Well, I had a novel experience yesterday.
I was getting ready to run Gary to the hospital for a blood test.
(An aside: He passed the blood test. My personal friend the Prostate is in peak form again.)
While I was getting ready I got an optic migraine.
(An aside: My first one (reported here) was a rainbow of shattered prisms. I’ve had several since then. When they start I just wait them out. I was driving one time and I just pulled into a parking lot. They really aren’t an issue. They’ve been diminishing in frequency. I think I might have had one in the last four years.)
I saw the burned out edges of shapes get hyper-bright, and I thought, here we go, get ready for the colors.
No colors. Still an arc in my upper left, but only white, and not jagged, instead it was as if a lot of space bar symbols ( [_______]) were being chained together like paperclips.
So is that good? Is that bad? A black-and-white optic migraine with new visuals? What does it mean?
4 responses to “Black and White Optic/Ocular Migraine”
That is the only kind I get! I call it dazzle camouflage optical migraine (because it reminded me a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage … except more effective since it pulses/strobes/moves) and it is *weird* but it is also the kind a lot of people get, if that is at all reassuring?
(mine start out small, then the shape grows in size, then at some point it starts to shift from being Very Vivid And Flashy to being less vivid and flashy and more pulse/warp-y, and if it’s still reasonably strong, *then* I need to not move, because the peripheral vision is still warping itself around and I’ll get insta-sick if I see any of the real world behaving that way, bulging and swirling a bit.)
If you get any answers on this, though, please let us all know…
KC – I alerted the neurologist because I will have forgotten by the time I see him again. I heardmit might be because the issue has shifted eyes. And I’m sorry you don’t see the rainbow!
I’m good with not having One More Weird Thing, to be honest. Rainbow sounds more fun than b/w-flashy, though, so if I could swap them *but* also be notified so I didn’t get confused when I saw rainbow, that’d probably be good…
KC – Well if you do, a nerologist will advise you to talk to an ophthalmologist. That’s the next doctor’s visit for me, and a dermatologist.