ngl, when i saw the shimmering starting at the edge of my vision, then the scotomas creeping in - that dark wave spreading across my sight - i thought i was having a stroke. i’m a lab tech. i know what neurological emergencies look like, or at least i think i do. vision loss happening in real-time, something spreading across my sight, and i’m absolutely convinced this is it. by the time the shimmer faded and my vision came back, i’d already been googling TIA symptoms and working myself into a proper panic. called my neurologist, felt completely stupid explaining it.
“sounds like migraine aura,” she said, very matter-of-fact. sounds like? i’d read about aura before, but experiencing it is completely different. the fear doesn’t just vanish when your vision clears. that was three weeks ago. fwiw i’m still jumpy whenever i notice anything odd w/ my sight. does anyone else get that post-aura anxiety? like, how do you actually trust that it’s migraine and not something worse?