NordicPrincess
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Hi everyone.Three years ago I started having some kind of "dizzy attacs", don't know how to explain them..it's like out of the sudden I feel in free "fall", like I'm falling and the whole room turns extremely quickly. I feel like I'm "gone" for a second or two, and then I'm there again - a bit confused but ok. I had it many times every day for half a year, then it almost went away, and then last year in authmn, it came back, lasted for about 6 mounths - took an EEG (doctors thought of mini epilepsia beause it is in my fam) in jan this year that was normal, but then I had not had any of such in a mounth..and it was again away for many mounths, but is no back..On top of this I'm dizzy now, the "Normal" way of dizzy...and I see dots, shadows, straight lines are not straight..All of this, together with my other symptoms, makes me afraid of MS..But: is this something some of you recognize??I find it very hard to explain the "attacs"..comes out of the blue..often people around don't notice, but sometimes they do because I grab the nearest thing and get pale..It can happen like 30 times in an hours - at it's worst..If it was stress/anxiety related, then I find it strange that it was gone from Jan - until recently, since I've had a very hard time with all these symptoms (BFS or what it is..)Hugs
classic migraine is mostly pain without aura. there are less frequent migrains when aura of various origin precedes pain. and there is quite infrequent (however not so rare) condition when pain is minor but aura prevails. my daughter had that type of migraines - she had rather mild hemicranial pains but clear and awful aura - she became half blind in one or two eyes, scaring me to death.There was a holy lady in the early European history - st. Hildegard (if I did not mess her name), she was known for having constant optical phenomenons for 30 or 40 years (essentially starting from early pubertate till death). She wrote a book about her visions of Angels, Jerusalem, etc. but today's scientists had recognies her visions as a very special form of migraine - constant optical auras without significant pain part.There is a book of Dr Olivier Saks called Migraine, he describes a lot of phenomenons, part of which are from the history, like St. Hildegard, part of his medical and personal experience, so I suggest this as a good reading on the subject matter.Neuros also still have no clear idea about what causes migrains, but use antiepi drugs to treat them successfully, so it might be a constanty hyperexcidted zone in your brain, probably in occipital cortex where optical anaysis is done. Migraine auras include not only optical phenomenons - they could be audial (humming, high pitch noise), olfactory (strange smells, usually unpleasant, or hypersensitivity to odors), even sensory - weird sensations etc., or hypersensitivity, usually in the face etc. looks like it depends on location of hyperexcitation zone or zone wihc couls be easily turned to hyperexcitation state.