Migraine Aura 101: What Is A Migraine Aura? | Eye Doctor Explains
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- Have you ever experienced a Migraine Aura? In this video, Dr. D explains what a Migraine Aura is, why they occur and when to seek help. #migraine #ocularmigraine #auramigraine #migrainetreatment #migrainesymptoms #migrainessuck #migrainerelief #migrainecauses #migraineheadache #migrainepain
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01:13 What's an Aura?
04:52 Why do they occur?
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07:00 When to Seek Help
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Watching this whilst having a migraine with aura. You described mine perfectly
I've had 3 in the last two weeks 😢 I suffer from health anxiety and a panic disorder ... this what's happening has spiked my panic attacks and I'm constantly anxious I've cried everyday the last two weeks in in constant panic I'm having a stroke 😢😢😢
CELERY JUICE 3-5 times saved me from the aura.I have not had it since! Preferably organic celery. I used to get aura attacks weekly, and after I discovered celery juice Im 100 % fine. If too many days passes between my juices I may start to get pre warnings, I then drink a full glass and it goes right away! It does not always help against migraine, but the aura is gone!
My symptoms, first an aura, then odd speech, followed by numb fingers, mouth and throat, once the aura has passed I then get a bad headache for about 2 hours followed by a movement headache over the next 2 days, no idea what causes them but I usually get them on weekends.
Thank you very much! It was very hepful.
I’ve watched 6-7 vids about eye care, and yours is by far the best. I’m 85 and getting auras. You explained beautifully. You’re. Now my go-to girl.
Great information DR. Thank YOU xoxo
Thank You for the video! I just started having Aura's. My eye Dr just diagnosed me with papilledema, I also have Intracranial Hypertension diagnosed in 2015. Tonight I had the aura without headache, six days ago I had my first aura with migraine. So as you said, it scared me and I came to TH-cam... Found your video ❤️
Studying for the NPTE (the board exam for physical therapy) and needed a little more insight on aura while studying mild TBI. This was helpful! Thanks!
Thanks Dr D. I got this video right in the nick of time. Had one yesterday & sure enough, it resolved itself after 30 minutes. I’m good today. New subscriber. 👍
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THIS I HAD THIS HAPPEN TO ME FRIDAY I WAS
SO INCREDIBLY SCARED I WAS HAVING A PANIC ATTACK WHEN THIS OCCURRED I EXPERIENCED ZIG ZAG LINES FLASHES
THIS LASTED MAYBE 20 Minutes…I ALSO HAD A VERY BAD HEADACHE..I WISH I WOULD OF SEEN THIS A YEAR AGO THANK U SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THIS.
I just have an aura, and I'm listening this with my eyes closed. 😔 thank you 🙏
Long hours of driving have brought them on for me but thankfully i have not had too many.
I get the aura usually no headache
I just had my first every aura Migraine & omg it was so scary I had the aura first then 30 mins later I got a very bad sudden migraine on left temple , strong nausea , pins & needles in my hands & fatigue . Last 3 hours I’m starting to feel better
I’ve had 4 over the past 4 year. I usually notice I can’t focus on something visually then the aura comes. Then zig zags bright lights with the photophobia. Then the terrible pressure comes. I feel fatigued and weak for the rest of the day. I find that if I take Tylenol or ibuprofen during the aura stage the actually headache isn’t to terrible. Actually had one a couple hours ago at work and goddam it was terrible. 😔
I’ve had 4 over the past 4 year. I usually notice I can’t focus on something visually then the aura comes. Then zig zags bright lights with the photophobia. Then the terrible pressure comes. I feel fatigued and weak for the rest of the day. I find that if I take Tylenol or ibuprofen during the aura stage the actually headache isn’t to terrible. Actually had one a couple hours ago at work and goddam it was terrible. 😔
Im so glad you mentioned pregnancy. I've had headaches all this pregnancy, but now at 31 weeks started getting these visual disturbances. I thought it was my blood pressure but it wasn't, so then I think im dying lol but they've been coming almost every other day, not always with a headache. Seeing my eye dr in a few days just to get checked out.
I had them like crazy in my third trimester due to rising estrogen levels. Glad you’re getting them checked out!
I had really bad headaches during my teens up to my early twenties. The headaches stopped and I started getting the auras without pain about 15 years ago. I get the blind spots first then the aura would start and last about 15 to 30 minutes. Thank you for this helpful information.
I have the aura's also without pain. But I have a lot of discomfort in seeing/watching in general all the time.. This is very stressing for my overall head/system. I think I should avoid reading and watching which demands focus (watching) as much as possible. I think that watching tv and reading on pc gives most stress and aura's..
I haven't had a severe migraine in years. It was so bad I couldn't hear noise or see light with out making me vomit. Now, randomly, I'm seeing this visual migraines. However, I just got over bells palsy(thankfully didn't last long but caused a lot of pain on the right side).
Had my first hemiplegic migraine when I was 12. This was in the early 90s and there wasn't a lot of info. I was put through tests and it was assumed I had seizures due to confusion, weakness, and saying incorrect words. I was diagnosed right after I had my son when I was 22 because I was getting them several times a week and couldn't function. I'm now 41 and it's guaranteed I have at least one per month around my period.
They are scary and exhausting. This last one I ended up with a headache from Monday afternoon until Thursday morning this past week. I'm still exhausted from it.
I've been suffering migraine since 8 years old until now, and I hate that aura it makes me vomitting😫😫
I wonder if this is happening more than it did in the past, because we eat so many processed toxic foods.
Please make a video for astgmitism axis.
I am so confused one eye doctor check that it's 5degrees while another said it's 180 degrees.
Is there any degree or radian difference or some doctor's language.
Both said just show this priscription to optical shop and you will get your glasses.
I've always linked my aura to the eye floaters I have I always seem to get more eye floaters leading up to a aura
I’ve just had smile and results are great, as my doctor says. But, I’m concerned as I was immediately prescribed +0,5 glasses for long computer sessions day after operation. I got worried at first, but I mentioned that everyone left their appointment with those prescriptions, so it got me thinking that this is just a part of the system. Is it so? Should I get them for real?
Your videos are great and they’ve made me worry less about halos and not a 1 result during an eye check day after smile ( I can only see 0,9 right now, but I hope it will improve)
Thank you!
I wish I'd had you as my optometrist...
I told mine for years about the flashing in my eyes. They kept saying it was migraine aura or other (not important) causes.
My Retinitis Pigmentosa was missed for almost 10 years... I know that going blind could be an inevitability, but I would have preferred to have had the knowledge of my issues sooner.
I think I've said it before, but thank you for doing these videos. 🖤
Got an optical migraine while playing with my grandson… road it out bc I was babysitting…get them once in a while
Please tell me solution of this problem ? Visual aura migraine with headache
I would occasionally get flashes prior to a migrane, i just had something i thought i was loosing my vision. Like seeing static / stars in right eye and the headache happened almost instantly after it stopped dealing with it now.
I started getting migraines when I went thru menopause in my early 50s. I got my first migraine aura the other day (62 yrs old). It was scary because I recently had cataract surgery followed by a retinal tear that was repaired via laser treatment. At first I thought it was a floater from another tear, but I contacted a friend who has migraines and she told me about migraine auras. It was a very strange experience, but I’ll be better prepared the next time I get one.
That's when mine started through menopause 😢 are you OK now ? Do they go away ?
Mine, too, started around 12(hormonal changes). Ocular migraines at that age are frightening! Get them infrequently
(fortunately)
mainly during high stress periods in life. Sometimes the aura is more disconcerting than the headache. Headache pain lessened with age(am 60).
Stay well✨
I started 11-12
I’m 65 years old and my migraines are getting worse!!!
I was on my scooter in heavy traffic, and boom! Out of no where I started seeing dots,and flashes in my eyes. Luck for me I did not panic, I pulled over, turned off the scooter, closed my eyes, it was gone in 5 minutes. That was 5 months ago, my eyes are ok for now. I started taking a vitamins for the eyes.
Good video. Mine started around 12-13 with massive migraine pain afterwards and light sensitivity. Only happened a few times and I don't remember any between 16 and 42 when they started again but with bearable pain mediated with a Motrin. For me they're infrequent with no pattern. I believe my trigger to be sinus or ear congestion. The abnormal pressure appears to press against a nerve or vein thereby starting a chain reaction somehow/somewhere and off we go. It's always the same sequence which lasts around 15 minutes and I usually experience a mild warming sensation around the eye socket once the aura has "passed behind" me and the transition to headache occurs. Of special note is that my vision always seems to be so much clearer for a while once the aura has passed.
How often do you get them now and what treatment options did your Doc suggest?
I always get ocular migraines before my period. My hormones go completely out of whack. It’s so awful!
I had this twice now,
Do you think reading can cause a trigger because mine came on after reading lots or because I was doing meditation hard to say iv had them years just none for a while
Wouldnt wish a migraine headache on anyone, physically throw up several times during it the pain is that bad
For me it's when water tastes like the best thing I have ever drank. Lately my vision is affected too
I had ocular auras about 4 x a year. Now I am having one every other day. I have changed nothing about my lifestyle. So confusing. Have the headache only sometimes.
Preventative medications? Such as? How do you work with this condition? What if in the middle of a patient exam you get one?
Take Magnesium Bisglycinate TRACS chelate. I take about 800 mgs. Also, try orange juice, banana, brocolli, and get a good Electrolyte powder. These work for me. Hope this helps.
When I get glare and white spots and hard to see vision I get sweaty at the same time I don't understand why I start sweating and they last about 15 minutes maybe once a month
I’ve had this since I was 11 years old. I’m so used to them now but the first time this happened to me, I thought I was going blind and my mom wasn’t home but I found sunglasses and laid on the couch until she came back.
Samee For some reason It happens more times when my mom wasn't home and I started at 11-12 too It's very annoying
PSA: There's other kinds of auras! I get visual auras sometimes but most of the time its a Language aura (i guess the migraine hits Wernicke's area or something) where my ability to understand written and spoken language slows to a crawl. Sudden onset dyslexia, and sentences lose their meaning (like, I recognize they are WORDS but my brain can't glean meaning from it... Like if you heard someone saying a sentence full of real words but in a nonsense order). It's very weird.
Yes ,that is what I experience. If I try to speak to soon my words either can’t be found or come out garbled and I forget everyone’s name ,It’s terrifying.
This Is the best description of what I get everytime I get a migraine. Then after that I get like tingling in my hands & face sometimes so that really freaks me out
My migraines are the same pain level of a normal headache but I’m way more sensitive to sound (normally with my ASD I can block out sound) and smell…then I’m vomiting. Fun stuff. Once vomited doing 80km in the middle of 3 lanes of traffic. My only thought was ‘don’t crash!’ I didn’t crash but it was hideous
I have visual aura
Does one need a Nuerologist for the aura? I just had the worst aura migraine that I have ever had since I've been getting them for 17 years. They are very scary. I noticed that I can't control my emotions, the more they come on me. Thanks for this video. I have learned a lot more from you than anyone on TH-cam.
Numbness always hands face tongue very scary
I’ve been getting migraines since i was 10, and auras started when I was 20. Now I’m 50, and I still get them a few times a year. Recently I found out that my dad and my sister both get the aura as well, and none of us knew that the others had it. I have no idea how we managed to go decades without figuring that out, lol.
You seem to be a family that doesn`t communicate on important things.
How often do you get them now and what treatment options did your Doc suggest?
First of all I,am a migraine patient from my childhood.
2.5 years ago when I was watching led TV suddenly I saw aura that was like zig zag and I was shivering because I was feeling very cold and it stopped after 20 minutes and never happened again but two weeks ago I saw the exact same aura and was shivering + feeling very cold. and after the aura ended I was still feeling a bit cold. and had an headache in the morning. Can you tell me if its a seizure or a aura migraine
Hey girl I get all four. were are u located
I got auras,numb tongue,loss of speech,left side numb,headache,
Diagnosed hydrocephalus .
OMG we are the same
One thing I make sure I do is drink plenty of water and make sure I sleep 6-7 hours per night minimum. That seems to be the top two things I always try and do everyday that have worked for me and I might get an Aura every 1-2 years. Still scary every time, even tho I know what’s going on
but now my migrain is v vv much gon no so bad and aura totally gone
Hello Dr. D! Thank you for your informative content. I get an aura followed by a migraine about once a month. The aura usually lasts about 40 mins, and the migraine about 24 hours.
I've been very curious about these migraines since my first one when I was 17 (26 now), particular around what exactly causes them. I was wondering if you had more knowledge about exactly what is happening in the visual cortex. You mentioned we know it's a chemical or electrical wave that crosses the visual cortex... How exactly do we know this, and do we know why?
Thanks so much
great question! i can go more in depth in a future video for sure. thanks for watching + commenting
@@EyeSchoolwithDrD Thanks for sharing Doc - I have the same symptoms with no headache. Went to my Eye doc and he suggested I should get an MRI? Is that really required? I have no other symptoms, but the very thought of going into that MRI machine is making me very anxious and stressed.
When exactly is an MRI scan recommended, what are the res flags?
hi Dr.D, but is there a connection with heart health? On blogs they are saying this: "People who get migraines with aura have a slightly higher risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from cardiovascular disease "
Question.Why do I see a bunch of small white and dark patterns in my vision for a few seconds after looking away from my phone screen with a dark background?
Elian Lazaro She is not here to diagnose you. Go see an optometrist
Are auditory hallucinations an aura?
My friend a heart surgeon would get auras while doing surgery and lose his central vision. As they progressed he stopped doing surgery, to risky.
That would be terrifying! I get them and understand how impossible it would be to try to accomplish anything while your vision is like that!
@@EyeSchoolwithDrD Speaking of heart surgery, I am a cardiac patient who has had had two procedures involving transseptal punctures. Both times I had auras whose frequency diminished as the puncture healed. Many patients report the same, my Electrophysiologist acknowledges that this happens but doesn’t know the cause. Any thoughts?
I knew a neurosurgeon who got bad migraines!
iam 37 now first encounter was when i was 12 and frquently ...no reason found left or right eye ....after 15 to 30 min aura start disappering but reault v v v v vbad headeach......which results vomit and deep sleep
Listening to this version, I am growing ever more confused. I had a very vivid jagged arc aura. My experience was so vivid and alarming, that all the attempts at graphically replicating them are un-whelming in comparison. Your description of the lead up to the ocular migraine, is my normal permanent state - physical and attitude - but I can at least account for the cause of attitude. My visions were painless. But the idea that brain-fog might be associated is interesting, because I have such times as well as symptoms like neuropathy, which some say can be associated. I will never know, cannot prove one way or other, especially with the shoddy delinquent medical support available here. So I just claim to have had two very vivid episodes of aura. Do I suffer migraines? or not. I will probably never know.
Patients with migraines also tend to have "visual snow" which I haven't done a video about but is worth looking up. What you're describing seems to be similar to that phenomenon
I only get the aura thankfully
How often do you get them now and what treatment options did your Doc suggest?
I just had one today and I had another one 6 weeks ago. It was 2 years before that .
Aura only and no headache. I have been getting them for 25 years. They are awful and I know I have anxiety about them. Worried incase I get one
I also have visual aura but no headache it happens around twice in a month started taking eye vitamins now I hope it will work !!
Redmond real salt in 16oz of water every morning cured me of these.
Did anyone try propranolol OR magnesium supplements for this visual aura with migraine? How effective was it, what was your dosage?
I started magnesium. Glicynate. And Riboflavin. Seemed to help but still get the aura. Just not as often
@@jsned2502 How much magnesium? How much is the aura frequency reduced?
@@jsned2502 How much are you taking per day of magnesium, and how long before you saw any results
@@jsned2502 How much of each are you taking? How many days before results start showing
I use to have the aura with no migraine BUT today I got my first ever migraine AFTER the aura 😢 Is that normal ?
It's not unusual for migraines to change/get worse over time. But it's usually a good idea to talk to your neurologist every time something New happens
I had a migraine for 7 days straight. Then dr. Gave me topamax and it made me feel like I was floating on a cloud and really bad tingles from head to toe. So he told me to stop taking it. But I have had tingles for almost a month now. Mostly in my legs. I also suffer with restless leg too. I’m scared. I cant even work bc my legs tingle and hurt so bad to where I couldn’t walk . I go to a nerve dr. Tomorrow. I don’t know what’s causing all this stuff going on with my body. I got blood work done and everything came bk fine. I also have anxiety too. I hope to god it’s just from migraines. But the tingles are 24/7. Has anyone else had these?
And I cant sleep well. And lost like 7 pounds bc of all this too
Anyone else keep hearing the clicking from the remote?
Try cutting sugar out of your diet....This dramatically decreased mine and ive seen research pointing to the glucose triggering inflamation around vessels ......ive basically eliminated sugar from diet and so far so good from getting these once every 6 weeks or so to only 1 in the last year....
This is very interesting I think mine may be sugar related too
CELERY JUICE 3-5 times saved me from the aura.I have not had it since! Preferably organic celery. I used to get aura attacks weekly, and after I discovered celery juice Im 100 % fine. If too many days passes between my juices I may start to get pre warnings, I then drink a full glass and it goes right away! It does not always help against migraine, but the aura is gone thank God
Are you sure this works and not something else? Happy to try out celery juice now!
I've gotten 7 this year and can't identify the trigger other then stress. Curious, what is the most you have experienced in a year?
I can have daily especially if the weather's hot
I had 3 or 4 just today that's why I searched TH-cam lol (I lack sleep these days)
Check your vitamin D levels and quit eating gluten. I was getting about 4 aura a year. It’s been two years and not one headache or aura.
@@stevemorris6270 Maybe it is the gluten. But it is not related to blood pressure or your heart? I was reaing this online the connection with Migraine Aura..
@@dendenc2046 My personal opinion is it has to do with toxins building up in the body. I have suffered for two decades with aura migraines about 6-8 a year. The only change I made was quit eating gluten and any processed foods. It’s been over three years and not a one not even a headache. I don’t believe it has anything to do with blood pressure.
@@JPigxvi Did you consult with a Doc, what was his opinion? Any treatment or food options you are doing or not doing
I’ve been getting the auras for decades. Luckily these have never been followed by a headache.
How often do you get them now and what treatment options did your Doc suggest?
@@RG....... I can go for many months without any, then I'll get a few over some number of days. Then gone again. I've never discussed these with a Dr. They go away after 10 minutes or so. Since I don't get the headaches, it's not a big deal for me.
I have had the aura visual about once a month since I was 15 years old and I am now 72. They used to be followed by a tremendous headache that ended with nausea, but after I was about 30 years old, luckily, I just get the aura. Mine starts with a blind spot on the right side of my vision and shortly afterward becomes bright geometric lights , like shimmering bright triangles. They slowly traverse from the bottom right side of my eyes upwards to the top and then they after 20 to 30 minutes disappear. I don't know if I am deficient in something to cause this.
I have the exact problem i am 16 right now
@@dushyantarya7331 Do you experience nausea and vomiting as well?
@@devangk8898 yes i did but only once
that day was weird. I generally get migraine on my left side of the head but that day i got on the right side. I get migraine for like 6 hours but that day i got it for the whole day and its effects lasted for 2 days
@@devangk8898 omg mee i have the tendency after the migrane with aura
I drink orange juice, take Magnesium Bisglycinate, and a good Electrolyte powder. Also, take Omega3, Coq10, and riboflavin. You should start seeing the aura disappear. I link it to lack of potassium. That's just what I think. Hope this helps you.
Just had 6 auras in 1 night, diagnosed with Complex Migraine at the hospital. I had a moment of severe confusion and sudden memory loss just an hour prior to the 1st aura. I had one the day before, and now 2 days after. So sick of these things. I don't care about the auras much, but the memory loss I experienced was scary as hell. For those that don't know, having covid can significantly worsen migraines for migraine sufferers. I just got over it (still have some residual symptoms like weird taste, sinuses and coughs here and there.) My auras have been going on for years but NEVER 6 in a day. So I believe severe stress and covid definitely kick these bast@rds into high gear.
Triggers have always been: screen use too long, catching a bright glare, hormones and weather fronts.
How often do you get them now and what treatment options did your Doc suggest?
@@RG....... only one time did I get them 6 in a night and this was at the time I had gotten over covid 2 months prior and had bizarre symptoms, including developing pulmonary sarcoidosis. I had an aura last Thursday and prior to that, several months. I have gotten these many times though. I feel stress is a trigger as well as lighting. I did see a neurologist and the thing he did was tell me to get an mri and I never did. Are you getting auras followed by migraines or only auras?
@@alouise3557 No I'm just getting the aura, no headache. Unable to figure triggers, seem to be very random, sometimes 3 in a week and sometimes once in 2/3 months.
Shown this cure over 20 years ago , works in 2 minutes everytime without fail. Use both hands 1 for each eye. put your 1st 2 finger tips together and place on the edge of the eye with 1 finger tip on your temple the other just inside your socket so you feel the bony rim between your finger tips. [Don't let them part]. Push firmly both thumbs up under your jaw missing your jaw bone. Your thumbs fit snugly like its meant to be. Wiggle and lightly massage your fingers for about 15 seconds . Take your hands away and do it again. Bye bye ocular migraine in about 2 minutes.
I wish I could see a video of this
I cannot figure out the right placement of my two fingers.
Mine turns into paralysis on one side and an inability to talk for up to an hour. I simply forget how to talk.
I just pretend I'm traveling through my Ora into an alternate dimensional state of being.
Stress, light.......the only causes that I identified for me to be critical
How to overcome Aura...
There are a number of different herbs and supplements you can take. I use Magnesium Bisglycinate TRACS chelate. I take about 800 mgs when mine come on. Also, I've always drank lots of orange juice, banana, and brocolli. I've always linked it to not only poor nutrition (processed food). but also a decrease in potassium and magnesium. I hope this helps.
@@angelamorris4304 800mg so powerful!! I'm 16 so which I can take
My tablets are 200mg. The Last episode I had was so severe that I took 3. I'm not suggesting you take that much. You probably could get by with one. After taking one, the aura should start tapering off. If it doesn't, then drink orange juice, eat a banana, or eat some brocolli. I just know this is what helps me. I also take anxiety medicine - which helps greatly. You may want to discuss alternatives with an eye care neurologist. Everyone's situation is different. Someone on TH-cam let me know about the magnesium, and said if would take it, that I wouldn't have to be bothered with auras anymore. So far - so good. I take 200 mgs everyday. They do help me, greatly! I hope these suggestions help.
Good video but please don't call the aura symptom "retinal" or "optical" migraines, they aren't. If it's in both eyes its in the visual cortex of the brain. In a single eye it will likely be a dark spot (scotoma) or maybe bright spot. Potentially more serious, get advice if it happens.
Suffered aura a few times a year then suddenly this year ten in six weeks. GP increased Propranolol dosage but this caused crazy scintillation in both eyes. Looked online and tried 400mg Vitamin B2 daily - no migraines for six weeks, I'd urge anyone to try this, it is very safe (and recommended by NICE in the UK)
How often do you get them now and what treatment options did your Doc suggest?
Constipation is the biggest reason guys..