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I'm having an aura right now and thot I'd share what it's like
My vision is going to dissappear and I have to type real fast. Fortunately I'm not driving or I'd have to pull over for 20 minutes. The first time I had this, I thought I was dying (I was about age 10). A sparkley circle, like a kalaidiscope is in my direct vision and slowly grows larger. I can't see what I am typing so I don't know if I have spealled any of this correct. When I starting typeing this, it was the sixe of a pea, but now it is the size of a quarter.
It shoots around my vision now and is very bright and chromium and not quite a circle, but not square either. The left side of my head avoe my eye is starting to hurt real bad. Sharp sharp pain under my eyebrow. The light is the size of coffee cup ring and I would be classified as legally blind. If I was talking to someone, I would not be able to see their face, but only their hair.. The pain is sharper and the lights are really rather pretty. The center of the light is without light and rather bland, but the outline is sparkling and flashing really bright, especially to the right side.
It will slowly expand in size for about fifteen more minutes and I am blind by it. Then suddenly it will expand and shoot out past my vision and disappear and I am fine again, except I will have a nasty migraine for the rest of the day.
Why? No one knows. Most medications that migrainers use were meant for other patients like epelepsy and parkinsons and high blood preasure, and it was discovered that those pills helped a bit for migrainers....so we take them all even though we are told there is no association with the other ailments. It's a big frustrating mystery.
Well, I have a while to go before I can be of use to anyone. Time for some heavy hitting pills and ice packs while I wait.
Bye, all.
My vision is going to dissappear and I have to type real fast. Fortunately I'm not driving or I'd have to pull over for 20 minutes. The first time I had this, I thought I was dying (I was about age 10). A sparkley circle, like a kalaidiscope is in my direct vision and slowly grows larger. I can't see what I am typing so I don't know if I have spealled any of this correct. When I starting typeing this, it was the sixe of a pea, but now it is the size of a quarter.
It shoots around my vision now and is very bright and chromium and not quite a circle, but not square either. The left side of my head avoe my eye is starting to hurt real bad. Sharp sharp pain under my eyebrow. The light is the size of coffee cup ring and I would be classified as legally blind. If I was talking to someone, I would not be able to see their face, but only their hair.. The pain is sharper and the lights are really rather pretty. The center of the light is without light and rather bland, but the outline is sparkling and flashing really bright, especially to the right side.
It will slowly expand in size for about fifteen more minutes and I am blind by it. Then suddenly it will expand and shoot out past my vision and disappear and I am fine again, except I will have a nasty migraine for the rest of the day.
Why? No one knows. Most medications that migrainers use were meant for other patients like epelepsy and parkinsons and high blood preasure, and it was discovered that those pills helped a bit for migrainers....so we take them all even though we are told there is no association with the other ailments. It's a big frustrating mystery.
Well, I have a while to go before I can be of use to anyone. Time for some heavy hitting pills and ice packs while I wait.
Bye, all.
It's a very interesting phenomena. Do you know if other migraine sufferers get the same?
Lots of love and Hugs!
If this is migraine, you really need to not try to read or write until it goes away. Those two make it much worse!
And here I am asking you to read. But you can mi.imize level and length by not doing those two until pain is gone.
I have library of movies for when I get one
It is hard but it works to reduce a little
Hope you feel better
Thanks for sharing that, sorry bout the migraine though...
Very similar... I start with a small ring, like a donut. that flashes like bright LED lights, greens, blues, purples, whites, reds etc... like those really cool flashing deepwater jellyfish... slowly gets bigger and lose all focusing in the left eye.. 30 -45 minutes then wham the migraine is in full swing... and then violent nausea starts..
Cool I'm not weird.... (cough) LOL... the Aura's are amazing, but, the aftermath sux....
Hope your feeling better, when is the next round of botox? So hope you get similar results, if not better this time.... MY PCP is not keen on me trying Botox due to the Lupus and meds I am taking... Hmmm.... But will still ask my Neuro in June.....Hang in there...
Hugs S
Imitrex and Replax helps some of the time, but only if the migraine is caught early enough, and a migraine for me lasts from a few hours to a few days and the intensity as I age has grown worse. It's a crap shoot - I never know what I will get, but I'm likely to lose.
Thanks for letting me share.
Be Blessed Ravenstardust
What you described is really similar to a pre-seizure aura. I often loose the ability to speak, and often black out /space out during seizures. So my question is, are you sure it is just a migraine and not a seizure? Hugs, Cathy
Enigma I hope this one passes soon. I'm sure you know the drill. Peppermint aroma helps me some. Hang in there. Raggedy
You know Cathy, Migrainers usually get aphasia, myself included. My words get all caught up in my mouth and I have a lot of trouble thinking even before a migraine starts. I always beleived that epilepsy and migraine were closely related but when I researched, I found that the two organizations would say that it was not.
However, Topamax was developed for epilipsy, but is now widely used for migrainers.
Things that make you go hmmmmmm.
I do agree that sharing symptoms with each other can help ease stress. I thank you deeply for telling us.
Another interesting, unrelated note seizure medication is being utilized heavily in the treatment of CP. I find that interesting too. Since my seizure medications, and I have been on every one know to mankind, at least that's how it feels to me, has never helped control
my CP.
I look forward to your response about your migraines. I wish, like everyone that there was a magic cure. But you are in my thoughts & prayers. Hugs, Cathy
its from a buildup of pressure on the back of the eye causing the visual distortion
i forget if it has to do with the arteried themselfs or the eye pressure or skull pressure pushing on the eye
i just remember its from pressure on the back of the eye
thats why when ppl take abortive meds like imitres or amerge it constricts the vessles releasing the pressure and takeing the aura away if you take it at the 1st sighn of an aura.
i can look up more info if you want
for me i perfer the migraine with aura cause they are shorter in duration and not as severe as migraine without aura
oh ok i just re read your post, you can get migraines without aura with NO PAIN!!!
my dad gets these!