For many years I have been having mini-headaches that I have found very hard to describe to people. While I have had several doctors describe them has Micro Seizure that has never officially been diagnosed as a “seizure”. In fact doctors have no idea what they are.

Basically, what happens is that I get an extreme powerful headache right above the left side of my left eye. I normally describe it as a spike being driving in to my head. The headache itself last only a few seconds, but afterwords I am extreme disoriented, lightheaded, and feel like all of the energy is drained out of me.  The disorientation, which often includes a little memory loss, is always temporary and normally clears in just a few minutes and any lost memory comes back soon after that. The lightheadedness lasts can last longer maybe even a few hours and the lack of energy can last the rest of the day. Sometimes, I can feel them coming on with a slight lightheadedness just before I have them, but most of the time the come one without an notice. I have also never had one while drive or doing a complex task.

While I have been having the mini-headaches for along time, they have not been bad for a few years. In the past I would have them several times a week or even a day and they were at an extreme level, but for the last few years they had dropped not only in quantity but also level of severeness.   In fact I don’t think I have had one in months and the last ones I had were very mild with pain, no real disorientation.

Sadly though, the one I had today was really bad by far the worse I have had in many years. I was at grocery store in the self check out line and had just finished scanning everything when I had the headache. The pain was so bad that I stumbled a little stepping back several feet, but like the others only lasted a few seconds. The disorientation though also real bad, I could not remember why I was at the store, I could not remember my pin for the debit card to pay.

I have no idea on how long I was standing at the register, but it was long enough that the sale timed out and I had to start over when my head cleared a little. However, I am still feeling a little light headed, have no energy, and I have been home for about 45 minutes. I really need to find out what this is!!!