Almost everyone who lives with migraine has had the thought cross their mind during a particularly bad attack: what if this isn't a migraine at all? It's an uncomfortable question, but it's the right one to ask — because while the vast majority of severe headaches are exactly what they seem, a small number are…
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One side of the body suddenly goes weak. Speech starts to slur. Everything about it looks like a stroke, right down to the emergency room workup, except the cause is a rare, genetically driven migraine subtype, and getting that distinction right matters enormously.
Of all the migraine subtypes, hemiplegic migraine is the one most likely…