Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

1.4K

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?

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (19).
[–] • 0 pt

It's kind of interesting to be looking right at something but not recognize it immediately. It's somewhat disorienting when it reaches peripheral vision, where you look at something and see it, then look away and it seems to disappear because normally you'd see it in peripheral vision.

The both eyes (or both whatever) is a good test for whether something is with some sensory organ, or the brain.

This effect sometimes creeps up slowly for me, where for an hour or more I just can't read very easily, though there's no particular blind spot. Once it begins the spot is prominent and is constantly moving and expanding.