Weird migraine symptoms - tell me yours and make me feel less of a freak!

[colditz]

When I have a migraine on the way, I lose the ability to string a sentence, and all I can reliably say is "Listen" and "fuckfuckfuck"

Which I did to my lovely but understandably nonplussed friend over the phone this morning.

Sometimes I go temporarily blind - I can 'see' but can make no sense of what I see.

None of these things last for long, but it's so weird when it does happen!

To me the world seems incredibly sharply focussed (a bit like in a film) and I see everything really clearly and as though it is all new and different. I feel 'displaced'. Don't get the verbal issues thou'!

I don't get verbal things, but get blind spots, zig zag lines on my eyes, and sometimes I get a tingly feeling in my mouth, but it doesn't affect my word.

I get the verbal things - it scared the s**t out of me when it first happened. Was about ten years ago and it was the first day in a new job. Suddenly was completely unable to string a sentence together - kind of lost the ability to know how to form words. My tongue kind of goes tingly a bit like pins and needles on one side, and I get tunnel vision with kind of flashing lights and can't make sense of what I'm seeing.

I'm glad someone else knows what I mean (although obviously not glad that you're suffering too!) because most people in RL think I'm completely over-reacting because they think a migraine is just a bad headache.

Luckily now I know what it is and take my medication at the first sign and it normally just turns into a normal headache after about half an hour.

I get the same, Blackduck.

Also sometimes get really blurry vision, which was particularly scarey when I was pregnant as I was convinced I had pre-eclampsia.

I also get really anxious and slur my words.

yup, verbal and visual things.
Sometimes I look at a page and can't read it instantly but have to piece it together as if I'm just learning to read. Once I looked at a page of text and couldn't see any 'e's. I don't generally get bad headaches but then I end up being horrifically washed out for several days after.

strange colour effects too - I once bought a black skirt while having a migraine, under the impression it was green.

I get pins and needles in my face and hands. Very scary at first. Again the headaches aren't too bad but I feel washed out for a few days.

Pre migraine, I see like I have water in my eyes, yawn lots and have the urge to rotate my neck a lot. During migraine, I just vom and sleep

I start off with blurry vision, i cant see anything properly, that last about an hour, i also dont make sense when speaking, i then go numb all over my body, literally everywhere. I finish off with vomiting and a seriously bad headache for a couple of days. It really angers me when my sil says she had a migraine cos its a bloody headache.
Does anyone else get them much more frequently when pregnant? With ds i had 2/3 a week for half of my pg and lost so much weight, im mental as ttc again now

I get the exact same symptoms as you do Colditz....honestly thought I was having a stroke the first time it happened to me. Get a tingly tongue too and my hearing goes really sharp never get much of a headache though. Also get the feeling of being really spaced out.

when I first started getting migraine I had atypical migraines. My feet and hands went numb for hours at a time, no headache at all though

I've only had a couple of proper migraines since and lose the ability to speak properly and last time couldn't lace up shoes either!

apparently it is where the blood vessels in you brain are dilating. depending on what part of your brain they press, it causes various side effects.

for me: zig zags and blind spots which end up covering whole vision, some verbal loss, washed out feeling. when i was a teen i'd get the blinding headache and sickness. truly awful.

Just before the blurry vision thing, I get the really really sharp vision thing too. Really focused and defined. Which is weird for me as I have astigmatism .

Then get the blurry vision thing, can't speak, can't read, can't remember much of what I do say.I yawn a lot too.

Then vision comes back, out comes the Mother of All Headaches+vom+tingly tongue+ overactive bladder.

When migraine ends: euphoria, happy to be alive and in one piece.

I get vision which is like looking through cracked glass, like a line going across my vision, its starts small then grows and finally dispurses. Makes you feel like S**t

I get a sore jaw, eye, head, neck and feel sick and my sense of smell is really really strong.

Yes to hyper-sense of smell; yes to blurred vision (horrible and scary); yes to pins and needles and nausea. The only time I've had the speech thing (and it frightened the life out of me) was after I sprained my wrist really badly when ice-skating: I knew what I wanted to say but was coming out with utter rubbish instead.

Ooh yes to tingly tongue too (try saying that after a few pints!).

Yep i get very odd migraine symptoms. I get half blacked out vision as my "warning" then my left arm, hand, side of face, and tongue go numb and I talk like i have drank a bottle of vodka.

A different type of migraine i get is where it is just intense pain so bad i cannot lift my head at all.

It is great fun! not.... i am on beta blockers now which do help alot with preventing them. I still get them but not as bad.

I get the blurred vision first and then lose the vision in my right eye. I then get the pins and needles thing down my right side and then my speech goes. Fun isn't it. I then end up with the hideous headache for a couple of days and feel totally washed out. Yuck.

I also get the strange sensation of feeling horribly sick but really hungry too.

I've only had migraines a few times, but I had flashing colours in my vision, then everthing went blurred. I couldn't make sense of anything written down and parts of the writing in the book I was reading seemed to be missing. Also had the pins and needles in my hands and my chin and side of my face went numb.

I'm very glad I don't get them regularly, they are terrifying. Very sorry for all of you that get them often, I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.

I get the tongue tied thing, the flashing lights, the tunnel vision, the pins and needles in half face and inability to use one side of my body eg to hold a cup or anything. And often fall over. Needless to say when i have a full blown migraine i have been shoved to A&E by a few well meaning individuals concerned about stroke possibilities etc. I now have two types of migraine meds - treater (zomig for at point of attack) and a preventer (for breaking cycles of migraines)
Hope you feel better/are ok OP

I also get the numbness with a-typical migraines. Usually one hand, then my top lip, then tongue. My eyes go starry and I slur. No headache though, I just end up needing to lie down and my brain feels like a smoking, shorted circuit.

Last one was at nine weeks pregnant so got referred to a neurologist who cleard up what it, and the three previous, were.
Seem to get no more than one every few years so it's always terrifying again because I forget. Definately occur around times of stress, or hormonally induced (one induced by the combined pill, two early on in both pregnancies).

Worst one was the second one, when I was driving home one evening after a root canal filling and both hands, and my mouth went completely numb, I could see myself driving but couldn't feel the wheel! Really wrong of me not to pull over, but was driving through a bit of a rough area and was too scared.. Lasted about 10 mins and apparently during that time I called my husband (then BF) trying to ask him to get a doctor (but could only slur "dentist") and also called my mum just wailing which I don't remember at all. Also wonder how I called on the handsfree and drove?? Good old NHS direct told me I'd had a panic attack despite me being calmly singing along to the radio when it happened

I get the zig zag pattern down one side just out of my vision range It gets bigger and bigger stabilises and then goes leaving me exhausted.Strangely if I get a bad case of visual disturbance i get no headache but if i get small zig zag plus headache I end up in agony vomiting.Exhausting

I get the speech things too - can't get my words to a sentence in the correct order.

Sometimes flashing lights, severe headache, vomiting, numbness. They are horrible horrible things.

PoppyIsAPain I had horric migraines whilst pg with DS1. Ended up signed off work for weeks at a time, and went on mat leave as early as I could. Was hospitalised several times with them as my bp went sky high and I also had pre-eclampsia. Don't think I had any at all with DS2.

Had my most recent one yesterday. Vomitted three times trying to get DS1 his breakfast. Thought I was going to have to 'call a friend' as DH is away for a few more weeks yet. Thankfully the meds took effect just in time.

This thread has reminded me that I need to go to the GP and get some stronger tablets. I was pg or bfing from June 03 to May 09, so could never take anything suitably strong. But I can now.