A silent migraine is also called ocular migraine, migraine without headache, painless migraine, eye migraine, and is experienced by twenty percent of migraine sufferers.We'll let you know that although you don't have pain with this migraine, why it can be terribly frighting.
Silent migraine sufferers have visual auras, but not a headache like most migraine sufferers have.
In addition to eye flashes, this type of migraine can also cause other visual disturbances as well. Even if you don't have the headache you can be plagued with nausea, and nasal congestion.
This is what actually happens in a silent migraine.
You have read where migraine headaches are vascular, and can hurt over, and over again.
Now imagine the start of the constriction of blood vessels, and that's causing neurological symptoms or an aura (silent migraine).
But for some reason it doesn't go to the dilation of the blood vessels that gives you head pain.
So therefore, you have a migraine without headache.
These are the reasons a silent migraine can frighten you.
A silent migraine can last from seconds to hours.
It can occur as a single, isolated event, or may recur as often as several times a day.
Just because no headache is involved, if you experience migraine without headache or visual migraines, you are not getting off easily.
The visual symptoms of a silent migraine can be extremely disruptive to daily activities.
Download a diary
if you're having silent migraines, and keep check as to what has been going on when you experience these migraines. This will help your optometrist, neurologist or your doctor figure out if this is a ocular migraine, or something else is going on.
If you've just experienced this for the first time, and are looking for these migraine symptoms, after you read this, schedule an appointment with a doctor to be checked.
In rare cases, the symptoms of a migraine are a sign of a more serious medical disorder, such as a stroke or a aneurysm.
Many times migraines are triggered by what you
eat, and drink.
This is what you can keep up with your diary. Also keep track of your silent migraine symptoms, and the time your symptoms start, and stop.
Write down any changes in your sleep patterns, or something that may be stressing you , and any other triggers that you may think of.
If you've experienced this migraine without head pain, and are having them often, more than likely your doctor will want to give you a preventive medicine to curb them. If you can find what triggers them, that's great. You may not have to take a migraine preventive.
Eating right, getting rest, managing stress, and exercising regularly may surprise you as to how well you can manage your visual migraine attacks.
More often than not, the migraine without headaches occur in older adults who have previously suffered full migraine symptoms. And also adults over forty have these visual headaches out of the blue. This is what can make these headaches so frighting.
Generally a classic migraine goes through four stages
If you have improper dietary habits such as skipping meals, and going on diets, this can also trigger visual migraines.
Let's not forget hormonal imbalances,
noise, bright lights, stress, and smell to name a few. So like we said above, a few changes in your lifestyle, if any of the above applies to you, may see a decrease in your silent migraines.
