Hello Nancy:
I was very happy to read your response. I was diagnosed in the last two weeks of the same kind of migraine.
It started around one month ago, and I had five episodes so fair. Before I took medication, it started with numness of my left side (i.e., arm, leg and hand). Then, it turned to my tongue and created language difficulties. Then I got confused for 1-3 hours, and came back slowly to a baseline. I was completely exhausted.
It took the doctors one month to figure that out. Now I took one prevention medication (ralvary or something like that). When, I feel the numness I take migraten. By taking this combination, I was able to avoid the language difficulties and the confusion part. And my last episode lasted about 1 hour and a half (only a light headhace and the aura). I feel much better after this one.
I'm still worried about the frequency of the attack (once a week). Do you have any tips? How do you to prevent/control? What do you take? What is your neurologist saying?
Thank you for your tips. I really need them.
Yany
I have been having a similar experience. It all started a few months ago I had one and then they progressed from one a week to every other day. I would get numbness in my left side and sometimes my mouth. Thought I was going to pass out at times. It was followed by extreme tiredness, blury vision, mentally slow, pressure in both temples and confusion for a few hours. My neurologist believed it was a form of seizure and put me on a small dose of lamictal. 100mg in the morning and 100 at night. I havent had one since, which has been a month and a half. But I now i get headaches that last all day as well as short panic attacks and extreme tireness. Which may be a sife effect of the drug and hopefully it will go away.
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I also experience an aura with numbness and confusion, but I use it to my advantage. I always suffer from a migraine 15-30 minutes after it disappears. So, as soon as I see it, I take something to "catch" it. If I'm out or something and can't catch it in time, I will suffer from a severe migraine. But, I also ALWAYS know what side I will have a migraine on. My aura starts small and gets large. It then floats away to either the left or right. What ever way it floats off, I will have a migraine on the opposite side.