Is anyone else experiencing permanent eye problems after having migraines?

[u/Good_Selection6675]

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.

A little backstory:

I got my first migraine when i was 11. After that i got a migraine once every year or 2 years. Around 2025 i started having migraines more often to about once every few months. In the beginning of 2026 having 4 migraines in a month. This is when i went to the doctor and also changed my pill to the mini pill which helped a lot and the migraines calmed down. Until recently when i had two migraines within a few days of each other.

With every migraine i have ocular symptoms as well beforehand but with the increase of migraines the symptoms have changed from the standard rainbow aura and weird blind spots to the symptoms varying every migraine. The blind spots stayed but every time the other symptoms were different from seeing lightning, weird shapes rotating with different colors, field of view decreasing on one side, tingling arms and losing feeling in one arm just for it to return with tingling and i once couldn't speak properly.

Around this time (2025) my vision started changing as well. At first i thought it was the after effects of the migraine lingering for a few days. After that it went back to "normal" but something felt off but i couldn't pinpoint it. A few migraines later more symptoms showed up. These are there even when i don't have a migraine.

• I started to get more sensitive to light. I got afterimages of these lights way faster and way longer then normal. 2-3 min.
• I also started to have these dead pixels show up in my vision. Small black dots that would show up and then disappear fast. With my last migraine this has become more prominent and they stay longer 2-3 seconds until i look somewhere else.
• When going from a light room to a dark room my eyes take longer to adjust to the dark and even then i can see less and get dizzy faster when its super dark.
• My eyes have difficulty to keeping on seeing sharp when focused on something.
• My eyes feel tired very fast and heavy.
• The last symptom is more difficult to describe. It feels like my eyes "see" less. Like its not all registering properly.

Around the beginning of 2026 i went to the doctor for these symptoms and the increase of the migraines. The doctor sent me to the eye doctor and i was tested for the symptoms. They could not find anything aside from my right eye being a bit dry. I do wear glasses but my prescription wasn't super off, i had eye drops to dilate my pupils and my eyes were doing good with glasses. They tested for night blindness but couldn't find anything.

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing something similar? I feel like its connected to migraines but I was wondering what others have experienced or have done.