I suffer Auras!
Just last Thursday, I had an aura all day, and the headache didn't come till Friday late afternoon.
I feel I suffer auras because I am on so much medicine and treatment for the migraine pain. I take a high dose of Topamax (300mg), a muscle relaxer, Cymbalta, Trazodone for sleep, and I get Botox injections.

My aura symptoms are: major confusion, talking backwords, or saying the wrong words, fatigue, light headed, difficulty concentrating, sensitivity to loud sounds and bright lights. And, an overall feeling of "yucky".

I don't know why I get Auras!

My auras are kind of like warning signs; they signal a migraine on the way.
I get crazy eye "floaters", my vision tunnels, and I just get sort of confused.
All of this tells me to take my medicine, and climb into bed because a migraine is around the corner.

I get aura's once and a while. half of my body does numb (like when your foot falls asleep) It starts with my tongue and moves its way down my body. The first time I had it I went to the hospital. I though I was having a stroke (Im only 35) When I got there the nurse asked if I was every diagnosed with migraines. i told her I got migraines, but she said it was different. They did a bunch of tests adn concluded it was a migraine aura. I dont get them everytime I have a migraine, only once and a while and see to happen more when I am very stressed (I work full time, take college courses. have a husband and two kids. Yeah, my like can get stressful lol)

Last year I discovered the chiropractor and it was the best thing I could have done. I has reduced my migraines from 4 to 5 a month to once every few months, and even when I get them theya re not as sever.

I get auras, but 99% of the time just as a warning that I will get a migraine in the next 20 minutes or so. Although one time I got an aura and it literally seemed like a couple of years before it was totally gone. There was just a little tiny bit of something that "shouldn't have been there" all the time. I have only once or twice gotten an aura without a migraine, but I know it happens............Good luck!

Hello. I get migraines with auras everyday. I do live In Pennsylvania.

I have issues with persistent aura, so I take topamax as a preventative. My aura symptoms include: visual snow, floaters, blurry vision, tinnitus, auditory fluctuation, numbness & tingling in my arms/hands, light sensitivity, language processing issues, confusion and (very occasionally) depersonalization.

I also suffer auros ranging from increased sensitivity to llight and increased sense of smell for the minor migraines to feeling giddy, blurred vision or double vision and feeling constantly sick whenever I move. I normally get about fifteen to twenty minutes warning which is long enough to take my mediciene and often prevent the full blown migraine - with the cluster migraines I have to get into a dark place and pray they don't last too long! I do get auros for upto a week before the migraine attack starts but recording the signs and the length of time before the attack has helped me learn to read the warning signs and when to take medication much better. The weather here in uk can affect me too.

I definitely get auras with most of my migraines and lately I've had aura's every single day for a while now. I can have everything from aphasia (difficulty speaking or comprehending words), visual floaters, scotomas (losing a section or all of your vision), dizzyness, vertigo, tinnitus/fluctuations in hearing, sparkly dots, wavy lines, tingling or prickling sensations, and even issues with my depth perception. Half of them I didn't realize were migraine auras until I checked out this page: http://migraine.com/migraine-basics/migraine-phases/

It also clued me in to my pro-drome symptoms (the potential phase before an aura) ie excessive yawning, frequent urination and mood swings. Totally have those too!

My neurologist says there is nothing that can be taken for migraines with aura, and that it is actually dangerous to take migraine meds like imitrex for these kinds of headaches. I get them a lot...more since menopause...and they are debilitating some days!

Megsmom, I will have to talk to my doc at the headache clinic because I hadn't heard that before! I know that Triptans are a no-no for hemiplegic and/or basilar type migraines but I hadn't heard that about migraine with aura.

i had surgery yesterday for hernia and have been resting and not eating much the last two days i only had some soup yesterday and not much today which is not good for me. I just had an aura. Weather here is also changing which is also a trigger. I took two advil for pain for hernia and aura but i don't get migraines. I have gotten these auras since childhood. Using the computer and being around bright lights also is bad for me

I had a spell of them today,but thankfully just mild ones this time. I'm 44,and I've had them since I was 11. I'm one of the rare cases that gets the auras without the headaches. However the auras can be quite severe and very terrifying. It starts out with a bright spot that transforms into bright zigzags or swirling pinwheel shapes.Then it just looks like half my vision becomes 'erased'. I only see parts of everything. Sometimes my right leg & hand goes numb,I get weak & shaky,and sometimes get icy cold,even if it's 90 degrees. Sometimes I can't remember words (even very common ones).Other times I'll try to say one word but a different word will pop out of my mouth. It's very odd and hard to explain. I'm glad there's others on here who can understand what I'm talking about. Sometimes after a severe attack,I'm left with what I can best describe as a 'foggy residue' in my brain. It's like I'm doped up or something,and feel like a zombie! But within a couple of hours I'm back to normal.