Zig zag rainbow colours around eyes

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Rose65

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I have had a few of these, about 3 times this year. When these auras came on I rested very quietly, eyes closed, for about half an hour and it went away. I didn't get a headache. I had forgotten about it until this evening when it's happening again.
I know it's stress and I am having an anxious time lately for certain reasons.

Has anyone else had these colours around their eyes and what is the best way to resolve them?
 

Rose65 said:
I have had a few of these, about 3 times this year. When these auras came on I rested very quietly, eyes closed, for about half an hour and it went away. I didn't get a headache. I had forgotten about it until this evening when it's happening again.
I know it's stress and I am having an anxious time lately for certain reasons.

Has anyone else had these colours around their eyes and what is the best way to resolve them?
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I get aura migraines. They are always black & white, often moving zig-zags.
I close my eyes for awhile until they go away.

I don't think there is any way, other than resting the eyes, that they will go away permanently.
 
Rose65 said:
Has anyone else had these colours around their eyes and what is the best way to resolve them?
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You may want to look through your archives of your previous threads... I know you had some excellent answers when you asked this before. Yes, I get those... ocular migraine and mine don't come with headache. Sometimes a soreness, but not what you'd think of a "migraine." They can last (mine) from ten minutes through 45 minutes usually. I have noted more than once that I'd been rubbing my eyes earlier in the day or the day before... pollen, irritants, etc. No idea if it's connected or not.

Rose, am I remembering you asked your doctor about this? What was the advice?
 

I had my first ocular migraine about 25 years ago while on the computer. Parts of the page would be missing. I could shift my gaze and the missing parts would come back, while others would disappear. Reading was very difficult. The light show was there too, but not as strong as it is for some others.

I thought I was having a stroke, or some kind of brain damage. I called my eye doctor, who told me to come in right away. I got in my car and drove to his office, and of course, by the time I got there everything was back to normal. He told me he could have told me what it was over the phone, but I hadn't had a checkup for several years, and he thought it was a good way to get me back in. I didn't argue as I was relieved.

I get them periodically now, but my doctor's advice was to get off my butt and walk someplace. That works for me, or I can sit quietly, and that works too. Either way, they seem to go away with time. But that first one was a weird experience. Still weird, but not alarming.
 
CallMeKate said:
You may want to look through your archives of your previous threads... I know you had some excellent answers when you asked this before. Yes, I get those... ocular migraine and mine don't come with headache. Sometimes a soreness, but not what you'd think of a "migraine." They can last (mine) from ten minutes through 45 minutes usually. I have noted more than once that I'd been rubbing my eyes earlier in the day or the day before... pollen, irritants, etc. No idea if it's connected or not.

Rose, am I remembering you asked your doctor about this? What was the advice?
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I forgot, it was ages ago. Then the zig zags stopped after about half an hour.
I think it is a mild migraine, I feel tired and a pressure around my h as.
It is just so scary seeing colours and floaters.
 
I do wonder about the obvious, in that could staring at screens so much and reading a lot as I do, be the cause of floaters and halos?
I understand looking into the distance regularly is a good way to rest the eyes, as well as just purely resting in a darkened room with eyes closed.
So do people who read a lot suffer more eye problems?
 
Rose65 said:
I minimise both.
My problem was tension and stress which has overwhelmed me lately as I have a friend who is very unwell. I can't stop worrying.
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When I was 35 my optometrist told me to cut out caffeine completely and the occular migraine will not come back. He did say that in cutting out caffeine that my sensitivity to it would increase.

That was true. Then many years later I drank caffeinated tea and experienced it again.
 
Caffeine can constrict the blood vessels feeding the eyes. This reduces bold flow to the eyes and that results in the swirling zigzag.

Aspirin acts as a blood thinner and improves circulation throughout the body.

The first thing to try is to stop drinking any caffeinated beverages which includes coffee, tea, colas.

Switch to decaf if you wish.
 
Rose65 said:
I have had a few of these, about 3 times this year. When these auras came on I rested very quietly, eyes closed, for about half an hour and it went away. I didn't get a headache. I had forgotten about it until this evening when it's happening again.
I know it's stress and I am having an anxious time lately for certain reasons.

Has anyone else had these colours around their eyes and what is the best way to resolve them?
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I get some twinkly star visual artifacts in the periphery of my vision(both eyes) maybe a couple times a year. I really can't point to any specific cause. Usually goes away in 10 or 15 minutes.
 
My aura migraines are spiky moving arcs in black & white. Sometimes they're small, sometimes they're big. There is no pain such as with a regular headache, which I never get. I lay down with my eyes closed until it goes away.
 
Pinky said:
My aura migraines are spiky moving arcs in black & white. Sometimes they're small, sometimes they're big. There is no pain such as with a regular headache, which I never get. I lay down with my eyes closed until it goes away.
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That describes mine *exactly.* Been getting them for... oh my, at least 20- 22 years now.
 
Pinky said:
I've been getting them for close to 30 years. The first time I had one, it was "big". I thought it was a precursor to heart attack, and went to the ER.
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I'm sure I would have done the same... except my best friend was a radiation oncologist and when I mentioned it, he said he gets them, too, and sometimes has to even delay consults with patients if the ocular migraine is disrupting him... so I figured it must be pretty common.
 
Nathan said:
I get some twinkly star visual artifacts in the periphery of my vision(both eyes) maybe a couple times a year. I really can't point to any specific cause. Usually goes away in 10 or 15 minutes.
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Yes, like flashes of little lights, blue in my case. If it's harmless I don't care but I just want to rule out anything bad.
 

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