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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 15 year old gets them every rare once in a while. It’s usually either a blind spot or squiggly rainbow lines for about 20-30 minutes, and he rarely gets the accompanying headache.

I get the aura for about 20-30 minutes and then have about 15 minutes of clear vision followed by 4-5 hours of super intense head pain (can’t get out of bed type pain) and another day of migraine hangover (bruised brain feeling, nausea, weakness)[/quote]

Squiggly lines are not a big deal.  I have them all the time.  Its the ones where you basically lose vision and have lots of flashing lights that are scarry.[/quote]

It’s a big deal if you’re about to vault in a gymnastics competition, or take a final exam, or just about anything that requires vision. What I get is almost like a broken glass effect and numbness in my kneecaps or arms. I don’t know how I will ever know if I’m actually having a stroke instead. [/quote]

You sound pretty dramatic.  Be grateful you don't have my migraines.  [/quote]

I'm OP and not the PP you're responding to.  I also have regular migraines, that include visual auras.  I think that for me, other than the pain and throwing up which of course I would prefer to miss, the big difference is that the aura comes on super fast.  So, with the migraine, I might get up and feel a twinge, and then go to work hoping it will go away, and realize by 10 it's getting worse, and then by noon that I'm not going to last, and leave, and be at home by the time it gets really bad.   On the other hand, with the visual symptoms I can be sitting at my desk doing something that involves reading, and look up to talk to someone, look down and I can't read it at all.  Or driving down the road and suddenly I can't see well enough to safely pull over.  So, while it's just rainbows and oil slicks (I don't get blind spots), it can be very jarring.  [/quote]

Call your neurologist.  Mine was not concerned when I started getting them but its a good idea to get them checked out.  Mine sound like yours but I always have the floaters.  If yours are chronic - more days than not (mine are all the time) then try some of the new medications.  They are a miracle drug for some (unfortunately not for me).[/quote]

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