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Medical Forum / General / Vision / May 2006Visual Migraine
Visual migraine affects the lens of the left eye causing auras. The blood vessels supplying the lens constrict suddenly and completely. This starves the lens of necessary proteins it can only recieve from the blood (hemoglobin included). Symptoms are: 1. Visual distortion; 2-D images appear 3-D; visual hallucinations 2. Loss of image perception 3. Loss of color perception 4. Intense aching pain in that lens due to protein starvation 5. Sudden and complete blindess; subject cannot tell even dark or light!; the description is usualy "seeing nothing at all", no light, no darkness. Just totaly blank. Wierd feeling! On 5/26/06 9:46 PM, in article 1148705198.722080.295630@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Radium" <glucegen@excite.com> wrote: > Visual migraine affects the lens of the left eye causing auras. The > blood vessels supplying the lens constrict suddenly and completely. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > light!; the description is usualy "seeing nothing at all", no light, no > darkness. Just totaly blank. Wierd feeling! I think this posted "information" is incorrect. I am not a health professional. I presume you mean ocular migraine. Having suffered through ocular migraine, I was informed by ophthalmologists and neurologists, that this phenomenon is not related to defects of the eye itself. It is caused by not well understood neurological factors after signals from the retina pass through the optic nerve chiasm. Of course, your problem might be something else. Bill -- Ferme le Bush > On 5/26/06 9:46 PM, in article > 1148705198.722080.295630@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Radium" > <glucegen@excite.com> wrote: > I think this posted "information" is incorrect. To say the least. I suggest you remove all the cross posts if you reply to this nut, because it can cause a mini explosion of crossposts, which is probably what he wants... w.stacy, o.d. Bill, I agree with you. The lens is actually not really supplied with direct blood vessels, the ocular symptoms of migraine are due to disturbances in the cortex of the brain that controls vision and/or the optic nerve. The lens only refracts light, it doesn't produce vision--that's what the retina and brain are for. At least that's my current understanding of the mechanism for visual changes in migraine and opthalmic migraine. (Without doing some basic research into this.) Judy You need to study a bit about ocular anatomy and physiology. For starters, the lens has NO BLOOD SUPPLY. w.stacy, o.d. > Visual migraine affects the lens of the left eye causing auras. The > blood vessels supplying the lens constrict suddenly and completely. > This starves the lens of necessary proteins it can only recieve from > the blood (hemoglobin included). |
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