# Just had an ocular migraine - thanks to SDMB, I knew what it was

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**Created:** [July 9, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-had-an-ocular-migraine-thanks-to-sdmb-i-knew-what-it-was/455886 "2008-07-09T19:54:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-had-an-ocular-migraine-thanks-to-sdmb-i-knew-what-it-was/455886/21 "2008-07-11T00:31:02Z")

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Thanks for bringing this up. I get the same damn things, one of my brothers used to get headache-inducing migraines, and another used to get abdominal migraines (just bad nausea about once a month), my mom gets headache-inducing migraines along with abdominal migraines, and my grandmother gets ocular migraines. My visual disturbances are associated with a very mild dizziness, but no weakness in either leg, no pain, and no nausea.

For the record, I’m a man. No gender is spared.

Oh, and mine look like a piece cut out of my visual field and replaced with black static. The pieces are usually round, often half-moon shapes that ‘bracket’ the center of vision on one side or the other.

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