Posted on 07/06/2021 1:15:11 PM PDT by Loud Mime
My sister had a definite positive change in her health after dental work, although I can’t recall exactly what it was. Not one sinus infection/headache since then, where she had suffered for years before that.
Had them for decades, harmless & rare but annoying. Frequency skyrocketed after open heart surgery, slowly decreased back to rare.
first time it happened was right after an interferon injection and i thought i was having a bad reaction
i ask our inhouse vascular surgeon and he told me it was a scintillating scotoma and prolly not from the injection
I had the same thing, then they stopped no tooth extraction though.
I had an ocular migraine once, triggered by lack of sleep after having our second child. Completely freaked me out. I thought I was having a stroke. Zigzags in my periphery and a blind spot straight ahead like I had looked at a bright light, then looked away. I get chronic debilitating hereditary migraines anyway (have to take lots of preventive meds/injections to function), but the ocular migraine at least had no accompanying pain. I would take 10 minutes of zigzags over 5 days of excruciating bed-ridden pain any day! LOL!
I was unable to recall the term. You got it.
My auras are quite colorful; I enjoy them along with some Pink Floyd. ;)
I’ve had them for decades. Finally figured out that keeping myself hydrated minimizes them. Try this, when you get them down about 24 oz of water (can flavor with electrolytes or something if you wish), give it about 20 minutes - good time for taking 20 winks - walla, most times that alleviates the problem.
I have had the migrain aura without the headache for years now. The first time my doctor sent me to a eye doctor but he did not fine anything. He did puncture my iris (s) to prevent future episodes of sudden glacoma.
The auras have jagged edges like the picture but mine are transparent and have no color (except sometimes there is a tint of a prism effect.) I believe I read that they start with an electric wave in the optical lobe of the brain and move because the electrical wave moves through the vision field. This makes sense to me because I see it with my eyes closed and it is not affected by either eye although it does start in one side and drift out of view on the other side. I have driven with them but I prefer to just sit patiently until it passes (in about 15 minutes, as has been mentioned.)
I recently had a surgery for cateracts, I wonder how this will affect the auras.
Had them since age 17. Could barely see, and migraine-accompanied. Once before a college exam, I couldn’t attend and stayed in a darkened room all day.
Pain diminished with age, but later appeared as rotating wheels of zig-zag colors. 63 years later, they’re merely annoying. They’ll start when bright sunlight illuminates the curtain or blinds behind my computer. I work through them now...
I have seen the doctor about this, she just shrugs. But two months ago I lost vision in my left eye for about ten minutes. They called it a Transient Ischemic Attack, taking me in for all sorts of other tests.
I’m a candidate for a stroke, but everything else about me is perfect. BP was 117/80 last time; I’m 72 years old.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been having this aura thing for a few years. It’s very occasional, and for me there has never been a headache or pain of any sort and nothing obvious that triggered it. Every episode has passed within 15-20 minutes.
I’ve shared a meal with SWORDMAKER and like him. Ping to him.
Coughed like a coal miner on that stuff.
the Dental connection is what interested me. Doctor told me that bad teeth can cause lots of problems. Later today my sister told me that a bad tooth is what killed my Uncle, who developed septicemia from an infected tooth.
What amazing timing! I had one this morning! Cobalt blue, and bright neon orange, and look like the “Star fort” in the wikipedia link earlier in this thread. They transit from right to left, or sometimes (like today), right to almost center, and then disappear. NO pain associated with them.
Mine are on the right.
For me the manifestation of a migraine looks like rainbow colored curling ribbon. The scary part is I lose the center of vision in both eyes. Then I have about 30 minutes to pop some meds or else the three days it takes to recover becomes seven days.
Had that happen 3 times over 15 years. Scared me the first time. Eye doc called the visual part “eye shimmer” and the cause occular migraine. First one was huge in my entire field of vision. I was under extreme work/heat situation on my farm. Went to sit inside until it went away. Mentioned it to eye doc on my annual visit. The other times were minor and short lived. My dental health is great, so probably hard work in hot weather was to blame. That’s what the doc said. Great old doctor, now sadly retired, still looking for another good one.
We suspect that it was a dental issue that killed my grandmother back in ‘48. She didn’t care for her teeth and had a heart attack. Of course, back then they hadn’t connected teeth with heart problems.
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