To think this isn't normal ?

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I was sat and all of a sudden my eyesight in my left eye went funny.'it started like I couldn't see probably ..like a bit of my vision was gone (like I couldn't focus ) a few minutes late I started seeing flashing zig Zags and then my whole left eye was full of blurriness and flashing lights.
It lasted 30 mins then went away.
That's not normal is it?
What is it?

If it's a detached retina it's an emergency go to a&he. However if you had it before and it clears up see gp for diagnosis.
If it's migraine homeopathic remedy natur mur cab be v helpful

It does sound like migraine, I get them, they were diagnosed many years ago. The pattern you describe sounds just like mine, right up to the tiredness after the actual migraine has ended.

See your GP, effective remedies are available OTC but are very expensive for one dose. Sumitriptan tablets are cheap to the NHS (1 100mg tablet is about 6p) but one dose (two tablets) will cost you £10 or so OTC. It works for about 50% of people, but Solpadol soluble (30/100 cocodamol, prescription only) can make the pain manageable. 30mg is a lot of codeine, though.

Sumitriptan (Imigran) aborts a migraine; Solpadol (painkiller) can help you through it.
Buccastem (available OTC - 8 tablets) can help if you're throwing up. You stick it to your upper gum and let it dissolve.

Triggers for me are aspartame (lethal!), fruit juice from concentrate, pork, not enough sleep, irregular meals, neon or flashing lighting if I'm tired. Pork's an interesting one, I can eat air-cured ham that doesn't have any preservatives or flavour enhancers in it, but not cooked ham.

Definitely try to work out what the triggers are for you, and see your GP.

On a separate note, it's generally reckoned that migraine affects women more than men. I think that's rubbish. From observation at work, I think men prefer to say they have a hangover rather than they get migraines.

Please don't fuck about with eye stuff . Get it check out

It sounds like my aura migraines as well except it happens in both eyes and it has been utterly terrifying

I forgot one big trigger - soft cheese! I can eat a small amount of hard cheese but no soft. Parmesan is the stuff of dreams (bad ones if I have too much!) but irresistible. My ex boobytrapped the pack so he knew if I'd been sneaking to the fridge to nibble.

www.google.com/search?q=ocular+migraine&safe=strict&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifr7XMzt3dAhXsC8AKHV-vB4wQ_AUICSgB&biw=360&bih=564&dpr=3 Did it look like this? Your description matches what I get.

Aura migraine. Make sure you come off the combined pill if you are on it, the risk of stroke multiplies exponentially so as far as I know it's pretty much contraindicated. No bugger of a gp noticed that I shouldn't have been on the pill until more than ten years after I'd had my first aura migraine!!! The GP who finally noticed actually grabbed the prescription from my hand in horror!

Definitely sounds like a migraine. Ocular or visual disturbance migraine. I get them and it leaves me sleepy, with a full headache and a sick feeling. I fo d wearing sunglasses helps and trying to lay down until it passes.

Migraine aura. I often get these without any headache symptoms.

Scintillating scotoma - ocular migraine. It is terrifying when it first happens. The pain will often hit sometime after, if it does.

Hmm. I used to get migraines with aura just like that, but haven't done for many years. In July however, I had that experience and thinking it must be a return of migraine, treated it as such. Cutting a long story short, a week later I was sent for emergency surgery on my detaching retina by my optician. I was very lucky, and it's not over yet.
Get it checked out by an optician - they have much better equipment for detecting that sort of thing than your GP. If your optician is happy, treat as migraine.

Please go and get checked - my close relative experienced something exactly the same which was actually a TIA. A couple of years later she experienced further interruptions to her vision and was misdiagnosed with optical migraines, before being diagnosed with a tumour. Loss of vision is an optical emergency so please please go and get properly checked

Rather than GP can I suggest you see an optomestrist (person who youd see for a sight check up)? Independent probably easier than a bigger chain. Go to the opticians and explain that you've had a problem with your vision. The optomestrist will have better and specialist equipment to check in case of pressure on the eye/optic nerve and if there is a problem will send you to the specialist eye A&E. Relative is an optometrist and has seen quite a few people who have been to their GP first and has found things GPs can miss because they have very little training compared to an optometrist.

It is literally every sign of a classic migraine. If they recur, GP for meds.
It’s very normal.

One more thing, OP - I get these symptoms and they are migraines. My aunt had these symptoms and they were her retina detaching because she had advanced ocular melanoma. Highly unlikely for you (We live in Australia and she didn’t wear sunglasses - they didn’t have them when she was a kid, etc...) Just get all bases covered.

Another vote for migraine. It's the most horrible sensation.

Happens to me. Half an hour after the headache starts, then sometimes I vomit and have diarrhoea, eventually I sleep and usually wake up fine.

Sounds like my ocular migraine!!

As long as I take a painkiller when in get the aura then it's not too bad. I need to sit in the dark for the aura to pass though.

I agree it sounds like a migraine. You should get checked out by an optometrist and GP because it could be some other things.

Assuming it is a migraine the key is to take painkillers as soon as the aura appears. Your stomach starts to shut down when the migraine starts so getting tablets down early minimises the headaches. You can get drugs with anti-sickness in them too if needs be.

Migraine with aura. You need to find your triggers. Could be the stress or a combination of things. If I am very hungry and then get stressed, or very hungry and then eat cheese/wine/ chocolate I get one. Also flashing lights can bring one on for me. As can period hormones .

Do a google image search for ocular migraine. I think you'll find that's what it was. I had a few of these last year ~ I had a kind of fizzy pixellated circle in the centre of my vision which slowly grew until it disappeared. I haven't had them for about a year since, and never found out what caused them although I suspect it was hormonal.

I agree with Ocular Migraine, it's a classic description. I used to get them 2-3 times per year. I often used to find it was started by a sudden move from natural to interior lighting, but that may have been coincidence.

I've also had the 'traditional' painful migraine a couple of times. If you're only getting the ocular type, you should be very glad.

I get these fairly frequently. No pain, but very disorientating, and also affects my speech. My vision is very disturbed, apart from a tiny patch which is normal. I've been getting them with varying regularity for 20 years, I don't take anything for them. I do think they're linked to stress and/or hormonal fluctuations.

Classic ocular migraine is unilateral as described. Also migraine aura frequently like this. I have them but bilateral and it's still a bit scary at times and when I first had it I spent too long googling and thought I had something terrible- it was such a scary sensation. If you're concerned about anything get checked out but very likely to be migraine. Agree come off combined pill or other oestrogen containing medication etc. May be worth testing vision at optician where they also check intraocular pressure (Normally standard with full examination)
Triggers for me are sleep deprivation, stress, excess exposure to computer screens in poor lighting, missing breakfast and lunch, lack of caffeine. Best pill for me anadin extra but for some people caffeine makes worse. If anything different eg funny floating bits, sensation of a screen coming down or whatever, see someone asap.

Ocular migraine. Can happen with or without a headache to follow. The zig-zag of light is the hallmark. Very common. In fact, when I've describe them in groups of friends or co-workers, there is ALWAYS someone who says they've had them for years and were worried but didn't know what to do. I worked for an ophthalmologist group and many, many people have them.