I woke up today blind in one eye... again

[Yes We Did]

Any of you ever have an ocular migraine?

They are scary as shit!

I woke up this morning and in my left eye all I could see were clouds and lightening with a very faint... almost posterized view of what I was looking at.

This is the third time this has happened this year. It only lasts for about 10 minutes... but man is it scary.

Anyone else out there ever experience this?

[crim son]

1. I've had one ocular migraine in my life.

I didn't go blind, but everything I saw through my right eye took on a gridlike pattern. It scared the living crap out of me but then I heard from other people what it was. Turns out my dad gets them too. Horrible! :hug: I'm sorry you've had more than one experience with them!

[Sanity Claws]

2. Had it as start of a migraine headache

The first time it happens, it is scary. I thought I was going blind.
It's very unsettling.
I take it that you don't get the headache, right?

[Yes We Did]

9. No, I don't get the headache.

It's only happened when I woke up.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. My dad was just diagnosed.

He loses vision about 4 times a week in his left eye. It was very scary before it was diagnosed last month because he has kidney cancer (remission) and I didn't want to think the worst. His last for a good long time but he is under a good deal of stress.

[harmonicon]

4. never myself...

... but that happened to a good friend of mine yesterday. I was pretty freaked out, but he said that it cleared up after a few hours.

[leftyclimber]

5. Yep, I have retinal migraines.

They're a little different than ocular migraines in that the blood flow to the retina is partially cut off when they occur. I have partial vision loss in my right eye from them.

It's definitely a freaky experience . Every once in a while I panic and go running to my opthalmologist thinking my retina's fallen off and he needs to stick it back on for me, and, yup, it's the old retinal migraine again.

Beats the hell out of cluster headaches, though. Thank goodness I only had one of those once. If someone had broken into my house and told me they were going to kill me I would have told them, "Thank God you're finally here."

:hug:

edit: speling

[zingaro]

6. I get them.

They're scary as hell, every time. Not as scary as the FIRST time, but still, every one scares the shit out of me. It's nice that they're fast.

[Orrex]

7. I've only had four or five migraines in my life, but...

The way I know that they're coming is by the quick sweeping-away of my visual field, replaced by something similar to what you describe. I can't localize it to either eye, really, because whatever it is it's powerful enough to overwhelm my vision in each eye even if the other is closed. It goes from a sort of fizzy blindspot in the upper- or lower-rightmost part of my vision, and it spreads quickly to wipe out pretty much my whole field of view.

A standard railroad-spike-through-the-skull migraine usually follows within the hour, and the vision problem lasts until the migraine is over.


Thankfully, I've never had cluster headaches, which I understand to be absolute proof of a wholly malevolent universe. If they're one-tenth as bad as I've heard them described, then I would invest in a home lobotomy kit after I suffered through and endured my first one.

[foxfeet]

8. Almost all of my migraines started out with that particular visual disturbance.

Haven't had one in a long time, thanks to prophylactic Amlopidine, a calcium channel blocker. Talk to your doc and good luck!

[SeattleGirl]

10. I'd get them in my right temple; then I would lose sleep in

my right eye.

It's scary, and painful, and I thank The Maker I haven't had a migraine in years.