Hey, welcome to our group!  We're here to discuss the topic of scintillating scotoma, aka migraine auras.  My name's Edith Frost and this is a continuation of a discussion that started on my personal/music website... traffic got pretty heavy from all the migraineurs, so I decided to move the action over here.  But you can read a plaintext version of those fifteen bazillion messages right here in our files section... http://scintillating-scotoma.googlegroups.com/web/ss_archive.txt

Anyway... if you're new here, and especially if you think you're having your first migraine aura right now, just relax... you are probably not dying at the moment!  ;-)  Just wait about 20 minutes until the sparkly stuff goes away, then read the archived messages and be reassured that you're not alone, that what you're experiencing is probably this fairly benign thing related to migraines.  Do see your doctor if you're still concerned... but let's all knock on wood that we're only getting the auras and not the headaches.

Please feel free to post your own story when you're done reading.  ANYONE can post, you don't have to be a "member", though you certainly can join if you want to!

The only rule I have so far is this: NO POSTING LINKS TO PHARMACEUTICAL WEBSITES.  That's to prevent spam.  If there's a product you want to recommend, feel free to name the product/drug but please don't post a link or even give a name of where you bought it.  If someone can't seem to find what you're referring to, they can always ask me to get them in touch with you to send a link *privately*.  Sorry for being such a hardass about it, but I don't want to have to wonder whether someone's a spammer or not.