Talk:Aura (symptom)

message: For me, this takes the form of moving patches of blind spots in my vision.  They have a sort of silver shine to them.  The blind spots make it difficult to read (or to look at things directly), but depending on where the spot is, I can look at things using peripheral vision.  They started when I was in 7th grade, and I was told they were optical migraines.  They last about 30-60 minutes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20:17, 25 September 2005‎ (talk) 4.240.69.192
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For me the aura is preceded by a barely noticeable loss of some portions of my vision. Example if I look at someone’s face it seems like they’re missing an eye or some other part of the face, but you can’t really tell what is happening because when you center your vision on that area that is missing everything is normal there. This is somewhat similar to the blind spot in your peripheral vision. 
The actual aura will usually come in the last 15 minutes before the headache. This starts to appear right across the center of my vision. The closest I can describe its pulsating appearance is by wetting a cloth and wiping a half-moon shape across a television screen. Then move your head slowly back and forth… I wouldn’t’ recommend  doing that you might get shocked though
--Trode 21:27, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal observations

message: Sometimes, although not exclusive to the onset of a migraine, I have a strange set of symptoms. Typicaly, I find it occurrs immediatly after standing up after sitting for a significant amount of time, I begin to 'hear' a soft heartbeat in my ears, should I remain standing the progresses in 15-30 seconds to a louder pulsation and a pressurized feeling in my head. Should I continue to stand/walk this peaks with the appearance of a tiny black flickering spot in my right visual field (not exclusive to an eye independently, but from both in the same area). This spot grows slowly as the pressure and pulsations subside. The spot becomes more of a blob and I can only describe it as having a grey and translucent shimmering/flickering quality, like 'TV snow' on a channel you dont get. This is temporary but is completely visually obstructive throughout the duration. The 'blob' slowly creeps out of sight, near the end of the visual disturbance I become (very mildly) receptivly aphasic to words in print...I can clearly identify the letters, but am unable to assemble the word, however familiar. At times a migraine follows within 10-20 minutes however, for the first 3 years it was NOT directly related to migraine/headache pain and is not now consistanly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.126.143.127 (talk) 00:33, 1 June 2007
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When I have an aura, I first start to get a weird feeling in my stomach then the feeling in my stomach starts to shake for about 15-30seconds then it's over. I have these auras every single day and can also have them without getting an epileptic attack after it. If i was to count I probably have auras about 25 times a day. I started having epilepsy at the age of eight and had brain surgery when I was seventeen. After my brain surgery I had about two or three seizures but gradually went away. I still remain to have auras. So I'm still on medication. It's very disturbing! I know that in Jesus name God is going to heal me from this!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Akuabawaah87 (talk • contribs) 03:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  i think its an aura 

message: Been wondered what I was having for ages!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SGGH (talk • contribs) 17:52, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  AHA! This is what it is 

message: I have epilepsy and my auras preceding a seizure can last for over 4 hours including twitches, blind spots, being light headed, feeling lost and also hallucinations. I just wanted to verify that auras can last for over an hour. 115.69.5.59 (talk) 03:15, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auras 

message: Thanks to whoever posted that picture.  It is almost exactly what I see, except my zig-zag lines are more horizontal and in the upper left.  I just got back from the emergency room trying with much difficulty to explain what happened.  I thought I might have been having a stroke.  Tomorrow, I will take a copy of this picture to my doctor and show him.  This has happened to me approximately once a year for approximately 20 years and lasts for about 60 minutes each time.  I do not get headaches or seizures with it.  I do not know what sets it off.
Clangin (talk) 19:03, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The aura picture 

message: Is it appropriate to indicate in this article that the plural of aura can be auras or aurae?
r3 00:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plural?

message: Mentioned in the first para of the article. Gil_mo (talk) 12:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What is Samer?

message: The link to the You Tube video is dead.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.124.75.215 (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead link

message: I just cleaned up the "Other Sensations" section and merged a few duplicate/related/similar items. I hope no one objects? It was becoming a bit of a laundry list and the ad-hoc style made it quite obvious it was the work of many authors. Hopefully it's readable enough now so that people won't just half read it and dump duplicates in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.9.176.129 (talk) 22:19, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaned up "Other Sensations" section 

message: This article tends to treat migraine and epileptic auras as though they are the same event with different sequel.  Epilepsy and migraine may share some pathophysiologic mechanisms and clinical manifestations but are distinct. This problem is inevitable when two similar "things" are combined in one article. In the "examples" section, how does one distinguish symptoms of a migraine aura from a seizure aura? (Zigzag lines are common in migraine aura but very rare in epileptic aura partly because occipital epilepsy is uncommon.)Epileptic auras are themselves partial seizures. They may spread into a clinical seizure. But persons with epilepsy may experience auras without a clinical seizure occurring. A split epileptic aura article might also cover epileptic prodrome.Auras should be split to aura (migraine) and aura (epilepsy) to prevent confusion and misinformation. — Box73 (talk) 04:57, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur - please split the treatment of migraine auras from epileptic auras.  The article is presently rather more confusing than helpful.  yoyo (talk) 14:37, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split epilepsy and migraine auras 

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