WHAT HARVARD HEALTH PUBLISHING AND 3 OTHER EXPERTS THINK: WHAT DOES AN OCULAR MIGRAINE FEEL LIKE?
Answered by Dr. Howard E. LeWine
M.D. Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing · 40 years of experience · USA
Ocular migraine, also known as retinal migraine, is an uncommon form of migraine. The usual first symptom of an attack of ocular migraine is a blind spot in one eye with a headache that starts immediately or comes on soon afterward. Some people experience a total loss of vision in the affected eye. The visual symptoms usually last no more than an hour, but very rarely there can be permanent vision loss.
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Answered by Dr. Wesley D Palmer
Doctor of Medicine · 23 years of experience · USA
An optical migraine can present as flashing lights in one eye or blindness last less than one hour in one eye. These symptoms can occur with a headache or followed by a headache.
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Answered by Dr. Marcelle Freire
Doctor of Medicine · 3 years of experience · Brazil
Ocular migraine, also called migraine or ophthalmoplegic neuropathy, is an unusual morbidity, usually observed in young children or adults, which is characterized by recurring crises of paralysis of one or more cranial nerve branches that innervate the eye. It is a disease that commonly studies with unilateral headache on the affected nerve side, subsequently evolving with ocular muscles weakness or paralysis, eye pain, blurry or duplicate vision. Usually the crises are self limiting, but they can last months and patients with serious attacks may not recover completely. The treatment is usually performed with corticosteroids.
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Answered by Dr. Gustavo Campos
Doctor of Medicine · 9 years of experience · Brazil
Ocular migraine is a term that can refer to migraine aura or retinal migraine. Patients suffering with ocular migraine may experience flashes of light, blind spots, or other transient visual alterations that may precede or follow a migraine. If it is retinal, it may cause vision loss in one eye as well as headache.
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