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Q: Hallucinating Migraines
asked by: AmandaF on May 9th, 2006
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My husband & I recently got married, a few months ago my husband complained about strange migraines & that he saw things bigger or sometimes smaller than what they really were, now it's gotten worse, he complains that patterns around him is constantly changing, objects wobbling.

One day I walked into the room to see him strap himself to a chair, when I asked what he was up to he told me to do the same because the room was going to rotate again. He doesn't seem to understand things like he use to, sometimes he acts in an innocent childish type fashion, he hates doctors.

I finally got him to see our family doctor after he screamed for his mother & I to get the shotgun because he saw a bumblebee 8 feet tall outside our bedroom window.

I'm really worried I feel like i've lost the man I married just 6 months ago. Our doctor said that he as a rare disease called the alice-in-wonderland type b syndrome which makes him have extremely intense parallel alternative reality hallucinations to his surroundings because the brain is producing tryptamine & too much dimethyltryptamine.

His mother said he had an attack similar to this once when he was 5 but nothing this extreme. The doctor sent me to a specialist we are to see him in a few days. I want to know more about this disease but can't find anything on it in my medical book at home. :cry:
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Benjamin12
replied on December 21st, 2007
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I had Alice in Wonderland Syndrome as a child. It wasn't that severe, though. I might not have had type B - I don't know. I had the sense of things getting larger and smaller, but not visual hallucinations to that degree. I also felt at times like things would speed up around me and that everything was going way too fast (speech, movement, sounds). What your husband has sounds terrible, but I know from my lesser hallucinations how terrifying those were, so I can relate.

For me, the hallucinations stopped on their own, but I still at times see things as smaller than they are. It usually happens after I've looked at something up close for a while, like typing or reading.

I really wish I had more to tell you, but if you have more questions I'll do my best to answer. I'll keep you in my prayers!
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