migraine sufferers..Does this sound weird to you?

[Astrophe]

The last two times I have had migraines I have had the full blown aura, numbness in extremites and lips etc. That in itself is not unusual, but for days after each migraine had passed, the numbness remained - lat time in my right toe, this time in my left heel. Weird? Has anyone else experienced this?

I have had numbness like this but it seemed to be more related to the medication I used to take (can't remember the name of it - Zomig??)
On the odd occasion I have one now I get a horrible feeling on the back of my neck for a couple of days. I know that the migraine hasn't truly gone until this feeling subsides. It's kind of like if I lean forwards or bend down something is pushing hard on my neck.

Hmmm, I know the back of neck feeling. This numbness I'm having is not at all painful though, and I'm not on any medication except painkillers as and when. Sympathies onepiece, they are awful hey?

The medication I mentioned was a migraine drug (a bit like Imigran I think) that I only took at the onset of an attack. Reading what you have said I wonder if the lingering numbness I had was indeed related to the attack and not just the medication. Hopefully you will get more advice from someone else.

Thankfully since having the dcs I suffer very rarely. Bizarrely, as soon as I get disturbed vision if I take paracetamol and go to sleep for an hour or 2 I can generally stop one in its tracks. I feel very fortunate as I have suffered since the age of about 10. Sympathies to you too, reading your description reminded me of how terrible they are. There was a recent thread where someone's dh had to go into hospital with an horrendous attack. Fortunately she found support from mnetters during the night.

In the past I have on 2 occasions had to go to emergency docs and get a painkilling injection as I have had those dreadful ones that seem to get "stuck" in your head and nothing helps.

I'm pleased for you that they have subsided since you had your DC. Mine are much better than they were - I started getting them at 16, and all through high school and uni they were terrible, I used to get one a week, and also had a few trips to the GP for some pethadine. Awful. I am also fortunate in that I only get about one a month nowadays, although still fairly unpleasant. I dose up on neurofen plus and sleep if I can. I guess I should go to the gp and just check this - I thought if I had loads of MNers on saying they had the same thing I wouldn't need to bother!

I haven't had this...but i don't get the aura either. I only get 'common' rather than 'classic'. (Now hoping i haven't made a wally of myself and said it wrong).

Yep, i am probably wrong...no mention in wikipaedia...tra la la laaaaa....not here...

I don't get pain with mine, or numbness.

I get flashing/zigzags/wierd blank spots in my right eye.

If I catch early enough then two paracetemol and Very Strong super sweet coffee with a squirt of lemon juice does the trick.

Otherwise it's off to bed for hours until the flashing etc passes.

Many sympathies

No Godzilla, I think you are right...common

I have heard that distinction before though - classic = aura

Boyz - interesting, I've never heard of pain free before! Still annoying though I'll bet.

Oh Apostophe, it's bloody awful.

Right eye almost closes with the effort of trying to see, then I get a kind of 'hangover', lasts for hours.

Grim grim grim

Crapola typing Astrophe

Sorry

Ugh, poor you Astrophe...I get the aura, and can sometimes stop it with paracetamol and bed. Thing is, bed is rare with two small children, so now I have Maxalt - which helps, but doesn't stop it altogether.

I've never had numbness, so can't help - but I would go to the GP and check it out, if I were you. Won't hurt, might help.

I think mine are hormonal, they started when I was a teenager, went away pretty much in my late 20s and all my 30s, and have started up again since having both LOs in early 40s...assume its perimenopause (and lack of sleep!). But they can also come from a very stressed/tight neck, for me - maybe a combination.

So possibly the numbness in feet could be a sort of sciatica-like thing, from back/neck tension?? Just a thought..

Very interesting convo tonight ladies.

Nice to know it ain't just me

Thank you all for sharing

thats a thought elibean - tension causing the numbness. I WILL go to the GP and report back what he/she says

This is timely for me, I had a migraine today after not having one for aaaaages. I used to suffer in my early twenties, quite regularly and they were bad, too. I get the aura, a blind spot first and then zig zag lights etc; had that today and a moderate headache. Thank god the headaches are not nearly so bad as they used to be, or i wouldn't be sitting on MN now....

but I still get SCARED every time I have one. Is this just me but every time, i hate so much not being able to see properly, and it always lasts just that bit too long for comfort and I think "I'm not having a migraine, I've just gone blind!" but that prob is just me

and to answer the op, I haven't had the numbness, that must be nasty Though that's a good thing, no doubt if I had the numbness I would be limping round the house sobbing and telling dh that "I think I'm having a stroke".......

hypochondriac, moi?

Boys, yours sound exactly like mine. I use 2 paracetamol plus a can of full fat Coke (as prescribed by GP!) and it fends off the vast majority of them, but my vision goes really fast.

Honoria, I think that maybe you are my new best friend - seeing as how we agreed so heartily on the preschool thread, and now we agree so heartily that migraines are crappy

I was absolutely terrified the first time my vision went, and thne terrified all over again when I couldn't speak one day! It really is quite frightening, I guess you just get used to it over time.

Is the coke to get your blood pressure up again quickly?

The caffeine and sugar expedites the action of the analgesic, gets it into your nervous system quickly. That's why Boys' strong sweet coffee works too (no idea about the lemon!)

I think maybe anyone SENSIBLE like you Astrophe, (or should I say new Best Friend ) gets used to it over time. I am now 40 and still a drama queen about it! I will bear in mind to coke idea for next time - hopefully that won't be for ages.....

Hope not