Are these the same as ocular migraines? I get them every few years.
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Yes! I get started getting these a couple years back. Such a different sensation than a standard migraine. Like a march of color inversions across my field of view in little splotchies.
Thankfully, sleep is forever and always my go to treatment for it.
Tho, the first ocular migraine I had, I told my mom to call and check on me in a few hours to make sure I wasn't dead. Very scary the first time.
I had my first one recently, and yeah that's the vibe haha. "oh I guess I'm dying, or losing my sight. Great..."
I've had migraines from my early teens, but only decades later I experienced my first migraine aura when I noticed sort of a dead spot in my eye in form of an arc. I knew about them already, so I wasn't too worried, but it was always hard for me to imagine them based on descriptions. Ironically the aura came without much other migraine symptoms, so it was more annoying than anything else, since it sort of sat almost in the center of my view.
this is exactly what mine look like.
mine fade in from a small point to a large dead spot and then fade back out to clear vision. when my vision is totally clear I know that I have about 20 to 30 minutes before the pain comes. it starts out as a dull ache and then gets to the point where I'd rather be dead over the course of half an hour or so. they typically last 3 to 4 hours.
like another user said I found that just going to sleep is the best option.
I never had a migraine until I was almost 30. I used to get regular headaches when I was younger but they weren't bad at all.
now I get these fucking migraines. lol
at least they give me a little bit of warning though, I guess.
I had regular headaches as a kid too but they kinda completely went away after I got migraines (not sure if exactly then, or shortly after). Now it's just migraines, which I usually feel coming when my stomach starts to turn and the eye pressure kicks in. Luckily, pain meds like Ibuprofen work fairly well for me.
lol mine went away too. i had a good 5 or so years with no issues at all until the migraines started. luckily they're very infrequent so i can't complain.
kinda funny your stomach starts turning as an indicator. it's so weird how different things are connected—especially when it comes to our brains.
It's actually a fairly common symptom of migraines, along with the pressure pain on one eye, since migraines itself are also usually on one side of the brain (the pain can spread though).
I think me suffering from migraines also makes me sensitive to certain light (flashes, specific colors like red light is really triggering, etc), somewhat similar to those with epilepsy, except that I don't end up with a seizure.
Yeah, i don't go watch fireworks anymore because they hurt these days.
I occasionally get scintillating scotomas or whatever, like a stylized lightning bolt symbol had a cloaking device. Thankfully they've never led to headaches, just a weird vision thing sometimes