My son who is six has been diagnosed with hemiplegic migraine and experiences muscle weakeness and slurred speech during an episode.  These symptoms dissapear with in a few days of the migraine but some issues with his speech remain and take weeks of hard work to improve.

9 days after his most recent episode, the speech therapist has confirmed that he is having trouble sequencing sounds in words. This was not evident before the episode.  Its no suprise for me as this has happened with each episode but is good to have a professional back it up (finally).  Seems to me that most medical professionals like to tell you what should happen rather than listen to what is actually happening. The speech therapist feels he is having to re-learn some of his sequencing and that he is trying so hard to remember the order of things.  She feels his speech patterns are just like a child who has has a stroke though the dr assures me is all just part of the migraine.

This has been a really persistant pattern with each episode of migraine 

We have just been referred to a paediactric neuroligist as unfortunately there are no specialists in childrens migraine here.  His MRI and bloodwork are all clear.  Although we have been told it is the migraine from my understanding of things I though he would regain his speech fairly quickly.  Not over weeks.  Has anyone else had these experiences?

Can it really take weeks to fully regain speech afer a migraine?