eye pain with migraine.?

Question

Sometimes my eyes feel painful , tender . I suffer migraine but this happens even if I'm not having an attack. Does any one else suffer this.

Answer 1

You may have occular migraines, eyestrain, or just allergy eyes that are puffy and cranky. I'm a massage therapist and also get occular migraines, rarely, when very stressed. You can relieve either by gently placing your first three fingers softly across your eyelid, with fingertips pointing towards your nose. Then very gently rythmically tap each finger with the fingertips of your other hand. Move back and forth across fingers covering your eyelid for a few minutes. This jostles the muscles that run the eye, and helps them relax. It also helps to clear excess fluid swelling your eyelid, and it stimulates the nerves of the eyes and eye muscles--basically it sends a new message to the brain, and helps it notice and regulate the tension. Do this very gently until you get a feel for how much pressure is right.

Answer 2

I've had migraines for many years and rarely does it include eye pain. But if it's a migraine you would have at least some other symptom, like a headache, nausea, sensitivity to light/sound/smells, etc. From everything you've said I think it probably is the contacts, but if the pain doesn't go away soon with treatment and if you aren't wearing the contact, then you'll know that's not it. I wouldn't be surprised if it does turn out to be from the MS though, I know 3 different people with MS and each have almost entirely different symptoms, some of them being things the Dr.'s didn't initially attribute to MS. Good luck :)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I get this quite often and sometimes the eye can go bloodshot. Good idea to have blood pressure checked a few times and also try and work out if too much caffiene or dehydration is linked as with me.

Answer 5

Optitions sorted me out, I work in an office and feel the pain but its not so bad with glasses for a while.

Answer 6

First get eyes checked.
I'm having physio for the same thing, focusing on muscles in my neck. It's helping. Maybe you could try that.

Answer 7

I get the same thing and I have been wondering if on the days when my eyes get really sore if i have been rubbing them a lot without realising it and therefore kind of bruising them a bit.

Answer 8

pop along to your optitian and ask them to do a pressure check on your eye.

Answer 9

i get this too,it fells like someone is poking the eye out from the inside,when it happens i need darkness and silence to let it pass,my doctor gave me painkillers,but i want to know more too!

Answer 10

A migraine is much more than a bad headache. A migraine headache is a recurrent, throbbing headache usually felt on one side of the head. Migraines usually begin in early childhood, adolescence, or young adult life. Migraine pain can be excruciating, and may incapacitate you for hours or even days. Migraine headaches may be preceded by a warning sign. Warning signs may include: flashes of light, dizziness or numbness. The signs are often accompanied by severe nausea, vomitting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound.

What are some common symptoms?

Sparkling flashes of light, zigzag lines in your field of vision, weakness, numbness or tingling in your face, hand or leg, difficulty seeing or speaking.

Symptoms may last for 5 to 15 minutes or more. As the symptoms disappear, a throbbing headache begins on one side of the head. The severity of the headache increases. Once the headache becomes very painful, people often experience nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise.

I have migraines too and sometimes it makes the left side of my body numb and sometimes my vision is blurred in my left eye. And my eyes are often really sensitive to light and they can hurt a lot if a light is too bright and its in my face.