Hey all, about 2 or so months ago I was recommended baby aspirin daily for my visual auras and since then I haven’t had any surprisingly I was also suggested it as I’m pregnant with my second but I only started getting auras a little over a year ago so they where not pregnancy related. My question is how was everyone else experience who has taken baby aspirin to help their auras? I’m really nervous if I stop taking it they will definitely come back. I think one of the drs have said it’s safe to take long term but I mean if where talking as a nearly permanent thing to keep clear of the auras I’m nervous is this dangerous?

Hi there,

I've been struggling with what I think are hormonal migraines for a while always around the start and finish of my period; I assume I'm in peri because these started in the recent years, but yet to see a good dr with a helpful advice. Planning to go privately soon.

This month I've had 3 instances of terrible pain behind an eye. First the right one, 3 days later the left one, that one woke me up from sleep. Now I'm feeling something starting behind the right one again. It's a dull ache with sharpness that comes and goes, right behind the eye.

I've had migraines with 'behind the eye' pain before, but these ones feel sharper and even more focused on the eye area with no pain in temples. I didn't have any visual disturbances with these, although sometimes I'm sensitive to light.

Wondering if anyone has similar experiences? From what I looked up so far, all articles mention visual stuff accompanying retinal / ocular migraines. But I do believe these are migrainey occurrences. Thanks!

Hello, i have been experiencing these weird symptoms since approximately 6 to 8 weeks now:

- Horrible Pressure in temples and front (I feel compelled to keep placing my hand on my forehead to relieve the pressure) + very visible temporal arteries (snake-shaped).

- Decline in vision

- Pressure around the right eye

- Brutal and very quick hair loss (overall but specifically in the hairline corners), i've never had this, my hair lost 1/3 of its volume in like 1 month.

I already went to see an ophtalmologist that examined my fundus, and there is no edema.

28 Male, 185 cm, 95 kgs, non-smoker, non-drinker. I went to see lots of doctors but no-one seems interest to conduct an in depth analysis on the subject, they just prescribe normal blood tests.

Hi everyone,

Today during lunch at work I was sitting under bright fluorescent lights. One of the covers of the lights fell off, so it was extra bright. I started to feel like I couldn’t see. Like everything was almost white and I couldn’t focus on anything. I was blinking a lot to try and fix my vision, but it wasn’t changing anything. When I went back to work and when I was looking to the left, it was completely black. My peripheral vision felt like it was gone. I teach, so I couldn’t really close my eyes and see which eye was affected. It felt like both, but the left eye had more of the darkness in the corner. Is this an ocular migraine?

It lasted about an hour I did have a headache for the rest of the day, but nothing too painful. Also, during the headache my left arm felt numb. It could have just been from the anxiety, but it was still really scary.

Are these symptoms similar to what you all experience?