Light is a bad thing

Okay maybe not always but for me today it is most assuredly a bad thing. All day today my eyes have been hyper sensitive to the light, to the point its given me a migraine. In fact the only thing that has helped today is keeping my sunglasses on even when inside. This isn't the first time this has happened thinking I'm going to have to get my eyes checked for it or something. Just what I need.

Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions? Oh and no it was not brought on by a night of drinking, I have had all of one beer this entire week and that was tuesday.

Do you have to wear your sunglasses at night, so you can see?

actually I'm having to wear them so it doesn't feel like my head is getting bashed in with a baseball bat. funny thing is it is actually allowing me to see a little better as well.

Sounds like you are sensitive to the light because you already have the migraine headache. Not just a nasty headache, but a true migraine. My wife gets them sometimes and they just flat suck. Find a nice dark, quiet place and lay down for a while. If they keep coming around see your doc.

rebelgtp wrote: Oh and no it was not brought on by a night of drinking, I have had all of one beer this entire week and that was tuesday.

Found the problem.

That definately sounds like a migraine to me.

Migrane FTW, I mean FTL

Weird thing is I have never had a migraine trigger the light sensitive thing. I'm generally fairly functional with a migraine been getting them as long as I can remember.

today its just killing me and getting worse. Gonna try and sleep but I doubt that will happen.

Its the tumor pressing on your optic nerve.

With any luck it will be the kind that lets you see into the future of people you touch rather than the regular wasting-away kind.

Well its down to a dull roar today, only feels like the Olds is parked on my head.

However the longer I'm awake and the more light I'm being exposed to the worse its getting. Even better in about 2 hours I'm suppose to be out in the field for a biology project for school and I see the hints of a very bright sun outside.

you might want to seriously get that looked out.. even if only to get you out of that biology project without a big fat F.

Stuff like this is nothing to play with. I get Migranes on a 3 month scheadule (I get about 4 a year) and they are just miserable. Thankfully I am usually at home when I get them or I would not be able to drive home.

Maybe you are becoming a vampire. Do you still have a reflection in the mirror?

mad_machine wrote: you might want to seriously get that looked out.. even if only to get you out of that biology project without a big fat F. Stuff like this is nothing to play with. I get Migranes on a 3 month scheadule (I get about 4 a year) and they are just miserable. Thankfully I am usually at home when I get them or I would not be able to drive home.

Yeah that is actually about how frequently I get them, though this year so far they seem to be more frequent though I think that is due mostly to stress in my life lately. Thankfully today I am not driving, Trixie is on her way to pick me up and she will be driving us out there. I've got my darkest sunglasses in my bag just in case and a bottle of excedrine migraine.

If it is still happening Monday I will head in to the doctors to get checked out.

Oh and yep still have my reflection though maybe that is the last thing to go?

I used to get stress migraines when I was in highschool. Mine were pretty severe, I would walk into walls, couldnt tell you what my own name was, and would start projectile vomiting. Took more then a week to fully recover from one.

The only answer was STRONG drugs that made me stop vomiting and go to sleep.

Thankfully I havent had one in over 4 years knock on wood

It could be an ocular migrane. That's not the medical term, but it describes what is happening. You didn't mention any pain, just light sensitivity (unless that's giving you pain). I get these from time to time. For me, there is absolutely no pain. But my vision gets all migraney. I get the zig-zags and the weird blind spots (don't worry, I had it checked out by an optometrist an my GP).

walterj wrote: Its the tumor pressing on your optic nerve.

You're a shiny happy person. But I Iike your sense of tumor.

Yes the whole tumor line crossed my own mind. Though it was Arnold's voice doing the "Its not a tumma'" line from Kindergarden cop.

Photophobia (light hurts) is one of the diagnostic criteria for a migraine headache. Neurologists are headache doctors.

Personally, I have found that after I stopped eating at Subway, my migraines went down to a fraction, which is bad because I like(d) Subway. Cici's pizza salad does the same thing. Anyway, there can be many triggers and you should start a log and look for patterns. What did you eat before? Beer? What type? Start of headache, end of headache, how bad on a 1-10 scale, light, sound bother you? What did you take (aspirin, tylenol, etc.) and did it help? I keep mine in an Access database, but then all the world looks like a database problem to me. A notebook would work too.

+1 on the log. You may find a pattern that says "hey when I eat Catfish fried in 20-50 castrol with pork skins I get a migrane, maybe I ought not eat that again" I get Occular migrains once or twice a year. they last about an hour then go away and leave me as tired as if Id been up for 8 hours. Not easy to work with a big fuzzy hole in your vision when your putting a watch geartrain back together. I cant get a pattern to mine. Probably cause I give up on the journal after about two weeks.

Dr. Hess wrote: I keep mine in an Access database, but then all the world looks like a database problem to me. A notebook would work too.

give some people a hammer, and everything starts looking like a nail

mine are occular.. mostly. It starts off with losing my vision in right eye... that lasts about an hour, which sucks because I cannot do a thing. I cannot read, watch TV and even walking is dangerous due to the lack of depth perception.

As that fades, I get numbness across the right side of my face and body.. another hour or so and I am fine.

mad_machine, if you haven't already, you need to go see a neurologist who will send you for a MRI. Most likely nothing, but just sayin....

Yeah, Strizzo, that's the way it goes. The suspension modelling program I wrote to design my Locost suspension hinged around a huge database of potential pivot (mounting) points. I used an Access one for that too, but an ODBC connection to a SQL Server would have been better as I had to limit my runs to keep it under Access' arbitrary 2GB size limit, apparently put there to boost SQL Server sales.

Dr. Hess wrote: I used an Access one for that too, but an ODBC connection to a SQL Server would have been better as I had to limit my runs to keep it under Access' arbitrary 2GB size limit, apparently put there to boost SQL Server sales.

Doc... its time for you to download MySQL. If you can't quite break the deathgrip that Microsuck has on you... use ODBC to link tables to it until you get comfortable. I assume though, if you are capable of writing a program to model the physics of suspension travel you are probably ready to cut the cord ;).

been there, Dr. Thanks. I have had so much testing over the years thanks to this and my crohnes that just about every square inch of my body except for my toes has been examined, poked prodded, x-rayed, and MRIed.

just my migranes, as nasty as they are. Thankfully they seem to be getting less with age.

Yeah I have tried the keeping a log thing before but I eventually start losing track when one never comes on. Then about a month after losing the log somewhere I get another lol. I think this last one got triggered by actually not eating and stressing about some things. At least it has all faded away now.