Hi everybody,

My name is Anne-Mieke and I live in the Netherlands Europe.
Last december I saw a new neurologist because I have severe
migraines and my first neurologist had literally thrown his hands in
the air declaring his box of tricks was empty.

My migraines are familiar hemiplegic migraines and I had so many
attacs that I have to use a wheelchair for longer distances and
wound up in the ER repedatly because every time a doctor sees me
when I have an attack they think I have a stroke....I loose the
ability to speak, my left side goes paralised and sometimes I also
can not understand normal things anymore.

The new neuro started me on propanolol a beta blocker and I was
started on birthcontrol pills a few months before and that both has
helped reduce my migraines to mild and not often. From 9 attacks a
month to 1 a months is great :-)

The reason I joined this group is that he also referred me to a
cardiologist which I see tomorrow to see if I have a PFO.

I really do not know what to expect, though I am ready to try
whatever they trow at me because the last 3 years have been pretty
rough.I have had relatively normal migriane sinds I was 12, having
my son at 28 stopped the attacks for almost 8 years and now the
attacks are back with a vengeance.....my sister suffers from the
same attacks, her left side also gets paralized she is 28 and I am
37 years old.

Did anybody here have surgery to close the PFO, and has that helped?

I hope you will forgive any errors I make as English is not my
native language and medical English is even harder.

Kind regards

Anne-Mieke