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Seeing flashing lights in my vision

Fri, 06/04/2010 - 13:17

Hi,

I was diagnosed in March with E. I am wondering if this has anything to do with E or if it's my eyes.

when I sit on my patio at night I will see a FLASH of light and it's not lightening. The other night the whole sky was vibrating when I looked at it.

 

Anyone with experience similar?

Comments

Re: Seeing flashing lights in my vision

Submitted by werle68 on Sat, 2012-08-18 - 17:54
That is true. I was abruptly awoken out of my sleep seeing circular colors with a sucking like action of my tounge with a rythmic tremor like action of my arm. It lasted a few seconds then I fell immediately back to sleep. 

Re: Seeing flashing lights in my vision

Submitted by preachergirl on Sat, 2010-06-05 - 16:10

Hi  Sammis,

I've had some of the same things happen to me.  Within the past two months I have had two seizures after reading you message I realized that I experienced the same thing before each seizure buth the seizures occurred while I was asleep.

Hi  Sammis,

I've had some of the same things happen to me.  Within the past two months I have had two seizures after reading you message I realized that I experienced the same thing before each seizure buth the seizures occurred while I was asleep.

Re: Seeing flashing lights in my vision

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Sun, 2010-06-06 - 06:33
Hi Sammishakes, Occipital seizures, or when seizure activity crosses into the occipital area, often gives "visual seizures." These visual seizures are often confounded with migraine with aura, acephalgic or basilar migraine. Sometimes the confusion between the seizures and migraines is just called "migralepsy." Dr. Panayiotopoulos, in his book "The Epilepsies" (2005), page 427, uses duration of seconds to a minute as exclusive for Occipital epilepsy, the duration for 1-3 minutes as frequent for Occipital epilepsy, but the duration of 4-30 minutes rare for Occipital epilepsy and the duration of 4-30 minutes "As a rule" for Migraine with aura and Basilar Migraine. As a rule, Occipital epilepsy has many coloured circular patterns, exclusively moving to the opposite side of the visual field. The Migraine with aura is mainly achromatic or black and white linear patterns as a rule, and expanding from the centre to the periphery of a visual hemifield. I often have both painless and painful migraines, both with and without partial seizures with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, and Keppra controlled secondary Tonic-Clonics. Once I had a long very painful migraine longer than 30 days that turned out to be a subdural hematoma, but the visual effects with that were periods of total "white-out" of vision in one eye, and later "crossed-eyes," and flashing lights with any movement of my head. Tadzio

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