Does anyone else get "ocular migraines?"

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

It's happening to me right now which is what made me think to ask. The first time it happened, I was a freshman in college in the cafeteria and I thought I was going blind!! I went to an eye doctor and they told me it was "ocular migraines." Sometimes I go months without it happening and sometimes I get it like every day! I've had a few the past week and it's so annoying!! Luckily, my eyes just go blurry and I don't really get the bad headache that soemtimes comes with it. (Unfortunately, I DO get regular migraines too which put me out for the night!) It only lasts for like 10-20 mins and it starts as a little blureither at the bottom or corner of my eyes and travels up my eyes and eventually out. It's so weird! I get most mad when I'm trying to watch TV because I feel like I have to keep squinting to see but it doesn't help. (I hope I didn't spell any words wrong!)

 

[breezy1077]

Yep, I get them. I get the full blown migraine with it though. It starts as a numbness in my upper left lip with pressure behind the eye. Then I get the sparklies. You're right though.....they're totally annoying

 

[Blueeyes101817]

O i get them too-i hate it! I havent had one in a few months, but like you said, sometimes ill get a few a week..so painful!

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

I actually had one today.
For me, it starts with a small sparkly circle that gradually becomes a bigger and bigger ring. Eventually, it gets big enough to go out of my line of vision. The occular part isn't painful, but I sometimes get a dull headache afterwards. They seem to be getting more frequent in the last few years.

 

[MIGrandma]

I used to get migraine headaches. One was bad enough to send me to the ER for a shot. I took medication for them. Then I went to a chiropractor and had some neck adjustments. No more migraine headaches. But I did get the ocular thing you are talking about for awhile. It would be like I couldn't see anything out of half of one eye, and I would see lots of squiggles. It would last 20 minutes or so. I had them sometimes at work. I was waitressing then so it was kind of hard to keep working when it happened. I haven't had it happen in several years now though.

 

[Gagirl69]

I get ocular migraines. Mine start in my left eye with blind spots that moves across to my right eye until it's gone. I don't get the actual headache but it still makes me feel yucky.
Now, I do get migraines with the headache sometimes but it doesn't start the same way. I start seeing bright squiggly (sp) lines with those. I don't like either one.

 

[minkydog]

DH gets ocular migraines. He describes it as wavy lines that begin to vibrate slowly then faster and his field of vision starts to spiral. He says he doesn't have a headache, but he gets so motion sick he has to go to bed for about an hour. The first time it happened I took him to the ER because we thought he was having a stroke!

 

[mrsstats]

DH gets them. Very scary. Thought he was going blind the 1st time

 

[beattyfamily]

I do!

I got TWO today and one yesterday!

I've been getting them since my twenties and I can't figure out what triggers them, if anything. I can go months and months without one and then have a couple in a row.

I get the blurry, zig zag line in my vision and then I know I'm about to get a migraine. The headache lasts all day.

Yesterday was a first for me. I dreamed about getting one and had the zig zag blurry vision and then I woke up with the headache!!!

The two times in a row today is more rare but has happened a couple of times before.

I wish there was a cure cause I don't like them. They always happen at the worst times. The worst is while I'm driving.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

I had one several years ago. Luckily that was the only one. It was a squiggly blurry area in my vision. I thought I was having a stroke. DH is an optometrist so he could diagnose me at home. I did not get the headache.

 

[elgerber]

I actually had one today.
For me, it starts with a small sparkly circle that gradually becomes a bigger and bigger ring. Eventually, it gets big enough to go out of my line of vision. The occular part isn't painful, but I sometimes get a dull headache afterwards. They seem to be getting more frequent in the last few years.

This is what I get too. In years past it signaled the start of the nasty nasty headache. Now, the ocular part comes more frequently and the headache is only slight afterward. Really is a problem though when it starts when I'm driving. Also makes it hard to work until it's past, since I can't see the screen.

 

[onelilspark]

When I first started getting migraines, this is how they would come. Once I went through pueberty they stopped that way, now I just get the earth shattering pain, which you know, fair trade, right?? I totally feel you though, try explaining those when you're 7. I hate migraines, I wouldn't wish one on my worst enemy. Feel better!

 

[Hyonlyf]

I get them and I find BC headache powder knocks them out every time, fast too. It may be the caffeine, but they work like a charm.

I have them where 1/2 my body went numb, very scary.

 

[TheBigBadWolf]

I started getting ocular migraines after giving birth to my DD. I had a spinal block, and the doctor told me to lie flat of my back for like eight hours after delivery without lifting my head. I did what he said, but I still got the migraines because of the spinal block. When the strange vision problems started, I thought I was going blind. I had never had a migraine before the spinal block, and the migraines were always preceded by the vision problems. I call them "lightning flashes". Mine are triggered by flickering fluorescent lights, bright lighting, strobe lights, etc. I can knock out my vision problems now in about 10 minutes by taking three regular Bayer aspirins as soon as the flickering in my eyes begin. Since I discovered "the cure", I have never had another migraine headache.

 

[kacaju]

I had one. I was driving and all of a sudden I got this blurry *c* shaped thing in my eye. I was close to my Dr. office so I drove right there and got in as an emergency. He sent me to the eye Dr.
It was so scary because I had no idea what was happening to me!!

I get headache migraines all the time, but so far that was the only ocular one.

 

[Disney Ella]

I get them. I've only gotten 3 or 4 over about 20 years. They start with a jittery feeling and a loss of peripheral vision. Then I start seeing jagged colored lights and then the headache comes. As soon as I lose peripheral vision, I take ibuprofen and drink Coke. The headache was unbearable the first time, but since then it hasn't been as bad as a full-blown migraine. I don't get classic migraine, only ocular migraines and only rarely. It is very strange.

 

[rie'smom]

I've only had a few. The first one scared the daylights out of me. The last one happened while I was driving. Mine are wavy psychedelic lines on the periphery of my vision.