#scotoma

[gravitilly]

Urgh.

My migraine symptoms are driving me crazy.

The facial twitching makes me feel like I am going to lose it- this is a symptom I only started developing after an extreme migraine episode I had a month ago. Now it seems like twitching now comes with every migraine I have.

I first started experiencing migraine Aura in the form of scintillating scotoma at age nineteen out of nowhere, after never having had it before. Since then, I've had this off and on for migraines throughout the years, but not with every migraine, and not even always with a headache.

Now I'm having nerve spasms and twitching- usually in or above my left eye and or right eye, in my feet, shoulders, and fingers. It continues for hours and hours on end, coming and going.

As I stated before, this developed only after I had a major migraine episode at work- in which I started shaking and struggled to think or talk and had migraine Aura for around forty minutes straight. Now as I've been getting migraines since then, I keep getting some form of twitching with them.

Please pray that this subsides. I am already planning on finding a job with insurance, because I've been very interested on how to get this to stop.

[quomododeum]

SCINTILLATING SCOTOMA REPRESENTATIONS 🧿

[fenik]

Scintillating scotoma .:*☆

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[silveragelovechild]

Spilling Errors!

This is an apology to anyone who follows my tumblr or reads my posts. I am a terrible at spelling and my posts often have errors.

The only time I ever got an “F” in school (3rd Grade) was in Spelling and Penmanship.

Typing instead helps with Penmanship.

I “think” too fast so I regularly drop suffixes when I type.

Auto-Correct only helps with false words.

My fingers may have gotten fat (self-isolation weight gain?) because I’ve been hitting the letter next to the one I intended.

AND I have a scotoma - although I do reread items before posting them, I often don’t recognize a spelling error until AFTER I posted it.

Sometimes I will share an item with a friend via email or text. Because I think they may find it humorous or insightful. But some friends reply only with spelling corrections - not about the content. That puzzles me.

It’s like going back stage after a friends has performed in a show. If you only say, “That was interesting” you’re basically saying you hated it and can’t think of anything better to say.

Is that’s what’s happening when someone focuses on spelling instead of the message?

For one of my tumblrs, I’ve hired a proof reader to review the profiles I am writing. The content is more important to me so I want it to be more professional. But for other tumblrs? It would be too expensive. I hope my content comes through despite spelling errors.

[con-carino]

scotoma/noun/: a blind spot in an otherwise normal visual field

what scotomas have you been unknowingly (or knowingly) nursing? What shadows have come up for you that require your stillness, love and attention?

[briery]

Hubert Airy’s drawing illustrates how his migraine aura grew

There’s still much we don’t know about migraines and migraine auras. One hypothesis is that a sort of electrical wave sweeps across the visual cortex, causing hallucinations that spread across the corresponding parts of the visual field. In a loosely descriptive way, Airy’s time series drawings—showing an ever expanding shape—jibe with this too.

This detail from Joseph Babinksi’s 1890 drawing of his migraine aura shows a zigzag pattern not unlike the one Hubert Airy saw.

[dallomi]

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Preferred Contrast Settings for Reading With Scotoma: An Experience-Based Guide

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

Scotoma