Oh for heaven's sake! What next?

Meegraine, though I'm one of the lucky ones who don't have it. My sister has the ocular migraines and if she's driving with me in the car, I have to take over PDQ. A short nap and she's perfectly fine again.

In the last few weeks I have started to suffer episodes of scintillating scotoma. The first was alarming, but since Googling it, I just ride it out for 20 minutes or so. I have never suffered from migraine, so consider myself lucky to only get the visual disturbances. They seem to happen when I arrive home after an exercise class, so don't know whether it is the drive or exertion which is the trigger. Anyone who has full blown painfull migraines has my sympathy, ex DH had to spend days in a darkened room.

I suffer with that, scary when it first happened, but now i just shut my eyes for a while and it usually goes. Usually find it happens if i have been on laptop too long or reading for a long while.

How lovely to have a name for this affliction. I've had them for years but only once had what I'd call a'proper' migraine (nasty). I sometimes wake up with the pretty lights but as they generally don't last too long I don't worry about them. I've worn a single contact lens for many years after getting a retinal hole that required immediate surgery to save the sight in that eye followed rapidly by a cataract-style lens replacement job.
However, I plan to have a cataract-style job done on the lens wearing eye in the New Year so that I shan't need to faff about with solutions etc. in the mornings when I'm really not at my brightest. Will cost a small fortune to get an all-singing/dancing lens implanted but will be (I hope) worth it.
Don't expect it will stop me getting the pretty lights and patterns though. Ah well, can't win 'em all.

I'm very taken with the word "yonderly", Maggiemaybe, never heard it before but know exactly what it meant.

Poor Minibags gets the full works: aura, awful headache, upchucking, often several times . On the plus side (!) she feels better when the upchucking has finished. Whole thing takes hours.

thatbags as a former severe migraine sufferer (excruciating headache and vomiting) I'm sorry that your young daughter is a sufferer.

I may have asked this before but, does she have access to medications such as 'melts' (melt in the mouth so absorbed via the capillaries, no need to swallow) and PR meds (suppositories) ?

New combinations deal with the pain and nausea.

I know when mine is coming on by a black Zigzag motion in the corner of my vision. First time this happened I was really scared, dashed down to my optician who put my mind at rest and confirmed it was a migraine, but without the headache.

When I feel one coming on now, I lie down preferable in the dark and wait for it to pass. When it does I usually get the headache afterwards.

Oh, I'm full of strange sayings, Gaggi3 - I think I picked most of them up from my Yorkshire in-laws.

Thanks, river. Have PM-ed you.

A major slight inconvenience to the doctor probably .