Zig Zag aura.

[md5299]

I have suffered for years with mainly morning headache but about a year ago I started to get aura sometimes it wakes me, yesterday I had 3 episodes 2 in the night but they are not accompanied by headaches.My headaches have decreased since having these auras but I'm a bit concerned about the frequency of the auras, sometimes I don't get them for 10-14 days, they last between 20-40 mins.TY.

[malalatete]

I sometimes get aura without headache. When it firat

started happening (as migraine with aura had been my normal pattern) I was expecting the clout to the head any minute. These days I don't run for the sumatriptan immediately as it can be just the aura, which passes, leaving a slight feeling of disorientation a bit like the post-dromal phase, and sometimes a sense of weakness and fatigue, but that is that. Haven't had one for quite a while, indeed migraines with aura are rare for me these days too - whether that fact is connected I don't know.

[Nanfranz in reply to malalatete]

I had migraines without aura for many many years -- once or twice a month and lasting 2-3 days (but improving a little each day). Then about 20 years ago I stopped having any kind of headaches at all and it was wonderful. But a couple of years ago I started experiencing the ocular auras, occasionally with a mild headache (nothing like typical migraine severity) but mostly without headache. For a time I was having them daily, sometimes 2 or 3 times daily (each lasting only 20-40 minutes) Now I might go a whole week without one, but sometimes have one per day for several days in a row. In this same time period I have experienced frightening "brain episodes", which are difficult to describe (jumbled dream-like "memories" which don't seem like real memories) which are followed by a shot term memory loss, though it was not until recently that I have seen something of a pattern that to these events which makes me think the episodes are connected to migraine, even though I'm not having classic migraine symptoms, other than auras. The pattern is this: Daytime sleepiness hits for a few hours, then out of the blue comes a weird brain episode which lasts about half an hour. And then comes a mild headache with some stabbing behind one eye.

By the way, in the past two years I have had a brain MRI, a CTScan, and 1-hour EEG plus 48-hour EEG -- all showing nothing abnormal apart from small insignificant changes that come with age.

I apologize for so much detail but wanted to ask if any of the above is familiar to anyone in this group? I would be greatly relieved to hear that the scary brain episodes were migraine-related and not a sign that I'm losing my mind! I'm not asking for medical advice, of course, but simply interested in learning if my strange brain symptoms can be blamed on migraine.