Got rushed to hospital, turns out it's migraine.

[CuriousMama]

Yesterday I'd been to school to get ds2, sat down to have a look at a book I'd just picked up from the library, and I found I could hardly see it. Then I started getting lines of zigzags but in each eye, even when I closed my eyes. My sight almost totally went and I was so terrified. Luckily dp was up and about as he was off work last night (he works permanent nights) so he helped me upstairs to rest and rang 111. They spoke to me and decided to send a paramedic out. He said my pupils or tracking was sluggish and said I needed to go in an ambulance to hospital. When I walked downstairs I was so weak and my legs were giving way. The ambulance came and they did some checks then took me to the emergency ward. I must say the nur.ses and drs were fantastic. So thorough and explained everything they were doing. The trainee dr was the first to see me and said straight away he thought it was migraine as he has the same symptoms. Said even his arm goes numb and drops. A nurse said she does too and has to check in the mirror as she feels like her face has dropped!

They took loads of blood and got the results back quickly, all ok. Also did ecg.

My sinuses are bad at the moment and I wonder if that could bring this on? Plus I've had major stresses. I found it all so scary and really feel for regular sufferers I just hope I don't get them too often?

Thanks for the posts. I'm not on any contraception, dp's been snipped . I think it's lots of stress all at once and the sinus problem that's led to this. The stress will have brought on the sinus problem too as my immune system was no doubt low?

Thanks for the tip albertswearengen.

I get terrible migraines

They last for days and come in clusters of 3 or 4, usually a day apart.

Stress, overtiredness, concentrating too hard for too long, noise, flourescent lighting, or lack of daylight, some perfumes, ilness, especially sinus related and being generally run down can all
trigger mine.

Imigran recovery is from the same family of medicines as zomig, and available over the counter. Not cheap 10 quid for the 2 tablets you will need. But its a good test of if its a true migraine - you'd happily pay that!

Zomig comes in packs of 6 for the cost of the prescription, and I think has more active ingredient as it usually only takes 1 tablet to stop it in its tracks if you take it in time so get to the doc ASAP

Wow Ifailed you really do suffer from them. Do you work out of the home? It must be so debilitating for you?