Ocular migraine with aura without headache...But because I am who I am, I immediately think: brain tumor, blood clot, MS, epilepsy, strokes, etc. ...Reactions0reactionsComments3 repliesSymptomsAuraEpisodic
Living with migraines for 25 years...Late in the fall of 2008, I began to have absence seizure - like episodes, and he diagnosed me as having epilepsy (even though several EEG's came back...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
Tough Cookie...I tried everything for this headache from epilepsy medications to blood pressure medications to anti-depressants to dietary changes to acupuncture to essential...Reactions0reactionsComments5 comments
This has helped. Science behind it according to book......He discussed research on ketogenic diet and it's impact on kids with epilepsy, which is also disorder with "hyper-sensitive" brain....Reactions0reactionsComments11 comments
Chronic Pain, Fatigue, and Isolation...Levy wrote in his book that an anti-epilepsy drug stopped his migraines, but he stopped taking it because it made him behave erratically....Reactions0reactionsComments7 comments
Social group and boyfriend still tries to get me to drink alcohol ...One is that I also have epilepsy and two is that both my mother and brother are recovering addicts and I was advised not to drink since I was...Reactions0reactionsComments1 replies
The Physician's Burden: Diagnosis...I answered “no” to the neurologic question, which usually lists a condition such as epilepsy or refers to having seizures....Reactions0reactionsComments5 comments
Butters, The Amazing and Now Fully Registered Service Dog and Emotional Support Animal...Many people associate service dogs with more debilitating conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes and PTSD in our service men and women, having a migraine...Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
New Double Vision migraines that lasts hours now daily with or without pain...I have epilepsy with myoclonic seizures. Thanks Diana...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesDiagnosisNewly DiagnosedSymptoms
Topiramate withdrawal...They once thought I had epilepsy as I have had 3 concussions from fainting. I know paresthesia is supposed to be common on topamax....Reactions0reactionsComments42 replies
Mood Issues/Emotional Auras?...placement of it right where my other aura symptoms are suggests that it's one of them but emotional auras seem to be rare in migraine, and more common in Reactions0reactionsComments11 replies
Frequent migraine aura with little or no headache...I also see a neurologist that I’ve seen because I have had an epilepsy diagnosis since 2013....Reactions0reactionsComments12 repliesAura
My neurologist says Migraine is a spectrum brain disease. Do you agree it's like epilepsy in nature?...Reactions0reactionsComments3 replies
First-time poster, caregiver and mom needs advice...students in her fifth grade has had migraines in the last few weeks and another girl has had a grand mal seizure with a diagnosis of benign childhood epilepsy...Reactions0reactionsComments4 replies
TOO MANY YEARS............nerve issues down both legs to my toes, carpel tunnel syndrome-both wrists...plus hereditary migraines....father, grandmother and a second cousin who had Epilepsy...Reactions0reactionsComments3 comments
Can hemiplegic migraine cause pain in one side of the body along with weakness?...My psychiatrist said it's epilepsy, but my last neurologist thought it might be hemiplegic migraine....Reactions0reactionsComments4 replies
The Migraine Dirty Dozen: 12 Things Not to Say to a Chronic Migraineur...Please, let's not take this back to the dark ages when epilepsy was "demon possession" and "hysterical" women with tight corsets suffering from "the vapors...Reactions0reactionsComments375 comments
Need some advice on my diagnosis...Anyway, Dr Google says anything from epilepsy to ms!...Reactions0reactionsComments1 repliesDiagnosis
Headaches for Four Months Driving Me to Health Anxiety...He took me off the medicine for epilepsy and prescribes klonopin (usually anti anxiety?)...Reactions0reactionsComments5 repliesDiagnosis
Community Health Leaders...Erica Carrasco, aka Achy Smile, lives with hemiplegic migraine, a subtype of migraine with aura that mimics stroke and epilepsy....
