Complicated Migraines

[My3Luvs]

I was diagnosed with complicated migraines this past week. I have now had the stoke symptoms for 1 week with no letting up. Can anyone tell me when I can expect to start seeing improvement. I never did get a headache.

Thanks!

[vega1318]

You should go back to see someone soon (either in the ED or your neurologist) and ask them to perform a transcranial doppler test or an angiogram (MRA / CTA or conventional) to make sure you don't have any spasm in your neck arteries.   If you have such severe headaches, you may be developing arterial spasms.   Sometimes a simple medication can help but you need to be diagnosed first.    Don't ignore these symptoms.  

Whether they're physiologic or not (i.e., anxiety-related), you need to be treated accordingly.

Good luck and report back!!!

[My3Luvs]

I was admitted to the ICU with what they thought was a brain stem bleed on Friday night. They released me Saturday with the diagnosis of complicated migraines after a MRI and MRA confirmed that it was a calcification and not a bleed. The neurologist put me on Topamax and aspirin and told me to follow up with another CT in 4 weeks to monitor the calcification.

My symptoms right now are moreso than they were when I was admitted on Friday. My hearing in my right ear is now muffled, I am really weak on my right side, very tingly from head to toe on the right side and I feel very groggy, my brain is in a fog. Not sure what to make of all of this...

[vega1318]

Did you go to a doctor or to an ER?   You shouldn't go on with symptoms for a week without something showing up on scans.   Complicated migraines should not be let to take their course and result in a stroke so a good preventative treatment should have been initiated.   If your symptoms are still very bad, you should seek attention as soon as possible.