Milford

[lizwilliams]

I'll be driving up to Snowdonia first thing tomorrow. See you in a week. Thanks to innate paranoia, I got everything Milford-related done yesterday, which was just as well because today was a day of major visual disturbance. Great. A search on the net suggested, and an emergency visit to the optician confirmed, that I have opthalmic migraine. No headache, just a light show. Oh well.

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[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

I've had that too. It's very weird.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

It's so funny to see you talking about towns in Britain that we also have here in Massachusetts, like Milford. It's the next town over from the covenstead. They weren't very original when naming towns here in the colonial days. *g*

optical migraines

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Aren't those disconcerting, now?

I get them on a random but frequent basis, and would have been in a complete panic if it weren't for the fact that my husband gets full-blown migraines (complete with hallucinatory light shows) and could reassure me that I'm not losing my mind. It wasn't until some years later that I found out that there is such a thing as a purely visual migraine, although stephe still teases me about getting the ADD version of his migraines (i.e. I get distracted before I get around to the 'locking myself in a dark room and waiting for the pain to dissipate' portion of the conventional migraine.)

Re: optical migraines

[(Anonymous)]

Completely bizarre. I've never had either before, although my dad went through a phase of seeing only half of something.

Re: optical migraines

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

I don't know what mevennen got, but I usually "see" a sparkling fog or cloud that obscures part of one eye.

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

Oh, nasty. Hope you have a good drive up and back and that it all goes well. Looks like nice weather.

[aenodia.livejournal.com]

I had both kinds of migraines. I finally figured out the optical ones were light induced. The reflection of the sunlight off the lake outside my office window would set them off. Once I left that setting I didn't have the flashing lights of the optical migraines.

[camies.livejournal.com]

I've had that also - had no idea what it was the first time it happened. Like I can see things but can't interpret them, as well as a very narrowed field of vision.

opthalmic migraine

[blueistari42.livejournal.com]

The last time I had visual disturbances like that, I had the mother of all headaches half an hour later. *shudders* Migraines are horrible things. Spending half an hour testing what I couldn't see (namely anything about a foot to my left, including my hand when I moved it past my face) was interesting though!

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

I get the dazzle, with or without awful headache.

I find that aspirin and steam get rid of them, but there's some residual fatigue.

They're spooky.

If you're a hypochondriac (I am), you run to the opththalmologist and there's this test where you stare into a white screen and try to nail black spots with a laser pointer. I don't know what it means, but I passed it.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I had that migraine-visual-effects-without-the-headache once and it was really scary until I worked out what it was. I'd never had a migraine in my life before, though my daughter suffered from them in her teens.

In my case I blamed the blue stilton I'd had for lunch and I haven't dared eat it since. As I've never had an attack again, I think that was probably what did it.