Speaking Gobblygook During Migraine

By The Migraine Girl

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While I have difficulty finding words during many attacks, usually I'm talking to friends, my husband, or my coworkers when it first happens. (When I'm at one of my bookshops and I begin to notice this happening, I will try to get another bookseller to take over any duties that involve speaking to humans coherently, and I'll work on another task as long as I feel well enough.)

My most recent experience with aphasia

A few months ago, I went to my favorite burrito place and held up the line the tiniest bit because I couldn't think of basic vocabulary words. Watch here:

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christine.laaksonenCommunity Admin
<inline-mention username="janegent50" user-id="9753442"/>, what an unnerving experience that must've been at 11 when you first showed these symptoms. And between the chronic migraine with aura and frontal lobe epilepsy you have been managing a lot these past forty plus years. It sounds like it would be exhausting trying to mask it every day! Thank you for being a part of the community and sharing here. Wishing you a gentle day! -- Warmly, Christine (Team Member)
janegent50Member
Literally all the time! I started with it when I was 11 years old, I’m now 52 and it’s still going strong. I start sentences in the middle, stop before they are finished, can never think of words. This is an everyday thing for me. I have chronic migraine with aura and many other things it throws at you. I also have frontal lobe epilepsy which developed during a visual aura session when I was a child also. I can mask it to a certain extent but I drift in and out of reality with it. So I totally hear you!
PaminAZMember
<inline-mention username="benny-bivins" user-id="3681787"/> I worked in broadcasting for a few years. I can’t imagine dealing with a migraine during a game. PBP is hard enough without a screaming head. Add to that the noise from the game. It was fortunate your b’cast partner knew you well enough to ‘Get It’!
christine.laaksonenCommunity Admin
<inline-mention username="PaminAZ" user-id="3852943"/> what a frustrating and upsetting experience! I'm so sorry that you went through all of that. That being said, I'm so glad that you were finally granted disability in 2020. Wishing you a gentle day. -- Warmly, Christine (Team Member)
CommunityMember868Member
I hear you. When my children were in high school, they both had a very peculiar look on their faces after I had said something (no idea what now, too long ago). When I asked what was wrong, they asked what it was I had wanted to say and I repeated it. They were "Oooh!" I asked why and they told me that was nowhere near what I had originally said and they said it was like I was speaking some unknown language. So frustrating.