Podcast 237: Lecture

Today I'm going to take a question on ocular migraines which can affect our eyesight and vision. I will talk about what scientists believe causes this and what you can do to help alleviate your symptoms. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS migraines, eyes, circulation, magnesium, vision, call, nutrients, visual, stress, co q, trigger, reduce, peripheral vision, pain, cranial sacral therapy, complementary treatments, lavender, milligrams, work, field Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I'm going to take a question on ocular migraines. This is a related group of conditions. Many of these can affect our eyesight and vision. Sometimes we have pain that turns into migraines. And the jury is still out on what are the causes of migraines. There's certainly a lot of discussion. But I want to go into briefly two types of migraines one is called an ophthalmic or visual migraine. And some scientists think that there's an abnormal electrical activity that slowly spreads across certain regions of the visual cortex of our brain. They affect our eyes. And they usually start slowly. And they begin to create visual changes. And it takes about an hour or so one of the descriptions that sometimes is used is called scintillating scotomas, which means there may be some blind spots or vision goes in and out in terms of our ability to see things get blurry. Then they're what we call retinal migraines. And these are visual symptoms that take place, obviously, on the back part of the eye, the retina. And this usually occurs only in one eye. And so it's not affecting both eyes. Sometimes this can be related to a change in our blood flow. Now, if we look at migraines, sometimes they cause what we call Aras. They can really create some debilitating, debilitating type of pain in the head. This idea of skill, scintillating scotomas means that we can either lose part of our vision, there's a blind spot, sometimes our peripheral vision will start to tunnel. I see this sometimes in kids, especially if there's a lot of stress in school, they'll come for their eye exam. And there's no real eye prescription that I find that I measure. But their visual fields, their peripheral vision is really really tunneled. And sometimes this will be accompanied with migraines, sometimes not. So the idea with migraines, at least from a conventional standpoint, is that if one can imprese increase the circulation, this can sometimes reduce the, the pain and inflammation. And so we look at conditions like hypertension, sinus issues, hormonal issues, sometimes foods can trigger migraines. This can also affect us based on sinuses. Of course, there's certain drugs that can trigger migraines such as drugs that treat epilepsy, and certain antidepressants, blood pressure medications. So all of these things are factors that potentially trigger migraines. You know, when I evaluate patients, one of the things I'm really looking at is the chronic stress and anxiety levels. Are they smokers? Are they dehydrated? What's their blood sugar levels like? I've seen patients that migraines are triggered based on them coming to a higher altitude. And then finally, these are certain foods that can trigger migraines, chocolate, alcohol, caffeine, MSG, sugar, 04:49