In wondered why everything suddenluy looks like I'm behind a cracked window/ inside a kaleidoscope?

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Just that really,l was just looked out of the window and all of a sudden there are bright zigzags in front of both wheels.

Called my eye doctor who wanted me to come straight in but ca't as it's a 4 hours round trip and nobody to drive me

Anyone had this??? It's really unnerving!!!

BTW the combination of snow and stress brings on migraines for me, often with the aura. But definitely worth getting checked out.

I was sure it was the snow somehow! I was looking out of the window when it happened!

Apparently it was a visual migraine.

Ds had a massive accident in the car. Bloody nightmare. And apparently he's going to need weekly occupational therapy which will mean losing a day of school a week (and a fuck ton of money.)

Ugh never rains but it bloody pours!!!

What age is your ds? You have my total sympathy, it's a difficult and stressful thing to sort out.

I doubt you called your eye doctor

I doubt you called your eye doctor

Eh? Why would you doubt that?

@Doodlepip1 what? Why do you doubt that?! What the hell else do you do when you can't see?! Call your ENT?

I got this once. Bright lights all over the place and lines of light coming from everything I looked at. It freaked me out, then went then came back a half an hour later! I was really scared. Hasn't happened since. That was a year ago. I didn't get a bad headache after it.

@eggandonion

He's 6. It's been a nightmare if I'm honest, when it's bad I'm housebound with him. I'm not able to get a job and we certainly can't think of returning home to the UK to see my family for the future.

Now hearing he's got retained reflexes and other issues I'm just sat here in disbelief. How can it have taken this long to notice it?!

And I'm a little annoyed that his OT has been working with him (does with all the kids) for once a week and said she noticed back in September. Funny how it's the day after he gets a 504 (essentialy statemented as disabled) that she mentions it for the first time!

@supertrooper isn't it alarming?! I thought I was having some weird acid trip recall from 30 years back!

I’m glad it wasn’t anything serious in the end, it sounds like you have enough on your plate as it is without adding eye surgery into the mix

Detached or torn retina...possibly.
Please go as soon as possible, if not sooner. The quicker these things are treated, the more likely a positive outcome.

Oops, just seen the outcome, glad you are ok.
It's just a friend of mine had similar, a and e sent her straight to moor fields and she was told another day and she would have lost her vision.

I had the flashy lights thing a few years ago - called the optician & dropped in on the way home from work, he showed me a video & aked "like this?" - it was exactly, and he said not to worry, but call him if they started happening a lot.
I only had the one, not a precursor to a migraine for me.
He described it as an optical migraine - I just googled that and the video didn't come up, but this may provide assurance
www.nhs.uk/conditions/retinal-migraine/