Thursday, March 10, 2011

Complex migraines: Searing pain, disrupted speech
By Val Willingham, CNN
March 9, 2011 8:19 a.m. EST

(CNN) -- Barbara A. Mosgrave of Annandale, Virginia, doesn't remember the first time it happened. It's still a blur. But she thinks the episodes began about 50 years ago. At least that's when she remembers someone telling her she was talking gibberish.

"My friends would look at me and say 'What are you talking about?'

At 71, Mosgrave knows to expect the unexpected. Since she was a teen she has suffered from serious migraines. "The kind that cause you to go into a dark room, and shut the door; the pain is that bad," she says. But she knew how to control them, and why they were happening. Yet, when it came to her speech, that was different.

"I had no idea that I was babbling," she admits.

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