scary night last night

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I've been having what's hopefully just a migraine over the past few days, but then last night I suddenly lost the use of one arm - like it was just a dead weight - couldn't lift it, grip etc. and then shortly after I lost all my facial muscles and tongue movement - couldn't speak, smile, nearly couldn't swallow... Luckily I was at home and I managed to get a GP appointment - he thinks it could still be an atypical migraine, but he's referring me for an urgent doppler scan.

Has anyone else had stuff like this with a migraine? My face and tongue muscles came back pretty quickly, and my arm's nearly back to normal, but still some strength missing. I was keeping v. calm because of the kids, but I can't quite believe this could all be down to a migraine??

And the shame of it - I work for the NHS, as does my Mum (who drove me to the GP last night) and the GP and my Mum were going on about how long the wait is for a scan (several weeks) and Mum's decided she's going to pay for a private consultation for me... Am very embarrassed, but my mother's quite a formidable woman once she gets going, and she says she's not waiting all that time..!

Just searching messages for migraine as I think I may be suffering! Anyway, my FIL had a very scary episode a while back where he lost the power of speech for 15 minutes. He had been suffering from slight visual disturbances for a while, especially after watching television but these hadn't been diagnosed as anything - I think he'd just mentioned them to the optician. Because of his age the dr thought it might well be a stroke, so sent him for a brain scan. To cut a long story short he has been diagnosed with a rare form of migraine - from my resaearhes I think it's probably called hemiplegic migraine and involves paralysis or loss of speech/hearing. Hope this helps. Google migraine - there are a couple of good sites but I'm rubbish at links.

I went to see consultant at hospital recently because of an unusual vision problem I'd experienced - he put this down to migraine. It wasn't same as yours but whilst he was telling me about migraines he explained how some people get exactly the same symptoms as you've described and how it is caused by migraine but scares the hell out of people who think they've had a stroke. Best getting it checked but it does sound the same. HTH.