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[shanmonster]

This is weird, but after over a decade, I can't deny it anymore. My migraine hallucinations are always worse in a lit bathroom. Particularly when I'm standing over a bathroom counter, and especially when I'm leaning a bit, like when I'm looking in the mirror more closely, or spitting in the sink

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[sidruid]

What do they look like? I've been dealing with what i suspect are Ocular (Opthalmic) migraines for years, i get them once or twice each month, but never get the headache of a migraine.

[shanmonster]

It often tends to look like very bright sun light rippling off a lake surface. Sometimes it's lime intense strobe lights flashing in my peripheral vision. Sometimes it's holes in my vision, with no color of any kind, not even black or white. Just invisible holes lmaking Swiss cheese out of what I see.

[sidruid]

sounds different from what i see... it starts as a small sparkling, wavering point in my vision, almost like someone pixelated reality, then it expands out from that point, forming into shimmery lines and edges. it seems to happen for only one eye, but it's not particular which one. lasts about 20 minutes and then expands out of my field of vision.

[shanmonster]

Mine has lasted for almost a year without break, before. :\

[featheredfrog]

Have you tried an antihistamine?

[shanmonster]

Not that I'm aware of. I'll have to research them.

Sorry to hear that you're hurting

[montecristo]

Hope you're feeling better soon.

Re: Sorry to hear that you're hurting

[shanmonster]

It doesn't hurt, fortunately.

[dark_phoenix54]

Any bathroom, or yours in particular? Is there small tile in checkerboard pattern or something like that? Fluorescent lights? Those both make the migraine visuals MUCH worse for me.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. It's horrible. I hope it ends soon.

[shanmonster]

Light-coloured, bright bathrooms. The laundry room did it to me today, too. I'm thinking there's something about shiny big white things like toilets, sinks, and bathtubs.

[dark_phoenix54]

Probably is the brightness and reflectivity. Does bright sunlight do it, too? When I have a migraine, I react to sunlight like a vampire because it's like being stabbed in the back of the head with twin icepicks that each carry a charge of 2335 volts.

[shanmonster]

Yeah, I've always had sensitivity to bright sunlight, or any bright light sources, really. Bright light makes me sneeze, even. The worst, though, is strobing lights. Not so much actual strobe lights at raves, but more like driving on a sunny day underneath trees, so bright lights alternate randomly with shadow, or a fluorescent light with a bad ballast, so it flickers like mad. These things almost guarantee a migraine for me.

[anonymous]

There is healing in the name of Jesus.

[shanmonster]

Heheheh

Healing

[anonymous]

Paradoxically, that would be a white Jesus. Benoît