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Mar 09, 2007 14:12


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ncsuj March 9 2007, 19:24:07 UTC
I have one today as well.

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wanton_bliss March 9 2007, 19:26:46 UTC
During my eleven o'clock meeting, I had my third instance of scintillating scotoma in eighteen hours... Had a headache since 6pm yesterday.

It's oh so charming...

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ncsuj March 9 2007, 19:32:13 UTC
Mine kicked in around 10:30 last night

Very stange that you are still seeing it after the onset of the classic migraine. It's usually a pre-headache occurance....at least from what I know and based on my experience.

All I know is right now, the makers of Relpax can kiss my hairy ass.

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wanton_bliss March 9 2007, 19:43:30 UTC
I frequently suffer from aura without even headache, which is not entirely uncommon. But yeah, traditionally, the passage of the the aura is welcome, even though a headache is likely to follow, because I know it won't reoccur ( ... )

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thesadpunk March 9 2007, 19:31:03 UTC
You look like Bela Lugosi in the 2nd frame.

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chasing March 9 2007, 19:34:15 UTC
undead, undead, undead?

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thesadpunk March 9 2007, 19:45:12 UTC
Translucent black cape.

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You mean my chest hair is a horror? wanton_bliss March 9 2007, 19:34:31 UTC
Fitting, I feel like I'm hovering in a state between life and death.

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gavin March 9 2007, 19:46:18 UTC
Maybe it's a toomah.

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wanton_bliss March 9 2007, 20:17:47 UTC
It's not a tumah.

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tugena13 March 9 2007, 21:23:26 UTC
egads. i hope your head mends itself soon.

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tugena13 March 9 2007, 21:24:13 UTC
oh wait, i totally used the wrong icon for that comment.

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andywarholswig March 12 2007, 13:06:43 UTC
I had migraines a lot as a teenager... They stopped when I stopped eating meat and foods packed with MSG. I've also found that drinking or eating things with lots of Splenda in them will cause me to have them as well.

Mine usually start with that wavy line business in one eye, but then I get this odd view of everything. No matter what I'm looking at, I can only see half of it - almost like I can see through things.

Then the numbness starts on the opposite side of whichever side my vision is fucked up on. Then the pain! THE PAIN!

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Classic aura wanton_bliss March 12 2007, 13:37:06 UTC
Mine seem controlled by maintaining a regular(ish) sleeping schedule and the avoidance of both caffeine and overly bright computer monitors. I have it down to no more than one or two a year.

I am not sure, however, if four episodes over three days counts toward the next two years though...

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Re: Classic aura andywarholswig March 12 2007, 13:54:36 UTC
Do your speech or thought processes ever get effected? I had a particularly bad one once where the things I was thinking were not the things that were coming out of my mouth. There's a history of stroke in my family so that's when we got seriously concerned about my migraines.

I'd definitely look into 4 eps in 3 days. Do you have allergies?

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Re: Classic aura wanton_bliss March 12 2007, 14:28:42 UTC
Do your speech or thought processes ever get effected?

More speech than though processes. In my daily speech, I tend toward sesquipedalian tendencies, but there have been times, prior to a migraine, where I have been completely stumped, unable to recall even, words as commonplace as "grave." Usually, this is a good indicator to me that something is going awry with the brain.

There's a history of stroke in my family so that's when we got seriously concerned about my migraines.

Uh huh, my maternal grandmother died of a sudden stroke at the ripe old age of THIRTY. I always assumed a similar fate awaited me. Seeing how I'm at 33 right now, I guess I am living on borrowed time.

Do you have allergies?

Yeah, to just about everything...

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