Eye Migraine: Migraine Pain In Your Eye Is a Special Kind of Hell. Here’s How to Cope
glamour.com(throbbing head pain, intense nausea) is torture all on its own, but when a migraine attack affects your eyes, you have a whole new level of agony to contend with.
If you’ve experienced an “eye migraine,” you know the agony all too well. If haven’t, this co-worker-slash-migraine-patient’s description will give you an idea:An eye migraine is not, in fact, something to LOL about. (formerly referred to as an ocular migraine) is a type of migraine that can cause visual symptoms—including vision loss, blind spots, and even flashing lights—plus, eye pain.
Another type, , is more rare and focused on one eye. Though the name “migraine with aura” implies this type of migraine comes with “light show” symptoms (think: —but in Dante’s Inferno) it’s entirely possible to experience an eye migraine that’s all eye pain, with no visual interruptions. “People can absolutely get eye pain with even if they do not have visual symptoms with their attacks,” says , assistant professor of neurology and headache medicine specialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.“Migraine with visual aura,” Pace says, “is essentially when a person has vision changes prior to other migraine symptoms.” The changes, which can last for minutes or up to an hour-plus, include the vision loss, blind spots, and flashing lights mentioned above—plus, zig-zag patterns or warped vision (seeing things in a mosaic or paisley-type pattern, or as though you’re looking through a kaleidoscope).
Pace explains a migraine attack as an activation in the brain that triggers nerves to set each other off until everything is firing at once.
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