Is this migraine aura?

[Gettingonabitnow]

Hi

Ive had non aura menstrual migraines for the last 20+ years. I’m on the pill. I take sumatriptan for my migraines.

My past two migraines / cycles, I’ve had what I can only describe as kind of blurry shaky vision, although I can still see clearly, and I at the time I wonder what’s going on, and then I remember I’m on my pill break so it must be a migraine! And then the head cloud migraine feeling comes on. The vision change is only short lived. Is that an aura? If it is I’m not sure why I’ve started getting them. I’m 40 btw.

thanks x

The auras I get are a sort of zig-zag rainbow sparkly thing that starts like a pinprick in the middle of my vision and then gets bigger & bigger till it disappears round the edges.

Yes. Sounds like one.

My migraines have changed to include auras over the last few years. I'm mid 40s.

Mine is flashing lights round the edge of my vision.

It does sound like it, especially if it's connected timewise to going on to develop a migraine

Yes, I would think it is. I definitely have migraines with auras that are vision based.

I have bad migraines, I tried the medication referred to in your OP but ended up needing topirimate because they were so frequent.

The aura I have is like lack of spacial awareness I can't judge distances and I have floating stars sometimes it literally feels like the room is spinning

The ones I get are like bit grey flashes & dots. It does sound like it!

When I first started getting migraines I got auras just like this- like I had water in swimming goggles almost

Mine are as if iv looked into a bright light or at a camera flash.. and when my eyes are closed it's almost exactly like this picture complete with zig zag!

Oh that and my hands feel like they're aliens and my brain doesn't recognise them. It's weird.

My auras used to be like a kaleidoscope effect, which would start as a small dot, then grow bigger and bigger and sometimes take out half my vision, so that I couldn't see anything where the aura was. I'd usually have about 30 mins before the migraine pain and vomiting started. I haven't had the aura since I've been on depo provera, although I still have migraines, sometimes monthly. I usually wake up with then now around 4am. I always had headaches as a teen then nothing until I was pregnant with my first at 27. I'm 41 now.

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This was a really good representation of visual migraine.

I've only had them a couple of times, randomly, and with no associated painful headache

I have, what has been diagnosed by the optician as ocular migraines. No headache just zig zag lines in a circle which last a few minutes.

I get this - I didn’t know it has a name! I don’t get a headache as such but just a very dull ache, as if I didn’t get much sleep the night before.

I get migraine auras without a headache, or with only a minor headache.

I do feel very weird and spacey for about 24 hours afterwards, and i get a tingley feeling on my scalp and sometimes down my arm. Mine are like the flashing zig zags that previous posters describe.

My triggers are being v tired, dehydration and exposure to bright sunlight.

I had non-aura migraines for years until I realised that I had aura after all.

Mine is v brief - probably seconds - and doesn't always happen but it is there. I suspect not noticing it is very common and there are lots of people out there who think they don't have one but do.

My mums been getting migraines with aura and no headache. She's a bit worried about them as she's mid 70s and thought all that was behind her, she's had 3 this week. Could the muggy weather have anything to do with them I wonder?

It could be the muggy weather. But also - they are quite random, and I tend to get them in clusters. E.g. i had a few in the first covid lockdown, and then absolutely none for 3 years until about a month ago.

Is it the same as retinal migraines?
I gradually lose all vision in one eye for 3 or 4 minutes