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Old Sep 04, 2008, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Kewkky View Post
Hmm... That migraine thing got me thinking...

Another thing that I used to worry about was that every once in a while, for a duration of like 30 minutes, I saw "blue-green-and-purple colored windmills" that appeared at the bottom of my vision, moved upwards until it covered half of my vision, then disappeared at the top of my eyes.
That sound like what is called a migraine aura. I have them but no headache. Mine are C-shaped or backwards-C-shaped; they start out with a blind spot, then grow until they are out of the field of view, at which point you would never know anything had happened. It takes a few minutes for the whole process to complete. Mine seem to be correlated to stress, but it is hard to tell if that is the case or not. I have one every week or two.
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