Was this actually a migraine?

I want to be comfortable with this as a diagnosis, since I’m grateful that the hospital was so thorough… but something isn’t sitting right.

One weekend in June I was home when I started getting dizzy. I’m on some new medications, plus several to lower my blood pressure. I took my blood pressure because it felt like it was low which it was, but not super low where I should go to the hospital. Low for me, and I assumed I was having symptoms since I always run high. Next day felt the same.. BP still on the low side. I go to work on Monday and I’m not feeling great but I’m okay. Around 11 I checked with my boss to see if we had a BP monitor on site and she came to check on me. Within minutes she had me sitting on the floor since I looked like I was going to pass out. Apparently I was white as a ghost. She drove me to the hospital and on the way there I started talking nonsense. I get to the hospital and don’t know my birthday or anything. One of my pupils was huge and I looked and acted like I was drunk/high. I was cracking jokes and laughing like a crazy person, and I couldn’t walk straight. My eyes were bloodshot. My blood pressure was now really high. They thought I was having a stroke. Did a CT scan, ECG and loads of bloodwork. Everything looked okay so they said it was a complex migraine that mimicked stroke symptoms. They treated me with IV meds and sent me home.

The weird thing is that I remember not having a super bad headache. It only started about 10 minutes before my boss came to check on me and it was tolerable. I have been so bothered ever since. I barely have any memory of anything I said. The fact that I felt off the entire weekend before is bothering me too. Now every time I get a little headache I’m terrified it’s going to happen again.

Has anyone had a similar experience? Any advice? I feel like since everything apparently looked okay that there isn’t much else that can be done and I just have to accept it. Everyone was so worried about me.

Posted Jul 27, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

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