Palegoldenrod

OK, so I occasionally get migraine auras without migraines following (see surprisingly realistic simulation). I haven’t had one for a while – I don’t know what causes them, and they are sporadic. I notice a small shimmering area in my vision which expands out to obscure all visual information coming through my left eye and disorient me such that I have trouble seeing through my right.

After about 20 or 30 minutes the shimmering expands out of my vision and I am left with a hazy view of the world and a very groggy / lazy brain – I think my speech centre may be affected because I usually have trouble constructing an intelligent sentence for a while afterwards

Anyway, this happened to me tonight – is happening- the first time this year I think. I was feeling really buzzed this afternoon – weird, full of energy, fidgety. I’d had a few coffees and a coke zero. I don’t normally have coffee, so maybe that was too much for me. I had to walk up to get my car from the carpark and in an effort to consume some of my excessive energy I ran much of the way. It didn’t work

It wasn’t for a few hours later that I noticed the shimmering start to interfere with my vision and realised that the migraine aura may be related.

I’m trying ginko biloba to help with my memory (i’ve been taking it for a few days)… was it the caffiene, or the herbs, or the combination of both? Or something different? Hmm.

Out of curiosity I’ve started noting these events in my Google calendar so I can maybe determine a pattern. It will be interesting to see if one emerges.

The mechanics of it are sort of interesting – apparently it can be caused by a slow moving depression of electrical impulses through the brain, interfering with the brain’s interpretation of visual signals so that it looks like a magical drug-free fairy land.� Or something. Actually, that’s a bit dismissive – i know it sounds sort of innocent, but its difficult to describe how disorienting it can be. The impulses continue through the brain when the shimmering stops though – this is why you get the headaches and grogginess and speech stupidness.� I’m glad it doesn’t happen very often, and I’m glad I don’t get the wretched headaches following.

So I’m a bit hazy now, and my brain is starting to get groggy a little – a bit of a dull headache is emerging. Sorry if my other post tonight is a bit blech