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What are ocular migraines?

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Ocular migraines, or acephalgic migraines, are migraines where you have the symptoms of the aura, but the pain of the headache never comes. Ocular migraines have the same triggers as any other migraines, and will respond to the same treatment. Exposure to prolonged migrainous aura puts you at risk for stroke and for white matter lesions on the brain.

a form of migraine with transient monocular vision loss, typically in young adults, that may or may not be associated with headache around the eye. Syn: retinal migraine.
well actually i get ocular migraines, I've visited multiple doctors and they've all said that's what it was, and i do get the pain of regular migraines. it starts as distotred vision then moves to the outside of my periphrial vision, all symptoms are gone for 5 or so minutes and then i get a crazy headache right in the center og my brain it seems like. all i can do is take regular migraine medicine and sleep it off.

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