Pregnancy migrane

[Cnmorgan13]

Well I had an exciting day yesterday. For the first time in my life I had a full blown migrane (minus massive headache) sight loss, loss of speech and the ability to understand speech, numbness down one side. I thought I was having a stroke. So I had several panic attacks (a first to) as I didn't have a clue what was going on. Oh! And I threw up into my managers bin... Which had holes in it.
Cue trip to the hospital where thankfully baby and I are ok. It was the scariest, strangest experience I've ever had. Just thought I'd share so if this happens to you maybe it won't be so scary (ha ha)

I have this too. Always suffered migraines before pregnancy but now pregnant and have 2/3 a week and there notoriously shit.

Oh you poor thing that must have been terrifying. I have seen many posters describe their migraines in the same way and explain how scared they was the first time.

How are you feeling today?

They're awful aren't they? First time I had one (I was 12) I thought I was dying - went completely blind and numb down one side. Thankfully mine have got better in pregnancy (hurrah! The endless puking and spd is quite enough to bloody deal with...)

Take it easy today - I've found after I've had a big one I'm knocked out for a few days.

Think about possible triggers as well - I found that cheese/alcohol/tiredness does it for me for example.

yeah, throwing up into a holey thing is not to be recommended.

I had this with dd, but not either of the boys.

I just blame hormones, but being overtired, thirsty/hungry, too many carbs, bright bright lights/reflections or even sometimes cinema...too much visual/audio will tip me over the edge.

I tend to get the headache and vomiting OR all the fancy extras, rarely do I get the lot, just a random selection.

Take it as easy as you can ans see if you can spot any triggers, it's handy to be able to avoid them.

I'm right as rain today, well apart from the normal nausea lol. I found out it's called hemiplegic migraine. Hopefully won't have another one ever again lol funny thing though never had much of a headache afterwards (nothing I couldn't handle) very strange total body malfunction lol