Posted on 07/06/2021 1:15:11 PM PDT by Loud Mime
Something happened recently that I believe may help some people.
I have had many of these ocular migraines over the last two years. I kept a diary on their occurrences on my iPhone, because I wanted to have a trend line.
Suddenly they stopped. Not one in the last eight months. The scare of actual migraine headaches (curse them!) has gone to near zero. I looked back at my medical records to see what happened.
Please pass this information along to any person with this problem.
The only thing that changed: I had a bad tooth extracted. It was on the left side; my auras started on the left and then traveled to the right.
Draw your own conclusion, but to end that long string of kaleidoscopes definitely revealed a possibility.
Please send this along to anybody with a similar problem.
Sorry about the bad editing. LM
I e had them for many decades but without the migraines. From my late teens into my seventies. Not fun while driving.
Acephalgic migraines?
Mine stopped when I changed my blood pressure med (Lisinopril).
Never had them before taking it and never had them after I switched.
I also noticed that Vitamin C would set them off if I had not taken any for about a month.
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My Mom last week had a black spot in her eye which totally freaked her out..she always worries about retina detachment(Her doc told her it might happen since she has the film on her eye) so she went to the doc and he told her her retina is fine..also told her(Since she was also concerned about a mini stroke) that someone who has a mini stroke will have the entire eye black and wont go away after a few minutes like hers did..that what she had was a migraine
I have that. . Them.
Have had them for decades. Simply relax and close my eyes and they usually leave in 15-30 mins.
That happened to the daughter of a friend I know.
Once they pulled the tooth, it all went away.
I have that. . Them.
I had them when I was right at the threshold of being diabetic.
After changing my diet and exercise program they have disappeared.
I actually had a small bleeder by the optic nerve.
Knock on wood of course.
I’ve had ocular migraines a few times. I’ve never figured out if there was a trigger. For me, they appear out of the blue. I think I’ve only experienced them 4 times which I have documented once I had the fourth one. So I looked it up and it was over 2 years ago, mid-April, 2019. They have never given me pain, just the visual disturbance, for 20-25 minutes usually.
Nothing here but my speculation. Not a professional view.
The Auras may have been your body’s way of reacting to the inflamation caused by that bad tooth.
Chronic inflamation of tissue is going to swell that tissue up and produce some level of pressure on surrounding muscle or organs of the body.
Tissue around the eye may not be as full of nerves as most parts, so you won’t always feel pain around the eye until a condition becomes serious. The Auras may show evidence of some kind of swelling or inflamation building up.
I’m glad you are finally without that disturbance.
You may have even discovered what interior events set the stage for your headaches.
A friend of mine has this. I had to take her to the ER the first time it happened. Neither of us had ever heard of “ocular migraines.”
Apparently, eye doctors don’t think it’s a big deal. I don’t remember anything else about it, but I sure wouldn’t want to see bright shining stripes in my eyes :(
I’ve taken her to the dentist too (regular checkups and cleaning) and as far as I know she’s never had a problem with teeth.
I’ve gotten them from time to time for years. No other symptoms, no apparent triggers, other than lack of sleep, perhaps. They look something like the images here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
but mine are much more colorful and grand. Bright, twisting, kaleidoscopic. They’d be completely benign, except that they interfere with my vision for a time. Aspirin help. Doctors tell me “no worries”.
My niece suffered debilitating migraines until she had her wisdom teeth extracted.
I get them but they’re like transparent horizontal “Eye Of Sauron” kinds of things.
I get tension migraines too [got one right now] but the oculars seem to have nothing to do with those.
Freaked me out, the first one did.
I have had them since I was 14. It felt like I was blind in one eye because I could only see pieces of words. The migraine pain takes a while to start so I found out if I take a Benadryl and a Tylenol together it stops it pretty fast and I never get the headache. Allergies and bright flashing lights trigger mine.
I’ve had them a couple of times, very rarely. Weird but passed after 10-15 minutes. I mentioned it in to my eye doctor and she laughed and said it was nothing, just let it pass. She called them Opthalmic migraines and unfortunately she wrote it down and my wife read the slip I brought home from the doctor. Then she began the research process to determine how to cure me of this ‘it happened twice in my life’ thing. Sigh.
My Doc called them Ocular Migranes and ordered a carotid ultrasound that found a carotid artery about 60% occluded. A couple years of low dose aspirin seemed to reduce the events to about 1 or 2 a month.
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