Migraines

[NoMercy]

Quick question...

Can a migraine affect your speech and coordination?

[boxtops]

Yes - definitely.

Not wishing to be alarmist, but my niece displayed classic stroke symptoms a while back, and it was found to be connected with her migraines. It's called something like Disassociation Syndrome - the brain thinks it's had a stroke but it hasn't...

I'd see the doctor a.s.a.p......

[237SJ]

It can definitely affect your speech. A friend of mine talks gobbldegook when he has a migrane. (probably spelt that wrong)!

[MarkRae]

Yes: http://www.netdoctor....es/facts/migraine.htm

[Eve]

Yes, I've had it before with migraines.

[NOX]

Yes my ex finds that her arms rise as if filled with air ( seriously) unless she sits on her hands and she talks utter rubbish, cannot physically say what she wants at all - all quite frightening.

[NoMercy]

Thank for that guys and thanks for the link, Mark.

[sara3]

yes, but I think it warrants further investigation.

[Barmaid]

Oh god yes! I sometimes talk as if I am either a) drunk or b) totally out of it. First time I ever had one here, the FH was scared to death.

[NoMercy]

Sara, I already had a CT scan when the migraines first started - something my GP insisted upon because he noted left-sided weakness on clinical examination.

[sara3]

okay, best to be sure ;o)

[NoMercy]

Thanks mate. x

[icemaiden]

I sympathise with anyone that has migraines.


I had a frightening episode a few years back during a migraine attack. My whole body was numb, I couldn't walk or talk properly, I was convinced I was having a stroke and dying. It was very very scary.

Since then I have changed my contraceptive pill and have not experienced those symptoms again, only the bad headache , sickness, tiredness etc.

It's amazing that medication can alter your symptoms.

[LoftyLottie]

My son's migraines definitely affected his speech and he used to be unable to use his right arm. Very frightening for both him and ourselves as parents. Migraines run in our family - I would lose my sight in one eye on occasions. This again was frightening because I was in my early teens.

[LoftyLottie]

I have never been sick with a migraine, neither has my son. They affect people so differently.

[andy-hughes]

The mother of a friend of mine worked as a sales rep and was often caught by migraines when too far from home to drive home safely.

She would lock her car doors, put on her sleep mask and cover herself with a duvet and place a sign in the car window advising that she was having a migraine, and should be left to sleep it off.

I have had two in my life - the first generated by the sheer excitement of a Bruce Springsteen concert!

Driving the sixty miles home, I realised that oncoming car lights were hurting me eyes. Mt wife took over driving, as the symptoms increased. By the time we got home, i couldn;t walk, and I really did think I was going to die.

Slept it off, but i was seriously frightened.