Houellie,

You're just jealous because your head doesn't play a bright light show for free. Actually, I really think you'd enjoy it.

But really, if you'd ever experienced anything like that you wouldn't liken it to hypochondria. Most people would rather not experience it, and some of us seem to have shaken it off more or less. It is probably stress-related - or at least, stress creates the optimal conditions for it to be triggered. I was much more inclined to worry about my health when I was younger. As I grow older, I tend to get better at shrugging niggling issues away.

I get that when I get migraines. I have to carry codeine with me in case it happens. I lose the top two thirds of my vision - if I don't catch it early - and then it progresses on to the actual migraine. If it gets that far I can be out for a couple of days. But yes, I lose my vision too. It's a horrible feeling.

curiously i just had an other one
i was caught between watching the sbs doc on the frauds of the envirmental mob..and the abc program on mone'[the painter]

at arround 9.10 pm..i noted a slight blurry vision
and soom saw a minute light triangular colour fickering
[rather minute in size at the 12 oclock point..so much so as to only blur the point of focus on faces]

within arround 5 minutes..it had expanded to a larger [face size] arc
across a clock face..its arc would have been equal to the points between 10 oclock to 1 oclock..in the same jaged rippling sugestion of a jaged white flashing arc[noting the time was arround 20 past 9[pm]

at that time i noted it was growing larger
it soon grww in size to cover the tv..in affect
and was now arching between 7 oclock to 3 oclock mark

it soonm grew beyond my field of vision..and by 9.30 pm was gone completly

im sure its not a clasic migrane
as the i only pain i felt was a mild pain..on my right temple
that now may be a vague pain on my hairline[but only because im searching for any pain symptoms]

i took no medications
and the whole 'event' came and went in arround 20 minutes
during which i watched the painter thing on abc[by then i was fed up with the sbs greenie doco..and more focused on studying the 'topic'..[phenomina]

im nopt sure we are talking about migranes
[my mum used to get those for hours..and i felt only very mild pain
that wasnt any 'pain' at all..maybe a dull sensitivity..as i was searching to find any symptom]

anyhow
thats all
it wasnt a 'migrane'
more a visual phenomina

i did note that i rubbewd my eyes later
and saw the presure light flashes..one gets when rubbing the eyes
[so if it happens again..i will be judging if the eye balls presure changes the 'affectation' of my vision

make of it what you will
i find it no more than a curiosity
hardly worth raising..when so many got 'real' problems

Jesus…Sounds like smoko time in the nursing home!!

OUG,

What you describe is a migraine - exactly like the ones I have had in the past. I do think we are talking of degree here, in that these types are more mild than the more prolonged and intense episodes experienced by others.

Antiseptic, you should certainly get a firm diagnosis from a Doctor first, before putting symptoms of any kind down to stress or life-style changes.

Two close friends of mine suffer regularly from migraines, although one has found a reasonable 'cure' recently.

Strangely enough, she was only explaining to me today your exact symptoms of flashing lights/misty vision in only one eye when she woke up this morning! This didn't develop into a full-blown migraine though, like it would have only a year ago.

She was commenced on an antihypertensive (anti-blood pressure) medication called Noten, which has been found to have a side-effect of reducing the severity or even stopping migraines in some people.
It doesn't work for everyone, but I reckon it is worth a try.