Barbara a. Mosgrave of Annandale, Virginia, remember not the first time, it happened. It is still a blur. But it think that the episodes began 50 years ago. At least it is if it reminds, that someone told him that she spoke gibberish.
"My friends would look at me and say" what are you talking about? “”.
White at 71, Mosgrave, to expect the unexpected. Since then, she was a teenager, she suffered from severe migraines. "The kind that bring in a dark room and close the door;" "Pain is so bad," she said. But she knew how and why they go to. But, when it came to his speech, it was different.
You confesses: "I had no idea that I was babbling,".
But as it began, it sometimes say it doesn't make sense, she started me on issues; Why his words and phrases that come all were wrong? In particular Mosgrave thought of the mini strokes have the same, but if she all went many neurologists said: she suffered to migraine classified as complex a form of headache.
"What makes different complex migraine common migraine is neurological event is the headache itself," says Dr. Marc Schlosberg, neurologist at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. and doctor of the Mosgrave.
After suffering the Studienstiftung headache 23 million Americans at a form of unusual migraine, characterized as could be complex. This headache is more frequent in women and can occur at any age.
Although it various forms of complex migraines a ne is, occur when there is blood to expand ships, a drop of blood of the brain or the n. trigeminal nerve, found in the brain and the head of the sensation of the face, is angry,
"It can affect virtually any part of the brain," notes Schlosberg. "Depression spread"It is a complex chemical reaction, which we call the"." A part of the brain hyper-polarize. "The part of the brain gets blood supply, because the brain is not properly signaling."
These migraine symptoms can vary from cold hands and feet, dull pain, loss of sensation and paralysis, weakness, and nausea. Began to talk blah in a direct fire for the Mosgrave and the quiet Branson journalist, after the Grammys, was to talk about the ability of affected.
"Migraine with this type of speech deficit associated can be understood in the same way that the strokes can be understood," explains Schlosberg. "Different types of language problems occur that different parts of the brain are affected."
"When the journalist for the Grammys, the nature of the problem of speech, which is what we called the Wernicke aphasia," still Schlosberg. "His speech was fluent, but the words that had been out absurd."
And complicated migraine can go hand in hand with a number of other serious illnesses, including depression, strokes, heart disease itself. And this concerns Mosgrave.
"If you know what migraine, like me,"Mosgrave said"you know, that there is a connection to many different problems." "How can you not think those?"
Although migraine itself can be treated with drugs, drugs not always foolproof steps. Although drugs on the episodes and in some cases, which can be pain, which can cut complex migraine, all drugs pop-up on a patient.
Mosgrave says that she never know when an episode occur. In most cases she is alone with only his cat, psyche, but also his girlfriends, "Cocks head on the side", as if I just sounds, Mosgrave giggles.
"they seemingly not much occur," thought. "Maybe only two or three times a year." When I think that they are produced are I only on the ground and try to make it happen.
Schlosberg said: for the Mosgrave that the absurd words not limited to only his speech. In the years Schlosberg e-Mails received from Mosgrave, complete words, to have no sense. He said that it is very rare.
Although Mosgrave, says that she has learned life with these headaches, there is always this concern that complex migraine precursors can be something more dangerous. They lost their partner, there are almost 30 years of a stroke. He was also migraine
"It is frightening," Mosgrave says with a sigh. "But he must live with it, it's the same with many things in this world to life".