About 20% of people with migraines experience a visual aura, or temporary changes in vision. These can show up as shimmering ...

Doctors previously used the term “ocular migraine” to refer to any migraine episode with visual symptoms. Now they favor more specific terms such as retinal migraine, which features symptoms in one ...

Stabbing pain behind your eyes? Learn why migraine eye pain happens, how it differs from other headaches, and what really helps relieve it.

Migraines are truly a beast of their own. They’re unpredictable, extremely incapacitating, painfully agonizing, and are accompanied by a host of crummy symptoms like light and noise sensitivity, ...

When it comes to migraines, not all headaches are created the same. According to Joey Gee, D.O., neurologist with Providence Mission Hospital, approximately 15 to 25% of migraine sufferers will ...

“If you get ocular migraines, avoid contraception containing estrogen,” she cautions. Indeed, a study in Reviews in Obstetrics & Gynecology showed that women on oral contraceptives who experience ...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. When you think of a migraine, what are the ...

There are very few published reports on the clinical features of the headache phase of migraine with aura. The IHS diagnostic criteria for migraine with aura do not mention any headache features.

If you’ve ever seen shimmery spots or flashing lights, or worse, experienced blind spots, you know that random visual disturbances can be mega creepy as far as health symptoms go. When spotty vision ...

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; CA, USA) have used a non-invasive imaging technique to visualize blood flow changes in the retina during migraines, revealing a ...