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Please help!! esp if you have experienced this..

I'm a 22 yr old female, healthy as far as I know. I drink maybe 1-2 cups of coffee...

Posted by ashehgoshers

I'm a 22 yr old female, healthy as far as I know. I drink maybe 1-2 cups of coffee maybe 5 days a week. My job is semi stressful. I work out at least 5 days a week. Healthy body weight, eat fairly healthy.. buuut
I've been suffering from migraines since I was about 11 years old. Originally, they'd start with the aura, then I'd have a pounding headache that would last for hours.. until I'd finally vomit and feel muuuch better. Like pressure was released. These would occur about 6 times a year. They weren't frequent but when I had them they were awful. I'd cry during the whole episode and couldn't do anything but lay in bed.

I went about a year without one last year.. I think I had one perhaps.
Now, recently.. I've been getting the aura (this has been going on for about 3 months) with LITTLE to NO headache. And the aura lasts for days.
I went to my ophthalmologist and he ruled out any eye problems. I've had blood work done, hormone tests done, nothing unusual.
But this aura thing is bugging me. Sometimes it's the zigzag white shimmery light, other times it's just a light that flashes.. like if you look at something bright, then look away, it just stays there. And yesterday I got these black, silvery stream streak looking things. but they last for a few minutes, then come back, all day long, or several days.

With my zigzag aura, my speech will get slurred, not slurred but like, I'll feel hyper and forget what I'm saying and my words will get all jumbled and mixed up, I'll get confused and nauseated (I think the nausea might be because when I saw that aura as a child it usually meant I'd be puking soon). The other auras, don't come with a headache, and never really have.

these auras lasted for a few days a couple weeks ago, then went away.. and came back 2 days ago. my headache is small if there at all but the off and on auras are scaring me.

any experience with this? anyone? please. I'm very worried. my doc didn't seem too concerned. said it was prob just ocular migraines. but they're not the same old migraines I'm used to. my eye doc said maybe they're getting better. but if it's so frequent and changing from my old migraines.. I can't be sure of that.View Thread

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well I am not sure that an MRI would help or not but it would at least ensure that I...

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that's a bit comforting to know. it's just scary to me that my migraines have shifted...

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my blood pressure is also normal for the most part! except once at the eye dr it was...

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