I used to be plagued with migraines , they called them optical migraines, my vision gets a kaleidoscope effect around the peripheral giving a weird type tunnel vision for a half hour to an hour , then my vision clears and the massive pain begins , made me nauseous often times. I had a heart attack and they put a stint in, after that I still get the optical effect from time to time but the following migraine has since stopped.
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Yo that's me!! Not the heart attack. But you described my migraines. Now I get the kaleidoscope effect -- the techical term is "aura" -- but often without the pain but yes with all the other weird syptims like nausea.
I used to get weird pin pricks of light that would blossom into a weird light pattern like the size of a plate held at arms length, but nothing like the peripheral weirdness so many other people get, was it like shifting colors or just movement? glad they cleared up for you!
Kinda a color pattern that twinkles somewhat with a slow flowing / floating motion and it can move around some , increase and decrease in intensity and size , kaleidoscope is my best description. That would be my warning a migraine was coming , it wasn't till my vision cleared that massive pain set in , occasionally it wouldn't , when it did I took 2 alieve's found a dark room and slept it off. Afterwards , 2 ~ 3 hours if I leaned or bent over I could feel pressure in my head mild pain, migraine hang over I called it.
Dunno yet. Still whipping them into shape. A bit of a "buy first research later" kind a moment. Just tonight I straightened out the voltages on one channel. Next onto the second. Part of the issue is the tubes shoyld really be closely matched and 6LF6s have gone the way of the dodo. Some irony: Futterman chose them because they were manufactured in the tens of millions a year and were a dime a dozen. So obviously matching would be easy, Now they're unobotanium.
I think of it like a prism. As if there were a prism inserted, slashing or swooping (depending on the episode) across the edges of your vision.
that sucks, my sister used to get a blurriness in her peripheral vision that signaled a migraine was coming on, I remember going to a few eye specialists when my weird color blooms started because seeing weird colors in your direct field of view is a sign of a detached retina, and none of the doctors was sure what was going on, eventually a migraine specialist said its probably just your headaches, I remember thinking thanks bud, really clears it up
Yes thats probably more accurate, certainly how the colors appear , it was explained to me that blood vessels would constrict reducing flow to my eyes and when they opened back up is when it cleared and the headache set in.
