Real Life: I'm paralysed by strip lights in supermarkets, offices and hospitals
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Real Life: I'm paralysed by strip lights in supermarkets, offices and hospitals
I am sure a lot of you will relate to this story......
Jan 1 2012 by Zoe Chamberlain, Sunday Mercury
MY FACE dropped, I couldn’t move my arm and I lost my speech. I was scared to death.
Everything happened at once and so suddenly. There was no pain, then an almighty headache.
My wife, Hilary, thought I was having a stroke. She called 999 and I was rushed to hospital.
It was September 2010, and I had no idea what was happening to me. That was the most frightening thing.
By the time I was halfway to hospital in the ambulance my symptoms started disappearing. I heard the paramedics say they didn’t think it was a stroke. That was good news, at least, but something was terribly wrong.
I was put on a ward and I was very fortunate that one of the few specialists in migraines was there. He said I was one of only three patients he’d ever seen with a migraine variant known as hemiplegic migraine. It’s a form of migraine that causes stroke-like symptoms.
Panic
My wife and I don’t tend to panic right away, but this was alarming.
My arm remained paralysed for about a week. The spasm when the migraine hit had been so great that it had gone straight to the nerve in my shoulder.
A physiotherapist worked on it and I heard a massive crack as it released.
I thought it was broken but I could move it again after that. It still took three to four weeks before I was able to go back to work as a fire prevention officer. Since then I’ve had almost permanent headache.
Fluorescent lighting is the worst trigger for me. It means I struggle to do simple things like go shopping.
http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/health-news/2012/01/01/real-life-i-m-paralysed-by-strip-lights-in-supermarkets-offices-and-hospitals-66331-30039334/
Jan 1 2012 by Zoe Chamberlain, Sunday Mercury
MY FACE dropped, I couldn’t move my arm and I lost my speech. I was scared to death.
Everything happened at once and so suddenly. There was no pain, then an almighty headache.
My wife, Hilary, thought I was having a stroke. She called 999 and I was rushed to hospital.
It was September 2010, and I had no idea what was happening to me. That was the most frightening thing.
By the time I was halfway to hospital in the ambulance my symptoms started disappearing. I heard the paramedics say they didn’t think it was a stroke. That was good news, at least, but something was terribly wrong.
I was put on a ward and I was very fortunate that one of the few specialists in migraines was there. He said I was one of only three patients he’d ever seen with a migraine variant known as hemiplegic migraine. It’s a form of migraine that causes stroke-like symptoms.
Panic
My wife and I don’t tend to panic right away, but this was alarming.
My arm remained paralysed for about a week. The spasm when the migraine hit had been so great that it had gone straight to the nerve in my shoulder.
A physiotherapist worked on it and I heard a massive crack as it released.
I thought it was broken but I could move it again after that. It still took three to four weeks before I was able to go back to work as a fire prevention officer. Since then I’ve had almost permanent headache.
Fluorescent lighting is the worst trigger for me. It means I struggle to do simple things like go shopping.
http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/health-news/2012/01/01/real-life-i-m-paralysed-by-strip-lights-in-supermarkets-offices-and-hospitals-66331-30039334/
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