[Closed] Visual disturbance

Or call NHS Direct?

If you can stand, see and think it isn't that bad a headache, I doubt it will be a migraine.

Sounds like a migraine to me - certainly similar to my experiences of migraines which have varied in intensity from mild annoyance to cant stay standing. Some people get the visual disturbance without any pain, some the other way round.

But I'd get it checked by an optician myself.

Detaching retina? (causes flashes) 🙂

My husband gets visual disturbances rather than headaches and was diagnosed with migraine. Migraine has a range of manifestations. He wasn't given any treatment/medication for it. Best get it checked out tho' with your GP.

sounds like a migraine to me (my symptons are similar).

everyone is different, my migraines are triggered by blue cheese, reading without using reading glasses, and occasionally low blood sugar.

concerned? - that's up to you, your doctor certainly wouldn't mind you going to see him/her.

the only 'treatment' i've found that works is to take 2 paracetamol, eat a load of stodgy food, and go to bed for 2 hours.

i'll feel a bit crap for days afterwards tho.

i hope you find your trigger soon, based on several facts i just made up i think most people will have a migraine trigger.

Does it look like a line/droplet of water running down a glass.

something like this?

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Does it start close to the centre of your eye then move slowly to the side and go, lasts for maybe 5 to 30 minuets for me?

I get this maybe once a year or so, no headache though for me.

My Doctor/Optician told me it was a form of migraine.

Worth getting checked out though

Dr Dobbo says:-
Sounds like a migraine, have a lie down and close your eyes for 1/2 hour.

How did you take a picture from inside your eye?

😉

Thanks everyone. Will go see the doc at some point.

That pic is a bit disturbing - my wasn't like that happily. More of a heat haze shimmer.

Been a migraine freak since 12 yrs old, used to get a standard pain in the eye jobby,sometimes a big all rounder, but since learning around 10-15yrs ago that if you eat regular and stay well hydrated they are less likely to occur, I have managed to reduced them to a couple a year down from a couple a week,

saying that I had a similar thing happen 2 yrs back 3 times im a month, blurred vision which then closed down to tunnel vision for a few seconds followed by the washed out feeling a migraine leaves you , went to dr's then to hospital and was told it was another form of migraine!!!

chin up,I'm sure you will be fine,

an artistic impression MF, but pretty much spot on what the effect is like.

First time it happened to me I though someone had slipped some shrooms in my tea 😉

I get the visual disturbance but never any pain - it's just a nuisance for 15 minutes as I can't see well enough to work OR read either 🙁

What Simon says, although I can feel a bit "fluey" for a few hours afterwards. Happens a couple of times a year.

Or call NHS Direct?

Mmmm. Call NHS Direct, wait 3 hours for a Doctor to tell you to go to A&E.

Is this like Jedi stuff? A disturbance in the Force...if so you must be doing it wrong as it is normally something you feel and not see...

Mmmm. Call NHS Direct, wait 3 hours for a Doctor to tell you to go to A&E.

Does seem to be one of the two options - on the few occasions anyone I know has called them its been either go to A&E or "its nothing, ignore it". Both are perfectly valid answers though!

Ski, I had something like that last weekend - first time ever so quite scary. At first I thought it was a 'floater' as it seemed to be in my bottom/left field of vision, so I assumed it was in my left eye.
But when I closed my left eye, the flashing/scrolling disturbance remained, so it must be something in the brain.
I had drunk a bottle of wine and a few beers the night before and felt a bit 'depleted'. Drank orange juice and ate some meusli and it seemed to pass.
Is this likely to be some sort of migraine?

migraine, the shimmering usually stays with me right up to where I can't see any more.

Sounds like a migraine which are often preceded by aura or prodrome. Up to half an hour of feeling odd, visual disturbances, depression etc.. following by a smack in the back of the head by a size 6 Gunn & Moore!

HTH

DS

Both are perfectly valid answers though!

I think most people can make a judgment on whether something is serious enough to warrent A&E. It's just there to filter out the sort of people who phone up with a headache after a night of heavy drinking.

Generally, if it crossed your mind to go to A&E, then go. Save yourself a few hours.

Take some LSD. if it goes away, it was a migraine. Well, it worked on an episode of House.

Migraleve pink tablets work for me if I take them at the very onset of the visual disturbance. If I wait untikl the aura appears (that's a pretty good artist's imptression btw) then I'm fubar' for the rest of the day

Forking Our Souls - I am no expert, just suffer with it.

eat regular and stay well hydrated

That bit of advice seems to work for me and yes if I am feeling depleted I can get an attack, so there might be something in it.

Still worth mentioning it to your Doc. though.

Sounds like its more common than I thought 😉