Is This a Migraine? Blindness / half vision and severe pain Posted: 10-29-07 10:19am
I have a history of migraines with aura
where half of my vision would go blind.
Just last week on monday I woke up with a
really bad headache involving severe pain
behind my left eye. From then until a
week later (today) I've been having
headaches off and on almost every day.
Almost every day I've been seeing little
tiny dots of lights fly around in my
vision (almost like shooting stars). I
never get aura involving blindness the
past week.
Also have pain in left ear, pain where
neck and skull meet, usually on both
sides.
Also during the week I had a really bad
headache involving ONLY the left side and
severe pain at the jaw, ear, neck, behind
eye. Never any teeth pain.
I'm worried because if it's migraine,
isn't it supposed to stop after a couple
of days? It's been going on for a week
now. Or could it be Sinus? I have a
history of chronic sinusitis.
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MandMs
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Posted: 10-31-07 05:31am
Do you find this pain more severe than the
usual migraine headache?
Do you have nasal stuffiness or yellow or
green discharge?
Are you taking migraine drugs?
Did you find them helpful this week?
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Posted: 11-02-07 12:46pm
MandMs
wrote:
Do you find this pain more
severe than the usual migraine headache?
Do you have nasal stuffiness or yellow or
green discharge?
Are you taking migraine drugs?
Did you find them helpful this
week?
No I find the pain to be not as intense as
migraines. For instance, a single advil
will take the pain completely away for a
while. No green/yellow stuff. No
migraine drugs, never been on them. I
tried imatrex bout 6 years ago but i found
it non helpful.
The pain seems to be my neck area, ear
pain etc. I'm getting sick of seeing
bright dots of light floating around then
disapearing all day. Usually when I get
them, I begin to get a headache shortly
after. However the dots don't go away,
they seem to show up during the headache
too.
I have a history of anxiety/depression but
I just started taking Zoloft and it seems
to help a lot, I feel pretty happy most of
the time, and less anxious. Not sure why
I would start getting headaches on a
daily basis. I'm eating very healthy and
avoiding caffeine.
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Posted: 11-08-07 04:55am
The frequency, intensity and duration of
migraine attacks are variable.
Over time, most people with Migraine have
many different types of attacks.Migraines'
secondary characteristics are
inconsistent, like fully reversible visual
symptoms ( flickering lights, spots,
lines, loss of vision). You were having
blindness, but now you are experiencing
spots.
Patients who primarily suffer from
migraine with aura may also have attacks
of migraine without aura.
Less commonly, the aura may occur without
a subsequent headache or the headache may
be non-migrainous in type.
A migraine can cause irritation of the
trigeminal or fifth cranial nerve (with
branches in the forehead, cheeks and jaw).
This may produce pain at the lower-end
branches of the nerve, in or near the
sinus cavity.
There is a link between migraine and
cluster headache.
Did you have teary eyes and stuffed nose
at the moment of headache attack?
