Migraine

is it possible for flourescent lights and a heavy bass drum beat to trigger a migraine ?

Absolutely! Fluorescent lights as a trigger have been discussed often here, as have sounds. I believe these discussions are archived.

By the way, welcome "home"!

Rebecca, "The Island Mama"

Here's an article addressing fluorescent lights as triggers:

Migraines at Work? Check the Lighting

And many people are definitely triggered by loud noise.

I get migraines from flourescent lights & also increases paresthesias & tinnitus in me for the past year & half.

Heavy drum beats (that is, synthesised or from a drum set), and miked violins/fiddles... I can be at a concert, performance or venue & start to feel nauseated, then I get paresthesias, then my right foot/leg spasms and worser ones make me feel confused & I fall asleep (briefly). Then I do get a headache, but the pain is unilateral, but midhead, like on top of my cranium, around the middle where my ear is. I have extreme pain & nausea, but it goes away after a couple hours unless it morphs into a migraine. My migraine specialist says this is NOT a migraine, but they have yet to figure out what it is.

Heavy vibrations make me feel ill too.

I steer clear of clubs, still attempt to go to concerts despite normally getting sick & I have been listening less to certain types of music like Bjork & Faithless... :-(

Unfortunately, this includes certain experimental films make me ill too- Brothers Quay's latest film shorts & the film Sunshine made me feel very ill.

ANYTHING can be a migraine trigger. It just depends on the person and what triggers them.

alexandre " Morpheus "...i'm glad i'm not the only one...i've been told it's impossible, but obviously they didn't know what they were talking about...i can't even handle being in a big crowd...it makes me ill...riding in a car makes me worse...even if i feel ok before if get in...i hate riding in my boyrfriend's manual when i'm in the middle of a migraine....none of you happen to hallucinate things do you ? i hear things all the time....i see things too... the counselor i saw when i was 16/17 threatened to put me on medication for it...but after a couple of years i realized it only happened around my migraines...

Before I started my new preventives, I used to hear things, especially at night. It sounded like people were talking or a radio or televison were left on. I still smell burnt toast right before a bad migraine is about to hit. I don't see things though, I don't normally have any visual auras.

My triggers are lack of sleep, not eating, barometric changes and strong smells. Here's some articles on triggers you can take a look at:

Common Migraine Triggers

Stackable Triggers

When I was 10, 11 years old, I was very interested in the history of mental health, etc. (There's a new out call Sad, Bad, Mad about this). I was well aware of to NOT talk about my hallucinations, because I knew I would be misunderstood. I never mentioned it to a doctor until last year... which got me sent to a "HMO psychiatrist" who subsiquently wanted to put me on antipsychotics after one 30 minute session. I talked to my GP & he agreed this would be a bad idea considering my situation & helped me get referrals to get evaluated. A year & half later, I'm still going through evals.

Saying that, there are many reasons why someone could have hallucinations... could be migraines or it could be something else going on.

I've had weird smells/tastes (metallic or earthy or burnt), which preceed my migraines & go along with my migraine symptoms, so they are auras.

I also see (like video stills, creatures & unusual objects in room) & hear things (like snippets of conversation, banging or loud ringing, or as if someone is talking to me) but this is when I am sleepy, fall asleep, wake up,read books or doing a sedate activity. For me, this doesn't seem to have any correlation to my migraines, but rather my sleep problems. So far, I tested negative on the MSLT for Narcolepsy & no seizures have yet been caught, so it's unclear what exactly is causing them (so far, I just have Sleep Apnea). I'm still not entirely convinced they aren't related to Narcolepsy or Epilepsy, no matter what the doctors say. I don't seem to fallow a pattern of a migraine when these occur & I have an altered state of consciousness (not alert)... my migraine specialist says these things & nocturnal behaviors are not migraine related.

When I have bad migraine or paresthesias & tinnitus, I do have "psychodelic hallucinations" which are vivid, bright electric colors, of highly stylised faces or creatures or kailidescopes.

I hope that helps.

I've had a few instances of auditory hallucination that were actually a part of auditory migraine aura. Usually, it's background radio or TV noise when none is one. A couple of times, though, it's been a short, spoken phrase or conversation snippet I "hear". It is possible. I know Melanie, our on hiatus host, used to talk of having auditory auras and auditory glitches like this during migraines quite a bit. It can happen.

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Originally posted by PerpetualPessemist:
alexandre " Morpheus "...i'm glad i'm not the only one...i've been told it's impossible, but obviously they didn't know what they were talking about...i can't even handle being in a big crowd...it makes me ill...riding in a car makes me worse...even if i feel ok before if get in...i hate riding in my boyrfriend's manual when i'm in the middle of a migraine....none of you happen to hallucinate things do you ? i hear things all the time....i see things too... the counselor i saw when i was 16/17 threatened to put me on medication for it...but after a couple of years i realized it only happened around my migraines...

Count me in too! I always think I'm hearing music, wrong words, or noises that are not there.

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Originally posted by dragondroolHOST:
I've had a few instances of auditory hallucination that were actually a part of auditory migraine aura. Usually, it's background radio or TV noise when none is one. A couple of times, though, it's been a short, spoken phrase or conversation snippet I "hear". It is possible. I know Melanie, our on hiatus host, used to talk of having auditory auras and auditory glitches like this during migraines quite a bit. It can happen.

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Originally posted by PerpetualPessemist:
alexandre " Morpheus "...i'm glad i'm not the only one...i've been told it's impossible, but obviously they didn't know what they were talking about...i can't even handle being in a big crowd...it makes me ill...riding in a car makes me worse...even if i feel ok before if get in...i hate riding in my boyrfriend's manual when i'm in the middle of a migraine....none of you happen to hallucinate things do you ? i hear things all the time....i see things too... the counselor i saw when i was 16/17 threatened to put me on medication for it...but after a couple of years i realized it only happened around my migraines...