Aura Migraine and Scintillating Scotoma

[ksar...@gmail.com]

3 nights ago I had something that felt like a stroke!!! I went to
gymnastics for the first time after the baby. I sat at the computer
and all of a sudden I could not see the part of the screen I was
focussing on. It was like a blind spot!!! I ran to the mirror and when
I looked, I could not see the right side of my face in the mirror!!!
Then I saw this zig zag thing full of different colors in my visual
plane.. NO I WAS NOT ON DRUGS!! So I ran to the living room and
noticed that it was still happeneing when I closed my eyes! So it must
be a brain thing.. I was frantic! I could see some light out of my
right eye but there was a hole in my vision where there was nothing. I
did an experiment. I put both my hands to the sides and looked
straight. I could see my left hand in my peripheral vision but my
right hand was missing... It was just a whole bunch or weird freaky
things going on with my vision. I also felt light headed and woozy..
Then we called an ambulance. When they came I had been seing funny
shit for 10 mintes now and it finally started to calm down. Then I got
aphasia.. meaning I could not find the right words.. It was like a
mental block and I was stuttering! So we decided to tell the ambulance
to leave and then decided to drive to the hospital. They did mention
that my blood sugar was low so I drank some juice. My balance was fine
I do remember that. So I still could not talk or focus well on the way
and when I got there my right arm went numb.. I started flailing
around for my life! I was not going to go numb!! I started shaking my
hand and loosing it till the feeling came back.. They did
bloodpressure, bloodsugar (both on the low side) then finaly an hour
or so later my speech became normal again. then they did a CT on my
brain and it was fine.. They called it an optical migraine.. These
kind of migraines have no pain but they happen when blood flow to the
brain is affected. (maybe gymnastics? Stress? Not sleeping enough?) It
was really scary and I'm worried that it might be something more..
Also I've been having PVC's for 3 weeks and I hear that it could limit
the amount of exegenated blood the the brain..
I have not been taking any drugs or alcohol or anything.. The only
thing I used to have a lot is aspartame but I've cut it out
completely..

[bluej...@gmail.com]

Yikes, ss is such a freak esp the first one.
Were you given any shots around the birth of your baby? Like rhogam,
dtap or flu?
My ss started shortly after receiving a tetanus shot, which is loaded
with mercury. SS is a symptom of mercury overload in the body.
Interesting your blood sugar was low, I have hypoglycemia issues too
and ss can show up when I am fatigued or stressed. The other symptoms
are disconcerting, I had chalked it up to being upset by the ss but
maybe it is part of the whole picture? Racing heart, anxious, etc.
What are PVCs?
J

[jokel...@gmail.com]

I have had one of these attacks this severe but about twenty years
ago. My allergist told me, "sometimes you can have severe symptoms.
What you had was stroke like symptoms due to the blood vessels
expanding and blocking your vision, and contracting restricting. My
left side, face, lips, arm and leg went numb. I thought I was having a
serious attack of something but it subsided hours later. It was the
most scary of all episodes. I had one that lasted for 6 days, I stayed
in bed ten hours, got up, ate, went back to bed and on the seventh
day, went to the doctor. No eye scintillating scotoma but the
migraine. He gave me samples of VIOXX. The think was a god send! And
low and behold, Merck took it off the market because a few people died
on it. Low and behold, all the people that died on it were OLD!
HELLOOOOoo! The people that died I say again, were OLD! Like they
probably were going to die anyway, but because so many took vioxx,
they took it off the market. Case and point, I'll be if you studied,
you'd find that out of every heart attack across america, a large
portion took one type of the same drug like tylenol just before death.
Tylenol's fault? I think not. Just the fact the people were going to
die anyway. Their next of kin were probably just looking to cash in
and once the first lawyer put up the lawsuit against Merck, Merck
caved. Vioxx was the best drug I have ever taken for my migraines. So
was Seldane for my alergy sinus problems as a kid. But low and behold,
a few OLD people had a heart attack and died when it was mixed with
erythromycin, the penacylin. (spelling) So, they took Seldane off the
market too. Go figure. I remember all the lawyers on the TV news
gearing up to sue the makers of Seldane because it was found that the
two prescribed together, caused possible heart attacks. GEEZE! You
think you'd just put that on the label as a warning or warn the people
through the media or the doctors that prescribe it. But no, be really
quick to snap and just take off the best drugs off the market and let
us all wishing to die in misery while we wait for the pain to subside
so we can go on and be like everyone else in life.

I think law suits and lawyers in suits are the problem. Let drug
companies do their job and some of us will enjoy life much more. I'm
47! I don't expect to last forever. And if heart risk is in my family,
then excersize and eatting right will prolong my life. EVEN WITH VIOXX
AND SELDANE IN MY SYSTEM! OKAY Sharks! Go sue someone for something
worth while! Not the drug companies. Without them, I'd be in hell
every day.

PS. Don't reply to this email. I'm just borrowing someone's computer.

Thanks.

Shawn

[gi...@ualberta.ca]

I started getting this in 2008. What I have is very similar to what you experienced, but I don't feel at all numb. I see hook shaped flashing colors in the right part of my vision, followed closely by a migraine, and once, I had trouble speaking. I would intend to say one thing, and say something else entirely, and I was not able to write a decent text, while also experiencing short-term memory loss. I had thought that this was just Scintillating Scotoma, but I've found that the speech issues are also related, known as Expressive Aphasia. It has occurred anywhere between twice a day, to once every 6 months.