Medical Student Shows How People With Certain Medical Conditions See (19 Pics)

Yeah, starts as if you've looked into the sun, then mine begins to snake around similar to the picture, but mine has colour and flashes until it fills my entire field of vision. Theres some videos which are exactly what I experience. Google "scintillating scotoma"

I had migrene in work. So bad things did not exist (numbers, letters, computer mouse, things next to me). It was weird. I could not see something like it did not exist. Like you described! I had no clue this is migrene because I never had this kind of experience before! (Just with smell aura). I though I lost my mind!

My aura's can look like that, but I agree with your description none the less. It's clearly something in your mind. Like dyslexia. You can't just say, oh this is what it looks like because it's hard to translate to an image. It's a full on experience....

The second part of your comment is spot on description. Thank you for that. However, rather than looking at the sun, in my case, it really looks like analogue tv with no signal. The complete and dynamic gaussian noise.

For me it's only flashes or "rays" coming in from the left, together with some high pitched sounds

Mine are very different each and every time. Black blotches, faces split in two and in different locations, flashing rainbow zig-zags... they vary enormously.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I had powerful migraines my whole life but I don't think I had the aura. It's good to hear a description.

Mine manifests as what I can a small distortion or (Jaggy) which gets bigger to the point where if I hold my hand up it just doesn’t show in my field of vision. No aura really but an absence of image with jaggy edges. Luckily the first time it happened I was living with optometry students who told me that No I wasn’t going blind :)

I call that second part "tunneling". I hate when it happens because that means the next three days will be hell.

I get both of these with migraines! I know when I'm getting a migraine because I get a spot in the centre of my vision that isn't there, but it's not a black spot, just doesn't exist, like you said. I then get the colourful patchwork afterwards. Like a sparkly crescent that gradually gets bigger. Quite pretty really!

Everyone is different. The picture above is pretty exact to what I see.

Exactly that! Accurate description.

OMG that sounds awful 😨😨😨😨

My mother and sister suffer from this. I luckily don't. But their description matches yours.

You should be very gratefull that you do not experience the horible pain. It feels like the worst hangovers you have ever had, and you are partly hoping that you'll die from it just to get it overwith. The only thing you can do to relieve the pain, is lying completely still in a totally dark room as the slightest rise in your pulse from movement can be felt as a knocking in your head, and seeing light feels like staring into the sun. It quickly becomes boring like hell and have to be tolerated for hours, only interupted by throwing up, even after your stomic is totally empty. Do not recomend.

Ah. Because tikfuck, I see.

Me too. I have a friend who is legally blind (defined by being non-correctable). She sees better than I do without my glasses.

😢

Unfortunately, at a certain age, getting closer doesn't work either do to presbyopia.

No, it's pretty close to how I see without my glasses. My prescription is -10 diopters, a very rough estimation would be about 20/900.

True.

On the other hand, there's much to be said for correction. I remember being amazed when I got my first pair of glasses and realized that I could see individual leaves on the trees instead of a green blur.

Especially city lights at night

I have dyslexia, and the way I overcome it is by memorizing the letters in the word. I could read both of these fine.

I have Dyslexia myself. Not as bad as the first example though. The second one was literally painful to read. It kept spinning as I was reading it.

I had no problems with reading both. I always have to focus while reading so focusing a bit more is not difficult 🙃

I'm dyslexic and I can read it fine, it's only a bit harder than regular text.

Gives me a headache. Very difficult to read and couldn't read some.

perfectly , strangely

It depends on the person. Some can and some cannot. Normal text some people will see the letters shake or morph, others will form rivers or channels and loose focus. Most people who have Dyslexia have Irlen syndrome as well. I have colour tinted glasses in a brown that assist with removing any glare/brightness and to me settle down the words. There is a special font now for people with dyslexia and I love it. The kindle has it and it is the best thing every. As like most conditions like this or ADHD or Autism you slowly learn to adapt or mask to meet social norms.

It makes me feel like my eyes are crossing but i can pick out letters. I have a mild to moderate case. My mom noticed early and taught me many reading solutions very early. I can read well now. I struggle with typing and writing words even as a 40 year old.

How dare you say this tikfocker is wrong? They CLEARLY know what they are talking about! /s (god, how I hate this chinese surveillance platform crap)

My letters are dancing. And when I write I tend to start with 2nd or 3rd letter.

Me too. I could read both examples and neither applies to me

like most situations, this example is pretty extreme.

I think they look like cells or amoebas in the sun.

No. They are literally bits of debris floating in your eyeball. After they stay in one place long enough your brain will ignore them and you won't see them anymore. (Eye floaters are one of the many stupid things the body does that disprove intelligent design.)

Occasional floaters are always going to be in your life due to how the eye is made and the aging process. However, I have a "fixed clump" of floaters which is constantly present in my vision for over a year and not even in that condition is there (currently) anything to do about it. There has been some research into laser therapy but it is not worth the risk at this point.

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There is not. However this photo is very exaggerated. Most people's floaters only show occasionally. They're annoying, but harmless.

Yes, there is laser treatment to remove them in medium to severe cases (when vision is altered).

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Yes they can zap them with lasers.

Inset is full color, large pic is skewed. In the first pic, each "vane" of the umbrella is a different color: from the left it goes green, yellow, orange, red, pink. In the second, the flowers are pale pink.

I feel sad for people with color blindness. Do you feel sad about it, or cheated?

The inset is the full color