I have secondary progressive MS and also silent migraines with aura. Don’t know if there is a connection
Hi Nat, I know I am like yrs late in commenting on your post, but what you are describing sounds EXACTLY like what I went through when I started having the worst of what I have since been diagnosed with as Hemiplegic Migraines. Back in 2001, I went a couple weeks with blurred vision, then (I’m an RN by trade), I had worked night shift on a Friday night, slept that Sat. during the day, and went shopping. I was wondering around in a daze, SO tired, and saw my sis, and felt like I could barely speak. When I got up that Sunday to go to church, I couldn’t walk a straight line because my left arm and leg were numb and weren’t working, so I called my friend to tell her I wouldn’t be there. She said if she didn’t know me so well, she’d swear I’d been on a three day drinking binge! She came and took me to the ER, and they said nothing was wrong, it was all in my head. I had numbness, severe burning pain, and various degrees of partial paralysis in my left arm and leg for about 3 months, and was considering getting a cane, as I would have to hold onto furniture just to walk through my house! I lost my job and my house, and my Dad moved me into one of his apartment houses. With a negative MRI (except a 17mm pineal cyst, which scared my family, LOL), they initially diagnosed complicated migraines, until a specialist changed it to hemiplegic migraines. But that initial migraine lasted 3 months, until they started me on Depakote (I’m now on Topamax). Once I started on that, it was like someone flipped a switch, and the symptoms immediately started to abate! A few yrs later, another neurologist said he highly suspected, that even though it did not show on the MRI, that I had had a migrainous stroke, reason why it had lasted that long, even though it’s not on my medical record. I struggled with HM since, until I found that CBD oil 500mg in a vape pen seems to really kick the migraines. Unfortunately, I’m searching the threads now because the paraesthesias are getting worse again, and I am also getting back pain followed by electric shock sensations all over my body as well at night that prevent me from sleeping. I have also recently had the return of another symptom I had very early on that never returned until now-the feeling of something wrapping around my middle so tight I can’t breathe…and wondering, as I did at first, if MS could be involved here. Good luck and blessings to you, hope you are doing better!
I definitely think you should consider looking into CBD oil like Lis. It has been known to help with the migraine symptom: https://kononaturals.com/cbd-oil-for-migraines/