Oh for heaven's sake! What next?

A major slight inconvenience to the doctor probably .

Thanks, river. Have PM-ed you.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Well, no recurrence and felt better as day went on. I haven't had shingles Alea, must have a poke around online for info.

I sort of mumble 'megraine/mygraine, whatever' as I can never make my mind up as to pronunciation!

What are others experiences of OM and the DVLA medical centre?

I thought it was a retinal migraine if in one eye only, and ocular migraine both eyes together. I've been getting ocular migraines (both eyes) for about 13 years.

It starts as a shimmering blind spot close to the macula, and then spreads toward the periphery until one side of my visual field is blind, and then clears again from centre to periphery. In all it takes about 20-30 minutes. The longest period I've been without one was nearly two years, the shortest a few hours.

It's exercise that triggers mine, they almost stopped completely when I quit cycling, and I've had them return a few times when I've tried resuming riding again.

"Then"

Mine last several days - I know when they are coming on as I suddenly feel very weak and start to be clumsy. Then a day of pain followed by a "migraine hangover" for at least 24 hours. The I'm all ready to start again!

I had one a few weeks ago and tried not to be scared because I'd had one before, but I kept thinking that, if it didn't go away I'd never be able to read or drive again; and you can't get away from them because if you close your eyes the strange lights are still there. Thankfully it did go away after 20 or so minutes. I don't get full blown migraines since I've got older though. Horrible nasty things, migraines. My DIL suffers terribly with them .

I say mi - graine. I have had them since I was about 4. The first ones presented as stomach ache and the headaches started at about 8. Mine seem to change their form every 10 years or so. Currently I have all the spaced out feelings, nausea and photosensitivity but very little pain.

But every few years I still get a real stinker of a migraine. About three months ago I had my first migraine with vertigo. I woke in the night and had to cling to the wall to get to the bathroom and had to spend the day I had it in bed because of the severe dizziness. I was fine the day after that and my migraine has since gone back to spaced out and no pain mode, but I certainly do not want another migraine with vertigo.

Sympathy to anyone who gets migraine (my-graine!). I've had them since I was 11 and am still waiting to grow out of them, even though I have a bus pass these days.

I usually just get severe headaches but I think I must have had these ocular migraines recently, when I had five in three days. I went to the dr in case it was something sinister but thankfully, they haven't recurred since.

Ikwym about health complaints, Katek. I had to book a double appointment with a doctor last week to get all my ails attended to. How embarrassing!

thatbags I'm with you - meegraine. After all, it's Mee wot's got it

Alima, dappled sunlight from driving under trees can start off my migraines as well! Also, sunlight reflected off windscreens, wing mirrors etc. And stripey stuff, my daughters primary school dresses (30 years ago), and op-art like Bridget Riley. People have always looked at me a bit when I tell them.

Depends on my mood!

I've had a handful of ocular meegraines/mygraines. Mine involve rather attractive dancing zig zag rings of light gradually moving outwards till they disappear. That lasts up to 30 minutes. Then I feel wiped out and a bit yonderly for a couple of hours. Bright light (particularly flickering) seems to be my trigger. If I ever have to sit looking at a screen or a speaker with a bright window behind them I wear dark glasses and don't care if I look like a plonker.

Mygraine

No - I say meegraine.

Sympathy, katek and all other migraine sufferers! Minibags was terrified that she was suddenly going blind when she had her first migraine.

Just out of interest, am I the only person who still says meegraine rather than mygraine?