# What the heck is this? (eye related)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this-eye-related/504118>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 24, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this-eye-related/504118 "2009-07-24T13:34:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this-eye-related/504118/21 "2009-07-26T01:03:40Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> What? A lot of us have ocular migranes that have never progressed to the regular kind - you can search the boards for old threads. I know Dopers are an exceptional group, but the 99% figure has to be wrong for so many of us to only get one kind.

I meant **my** ocular migraines progress, sorry. (I’ve probably posted in most of those old threads, too.) The symptoms of floater+scratchy feeling reported by the OP didn’t match most of those I’d heard of before, so I expressed surprise at that.

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