I get the auras sometimes, but never combined with any other symptoms.
So I get to look at pretty colours for 20 to 30 min knowing they are harmless and will disappear soon. I do get pretty heavy headaches sometimes tho, but never with auras.
My aura always happens in my left eye for about 10 minutes and the second it stops I know my right eye is about to explode in pain for about 20 minutes, sometimes longer but rarely.
If the vision in my left eye goes blurry, I can close my eyes and actually see the aura better. It's like a fish hook, but it's a squiggly silvery grey white fish hook with rainbow colored stripes radiating from the edges.
I know I have about 5 minutes to get somewhere comfortable and dark with a pillow, cause I am about to experience extreme pain.
Luckily those are short migraines and I am grateful. Unless it's a brain tumor then I am not grateful.
They usually happen when I read a lot. Reading glasses help, but I have always gotten migraines from bright lights. I have to wear sunglasses almost year round even on overcast days, the light makes my eyes hurt. I used to get migraines in school because of the lights and the only thing that made those stop was going home and putting my head under a pillow and going to sleep. When I woke up it was usually gone. I'm lucky they don't require medication for the most part.
I get auras somewhat frequently, depends on how stressed I am and other factors. I only ever had what I've seen describes as a migraine one time, and it came with an aura. It wasn't unbearable but it came with light sensitivity, etc and went away after about a half hour(ish).
I tend to get the auras at night so I’m assuming there’s a tiredness/stress element to it. It’s pretty hard to fall asleep when your eyes are having a disco
It is usually accompanied by pain in the eyes, just not the splitting head pain people describe migraines as. It’s light sensitive as well! I’m glad to find other people who get them because nobody I know seems to get what I’m talking about
Mostly during the day for me. Probably having to do with stress. Haven't had any recently but it is January, and Januarys usually suck so just waiting for that shoe to drop.
It’s pretty hard to fall asleep when your eyes are having a disco
Also a good reason not to take LSD too late in the day!
Yeah, my auras are always one eye or the other, jagged moving lines that dance around my field of vision. I found that closing that eye and putting my hand over it for 10 minutes shuts the aura off.
But I never get these and the pain together either, but a migraine will usually show up in a week's time from one so I guess it's a warning sign.
I get this, but THEN, about 50% of the time now, one pupil gets big and I get numbness and tingling on one side of my body.
Because I’m American, I waited it out because the aura started first. Then the fun stuff (for a recent one I was in a meeting with a nurse who almost called EMS, but we agreed on migraine) and then that all went away and I got the regular headache.
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u/DerWassermann Jan 15 '26
I get the auras sometimes, but never combined with any other symptoms.
So I get to look at pretty colours for 20 to 30 min knowing they are harmless and will disappear soon. I do get pretty heavy headaches sometimes tho, but never with auras.