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

[Nawth_Chucka]

@Sattua

#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.

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.

[Sattua]

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.

[ivylass]

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.