I have been having this problem since I was 7 years old, I am now 34. I have had at least 30 of these headaches if not more. When I was a kid they would give me vicodin. It NEVER helped. Last year I had an increase in these headaches and missed a lot of work because of them. I went to a neurologist who prescribed every medication in the migraine world to no avail. Finally she said she gives up on conventional medicine and told me to take a vitamin B complex daily. It worked. The funny lights in your eyes are called an aura. Sometimes I will get an aura, but I will try to ignore it. It will go away now. Someone told me vitamin B helps with stress. I never knew I was stressed, guess I was, cause now I'm ok. I encourage anyone with these symptoms to go to a doctor right away. My symptoms have gotten worse over the years. Most recently I was getting an aura, losing depth perception, vomiting violently, had numbness in my extremities, loss of comprehension, loss of ability to speak. Bad stuff, but also common symptoms of stroke. So take this very seriously. It is better to be cautious and seek help than to try to fix it yourself and have it be something more serious than a headache. My grandmother also get these, and she has been hospitalized twice in the last 5 months because they thought she was having a stroke. Hope this helps.  

I have a question as well...I also, have very severe migraines.  I also suffer from fibro myalgia.   Many times a month I can become incapciated from a migraine.   I am on seizure medication, and a grocery list of other medications to try to help control them, even though it doesn't seem to help sometimes.  However, I will have some that I can function with.  It is those that I have a question about. 

Many times, it seems as though, this may sound odd, my vision jumps.  As though my eyes are jerking around.  I usually have to stop what I am doing and move slower because I lose my bearing very easily.  My neurologist simply attributes it to the swelling in my head from the migraine.  It really makes me wonder.  This has become progressively worse over the past year and I really don't know what I should do.

Does anyone else out there experience anything like this?  Or have you heard of something similar to this?  Help!  I need some advice!  A friend told me she heard something called eye seizures, I googled it, and it brought me to this website, I hope I can get some answers.

Over the past 15 years, I have had 3 similiar episodes as follows:

• I get a flashing light way over to the side of my left eye.  It is accomanied by a terrible, not-right feeling.  It is the worst feeling I've ever experienced.  It continues, starting with slow flashes turning to ever-quicker flashes until all I can see everywhere are flashing stars of light (this can be 20 - 30ish minutes??).  Pure extended torment.  My eyelids start twitching in time with the flashes.  When the flashing stars overtake my entire vision, I pass out and have a "grand mal" or secondary generalized seizure.  All three instances occurred after physical trauma (roller coaster, car accident, then car accident & broken arm).  A fourth time I had the flashing lights for at least 30 if not 40 minutes without a seizure.  In this case, my sister took me to an emergency care clinic at my insistance & they injected me with a sedative.  I then slept the remainder of the day.  When I was around 10 or 12 (can't remember exactly), I started having the flashing lights, but usually only for a few minutes (2 - 10 maybe?), then would have tunnel vision for a couple of hours.  This happened a few times a year, but never with an ensuing seizure.  Sometimes my head hurt, sometimes not.
• I now take Effezor for anxiety & started taking Lamictal two years ago.  Since beginning Lamictal, I have frequent "auras" or maybe simple-partial seizures???  This never happened before.  I do not see flashing lights (thank God), but when they occur, they last a few seconds to a couple of minutes & result in me having to curl up.  They will continue over and over again that day until I finally take a nap or go to sleep.  Often times they come on when I'm eating or drinking something.  It's awful.  I get this feeling like I'm outside my reality looking in on "normal" reality which looks quite unfamiliar to me.  I usually only see singular objects from my "normal" reality & when I try to focus these objects, I get a nagging, fuzzy feeling that I've just been somewhere, just had a substantial experience that I can't quite put my finger on.  At that point (of trying hard to remember or pinpoint this feeling), my blood "runs cold", I get nauseous & a really horrible "icky" feeling  in my stomach (but not physical).  It makes my skin crawl & I feel very frightened and overwhelmed & have to curl up and ovoid stimulation, less it occur again immediately.  I wonder if I'm remembering a dream or an experience from childhood, or from a time when hospitalized & sedated...It's so sublime.  I hate it.  Again, I never had these experiences before taking Lamictal.  It's so strange.
• I have yet to come upon anyone else with such extended auras or simple or complex partial seizures such as the ones before my generalized seizures...

Hello,

I suffer from a migraine daily, and 40% of the time a migraine is followed by a seizure. My whole life has been comsumed by seizures lately, and I think it's because I am in school. I am getting my Associates, and if school is the cause of my increased seizures, I doubt I will make it to my planned goal. However, let me share my symptoms with you, because not only am I still confused, but so is my Dr, and everyone around me. I will wake up in the morning numb. My brain is literally numb. Within an hour my head will start to burn either on the right side or in the back part. Through the day the burning will migrate, after the burning progresses to a point, the migraine will start. This intense pressure will start at the back of my skull. Then by night time I will be having a seizure if not 2 or 3. Once I have the seizure the pressure and the burning is gone for a while. It's like the seizure gets rid of the burning and the pressure. It's odd. Now, I am experiencing blackouts while walking in the store, I am falling all over the place, my vision goes in and out, I have facial tics that weren't always there, my right eye feels like it's going to twitch out of its socket some times. And I get so stupid at times people look at me like I am on drugs. I lose days at a time on my memory because of all of this. My school isn't effected YET thank goodness. I am in search of a new Neuro. Funny thing is, there are none in my area! If anyone  has symptoms even remotely close to these it would be good to know that I am not alone or going crazy.