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Reply: TIA/Stroke Symptom or the "New Normal"

Sounds as though it's possibly seizure mediated. I'm not physician of course, but I have...

Posted by Watarimono

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Differentiating complicated migraine from stroke. ...

I have chronic / complicated migraines, and its always a worry or hard to tell if...

Posted by Watarimono

I have chronic / complicated migraines, and its always a worry or hard to tell if something is benign or not. Yesterday I had something that could very easily have been a stroke, but I ignored it. Maybe someone else has input.

It started with a typical migraine prodome kind of phase. I felt emotionally strange, extremely tired, yet oddly alert. As I said, its difficult for me to tell, reality tends to have a trippy air to it anyway. I was in a store, shopping. And I couldn't shake this sensation, that the floor wasn't truly solid. In my mind's eye, I could almost see it dissolving or pulling away, and my feet were anticipating the surface beneath me to stop existing, and for me to fall through. I ignored it.

When I arrived home I was more or less half conscious. Drifting in and out of being alert. At this point, some part of my mind became aware of the odd state, and I jolted into being hyperalert. My head had a fizzing feeling inside of it, and my right eye had a sensation like it wasn't working, or my field of vision was narrowing. I tested peripheral vision, I tested ocular muscles, pupils responded to light and tracked movement properly. I felt less than conscious, but couldn't find any measurable motor deficit. Facial muscles were fine, arms and legs were fine (I have allergies as well, and my left arm going limp is a symptom of some of them. Its hard to tell) Speech and memory was fine. I felt extremely tired. My face had waves of tingling on and off, but nothing sustained. Eye kept the sensation that it wasn't there however.

I never fully slept. I could move, but I just didn't want to. The urge or drive wasn't there. I felt a bit of drool trickling out of my mouth but it didn't seem to matter. I remember mumbling the lines to some song I haven't listened to in years half aware of my surroundings. I slept quite poorly.

Today I woke up. Feel really weak and spaced out, the right side of my brain feels numb and like theres a tight band wrapped around it. Eye feels like it exists, yet does not exist. Feel really apathetic and emotionless. Moreso than usual. I can't find much real....deficit, that I haven't experienced before. I have migraines at least 6 days a week. Eliminated all known triggers. Since I have a lot of neurological allergies, frequent migraines....this one was pretty different but its hard to tell. I feel strange and I just....I just don't know.

Anyone experience anything like this, or have any kind of input? I tried to keep it short.View Thread

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I'm going to add on to this (as if anyone is keen on reading a stranger's meandering...

Posted by Watarimono

I'm going to add on to this (as if anyone is keen on reading a stranger's meandering wall of text). The symptoms still have yet to improve. However, I recalled something that may or may not tie in. I didn't think much of it first, my memory is a trashed mess, even before this happened, it's a struggle to pin down details of an event.

I visited a chiropractor a few hours prior to this initial event. But as far as I can recall, they didn't even touch my neck. Someone had convinced me to "try" it, but in all honesty, I'm far too paranoid and inherently not fond of physical contact, I can't imagine myself letting someone do anything discomforting. They didn't do any sort of crazy snapping of the neck, just that basic, light compression thing they do, though I really wish I could remember if that had any proximity to the upper vertebrae. Point being, their action may have had precision, but I can't imagine it having any more chance of dissecting an artery than a fall down the stairs, or cracking your neck the wrong way. But perhaps I'm wrong? The two events are simply close together to deny a direct correlation, and I really don't know.

The other thing is, the symptoms haven't been improving, but they have been changing. It's hard to describe, as though my right eye, and the right side of my face is not mine. It has full tactile sensation, full muscular movement, pupils are responsive and visual fields have no measurable deficit beyond the migraine aura I've had for years now, but determined was not caused by prior infarction, yet, it doesn't feel right on me. It has a constant dull sensation, like it's melting. And I can feel a tight band around the inside of my head, making my brain feel numb on the right side. Like half my mind is asleep, whereas the other half is wide awake. Any attempt to put any strenuous "use" to the right side of my head, results in an exacerbation of the feeling, I run into this wall and just get hit with a massive wave of nausea and brief disorientation that quickly returns to normal.

Lastly. I have chronic / complicated migraines. I have for....3 years now, every week. At least once a day, avoid all triggers, take the proper vitamins. Yet it's changed. I feel no pain. None. Just a sense of latent underlying confusion, and unpleasant sensations. But my normal pain patterns are completely gone, my body is doing things I can't predict or understand. Could the chiropractor's....tampering, have changed inflammatory patterns enough to transform migraine type. It almost seems hemiplegic. I don't know. I just feel awful, and disembodied. All my usual approaches don't seem to change anything, and it refuses to improve. Until I can rule out issues with blood flow, or prior stroke. I'm quite....stressed, and, confused.

I post this here because maybe someone else has experienced something similar, or knows more about it.View Thread

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One last addition. I can never seem to get this right the first time. My blood pressure...

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I forgot to add. I had been feeling quite poorly for a while after running out of my...

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Possible stroke? [Lengthy]

I recently had an odd thing happen then I wonder may have been a small stroke. As a...

Posted by Watarimono

I recently had an odd thing happen then I wonder may have been a small stroke. As a chronic migraine sufferer I know the neuropeptides released in such high levels contribute to vascular inflammation and weaken several main arteries. This is what happened, I'll try to keep it short.

I was relaxing. My vision began to drastically change, as happens periodically. It was as though the right visual fields wasn't properly mixing with the left. I began to look at objects and noticing an inability to see the objects themselves, only the spaces between them, which built themselves in gradually more divergent trees and patterns. text began to shimmer in between the lines. I thought it was a migraine, but it was not like any of the others. Then I felt the entire right side of my brain go cold and numb. Felt dizzy and nauseous, like I was on a ship moving side to side, my vision wouldn't line up. I felt paranoid, as though something was right near me. I could see it in my mind, so close. Tall, standing right next to me, then leaning over, with its neck protruded outwards, the sensation that its face was right next to mine, but when I turned, something was occluding my senses of it. I've had this before, but it was different this time. I heard footsteps, tick, tick, tick. Saw movement in the darkness of the other room. Looked out. It was as though I had night vision of a much greater acuity than I could ever recall having before, objects shrouded in darkness pulsed in and out of focus, then faded to black. Looking out, I saw things morphing into faces, staring back. I continued staring, the longer I stared, the less I felt I should avert my eyes of it. I finally looked away, and felt that such a thing would spell death. But it did not. The sensation of the being in the room with me had changed, it felt behind me, arms close to me. Maternal, and attempting to entice, yet under the surface malicious with waves of aversion. My own transportation was out of commission. I attempted to get up, but my limbs felt weak, yet coordinated. Made my way to a phone, had to look up a number of someone I knew. My mind kept dumping the number before I could dial it. Finally dialed it, told them I believed I might be having a stroke of some form. They had the nerve to tell me "Maybe you should just go lie down." they finally agree to give me a ride to a hospital, I call them back 20 minutes later, they haven't even left yet, give me some bullshiot excuses. I sit down on the floor, remain somewhat conscious, they finally roll in 3 hours later, despite living 20 minutes away. (relying on others, a mistake I never thought I would make again). I said screw it, I don't care anymore. Get out, I feel sick, and I'm going to sleep. Checked pupils, they were responsive. No obvious motor deficits, thinking was, and still is very cluttered though. I went to sleep.

Next day, and the day after, and the day after (today), the right side of my head feels numb and strange inside. Thinking and conveying thoughts is difficult and feels foreign. Emotions (anger and irritation) are harder to control, I feel quite depressed, and as though once again, my body has let me down. I have let me down. Maybe its time to stop fighting, and simply die, because there isn't much left. Too bad for me my self respect would never let me come to that brink again, you fight until you're dead.

I'm not the sort that normally reaches out for external help. And I'm used to not being "balanced". But I'm feeling quite strange, and certainly cannot afford an MRI, nor do I feel like waiting months months for a neurologist appointment, which again, I cannot afford. Does anyone perhaps know what this might have been? Thank you in advance.View Thread

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