chance of my mom IMing me tomorrow: 90%
had what i’m pretty sure was a visual migraine today. after coming back to the office from a work meeting i noticed my eyes were adjusting to the light really slowly. after another 10 minutes i noticed that no, they weren’t in fact adjusting slowly, but something weird was going on. you know the white flashes you get from being blinded or from rubbing your eyes? imagine that going off around the edges of your eye, leaving you with a tiny bit in middle you can see out of
no pain associated with it, but a throbbing sensation in the eyes and and a really faint ringing sound. built for 20 minutes, then went away for 20 minutes. after that, totally ok, like nothing even happened.
read up on it and the general medical input is “no cure other than treating the symptoms and avoiding the things that trigger migraines”. unfortunately, the things that trigger migraines can be summarized as food, water, air, and living, so good luck with that.
at least i heard about these before from one of my classes so i managed to avoid having a “oh god, brain tumor heart attack alien control beam” type hypochondria