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SYMPTOMS | PATHOMECHANISMS | HISTORY

Symptoms

Transitory aura symptoms

Visual illusions

Visual loss

Persistent aura symptoms

Author: Klaus Podoll	24. May 2007
Edited by: Klaus Podoll

Spiral form dimension

Categories of form dimension of visual hallucinations (Siegel and Jarvik, 1975)

Spiral. Spirals, pinwheels, springs, etc.

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Spirals

"I get Ocular Migraines... I see black and white vibrating patterns in a descending spiral in the middle of my vision. The peripheral vision is intact. In a pure occular migraine there is no pain. For me, they last about 20 minutes. The first few times I thought this was going to be the aura before a migraine and that the migraine was somehow averted, but my MD told me that these were a seperate and different type of migraine. Now that I know what they are they are kind of fun -- no pain and a light show. Unfortunately I get the usual head type of migraine with vomiting much more frequently."

(Karen H., Newsgroups: alt.support.headaches.migraine, Subject: OCCULAR MIGRAINES, March 3, 1997)

"When I was a kid, in grades 1 and 2, the teacher used to always make us put our heads down on our desks for no obvious reason. Whenever this happened, I'd press my fists into my eyes and stare at the amazing colours and seascapes in my head. They always, to me, seemed like underwater scenes of blue and green seaweed, spiralling like crazy, shifting back and forth.
Later, in adolescence, I had migraine headaches, and once again those same spiralling colours were back, only this time so intense it made me feel sick. Not sick to my stomach, but sick in my brain, like my cortex wanted to throw up. Sparkling red and yellows distorting everything I looked at. Quite disturbing.

Nowadays, if I close my eyes and concentrate, I can conjure up images on the backs of my eyelids to play with, but they are fleeting, ghostly, and have a tendency to mutate into other things. Nearly impossible to control, but lots of fun.

Hurray for vision! Nik"

(Nikolaus Maack, Newsgroups: alt.surrealism, Subject: Dale and His Father, February 21, 2000)

Are you acquainted with similar phenomena associated with your migraine attacks? Please contact Dr Klaus Podoll if you wish to share and discuss your experiences.

Pinwheels

"Just thought I'd share this, I've got a killer migraine aura that's just about to go critical, I can barely see the keyboard and I'll be a fetal ball in about two minutes, but if it wasn't making me nauseous and wasn't the harbinger of intense pain, this migraine aura would be rather pretty.
It's become a giant 'c' shape all around my left field of vision. All interlaced multicoloured swirling pinwheels, doing a sort of slow, tidal square dance. Like sea anemones mating in the waves... Quite beautiful.

Wish it wasn't going to be followed by hours of agony.

To beauty without pain. *sigh*

*crash*

Elaine"

(Elaine M. Brown, Newsgroups: alt.callahans, Subject: Migraine Aura, February 16, 2000)

Are you acquainted with similar phenomena associated with your migraine attacks? Please contact Dr Klaus Podoll if you wish to share and discuss your experiences.

References

Podoll K, Robinson D. Migraine Art - The migraine experience from within. Neurol Psychiat Brain Res 2002; 10: 29-34.
Sacks OW. Migraine. Revised and expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-Oxford 1992.
Siegel RK, Jarvik M. Drug-induced hallucinations in animals and man. In: Siegel R, West L (eds) Hallucinations: Behavior, experience, and theory. John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY 1975, 81-161.

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