silent migraine symptoms
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Q: Help! Does anyone suffer from silent migraines?
can you tell me your symptoms and what medication you are on for them?
Newly diagnosed with either silent migraines or simple partial siezures. I get auras and just pressure. Afterwards I get confused, have a hard time speaking, everything looks really bright, I feel like a truck hit me, I can sleep all day long, and sometimes I smells really bad things.
I am currently on Topamax until further test are done.
Thank you in advance for all your answers.
MSB1963 I appreciate your answer for me. I am under the care of a neurologist. I do not care for her and I am currently searching for another. I have read up on Topamax. I did have some side effects when first starting them but they dissappeared. I have caught this condition realativly early within weeks of having my first so called seizure so there is still experiementing with finding the right meds. I thank you for your concern.
A: Snuggles, you say that you are under medical care. Is he/she a neurologist? You really need to see one of them, a specialist in the field of neurological disorders is absolutely imperative in your current situation. Have you had a head CT yet? Topamax has very bad side affects and I urge you to talk to your doctor about changing the meds. I have been involved in two back to back accidents in 2002 and now suffer from two very serious illnesses/conditions and live with constant pain, spending 90% of my time in bed; however, this is not about me. I only brought it up because I have had experience with Topamax. You can look it up on www.WebMD.com and find out more about it, as I did. As a matter of fact, I am sure you have seen those commercials on TV where they ask if you or anyone you know has ever taken suchandsuch. Well Dear, Topamax is on that list for posibly being responsible for strokes and congestive heart failure. Everybody reacts differently to meds but in my case, I went off it immediately. I don’t believe that you are having migraines, I tend to believe they are, as you already suspect, seizures. They are nothing to joke around with. Get specialized help immediately. Don’t let them brush you off or tell you to wait for this test and that test. The speech impairment is a dead give away for a stroke or seizure and those are, coincidently, called silent seizures, since you don’t seem to have the other symptoms. I am not a physician but am a certified physician’s assistant, even though I no longer practice in that field and haven’t for a long time; as a matter of fact, I am disabled now. So please, don’t wait or play around with this. Get the appropriate help NOW! Best of luck and get well soon…
MsB.
Q: What do these symptoms mean immediately after falling down the stairs….?
Quite a bit ago, I fell down a narrow and steep set of stairs (about 14 steps) right on my tailbone. I was wearing socks and slipped on the first step from the top, and fell all the way down on my tailbone. Anyway, at the bottom of the stairs, I could feel pain, but most of all, I felt like I was losing my hearing…even when everything is silent, if you still have your hearing, you can still hear a small buzz. But I went from people asking me if I was ok to absolutely nothing, not even a buzz. Also, things started turning black, almost as if I was losing my vision all at the same time. My head was in pain also, and I could feel people carrying me and laying me on the couch. At this time, my breathing was very rapid, and I felt like I could not get enough air. After a while, these symptoms subsided. I still get severe migraines after laying on my belly with my two legs sticking upwards to read or use the laptop. My question is, what would you call those symptoms? Shock?
A: I’d say the shock got transferred to your brain and gave it a little jolt or maybe your spinal column got bruised.
However I’m not a doctor so I am not qualified to say.
Q: What is Migraine variant vertigo help needed?
I was diagnosed with this today is there anyone out there that can explain what it is in english.
My symptoms
These are persistent, They do not stop at ALL.
Severe ear ache with a persistent ringing sound that makes you want to cut your ear off (Left ear)
Pulsating feeling that follows heart beat in (right ear)
Headache constant lightening bolts like someone stabbing in the head, at the front and back of head on the left hand side.
Off balance when walking i nearly end up going in circles as legs seem to not want to go the same way as my body.
Dizziness with everyday noises that are to loud, CAN not sit in silent room as the ringing drives me mad.
When laid down sometimes the room will start to spin to which i cannot control and this is followed by my entire body curling into a ball to try and ride it out, then sickness followed by a huge headache that makes you want to hide.
On occasion when walking if i look down at the floor i have the feeling that the floor is coming to meet my face which makes me extremely dizzy and feel faint.
Strange things – - Small bits floating around my vision which look as if they are in my eye.
Pressure build up in ears without popping lasts for hours and is very irritating.
The feeling of everything not being real like its a dream and huge confusion, an example of walking somewhere and not knowing where i am going or why i am going there.
I know this is long but any help will be appreciated.
Damien
Migraines are not the only cause of vertigo i get the vertigo without the migraines. The migraines are the least problem that is affecting my health.
They are the rare side of the symptoms.
A: when u get migranes you get vertigo, try and establish what causes the migrances to minimise the impact on ur life. good luck
Q: flashes of light in eye, going numb?
About 3 months ago the flashes of light in my eyes was off and on for a few days. My eye dr told me it was silent migraines?
well it has come back up again, only more agressive!
Last night the flashes of light in my eye started like a squiggly line like lightning. Anyway, so I got up and took a step and my right leg literally gave out. MY ENTIRE leg was NOT usable. It wasn’t asleep like pins and needles. I’m talking no feeling whatsoever. completely numb, i could poke it and not even feel it. I got up tried to take another step and collapsed again. At that point I just sat there for a few minutes and eventually i got up again and managed to one leg hop to the bathroom. then my right arm was out. Now I think back and and all day yesterday I was very out of it, tired, walking into things, stumbling my words, ( hubby and friend had made fun of it) however this morning I got up fine. Just a headache. and my right arm is just sore.
I had chalked the other symptoms up to being out of it
due to the fact that I have an ovarian cyst and have been kinda sluggish here lately.
I also am in recovery for an eating disorder as well and have been doing good but I fear that maybe the 12 years that I hadn’t been recovered has done some sort of damage. serious answers please and YES I do have a dr appoinment and plan on mentioning this to him, i didn’t the first time because I figured that my eye dr had been right. Now I dont think so.
thanks so much!!!!
A: Get to a emergency dept as quickly as possible ..could be a stroke or the start of one………..
Q: What do these symptoms mean immediately after falling down the stairs….?
Quite a bit ago, I fell down a narrow and steep set of stairs (about 14 steps) right on my tailbone. I was wearing socks and slipped on the first step from the top, and fell all the way down on my tailbone. Anyway, at the bottom of the stairs, I could feel pain, but most of all, I felt like I was losing my hearing…even when everything is silent, if you still have your hearing, you can still hear a small buzz. But I went from people asking me if I was ok to absolutely nothing, not even a buzz. Also, things started turning black, almost as if I was losing my vision all at the same time. My head was in pain also, and I could feel people carrying me and laying me on the couch. At this time, my breathing was very rapid, and I felt like I could not get enough air. After a while, these symptoms subsided. I still get severe migraines after laying on my belly with my two legs sticking upwards to read or use the laptop. My question is, what would you call those symptoms? Shock?
A: It sounds like you had (have) concussion, which could be the cause of hearing and blackness….if it continues you should see a neurologist, both for the head, hearing and sight, and also the spine, sacrum. This is the neurologist’s area of specialty. He will decide whether you need an MRI which will give clear views of the areas needed, and the treatment thereon.
