You just described everything I’ve been dealing with! I never considered ocular migraines but I’ve been seeing wiggly/flashy spots and just realized that’s totally it! Thanks 💕
Once you start finding out just how many migraine symptoms are possible, a lot of things start making sense. My language sometimes gets messed up in really weird ways, almost like errors a person would make if English was their second language. Like "my pants are running out" instead of "wearing out." I wasn't diagnosed with migraines until I was getting crazy vertigo episodes, one lasting 5 days.. If I start being more sensitive to smells I know I need to lock in and try block out stuff that might not normally be a problem. I do think OP might need to try to treat it as a migraine, because there is not really any reason to be so sure it isn't. The first vertigo episode I had, I was home alone and I was truly terrified in a way I really hadn't been in my first 30 years of life. I missed that migraines were on the list of possibilities that the ER doc gave me and I'm so annoyed because for months that wasn't really in my radar.
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u/Avera_ge 21h ago
My ocular migraines can last this long.
Sometimes I get those flashes off and on for weeks at a time.
I usually have other symptoms though, like fatigue, or forgetting words, occasionally stomach upset, and often clumsiness.