It doesn’t do what I see justice. They are often beautiful. When they first occur it causes a blind spot. The zigzags are a rainbow of shimmering color. They go away after a hour or so and I feel lousy if I don’t have a headache. If I do get the headache with it I have to find a dark room and try to sleep.
I occasionally get them and mine feel more black & white than color, the the jagged shape and the arc around the center of your vision is spot on.
And remember the jagged arc is always in your peripheral vision. You can’t look directly at it and study the details because it moves when your eyes do.
I don’t know what it was like when my sister was young, but I also got occular migraines as a kid, and it’d be like a static spot in my vision where things just disappear behind it. Once that static appeared, I only had 10-20 mins or so before an awful headache would set off, and I ended up needing meds for it. They went away after 13 though.
Yeah I get those every once in awhile, it starts with a blurry spot in the middle of my vision (like if I’m reading something, half of the word is blurred out no matter where I look) then half an hour later it goes away but is replaced with a migraine that lasts a few hours. Taking a bunch of ibuprofen helps. I’ve noticed it usually happens when I overexert myself without drinking enough water. Also seems to happen more in cold weather, like maybe it’s something about breathing cold dry air. Luckily it’s not chronic, it only happens once a year or so, but often enough to recognize the pattern.
Yikes, you’re actually seeing that?
It doesn’t do what I see justice. They are often beautiful. When they first occur it causes a blind spot. The zigzags are a rainbow of shimmering color. They go away after a hour or so and I feel lousy if I don’t have a headache. If I do get the headache with it I have to find a dark room and try to sleep.
Wait, there are people who get migraines without the headache‽ I just get the agonizing ocular pressure and occasionally nausea
Sorry to hear that, it sucks
Well at least you get pretty rainbows
Its a pretty rainbow that is forever at the edge of your vision. You can’t look directly at it.
Yusssss
That’s the shape. But it’s constantly oscillating and the colors shifting rapidly.
Vision gets obscured but for me my visual processing/reasoning gets cloudy too. I can still navigate the world but finding a door handle is difficult.
I get sore behind my eyes after and real tired. Happened a few times in the last couple years, anxiety I think.
Youtube mostly has classix migraine aura but this is close enough if you imagine the zigzag image.
Yeah and it has the best name, Scintillating Scotoma. The first time I experienced one it was terrifying.
Yeah, that names sounds about right for what you’re describing
I occasionally get them and mine feel more black & white than color, the the jagged shape and the arc around the center of your vision is spot on.
And remember the jagged arc is always in your peripheral vision. You can’t look directly at it and study the details because it moves when your eyes do.
This is what I have. I’ve had them my whole life.
I don’t know what it was like when my sister was young, but I also got occular migraines as a kid, and it’d be like a static spot in my vision where things just disappear behind it. Once that static appeared, I only had 10-20 mins or so before an awful headache would set off, and I ended up needing meds for it. They went away after 13 though.
Yeah I get those every once in awhile, it starts with a blurry spot in the middle of my vision (like if I’m reading something, half of the word is blurred out no matter where I look) then half an hour later it goes away but is replaced with a migraine that lasts a few hours. Taking a bunch of ibuprofen helps. I’ve noticed it usually happens when I overexert myself without drinking enough water. Also seems to happen more in cold weather, like maybe it’s something about breathing cold dry air. Luckily it’s not chronic, it only happens once a year or so, but often enough to recognize the pattern.