Hey,

Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.

Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
suffered with.

My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s

From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
video may well help in explaining the effects to others.

--
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On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 at 10:50:56 UTC+1, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>
> --
> Adrian C

I get these once in a blue moon, first time thirty years ago, my partner gets them very occasionally. Dehydration and stress seem to make it more likely.

Goes away after about an hour leaving one feeling tired.

Many people go on to have a splitting migraine headache, but thankfully neither of us do.

It is quite common.

On 22/06/2022 10:50, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
>  My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>
Thanks for this. That's exactly what it looks and feels like to me.

On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:50:53 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s

I had 2 auras last night, 20.50 and 21.30, each lasting about 20 minutes
but fortunately I don't get a headache. I get auras about 2 or 3 times
per month but I can't pin-point a likely cause as the prevailing
conditions are mostly different, although sometimes it occurs if I'm
looking down reading something on my lap, so could it be a nerve in my
neck?

--
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:50:53 +0100, Adrian Caspersz
<email@here.invalid> wrote:

>Hey,
>
>Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
>aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
>drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
>back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
>Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
>head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
>suffered with.
>
> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
>video may well help in explaining the effects to others.

I get these sometimes too, but shorter duration, less severe and
without the headaches. The video is a pretty accurate depiction of
what it looks like. Interesting to know what it's called, and
reassuring to know it's not serious.

Rod.

On 22.06.2022 11:50, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

[SNIP]
>  My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>
[/SNIP]

Fortunately not something I have experienced (touch wood) but nontheless
fascinating. Thanks for posting this.

On 22/06/2022 10:50, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
>  My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>

That's really helpful. It's a very good accurate version of what I get.

Bill

R. Mark Clayton <notyalckram@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 at 10:50:56 UTC+1, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
>> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
>> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
>> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>>
>> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
>> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
>> suffered with.
>>
>> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>>
>> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
>> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>>
>> --
>> Adrian C
>
> I get these once in a blue moon, first time thirty years ago, my partner
> gets them very occasionally. Dehydration and stress seem to make it more likely.
>
> Goes away after about an hour leaving one feeling tired.
>
> Many people go on to have a splitting migraine headache, but thankfully neither of us do.
>
> It is quite common.
>

Anyone getting these should get their blood pressure checked. It’s a well
known symptom (but not the only cause). It’s what got me put on blood
pressure medication.

After serious thinking Adrian Caspersz wrote :
> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a aura
> lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or drive.
> Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going back over
> twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his head,
> as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I suffered
> with.
>
> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s

Spot on video for me too!

>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This video
> may well help in explaining the effects to others.

Originally, I would suffer it once every six months or so, quite scary
and no idea what was going on. Later, working for a particularly
frustrating and stressful company, where a lot of frequent driving was
involved - it would show up almost daily. If it came on when driving I
would notice a 'feel' before it happened and would find somewhere safe
to park, whilst it progressed.

Unlike the video, mine would progress much faster than his and usually
I would be over it within 20 minutes. More severe, but more rapid too.
Apart from the syptoms shown in the video, I would also sometimes get
phycodelic flashing colours, something like the films showing a 'drug
trip' of the 60's.

I don't tend ever to suffer headaches, though I do sometimes suffer a
light headed / distant feeling instead.

After retiring, the frequency reduced back to every three months, but
nothing now for around three years.

On 22/06/2022 16:08, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> After serious thinking Adrian Caspersz wrote :
>> Hey,
>>
>> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
>> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
>> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened
>> going back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>>
>> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside
>> his head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with
>> what I suffered with.
>>
>>   My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> Spot on video for me too!
>
>>
>>  From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well.
>> This video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>
> Originally, I would suffer it once every six months or so, quite scary
> and no idea what was going on. Later, working for a particularly
> frustrating and stressful company, where a lot of frequent driving was
> involved - it would show up almost daily. If it came on when driving I
> would notice a 'feel' before it happened and would find somewhere safe
> to park, whilst it progressed.
>
> Unlike the video, mine would progress much faster than his and usually I
> would be over it within 20 minutes. More severe, but more rapid too.
> Apart from the syptoms shown in the video, I would also sometimes get
> phycodelic flashing colours, something like the films showing a 'drug
> trip' of the 60's.

Also about 20 minutes for me and pretty rarely happening. I get a black
and white zig-zaggy edge and the area within it goes a little blurry
(enough to make it difficult to read a computer screen, but not
impossible). I too get a fair bit of warning, so I am not worried about
being caught out with it.

SteveW formulated on Wednesday :
> Also about 20 minutes for me and pretty rarely happening. I get a black and
> white zig-zaggy edge and the area within it goes a little blurry (enough to
> make it difficult to read a computer screen, but not impossible). I too get a
> fair bit of warning, so I am not worried about being caught out with it.

The very first episode was of the full on phycodelic variety - early
morning, still in bed and I had just woken up. I just remained in bed
until it had cleared.

I suffered and ignored it for years, not really knowing quite how to
desribe it, until someone suggested it was probably a migraine, then a
bit of research found it. Mentioning it to the docs, they seemed
uninterested, but they did find my BP was high and put me on medsto
reduce it, so worth getting BP checked.

Harry Bloomfield Esq has brought this to us :
> I suffered and ignored it for years, not really knowing quite how to desribe
> it, until someone suggested it was probably a migraine, then a bit of
> research found it. Mentioning it to the docs, they seemed uninterested, but
> they did find my BP was high and put me on medsto reduce it, so worth getting
> BP checked.

One visual issue I do still suffer from very occaisionally, takes the
form of seeing some movement, or motion in my periferal vision, if move
my eyes. Rather like spotting a fly flying past in the edge of the
vision, that can last for days.

As a youngster, I used to be sensivive and could spot the 'floaters',
or bubbles in the fluid of the eye. We all have them, but the brain
normally cancels them out, or ignores them. If I concentrate on seeing
them, I can still see them now sometimes.

On 22/06/2022 20:44, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> SteveW formulated on Wednesday :
>> Also about 20 minutes for me and pretty rarely happening. I get a
>> black and white zig-zaggy edge and the area within it goes a little
>> blurry (enough to make it difficult to read a computer screen, but not
>> impossible). I too get a fair bit of warning, so I am not worried
>> about being caught out with it.
>
> The very first episode was of the full on phycodelic variety - early
> morning, still in bed and I had just woken up. I just remained in bed
> until it had cleared.
>
> I suffered and ignored it for years, not really knowing quite how to
> desribe it, until someone suggested it was probably a migraine, then a
> bit of research found it. Mentioning it to the docs, they seemed
> uninterested, but they did find my BP was high and put me on medsto
> reduce it, so worth getting BP checked.

My BP was okay last time I was at the docs, allowing for a little bit of
white coat syndrome - and not too bad even not allowing for it.

On 22/06/2022 20:59, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> Harry Bloomfield Esq has brought this to us :
>> I suffered and ignored it for years, not really knowing quite how to
>> desribe it, until someone suggested it was probably a migraine, then a
>> bit of research found it. Mentioning it to the docs, they seemed
>> uninterested, but they did find my BP was high and put me on medsto
>> reduce it, so worth getting BP checked.
>
> One visual issue I do still suffer from very occaisionally, takes the
> form of seeing some movement, or motion in my periferal vision, if move
> my eyes. Rather like spotting a fly flying past in the edge of the
> vision, that can last for days.

My wife suffered from that, but severely. She couldn't drive, as she'd
see cars, coming up to a give-way at a junction and think that they were
coming too fast to stop. She couldn't even be a passenger, except with
me or my father, as she'd scream out each time this happened and we were
the only ones prepared for it and certain not to hit the brakes or swerve.

She also suffered from balance problems.

It took 2-1/2 years of messing around before a Neuro-Opthamologist
diagnosed the problem, stating that the signals from eyes and inner ear
arrive at different time and the brain has to correct for the timings
and that her timing was messed up. It was largely resolved by putting
her on Sodium Valproate - the stuff that they use for epilepsy.

On 22 Jun 2022 at 10:50:53 BST, "Adrian Caspersz" <email@here.invalid> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.

My experience as well. I've suffered with this for nigh on twenty years and
was diagnosed by my Optician about 5 years ago.
Sometimes it's so bad that I need to sit down with my eyes closed until the
episode ceases. The Doctors were not too interested, but luckily the Eye
professional was. I also suffer with high blood pressure, treated, so there
could well be a connection.
Peter
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Having had gradually diminishing vision, I can confirm all of this.The
current theiry is that inherently, the vision system has noise, which is
cancelled out by various means, but some people can be sensitive to it in
the edges of the visual field where the population of cells is lower and the
brain looks for movement, as nobody wants to be eaten by a sneaky predator
do they?
Anyway now I have very little or no sight left, I am left with the
interference, and its as if the volume were turned up and the noise
pervades, but the brain still attempts to make it into images, and indeed
can be dazzled and get headaches, so don't put much store by it, unless it
gets worse. Everyone's vision is pretty naff and its amazing it works at
all.

Brian

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> Harry Bloomfield Esq has brought this to us :
>> I suffered and ignored it for years, not really knowing quite how to
>> desribe it, until someone suggested it was probably a migraine, then a
>> bit of research found it. Mentioning it to the docs, they seemed
>> uninterested, but they did find my BP was high and put me on medsto
>> reduce it, so worth getting BP checked.
>
> One visual issue I do still suffer from very occaisionally, takes the form
> of seeing some movement, or motion in my periferal vision, if move my
> eyes. Rather like spotting a fly flying past in the edge of the vision,
> that can last for days.
>
> As a youngster, I used to be sensivive and could spot the 'floaters', or
> bubbles in the fluid of the eye. We all have them, but the brain normally
> cancels them out, or ignores them. If I concentrate on seeing them, I can
> still see them now sometimes.

On 22/06/2022 10:50, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
>  My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>
had Migraine with aura since the 90's

"Adrian Caspersz" <email@here.invalid> wrote in message
news:jhg6vtFu0eqU1@mid.individual.net...
> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.

When I used to suffer from bad migraines when I was in my teens, my visual
disturbances were like a TV with the saturation turned up and the gamma
increased to make shadows and mid-tomes lighter than they should be without
maxing-out the highlights. It seemed to affect the whole field of vision,
without making local "funnies" such as regions that were out of focus or
which were coloured patterns. I did find that if I shut my eyes and covered
them (eg with an aye-shade or go into a darkened room), I saw coloured
jagged lines. That lasted for several hours and was followed by a day or two
of complete exhaustion.

I remember my GP making a boo-boo. When I'd been much younger, I'd been
given valium/diazepam as a pre=med when I was having my tonsils out. I
became hyperactive (bouncing off the walls of the ward, pressing the cardiac
arrest button, wrestling the nurse who came to turn it off). So my GP notes
had a big note: "severe reaction to diazepam". When I had a bad migraine in
my teens, which had lasted for several days, the GP came to see me and gave
me an injection to sedate me to break what he diagnosed as a vicious circle
of pain causing stress causing pain. I remember Mum, who was a phrmacy
technician, asking him what he was giving me, and (very unusually for him)
he was non-committal. Am hour or so later I was bouncing off the walls
again. Apparently I said "My head hurts like hell, but I just don't care".
Mum rang the GP surgery and asked him to ring back. "Was it by any chance
valium that you gave him." The GP said that it was. "Look on the front of
his notes..." There was a stunned silence and then a muttered curse and
grovelling apology. Whenever I've had an operation since then, I've always
listed valium in the "sever reaction" section, just in case.

Brian Gaff explained on 23/06/2022 :
> Anyway now I have very little or no sight left, I am left with the
> interference, and its as if the volume were turned up and the noise pervades,
> but the brain still attempts to make it into images, and indeed can be
> dazzled and get headaches, so don't put much store by it, unless it gets
> worse.

Yes, there was a mention of it, on our local news yesterday or day
before, where a woman had become blind and suffered tremedously with
flashing lights, colours and even seeing devils and demons. There was a
name for it, but I was barely paying attention.

Harry Bloomfield Esq <a@harrym1byt.plus.com> wrote:
> Brian Gaff explained on 23/06/2022 :
>> Anyway now I have very little or no sight left, I am left with the
>> interference, and its as if the volume were turned up and the noise pervades,
>> but the brain still attempts to make it into images, and indeed can be
>> dazzled and get headaches, so don't put much store by it, unless it gets
>> worse.
>
> Yes, there was a mention of it, on our local news yesterday or day
> before, where a woman had become blind and suffered tremedously with
> flashing lights, colours and even seeing devils and demons. There was a
> name for it, but I was barely paying attention.
>

Charles Bonnet syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucinations

Tim

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Tim+ has brought this to us :
> Charles Bonnet syndrome.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucinations

That's it..!

Hmm, I've never put this together, but now you mention it, I had what I can
only explain as several days of the feeling you get when you hit an air
pocket in a plane even when lying on the sofa. That was Valium again. It
might also explain why after that when I was young I could never use a
trampoline without feeling seasick. Brain chemicals are amazing things and
sometimes they actually do exactly the opposite of what one expects.

I did reply to this thread on the other group with a different angle.
Brian

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> "Adrian Caspersz" <email@here.invalid> wrote in message
> news:jhg6vtFu0eqU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Hey,
>>
>> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
>> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
>> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
>> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>>
>> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
>> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
>> suffered with.
>>
>> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>>
>> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
>> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>
> When I used to suffer from bad migraines when I was in my teens, my visual
> disturbances were like a TV with the saturation turned up and the gamma
> increased to make shadows and mid-tomes lighter than they should be
> without maxing-out the highlights. It seemed to affect the whole field of
> vision, without making local "funnies" such as regions that were out of
> focus or which were coloured patterns. I did find that if I shut my eyes
> and covered them (eg with an aye-shade or go into a darkened room), I saw
> coloured jagged lines. That lasted for several hours and was followed by a
> day or two of complete exhaustion.
>
> I remember my GP making a boo-boo. When I'd been much younger, I'd been
> given valium/diazepam as a pre=med when I was having my tonsils out. I
> became hyperactive (bouncing off the walls of the ward, pressing the
> cardiac arrest button, wrestling the nurse who came to turn it off). So my
> GP notes had a big note: "severe reaction to diazepam". When I had a bad
> migraine in my teens, which had lasted for several days, the GP came to
> see me and gave me an injection to sedate me to break what he diagnosed as
> a vicious circle of pain causing stress causing pain. I remember Mum, who
> was a phrmacy technician, asking him what he was giving me, and (very
> unusually for him) he was non-committal. Am hour or so later I was
> bouncing off the walls again. Apparently I said "My head hurts like hell,
> but I just don't care". Mum rang the GP surgery and asked him to ring
> back. "Was it by any chance valium that you gave him." The GP said that it
> was. "Look on the front of his notes..." There was a stunned silence and
> then a muttered curse and grovelling apology. Whenever I've had an
> operation since then, I've always listed valium in the "sever reaction"
> section, just in case.

On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 10:50:56 AM UTC+1, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
>
> --
> Adrian C
Migraine? Jonathan

On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:50:53 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>
> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
> suffered with.
>
> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>
> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.

I can't take Viagra, because it causes coloured halos around my vision.

On 26/06/2022 08:51, jon wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:50:53 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Sometimes my vision goes a bit funny and I get a dull headache after a
>> aura lightshow, where I can't do things that are critical like work or
>> drive. Thankfully I can only count three occasions it has happened going
>> back over twenty years. Maybe stress related it seems.
>>
>> Someone on YouTube seems to have successfully stuck a camera inside his
>> head, as the aura he is showing with graphics, is spot on with what I
>> suffered with.
>>
>> My Experience with Scintillating Scotoma (Visual Migraine/Aura)
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_m9dyaKc_s
>>
>> From a straw poll elsewhere, seems a few folks have this as well. This
>> video may well help in explaining the effects to others.
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> I can't take Viagra, because it causes coloured halos around my vision.

Does that matter? Do you find coloured halos reduces your libido? For
most that would be the least of their issues! :-) Especially the wife's!