SUDDEN READING INCOMPREHENSION BLURRED VISION

holdem said:

With your migraines do you experience a headache too?
Ive never had any real experience with headaches as such but when my event happened i had no sort of head pain during the incident.

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Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't . The vision disturbances is one of the more common precursors that I get. Sometimes if I get my medication quickly, it doesn't progress beyond it.
When I first had my migraines, over 40 years ago now, people around me thought I was having a stroke and I was often taken to hospital.
Some of my other signs are slurred speech, loss of use of an arm or hand, numbness and tingling in the face, so you can see how like the symptoms of a stroke it can be.

The vision disturbances are similar to those I got when first going very low carb and virtually seeing the sugar leave my eyes. Very odd, but only temporary.

Good information on here which has been reassuring too.
I think the aspirin tip is a good one I know my grandparents used to swear by an aspirin a day and was the first thing I did too when it happened.

Cheers

MrsA2 said:

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't . The vision disturbances is one of the more common precursors that I get. Sometimes if I get my medication quickly, it doesn't progress beyond it.
When I first had my migraines, over 40 years ago now, people around me thought I was having a stroke and I was often taken to hospital.
Some of my other signs are slurred speech, loss of use of an arm or hand, numbness and tingling in the face, so you can see how like the symptoms of a stroke it can be.

The vision disturbances are similar to those I got when first going very low carb and virtually seeing the sugar leave my eyes. Very odd, but only temporary.

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This sounds very much like my migraine. I can look at a page and some words are just missing whilst others are there. Sometimes the quantity of blind spots makes me near blind. It always preceeds a headache and is usually the first warning, following by numbness on one side and or pins and needles which can be all or just part of my body. My speech also suffers and coordination and I become light sensitive. Fast medication might avoid the headache, might not. Headaches from absolute hell, nausea and vomiting often follow. I’m bedridden for a minimum of 6 hrs, sometimes several days with a “hangover after”

It scares me a lot that I could so easily ignore a tia or stroke or clot assuming it was a migraine.