to Dr. Smith
this is regarding your post here on the migrane topic from 10/27/12.
Well, it was so familiar to me when I read it. And when I read the reply saying how strange it was to be seen by an opthomologist for migrane, I could understand one would think so, but on the other hand, I knew that this was a possibility.
It is now going on 3 years since I went to my regular opthomologist for an out of the usual yearly check ups. I had a strange visual episodes with a zigzag pattern bright light ring in my visual field happening twice. The doctor set me up with a stat MRI of the brain. He then called me at home, he had set up appointment right away with an interventional neurologist due to the fact that the MRI showed a cerebral aneurysm.
Well, I say this good eyedoctor saved my life. I had the aneurysm repaired,
have since had a tonn of neurological stuff, but as far as the aneurysm, I was just glad it was found before it ruptured
HERE IS MY POINT
i WENT FURTHER TO INVESTIGATE REGARDING THIS SCOTOMA IN MY VISUAL FIELD.
I saw a neurological opthomologist. He said, You are lucky you went to Dr. --- so so, for had you come to me right away, I could have told you that those scotomas, they are Aura before migrane. I said I really did not think I had migrane, but had head aches, but never with nauses etc. He said I have migrane. Sometimes one can have migrane without head ache. Some times one can only have aura. So this was all new to me
Now I am also dealing with something else. I have had episodes that neuro said could be simple partial seizure, so they set me up, and I had 72 hour video monitored EEG. I realy did not happen to have a severe of those episodes during my stay, so no seizure observed, but the neuro think it can be migrane related.
Well This goes to show that migrane can be complicated, and can have many symptoms Thanks for reading.