Ok, Lady wins! Yours sounds much worse than mine. My eyes were not dialted, and while visual migraines are not painful, they are distressing. Its after the visual stuff stops that the real painful migraine comes along.

Ever have someone stand too close to take a flash photo? all those dots and spots after? That is what a visual migraine feels like. Not painful, but annoying! its when the flashers and wigglers stop that the real fun begins. I tried to tell them I didnt have enough visual accuity to be able to pick out their flashers from my own. They said to just do my best.

I can't believe they did that! They should have known better and I am so sorry you had to go through that.

I went to the ophthalmologist last week to get my eyes checked. Good news was, my vision is getting better as I get older. But, I do need a wee bit of a bifocal. I have my visual field test coming up this week. Part of my peripheral vision is gone in my left eye. Then I have to go back for the dilation part of the testing.

Dej - Thanks for starting this thread and I hope things work out for you. Let us know.

I'm recovering from a bout of Optic Neuritis - and it's slowly getting better - but the past few days I've been having episodes of seeing green and blue in my field of vision. I can be sitting at the computer typing on the keyboard and look down and I see a blue or a green hue. Is this a visual migraine?

yep! thats a visual migraine. They said some folks see colors, and others just see black and white.

Keep a journal of when it happens, how long the colors stay, and if its followed by a regular migraine. you have a 50/50 shot of not having a regular migraine follow it.

If its only in one eye, its an eye thing. If you see the colors in both eyes, its a brain thing. It needs to be recorded, and reported. Hang in there.

My visual migraines (or at least vision issues I've had that have definitely linked to migraines) have been seeing a slowly emerging crescent moon shape in my left eye, which almost looks prismatic, then it fades away (the rest of the eye's cloudy gray, which also comes and goes) - all within the span of 20-30 min.

Otherwise, seeing a seemingly centered halo of white light with a black center. THAT was scary.. and came immediately following a horrible charlie horse in my leg (that was during my 3 month stint on Yasmin - evil pill).

I've seen these flashes of blue/green hues that you're referring to though as well, I just never linked them to the MS, I thought they were related to looking at TV/PC monitor too long (white background to darker area, for example). I noted them within the past couple days happening with more frequency, and last night my left side (arm/hand) started the tell-tale pins & needles, and I ended up in bed with a left side migraine throbbing in my temple, that spread a good portion of my forehead. It took everything to think about something to distract from the pain and nausea. Luckily I was able to sleep, but I still have pins & needles a bit in my left side and fingers today, and a bit of a headache still left.

So that's interesting that the flashes of 1 color can also be migraine. Good to know!

I am impressed with my recent research and proof of how many MS patients have visual migraines. i suppose its an optic nerve thing. I have an appointment with the big eye surgeon on Friday. The MS center also is talking about an MRI to check for new lesions on my optic nerve.

Is anyone else having panic/anxiety attacks with theirs?

Im tired of this!

I used to get all freaked out when things happened that had never happened before....like this visual thing. For some reason I just don't anymore. Now, if I were to wake up one morning and not be able to see anything I think I might panic!

Since I have no medical insurance until Medicare kicks in I tend to just notify my Neuro of any changes (so he can update my medical chart) but I usually just ride the sx out till they resolve themselves. And they have all resolved by themselves so far. He gets irritated that I don't take his advice of IVSM or other drugs but I try to tell him that I just don't have the resources for it right now. He doesn't understand.

What Kitty said... but I've also had visual migraines for so long now that I'm past the freak out stage (except that halo one I had... but the charlie horse added to that entire experience).

I had my first probably 10 years ago (that I can remember). I don't know if it's MS related, but I think the 2 can work together (or against us).