Blech. Have a lot of stuff to do today too.
No pain, but auras, vision loss, and it makes it harder to concentrate.
I’ve had them twice. Each time, the weird vision thing went away in twenty minutes. I don’t remember if I was fuzzy-headed the rest of the day, but I was very disconcerted because I thought it was something much more serious.
That sucks, though, Folly. I hope you feel better.
Thanks.
Vision has pretty much cleared up now about 45 minutes later. If the past is any indication, I’ll be fuzzy headed for a couple of more hours and then ok.
My sympathies. I get migraines fairly rarely, thank goodness, but when they happen I always have the pre-aura with either tunnel vision, pixilated central vision, or simply inability to read without really straining my eyes. About 40 minutes later the vision is fine and the headache begins.
A handful of times, it’s never actually progressed to pain. I think partly because I gulped down some Advil or something immediately and it nipped it in the bud.
As sucky as the fog is, at least it isn’t real “shoot me now” pain like sometimes happens. Hopefully you’re feeling better soon.
I get ocular migraines occasionally. Mine are triggered by bright lights. Like the OP, it’s more of a hassle than anything else, as its never progressed to pain.
I once got one while I was teaching (I had briefly looked into the overhead projector). It was…interesting to tell my students that I couldn’t answer their questions because I temporarily couldn’t read. I’m sure they thought I was losing it.
Feeling ok. Will probably feel drained for the rest of the day. Thank goodness I don’t have the horrible shooting pain type.
If I have some sort of trigger, I’ve never identified it.
I get ocular migraines, and in my case, I get neither pain or fuzzy-headedness. I just get a trippy light show for 15 to 20 minutes. Luckily I don’t drive, so it’s never been a danger. Not being able to see out of the center of my vision sucks, but I can usually lie down, take a shower, or do something else that doesn’t really require vision for a bit.
I have been getting them for the past 10 years, only once with an actual head-ache. What’s weird is that they sometimes seem to be triggered by peppermint or maybe it’s just a weird coincidence:confused:
I had them together with nauseating headaches as a teenager, and now get them occasionally with relatively little pain. I don’t know what triggers them, but I know instantly when I’m going to have one; I notice a shift in my vision and then a tiny floating blind spot that grows and grows into a shimmering dragon’s tail on one side of my world.
Funny to see this post, just finished an ocular migraine about an hour ago. Mine usually have no pain, just the fuzzy aura around my peripheral for 10-20 minutes. It’s hard to read or type or anything like that, and I tend to look at people sideways and/or do a lot of hard blinking. Mine are usually due to some kind of stress and one of my cats is going through a bad flare-up of pancreatitis right now and it was hard to leave him to go to work.
I get them, usually when I’m sleep deprived. They last about 20 minutes, as the ring of blurred vision slowly expands and vanished. Sometimes I have a slight headache afterwards.
My father got them, too.
I don’t have pain either, not even a slight headache, and mine aren’t fuzzy. They’re sharp-edged, like little lightning bolts. It was scary (OMG brain tumor!) until I figured out what they were.
Had one myself today at 4:30, with a client sitting in my office, writing a brief for him on a rush basis. Double vision, nothing readable all of a sudden. I had to take a time out.
I’ve had them since I lived in West Africa about 17 years ago. Mine are sharp-edged, and if I try to read while having them, the words fracture and parts of the text are blanked. I normally just lie down in a darkened room and close my eyes for about 15 minutes until it’s gone. Afterwards, I usually get a low-level headache and feel kinda whipped for a while.
Blech. I get them too, as well as the regular migraines. The sparkly vision lasts less than an hour and I usually have a low level headache afterwards. Thankfully they’re infrequent. Unfortunately the first time I had an ocular migraine was at work and I had no idea what it was. I had to go home because I couldn’t see well enough to read the crossmatches in the Blood Bank. Now I know to just wait them out.
I know when mine are coming on because I smell orange trees in bloom. I’m pretty sure that mine are brought on by stress.
I have learned that what I need to do to stop the all day acid trip is to work on vascular constriction. As soon as I smell orange blossoms, I take a Benadryl and then put ice on my forehead. This often works very well.
Pulled an allnighter and worked for almost 40 hrs straight the previous couple days. By the time I laid down to sleep, I had the most amazing (and somewhat disconcerting) auras Ive ever experienced.
I’ve seen colorfully abstract blobs before, and also I’ve had the annoying blind spot that grows, with a shimmering edge, until it fades.
But this was some amazing workings of my visual cortex. In the dark, I clearly saw orange, dimentional wedges, cascading and unfolding in a clockwise spiral, graduating into a neon green; colors and shapes so vivid and fractal, I marveled that here was some process unfolding in my brain somewhere, creating these impossible designs I couldn’t imagine if I tried.
Then I slept for 13 hrs straight. No pain.
Mine are geodesic patterns composed of triangles, and are colored like an oil rainbow. The closest visual approximation is the growth of the Andromeda Strain from the old movie.
I was lucky in that one of my clients is a neurologist who explained what they were.
A couple of years ago I started getting occasional ocular migraines. I used to get the painful kind, and had one that lasted 10 days. The pain was so great that I wanted to kill myself, just to stop the pain. Compared to that, the oculars are a blessing.
Mine begin as a small scintillating spot near where I’m looking. It gradually gets larger and more scintillating and vibrating. Its outer border remains circular, but the inside is composed of sharp-edged geometric shapes, like a vibrating golden crystal with some slightly green facets. Eventually it expands until it exceeds my visual space, and it’s over.
I’ve been getting them for a few years, really jagged expanding flash followed by low level headache/malaise. I’ve noticed they almost always come on in the morning, and a couple of attacks ago I had one while I was dreaming. Could recognize the jagged aura, and it was still there when I woke up. I think I get them more often than I realize in the last hour or so of sleep, sometimes I wake up with the mild headache/funk and I think I’ve slept through the actual aura phase.