How To Treat Optical Migraine

Optical migraine is often referred as visual or ocular migraine.

This form of migraine is the one where there is involvement of a vision disturbance that is known as an aura.

The auras may or may not come with the severe form of headache.

The auras appear in various forms and torture the patient. The auras include flashing light or bright colors, blind spots, zigzagging lines and other kinds of geometric shapes.

One can also experience “floaters”, which are tiny objects that seem to float across the eye in a repetitive way.

The number of women being affected with optical migraine is greater than the visual migraine affected men. The pain is triggered with the constriction and dilation of the arteries in the head.

A patient suffering from this type of migraine would experience vision disturbances for a period of 5 to 20 minutes at a stretch.

You need not panic thinking about the vision disturbances, as they usually do not cause any permanent impairment to one's eyes. The auras are not same for all the victims - it varies from person to person.

Causes Of This Kind Of Migraine
Optical migraine is often the outcome of depression, fatigue, change in the estrogen levels, dehydration and long hours in front of the television.

The symptoms of visual migraine includes sensitivity to light, nausea, vomiting, heat waves rising of a hot roadway and a throbbing pain.

What You Can Do
When suffering from the annoying pain of ocular migraine, you must try to bring your blood pressure under control, get relief from stress and take the medications that will enable you to maintain appropriate hormone levels.

Also, take care to supplement your normal diet with a good multivitamin, such as Colloidal Mineral & Vitamin Formula.

You can also get yourself injected with Sumatriptan, which is a subcutaneous injection. This is an effective form of treatment. It is also important to maintain good physical health for combating this typeof migraine.

Other than taking the medications, it would be best for you to lie down and relax in a quiet and dark room whenever you get an optical migraine attack.

Keep a cool compress covering your eyes and forehead to provide you relief from the pain.

For eliminating the aura, sleep is the best possible solution. However, there are a number of treatments

Posted by Jan Heering
Headache – Migraine Treatment Expert and Author
Founder and President of the Morpheus Institute and
www.headache-migraine-release.com

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