ferret Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 I'm not sure if its true but I found this story on te visual snow website: "I've had visual snow and shimmering and arc's for years and years and just pegged it to doing LSD a couple of times when I was a teen. Here are the series of events that happened and now my vision is cured. Here's what happened: -I woke up with my eyes looking puffy and in a pissy mood. -I was watching YouTube videos about 'psychopaths in power' and workplace bullies and was complaining about my old boss and reliving bad memories. -I later on was doing some work on the computer. -It was getting late. About 3 hours before bed though. -I noticed my eyes were heavy. Much more than usual and earlier than usual. -I then noticed this headache come on a couple of hours later. -I took a couple of ibuprofen. Felt very much like I was drinking earlier but I had nothing. -The headache then got BAD and I felt nauseous. I took another ibuprofen because it was that bad. I never take more than two but the headache was unusually strong. -I then went upstairs where my wife was sleeping in bed and told her I was worried and had a BAD headache and felt like I could throw up. I tried to lay on the bed and the head hurt bad. I laid there for about 20 minutes in pain wondering if I should go the hospital etc. -I grabbed the Ipad to research the issue and then It was like 'oh no'.. the screen was SO BRIGHT I couldn't handle it. -A bit later it got the the point where the dim night lamp way across the room was too bright! -The pain was hitting me REALLY bad on the left side behind my eyeball, back of my neck, left temple.. basically on the left more or less. -My wife said it sounded like a migrain headache. -The pain got so bad I asked my wife if we had some Oxycontin's left or sleeping pills or Tylenol 3.. that's how bad it was. -The light then got so strong I started to outright shut my eyes, and even had to cover my eyes with my hands and forearm. -When I shut my eyes, I got freaked out because I saw this pattern! I described it like the Disney Epcot center very similar to this. -This seemed to prove that I was suffering a real migraine headache and didn't need to go to the hospital. Here is a real picture of what I was seeing as documented by a migraine specialist. -The pills then finally seemed to kick in and I noticed I couldn't see the patterns anymore. The shallow breathing, fear, nausia, visuals, and extreme light sensitivity were over and only the headache was left and getting a bit better by every few minutes. -I then finally went to sleep. -I woke up two hours later and the headache was GONE! 100%. -I noticed things seemed 'serene'. 'Calm'. -I went back to bed for 3 more hours and then woke up under slept. -The headache was completely gone. I again noticed during brushing my teeth and such that things were 'calm' and seemed different. -I came downstairs to make coffee with my BLACK colored Kuerig coffee maker in a shadowy corner and WOW! I noticed 'wait a minute! Where are all the squigglies and shimmers and snow????" -Things began to look 3d. Still. Sharp. NO NOISE. NO VISION PROBLEMS. NO ARC's, NO SNOW, NO SHIMMERS!!!!!! FULL CONTROL OVER MY DEPTH PERCEPTION!!!! -That night, I noticed a bit of a headache forming on my RIGHT side this time and took 2 ibuprofen, but it never developed into a headache. I was just paranoid I guess. Today is day 2 and again I'm under-slept and tired. I've been eating bad food all weekend and drank a bottle of wine tonight (Saturday night). No problems at all. My vision is perfect. Something happened after I had that migraine and saw those patterns. Or, I'm guessing it was the high dose of ibuprofen that cured the problem - FOR NOW. I'm the vision problems will come back, but until then I'm SO HAPPY THE SNOW IS GONE!! I finally know how it's like to look at things normally. I looked at the black/white line graphs someone posted and got NO shimmering lines or noise. Not at ALL. I'm still wondering what cured it. What was it? And I wonder how long it will take until my vision problems come back and how I can resolve it next time. So far, all signs point to taking a lot of ibuprofen. I'm not sure what else could have cured it." http://thosewithvisualsnow.yuku.com/topic/7197/Vision-problems-CURED-over-night-help-me-find-why Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted June 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 Sorry for posting this twice I'm not really sure how I did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 Is anyone up for trying this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 I read this on thosewithvisualsnow.yuku.com, everytime i get a headache i think of this story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted June 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 I dont think it had anything to do with the Ibuprofin. I think it must be related to the migraine. i wonder how much HPPD is connected to migraines, my father and sister get them so maybe there is a connection. Does anyone else here get migrains or have family members that do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs1234 Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Ever heard of PMA? It's not positive mental attitude (i love the bad brains lol)...it's Persistent Migraine Aura. It's pretty much HPPD brought on by migraines instead of drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadow Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Does anyone else here get migrains or have family members that do? my mom suffers from a bad migraine from time to time (very often). And me, I have sometimes really bad hppd-symptoms. right now i feel fine, but I know that it can change very quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted July 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Interesting. There has to be a connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey_magic Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 I had a really bad migraine at my work once. Nauseous, white as a sheet, visuals going nuts, so I lay down for an hour ( only thing I could do) and the next day my visuals, mood, everything baselined out for a good while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Noone in my family gets migraines. Althiugh my family never admit theyr ill or need help so fuck knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 I get sessions of really bad headache sometimes for several days straight, not migraine though but close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Maybe we do have migraines and theyr just not as bad as we expected explains the occasional zig zags flashing and visual snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted July 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 I have always gotten headaches but not to the point of migraines. One time when I was about 10 I had the worst headache of my life. The pain was unbearable, I remember just crying on the couch for an hour trying to go to seep so I wouldn''t feel it anymore. I could imagine that being a migraine but it would be strange to have had one the and none since wouldn't it? I don't think I experienced any visuals at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 There was a post regarding an HPPDer getting relief/results from migraine medication... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted July 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 How is PMA treated? Is there any more success with that than HPPD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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