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grannyactivist Thu 12-Feb-15 22:03:52

I'm permanently on medication to control what were painful 3 day migraines, but I do now get a weird visual disturbance that has been diagnosed as migraine. It's not painful at all, but it is very disconcerting.

FlicketyB Thu 12-Feb-15 21:59:53

I think as you get older migraine becomes very variable. I have had migraine since I was about 5 or 6 and every 10 years it reinvents itself.

However over the last ten years, I am now in my early 70s, it has gradually faded away, except that, about once a year, for no obvious reason I wake with or develop that old familiar headache.

Elliebeth Thu 12-Feb-15 19:46:35

Had a strange experience when l woke this morning. I haven't been sleeping well for some time, l go to sleep for about a couple of hours, then wake for a while, then repeat. Anyway this morning woke just before five with the silver shimmering l used to get with migraines as a side effect of the pill. Haven't had it for years. Got up and took some painkillers and sat up in bed till the headache went. Anyone else had this please