# I never believed they were migraines, but I just had an aura

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**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-believed-they-were-migraines-but-i-just-had-an-aura/770550 "2016-11-03T18:47:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-believed-they-were-migraines-but-i-just-had-an-aura/770550/21 "2016-11-14T01:41:36Z")

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> [@Sattua](#):
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> #3. Started with generalized sun-blindness type feeling like the others. That coalesced in my right field. For a while I couldn’t see anyone’s left eyes. That turned into a rippling, swimming effect concentrated in my right field. It’s fading now.
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> There isn’t something else these could be, is there? Brain tumor or something? Definitely migraine auras?

I can only say that those are definite optical migraine auras; I can’t say they aren’t anything else. Have you tried getting more sleep and better hydration? Those two you can control most easily; having less stress, well - that can be a tricky one.

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-believed-they-were-migraines-but-i-just-had-an-aura/770550/22 "2016-11-14T17:47:55Z")

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Another one. Sun blindness, then a flashing black-and-white circular outline in the middle of my vision. Now it’s rainbow-colored and pulsating.

I’ll stop reporting them now, since I’m sure everyone’s getting bored. Doc put me on a different BCP which I start in a week. Fingers crossed that stops this, because it’s freaking. Me. Out.

Thanks for reassurance and advice, everyone.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-believed-they-were-migraines-but-i-just-had-an-aura/770550/23 "2016-11-14T20:29:13Z")

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Good luck. I never had the horrible Cut Of My Head Make It Stop headache, but I did have the aura and funny enough, numbness in my right hand and the right side of my tongue when I was a child.

Now it’s just the nasty aura that temporarily blinds part of my vision, but that passes in about an hour.

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