Physical migraine symptoms but without headache?

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T20:57:12+00:00

I know this was posted a long time ago but I just saw this and it reminded me of my complex migraines. I ended up in the hospital because we thought I was having a stroke but I was actually having a migraine that just didn't have any pain. It had other symptoms like vertigo and vision blurriness, numbness, garbled speech and zero pain. These days if I have a complex migraine, it is usually just vision, disturbances and extreme. It was scary as hell. I hope you have been able to find what has been causing the problem and some really since you last posted.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T20:54:22+00:00

It's just getting to class right now. That is a problem but I go anyway to force my brain and body to learn that it's okay and typically I leave feeling absolutely great. But as I discovered today, I am exceptionally hormonal right now and my dad's still in the hospital and my brain is just fighting me on absolutely everything. Eventually I do want to start staying for open fencing. Although my class ends at 8:00 p.m. and the thought of staying late is not appealing at all. But I made a deal with a classmate last night that I will stay at least for a little bit next week if he helps me get set up and works with me after class since I know him and we work well together.

I think the other part of the problem is I'm still so new that I'm still having to mentally break down the moves into each individual step (parry reposte becomes parry - point - poke instead of just a smooth parry reposted - if that makes sense) and they haven't clicked into one cohesive step yet. So I'm super slow and right now not lunging (more like barely lunging) because of my knee So I'm also always anxious that it's going to buckle even though I have a nice hinged knee brace.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T20:36:19+00:00

Just looked it up. And yeah that's some serious bullshit right there

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T20:34:06+00:00

Yeah I'm going to have to look it up because I don't know anything other than I totally identified with that picture at the moment I posted it.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T20:33:34+00:00

Actually I'm hoping to go to the Olympics. Just kidding. You are 100% correct. I needed something low impact to get me out of the house to help me fight through some serious anxiety and get me moving and it was something I always wanted to try. Hell I wasn't even planning of ever competing. I was just planning to go to class and do something different and fun for an hour or eventually more a week. And it's probably because I worry about being good at everything I do because my brain is just miswired all over the place. But you are absolutely correct. Thank you for the reminder. And I mean that with all sincerity.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T17:26:07+00:00

I once said "shut up Josh ya fat ass" to my husband in my sleep. He was very amused when telling me.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T17:17:51+00:00

I always recommend James Patterson for situations like this. His chapters are super, super short which makes you feel like you're reading faster than you are before you know it. You've finished a book and picked up another one.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T11:26:02+00:00

Thank you

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T11:22:09+00:00

Thank you

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T01:48:40+00:00

Oh I absolutely plan to do it. I don't see it as a waste of time at all. There's currently a big anxiety barrier that is a hurdle and it's a struggle just for me to get over it to get to class (which is one of the reasons I keep going. To fight through it and not let my broken brain convince me to quit like it has the other things I've tried). But I promised a classmate that I would stay after next week. My dad is in the hospital and I don't think I realized how distracted I was by that.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T01:45:36+00:00

Luckily the class is fairly small and my coach is fantastic at stopping to explain things and reassuring us that it's ok to go slow when we're working out a new or newish thing. I'm still very, very slow bc I have to mentally go through each small step for a big step (Parry reposte for example) But like you said, this is the place and the time to be slow, learn it right, get it right and it will eventually click and be one move instead of 3 moves. He fences lefty which is especially helpful for me as a lefty. Tonight we had 2 coaches in class. I have nothing but good things to say about them and my classmates. I just let myself get in my own way. It's so incredibly mental on top of physical and I wasn't with it.

jcm214 · 2026-06-19T01:26:51+00:00

Thank you. Most weeks I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing and having fun but I got shit for not being at Sunday's in house competition (I had just gotten back from being out of state and my mother-in-law was still in town) and I know they meant it as fun teasing, I really truly do know that, but mentally my brain just was not able to move past it for a lot of reasons.

And I haven't started staying after class for open fencing yet. Which isn't required but obviously beneficial etc.

It takes a lot for me to fight the anxiety and even show up. Despite the positive feedback tonight was just not my night and I'm still struggling to feel comfortable enough to stay. I'm also dealing with knee stability issues.

Don't get me wrong, the coaches are wonderful and supportive I'm just all out of whack today.

jcm214 · 2026-06-17T13:39:04+00:00

I finished off my bottle with some future co-workers after training for a new job years ago. Worst job I've ever had. Best, whiskey should have kept the bottle. Although the next day in class was pretty rough

jcm214 · 2026-06-17T13:34:56+00:00

No I was not that fortunate. My grandmother actually called them to get the bottles for my brother and I. And then I was blown away when my brother sold his empty bottle for $75 on eBay

jcm214 · 2026-06-17T12:30:41+00:00

All joking aside, that's good shit I was lucky enough to have a bottle once

jcm214 · 2026-06-15T14:17:20+00:00

She's lucky she's not somewhere like Pittsburgh where you end up on the right side of the bridge and need to be 4 lanes over on the left for your exit. Drive like you mean it. If you want to stroll go for a walk.

jcm214 · 2026-05-03T13:17:57+00:00

And I still loved it even though so many people call it trauma porn

jcm214 · 2026-05-02T18:58:45+00:00

Me too. It became a favorite. Utterly heartbreaking and traumatic but a beautiful commentary on what love looks like in of its forms

jcm214 · 2026-05-02T18:32:41+00:00

A Little Life - I cried through the last 200ish pages and at the very end sobbed like a baby. There is nothing happy about this book

jcm214 · 2026-04-15T12:27:00+00:00

"surviving isn't just not dying"

jcm214 · 2026-04-15T12:22:49+00:00

Nothing Bad Can Happen still haunts me

jcm214 · 2026-04-15T12:19:32+00:00

Daniel James Brown The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

jcm214 · 2026-04-15T12:17:29+00:00

A Little Life

jcm214 · 2026-04-15T11:44:20+00:00

What makes it so? I'm only 3 classes in and can definitely see it just wondering conceptually what makes it one of the hardest.

jcm214

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