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Had Migraine. Vomited. On Aspirin, Lexapro, Lorazepam. Ativan Shot. Now Feel Numb There. Pain Is Increasing. Suggestions?

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About 2 months ago I was in the ER for my first severe migraine (my mom has always had them and once I was vomiting every 10 minutes I knew that I needed to be seen). I explained that I was unable to keep anything down, including any medicines that I normally take (aspirin, 10mg daily lexapro, and .25mg lorazepam once nightly) Once I was seen, they gave me some IV fluids and nausea medicine which fixed up the migraine issues, I was also given a shot of ativan in what was supposed to be my left buttocks muscle. The nurse was very abrupt and I believe she rushed the shot because since then I have had increased pain and numbness in my left butt, hip, and thigh. There was a small bruise for about a week afterwards, and since then I have had increased numbness and pain in the areas previously listed. I feel it most when I do any physical activity (walking, running, even sitting down sometimes) or when any pressure is put on my left butt, hip, and thigh. When I press my hand into the area, it feels very strange, I feel pain and mostly complete numbness. It has only increased with time and I am worried that there has been nerve damage. Could this be serious, why is the pain getting worse, and what should I do? I am concerned that it will continue to get worse and have not looked into it until now because I thought that it would go away with time. The pain is starting to increase to the point where I have to sit down and lean only on my right side, otherwise I feel pain and numbness that feels like my leg will give out.
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It is surprising that, every body those have headache, just said it is Migraine, and in this way it became so common that the person who do not know what is migraine, if ever had headache said I have migraine, I think Migraine is synonym of headache, one should always rule out the possibility of other causes of headache beside the Migraine,, NOn of the medicine you have been given is working for migraine attack these are mainly given for panic attack it is all are tranquilizer, injectable tranquilizer causes local tissue irritation, and it will take time to heal,, take care ( If you have Headache, ask your self who is your headache)
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Had Migraine. Vomited. On Aspirin, Lexapro, Lorazepam. Ativan Shot. Now Feel Numb There. Pain Is Increasing. Suggestions?

HI Thank for asking to HCM It is surprising that, every body those have headache, just said it is Migraine, and in this way it became so common that the person who do not know what is migraine, if ever had headache said I have migraine, I think Migraine is synonym of headache, one should always rule out the possibility of other causes of headache beside the Migraine,, NOn of the medicine you have been given is working for migraine attack these are mainly given for panic attack it is all are tranquilizer, injectable tranquilizer causes local tissue irritation, and it will take time to heal,, take care ( If you have Headache, ask your self who is your headache)