Don't ya just love neurological disorders?
I think the excitement and thrill of it all lies in the wonder of what symptom is going to come out of the blue next.
Today I saw flashing lights. They literally grew out of my peripheral vision and enlarged to a waving sparkly zig-zaggy aura on my right side. I had seen this once before a month or so ago and it was followed by this tremendous surge in my head. Both phenomena are difficult to explain. This time...so far...no surge, but my right arm, hand, and leg, foot are affected and going weak and numb.
I tried to google this and found that people with migraines see this sort of thing prior to their having a migraine. I have never had a migraine in my life that I could feel anyway. I know some migraines are painless.
What to make of this? I do not know.
Anybody else have these symptoms ever? Wanna share?
PS: I changed my name back. What the hell was I thinking?
Come sit a spell and shoot the breeze. Sweeten the day with a little synchronicity...
7 comments:
sorry to hear that, hon :(
i had some flashing white lights i described as ufos to my doc, turned out to be onset of glaucoma, which was operated on
Hope you are felling ok. I haven't heard of that, but I see my doc next week and I will see if he has heard of this.
All my best~
Brian
Had this often in first years, now just occasionally, all my MS.
I had that happen once, after taking a bike ride in the summer heat. Grew outta my peripheral vision, had a jagged edge, spread to almost the center of my visual field, was in both eyes, stuff to the right side of it was all fuzzed out and crazy. A cold bath made it leave, and it never happened since, but it was pretty freaky.
Then my neuro pretty much dismissed it and said it sounded more like a migraine symptom than anything related to MS .... grrrr.
I do hope that you're feeling ok. Thank you for letting me know this. I do believe that illnesses, migraines and other disorders can produce these types of occurrences. The only thing with my experience is, I asked God to show Himself or make Himself or angels present--------and I got the most beautiful show ever. So, it may be scientific, and it may not be. I'm opting for the "God response"! :)
Ya never know. God may be giving you a beatuiful sign, right? :)
Hope you're ok though.
My neurologist told me that was the first one. "First one what?", I said. He said, "The first of the three things I need to make this a concrete diagnosis of MS". "It's an event, and that was the first one." Wow. I had those aural flashes of light for several years; nothing ever came of it, really. They finally went way. No pain, no other weirdness. And then ... about three years ago, the next Event. I found myself helping my right leg get into the passenger side of a car; and, tied in with this one, I (seemingly over night) developed what I called 'elephant foot'. I discovered it quite by accident; I was staying at an old ski resort with wooden floors and you know there's nothing like unwanted attention when you're walking down that hollow-floored hallway and one of your feet will NOT land gracefully but with what surely must be the sound of an elephant walking. In my head, anyway.
But I digress. If I'd never been diagnosed with MS I would have never connected the Lights with anything other than my own weirdness and possibly a side effect of moving 800 miles away, getting a divorce, and losing 80 pounds all in one year.
Ah, my apologies for rambling. I will introduce myself properly one day, but for now - I'm so happy to have found you and the Carnival of MS I can't stand it...
I have had this twice in my life and it was described to me by my doctor as "an optical migraine".
As you say it just grew out of a tiny peripheral spot of confused light until it covered about 50% of my vision in one eye only. It was like trying to see through a rain soaked window. The first time it was really scary as I was in the London Underground. The second time no so much as I knew what was happening and was also in the office where I could shut the door for the 30 minutes or so it took to go away.
Although I did not get a headache with it, my head felt really odd for the remainder of the day.
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