What is an Ocular Migraine & its causes? - Dr. Sriram Ramalingam

Migraine as usually everyone is aware of is a headache, is a one sided headache. Occasionally this headache may be preceded by some eye symptoms called as aura. These aura may be like flashing of light or floating of objects in front of the eye. Once these symptoms decreases, it may be followed by headache. Occasionally a person may complain of decrease in vision in one eye. This may last for a period of half an hour to one hour. This vision decrease subsides and may be followed by headache. This is called as ocular migraine. We cannot label all decrease in vision in one eye as ocular migraine. One has to rule out other causes before we label a person as ocular migraine. The cause for sudden decrease in vision may not always be ocular migraine. There may be other conditions called as amaurosis fugax where there is sudden loss of vision because of blood vessel abnormalities, persons who are drug abused. Persons who have other abnormalities called as sickle cell diseases or maybe a spasm of the blood vessels. Ladies are more affected than the male members.

[trinitybell]

I almost go completely blind when I have Ocular Migraines. I started having them in 5th grade. Some times, they will be over within an hour or two, but somedays, like today, I have to sleep for hours, and when I am not sleeping, I am throwing up. This is very exhausting and I'm not sure why I go as far as throwing up for hours before I am finally able to rest. Somedays, these Ocular Migraines carry into the next day.

[sonny]

I just had an Ocular migraine but with out any pain.

[ajmforonda]

Hello doctor, I suffer from this. Previously I have done doppler analysis, Magnetic resonance to the brain and also deep analysis to the eye to see if it was a glaucoma but in every one of these, the result was Ok. Doctors in my country told me that it could be stress and I personally confirmed a correlation between stressful days and loss of vision in one eye for a short time. Is there anything I can do to reduce the effects?

[ravinaa]

I get retinal migraine in only in one eye and only in the mornings before noon. Never later. Lasts for 10-15 min followed by headache/no headache. What could be a possible trigger?

[chahatvariya]

kya migrain ka dard raat ko bhi ho sakta haiiii?

[donggyun]

This happens to me and I think it's because I'm feeling lonely and stressed, so know I'm trying to reduce my screen time and go take a walk outside. During this ocular migraine, I got these small flash of light then it slowly turns bigger and when it reduce I feel really sick and I got dizzy then I feel like vomiting.

[jungkook-wts-wangtanboys]

this happen when your stomach is in problem, while you stress.

[miriahmpaloma]

Oh he's borne away from me of his Ocular Migraine.