Scintillating Scotoma. Lovely new addition!

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Yeah this is a visual migraine aura, called scintillating scotoma. It’s one of the more common migraine aura types. I used to get them ALL the time. Morning, noon, and night they pop in like they own the place.

A depiction of a scintillating scotoma that was almost spiral-shaped, with distortion of shapes but otherwise melting into the background similarly to the physiological blind spot. This depiction shows the type of patterning that some have described as similar to Widmanstätten patterns.

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A depiction of a scintillating scotoma that was almost spiral-shaped, with distortion of shapes but otherwise melting into the background similarly to the physiological blind spot.

Some great gifs from WikiMedia

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