I've read that when they diagnose complex partial seizures they have
to make sure that the symptoms are not from a migraine. I know that
sometimes, especially if I am just getting the non-headache parts of
the migraine, I have a hard time telling if I'm going to have/just
had a seizure or have the beginning stages of a migraine. If that
pain hits then I assume it is a migraine.

Mark

--- In migraineswithepilepsy@yahoogroups.com, denverbroncoselway
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> There is a link between migraines and epilespy I take topmax which
> has been out for a year it works for seizures and migraines it
works
> for me appartly one of the things I been told by having a a lot of
> seizures it sets off miragires and also it in the same area of the
> brain as seizures that is the link cause i have migraines with
> epilepsy as well Mary
>
> --- In
migraineswithepilepsy@yahoogroups.com, "einsteins_inspiration"
> <einsteins_inspiration@y...> wrote:
> > Hi. My name is Mark and I'm new in this group. I have complex
> > partial seizures which are pretty well controlled on Dilantin. I
> > also get viscious migraines which are starting to be controlled
by
> > Cardizem. At this point I still get a migraine almost every day
> but
> > they are only moderate, through I still get the nausea, weakness,
> > numbness, sensetivity to light, sound, and smells, and extra left-
> > sided weakness in full force. It's only been within the last 3
> > months that I've had migraines so many days in a row (sometimes a
> > single one lasts for 4 days), so life is pretty bizarre right
now.
> > When the pain gets to be too much I take Amerge once or twice,
but
> it
> > really dosen't help that much, only about half as much as I would
> > like.
> >
> > I'm interested in possible links between migraines and epilepsy.
> > I've had both since I was a little kid (5 or 6) and my
neurologist
> > believes that my epilepsy is the result of small areas of brain
> > damage caused by the vasoconstrictive stage of untreated
> migraines.
> > He's apparently seen a number of these kinds of cases. Migraines
> > definitely run in my family. I can remember my grandmother
holding
> > her head and having to go to her room many times. Some of my
aunts
> > and uncles and my mother get them. (This is all on my mother's
side
> > of the family.) I even remeber my great grandmother acting like I
> do
> > when I get them, so who's to say she didn't get them too?
> >
> > Well, it's nice to be here. I am very interested to find out
about
> > the experiences of other people with these two disorders and how
> the
> > disorders might interact in their lives.
> >
> > Mark