Migraine Headache
Aura Migraines
Aura refers to an array of psychologic or neurologic
disturbances that occur shortly before migraine onset. As compared to
migraine without aura, migraine with aura is the less common type, but
it is perhaps more medically intriguing, and for patients who get them,
more unsettling.
To know more about Aura
Migraines, read Types
Of Migraines: Migraine With Aura And Without Aura. Migraine with
aura is also known as Classical Migraine (aura migraines) and migraine
without aura is also known as Common Migraine.
Classic
migraines- a type of migraine that involves the appearance of
neurological symptoms, causes an aura 10 to 30 minutes before an attack.
Other classic migraine symptoms are:
* Difficulty with speech
*
Weakness of an arm or leg
* Tingling of the face or hands
*
Confusion
Common migraine- a type of migraine that is generally
not preceded by an aura, although there may be a variety of symptoms
prior to its onset. These may include the following:
* Mental
"fuzziness"
* Mood changes
* Fatigue
* Unusual
retention of fluids
* Nausea and vomiting
Most auras consist
of visual disturbances such as partial vision loss, the appearance of
special effects and distortion of objects. Sometimes, the visual effects
can be dramatic, complex color patterns and shapes (e.g., triangles and
dots), and floaters (the perception that some tiny foreign object is
floating across the eye).
An individual might also see shimmering
or zigzag lines in the peripheral vision and blurriness in central
vision. Children who develop auras prior to migraines may experience
visual distortions.
For migraine headache relief, the patient
needs to see the headache specialist to understand the real cause which
can be done by maintaining a headache diary and recognizing personal
migraine triggers and taking migraine medications accordingly. The
headache medicine should be taken when natural headache relief methods
fail and headache rack becomes unbearable.