An examination of the pathophysiology of the migraine visual aura, affecting some 15-20% of migraineurs. Dr. Jay discusses common aura types and the impact on patients who experience visual aura.
Me too, and I've been getting the Chiara oral migraines a lot for the past 23 years. He said he had only seen them a couple dozen times. I've had them since I was 12-13 y.o. and I didn't even know that I was having migraines til I was about 19-20 y.o. and now I'm 36 y.o.
@@kavin.m7814 the only treatment for me is time. I take aspirin or ibuprofen when I first get the aura. A nap afterwards. That's about it. Nothing makes the aura go away faster, I just have to wait it out
First time I got ocular migraines was at the beginning of this month, went to eye doctor the same day 😂, scary stuff. I'm happy nothing neurological was found and doc says I just have to monitor my symptoms in case it gets worse or frequency changes. Both times it happened after I was super stressed and anxious and I went outside and boom I got the aura. See a doc, you never know what you have.
My mom also gets them. I was pregnant when I had my first episode, and I was in complete panic until I remembered her explaining it. I called her, and felt much better about it. If you don’t know anything you might believe your having a stroke, or dying. They’re terrifying. Now I actually see them as a blessing. They are a warning sign that that pain is incoming, and I should take medication to prevent that.
Check your blood pressure. Last time I had a cluster of them several days in a row they were scary, complicated and my BP was around 200. Everything came back normal except my hospital bill and that i was low on electrolytes, especially low on sodium, which is the opposite of what they expect with high BP!
I SO appreciate this video!!! I grew up with screaming migraines, had my first “stroke-like” attack at 16 and have had several throughout my life. After childbirth, I no longer have painful migraine but only visual aura that usually last about an hour but leave me woozy for longer. I am now 65 and They seem weather related (to me) especially with this past winter here in California and the excess rain…..
This man is much more knowledgeable than the average doctors that most of us see. Strangely, I understand much of what he's saying. I'm 81 and, looking back to childhood, some of the things that happened through the years possibly indicate or suggest the development of migraine aura. The auras in my experience were not accompanied by headaches.
This is perhaps the most detailed and honest assessment of our condition I've ever heard - and there are thousands of clips that purport knowledge on this elusive subject. Thank you!
@@RG....... Very infrequently now, thankfully; one about every other year. I think maybe age and added relaxation to my life has changed the tide. Maxalt (Rizatriptan) 10mg at the first sign of aura would alleviate me getting the headache part! I've I added a little 5-10-min nap, guaranteed no headache - but must be done at first sign.
Everyone who suffers from migraine should see this; the explanation of how one can distinguish the common symptoms of migraine from other serious illnesses/injuries is so informative. Fantastic video. Thank you.
Migrene is hell, one can't do anything but to try to drink some water, take pain meds and sleep in a dark quiet room until its over - plus the hangover the next day
My aura is usually a language aura, a sudden difficulty in understanding language. It isn't talked about much so this is my PSA to the world to not overlook it if you're trying to learn about your own migraine auras!
Starting at ten I have had auras including the aphasia, the numbness, the distortion of size, the inability to put thoughts together and then headache which was one sided and terrible. I led a very careful diet to try and control. At 50 I started on Topomax which was my first preventative medicine and it changed my life. Stayed on topomax until 68. I still get migraines I think due to food but no longer 3 and 4 auras instead just the color aura. Over my lifetime I have experienced thousands of migraines not one went unnoticed. I lived my life terrorized by them, finally accepting them. I wonder what my life would have been without them. My first question to God, “can we talk about migraine?” Grateful over the years migraines have become more understood and people more compassionate. No we are not faking. Glad medicine has made advances in treatment.
I wish that I would have seen this when it came out, so much information! I've been suffering from migraines with aura since the early 90s, and it has been a challenge since. I have experienced phantom sounds, smells, and visual phenomena, as well as the excruciating headache that follows. Most people can't comprehend the misery endured, but migraines are a debilitating handicap that deserves further research and prevention treatments.
Oh my goodness this is exactly what happened to me. I present with stroke symptoms, ER and ambulance trips, and they never could find anything wrong. I was finally dx with Migraines Aura after 2 years of having them.
Mine present as blind spots in the Center of my vision. I’ll be looking at a face, or a book for example and cannot see anything other than the outline and surrounding area. First one I had was at the age of 12. It’s absolutely terrible. The anxiety it triggers is unbearable.
I have had migraines since I was 18 years old. I'm in my late 50's. I was never diagnosed with migraine aura until I saw a neurologist and he explained to me the reason it took so long. I would give my doctors (many different over many years) a list of my symptoms and they would divide the sypmtoms up into different categories for lack of a better word. He said you can't do that. Once you realize that they all go together, it's easy to diagnose. I hope that all made sense. I have one of the worst cases, according to my neurologist that he's ever seen. I have had: dizziness, numbness (in my tounge, lips, whole right side of my body, left hand, and wrist), tunnel vission, seeing things like shards of glass or rushing rivers out of my peripheral vision, I've lost my vision for an hour where I was aware and able to move around, sensations of falling over, sensations of riding a cloud, blurry gray spots, nausua, tightness in my skull, sharp needle like pains in my head that last for only a few seconds (thank God), bright flashes of light, light sensitivity that can be so bad that I can't open my eyes (so I stay in bed under the covers), sensitivity to sound, sometimes my head feels heavy, and blue spots. I mostly have the dizziness, falling over sensation, light sensitivity, and numbness in my lips and tongue. The other symptoms are rare. I have had many tests run to make sure these aren't some other illnesses as well including a spinal tap. A few of my family memebers suffer from some sort of migraine. My mom has migraines that cause syncope episodes. My grandmother had severe migraines as well as an uncle. My brother has them as well. I am not looking for sympathy. I've learned over the years to live with it all by the grace of God. This information is awesome to hear. I'm sorry that any of you have to deal with any of this. May God bless you all through your struggles and keep you safe. May he cover you all in his shed blood and shower you in his mercy and grace. I ask this in his mighty name Jesus, Amen.
I have had aura with migraine since 1979. Debilitating when it happens. I woke up from a nap once in 2014. I had the same onset of "lost" or "washed out" vision in both eyes and I was getting ready for another one. It never happened but the "washed out" never went away. I went to the hospital and after many test they found that I had a small stroke. Two years later had an aura start and go away but no pain just numbing on the peripheral left side(it feels like the left side of my body is asleep).
I have migraine with auras. My entire right side feels numb, literally from head to toe. It can get painful sometimes, I can actually feel one coming up right now. I slur, people have asked me if I'm drunk. I get them daily, it wasn't always like that, I guess I could say they're getting worse. I get the auras more often than the actual migraine.
Maybe you are in a place you don’t want to be or surrounded by people you have to get away from, this happened to me 3 times and to be honest i related to the fact that i was in the wrong path, so i cut connections with this people i stared going to college and it actually everything stoped. I haven’t had any migraine aura, no anemia, no hospitalizations due to surgeries. Its was like my body was screaming to me for help. Im better now.
I'm so sorry to hear about your headaches. I had 5 day migraines every month for about 13 years and that almost finished me so I can't imagine daily. I hope that yours will pass in time as mine did. All the best.
I get different types of aura including the cheiro oral aura I had no idea it had a name and the reason why it jumps from each finger, down the hand and wrist to my mouth and tongue! How fascinating, makes it less frightening to understand why.
I get marathon migraines. They used to last for weeks (36 days is my record). I switched neuros and I'm better controlled now by i have always had thunderclap and auras. I have chiari malformation type 2 with a secondary diagnosis of pseudotumor. The more i learn the more i realize I'm not alone and that really helps. I had my 1st complex migraine last month and thought i was having a stroke. I was on day 5 of a particularly brutal headache. I got hit with everything you just described. CT/MRI were negative for a stroke. I was hospitalized for 4 days while the did the DhE protocol and it was three days before i got the strength back in my left side. The freakiest part was the Alice in Wonderland part. I was big and small at the same time. I felt like my brain had a short in it. I hope it never happens again. But if it does i know I'm not crazy or alone.
Have you ever looked into the possibility that you may be suffering from a CSF leak? Your symptoms line up with it and the chiari could be a manifestation of it too.
I had a migraine aura for the first time last week. I thought I was having a stroke so went straight to A&E. Never had a migraine before. I had been unwell for about a week before. Not sleeping well, stressed and tired. It was quite frightening as I'd never heard of these before. It was quite interesting to witness. Been fine since. Now fit and well again. I had a very mild headache 4 hours later.
Thank you. Some people think I'm nuts. I just had another one about an hour ago. I felt very lazy and brain foggy all of a sudden with a stiff neck. Then the weird visual spot with bright zigzag edges. I lied down, fell asleep for a short nap and woke up and now its gone. No pain or headache. I also had one 2 days ago. Very scary.
I experienced those symptoms of the bright zigzag edges for the first ever time last night and it was scary because I didn't know what was happening to me. I had been violently sick the previous day after suffering for several hours with a migraine. I have suffered for 40+years with migraines but had never experienced these lights that actually impaired my vision before ( although there was no pain during the experience).
I wish I'd seen this 25 years ago, it would have saved me a lot of anxiety. Although I was headache prone my whole life I didn't start seriously having migraines until I became pre-menopausal in my early 40s. Then for 13 years, every month brought a 5 day migraine. In hindsight I also occasionally had migraine auras but didn't realize that's what they were because they happened separately from the headaches. I had a 10 year grace period after menopause but just recently I've, once again, had the odd migraine headache but several visual and cognitive auras, one followed by the other ~ which really scared me because I couldn't retrieve certain words, and had trouble reading and thought I might be having a stroke. Now I will relax and just wait for it to pass. Thank you Dr. Jay!!!
What a great Doctor, i have had migraines since a child im 58 now i was told children dont get head aches, well mine i have had all of these symptoms , i also have had my eyes just go black i cant see. Aura for half hour then again straight after, the numness, cant get my words out , my eyes feel like im going cross eyed.I was explaining to my daughter and i said i would have the feeling that parts of my body where bigger it was her that told me thats Alice in wonderland syndrome, i can be sick and on the floor and head ache from hell lay in the dark with wet flannal on my head, the next day my co ordanation is bad, i can have 3 lots of Aura in a day people would say dont eat cheese or chocolate, its not what i eat mine are caused by stress anxiety ,light and pattern sensory issues, and as a child excitment when my first pony arrived i could only see him out the window then pull the curtains shut, I can have Aura 5 or 6 times a week sometime more. I now realise i have Autism, always thought i was 1 step away from epilepsy.
I have been getting these "Scintillating Scotoma" episodes every few months for the past 3 years, and have tried to single out what causes it. The last episode I had was after my daughter shared some "Maynards Swedish Berries" candy with me. I hadn't eaten anything else that day that was out of the ordinary, so I focused on researching the ingredients of that candy. One of the ingredients in that candy I researched is an artificial yellow colouring dye called "Tartrazine". When I looked up the effect of tartrazine on the human body, I found descriptions including: "Neuro-toxin", "Carcinogen" and "can cause temporary blindness". This artificial food dye is banned in Norway and Austria. Thinking back to previous "episodes" I remember it happening once after eating "Rum & Raisin" ice cream. It was very yellow in colour; then another time, I had an episode after a strenuous bike ride on a hot day when I drank a bottle of lime Gatorade (lots of yellow-green colour). So for me, I may have honed in on the thing that triggers this scary neurological event. Hope this may be of help to anyone else looking for the cause of this.
Fantastic to understand what's going on. So we'll articulated and explained. I have all of the things he mentioned. If I have a stroke I will never know truly. Started as a child and more often now that I'm older. Every kind of test Dr's could throw at me. Same issue with Tinnitus with violent loud ping like a spring is bouncing on my eardrum. Brutal. Even sleeping most nights I feel like I need a tranquilizer. Praying for a cure in my lifetime. I can't imagine how I will be if it keeps getting worse as I age. Great minds like this makes me hopeful.
Migraine headache btw is insane, to me it was like a loud bass/rock concert constantly playing in my head for hours, only cure was sleep for many many hours
Two days ago I developed a bad migraine during the early afternoon which resulted in me becoming nauseous and then vomiting. Then yesterday evening I was frightened when I suddenly was stricken with what must have been an aura ! I have suffered with migraine headaches since my childhood ( 40+ years ago) but that was the first time that I experienced an aura of any kind. Thankfully it only lasted for about 20minutes and then it disappeared !
Well i had it for a few months and went to see all doctors needed. From eye, to neurologe... Everything was fine. And last time i so my doctor something made sens. It was doe to high levels of stress. Thats what i figured it out by myself. Since i spend time to think what could it be and spend time by myself i realized that and from that point it was gone. I guess people need to stop sometimes and analize their own lifes because the body gives you all the signs that you need, you have to listen! Also I remember my doctor tell me that If it doesn't go away I will have to take medication for life and that really hit me and helped me realize that something was wrong. It clicked. Spend time by yourself if your life is not what you want, take a step back and breath, make changes because if you are at this point it means you havent reapected yourself. Sleep, rest the body not just go go go. By the way no one in my family had this so it made it easy for me to understand what I wasn't doing right. Also the situation we are living now. Completely terrified me. So realize what you are not giving your body. Take a break because you can change everything. Stay healthy and love yourself unconditionally.
same here, never had any pain with it, I thought that I might be having ischemic episodes, however, since I have been having auras for over 25 years I assume that I would have had a stroke by now.
Have been experiencing headaches for months. Possible occipital neuralgia. Pain, dizziness, etc. In the last month, 5 episodes lasting a few seconds to a few minutes: disorientation, off-balance, narrowed field of vision, confusion, difficulty interpreting speech from some else. There was no panic. I was calm. Setting was always at a store or large mall with bright fluorescent lighting. These episodes usually occured when some level of headache was present. Doctor calls anxiety and simply take a pill. 🤨
Really fascinating, thanks for sharing. About 17 years ago I had an aura (slightly blurred vision, bright, prismatic) followed by the first and only migraine headache of my life. Then about a month ago, I had an aura that was pretty much a classic "scintillating scotoma" type but thankfully, without a following migraine headache. The only thing that I can think of that might have been a common precursor condition was very hot weather and possible dehydration.
f47lbx3 I have constant aura of heat waves and little silver type s shapes or c shapes plus this darn tinnitus. I get stabbing pain then the migraine headach too but the vision is never clear. They are not my many floaters either. It helps to know I'm on to something. I need to find his name perhaps he can help me. Blessings MJ
I constantly have aura. My vision doubles (stacked, never side by side). Its so close it blurs everything. I avg. 3-5 migraine days a week. This has gone on for a decade. I have more blurry days than clear. Strong glasses help but if its a really bad i can't focus on anything or drive.
I was just diagnosed with MBA (migraine with brainstem aura) after an attack of severe vertigo morphed into status migrainosus over the course of a week and then lasted 7 weeks thanks to my naivete about migraine aura and my PCP's not taking it seriously with acute treatment. Apparently the vertigo part of the aura can go on for a week which totally explains everything! Doesn't help my post-steroid-rescue funk and topiramate side effects right now, but every day is a tiny bit better.
I had one today that not only had the kaleidoscope, but I lost my peripheral vision up, and left. It also felt like looking through shattered glass. This went on for over an hour. My sensory auras usually impact just one side of my body. Typically numbness and tingling in my one hand, and half of my lips/teeth/tongue.
My AVM causes migraine auras. The Numbness crawling up my arm is how I found out I had the AVM. (after the MRI) Started Visual non painful auras a while back as well.. now I am getting migraine auras that are coming on at night time while im sleeping, waking me up and that's a whole new level of terror.
Lord that's scary. I always get the visual aura but no headache. Now, I get the aura frequently and then words no longer make sense to me. I can't think or process anything for about an hour and then I recover. These attacks frighten me and are getting worse.
@@wearelimitless5443 There is no way spinal cord compression can cause the visual or cognitive symptoms of a migraine aura. These can only be caused by the brain. Compression of C4-C6 could cause numbness in one's arms/hands though. In your case, a compression at L4/L5 could only affect the part of your body below these vertebrae, e.g. your legs.
@@unlockyourcock I think they just caught the cervical compression during the MRI....has nothing to do with the aura. I have c4 to c6 compression and get auras as well
This is a very old video, but I'll add my 2 cents. I have visual auras, the kind with colorful "neon" zigzags that start as a blind spot and then widen and spread upward until they disappear. They are in both eyes, but to the right of my visual field. For the first time ever I was trying to read something during one of these and discovered that I could not understand the written word. I knew the separate words but could not put them together into something that made sense. My mom had migraines and had only one episode of one temporary sided paralysis.
I'm former foster youth and have only just found out my family has a history of migraines--including my mom having ones that last 15 days or longer. Roughly 2011, I started having episodes ~2 times a year. 2 months ago, I had multiple cycling symptoms that lasted 24hrs, and then happened 2-3x's a day for 3 weeks. Now I have symptoms that last for hours, but happen 1-2x's a week. I've done a CT, MRI, 2 EEGs, a 30 day heart monitor, an echocardiogram, etc... to no avail as to figuring out what's been causing my symptoms. How likely is it that I'm having migraines with auras? How can I test for them? I've changed my diet, and that's reduced my symptoms--how can I get them to go away entirely? My symptoms, in sequence: A strong feeling of euphoria or worry, light headedness, confusion, limpness of my upper body muscles, trouble understanding thoughts or words, short term memory issues, hypersensitivity to light and touch, sometimes loss of consenciousness, and sometimes full blown amnesia. I have terrible fatigue most days now. From an outsider's persective, I've been described as pale, bags under my eyes, dropping on one side of my face, unresponsive or muttering nonsense, limp, and with oddly dilated eyes (different dilations between each eye). My girlfriend says that I've called her and muttered nonsense over the phone multiple times, and I don't remember having done so. This has completely upended my life, and I'd like help figuring this out asap!!!!!!
I get aura migraines with half body numbness and inability to properly communicate. I’ve had severe episodes that have caused complete blindness. In most cases it is accompanied with a vomit fest and a level of pain that I honestly cannot compare to any other pain I’ve felt. At age 39 i got a very mild stroke or TIA. I sat down after work and suddenly I felt the numbness take over my hand and then up my arm and then to my face. I turned around to tell my wife I think I’m having a stroke but I forgot how to talk. I knew what I wanted to say but I just didn’t know how to. While in that strange state I thought to myself... OK I’m having stroke and all I can do is control my breathing and hope it goes away without any after effects. After about five minutes it did go away and I was able to tell my wife that I just had a very mild stroke. Having no insurance I wasn’t about to put us in the hole. So I immediately changed my diet and did anything else I could possibly do to better my health. So far I’ve not gotten a second stroke but severe migraines continue.
I’ve been making notes on when I get the auras and it’s exactly every 4 years! Just had the last one 2 days ago - very defined zigzags, lovely colours which gradually moved from central vision across to the right of my vision. It lasted probably around 20 mins and then got the headache which went on for the rest of the day. This time though I didn’t get the blind spot first, which I’ve had before. Have no idea which triggers them. Quite worrying when they occur. Forgot to mention also, it makes me feel very weak when it’s happening when I just want to sit or lay down.
for me it has happened 3 times, and i noticed that when i had them i would do more shores rhan usual, i had cleaned my house went to grocery store then to the mechanic and it was a week before my menstrual period , so im thinking overworked body reacts like that sometimes to some people. First time was scary very scary but them second and rhird time i knew what was about to happen.. so i would go close windows and lay down.
mines are about that spread apart too, had my most recent one last night out of nowhere, it grew pretty big and seemed to only be in my right eye but i get so freaked i don’t check. My migraine is still lingering although i took two over the counter ibuprofen. I do know ive been under alot of stress lately and i’m also always on my phone
I just had an eppisode of this yesterday and it usually goes away with sleep but not the case with this one , i took ibuprofen yesterday too and i had a big burger with fries and also an energy drink with no sugar and it was horrible started with pain in my right eye behind it and then couldn't see stuff like text , had a dificult time reading so i took a nap knowing it usually solves it (i've had this happen to me several time since primary school) but it didn't and i actually woke up with my left arm really numb and then when i touched my lips , my left side of the face started going numb , i got out of bed and went and drank some water and the visual aura dissapeared and just the migraine remained , horrible stuff , i'm quitting drinking caffeine and artificial sweeteners since those i've read are triggers for this kind of migraine.
Thank you for this explanation. Found myself unable to read, type a simple email or talk at work yesterday. I was rushed to A & E, all sorts of tests and scans only to find I'm fine. It was a suspected migraine aura...
Same thing happened to me at work. Scary. I was chopping foods when I got a large distorted blind spot, unable to process faces and objects, as well as garbled speech. I knew what I wanted to say but everything came out garbled. Co-workers asked what was wrong but I could not formulate a sentence to describe what was going on.
I have experienced every single one of these migraine auras, including the Alice in Wonderland one where my limbs feel disconnected from my body and the world is far away. I sometimes can't remember my own name, or speak in a comprehensible manner. They can come on at anytime, in any situation, which can be very embarrassing in my professional role, especially when I am talking to groups of people. They can go away for months, and then I will have them every few days. Really annoying.
I get sensory and visual not always at the same time but if they happen together they pain from the migrain is debilitating. I've also had ones where I get the visual and sensory where my sight is blurred and the numbing feeling is starting and Within minutes I'm losing consciousness.
I began getting migraine auras after my husband knocked me out for about 18 hours. However, there was no headache just auras, zigzag ones on the floor which frightened me so I saw my GP who asked me if any family members experienced migraines to which I told him no. (I never admitted the family violence (the concussion) to my MD. The migraines began thereafter & always began with flashing lights. I found that after I divorced him, the migraines disappeared. After about a year we remarried but the migraines never returned, only the auras did but this time without the headaches. Question: Did I have a brain injury???
I’ve had auras come back 3 different times in a setting, I’ve had auras that accompanied numbness on one side of my body right down to my tounge, twice when I was much younger. I’ve had speech issues a few different times. My first aura presented itself in 1977 when I was 7. I’m almost 52 (in May) and I still have auras. Luckily I don’t get the headache every time now since I’ve gotten older, but the speech thing still happens. And I have sensory disorders like water hitting my skin from the shower, doing dishes.. after doing dishes it takes me an hour before I can touch anything.. and paper rubbing against paper brings me to my knees. this makes me wonder if there’s a link there?
Is migraine without aura really migraine? I first was convinced that every migraine is announced with an aura, and that migraine without aura are simple headaches. In fact in earlier literature, I red that we can speak only of migraine if this begins with an aura, in particular a visual aura.
I'm in the same boat. I had them when I was 25 to 40 maybe ... they stopped. Suddenly 3 months ago I had my first one again and I'm 64. What's alarming me is I know several people in the same boat who've started getting them again AFTER they got COVID jabs. Coincidence?
@@watchtellyinuk For me it's dehydration and caffeine activated. I stills drink a ton of caffeine though I really need to stop 😔 but I drink a ton of water
I get the flickering what looks like lights from reflectors. I also see faces like they are from a Picasso painting all abstract. Once I took medication from a physician that completely rendered me infantile. I couldn't remember names or comprehend anything at all. It has been awful, I can't find a doctor that can help me.
i just had this 10 min visual aura, i could still see a lot but there was a definitive ) shape where colors were flickering and flimmering around, never happened before, no headache. prob gonna go get it checked :/
mine last about 5 to 20 minutes . it is extremely scary . especially the first time . i hope that i will never have an aura and go gambling because i don't gamble .
It is so scary. First time I got an aura, I was chopping foods at work when I got a large distorted blind spot, unable to process faces and objects, as well as garbled speech. I knew what I wanted to say but everything came out garbled. Co-workers asked what was wrong but I could not formulate a sentence to describe what was going on. Went on for about an hour until it finally went away. Seems like so many things could be a cause, to be honest. Difficult to try to consider ALL the causes and work around them daily.
I have the aura, but not the migraine and have had it for years. When it's going on and if I close my eyes, I see what looks like neon lights starting to form in a zigzag pattern. It could be on the left or on the right. At that point I can't see peoples faces. It only lasts for about 5 minutes and doesn't happen every day, only when I have been on the computer too long while watching tv.
Beth Sprung I have that light too, sometime it appear only lights sometime it followed with bad migraine. here is what I do to reduce it : - changing my diet, lots of healthy food like green veggies, fruits, nut, oat, seeds, and whole grain, and also healthy fat - regular exercising/workout - drink enough water - get enough sleep, and wake up early I stop stay awake until midnight , I always force myself sleep at 10 or 11 pm and wake up at 6 or 7 am. mine is better now, they appear less 😊 my worst was 4 months ago
We can have "cortical spreading depression" & vasoconstriction is part of it. It can knock us out for a time, then the migraine starts & you're in hell.
I have that light too, sometime it appear only lights sometime it followed with bad migraine. here is what I do to reduce it : - changing my diet, lots of healthy food like green veggies, fruits, nut, oat, seeds, and whole grain, and also healthy fat - regular exercising/workout - drink enough water - get enough sleep, and wake up early I stop stay awake until midnight , I always force myself sleep at 10 or 11 pm and wake up at 6 or 7 am. mine is better now, they appear less 😊 my worst was 4 months ago
i have that ...seeing psychedelic shapes blocking my vision sometimes out of the blue...actually just now i have it and that s how i came here...and yes, i have difficulties writing this stuff here haha ...first time i got scared as hell but luckily i dont have the other crazy auras and neither i have a headache after...
I get these often. 30 minute aura, followed by mild headache and extreme tiredness
Me too, and I've been getting the Chiara oral migraines a lot for the past 23 years.
He said he had only seen them a couple dozen times. I've had them since I was 12-13 y.o. and I didn't even know that I was having migraines til I was about 19-20 y.o. and now I'm 36 y.o.
I hope you find something that is helpful to you.
What’s the treatment for migraine aura pls can you explain
@@kavin.m7814 the only treatment for me is time. I take aspirin or ibuprofen when I first get the aura. A nap afterwards. That's about it. Nothing makes the aura go away faster, I just have to wait it out
First time I got ocular migraines was at the beginning of this month, went to eye doctor the same day 😂, scary stuff. I'm happy nothing neurological was found and doc says I just have to monitor my symptoms in case it gets worse or frequency changes. Both times it happened after I was super stressed and anxious and I went outside and boom I got the aura. See a doc, you never know what you have.
How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
What makes me feel better is there is people here who get it. Its terrible
Yes it is..
its very terrible, it breaks my mood, its the worse that could ever happrn.
My mom also gets them. I was pregnant when I had my first episode, and I was in complete panic until I remembered her explaining it. I called her, and felt much better about it. If you don’t know anything you might believe your having a stroke, or dying. They’re terrifying. Now I actually see them as a blessing. They are a warning sign that that pain is incoming, and I should take medication to prevent that.
@@mansoormahamud6122 me too😂
@@Investigativebean How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
It’s so refreshing to listen to someone this brilliant. I could listen to him lecture for hours.
Check your blood pressure. Last time I had a cluster of them several days in a row they were scary, complicated and my BP was around 200. Everything came back normal except my hospital bill and that i was low on electrolytes, especially low on sodium, which is the opposite of what they expect with high BP!
@@meanqkie2240 How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
YESS!!! All of what he is saying is me!! It is hell!! Totally disabling!!
I SO appreciate this video!!! I grew up with screaming migraines, had my first “stroke-like” attack at 16 and have had several throughout my life. After childbirth, I no longer have painful migraine but only visual aura that usually last about an hour but leave me woozy for longer. I am now 65 and They seem weather related (to me) especially with this past winter here in California and the excess rain…..
How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
This man is much more knowledgeable than the average doctors that most of us see. Strangely, I understand much of what he's saying. I'm 81 and, looking back to childhood, some of the things that happened through the years possibly indicate or suggest the development of migraine aura. The auras in my experience were not accompanied by headaches.
Same i have persisting auras
I get either the aura or the headache (never simultaneous.)
@@urbane90aolHow often are you getting auras now? Have you found out triggers and what are you doing to avoid the auras
This is perhaps the most detailed and honest assessment of our condition I've ever heard - and there are thousands of clips that purport knowledge on this elusive subject. Thank you!
Agree, great detail, many clips simplify and repeat same info
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@@RG....... Very infrequently now, thankfully; one about every other year. I think maybe age and added relaxation to my life has changed the tide. Maxalt (Rizatriptan) 10mg at the first sign of aura would alleviate me getting the headache part! I've I added a little 5-10-min nap, guaranteed no headache - but must be done at first sign.
I've never had an easy time explaining my auras to anyone ever before. Thank you for explaining it so well!
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Everyone who suffers from migraine should see this; the explanation of how one can distinguish the common symptoms of migraine from other serious illnesses/injuries is so informative. Fantastic video. Thank you.
Watching this as a fortification aura is growing in my vision.
Migrene is hell, one can't do anything but to try to drink some water, take pain meds and sleep in a dark quiet room until its over - plus the hangover the next day
My aura is usually a language aura, a sudden difficulty in understanding language. It isn't talked about much so this is my PSA to the world to not overlook it if you're trying to learn about your own migraine auras!
I like the fact that its a dark, black and white video. Very thoughtful! Thank you! ❤
That gentle flickering made me think I was having one!!!
Starting at ten I have had auras including the aphasia, the numbness, the distortion of size, the inability to put thoughts together and then headache which was one sided and terrible. I led a very careful diet to try and control. At 50 I started on Topomax which was my first preventative medicine and it changed my life. Stayed on topomax until 68. I still get migraines I think due to food but no longer 3 and 4 auras instead just the color aura. Over my lifetime I have experienced thousands of migraines not one went unnoticed. I lived my life terrorized by them, finally accepting them. I wonder what my life would have been without them. My first question to God, “can we talk about migraine?” Grateful over the years migraines have become more understood and people more compassionate. No we are not faking. Glad medicine has made advances in treatment.
I wish that I would have seen this when it came out, so much information! I've been suffering from migraines with aura since the early 90s, and it has been a challenge since. I have experienced phantom sounds, smells, and visual phenomena, as well as the excruciating headache that follows. Most people can't comprehend the misery endured, but migraines are a debilitating handicap that deserves further research and prevention treatments.
10 years ago, I had a bad one, went to the er and found out I had colon cancer (not a stroke). Probably saved my life.
I get the bright zigzag lines too. Part of my vision will be blocked with grey light and my face will feel fat.
I get that too except I can't blame my face feeling fat on it. My face is fat! 😳
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Oh my goodness this is exactly what happened to me. I present with stroke symptoms, ER and ambulance trips, and they never could find anything wrong. I was finally dx with Migraines Aura after 2 years of having them.
Mine present as blind spots in the Center of my vision. I’ll be looking at a face, or a book for example and cannot see anything other than the outline and surrounding area. First one I had was at the age of 12. It’s absolutely terrible. The anxiety it triggers is unbearable.
This is exactly what I get and I agree the anxiety is awful.
do you guys get headaches after too?
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@@miriamclark13 What are the triggers? How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
I have had migraines since I was 18 years old. I'm in my late 50's. I was never diagnosed with migraine aura until I saw a neurologist and he explained to me the reason it took so long. I would give my doctors (many different over many years) a list of my symptoms and they would divide the sypmtoms up into different categories for lack of a better word. He said you can't do that. Once you realize that they all go together, it's easy to diagnose. I hope that all made sense.
I have one of the worst cases, according to my neurologist that he's ever seen.
I have had: dizziness, numbness (in my tounge, lips, whole right side of my body, left hand, and wrist), tunnel vission, seeing things like shards of glass or rushing rivers out of my peripheral vision, I've lost my vision for an hour where I was aware and able to move around, sensations of falling over, sensations of riding a cloud, blurry gray spots, nausua, tightness in my skull, sharp needle like pains in my head that last for only a few seconds (thank God), bright flashes of light, light sensitivity that can be so bad that I can't open my eyes (so I stay in bed under the covers), sensitivity to sound, sometimes my head feels heavy, and blue spots.
I mostly have the dizziness, falling over sensation, light sensitivity, and numbness in my lips and tongue. The other symptoms are rare. I have had many tests run to make sure these aren't some other illnesses as well including a spinal tap.
A few of my family memebers suffer from some sort of migraine. My mom has migraines that cause syncope episodes. My grandmother had severe migraines as well as an uncle. My brother has them as well.
I am not looking for sympathy. I've learned over the years to live with it all by the grace of God.
This information is awesome to hear.
I'm sorry that any of you have to deal with any of this.
May God bless you all through your struggles and keep you safe. May he cover you all in his shed blood and shower you in his mercy and grace. I ask this in his mighty name Jesus, Amen.
This video is so underrated! Thank you for making it. A really good explanation.
Why is this not a disability and not registered as a disability in the Uk
Same in USA. Invisible.
I have had aura with migraine since 1979. Debilitating when it happens. I woke up from a nap once in 2014. I had the same onset of "lost" or "washed out" vision in both eyes and I was getting ready for another one. It never happened but the "washed out" never went away. I went to the hospital and after many test they found that I had a small stroke. Two years later had an aura start and go away but no pain just numbing on the peripheral left side(it feels like the left side of my body is asleep).
I have migraine with auras. My entire right side feels numb, literally from head to toe. It can get painful sometimes, I can actually feel one coming up right now. I slur, people have asked me if I'm drunk. I get them daily, it wasn't always like that, I guess I could say they're getting worse. I get the auras more often than the actual migraine.
Maybe you are in a place you don’t want to be or surrounded by people you have to get away from, this happened to me 3 times and to be honest i related to the fact that i was in the wrong path, so i cut connections with this people i stared going to college and it actually everything stoped. I haven’t had any migraine aura, no anemia, no hospitalizations due to surgeries. Its was like my body was screaming to me for help. Im better now.
I'm so sorry to hear about your headaches. I had 5 day migraines every month for about 13 years and that almost finished me so I can't imagine daily. I hope that yours will pass in time as mine did. All the best.
You may consider a medication like topiramate. It took about a month before it kicked in, but once it did, it made a HUGE difference.
I get different types of aura including the cheiro oral aura I had no idea it had a name and the reason why it jumps from each finger, down the hand and wrist to my mouth and tongue! How fascinating, makes it less frightening to understand why.
I get marathon migraines. They used to last for weeks (36 days is my record). I switched neuros and I'm better controlled now by i have always had thunderclap and auras. I have chiari malformation type 2 with a secondary diagnosis of pseudotumor. The more i learn the more i realize I'm not alone and that really helps.
I had my 1st complex migraine last month and thought i was having a stroke. I was on day 5 of a particularly brutal headache. I got hit with everything you just described. CT/MRI were negative for a stroke. I was hospitalized for 4 days while the did the DhE protocol and it was three days before i got the strength back in my left side.
The freakiest part was the Alice in Wonderland part. I was big and small at the same time. I felt like my brain had a short in it. I hope it never happens again. But if it does i know I'm not crazy or alone.
Have you ever looked into the possibility that you may be suffering from a CSF leak? Your symptoms line up with it and the chiari could be a manifestation of it too.
I had a migraine aura for the first time last week. I thought I was having a stroke so went straight to A&E. Never had a migraine before. I had been unwell for about a week before. Not sleeping well, stressed and tired. It was quite frightening as I'd never heard of these before. It was quite interesting to witness. Been fine since. Now fit and well again. I had a very mild headache 4 hours later.
Thank you. Some people think I'm nuts. I just had another one about an hour ago. I felt very lazy and brain foggy all of a sudden with a stiff neck.
Then the weird visual spot with bright zigzag edges.
I lied down, fell asleep for a short nap and woke up and now its gone. No pain or headache. I also had one 2 days ago. Very scary.
I experienced those symptoms of the bright zigzag edges for the first ever time last night and it was scary because I didn't know what was happening to me. I had been violently sick the previous day after suffering for several hours with a migraine. I have suffered for 40+years with migraines but had never experienced these lights that actually impaired my vision before ( although there was no pain during the experience).
you not crazy trust me
Same here no pain ever, but have episodes every once in awhile, the zigzag edges are frightening.
Your not crazy. We get it. I had the worst one I've ever had today.
i can live with headache but the Visual arua scary as fuck and and annoying
I get visual aura and I get that exact tingling thing. When we was explaining jt my jaw dropped.
I wish I'd seen this 25 years ago, it would have saved me a lot of anxiety. Although I was headache prone my whole life I didn't start seriously having migraines until I became pre-menopausal in my early 40s. Then for 13 years, every month brought a 5 day migraine. In hindsight I also occasionally had migraine auras but didn't realize that's what they were because they happened separately from the headaches. I had a 10 year grace period after menopause but just recently I've, once again, had the odd migraine headache but several visual and cognitive auras, one followed by the other ~ which really scared me because I couldn't retrieve certain words, and had trouble reading and thought I might be having a stroke. Now I will relax and just wait for it to pass. Thank you Dr. Jay!!!
What a great Doctor, i have had migraines since a child im 58 now i was told children dont get head aches, well mine i have had all of these symptoms , i also have had my eyes just go black i cant see. Aura for half hour then again straight after, the numness, cant get my words out , my eyes feel like im going cross eyed.I was explaining to my daughter and i said i would have the feeling that parts of my body where bigger it was her that told me thats Alice in wonderland syndrome, i can be sick and on the floor and head ache from hell lay in the dark with wet flannal on my head, the next day my co ordanation is bad, i can have 3 lots of Aura in a day people would say dont eat cheese or chocolate, its not what i eat mine are caused by stress anxiety ,light and pattern sensory issues, and as a child excitment when my first pony arrived i could only see him out the window then pull the curtains shut, I can have Aura 5 or 6 times a week sometime more. I now realise i have Autism, always thought i was 1 step away from epilepsy.
i had this issue and it was legit solved by blue light glasses, i thank my lucky stars i found a solution to this cuz i was really in a bad spot
I have been getting these "Scintillating Scotoma" episodes every few months for the past 3 years, and have tried to single out what causes it.
The last episode I had was after my daughter shared some "Maynards Swedish Berries" candy with me. I hadn't eaten anything else that day that was out of the ordinary, so I focused on researching the ingredients of that candy.
One of the ingredients in that candy I researched is an artificial yellow colouring dye called "Tartrazine". When I looked up the effect of tartrazine on the human body, I found descriptions including: "Neuro-toxin", "Carcinogen" and "can cause temporary blindness".
This artificial food dye is banned in Norway and Austria.
Thinking back to previous "episodes" I remember it happening once after eating "Rum & Raisin" ice cream. It was very yellow in colour; then another time, I had an episode after a strenuous bike ride on a hot day when I drank a bottle of lime Gatorade (lots of yellow-green colour).
So for me, I may have honed in on the thing that triggers this scary neurological event.
Hope this may be of help to anyone else looking for the cause of this.
this info has helped me so much, thank you!
Fantastic to understand what's going on. So we'll articulated and explained. I have all of the things he mentioned. If I have a stroke I will never know truly. Started as a child and more often now that I'm older. Every kind of test Dr's could throw at me. Same issue with Tinnitus with violent loud ping like a spring is bouncing on my eardrum. Brutal. Even sleeping most nights I feel like I need a tranquilizer. Praying for a cure in my lifetime. I can't imagine how I will be if it keeps getting worse as I age. Great minds like this makes me hopeful.
thanks for uploading. totally helpful for us who suffer from migraine aura.
Nothing worse than dreaming of being amazed about a colourful rainbow in your room, only to wake up with a migraine in progress.
Migraine headache btw is insane, to me it was like a loud bass/rock concert constantly playing in my head for hours, only cure was sleep for many many hours
Two days ago I developed a bad migraine during the early afternoon which resulted in me becoming nauseous and then vomiting. Then yesterday evening I was frightened when I suddenly was stricken with what must have been an aura ! I have suffered with migraine headaches since my childhood ( 40+ years ago) but that was the first time that I experienced an aura of any kind. Thankfully it only lasted for about 20minutes and then it disappeared !
Well i had it for a few months and went to see all doctors needed. From eye, to neurologe... Everything was fine. And last time i so my doctor something made sens. It was doe to high levels of stress. Thats what i figured it out by myself. Since i spend time to think what could it be and spend time by myself i realized that and from that point it was gone. I guess people need to stop sometimes and analize their own lifes because the body gives you all the signs that you need, you have to listen! Also I remember my doctor tell me that If it doesn't go away I will have to take medication for life and that really hit me and helped me realize that something was wrong. It clicked. Spend time by yourself if your life is not what you want, take a step back and breath, make changes because if you are at this point it means you havent reapected yourself. Sleep, rest the body not just go go go. By the way no one in my family had this so it made it easy for me to understand what I wasn't doing right. Also the situation we are living now. Completely terrified me. So realize what you are not giving your body. Take a break because you can change everything. Stay healthy and love yourself unconditionally.
Thank you!
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I get the aura and then I lose central vision and usually do not get a headache (almost never).
same here, never had any pain with it, I thought that I might be having ischemic episodes, however, since I have been having auras for over 25 years I assume that I would have had a stroke by now.
Consider yourself lucky. Lol.
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Have been experiencing headaches for months. Possible occipital neuralgia. Pain, dizziness, etc. In the last month, 5 episodes lasting a few seconds to a few minutes: disorientation, off-balance, narrowed field of vision, confusion, difficulty interpreting speech from some else. There was no panic. I was calm. Setting was always at a store or large mall with bright fluorescent lighting. These episodes usually occured when some level of headache was present. Doctor calls anxiety and simply take a pill. 🤨
bigbolas12 not just anxiety. I do have panic attacks but get the auras and tunnel vision when hit with florescent lighting. It’s not just anxiety
I get visual aura with or without headache, headaches now more typical. But, they last most of the day, always
Thank you Dr. Jay.
Really fascinating, thanks for sharing. About 17 years ago I had an aura (slightly blurred vision, bright, prismatic) followed by the first and only migraine headache of my life. Then about a month ago, I had an aura that was pretty much a classic "scintillating scotoma" type but thankfully, without a following migraine headache. The only thing that I can think of that might have been a common precursor condition was very hot weather and possible dehydration.
f47lbx3 I have constant aura of heat waves and little silver type s shapes or c shapes plus this darn tinnitus. I get stabbing pain then the migraine headach too but the vision is never clear. They are not my many floaters either. It helps to know I'm on to something. I need to find his name perhaps he can help me. Blessings MJ
I constantly have aura. My vision doubles (stacked, never side by side). Its so close it blurs everything. I avg. 3-5 migraine days a week. This has gone on for a decade. I have more blurry days than clear. Strong glasses help but if its a really bad i can't focus on anything or drive.
I was just diagnosed with MBA (migraine with brainstem aura) after an attack of severe vertigo morphed into status migrainosus over the course of a week and then lasted 7 weeks thanks to my naivete about migraine aura and my PCP's not taking it seriously with acute treatment. Apparently the vertigo part of the aura can go on for a week which totally explains everything! Doesn't help my post-steroid-rescue funk and topiramate side effects right now, but every day is a tiny bit better.
Soy (of any kind) and second-hand cigarette smoke...gets me every time!
I had one today that not only had the kaleidoscope, but I lost my peripheral vision up, and left. It also felt like looking through shattered glass. This went on for over an hour. My sensory auras usually impact just one side of my body. Typically numbness and tingling in my one hand, and half of my lips/teeth/tongue.
My AVM causes migraine auras. The Numbness crawling up my arm is how I found out I had the AVM. (after the MRI) Started Visual non painful auras a while back as well.. now I am getting migraine auras that are coming on at night time while im sleeping, waking me up and that's a whole new level of terror.
Thank you for your information
Lord that's scary. I always get the visual aura but no headache. Now, I get the aura frequently and then words no longer make sense to me. I can't think or process anything for about an hour and then I recover. These attacks frighten me and are getting worse.
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After having these auras for 7 years, got an xray, which showed a compression of the C-4 to C-6 on my spinal cord.
Ouch. Can the fix it? I have a congenital brain defect. No medical fix I'm afraid.
Whoa! I've had issues with L4 and L5. Keep us posted. I wonder if there is a correlation. Thanks for sharing. You are the real MVP.
@@wearelimitless5443 There is no way spinal cord compression can cause the visual or cognitive symptoms of a migraine aura. These can only be caused by the brain.
Compression of C4-C6 could cause numbness in one's arms/hands though.
In your case, a compression at L4/L5 could only affect the part of your body below these vertebrae, e.g. your legs.
@@unlockyourcock I think they just caught the cervical compression during the MRI....has nothing to do with the aura. I have c4 to c6 compression and get auras as well
@@rwest1966How often are you getting auras now? Have you found out triggers and what are you doing to avoid the auras
This is a very old video, but I'll add my 2 cents. I have visual auras, the kind with colorful "neon" zigzags that start as a blind spot and then widen and spread upward until they disappear. They are in both eyes, but to the right of my visual field. For the first time ever I was trying to read something during one of these and discovered that I could not understand the written word. I knew the separate words but could not put them together into something that made sense. My mom had migraines and had only one episode of one temporary sided paralysis.
Thank you for this. Been suffering for years. Acupuncture fixed my case.
I think attention should also be given to cervical postural issues, Forward head posture from excessive sitting.
Guilty
I'm former foster youth and have only just found out my family has a history of migraines--including my mom having ones that last 15 days or longer.
Roughly 2011, I started having episodes ~2 times a year. 2 months ago, I had multiple cycling symptoms that lasted 24hrs, and then happened 2-3x's a day for 3 weeks. Now I have symptoms that last for hours, but happen 1-2x's a week. I've done a CT, MRI, 2 EEGs, a 30 day heart monitor, an echocardiogram, etc... to no avail as to figuring out what's been causing my symptoms.
How likely is it that I'm having migraines with auras? How can I test for them? I've changed my diet, and that's reduced my symptoms--how can I get them to go away entirely?
My symptoms, in sequence: A strong feeling of euphoria or worry, light headedness, confusion, limpness of my upper body muscles, trouble understanding thoughts or words, short term memory issues, hypersensitivity to light and touch, sometimes loss of consenciousness, and sometimes full blown amnesia. I have terrible fatigue most days now.
From an outsider's persective, I've been described as pale, bags under my eyes, dropping on one side of my face, unresponsive or muttering nonsense, limp, and with oddly dilated eyes (different dilations between each eye). My girlfriend says that I've called her and muttered nonsense over the phone multiple times, and I don't remember having done so.
This has completely upended my life, and I'd like help figuring this out asap!!!!!!
Had migraines for a few years, first aura now age 30.
I get aura migraines with half body numbness and inability to properly communicate. I’ve had severe episodes that have caused complete blindness. In most cases it is accompanied with a vomit fest and a level of pain that I honestly cannot compare to any other pain I’ve felt. At age 39 i got a very mild stroke or TIA. I sat down after work and suddenly I felt the numbness take over my hand and then up my arm and then to my face. I turned around to tell my wife I think I’m having a stroke but I forgot how to talk. I knew what I wanted to say but I just didn’t know how to. While in that strange state I thought to myself... OK I’m having stroke and all I can do is control my breathing and hope it goes away without any after effects. After about five minutes it did go away and I was able to tell my wife that I just had a very mild stroke. Having no insurance I wasn’t about to put us in the hole. So I immediately changed my diet and did anything else I could possibly do to better my health. So far I’ve not gotten a second stroke but severe migraines continue.
I had Epstein bar syndrome. This is wild. I love that I know I'm not crazy now. thank you
I'm enjoying listening to this as it's pertinent to me. However, I can't watch it; there's a slight flicker in the image that I find triggering.
I’ve been making notes on when I get the auras and it’s exactly every 4 years! Just had the last one 2 days ago - very defined zigzags, lovely colours which gradually moved from central vision across to the right of my vision. It lasted probably around 20 mins and then got the headache which went on for the rest of the day. This time though I didn’t get the blind spot first, which I’ve had before. Have no idea which triggers them. Quite worrying when they occur. Forgot to mention also, it makes me feel very weak when it’s happening when I just want to sit or lay down.
for me it has happened 3 times, and i noticed that when i had them i would do more shores rhan usual, i had cleaned my house went to grocery store then to the mechanic and it was a week before my menstrual period , so im thinking overworked body reacts like that sometimes to some people. First time was scary very scary but them second and rhird time i knew what was about to happen.. so i would go close windows and lay down.
Every 4 years. You're so lucky. Your symptoms are so typical. Welcome to the club?
mines are about that spread apart too, had my most recent one last night out of nowhere, it grew pretty big and seemed to only be in my right eye but i get so freaked i don’t check. My migraine is still lingering although i took two over the counter ibuprofen. I do know ive been under alot of stress lately and i’m also always on my phone
I get mine usually every couple months
Thank you
I wish he’d spoken about treatments for each type too
I just had an eppisode of this yesterday and it usually goes away with sleep but not the case with this one , i took ibuprofen yesterday too and i had a big burger with fries and also an energy drink with no sugar and it was horrible started with pain in my right eye behind it and then couldn't see stuff like text , had a dificult time reading so i took a nap knowing it usually solves it (i've had this happen to me several time since primary school) but it didn't and i actually woke up with my left arm really numb and then when i touched my lips , my left side of the face started going numb , i got out of bed and went and drank some water and the visual aura dissapeared and just the migraine remained , horrible stuff , i'm quitting drinking caffeine and artificial sweeteners since those i've read are triggers for this kind of migraine.
I found the background music refreshing.
Thank you for this explanation. Found myself unable to read, type a simple email or talk at work yesterday. I was rushed to A & E, all sorts of tests and scans only to find I'm fine. It was a suspected migraine aura...
Same thing happened to me at work. Scary. I was chopping foods when I got a large distorted blind spot, unable to process faces and objects, as well as garbled speech. I knew what I wanted to say but everything came out garbled. Co-workers asked what was wrong but I could not formulate a sentence to describe what was going on.
Your seeing the equivalent of pins and needles. Took me 30 yrs to get it . A pinch in the back of neck/head.
I have experienced every single one of these migraine auras, including the Alice in Wonderland one where my limbs feel disconnected from my body and the world is far away. I sometimes can't remember my own name, or speak in a comprehensible manner. They can come on at anytime, in any situation, which can be very embarrassing in my professional role, especially when I am talking to groups of people. They can go away for months, and then I will have them every few days. Really annoying.
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Fantastic video, but please, the music adds nothing and is very distracting .
It’s a great video but the background music is to annoying and distracting, why would you even have a background music on such a fantastic video !
I get sensory and visual not always at the same time but if they happen together they pain from the migrain is debilitating. I've also had ones where I get the visual and sensory where my sight is blurred and the numbing feeling is starting and Within minutes I'm losing consciousness.
I began getting migraine auras after my husband knocked me out for about 18 hours. However, there was no headache just auras, zigzag ones on the floor which frightened me so I saw my GP who asked me if any family members experienced migraines to which I told him no. (I never admitted the family violence (the concussion) to my MD.
The migraines began thereafter & always began with flashing lights. I found that after I divorced him, the migraines disappeared. After about a year we remarried but the migraines never returned, only the auras did but this time without the headaches.
Question: Did I have a brain injury???
I know its an old vid, just wanna say that the music choice is so bad, but the video is well explained tho
I’ve had auras come back 3 different times in a setting, I’ve had auras that accompanied numbness on one side of my body right down to my tounge, twice when I was much younger. I’ve had speech issues a few different times.
My first aura presented itself in 1977 when I was 7. I’m almost 52 (in May) and I still have auras. Luckily I don’t get the headache every time now since I’ve gotten older, but the speech thing still happens. And I have sensory disorders like water hitting my skin from the shower, doing dishes.. after doing dishes it takes me an hour before I can touch anything.. and paper rubbing against paper brings me to my knees. this makes me wonder if there’s a link there?
Be aware what was previously eaten. Hyperventilation helps.
Is migraine without aura really migraine? I first was convinced that every migraine is announced with an aura, and that migraine without aura are simple headaches. In fact in earlier literature, I red that we can speak only of migraine if this begins with an aura, in particular a visual aura.
God I havent had these since i was about 13. I'm going on 26 and experienced it again for the first time 😭😭
I'm in the same boat. I had them when I was 25 to 40 maybe ... they stopped. Suddenly 3 months ago I had my first one again and I'm 64. What's alarming me is I know several people in the same boat who've started getting them again AFTER they got COVID jabs. Coincidence?
@@watchtellyinuk Haha I'm definitely not getting jabbed F that
@@watchtellyinuk For me it's dehydration and caffeine activated. I stills drink a ton of caffeine though I really need to stop 😔 but I drink a ton of water
I get the flickering what looks like lights from reflectors. I also see faces like they are from a Picasso painting all abstract. Once I took medication from a physician that completely rendered me infantile. I couldn't remember names or comprehend anything at all. It has been awful, I can't find a doctor that can help me.
i just had this 10 min visual aura, i could still see a lot but there was a definitive ) shape where colors were flickering and flimmering around, never happened before, no headache. prob gonna go get it checked :/
i have these for years also thos strange zigzags . i dont have the headeache but it is Always scares me a lot . wish you all the best.
@@voederbietels thanks buddy!
sure was scary af
hasnt happened since.. hope that was a one time thing
@@master-azazel What are the triggers? How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
@@voederbietels What are the triggers? How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
@@RG....... hi. i am not shure . maybe the combination of less sleep and being buzzy . i realy dont know.
Can someone turn the music of
Thank you for explaining this! Im not crazy! I am searching for a good Doctor in Miami who understands this! Anyone have one?
lizafone did you find anyone?
Im looking in Naples. Lol.
mine last about 5 to 20 minutes . it is extremely scary . especially the first time . i hope that i will never have an aura and go gambling because i don't gamble .
It is so scary. First time I got an aura, I was chopping foods at work when I got a large distorted blind spot, unable to process faces and objects, as well as garbled speech. I knew what I wanted to say but everything came out garbled. Co-workers asked what was wrong but I could not formulate a sentence to describe what was going on. Went on for about an hour until it finally went away. Seems like so many things could be a cause, to be honest. Difficult to try to consider ALL the causes and work around them daily.
I have the aura, but not the migraine and have had it for years. When it's going on and if I close my eyes, I see what looks like neon lights starting to form in a zigzag pattern. It could be on the left or on the right. At that point I can't see peoples faces. It only lasts for about 5 minutes and doesn't happen every day, only when I have been on the computer too long while watching tv.
Beth Sprung I have that light too, sometime it appear only lights sometime it followed with bad migraine.
here is what I do to reduce it :
- changing my diet, lots of healthy food like green veggies, fruits, nut, oat, seeds, and whole grain, and also healthy fat
- regular exercising/workout
- drink enough water
- get enough sleep, and wake up early
I stop stay awake until midnight , I always force myself sleep at 10 or 11 pm and wake up at 6 or 7 am.
mine is better now, they appear less 😊 my worst was 4 months ago
What are the triggers? How often do you get them now? What treatment are you following
Great information. Maybe lose the jazz underscore during the lecture. Great for the beginning and end, not so great during his speech.
awesome and important info but the crazy music is distracting--and too loud
Especially if you already have a migraine😳
I have migraine with aura 🙄
Why does decrease of blood flow occur? Is it due to vasoconstriction? If it's why vasoconstriction happens? Is there any relationship with serotonin?
We can have "cortical spreading depression" & vasoconstriction is part of it. It can knock us out for a time, then the migraine starts & you're in hell.
is he saying an aura lasts 16 or 60 minutes? I have trouble with his accent.
60
This is me and that driving story is why I stopped driving.
I have that light too, sometime it appear only lights sometime it followed with bad migraine.
here is what I do to reduce it :
- changing my diet, lots of healthy food like green veggies, fruits, nut, oat, seeds, and whole grain, and also healthy fat
- regular exercising/workout
- drink enough water
- get enough sleep, and wake up early
I stop stay awake until midnight , I always force myself sleep at 10 or 11 pm and wake up at 6 or 7 am.
mine is better now, they appear less 😊 my worst was 4 months ago
I do not drive anymore either I had about two episodes and I finally went to a neurosurgeon who told me I had this condition
How can we prevent from getting these???????????????????? Asking for my self!!!!
skeeooh getting enough sleep, eating more healthy and less screen time. that’s what I have learned from my docter..
Screen like being on my phone and playing games?
i have that ...seeing psychedelic shapes blocking my vision sometimes out of the blue...actually just now i have it and that s how i came here...and yes, i have difficulties writing this stuff here haha ...first time i got scared as hell but luckily i dont have the other crazy auras and neither i have a headache after...
This is an unintentional ASMR video
No one believes me doing my head in now just woke up with one
Can someone tell me who this guy is I need to find out ASAP
Gary W. Jay, MD, FAAPM, FACFEI, Ithink that is him
Very interesting, but I wished they wouldn't play Jazz all the time while he's talking.
I had an auditory aura watching this vid-awful jazz drum and bass !!
We just talk about the migraines we don't talk about the factory farmed meat the factory made energy drinks and shit McDonalds. Hmmmm wtf are we doing
One has nothing to do with the other.
Thumbs down for cursing people as damned. This doctors playing God.
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