Loss of speech during a migraine, anyone experienced this before?

Sorry OP I hadn't realised you'd already been to the hospital.

what happened at the hospital? Did they not check you out there & then? My sister had this & they scanned her immediately. She had a tumour on her skull. Not to scare you as if you already suffer with migraines perhaps it is just that, but I’m suprised hospital let you go without further investigations.

You really need this checking out. Anything that affects your eyesight, speech could be stroke related. I don't want to worry you but go and get a diagnosis x

Also it makes me either completely unable to read, or I can read but I have to sound out the words and really think about it!
Once I looked at a page and all the letter ‘e’s had vanished. My then boyfriend accused me of being on drugs 😂

Yes I have this, though I haven’t had one for a while because I avoid my triggers scrupulously (chocolate and flashing lights are the main ones).
I once had one when I was a lecturer and was with a student who luckily recognized the symptoms because her boyfriend had the same.
I don’t tend to get severe headache but the ‘migraine hangover’ wipes me out for several days.
The only medication that has worked for me is the herbal remedy feverfew which stops it in its tracks.
Get checked out in case it’s not this, but there’s a good chance it is.

What treatment are you on?

I get migraines with aura, visual disturbances and extreme fatigue but I've never had it affect my speech before. My daughter goes numb all down one side when she has migraines.

I have also had a stroke which has left me partially sighted (homonymous hemianopia), you did the right thing by going to hospital and I would again if it happens again, did they not give you a CT?

I have these upto 23 times a month. With also one sided weakness. I have been told they are migraines. It’s ruined my life.

I have had similar symptoms and it was focal seizures.

Yes, this is called aphasia and I get it with about 70% of my migraines.

I also get hemiplegic attacks which mimic a stroke with facial paralysis etc.

Most of my attacks have an crap extra feature like smelling cigarette smoke or electrical burning, cyclical vomiting or extreme nausea without vomiting, allodynia which leads to me pulling at the hair on my scalp for relief....

It's great.

Hopefully you've "only" developed a new symptom rather than any more sinister alternative. The good news is that it's not going to damage your brain if it's your migraine.

I get pip because of migraines.

Yes used to get this with aura migraines and since menopause with my otherwise painless optical migraines. It’s very odd when you experience it but not uncommon.

Migraines mess up the connections in my head. It can take days for words to come back properly after I've had one, and I usually start to lose them in the hours before.

Visual migraine stomach migraines vestbluer migraine classic migraines.

Im diagnosed with migraines my symptoms are a long list.
From flashing lights cant get words out, almost fainting, sicking up, forgetting things in seconds confused, cant remember simple things, one eye will drop, my face looks different sometimes pain sometimes none, dizziness, ear ringing skin tingling, eye floters.
And plenty more.

I live in sunshades, and try to avoid noise flashing lights and busy places and strong smells.

I try to avoid going in to shops as I can deal with walking down the aisle every thing seems to be rushing past me.
I cant look up quickly or move to fast.
The list gose on with me.
One moment I look fine the next im pale and ready to drop to the floor.

My daughter gets this. She has terrible migraines. The initial symptom is tingling / numbness in her left arm and fingers. This spreads and causes left side weakness and numb / droop in the left side of her face. She also suffers with aphasia (inability to speak). This then morphs into nausea, sight disturbances and finally the bad head but the first few hours is all about the strange stroke-like symptoms. We now have meds for her to prevent migraines as they last 3 - 4 days and were coming up once a week!

Yes I have ocular migraines, although thankfully less often now. It comes about 6 hours after an aura. My face drops and I lose speech during the really bad ones, though have been reassured that it isn't a TIA. I should think you should get check out though.

That must be bloody awful 💐

Same as my DH.It affects his left side every time.It begins with visual disturbance then complete paralysis and confusion follows and his speech becomes slurred before he becomes totally unable to communicate.Again,it can sometimes be difficult to differentiate between a migraine and TIA.As he's aged,the symptoms have changed in that there is now less nausea and actual head pain than there used to be.

He will sleep for anything up to half a day before waking in a 'normal' state and will be wiped out for many days after.

My mum gets migraines like this and has done for years - hemiplegic migraines. When she gets them sometimes she just can't find words, and other times it makes her speak completely weird gobbledegook. There's a YT video of a newsreader having the same thing, and it sounds really alarming until you realise it was a migraine and nothing more serious -

I get visual migraines and often have problems getting the words out. They're there in my head but won't come out. I can say the odd single word. Last time it happened I stood tongue tied but managed to blurt out "migraine" and point to my head. Afterwards I look at my hands to make sure all my fingers are visible, and recite Peter Piper under my breath until I am confident I can speak again.

My adult daughter gets them too.

The thing that goes for me is the ability to read and find words, I get the visual symptoms, a feeling of being bigger or smaller or too far away from everything, then the headache either starts on one eye or 1 side of the back of my neck and comes with nausea and extreme light and noise sensitivity. I've had a few where my motor skills are impacted but not severely. I'm glad they are ruling out TIA though

Yes me! I have severe hemiplegic migraines. Mainly affects my hearing, sight and speech.

The symptoms are so similar to a TIA my face even droops on one side when it happens. (Sometimes it doesn't though).

It's very scary. I have opted out of driving as I get so confused and unable to communicate. And unable to see.

Hope you feel better soon OP 💐 Hope it's a one off for you

Yes, I have experienced this as part of migraine with aura but I have a long history of migraines and had them more or less monthly from the age of about 13 until I had my first child, when there seems to have been some kind of hormonal reset which stopped them. They also left me with the sort of hungover feeling that you describe. In your case as a first event it's vital that other causes like TIA are ruled out.

I get migraine with aura. No pain. This is one of my (many!) symptoms. It’s very scary. Go gently with yourself. Maybe book into your GP and ask about medication.

When I first started getting migraines at about 14 years old this was exactly what happened to me. First was the aura, then the nausea, then vomiting, then unable to speak, then agonising headache. Every single time.

as I’ve got older I tend to just get aura, then headache, and feeling wiped for several days and the odd visual disturbance.

I think if the speech thing happened again to me now I would find it worrying. When I was a teenager it was just part of the migraine situation. And those days were horrible because I’d be at school, my parents couldn’t pick me up for hours and I’d be sat in the sick room. The minute I get aura now I panic and cry, think it’s from these early experiences.

hope you feel better soon OP