Oh great

[telophase]

Visual disturbance. It's not from my eyes because it's in both, which means it's from my brain. Which means it's most likely that I now have aura with migraine, or am getting an ocular migraine. Fuuuuuuuck.

We stopped by a fast-food place for breakfast this morning, and I ordered Dr. Pepper but I'm still congested enough that I couldn't tell what it tasted like other than "sweet water". Wonder if they gave me a diet soda by mistake? I know they contribute to my migraines.

If anyone's curious, the disturbance is just to the right of center, and started out as the right half of an oval, kinda of kaleidoscopic, and is now slowly widening (still the right half) into a kind of squashed boomerang of kaleidoscopic fragments.

[edit] And now it's gone, about 30 minutes after it started, which is bang on time according to Dr. Google for an ocular migraine (30-60 minutes). Now to see if it's a thing in and of itself or if it's a precursor to a pain-type migraine. And if it's a thing in and of itself, then what do I do if it shows up when I'm driving? Guess I pull over and play with my phone if I'm not close to home.

fyi, the squashed boomerang of kaleidoscopic fragments just got wider and wider and wider until it passed out of my field of view.

Comments

[loligo]

Yep, that sounds like ocular migraine. I get them a couple times a year, and I'm often really sleepy afterwards, and I crave juice, of all things. Juice is something that I typically have no interest in, because it's too sweet to be refreshing and not solid enough to be satisfying, but after one of those migraines I'm all MMMM LIQUID SUGAR!!

[telophase]

Huh, strange. I have no other postdrome symptoms so far, but we'll see.

I also plan on emailing my doc about it just to let her know.

[yarrowkat]

i get ocular migraines occasionally, and this does sound like one. i usually get a grey spot that wanders slightly in the center of my vision -- or, the peripheral vision simply greys out and goes away. these are often followed by a super rough headache that requires i lay down in a completely dark room with no noise for a couple hours. if i take some ibuprofen before that part hits, i can sometimes stave it off. ymmv.

the dr pepper could cause it; if you're super-congested, that could actually be a culprit all by itself. they can be blood-pressure related as well.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The blood-pressure thing has me thinking, as my mother was put on a course of prednisone 15 or so years ago that kicked off her high blood pressure problems, and I'm on that right now.

I've dropped an email to my doc describing what happened and asking if she'd like me to do anything, so that's taken care of at least.