Bwfc1958 wrote:I used to suffer from really bad migraines as well. Before it arrived in full force I would suddenly get a blind spot. I would be reading something and part of the text would be blank, just in one spot. At this point I felt fine but knew that this was the signal to ready myself for what was to come. Less than half an hour later I would have the most debilitating headache and loads of vomiting. The only way to get rid would be to get my head down and try to fall asleep, which wasn't easy. A couple of hours later I'd wake up and although I felt rough, the migraine would thankfully have passed.
The Doc reckoned it was triggered by certain lighting in a room. I personally wasn't convinced but he put me on some tablets, can't remember the name of then now, and I've been free of them ever since.
Photo sensitivity is a common cause of hemiplegic migraine.
I used to suffer in summer if I suddenly went from bright sunshine to a dark room or vice versa.
It's all to do with the way your neurons fire in your brain apparently.
That and restricted blood flow through some of the very narrow vessels in your brain.
When I started with the permanent numbness business, I googled the UK's pre-eminent hemiplegic migraine specialist and dropped him a cheeky email to ask for his advice.
It turns out that there simply isn't enough known about them for anybody to make any informed judgments on why they happen or how to effectively treat the root causes.
He was very nice about it but he basically said, get a CT scan done and take it from there with your own consultant.
Int the brain a wonderful, complicated machine?
I'd be stuffed without mine.....