ElectricDoodie
Member
This is the craziest thing that has happened to me. Just wanted to share.
I'd first like to let people know that I've always been intrigued with neurological things, mainly disorders. My biggest interest is Amnesia, and I want to have it for a very short period of time, one day (like 1 day.) Which is why I don't usually drink, but when I do, I get black out wasted everytime, so that I can get a glimpse of what it's like to completely forget everything you did for a few hours. It's such a fun and different feeling.
Also, while in a psychology class, we talked about some disorders where people lose abilities that they always had, such as losing the ability read, understand language, speak, write, etc... To me, that never made sense. How can you know what to say, yet when you go to say it, you can't put it out of your mouth? How can you not know how to control your mouth, and make it form the words that you are thinking!?
Well, this is where my story comes in.
-Symptom#1: On Tuesday, I left campus, and went to my wife's office to meet her. While there, I noticed I had a blind spot in my left eye. Kind of like when you look at the sun, and you can't see things for a bit.
-Symptom#2: We then got in the car, and I started driving, I noticed my right hand went numb. Then the right side of my lips. Then my forearm, and ceiling of my mouth. Eventually my tongue and bottom of the inside of my mouth. At this point, I told my wife she should drive, cause this was really weird. At first I thought it was just a random weird thing, that it was just getting numb. But then, things went even stranger.
-Symptom#3: While talking to my wife, I noticed that I was having trouble saying words. Like I kept stumbling over wrong syllables. I realized I literally was unable to talk normally. I could get like 2-3 words out, and the rest was complete gibberish. I then started reading billboard out loud, to see how bad it was. I could think of the words, and read them in my head, but as soon as I tried to put them out, my mouth just did its own thing.
-Symptoms#whatever: After about 20 minutes total, everything went back to normal. And 15 minutes after, I started getting a headache on the left side of my brain, and puking. We looked online, and it seems like I had a Minor-Stroke. Awesome. So my wife insisted I go to the hospital, even though I didn't want to, because I'm stubborn for some reason.
In the end, we found out I had a Complex Migraine. Pretty much, your brain muscles spasm and cut off circulation to your brain, making things go crazy, and it actually mimics a stroke, without the detrimental effects after a real stroke. Afterwards, you get a hardcore headache, along with puking.
I had to go through an MRI to make sure it wasn't a stroke, and that thing was awesome. Everyone complained that there is a bunch of magnets banging against the walls, but it actually sounds like techno... I even fell a little asleep in there, after 30 mins.
I'm actually a very laid back person. When I was talking gibberish, I was actually cracking up. I must've looked like a retard, saying gibberish things, and then just laughing at myself. The whole experience was fun, and I got to be on the other side of the "person can't speak, even though he can" thing, but it was also kinda scary once you wait for the MRI results, hoping there's nothing serious in there. I hope it never happens again, since once is enough.
While in the hospital, everyone kept asking me, "Oh, so the same thing happened to you, as the reporter?"
I had no idea what they were talking about, so I looked it up, and here it is. To anyone wondering, and hasn't seen it, this is EXACTLY what I sounded like. She also had Complex Migraine, even though people called it a stroke when it first happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkYzNQrj0k
I'd first like to let people know that I've always been intrigued with neurological things, mainly disorders. My biggest interest is Amnesia, and I want to have it for a very short period of time, one day (like 1 day.) Which is why I don't usually drink, but when I do, I get black out wasted everytime, so that I can get a glimpse of what it's like to completely forget everything you did for a few hours. It's such a fun and different feeling.
Also, while in a psychology class, we talked about some disorders where people lose abilities that they always had, such as losing the ability read, understand language, speak, write, etc... To me, that never made sense. How can you know what to say, yet when you go to say it, you can't put it out of your mouth? How can you not know how to control your mouth, and make it form the words that you are thinking!?
Well, this is where my story comes in.
-Symptom#1: On Tuesday, I left campus, and went to my wife's office to meet her. While there, I noticed I had a blind spot in my left eye. Kind of like when you look at the sun, and you can't see things for a bit.
-Symptom#2: We then got in the car, and I started driving, I noticed my right hand went numb. Then the right side of my lips. Then my forearm, and ceiling of my mouth. Eventually my tongue and bottom of the inside of my mouth. At this point, I told my wife she should drive, cause this was really weird. At first I thought it was just a random weird thing, that it was just getting numb. But then, things went even stranger.
-Symptom#3: While talking to my wife, I noticed that I was having trouble saying words. Like I kept stumbling over wrong syllables. I realized I literally was unable to talk normally. I could get like 2-3 words out, and the rest was complete gibberish. I then started reading billboard out loud, to see how bad it was. I could think of the words, and read them in my head, but as soon as I tried to put them out, my mouth just did its own thing.
-Symptoms#whatever: After about 20 minutes total, everything went back to normal. And 15 minutes after, I started getting a headache on the left side of my brain, and puking. We looked online, and it seems like I had a Minor-Stroke. Awesome. So my wife insisted I go to the hospital, even though I didn't want to, because I'm stubborn for some reason.
In the end, we found out I had a Complex Migraine. Pretty much, your brain muscles spasm and cut off circulation to your brain, making things go crazy, and it actually mimics a stroke, without the detrimental effects after a real stroke. Afterwards, you get a hardcore headache, along with puking.
I had to go through an MRI to make sure it wasn't a stroke, and that thing was awesome. Everyone complained that there is a bunch of magnets banging against the walls, but it actually sounds like techno... I even fell a little asleep in there, after 30 mins.
I'm actually a very laid back person. When I was talking gibberish, I was actually cracking up. I must've looked like a retard, saying gibberish things, and then just laughing at myself. The whole experience was fun, and I got to be on the other side of the "person can't speak, even though he can" thing, but it was also kinda scary once you wait for the MRI results, hoping there's nothing serious in there. I hope it never happens again, since once is enough.
While in the hospital, everyone kept asking me, "Oh, so the same thing happened to you, as the reporter?"
I had no idea what they were talking about, so I looked it up, and here it is. To anyone wondering, and hasn't seen it, this is EXACTLY what I sounded like. She also had Complex Migraine, even though people called it a stroke when it first happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkYzNQrj0k