Ocular migraine starting.

[redwitch]

Does anyone else get them?

[trof]

1. Opthalmic migraine?

Flashers in peripheral vision; sometimes a very mild headache?
Yep.

[tblue37]

9. Mine cause me to go blind in one eye. Fortunately, they are not frequent.

[SheltieLover]

18. Same here

If I drive or do too many other activities with my arms.

Osteopathic manipulations help a lot, but there aren't any such doctors here.

[Srkdqltr]

2. That the spot that widens into zigzags? Then gone?

No pain ? No residue? Usually about 15 mins or so?

[Bayard]

3. I had a medication do that to me once

Can't remember what it was now. Thought I was going blind and my head was going to split in two.

My sympathies.

[redwitch]

7. Haven't had one in years but minimal pain, thank goodness!

I have only had one painful migraine, it was decades ago and I have never forgotten it.

[tblue37]

8. Carvedilol? (It gave me visual floaties.)

[blueinredohio]

10. I have floaters constantly, always have had them.

I thought everyone had them until I mentioned it and people looked at me like I was crazy.

[tblue37]

25. I have also found that I get floaties from dehydration. If I drink 8 or 10 ounces of water, they go

[redwitch]

13. No Carvedilol. I had to look that up!

No idea what causes mine.

[Biophilic]

4. Yup, I usually get them when I'm stressed. Although sometimes they just show up for no reason.

They are frustrating because I can't read when I have one. It usually does go away in 15 - 30 minutes.

[Srkdqltr]

5. Annoying but not awful

[redwitch]

6. It seems to be gone already.

It wasn’t a bad one. Just glad I wasn’t in the car, too hard to drive with that zigzag rainbow going on.

[Hoyt]

11. Yes. They don't last too long and I've only had one or two while driving. First time, I thought

it was a retinal detachment (flashing lights), but it went away quickly.

[intrepidity]

12. I do now

Used to be I'd get the visual aura preceeding classical migraines, but for the past several years I've been getting just the visual aura and no subsequent headache... weird, but nice! So, is that then what an ocular migraine is?

Is it known what the relationship of the aura to the pain is? I know that the visual aura corresponds to the cortical spreading activity, but what of the actual pain? I've spent so many years conditioned to experience the excrutiating pain of the migraine following the visual aura, that I still expect it and suffer, even when the pain doesn't materialize.

Where'd the pain go, anyway?

[Freddie]

14. God bless menopause

Used to get migraines, often including the “flashing lights”, like clockwork monthly. Relpax helped if I took it in time. Don’t think I’ve had a genuine migraine since “the change.” Yay.

[2naSalit]

20. Same here...

They showed up while I was in grad school and it was hell. They happened twice a month and would last for up to five days. I was knocking on the clinic door at opening every day of the episode. Sometimes I had to get two injections a day. After a year, I had to keep a self injector on hand because they happened so fast that I couldn't even walk from my bedroom to the fridge to get some yogurt to gulp down a pill, by then I'd be too nauseous to swallow the yogurt. All the meds were very expensive. And I was always afraid of having a heart attack whenever I had to have a shot.

[MOMFUDSKI]

15. Yes

I have had probably 6 total over the past 4 or so years. First one scared me so mentioned it to eye doc and he said he gets them infrequently and is younger than I am. He also said if they would keep happening then off to the neurologist you go. Also, my son had one in his forties so who knows? According to what I've read on Dr. Google it isn't a big deal. But sure is annoying and a little scary, of course.

[Drum]

16. I do, yes....

For the last 30+ years. Fortunately it is just an annoyance in my case, not really debilitating or a hindrance unless I’m trying to read or drive. Usually lasts 30-60 minutes.

Sending you support!

[NQAS]

17. Yes

Haven’t had them in a few years.

When they started I couldn’t figure out what was going on and so went to the eye doctor and learned about ocular migraines. Very weird. Lasted about an hour or two. Annoying motor than anything else. Mine were stars, mostly. Some horizontal pulsating lines.

I tried to peg the why and when but never did. I chalked it up to stress, which is one constant in my life. But stress continued and the migraines left. So who knows!?Btw, add in floaters and there’s a lot of annoying crap going on with my eyes.

[consider_this]

19. Yes, quite often.

At least once a month, sometimes more. Starts like a spot, then I expands slowly in increasing circumference of a lot up circular saw blade. Last about 30 min, just feel a little spacy for a while afterward. Used to be followed by headache, but no longer.
I read they think some artists like Van Gogh (and I can't remember who the other is at the moment) suffered from it and influenced their art.

[fierywoman]

21. My student had regular and very debilitating migraines for years. Then she

found out that there was an acupressure point somewhere at the top of the ear lobe, and she had an earring put in that spot. She hasn't had a migraine since.

[Karadeniz]

22. My husband does... His progresses to tunnel vision. Caffeine helps him. He used to just drink a

Coke. Now he takes an Excedrin Migraine... I think that has caffeine.

[redwitch]

23. Caffeine. The wonder drug. nt

[Karadeniz]

24. Oh, yeah... glad someone posted that coffee study out of Spain!!!

[Generic Brad]

26. I had one last year - scariest thing ever!

There was no pain. But when it hit, it was like everything I was looking at was green screened. I couldn’t see my wife and she was standing right in front of me. It was like seeing through everything.

I had been on Zoom calls all day in a bright room. Then after work we were walking in the park along a river and the sunlight bounced off the water, hit me just right, and BAM! My wife led me back to our car and I wasn’t able to see well enough to drive for two hours.

The next day I went to my optometrist and learned to my relief I was not going blind.

Now I keep my work space dim all day. Now I can feel them coming on and have been fortunate enough to have only had mild ones while at home.

[hunter]

27. Yes. Can't see at all.

These are more tolerable than the full blown "Kill me now!" migraines I used to get. Those started in my adolescence but faded in my fifties.

I sometimes took Triptans for those.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I see little sparklies that cloud my vision when I'm really stressed

And a eye doctor who I saw years ago said it was classic ocular migraine. You have my sympathies.

[Laffy Kat]

29. Yes, scotomas. Blurry spots in the middle of my vision.

I can see well enough function, but I can't read anything, get on the computer, or drive. They don't last very long, from five minutes to have an hour, maybe. I've also had regular migraines that include scotoma and when I close my eyes, I can see bright zig-zag patterns, that I find interesting, but the pain is not fun.

[XanaDUer2]

30. I do

my first one was terrifying and I didn't know what was happening. I get them sometimes when I'm over stimulated. Sorry you have one