When my teen first started complaining of belly aches that came and went, I chalked it up to stress or maybe something they ate. But when the pain kept showing up in cycles—often intense, sometimes accompanied by nausea or even pale skin—I knew it wasn’t just a random stomach issue. It turns out, what we…
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this odd, almost indescribable sense of imbalance. Not the typical kind you feel after spinning in circles—this was different. It would come in waves, sometimes paired with a dull throbbing in my head or this odd pressure behind one eye. It wasn’t until years later that…
Not all migraines come with the telltale throb. Some are sneakier—disrupting your vision without much (or any) head pain. I remember the first time I had one. I was in a meeting, and suddenly, this weird shimmering zigzag floated into my vision like a screensaver gone rogue. No headache. Just that. A few hours later,…
If you’ve ever experienced a migraine that felt like more than just a headache—like your body short-circuited in a bizarre, unexplainable way—you might’ve run into something called a brainstem aura migraine. I remember the first time it happened to me, and I genuinely thought I was having a stroke. It started with vertigo so intense…
It started with a tingling in my fingertips—nothing major, just something I thought was circulation-related. But within minutes, the left side of my body went limp. I couldn’t lift my arm, my leg dragged, and I couldn’t speak properly. I was 32 and in the middle of a work presentation. What followed was one of…
Ever heard a strange ringing, buzzing, or even music—just before a migraine hits? I used to brush it off as my imagination, until it started happening too often to ignore. That’s when I stumbled into the baffling world of auditory aura migraine symptoms. Most people know about visual auras—those flashing lights or zigzag lines—but fewer…
It hit me out of nowhere—a sudden dimming in one eye, like someone had pulled the blinds halfway down. No pain at first, just a weird, eerie blackout that lasted for about ten minutes. I was mid-sentence in a Zoom meeting, and everything else around me was fine, just that one eye decided to take…
Ever woken up with a migraine pounding behind your eye and your hand feeling like it’s half asleep? I have. It’s one of those weird migraine symptoms that makes you pause—like, wait, is my hand supposed to be tingling like this? The first time it happened to me, I thought I was having a mini…
It was a confusing few months. I’d wake up feeling nauseated for no clear reason, with no headache in sight. Not food poisoning. Not a virus. Definitely not pregnancy. But something was off. If you’ve ever experienced intense nausea that comes out of nowhere—without the usual pounding head pain—you might be dealing with a type…