Often described as psychedelic in appearance. In a migraine, the most common auras are visual flashing lights, zig zag patterns, blurred vision or patches of shimmering light. It can also occur before other brain conditions too, like seizures.

Extreme sensitivity to light, noise and sometimes to smell and/or touchĪura is a sensation that occurs before the migraine.Aura occuring for 10 – 30 minutes, up to one hour before the migraine pain starts.Severe pain typically lasting 4 – 72 hours.Throbbing pain or pulsing sensation on one side of the head.Migraines affect people in different ways but the most commonly described symptoms are Women are also three times more likely than men to get them. People with two parents who suffer from migraines have a 75% chance of having migraines themselves. Migraines usually run in families as they have a genetic component. The frequency differs drastically between sufferers and is often associated with an underlying cause. Migraines might occur rarely, once or twice a year, or they could strike several times a month. This loss of vision is caused by reduced blood flow or spasms of the blood vessels in the retina or behind the eye, not in the brain. The vision returns to normal within an hour. The vision fades out over five minutes, and can be described as a dimming of vision, flashes of light or patches of blank spots ( scotomas) that enlarge to block out all sight in that eye. In recurrent cases, it is most likely to affect the same eye each time. A retinal migraine is very rare and its visual symptoms are the partial or total loss of vision, temporarily in one eye.A visual migraine is a silent migraine when the aura is visual.A silent migraine is when a person experiences the aura, but no headache or pain afterwards.A common migraine occurs in about 60% of migraine sufferers and has no aura.

A classic migraine occurs in about 40% of migraine sufferers and has an aura (visual, auditory, olfactory or tactile).

There are a few different types of migraines which people usually experience: What is a migraine?Ī migraine is a recurrent and severe headache which a whopping one in ten New Zealanders suffer from. In this blog, we explore the connection between the brain, the eyes and what we see.

But the very first time you experience it, it can also be very distressing. The second time the sun was really bright through the windows.The effect migraine can have on your eyesight is both fascinating and disruptive. The first time it happened I had the reflection of the light bouncing off the mirror, into my eyes. My vision is practically normal again now, the 'kaledoscope vision' lasted about 5 minutes, but the headache is still here.Ī little background which may or may not be not be relevant: I once again had the pounding headache on the right side of my head which came out of no where. I could barely see at all and it was actually kinda scary. So, it has now just happened again, and the only way I can describe it is as if there is a kaleidoscope, it's not my whole eye sight-only the peripheral vision, but it was in both of my eyes. Sorry if that's not explained too well, it's quite hard to describe it This lasted until I fell asleep and it seemed to have gone by the time I woke up. It felt like when you have a bright light in your eyes and that's all you can see when you blink afterwards. The first time was when I was going to sleep a couple of nights ago and I suddenly got a pounding headache on the right side of my head, I was on my phone at the time and my eyesight started playing up. Soo this is the second time in a couple of days where my vision has gone funny.

Kaleidoscope in peripheral vision