Hi All, My name is Laura I'm 29 years old and I started getting migraines when I was 13. They went undiagnosed for 2 years. I still remember my first one. I was sleeping and woke up feeling Real Bad, I was calling for my mother, I knew in my head what I was saying, but it was coming out all wrong, I mean they were nothing close to English words. My mom got real nervous as I had fallen out of a tree that afternoon, she thought I was having a seizure. My dad was not home and my Mom does not drive, so she picked me up ran me down to a neighbors house, Left my 15 year old brother to watch my 4 year old sister. By the time we got to the ER I was able to talk, I was numb and had a headache, and was vomiting. The ER doctors said "she has a virus and that is probably just normal for her when she has an upset stomach"! Well, This went on for 2 years and my mom decided to take me to a neurologist after reading about migraines, she was convinced thats what I had. He put me on Inderal and it seemed to help alittle. Then when I was 17 I had to have surgery and during the surgery I had seizures. I was put on dilation for them and then switched to tegrotal. I did not have anymore seizures but the tegrotal was helping my migraines. I was getting them less often and less severe. So I stayed on it. When I became Pregnant in 1992 I was taken off the tegrotel, and had the worst migraines ever. My OB talked to my nureo. and they put me back on a lower dose. They figured the med. cannot be any worse then not eating and they did not know the effects a migraine may have on an unborn baby, and there was some testing of tegrotal but not in humans. Anyway, I stopped the tegrotal when my son was a few months old. I still get migraines, Real bad at times. I get the vision disturbances, numbness. A few times I have gotten the numbness only or the vision disturbance only and that really scares me. Anyone else have that? As for Meds. My doctors were always afraid to try the typical migraine meds because I have a congenital heart defect. I found a doc now that feels they are safe for me, because the warnings are for heart diseases not birth defects. Imtrix did not work for me, but Amerge works very well. Almost like a miracle sometimes. Yes, there are times that nothing helps, but Amerge works well for me most of the time. Sorry this is so long. Laura