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- From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
- Subject: Different types of migraine in same person?
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:51:05 GMT
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- I've had (totally classic) migraines since before puberty, but they only
- happen about 2-3 times a year, so I'm on no special medication, and don't
- see a need for it. I have recently (over the past few years) noticed that
- occasionally (weekly or so) I have a brief visual disturbance in the
- lower part of the field-of-view of my right eye; it's as if I had been
- looking at a bright light, then looked away, and very unlike the classic
- migraine aura I get (fortifications, shimmering, etc.). No headaches
- or other symptoms, and it lasts less than a minute (unlike the aura, which
- lasts about 1/2 hour).
-
- I visited an opthamologist on the advice of my regular optometrist; he
- said he didn't see anything wrong with my eye, and speculated that I was
- having a "headache-less migraine" which periodically affected the blood
- vessels more to the front of my eye.
-
- 1) Is it plausible that I'm having two different kinds of migraines at
- different times?
-
- 2) Is this something I should see a neurologist about (given that this
- visual disturbance doesn't interfere with my vision enough to make a
- difference, and that I experience no unpleasant symptoms)?
-
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