It is frustrating that is for sure.

Hugs,
Chrisy

[wadeheather]

I just started a new migraine med yesterday, too.  Just to see. Unfortunately some of the side effects listed are some of the things that do not relate to migraine and I want answers for...try try again I suppose.  I wish there was something they could physically see to differentiate some of these symptoms.

[Udkas]

That's very interesting, if that's the case none of my symptoms are migraine, well i do get migraine and my neuro does think I also have Transverse Myelitis but my migraine stuff goes for days, but on and off so none of the symptoms last longer than 60 min at one given time but they do come and go throughout the day so do you count that as lasting days or longer than 60 minutes, or is that just migraine, my neuro said that usually migraine was more just a bit of tingling in your hand or your foot, or transient symptoms like numb foot for a bit but then gone but then it returns.

I plan to get his to clarify this more for me next visit and I plan to start migraine meds soon to see what they do, but my diagnosis is not just migraine but I get confused if I am having another attack.

Very interesting discussion.  Thanks for the URLs and info
Udkas

[wadeheather]

That's what I'm working on now.

[slightlybroken]

That was really interesting.

On a personal note: My neuros threw out the migraine DX possibility because of a few of my symptoms. I have muscle spasm/spasticity. This is not a symptom of migraines. Second: I'm on anti seizure/anti migraine medication and my symptoms are still around. My neuros believe if it was a true migraine problem, then the migraine medication would have helped.