Has anyone been diagnosed with "opthalmic migraine"? I had several episodes of this as a teen - I would get flashes of light in one of my eyes and a dark/blind spot. If I would go and lie down in the dark for half an hour, it would go away. These episodes are never followed by a headache.At that time, the Opthamologist told my parents he couldn't find anything wrong and that I seemed nervous/high strung. Who wouldn't be nervous after losing their vision for a half hour??? These episodes went away and I never had another episode of this until I was in my mid-thirties and had just had my first son. I had several of these visual problems - and they seemed to be provoked by flourescent lighting in a department store, or from catching the reflection of the sun off of the car in front of me. Luckily, I saw a sympathetic retinal specialist - who said that I most likely had opthalmic migraine, and that yes, these episodes are very frightening.... He referred me to a Optho-Neurologist who did a lot of testing...my eyes/MRI checked out fine, and she explained this phenomenon to me pretty well. I don't get the migraine headache - just the visual aura. Does anyone know of any other sites online where I can go to read about this?
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