I've had these. Very cool to see them depicted so thoughtfully and read other peoples experiences. I'm very intrigued by the triggers for people as I've never fully understood mine if any.
I had them first when I was around 14, and got very worried as I realised I wasn't just my usual ADHD-distracted but literally couldn't read words I had my vision centred on. That's when I left the classroom and noticed my brain was reporting my arms at the wrong angles, contrary to my vision.... But they didn't go numb that time... Next I remember getting an injection and being told that the pain would soon come while seated in the Doctors office after being whisked home. It came but wasn't too bad, just a headache.
The next time I was terrified, it started in my fingers, and spread like when Neo first dips his fingers in the mirror as he is extracted from The Matrix. Right down my throat and everything. A tingling (scintillating?) of my skin on my right side. Don't recall if I got the visuals that time. Then an unremarkable headache.
I'm sure I had another episode but it was much more visual and it is exactly like the illustrations, but very bright, blazing and warping. Its interesting seeing-but-not-seeing. An unwelcome glimpse at the visual system of the brain.
Then I had no more migraines/aura for nearly 10 years... Plenty of headaches but you get shit for calling them migraines if you don't get aura or have to spend 2 days in bed with the curtains drawn (RIP people who get them that bad, right?).
Next time I was having mystery abdominal pain (which I eventually linked to intestinal worms) and getting quite stressed out about it and sleeping badly and taking lots of time off work and looking st screens, when suddenly the numbness happened again. Called an ambulance as older me gets spooked easier... And got a mild but long-lasting headache. A few days later I wake up feeling really weird, and the visual aura is putting on a show. Get a piercing headache moments later. But I eventually sleep and wake up fine. Few days later same thing but this time at work staring at a monitor. Great excuse to take the rest of the day off, no headache. Def dodgey crossing roads when you're half blind.
Then they stop for 5 years again.
Then I'm taking a hiking trail to my house from the city at an overly brisk pace, and its inconceivably longer and harder than expected and its getting dark. Just as I finally reach the other side and civilization again the scintillating in just one corner of my vision starts, by the time I get home its taken over and is virtually all I can see. Time for a panic attack too, why not? Then a mild headache and it's off to bed. Migraines are weird, and kind of fun.
I had them first when I was around 14, and got very worried as I realised I wasn't just my usual ADHD-distracted but literally couldn't read words I had my vision centred on. That's when I left the classroom and noticed my brain was reporting my arms at the wrong angles, contrary to my vision.... But they didn't go numb that time... Next I remember getting an injection and being told that the pain would soon come while seated in the Doctors office after being whisked home. It came but wasn't too bad, just a headache.
The next time I was terrified, it started in my fingers, and spread like when Neo first dips his fingers in the mirror as he is extracted from The Matrix. Right down my throat and everything. A tingling (scintillating?) of my skin on my right side. Don't recall if I got the visuals that time. Then an unremarkable headache.
I'm sure I had another episode but it was much more visual and it is exactly like the illustrations, but very bright, blazing and warping. Its interesting seeing-but-not-seeing. An unwelcome glimpse at the visual system of the brain.
Then I had no more migraines/aura for nearly 10 years... Plenty of headaches but you get shit for calling them migraines if you don't get aura or have to spend 2 days in bed with the curtains drawn (RIP people who get them that bad, right?).
Next time I was having mystery abdominal pain (which I eventually linked to intestinal worms) and getting quite stressed out about it and sleeping badly and taking lots of time off work and looking st screens, when suddenly the numbness happened again. Called an ambulance as older me gets spooked easier... And got a mild but long-lasting headache. A few days later I wake up feeling really weird, and the visual aura is putting on a show. Get a piercing headache moments later. But I eventually sleep and wake up fine. Few days later same thing but this time at work staring at a monitor. Great excuse to take the rest of the day off, no headache. Def dodgey crossing roads when you're half blind.
Then they stop for 5 years again.
Then I'm taking a hiking trail to my house from the city at an overly brisk pace, and its inconceivably longer and harder than expected and its getting dark. Just as I finally reach the other side and civilization again the scintillating in just one corner of my vision starts, by the time I get home its taken over and is virtually all I can see. Time for a panic attack too, why not? Then a mild headache and it's off to bed. Migraines are weird, and kind of fun.