Anyone ever had one of these? I reckon I've had 4 or 5 in the last 4 years. Really weird experience I'm having one right now.
I suffer migraines Rich, but not the Ocular type. The pre headache phase and auras differ from person to person. With me, I get a feeling of pressure building up in my head for hours before the event and can hear the blood in my ears. It gives me fair warning for when the pain arrives. Then it lasts two days, rarely more or less. I get a taste of tin or blood in my mouth too. When it goes it leaves me wired like I've been drinking too much coffee for about a day afterwards. The pattern's always the same. I suffered for years until I started paying closer attention to my hydration and that's given me so much more control over them. Can't help you any more than that mate.
Christ that sounds miserable, mate Don't worry about me I'm fine. It's more of an annoyance when it happens. It only lasts for 45 minutes or so when it happens. I'm just kinda interested to know if anyone else has had them on here. Interesting that hydration levels affect it. How did you find that out?
Being nagged, believe it or not. I tend to get a bit focussed when I'm concentrating. It could be working on a project at home, (occasionally at work) even driving for any distance, and left to my own devices have a tendency to work right through meal and drink breaks. Jeanette, on the other hand, can't function without a brew in her hand. For years she was nagging me that I wasn't taking in fluids at a consistent rate throughout the day and I obviously insisted that she was talking bollocks. But she was right. I nagged my boss to get a water cooler put in and always drive any more than an hour with an easy to sip sports bottle beside me. Even if it's just sips, just maintaining an evenly spaced intake has cut them from, sometimes, twice a week to once a month or even less. And when I do get them, I can often trace back over the previous couple of days that I've let the fluids slide. Benn or Shanes could probably give you a better insight into the rhyme and reason because of their gym work but a doctor once told me that if you wait until you feel thirsty, that sensation is your body's reaction to damage that's already being done to your system.
Yeah I'm pretty similar to be honest. I'll sometimes go for hours without drinking. Most of the time I do tend to try and stay hydrated to be honest because I feel an awful lot better (not migraine related or anything) if I drink plenty. I could tell I was dehydrated when I woke up this morning. Didn't really do enough about sorting it, I guess. I didn't realise that migraines and hydration were linked though.
Fluid intake can link to a lot of symptoms in a lot of conditions Rich. I can sound like a reformed smoker banging on about this, i know, but the truth is the difference is staggering. Try it. Don't get disheartened as it doesn't make a difference immediately, it's about habit changing really, and after a while you just start to notice that you haven't had an episode in a while.
I haven't suffered with migraines or the like, but I have had the merits of hydration drummed into me by a guy I go to see about my spine. He advises that I drink about 1 1/2 to 2 litres of water a day. I have tried to get near this and it has made a difference. From what I can gather, it allows nutrients to travel to tissue and organs and transporting oxygen. Give it a go, can do no harm.
Even in my evangelism, I can't match 2 litres of water in a day, if I'm not grafting and feeling the need to drink tumblers at a go. I think that's the benefit of little and often. If I had to stare at 3 1/2 pints of water in one go all I'd be able to imagine is that fish fornicate in it.
Are optical migraines where you get shapes of lights, glimmering shapes?? My other half had them when pregnant, really freaked her out initially. She put them down to extreme tiredness and lack of water intake. Hope you feel better soon.
I get them rich, but there is no pattern or frequency, i just get that 'feeling' and then the visual disturbance builds in both eyes, sometimes to the point where i am quite severely restricted in my vision. Occasionally this is followed by a throbbing headache. They usually don't last more than 30 mins but have lasted up to an hr and leave me feeling a bit out of sorts, sort of spaced out. If i'm at home i generally go for a lie down and let it pass, if i'm driving i'll pull over and just have a chill. Been getting them since 1990. Info - Ocular Migraines Explained - AllAboutVision.com
Yeah them's the ones. To be honest it doesn't really bother me that much. I know it's only going to last max 45 minutes or so but the first time it happened it put the shits up me. I thought I was having a stroke
Yeah. Spot on the same thing for me, Lee. I'm at the sorta spaced out feeling now. A night's kip will sort it. I'm amazed how common they seem to be. I mentioned this episode on facebook and 4 of my friends have commented how much they hate having them.
when i first started getting them i put it down a extremely fun and active younger life consuming various letters of the alphabet...................... butnow i know different.
Ahh, those... I remember once being able to see how all the molecules in the paint on a can of Skol lager moved around each other in order to make the colour work. Then I had a brilliant revelation about something really, really important. I didn't remember what it was in the morning though.
