Anyone ever get these?

I had one yesterday after working out when i got home, lasted about 10-15 minutes. Just really blurry vision with flashing, couldn't focus my eyes well at all. I called my parents and my mom said she started getting them when she was a sophmore in college, and what do you know thats right where i am now. She said she gets them every once in a while but you learn how to avoid them...

 

got my first one when 17. (thought i was going blind) i am now 44. i stay away from foods with MSG and caffienne and the frequency tends to subside. stress will trigger it too. also, if a really bright light hits my eyes. i have one maybe once a year now.

the process is the same for me each time.

right eye gets like a colidea-scope.
colidea-scope moves into left eye.
colidea-scope goes away.
10-15 minutes go by.
pounding headache arrives
nausea sets in
that night i get super tired about bed time
next day diahrea, and physically sore head

i hate them

oaw (stay away from taco bell, mountain dew and doritoes)

 

Wow, that was the perfect response. Your process describes exactly what i went through minus the headache. And i had a tough time falling asleep also.

I dont drink much caffiene at all. I wouldn't say i was stressed but more just exhausted from 8 hours of work followed by a pretty intense physical workout.

Thanks for the tips.

 

I had one once, probably stress induced with other contributing factors (caffeine?). The pounding headache went on for hours, but the vision stuff did go away before the headach. Just lay on the bed and moaned. Unfortunately, I lived across the street from a school. Of all the days, someone tried to break in to the school. Their alarm was blaring, and it was summer vacation and nobody was coming to turn it off. It was horrible.

Fortunately, I never had another one.

If you were only down for 10 - 15 minutes, I would say you got off light.

 

did you drink an energy drink before your workout?
taurine can trigger them too.

oaw

 

No i never drink enegery drinks, and i try to stay away from caffiene...that crap isnt good for you. I do take whey protien and creatine though.

 

so do i.
i don't think this will trigger them.

oaw

 

Man, I used to get them when I was in middle school. Same thing....my vision would get blurry and then it would go away and the migraine would come on. Terrible pain.

The doc said it was because the blood vessel in my eyes would constrict, causing the blurred vision, then it would open too fast or something, causing all the blood to rush to the brain causing the migraine.

I determined too much sugar was the cause. I used to drink a ton of regular pop and once I quit and switched to diet, they went away and I never got them again. I used to get them about once every 2 weeks.

 

I'm much older than you are, but for the past several years I've gotten about the same thing. No headache (or rarely), but the vision problems, and a general detached feeling while awake. They are almost all excersize induced.

I've found taking one or one half aspirin prior to elevating my heartrate has eliminated them.

 

Yes, see i didn't get the killer headache afterwards. Just 10-15 minutes of extremely blurred vision. And it didnt start until about 20 minutes after finishing the workout, when i got home and sat down. Then a hard time sleeping that night.

I dont drink soda and i rarely eat foods that are really high in sugar content.

This was only the first time its happened though. If it happens again, i will try the aspirin and look into some other methods of prevention mentioned.

I did have one very intense migrain earlier this year during a workout, but i believe that one was caused by inccorect breathing during sets, and it had none of the blurry vision effects.
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I get them every once in a while. Can't tie them to anything I do or eat or drink.

They last about 15-30 minutes, then just go away. No other symptoms other than visual weirdness. No headache, no nausea, nothing.

My mom (82 years old) gets them too. No of my other brothers(3) or sister get them, just me and mom.

 

I had them almost every day for about two weeks before I finally talked to my doctor. Turns out the new medicine i was on gave my high blood pressure, causing the bluriness and headaches. If you can, check your blood pressure next time you get one.

 

I used to get these in high school. I would lose my straight line vision but still had peripheral. I too thought I was going blind. After the vision came back my head would pound like a drum for hours. Luckily I haven't had one in over ten years now. I think mine may have been stress induced.

 

I get exactly what you are talking about, usually after sweating a lot. My last three occurred...
- After running a 7 mile race
- After playing two hockey games in a day, without eating right in between.
- After washing/waxing the truck in 95+ degree heat (about 4 hours in the sun sweating profusely)

My symptoms start with the blurry vision in the right eye, and then sort of take over the entire field of vision. Slight dizziness and on the bad ones nausea, vomiting followed by a day of peeing out of the #2 hole!

At first I was thinking dehydration, but I'm good about drinking water during these types of activities. The conclusion I've come to is a sodium deficiency. My thought is that when you sweat you lose fluid, obviously, but you also lose a lot of salt. I’ve found that eating salty items when it hits makes these migraines go away faster, but who wants to eat dry salty things in that type of heat?

What I try to do now is eat properly before whatever activity and drink a little Gatorade mixed with the water, I can fend them off better. A cup of Gatorade has 110 mg of sodium in it, and the electrolytes can’t hurt.

 

I've had 3 very painful migraines in the past 30 years, the last was in 1995. I can't say what caused the first two, but the last one was definitely stress. Each one started the same way: my vision would become spotted, kinda like when you look at a bright light, or a camera flash, only not quite as intense. The spots would multiply until I couldn't really see. If I was trying to read something, the words would just disappear. This would get progressively worse for about 15 minutes, at which point it was like looking into a black cone, with flashes of white at the outer edges. Then it would just go away, fairly quickly. Within 10 minutes the pounding would start, and that went on for 1 to 2 hours. The only thing that worked at all for me was going to a dark, quiet location and laying down until it was over.

What's weird is that the same optical disruption that I described has happened to me several times since my last migraine, but without the headache. Each time I start to see those spots, I expect the worst, but have been lucky I guess, at least for the last 13 years.