Complicated migraine- speech impaired/ loss, numb hands/legs...

There are many variants of migraine,
the best known is migraine with visual aura, sometimes called optical migraine, which occurs in 20%-30%
of all migraines
and migraine without aura which is most common form and makes for 60%-80% of all of them.

Between the classic forms of migraine with visual aura and without aura, there are less known forms of migraine
such as

~ Basilar Artery Migraine, now called Basilar Type Migraine

http://www.relieve-migraine-headache.com/basilar-artery-migraines.html

symptoms may include but are not limited to:
-vertigo
-temporary blindness
-or double vision
-impairment of consciousness, even loss of consciousness
-lack of coordination
-numbing on one side of your body
-losing the balance
-changes in hearing and speech
-appear intoxicated

~ Hemiplegic Migraine
This type of migraine is characteristic mainly by its one-sided paralysis and symptoms resembling stroke,
also loss of body coordination.
For someone who's never heard of migraines before, particularly of this type, the symptoms can be very scary.
Also, in this particular type of migraine an aura can last a long time- days, even weeks.

http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/types-of-headaches-38571-5.html
http://headaches.about.com/lw/Health-Medicine/Conditions-and-diseases/All-About-Hemiplegic-Migraine-Headaches.htm

symptoms may include but are not limited to:
-paralysis or numbness on one side of the body
-numbness in hand or arm or other extremities
-numb half face, cheek, tongue, etc
-mental confusion
-loss of concentration
-impaired consciousness, sometimes loss of consciousness
-inability to form words
-impaired speech
-severe headache
-dizziness
-loss of balance and coordination
-fever

~ Abdominal Migraine
This type of migraine is most common in children, rarer in adults.
It's basically the same migraine as regular migraine only the pain is located in the abdomen not in the head.

http://www.relieve-migraine-headache.com/abdominal-migraine.html
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5316867_adult-abdominal-migraine-symptoms.html

~ Cluster Headaches

It's a series of extremely painful headaches located behind the eye, which feels like somebody is being stabbed
with an ice pick or a sharp knife.
The series follow in clusters- hence the name- between them are shorter or longer breaks.

As opposed in migraine where slightest movement worsens the pain, cluster sufferers prefer to rock or pace
to ease their pain.
Oxygen masks are very helpful for this type of headache.

http://prc.canadianpaincoalition.ca/en/cluster_headache.html


Other migraine variants:

~ Silent migraine (acephalgic)
It's migraine without a head pain, usually mostly aura itself.
http://headaches.about.com/lw/Health-Medicine/Conditions-and-diseases/What-is-a-Silent-Migraine-.htm

and, perhaps, not strictly according to the IHS criteria, but still recognized as some type of migraine
~ Vestibular/Vertiginous Migraine
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/specialty_areas/vestibular/conditions/vestibular_migraine.html

Please feel free to add more.

Risa

I'd saymine are definitely complicated. At one point I was so clumsy and had so much visual disturbance that they thought I had MS.

I have basilar type migraines and it took me 12 years before I could convince a doc that my symptoms were real! There are days when I still doubt myself. L

I'm with you JM. When it was determined I didn't have MS I was sent to a psychiatrist.