A headache that consistently shows up on just one side of your head — always the left, always the right, never both — can feel different from an ordinary headache, and for good reason. One-sided (unilateral) head pain has a specific list of likely causes, and knowing which one fits your pattern can help you…
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…