Symptoms
- Auditory aura symptoms
- Body image distu...
- Depersonalization and der...
- Dreaming disturb...
- Perception of the pain of nocturnal migraine attacks during dreams
- Unusual powerful, vivid or weird dreams associated with migraine headaches
- Nightmares associated with migraine headaches
- Recurring dreams as migraine aura experiences
- Migraine aura symptoms experienced whilst dreaming
- Other disturbances of dreaming associated with migraine
- Felt presences
- Forced reminiscence
- Gustatory aura symptoms
- Language symptoms
- Motor symptoms
- Olfactory aura symptoms
- Other disturbances of hig...
- Paramnesias
- Sleepwalking
- Somatosensory symptoms
- Speech symptoms
- Synaesthesia
- Time perception disturban...
- Visual hallucina...
- Random form dimension
- Line form dimension
- Curve form dimension
- Web form dimension
- Lattice form dimension
- Tunnel form dimension
- Spiral form dimension
- Kaleidoscope form dimension
- Complex visual hallucinations
- Visual illusions
- Autokinesis
- Cinematographic vision
- Corona phenomenon
- Diplopia
- Dysmetropsia
- Facial metamorphopsia
- Illusory visual splitting
- Metamorphopsia
- Mosaic illusion
- Polyopia
- Tilted vision, inverted vision and other forms of illusory rotation
- Visual perseveration
- Visual loss
| Author: Klaus Podoll | 29. March 2005 |
| Edited by: Klaus Podoll |
Somatosensory symptoms
Somatosensory migraine aura symptoms are fully reversible sensory symptoms including positive features (i.e., pins and needles) and/or negative features (i.e., numbness).
Unilateral sensory symptoms are a characteristic feature of typical aura with migraine headache, whereas simultaneously bilateral paraesthesias occur in basilar-type migraine.
Visual aura with scintillating scotoma (above) and somatosensory aura with digitolingual syndrome (below) from left to right in their successive stages of development. Reproduced from Egilius L.H. Spierings, Management of Migraine, 1996. © 1996 Egilius L.H. Spierings
A typical presentation of the somatosensory aura is the digitolingual syndrome, as shown in the illustration reproduced by courtesy of Egilius L.H. Spierings. "In consists of a feeling of numbness and tingling that starts in the fingers of one hand", he wrote in his 1996 monograph Management of Migraine. "Subsequently, the numbness gradually extends upwards into the arm and, at a certain point, also involves the nose-mouth area on the same side. The progression of the numbness, like that of the scintillating scotoma, is slow and usually takes from 10 to 30 minutes." (Spierings, 1996, p. 8)
An example for a typical aura consisting of blindness and numbess affecting one half of the body, i.e. hemihypaesthesia: "I have had migraines since I was 11, and over the years I've gotten pretty damn good at recognizing warning signals... I get an aura (blindness) for half an hour, then after I get numbness on half of my body. (really freaky sometimes) It seems that you can draw a line down my body and half of my lips, tongue, face etc to one side goes tingly and numb. And then comes the pain."
(audrey kerves, Newsgroups: alt.support.headaches.migraine, Subject: Aura's and Warning Signals????, December 3, 1997)
An example of hemihypaesthesia followed by paraesthesias: "A migraine is something which can affect your whole body, not just your head. I often used to get the whole of one side of my body going numb, and then getting pins and needles in it for about an hour. Not fun."
(Warren Jones, Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett, Subject: How does Gravity work on the Disc?, August 28, 1997)
References
Spierings ELH. Management of Migraine. Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston-Oxford-Melbourne-Singapore-Toronto-Munich-New Delhi-Tokyo 1996.
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