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Q: Medical symptoms – bad migraine, brief blurred vision, and a small amount of blood from the nose?
Could these three things together be a sign of something major? The bad migraine is a new symptom, but the blurred vision has happened a few times in the morning during the past two months. The blood from the nose happens several times a month, but is usually just a few drops when blowing the nose. Thoughts?
A: Get yourself consulted with a Neurophysician!
Sounds like a migraine. Usually basilar migraine produces blurred vision alng with typical headache. Get yourself checked and do mention the nose bleed
Get WELL SOON
Q: Post migraine vision symptoms? Help?
I’m 19 yrs old. I had a migraine a couple of days ago, where I experienced a blind spot and pain which is apparently usual. However, it has been two days since the migraine and I can’t help but noticing that the center of my vision, roughly where the blind spot was, is ever so slightly cloudy, as if the blind spot is still there but not as bad. It’s only very slight but I’m worried as I’m not sure if these kind of symptoms ever persist beyond the migraine itself. It’s mainly noticeable in the dark. Any chance anyone could give me some reassurance or advice? Thanks.
A: Yes, don’t worry. This is called migraine aura. It can last for a few days after and often does. Being dehydrated does not help (you need roughly 8 medium sized glasses of plain water not fizzy or salty per day). Avoid fizzy/soda/caffeninated drinks and alcohol, these also make it worse as can strong offensive smells, red wine/chocolate etc.
Good sleep really helps and darkened rooms make it all bearable. Just take it easy and def. do the water, i seems to really help to make the aura go.
It happens when the migraine sewlling is around the visual cortex and can take many many forms, (zigzag lines, black and white, all sorts everyone is different and sufferers can have differing types as the swelling moves progresses as the migraine goes on)
You will be fine and hopefully something will have rung a bell and you can learn what are your triggers and hopefully minimise future headaches.
Take care and don’t panic, all will be well
Q: I had blurry vision, is this a symptom of a migraine?
Is this a migraine? I just had a blurry vision for 5-10 minutes and then the headache started.
A: this is called the ‘aura’ of the migraine. some people experience it like you did, for about 5-10 mins and then the migraine starts, others experience it without the follow up of a headeache. this is still a migrain (in migraine sufferers) but not much that can be done about it. it will go away by itself
the aura can be anything, feeling sick, dizzy, blurry vision, seeing spots, or anything that disturbs your vision, a funny taste on your tongue of strange smell. The aura usually dissapears as soon as the headache starts
Q: Double vision and headache could this be a migraine starting?
I start getting a light headache that will not go away for many hours then just tonight i started having double vision or at least it seemed like it. It also seemed like there was a think coating of something over my eyes. Could these symptoms be leading up to a migraine. What should I do? It has been happening for a week.
A: I’ve had migraines since I was 3 and im 42 now. migraines are on one side of your head, like mine are mainly on the left side of my head above my eye. You could be having a cluster headache which is totally different than a migraine. mine usually last for a few days. I’m usually sensitive to light, sound , just looking at a computer sreams at my migraine..
I would check with your doctor and if you don’t have one find a low cost facility and ask them…. maybe even www.webmd.com could have more ansers than us. maybe theres something else going with it, I don;’t want to scare you but I’ve known a few family members that their headaches come a long fast and come to find out it was an aneurysm.
Good luck
Q: migraine symptoms? weird!!!?
tell me your migraine symptoms, i have had numbness, sparkly vision and the most scary was not being able to understand what i was saying! my friend said a tea cup felt like a shot glass and changing a pillow felt like she was changing a quilt! trippy and freaky!!
A: First symptom is that I see colorful dots, than my left hand and left part of my face starts to numb and I can’t feel my tongue. Than that awful severe pain in the head starts and I feel nausea and sickness. I get light and sound sensitivity and I’m unable to speak. Sometimes, I throw up. It’s inherited disease.
Q: migraine remedies? i get sparkly vision (my left eye has this weird light), numbness, and horrilbe headache.?
Does anyone know what can help these migraine symptoms? thanks.
A: Excedrin’s migraine works really well for me
Q: What are some symptoms of poor vision?
i keep getting a weird headache but it usually doesnt happen until the day is half over. it feels nothing like a migraine and my head doesnt actually feel like a normal headache. its more like directly behind my eyes and i get a little dizzy….
A: diabetes
Q: my 12 year old daughter has had a migraine for 2 days and does nothing but sleep what could it be?
I am taking her to the doctor tomorrow but I was just wondering what some of you think she has no other symptoms just migraine with blurred vision and sleepiness.
A: she could just be suffering from migranes. Let her lay down in a dark room with no noise and cool washcloth over her head. Alot of the time stress can be a trigger for that (not saying that she has a stressfull life) Hopefully your dr. can tell you more. good luck to you!!
Q: tell me all about your migraine symptoms?
ok so ive had migraines since i was 4. and seem to be growing out of them as they have cut down to only a few a year. i just wanted to know if anyone gets all the same symptoms. my symptoms are the exact same every time and i can often wake up knowing it feels like im gonna get a migraine that day.
First my head goes little fuzzy and my eyes feel strained, i then get a little black dot which gets bigger and bigger. while this is happenin i start to feel a little sick, my right arm always feels disattached almost like its not my arm, i get pins and needles in my tongue and then my fingers and arm. my vision gets so bad i can only see half of peoples face for example, i then lose basically all ability to think and talk, i turn into like a 4 year old learning things for the first time, i get a stammer, forget everything im saying, i forget names of things, and how to tell the time. a few hours of lying down in the dark with my migraine tablets and lose most of the symptoms and just left with REALLY sore head.
ive never known anyone with exact same symptoms yet so please tell me all yours. i have never figured out what causes mine, oh and i get a weird taste in mouth and things smell funny
A: Oh! Thank you for telling me about your symptoms. It makes me feel that I am not so alone!
First, I want to say that there are things that trigger my migraines, although sometimes I do not recall any trigger. Flashing strobe-like lights of any kind are a guaranteed migraine for me. One of the worst offenders is those little blinking lights on coupon machines in grocery stores, that alert the shopper, I walk around the corner, and the thing flashes at me, and that’s it. I’m going to have a migraine within 12 hours. Too much bright natural light causes a migraine. Also, any kind of sudden noise, such as a slamming door or voice I wasn’t expecting to hear, causes my vision to suddenly erupt into a fireworks display and that can only mean one thing.
Okay, so my vision goes “weird”. The migraiine doctor told me that this is called “fragmentation”. I just see things splintered and not as a whole picture. Yes, my eyes feel “strained”. It becomes very difficult to be in any sort of light at all. Oh, also, my eyes begin running uncontrollably, I mean, like I am crying.
Often, my left arm and fingers will go completely numb. Oh, the entire top of my head will go tingly, and also, grossest of all, the skin on my forehead will lift and move involuntarily. I also get a really, really stiff neck.
Yes, I also become disfunctional in speech and thought. If I try to speak, often words will come out in the wrong order. I can’t think of the word for an item I am holding in my hand. I do lose “parts” of things I am looking at—as you say, parts of people’s faces.
Then I may or may not start heaving. If I can take a certain medication at the very first symptom, such as my forehead moving all by itself, sometimes 2 times out of 5 the migraine will not come. But I have noticed that it then sneaks back the next day, and then it is there to stay.
My symptoms are sly and not the same every time, so many times they will get past me before I realize what is going on.
I also get different kinds of migraines. The living end worst for me is the “ice pick” which is localized in one spot on my head, which I can actually pinpoint. I am fine until, suddenly, it feels like a knife is slicing right through my skull. This sometimes literally brings me to my knees (I fall down) and then, when it has passed through me, I am okay until about 30 seconds later, when it happens all over again.This headache can last 5 days, or, once, I had an Ice Pick Migraine that lasted over 3 months, by which time, death was becoming a reasonable option.
Q: symptoms of a migraine?
could someone tell me all the possibel symptoms of a migraine? could you have a zig zagged distorted shape in your vision before the migraine comes? follow by nausea and headache? my headaches get bad, but they dont seem to last too long usually. is this a migraine?
A: I always get vision distortion as a precursor to my migraines. To be more specific, I start to see pink spot. Then the neck pain starts, followed by the nausea, shoulder pain, light sensitivity then the mother of all headaches. My migraines usually put me out of comission for several hours, and I even had one last a full day before. Since I get them so infrequently (about 4-5 a year), I am not on any prescribed meds. I try to lie in a dark room with a cold cloth over my forehead and eyes, and also a cold cloth across my shoulders around my neck. This seems to help and I try to sleep it off.
Q: Distressing symptoms of migraine….?
Some migraines have unusual symptoms, such as loss of vision in one eye, has anyone encountered these, and have they hindered your lifestyle?
A: I used to suffer from migraine and my most distressing symptoms were feeling nauseous without actually vomiting dizziness and an arc of dancing zigzag lights thatt gradually grew from a small spot. They didn’t hinder my lifestyle because I refused to let them!!
By the way, my migraines were caused by my contraceptive pill.Changing to a different method of contraception really made the difference, as my migraines have gone!!
Q: what are some symptoms of poor vision?
i have a recurring headache. it doesnt feel like a migraine at all and doesnt feel like a normal headache. its more like directly behind my eyes. it doesnt happen until part way through the day. i feel a little of balance and get a little dizzy if i move my head too fast…
A: I have the EXACT same thing. My doctor told me I definately have to get my eyes checked. I made an appointment for next week. You should too.
Q: Just gotten over Flu and am now having what appears to be a migraine?
I’ve had it since the middle of the night and then on and off all day. Ive never had a migraine before but my symptoms are:
Slight blurred, tunnel vision
Sharp headache pain on left side of forehead and temple
Sore to touch above and around left eyebrow
Sore behind left eye
A: It does sound like it could be a migraine. If you are also experiencing a sensitivity to light, sound and smell and nausea the peaks when the pain in the head gets worse, then for sure it is.
Take some excedrin, grab an ice pack for you head and neck and get ye to a cool, dark and quiet room. Sleeping it off is one of the easiest ways to get rid of the pain without having to deal with it in the mean time.
If it continues or gets worse, your local instacare or emergency room can help with further treatment.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that you should try to drink as much fluids as you can. Dehydration from vomiting due to the flu can be the cause of this migraine
Q: Strange migraine symptoms?
For me, the first sign that I am getting a migraine is one of my hands and my lips going numb, my vision goes really blurry, and the worst and strangest thing…I can’t talk! It is really scary and frustrating, I know what I want to say, but I can’t make it come out right. I feel very confused…It’s exactly like a stroke, but I am only 24 so I don’t think that could be it. Also, when people try to talk to me, I have a very hard time making sense of what they are saying, I can’t dial numbers on a phone or type, really freaks me out and I start to panic. Has anyone else ever heard of or experienced this?
I was 12 years old the first time I had one of these…My mom took me to the ER and the doctor called it a “classic migraine”
A: Hi,
Yes either we are both freaks of nature lol or we both just seem to get similar symptoms.
People often comment that my speech becomes very slurred like Im drunk, I have to really think extremely hard to make sense of what others are saying and often stutter when I try and talk. It can be very hard to come up with words, although in my head I know what I want to say…I just can’t seem to find the words and then struggle to prounounce them. I cannot write a phone number down either as trying to work out how the number should be written is just too hard.
Sometimes I struggle with co-ordination and walk into things, drop things or have problems typing etc. in the very early stages of a migraine happening.
I too get the blurred vision and my best description is it is like when you are coming out of an anesthetic and things are just hazy and not quite real.
My Dr. explained to me that this can all be explained by the altering blood flows and the blood vessels in the brain which are the cause of the migraine. I also suffer migraines as a result of swinging blood sugar levels which on its own can cause neurological disturbances.
I was always told that all these symptoms will disappear once the migraine has resolved and I should only worry if any of these continue after the pain is cleared.
My Dad also suffers these problems as well, so I’m thinking it is fairly common for migraine sufferers.
Hope this helps….Take Care.
Q: What are the symptoms of migraine ?
ok so i woke up today with a really bad headache and i felt really really sick as if im about to puke, i think its called nausea or something. i started puking and didnt go to school today since i was worried i might get sick in class. my mum made an appointment for the doctor and my doctor said i might have migraine. can someone tell me the symptoms of migraine. one thing i can tell you is that whenever i have a headache, i get it from the top of my head on both sides and it lasts for long periods of times. i also start feeling sick and often vomit or puke. my eyes are really sensitive aswell and i start getting blured vision sometimes and when i wake up i have sticky eyes. also if this might help im a female and im 15. if that would help in telling me. i have already visited websites so please dont send me links becuase i dont really understand the sciency language, if you could explain in simple words.
thanks alot
A: What you describe are classic symptoms of migraine headaches, especially the nausea, vomiting, and light sensitivity. It is not a big problem though and they are easy to treat. Your doctor should be able to give you a medication that you can take as soon as you feel a migraine coming on which will stop the headache. If you get them frequently, the doctor can also give you a prescription for a medication that will reduce the number of migraines you get, and it also helps to reduce the severity of the migraines when one does break through. I agree with the previous poster that this could have been brought on by a change in your hormones. It is very common for women to develop migraines at certain times during their menstrual cycles. I started getting migraines within a couple of months of my first menstrual cycle at age 11 and have had them ever since.
When you get a migraine, there are a few things you can do to help deal with the pain while waiting for the medication to kick in. Lay down in a cool, dark room with an ice pack on your neck, a cool wet washcloth over your eyes, and some ear plugs to block out all the noise in the house. Once you get into a comfortable position, slow your breathing and start counting your heart beats. Focusing on something else will help you relax. You should go to sleep too, because most migraine medication makes you sleepy, plus rhythmic breathing and counting will relax your muscles. If you can, try and take a nap to sleep through the worst part of migraine. When you wake up, the migraine should be gone and you should feel a little groggy, but much better. Good luck with the doctor.
