“With these symptoms often occurs a sensation of the neck extending out on one side for a foot or more at other times, her hip or flank balloons out before, with, or after the headache. “Some hours before the attack of one-sided headache and vomiting, and often during and after attack, she may teeter or reel as though drunk,” Lippman reports. One case is that of a 38-year-old housewife whose headaches began during and have recurred ever since her second pregnancy at the age of 19. The American neurologist Caro Lippman noted, in a 1952 paper published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, that “the great variety” of hallucinations experienced during the migraine aura was still “little known to the medical profession.” He incorrectly claimed that “there is no description in the migraine literature of hallucinations of the sense of body image,” adding that “over a period of eighteen years of intensive migraine studies, I have collected many histories of such hallucinations from both men and women,” and he then went on to describe seven cases. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images One patient described their symptoms as a “Tweedle Dum And Tweedle Dee” feeling.
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