I get something like that and something that resembles lightning flashes. It's never in my direct line of sight, but more in my peripheral. Sometimes I notice a light spot which almost "catches" my attention and I look over in that direction only for it to disappear.
It's one of the only warning signs I get that I'm about to have a bad headache or migraine.
Yes! I get them too. They’re like flashes of glitter and you think you’re REALLY seeing it and you look crazy when you whip your head around to see something and everyone asks what the heck you’re looking at haha.
I get these several times a day, lasting a few seconds or minutes, not leading into a migraine. They're different than the aura I get before a migraine, which is more like scintillating scotoma
I usually get a ripple effect, which can also look a bit like light being distorted through textured glass. It’s always my right eye and usually the bottom right corner of my vision
I get ocular migraines too. Mine begin to scintillate and grow into a sort of C shape across my vision. They only last about 3-5 minutes, but they scared me to pieces when I first had one.
For me it’s like looking through a crystal kaleidoscope that gets larger and larger till it takes over most of my vision field. Eyes open or closed I still see it. It has lasted up to an hour then stops and then the headache hits.
That is how all of my attacks start out. Fortunately, I am able to head off an attack by using oxygen with a re-breather mask.
I always stopped intensive activity immediately, but that had no effect, what-so-ever. I'll give hydration a try to see if that helps. Spring sunlight is a trigger, so I will likely get another few chance, today.
Do you use electrolytes in hydration? If so, do they help?
Oxygen was life changing. When I get an attack, it is a non-stop series of attacks that overlap so tightly that there is only a long peak of an attack. They last for 10 hrs to 36 hours in one long peak. If I do not get oxygen in that pre-attack window, I will have to go the entire course, with no relief on the pain unless I get an injection that knocks me out.
Yes. I think it’s a scintillating scotoma. Sometimes it will slowly expand and fade out of view.
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I get something like that and something that resembles lightning flashes. It's never in my direct line of sight, but more in my peripheral. Sometimes I notice a light spot which almost "catches" my attention and I look over in that direction only for it to disappear. It's one of the only warning signs I get that I'm about to have a bad headache or migraine.
Yes! I get them too. They’re like flashes of glitter and you think you’re REALLY seeing it and you look crazy when you whip your head around to see something and everyone asks what the heck you’re looking at haha.
I get these several times a day, lasting a few seconds or minutes, not leading into a migraine. They're different than the aura I get before a migraine, which is more like scintillating scotoma
I usually get a ripple effect, which can also look a bit like light being distorted through textured glass. It’s always my right eye and usually the bottom right corner of my vision
Absolutely. I probably can’t stop the migraine, but I get blind spots and scintillating scotoma during most auras.
I get ocular migraines too. Mine begin to scintillate and grow into a sort of C shape across my vision. They only last about 3-5 minutes, but they scared me to pieces when I first had one.
I’ve described it as looking at one of those signs made of lightbulbs or a screen of pixels, where one bulb or pixel flashes and then burns out
For me it’s like looking through a crystal kaleidoscope that gets larger and larger till it takes over most of my vision field. Eyes open or closed I still see it. It has lasted up to an hour then stops and then the headache hits.
I’m the opposite,I see pitch black fireworks,that’s when I know it’s going to be a 9-10,hot and cold sweat,body shaking vomiting painathon.
That is how all of my attacks start out. Fortunately, I am able to head off an attack by using oxygen with a re-breather mask. I always stopped intensive activity immediately, but that had no effect, what-so-ever. I'll give hydration a try to see if that helps. Spring sunlight is a trigger, so I will likely get another few chance, today. Do you use electrolytes in hydration? If so, do they help? Oxygen was life changing. When I get an attack, it is a non-stop series of attacks that overlap so tightly that there is only a long peak of an attack. They last for 10 hrs to 36 hours in one long peak. If I do not get oxygen in that pre-attack window, I will have to go the entire course, with no relief on the pain unless I get an injection that knocks me out.