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Ocular Migraines: eduClaytion vs. Medical Science

Animation of the cortical spreading depression

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I got a headache in my eyes last Wednesday. Or something. Very weird. Don’t worry, I didn’t die or anything; I just couldn’t really see for half an hour.

I had settled into my new schedule of leaving Pitt to work on my University of Phoenix stuff in the office at C.C.A.C. before my night class there. I was ripping through the afternoon task sheet when the computer screen started looking strange. Then I couldn’t really see it anymore.

Something similar happened earlier this year as I sat in a church service. I didn’t feel sick. My head didn’t hurt. I wasn’t tired or in this recent case even hungry. Yet there went the strange feeling of spotty vision as if reality were destabilizing and coming back over and over. The disconnection I felt from my hands and body was also strange.

In both cases, the only 2 times this has happened that I can remember, I got up and took a walk. I could see people around me but there faces were just spotty lights. I could even pretend like I was okay. Sort of. Continue reading

September 20, 2011 Posted by | Life | 70 Comments

   

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