To wonder how Migraines can be harmless?

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I know they are, and don't cause damage. But the mind boggles as to how when it must impact my brain in such a huge way.

My face drops to one side, one side of my body goes numb. I cannot read and make of sense; my speech slurs. I can't recognise faces and lose my eyesight in one eye

These are just a type of migraine (confirmed by a Dr) and they're horrible. I am baffled now they can have no lasting impact on the brain

Anyone else find it shocking that you can't seen any physically evidence for them on an MRI? I'm not medical. So I'm just talking nonsense really - but it is true they cannot be 'proven'

I the post drome symptoms are nasty too.

Argh! Be grateful if someone could join me in moaning

Totally agree about coke being a help. I read it was due to the sugar hit, as low blood sugar level often causes migraines.

It's salt and sugar. I crave sweet tea and a cheese sandwich.

I used to get migraines terribly and am lucky now I just get visual ones with no pain.

I do however have seizures instead which apparently also mostly cause no lasting damage on the whole - unless they do - which isn’t reassuring at all.

my cravings are hormonal, as are my seizures, as were my migraines.

Yep, salt sugar and fat as they are wearing off.

That's usually the posdrom phase of the migraine. They really have done a lot more research in recent years.

I see if I can link some more information for you.

Also I end up worrying when getting migraines. Especially after what happened to Bruce Lee

Sorry I almost forgot to add this.

Ugh. Had another migraine last night that was awful. Stabbing pain in the right side of my head and I felt so sick. Still got a dull ache this morning

I'm a chronic migraine sufferer, but last night I had a really weird one where from my perspective I had blacked out, but my partner says I was acting like I was drunk, saying things that didn't make sense, slurring my speech, kind of rolling around on the couch. has anyone ever had this? Wondering if I need to go back to the GP (they haven't been particularly helpful thus far).

I read an article years ago that there was some research into migraines and a small percentage of people who have them show stroke like lesions in the brain.

Bit scary as I have them for years although not very often now.

I also might have a small brain aneurysm (unclear on scan and untreatable if I do), and the only symptom if it bursts is a thunderclap headache and then possible/probable brain injury/death.

But because I get migraines I might not realise it's anything different! I have had quite a few migraines that came on suddenly and hurt so much I thought I was dying but I was too ill to communicate or do anything about it apart from pass out.

So yes, it's weird they're so bad but leave no trace.

I was told that the more migraines you have, the more you will have as your brain gets more efficient at having them. So prevention is really important if at all possible.

Mine seem to be under control as I'm approaching 50, work entirely from home and have got much better at identifying triggers and early warnings.

DD (16) has them too though, I'm hoping she grows out of them but it's so hard to manage.

Hi all. Just happened to stumble across this thread. I had migraines (similar to what lots of you are describing) in my teens and early 20s, but then not had them for a number of years. However, in the last 2 weeks I have had 3 awful migraines (aura, etc) and DH nearly called 999 when I had the first one as he thought I was having a stroke (he didn't know me when I had these when younger).

Has anyone else had this - where they come back? Any advice?

Also, my first signs are my vision going and numbness in my arm. Is there anything I can do when I get those first signs?

If you can take/ inject sumatriptan at that stage it can stop the pain but not the aura.

@Autumnleaves82 it's very common for migraines to change over the course of your lifetime. Women especially seem to suffer with changes in frequency of migraines even if they aren't directly linked to their hormonal cycle, changing hormones over years seems to effect the frequency of migraines unfortunately.

I would speak to your GP about using a triptain drug to treat them. If you don't get them very regularly you can now actually buy sumatriptain over the counter at the pharmacy now if you wanted to try it, you would need to speak to the pharmacist first. Other options neurologist recommend are 900mg aspirin and full fat coke. Or 600mg of ibuprofen and full fat coke, At the start of a migraine, don't repeat this dose. Don't take anything with codeine in.

@ChungKing you should really go see your GP whenever you have a change in your migraines. It's important to rule anything else out, especially with symptoms like that although they definitely can be migraine related.

Have they not prescribed preventative treatment for you at all?