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Numbness, stroke-like symptoms related to Migraine?
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I have been having migraines since 1980. The first time it happened, I was rushed to the emergency room because it was thought that I had a stroke. Incoherent, numbness throughout my body, couldn't see, aura, then eventually my tongue was thick feeling and I couldn't even talk. After it subsided, I had a headache from hades for 3 days that wouldn't go away no matter what.
I had an MRI and it showed lots of lesions. They attributed them to migraines. I've been on 750 mg...
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