Mar

29

Migraine Blindness - Are We Having FUN Yet?

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Migraine headaches are as different as the people who get them.  Where one migraine will offer nausea as its strongest symptom another will bring near blindness or severe pain as its particular personality trait.  It is hard to know when a migraine is beginning where it will take you.  I love and crave adventure but would not say that these particular wanderings peak my interest.  More recently throwing up during my migraines seems to have dropped off and blindness has come to the forefront of my suffering.  Where once I was only blind partially in one eye for the duration of my pain I am currently enjoying partial blindness in at least one eye and often both for up to five or six days after the migraine pain has passed.  This blindness is wielding a wide range of devastations on my life.  For instance when speaking to people I cannot focus very well on their faces and when I do they have big blacked out areas where I can see nothing but a fuzzy dark haze.  Also sudden bursts of light that no one else would notice like a passing car’s windshield that catches the sun and reflects it in my direction or a fluorescent ceiling light overhead at the grocery store.  These random lights not only strike me with a disorienting temporary blindness but also feel equivalent to be slapped full on across the face.  The pain drives through my eyes and deep into my head.  Functioning with this situation has become a daily challenge to maintain my dignity and not scare people by acting like a total freak.

So if you run across a woman that will not look you in the eye, runs into chairs and people, and will occasionally without cause clutch her head and gasp because someone opened the shades nearby, try not to judge her.  She may not be crazy, just blind and miserable before the age of thirty.  Throw some pennies in her cap for she has a long road ahead of her, just be sure you tell her they are there since she likely can’t see them.

So much for my synthroid theory.  The search continues…….