Ewww...

[desperance]

Very, very rarely - like, once every few years - I get this strange optical effect, like a scribble of tiny flashy glittery lines that start at the focal point of my eyes and move outward like a slowwww ripple till half an hour, forty-five minutes later they reach the limits of my sight and disappear.

Something I read a few years back suggests that this is a very mild form of migraine. Whatever, it's easy to live with. Just, it's a nuisance if it hits when I'm working. Like, f'rexample, now. I have been trying to work through it for the last twenty minutes, but I feel a little dizzy and remote, and I'm not getting much done. So I shall pack up reluctantly early and walk home - carefully - and expect it to be gone by the time I get there.

*sighs*

Comments

[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

Hope that is indeed what happens. I was rather freaked out by my blurred vision for the first time in my life on Saturday but after a day of almost non-computer use Sunday I'm back to normal.

Damn those eyes!

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's migraine. I get the same effect (which I perceive as a string of rotating prisms). I recommend stopping work and trying to relax. Also, have something to eat.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that was a migraine thingy, I sometimes get that, usually when I'm very tired... needs a lie down with eyes tight shut and away from computer screens (for me), hope it wears off for you soon.

[volterra.livejournal.com]

Me too. Although it's only really happened twice in the last five years. The first time was so bad I thought I'd detached a retina. The second time was barely noticable.

I don't recall having a headache, except from trying to see.

[kimsheard.livejournal.com]

That is indeed a migraine or, more correctly, the precursor to one. When I was a teenager I'd have that effect and then the headache would start. Now that I'm older, I still get the optical effect occasionally but, thankfully, not the headache. Consider yourself lucky it's not full-blown, I guess.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

My other half gets that. The first time REALLY freaked her out.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I get that a couple times a year! But I thought it was just some weird reaction to a particularly over-bright web page or something. It's annoying, but I never get a headache from it. Just can't see very well for forty, forty-five minutes. How fascinating.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, though? For me it was one of those things that almost qualified as Unique To Chaz, it's so transitory and hard to describe; certainly I never discussed it with anyone. Then I read this piece that was clearly talking about the same thing, and listed it as a minor migraine; and, yes. Made perfect sense.

Still never told anyone, though. Till now. Ah, the lure of the internets...