Aura is the strangest part of migraine and the part patients describe most vividly. A shimmering arc at the edge of vision that grows over twenty minutes. A blind spot with a…
For roughly one in four migraine sufferers, an attack doesn't begin with pain. It begins with a warning — a shimmering zigzag creeping across your field of vision, a patch of numbness spreading up an arm, or a strange difficulty finding the right words. This is migraine aura, and for those who experience it, it…