Well this is new

[knothing]

I woke yesterday morning to a quite house so I kept quite and did some stuff that was not very noisy. My family awoke and we started to talk about what I had accomplished in the quite but my speech decided not to work normally. I was stuttering, repeating words, and struggling at thinking though the words. After over an hour my speech returned and was replaced by a migraine. I had to take a nap and finally the migraine went away but not that far. At 10pm I got 'groggy', the world was fuzzy and my brain had enough so off to bed. This morning it was okay but I woke with a deja vu then had a couple more this morning. The deja vu has been replaced by a migraine .... same one. This is too much fun.

My neuro did respond to my email that I sent the wrong way in 29 minutes(and he is on vacation) and told me to take a side prescription of Lorazepam to see if it helps. At least he gets that sometimes my brain is a bit scrambled and off when new stuff is going on. Hopefully Lorazepam can aid but not very happy about new complex seizure activity.


I don't know anything outside of this just sucks!

 

[resaebiunne]

If you're aware of what's happening, you're not having complex seizure activity. You may have had a simple partial seizure or cluster of seizures, but it could've just been aura from the migraine (which I suppose would just be a simple partial seizure).

Anyway, sorry to hear about your new found issues. I hope things get better for you

 

[Nakamova]

It's interesting that you also have a migraine history, since migraines are close cousins of simple partials (and sometimes one is misdiagnosed as the other). You may have seen this story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPy-5PRC6Vs about a newscaster having a migraine where she experienced the symptom of speech impairment similar to yours.

 

[knothing]

I was given an order by my neurologist that if I have that speech problem again that I am to go straight to the ER. Not sure really why but it was a phone conversation and those are always very direct and not as informative. Hopefully it does not happen again and at my 6th month appointment he can explain.

 

[Nakamova]

Sometimes that kind of garbled speech can be associated with a stroke, so maybe your neuro mentioned the ER for that reason. It would be nice if you could contact him for clarification before your next appointment. Is there any way to talk to him sooner?

 

[knothing]

I watched that story and aura migraines is different. Based on the many peoples stories and my experience I wonder if her seizure threshold drops in her late 30's - early 40's that she will start having seizures after the aura.
If I had to guess it would be to run tests to eliminate items like a stroke or maybe catch seizure activity for the first time. Sadly I am sure that by the time the hospital got to the test the speech would clear up. I can leave him notes in the university hospitals online charts as of last week.

My prior neurologist made me go to an er after my second grand mal and have all the blood work and some other odd tests. I saw him a few days later and asked him very bluntly if he was looking for substance abuse. He told my yes because it would be better if I was an addict because it would make sense.