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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 Sarah524 on Mon, 2010-08-23 - 19:29
I have migraine with aura.  My aura for the migraine is a colorful, flashing light that lasts for 1-2 minutes.  Therefore, not all auras for migraines are black and white.

Re: Seeing flashing lights in my vision

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Thu, 2010-12-02 - 18:25
Hi Saharah524, My doctors often can't tell the difference between my epileptic seizures and my migraines, while I can tell the difference to know, what ever the phenomena may be classified as, whether or not the phenomena will "spread" or "precipitate" into other phenomena that more easily, and distinctly, can be identified as a seizure of epilepsy. Here, as a technical basis, I greatly rely on the nomenclature used by C. P. Panayiotopoulos in his book "The epilepsies: seizures, syndromes and management : based on the ILAE classifications and practice parameter guidelines", (2005). With the differeniation between possible "migraine" and possible "occipital epilepsy" with the visual phenomena including achromatic versus that of "chromatic" aura, I try to use the "weight" also of Table 12.3, page 427, for the use of "Visual hallucinations" of "Mainly coloured circular patterns" as "As a rule" clue to weight suspect to "Occipital epilepsy", while "Rare" with "Migraine with aura"; and for "Mainly achromatic or black and white linear patterns" as "Exceptional" for "Occipital epilepsy", and "As a rule" for "Migraine with aura". Snippets of the Table are at: (the last column is for "Basilar migraine"): http://books.google.com/books?ei=MyD4TPGrMYu0sAOA_oSmAg&ct=result&id=aaVrAAAAMAAJ&dq=Panayiotopoulos&q=%22Daily+in+frequency%22#search_anchor http://books.google.com/books?ei=MyD4TPGrMYu0sAOA_oSmAg&ct=result&id=aaVrAAAAMAAJ&dq=Panayiotopoulos&q=%22Mainly+coloured+circular+patterns%22#search_anchor Tadzio

Re: Seeing flashing lights in my vision

Submitted by cmeisser on Thu, 2010-12-02 - 14:10

 

 

Hello,

My son has Epelipsy. He was diagnosed at the age of 4yrs. He is experiencing flashing lights. As he weined off of Keppra to Depakote he was seeing only white flashes. Now that he is on Depakote only, he is now experiencing colored flashing lights. He is on his 4th medication trial. Anybody experiencing this?

 

 

Hello,

My son has Epelipsy. He was diagnosed at the age of 4yrs. He is experiencing flashing lights. As he weined off of Keppra to Depakote he was seeing only white flashes. Now that he is on Depakote only, he is now experiencing colored flashing lights. He is on his 4th medication trial. Anybody experiencing this?

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