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I got plenty of migraines as a child and young adult. The typical pulsing pain in the front of my head above one eye, sometimes both. Later in life they became visual disturbances that subsided into a migraine. Often now they are accompanied by nausea and dizziness. Lately, for the first time I had one in my sleep. I was conscious of it, (perhaps I had woken up) though I continued or fell back to sleep for several more hours. Woke with pretty bad nausea. Collapsed on my way back from getting a bucket, was too dizzy to get up and threw up (in the bucket, fortunately). That was fun.

Anyways, today I found out these headaches have a name. Scintillating scotoma, who knew? (rhetorical)

Does anyone else here get these type of headaches?

I got plenty of migraines as a child and young adult. The typical pulsing pain in the front of my head above one eye, sometimes both. Later in life they became visual disturbances that subsided into a migraine. Often now they are accompanied by nausea and dizziness. Lately, for the first time I had one in my sleep. I was conscious of it, (perhaps I had woken up) though I continued or fell back to sleep for several more hours. Woke with pretty bad nausea. Collapsed on my way back from getting a bucket, was too dizzy to get up and threw up (in the bucket, fortunately). That was fun. Anyways, today I found out these headaches have a name. Scintillating scotoma, who knew? (rhetorical) Does anyone else here get these type of headaches?

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The ice pick one is called a “cluster headache” The scintillating scotoma is the name of the visual phenomena associated with an “ophthalmic migraine“ but it is not the name of the migraine itself A scintillating scotoma can be in either one eye or both. It can be either a ring or a half moon shape The occipital pain is typical for an ophthalmic migraine and it is usually behind the scintillating scotoma by half and hour to an hour