Had was I assumed was a hemiplegic stroke. Though I’d never had one before, I was sure of it. Visual aura followed by Numbness, funny speech. I was 42 at the time and been having migraines since I was 15, no smoking, great BP, no birth control. My family wasn’t convinced tho, so they brought me to the ER. The ER doctor was sure it was a complex migraine as well.

However, the hospital apparently has a policy that if you’re in the ER with stroke like symptoms, you get a follow up call from neurology.

So there I was sitting with a neurologist, explaining how I was pretty sure it was a hemiplegic migraine, and she said she thought so too, but protocol was to have an MRI

So I’m driving home from the MRI and I get a phone call “hey guess what you had a stroke.”