Posted on 02/18/2011 6:58:30 AM PST by OldDeckHand
Los Angeles reporter Serene Branson has given her first interview since the Grammy night live report that catapulted the KCBS-TV journalist into YouTube fame. “My head was definitely pounding and I was very uncomfortable and I knew something wasn’t right,” Branson told KCBS anchor Pat Harvey Thursday night. “I was terrified and confused. Confused. What had just happened? At that point they sat me down, then my right cheek went numb. My right hand went numb and I lost some sensation in my arm.”
The live report, where Branson become visibly confused and had trouble speaking clearly, led many to fear she’d had a stroke on live television. Branson was checked out by paramedics after the incident, cleared, and sent home. Some have questioned that decision, but Branson says her doctors have determined she suffered a migraine, not a more serious medical problem. As KCBS
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When I worked on the rehab. unit in the hospital, we had a nurse that had migraines, one day she called in sick, she got out of bed and fell to the floor. Seeing that most patience's on rehab are stroke victims she was terrified. It turns out she had a migraine that affected motor control. She was back at work 2 days later.
Symptoms depend on what part of the brain is having vascular problems. The vessels constrict severely and temporarily affect that area of the brain. When the vessels dilate again, the area of the brain is again functioning normally.
Anyone that has migraines know how painful they are, and can even cause temp. blindness...its scary for the one involved.
With stroke the damage is permanent because of a blockage or bleed in the brain. Migraines are vascular problems..
“Anyone that has migraines know how painful they are, and can even cause temp. blindness...its scary for the one involved.”
That is my migraine...loss of vision of about half the view...lasts 1/2 an hour every time....been going on for 35 years! HATE it!
You have my sympathy, they can be horrible. I get cluster headaches rarely, and its like if I could just gouge out my R eye, the pain would go away,(they are always behind my R eye) but its nothing compared to migraines...
My daughter gets migraines all the time and has never had symptoms like those. That sounds like stroke symptoms to me as well. I have an apparently healthy friend that had at stroke at 24, so this reporter should have had it checked out at the time.
“There is a connection between Migraines and epilepsy, but exactly what that connection is has yet to be fully understood.
No, Migraines are not a form of epilepsy or a seizure disorder. Migraine is an independent genetic neurological disease.”
http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/h/silent-migraines-epilepsy.html
‘Scuse my cynicism, but the lady, whatever her health condition, and we all wish her well, has got her 15 minutes of fame, and will or ought to anyway, take advantage, getting talk show invites, book contracts and movies “based on true story” like the ever admired King’s S-s-s-s-speech, with former Mrs Lyle Lovett in the leading role. Ted Williams’ 15 minutes is over, we need new teary eyed melodramas, please!
I have what are called “silent” migraines. (migraines without the pain) Often I get spots/flashing lights in my eyes. Sometimes it gets bad enough that I have to sit down because of the disorientation. I had my eyes checked because I thought I was getting glaucoma and that was causing it, but the tests showed no sign of glaucoma. The doc said the silent migraines (spots/flashing lights are being caused by changes in the tiny blood vessels behind my eyes. Dilating/constricting. I take afternoon naps, and the episodes occur in the the hour after I get up.
They are connected. Lots of people with seizures have migraines.
My daughter was diagnosed with migraines at first, but then was later changed to epilepsy after she had a grand mal and an abnormal EEG.
A lot of the anti-epileptic drugs also treat migraines.
A lot of the triggers (flickering lights, aspartame, caffiene) for seizures also trigger migraines.
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