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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.
As for migraines, you've read a few descriptions. I don't get auras EXACTLY, but I see "sparks". When I 1st started getting them I was 15, and I was so sure I was dying. At 15, that kind of pain is terrifying. I thought the sparks meant that I had a tumor, something I had read in a medical book. My doc sent me to a neurologist who set me straight. But as I grew older I would get a BIT of an aura, although the sparks always distracted me. And I get a weird taste in my mouth- like I'm tasting pennies or something.
Good luck and talk to your doctor. Hoping they can get this under control for you! :)
thank heavens, after menopause, they decrease.
How lucky am I? I get the aura--I call it "neon barbedwire", curved zizzag lines in a bright glowing orange light and then...NO headache! It's called an ocular migraine, lasting about 20-30 minutes. No pain at all. I feel sort of guilty even bringing it up, but I thought someone out there might be experiencing something like this and wondering what the heck it is.
Truly sympathetic hugs,
Theresa
Cathy. Interesting about similarities with epilipsy, and yes, I have been on a few anti-seizure medications as preventatives.
I never knew that you had trouble speaking afterwards. How frustrating and this is probably why they think the two disorders are so different.
In answer to your question, I have trouble speaking BEFORE the pain starts and during. One of my signals, (if I don't have visual aura) is mainly the aphasia (mixing up my words and having trouble speaking). I see the words, but I just can't seem to form them in my mouth. Almost like a stutter and a lot of times I will mix up the sentence. Sometimes I don't notice it but people will correct my words.
Another warning sign that I am going to get a migraine is a burst of energy hours ahead of time. A theory I read on this is that nitris oxide is being released as a natural pain killer. I'm not sure where I stand on this theory. But I do know that I instintually want to get my house and work in order before I go down for a few days of pain so I rush around and take care of business.
After a migraine, which lasts an average of 24 hours to 48 hours, my speach is fine, and my thinking is clear, but I am just very tired. But I don't want to lie around because in a day or two, I may repeat the cycle and my non migraine days are precious.
If it wasn't for the pain that can't be sated, the other stuff is easy.