Ick

[sue_n_julia]

Earlier today I was experiencing some weird visual field disturbances. It was like someone had wrapped a prism around the side of my eye and was shaking it. So I didn't have functional peripheral vision. I've had this before, but usually in the central vision and the doctor's don't find anything during the exam. I also was getting rather much an unhappy headache, so I took some migraine meds, which I think helped. But I've been dealing with the side effects for most of the afternoon.

Fortunately, I've got an appointment with the doctor tomorrow for a follow-up anyway -- I'll mention this to her. If it was a migraine, it was quite atypical; if not, I want to know what it was.

But I still feel like crap.

S

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[mg4h.livejournal.com]

I've actually had the visual weirdness before, and only recently found out it's probably one of the "auras" people can get with/before migranes. I only once had a headache with it, and it wasn't too bad, so I never realized what it was before.

For me, it's generally a portion of my field of vision is not working somehow. I can't focus on it, or it's entirely fuzzy with black and white lines or zigzags or something. If I move my focus around it, I still can't see where that spot is, it's almost like wearing goggles on my head, and there's paint on the lenses.

It usually would last for at least an hour, sometimes more. Nothing I did seemed to make it get better, worse, or go away. And yes, once it went, there was no evidence it ever happened.

I now know that the best name for what I've had happen is scintillating scotoma, but there are other migrane aura symptoms that you might have that are different.

*HUG*

[sue-n-julia.livejournal.com]

This one wasn't the kind of aura I normally get with migraines. The optometrist suggested a funky floater, but it doesn't seem like that either.

I am getting a referral to a new neurologist soon.

S