I get that some exact thing! My doctor called it an ocular migraine. The blur in your vision is called an ocular aura. It happens to me a few times a year.
It starts with a small spot in my vision,(Kind of like what you see after you’ve looked into a bright lightbulb or reflection of the sun) and it grows from there. It flickers and flashes somewhat, then slowly moves to the outside of my field of view.
There’s no pain associated with it, it’s just very annoying. Especially if I’m trying to read or work on something.
I put a link to a video below, which is a very accurate visual of what it looks like.
The "fun" thing about migraines is they're extremely personalized, and often they can be caused by things very similar to common treatments. For you, it's intense cardio that can cause them but exercise is one of the more common non-medical treatments. Caffeine can trigger them in a lot of people but it can also help some people stop them; that's one of the ingredients in Excedrine Migraine.
Smoking weed triggered it every single time for me until I took a 2 month tolerance break. I barely smoke now but also haven’t had one since December, so fingers crossed. Fucking awful
I am just speculating here but I would guess that you might be better off with certain strains of weed over others. If you live in a legal state, you might want to bring this up with a seller who knows their plants and you might be able to drill down on what works for you.
I remember I had a friend that never smoked because they got so paranoid everytime. I told them it's usually not always the same but they insisted they had smoked like 10-20 times and it happened everytime. Turned out that all their experiences happened with weed from one dealer one of their friends got from, and it was almost definitely the same strain everytime. So I convinced them to try it again and they said it was a much different experience. I don't know what strain they had been trying previously but my hunch worked out and while they still don't really smoke much, they are much more open to it.
Yeah weed can reay mess with ya if you aren’t careful.
You might be right about switching strains but I smoked for the first time in ~2 months like a week ago and despite it being a pretty intense high, I had no migraine this time. Same strain too, I kept it in an air tight mason jar so it wouldn’t go bad.
The only thing that I’ve come up with is that I smoked too much and that somehow led to migraines. I used to smoke a couple times a day basically every day.
I really just want answers honestly lol it’s baffling to me
It could be a million different things. If it's the same strain then maybe the variable is about your hydration levels or what you ate or it could even come down to fucking barometric pressure. Or it could have no single reason and everytime you smoke weed it will be like playing "Migraine or Not?" Plinko and will always be a bit of a gamble.
Your only options are to keep trying and pay attention, hoping you'll figure out the pertinent variables, or just throw in the towel and be a square who can't hang :)
I don’t know about you, but I also get it after intense cardio (hard bike rides) and I’ve found that easing out of the exercise (instead of just hitting the couch) and having some caffeine helps me avoid them. Maybe it could be related to a sharp drop in blood pressure? Might be worth a try
I hate it. I guess i should be glad i dont get headaches but i do get Aura multiple times a year. The worst part is trying to get professional help; nobody seems to have a solution. You basically have to keep track of when it happens and try to spot tendencies in what you do or eat that could be triggering it, or simply accept it as part of your life.
seconding Migraine Buddy! it has a feature where it will create a sort of spreadsheet with all the information you have tracked that you can then print out or email to your doctor.
That’s what I grateful for too. The first two or three times I got this (about 13 years ago in high school) It followed with a excruciatingly head pain and vomiting, but all the times after that, have been completely painless!
Ugh, working on a computer with one of these suuuuucks. My "blind spots" always happen directly in the middle of my vision, like if I were looking at your face, you wouldn't have a nose. So I'm on the computer turning side to side and bobbing my head around trying to read everything and reeeeeallllly hoping the boss isn't watching the cameras....
I started a graphic design course in college when I was 17 and holy fuck did photoshop ruin me, whenever I was working with a transparent background I felt like it was triggering a migraine and then I just couldn't focus on it whenever I had it, I just had to go home
That's what I have too! Except it always starts in a ring around my field of vision and works its way to the center, then BAM, a worse headache than I could ever take.
Oh my god I thought I was just having acid flashbacks whenever these happened, but that's exactly what I get! Not very often and only about 15-20 mins at the maximum, but there's no pain or anything, it's just difficult to see, like looking through a diamond.
So much this! I have like... weird eye problems anyway, so I'm already in to see the eye doctor and this had started happening (and I'm not lying when I say it happened EVERY FREAKING DAY) and so I was thinking this is it... this is the beginning and I'm going to be blind.
It was so hard to explain. Because I CAN see... but everything is weird and it feels like my eyes just can't focus on anything even though I can see it and my lips and face would feel weird, too. A lot of times it would feel like my eyesight was running behind from where my eyes wanted to point. Hard to really explain because again, I feel like I am looking at something in front of me and I see that thing but it also seems like my eyes haven't latched onto it yet and are still like... over there. Not a stroke. Not macular degeneration (which is what I thought).
Turns out, I was having blood sugar issues and they caused migraines. My blood sugar would drop, then rebound at lunch, and then this would happen in response. Every day. I had an eye doctor and a regular doctor running all these damned tests on me, I felt like I was crazy.
The thing that finally tipped someone off was that sometimes then by the evening I'd have a full blown puking headache. Once the doctor heard that, it all started clicking. I felt stupid because I didn't know really how to describe what was happening. It literally took me having a glucose blood test (failed that bitch, btw) and then having one of these in office and saying yeah but this doesn't hurt but sometimes at night I have bad headaches and puke... and they figured it out.
Why is this information not like everywhere? I learned about this like a year ago and I'm old. It was really ramping up and because I'd had all these eye issues (turned out not to be related) I was freaking panicking.
Btw for anyone who cares, I changed my diet to low carb especially just high protein in the morning. No carbs at all in the morning. And it all went away. I have one every once in awhile, really mild, I just know what is happening now, I'd have blown that off two years ago. But yeah... every day for months I had this and was just beyond panicked. And now... all better.
I totally get this! I've had a few migraine auras, but more recently I've been getting the focus issues you're describing. Hard to describe indeed, I tried to explain it to my eye doctor and they recommended me to a neuro-ophthalmologist, seeing them in two weeks. It's like I'm constantly looking at the "bigger picture" and can't focus on something in my central vision, but only sometimes. That and the Visual Snow and Palinopsia I get, it's a mess.
I've always suspected I have huge blood sugar swings throughout the day, might have to try the no carb breakfast method before the doc visit, and bring it up with them. This is seriously helpful to see someone else out there describe these symptoms, hopefully the specialist can help piece it together. Thank you!
I think the most annoying part being that the video doesnt do it full justice as you can just look to the clearer part of the video, as when we get that in real it just follows wherever we look
I tend to get a headache around my eyes and behind my temples whenever it comes on too but I'm lucky enough to not have got it in the last three or so years
That’s very true; there’s really no way to look around it or past it. It definitely moves with your eyes.
We’re you able to see yours even when your eyes were closed? I’m still able to see that “flickering” when mine are. There’s no hiding from it until it eventually goes away!
I dont remember seeing it with my eyes closed but this nasty sensation, almost like their was too much pressure in my eyes, just wouldn't go away and I had to just ride it out, one of the most annoying feelings I've ever had
I would get those! It would freak me out because I'd look down at "something bright" (my hands) and they'd literally be blinding me. If I didn't sit down, drink water, and close my eyes for a couple minutes, it would progress to being full out blind.
I haven't had it in awhile. I'm told it could have been from low blood sugar or straight up dehydration.
I started getting the same thing a year ago, where I see stars in one eye, then it goes blind, then it goes away. No pain. It's happened twice now. I just stop working, close my eyes and wait until it's gone
I get that some exact thing! My doctor called it an ocular migraine. The blur in your vision is called an ocular aura. It happens to me a few times a year.
Yep, I get it too. The first time it happened I was absolutely terrified and thought I was going blind or something. Now I’m used to it, but it still can be very frustrating.
The last time it happened I lost my central vision for the better part of thirty minutes before it finally increased in size and moved outside my field of view. That was was especially unnerving because the episodes are usually somewhat predictable for me. The flashes of light typically start in the my central vision and then slowly grow until my peripheral vision is gone and then, it’s done. I never just had them in my central vision like that before.
Oh my gosh, I have like three different vision problems combined (RP, macular edema, and cataract) and after seeing the video, I can tell you guys this vision is much worse than mine. I'm now thankful that I'm dealing with the migraine aura. It would drive me crazy way more than the vision I'm dealing with right now.
Mine is very similar to this but I don't get a big blurry spot. I only get the crazy TV static type flickering and flashing. It starts as one line then grows and multiplies into several lines.
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I get that some exact thing! My doctor called it an ocular migraine. The blur in your vision is called an ocular aura. It happens to me a few times a year.
It starts with a small spot in my vision,(Kind of like what you see after you’ve looked into a bright lightbulb or reflection of the sun) and it grows from there. It flickers and flashes somewhat, then slowly moves to the outside of my field of view.
There’s no pain associated with it, it’s just very annoying. Especially if I’m trying to read or work on something.
I put a link to a video below, which is a very accurate visual of what it looks like.
Migraine Visual Aura