Visual Migrain

I have been experiencing visual migrain 24/7 since receiving my pacemaker. I experience dark and light flashing , usually completely surrounding my vision. After 5 months, I have largely learned to ignore it, but it is still there. Research on the net suggests this is not an uncommon response to heart fibrillation, and we all know how the pacer is tested during implantation. I've come up with several potential drugs for treatment, but they are all so nasty so far I've just been living with it. My doc thinks it just might go away, sometime. Anyone else have this problem?
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by marley - 2010-09-08 01:09:26

it makes me glad to hear that others have these problems because when i mentioned these weird kaliedoscope style lights to my gp he said i had depression and with that your body can invent pains and other ailments so i just took it i was mental
thanks for realising my sanity

My Experience

by biker72 - 2010-09-08 04:09:16

I've been totally dependent on thyroid medication since 1986.(Thyroid cancer) I've been on the same dosage since 1986.

After the PM implant, I start getting light flashes in the corners of both eyes. My internist tells me I'm hyperthyroid and reduces the medication by 25%. No more flashes.

Visual Migraine

by JAE3 - 2010-09-08 10:09:32

Good Morning, I haven't had a migraine in years and yes, about 9 weeks after my PM implant I have started to get the migraine visual disturbance. Proabably once or twice a week, no headache with it, just the visual part. I don't know that it is because of A-fib, I've had that for the last 10 years and up till a few weeks ago as I said no migraine. It only last for about 10-15 minutes.

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