Comments on: Understanding and Treating Ophthalmic Migraine

By: Kate Dawson

Kate Dawson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:22 +0000

Renata that sounds horrible! I have a friend who underwent cataract surgery and ever since she has experienced serious headaches behind the eyes since. Do you work at a desk looking at a pc screen all day? I know that that is when my sight was at its worse and that I would get light flashes in my vision.

By: Renata

Renata — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:28:03 +0000

I have had this bad vision for seven months now,and doctor said it’s ophtalmic migraine.Trouble is that bad vision is there all day and dosen’t go away until i go to bed in the evening.First set of pills had a very bad side effects (imigran),new set is ok,bud makes no diference.I had my eyes tested,MRI done-all clear.I’ve been told not to drink coke and to be careful with chocolate.I love coke,I drink about 1/2 a can of diet coke a day.Is it too much?? Or not enough?? I feel that coke is actually making it a bit better as i don’t drink tea or cofee at all

By: Kate Dawson

Kate Dawson — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:26:45 +0000

I suffered an ophthalmic migraine early last year and had no idea what it really was, so this article has been very helpful. So far the migraine hasn’t come back and I really hope it doesn’t, the only issue is that I don’t know what may have triggered it, but I don’t really feel like experimenting to find out.

By: deanne

deanne — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:40:00 +0000

I started getting these visual headaches about three years ago…they started with a little speck in my line of vision in both eyes and stated getting bigger it was like looking through wet swirling glass. It would eventually get larger and larger then vanish.I started to track everything time, diet, meds everything then i had an allergy test found out i was allergic to dairy… one morning i made the mistake of having a whey protein shake and bingo 3 hours later i had the ophthalmic migraine which i realized was the trigger for me…if you get these track your food!!! good luck

By: linda

linda — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:59:07 +0000

I suffered from extreme migraines when i was a child i used to get them approx 2-3 times a year pulsating lines/stars in my eyes then the worst headache i could imagine and severe vomiting it was scary, the most horrible thing i used to experience i was scared when i saw the light first appear at the side of my eye and i would have after effects of the headache for a couple of days. I thought i had grown out of them as i didn’t have one for probably approx 10 years. Now i manage to deal with them as they are not as extreme as i do not tend to get the pain or the sickness just the scary eye distortion. When i get them now i seem to have a few within the space of a month or so then they seem to disappear for a few years again. But they are not a very nice experience at all.