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Thanks for the responses guys.  I have seen an eye doc and am having an MRI next week.  Describing the migraine visual symptoms as being like heat off a raod – that’s interesting.  On occasion, this is what it appears like to me.  I don’t get headaches or other migraine symptoms.  I know you can get migraine symptoms without the headaches, but I don’t know.  My vision is always this way – just worse with acute anxiety. No, not overweight and I doubt diabetes is a consideration.  In fact, I’m only around 13% body fat. I suspect scotopic sensitivity syndrome (irlen syndrome), or hppd, fit my visual symptoms, and that anxiety exacerbates them (sometimes furiously).  Trouble is, I’m highly skeptical of their ‘cures’.  Just wondering though how common this sort’a thing is generally. Thanks again! Steve – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Never had visual disturbance with an attack. However I did get some meds from an old doctor and it affected my vision so much that I didn’t need my glasses to see……

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:And jackie…..boys didn’t have Kooties, they were dust mites, GIRLS :had Kooties!!! ~~~~     guess it`s different in Cali ~ Jackie ~*~Life was so much easier when your clothes didn’t match and boys had cooties~*~

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In Calif. We shared. Both had cooties, until they were transformed into zits, and by then nobody was worrying about cooties, anyway! Boyd

: : :And jackie…..boys didn’t have Kooties, they were dust mites, GIRLS : :had Kooties!!! ~~~~     : : guess it`s different in Cali ~ : : Jackie : ~*~Life was so much easier when your clothes didn’t match and : boys had cooties~*~

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Never had visual disturbance with an attack. However I did get some meds from an old doctor and it affected my vision so much that I didn’t need my glasses to see……

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:I used to notice (1) in my peripheral vision mostly, just as a :shimmering that came and went, till I realised it is brought on :wherever there is a hi-contrast pattern. Have you been checked out by a eye doctor? If you haven`t you really should. Are you are migraine sufferer? I am, and sometimes I get a shimmery wave in my eye, it sort of looks like heat rising off the road, other times I get flashing lights….both of which can be an ocular migraine of part of a migraine aura. I am also……. as are many other anxiety folk sensitive to fluorescent lights, if the lights are blinking and I look at it long enough it can trigger a migraine in me. Certain stores can have a unreal feel ( which can make me anxious) to it and I swear it has something to do with the fluorescent lights. Take care

Welcome to ASAP! If you are over weight, also check with Dr. about Diabetics, too. I agree, see an eye doc first. And jackie…..boys didn’t have Kooties, they were dust mites, GIRLS had Kooties!!! ~~~~    

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Hi, I haven’t posted here before, would really appreciate responses either way. Just wondering whether anyone else has visual disturbances on an ongoing basis, that are made worse by PAs, or at least seem a lot worse with them. I mean disturbances like: (1) hi contrast patterns vibrate/shimmer (eg text, certain carpets..) (2) positive after-images of objects (ie same colour as object, not just the negative of very bright objects which is normal) (4) snow, or static or granularity in vision (particularly on monochrome surfaces) (5) sensitivity to fluorescent light (with (1) and (2) made worse) I used to notice (1) in my peripheral vision mostly, just as a shimmering that came and went, till I realised it is brought on wherever there is a hi-contrast pattern. Thanks very much.

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:Hi, I haven’t posted here before, would really appreciate responses :either way. Hi Steve, welcome to ASAP ) :Just wondering whether anyone else has visual disturbances on an ngoing basis, that are made worse by PAs, or at least seem a lot :worse with them. I`ve seen posters who felt their visual disturbances such as blurriness were anxiety related, so it is definitely a possibility. :I mean disturbances like: : 1) hi contrast patterns vibrate/shimmer (eg text, certain carpets..) 2) positive after-images of objects (ie same colour as object, not :just the negative of very bright objects which is normal) 4) snow, or static or granularity in vision (particularly on :monochrome surfaces) 5) sensitivity to fluorescent light (with (1) and (2) made worse) : :I used to notice (1) in my peripheral vision mostly, just as a :shimmering that came and went, till I realised it is brought on :wherever there is a hi-contrast pattern. Have you been checked out by a eye doctor? If you haven`t you really should. Are you are migraine sufferer? I am, and sometimes I get a shimmery wave in my eye, it sort of looks like heat rising off the road, other times I get flashing lights….both of which can be an ocular migraine of part of a migraine aura. I am also……. as are many other anxiety folk sensitive to fluorescent lights, if the lights are blinking and I look at it long enough it can trigger a migraine in me. Certain stores can have a unreal feel ( which can make me anxious) to it and I swear it has something to do with the fluorescent lights. Take care Jackie ~*~Life was so much easier when your clothes didn’t match and boys had cooties~*~

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