Many types of migraines are associated with head pain “headaches” but there are types of migraine that don’t cause headache. Eye migraine or ocular migraine has disturbance ” visual disturbance” that may last for 60 minutes.
The ocular migraine visual disturbance may be or may not be followed by a headache. There are many triggers for ocular migraines. It may be resulted from changing the flow of blood to brain.
By observing ocular migraine suffers, we found that: Eyestrain headache, headache of blurring vision and other visual abnormal sensations are accompanied by ocular migraine.
Ocular migraine symptoms:
Migraine fatigue is present after the ocular migraine visual disturbance. It usually has no headache or pain. It may be accompanied by double vision, nausea, vomiting.
One of the main symptoms of ocular migraine is aura. Ocular migraine aura affects the vision of both eyes. With ocular migraine, you will see flashing lights, shimmering spots and zigzag lines, after that you will become light-sensitive.
Many times ocular migraine may remain for 30 minutes and only the vision of one eye is involved. Ocular migraine symptoms are not considered serious, although they are interfering with your driving, reading.
Ocular migraine triggers:
The ocular migraine usually appears after computer work, watching television, long periods of reading or other work, which needs intense focus. Tiredness are the main triggers for ocular migraines.
Aged cheese, caffeine, rich meat, chocolate, alcohol, stored meat and foods, which contain nitrate preservatives and monosodium glutamate are aggravating or trigger ocular migraines.
Birth control pills, hunger, stress, weakness of the nerves and women menstrual cycle changes are triggering of eye migraine.
Ocular migraine patient needs to know his family medical history as the ocular migraine is a genetically based disease. If the patient or any member in his family has any migraine related disease in his medical history, the doctor will suspect that it is an ocular migraine. You need to describe what you feel to your physician include even small things such as euphoria, yawning, irritability, stiff neck and difficulty in finding words.
The doctor usually orders many medical tests such as blood tests, eye exams. MRI and CT scans also could be ordered.
How to control ocular migraine?
You can do that by managing the levels of your stress and taking a proper diet.
Ocular migraine treatment
Effervescent aspirin is a simple treatment for this migraine. It can stop the ocular migraine symptoms. Beta agonist such as isoproterenol in its inhalant form considers one of the fast acting migraine treatments. Anti seizure drugs such as topiramate can be used against all migraine forms. You can prevent the migraine symptoms by using calcium channel blockers.
