I can relate. I donāt have the vertigo but many of the other symptoms associated. Things constantly flicker in my peripheral vision and in my central vision contrasting lines vibrate like a guitar string.
Iāve just seen two neurologists and they both seem to agree the way forward is to up my dose of Ami and if that does not work move on to something else.
Also been told 600mg magnesium may help. Apparently changes need to be tried for 3 months to see if they work.
Visual probelms certainly seem common on this forum. Best wishes to you.
@Chad_Hill That does sound scary! I had a weird experience the other day. I was talking to a co-worker and I donāt really know how to describe it, but my right eye was doing something weird. Itās like the person I was talking to was being digitalized in my right eye only. Almost like she was fading in and out in the right eye. I started to get nauseous and had to sit down. My friend knows about my condition and mentioned that maybe it was because she was rocking back and forth in her chair. As someone mentioned in an earlier post, I have had the heat wave thing with my eyes. I didnāt know how to describe it and my co-worker said like with a grill thatās hot and I was like thatās exactly what it looked like. So many crazy things with this condition.
Howās about āheat hazeā or āshimmeringā? Search the site. Plenty of references. Seems to link in to visual hallucinations/visual snow type stuff. Helen
A lot of my visual symptoms can be controlled with meds. Visual snow isnāt one of them. I will always be looking thru a shimmering multicolor star field. I got LASIK specifically for migraine purposes. It allows me to wear Theraspecs everywhere. And it corrects the eye related weirdness of my vision. The sheer amount and variety of extra stuff I see is amazing. Now itās less blurry.
I have real empathy for schizophrenics. If theyāre hearing what Iām seeing, I get why theyāre responding.
@flutters I wanted the Theraspecs, but they were so expensive. I just ordered a pair of āmigraine glassesā from Amazon for $20 that are supposed to do the same thing. They had good reviews and should be here today, so we will see if they help.
I will try to best describe my migraine aura, It usually starts with a strobing spot in my vision that almost like a heart beat, As the spot gets bigger whatever I look at during this phase of my migraine sticks to that spot on my eye, and all the images or light I look at stack up in that area until about half of my vision is completely covered by this flashing spot. At this point the flashing stops but the spot that was effected in my eye turns into a big blind spot, Once this happens I get the crescent shape rainbow colored squiggly line on that side of my vision, over the next 45 mins the crescent descends and pools at the bottom on my vision while my vision slowly goes back to normal.
this link will show you exactly what I see once the crescent part of the migraine begins. this is after the strobing and blind spot for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVFIcF9lyk8
Scintillating scotoma. Thatās one of the most common optical aura presentations. Makes me nauseous to see the picture. The neurons in your optic nerve are going offline in a wave called a cortical spreading depression. Clinical words; chilling experience. It happened to me once when driving.
Itās fairly common. I used to experience this more frequently when I was untreated. Once I had red zigzag patterns coming from my left eye and yellow zigzag patters coming from my right eye. I donāt experience it that often nowadays.
I wrote mine up almost real time. I misnamed the thread though. Had no idea til we conferred on here that same evening what it was but then I am not a regular migraineur. In fact I managed to have Migraine Associated Vertigo over fifteen years before I got the migraine to associate it with.
Chocolate is a trigger for most migraine sufferers. Luckily, I donāt eat a lot of chocolate and when I do, I prefer white chocolate. I am the opposite of you though when it comes to sleeping. I typically have severe insomnia, but when I have a migraine if I am able to fall asleep, I can sleep for hours and hours. Sometimes days even. Itās a brutal cycle.
Update, so i found out hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol cause my sleep disturbanceās, and also my migraines, So this might be the fix everyone is looking for. it takes about 3 or 4 days, to have normal sleep after. it staying in your system for 80hours. I know it a pandemic, so glove up and wash handās instead.