Hmmmm. I've never made the connection before.
When I was 18, I became severely photophobic. Walking from the library to the caf at school, or going from interior to exterior light would cause blinding pain to lance through my eye. My parents assumed it was because I had photogrey lenses on my glasses, that would darken in the sunlight and they'd made my eye sensitive to light. Of course, in retrospect, I suspect it may have been a very early and undiagnosed case of iritis. It went on for months (most of my grade 13 year) before it eased.
That same year, I experienced my first optical (or atypical) migraine. No pain, but the vision obscured by whirling prisms that started in the centre of my vision and expanded until they left my field of vision altogether. I've been experiencing these periodically ever since. Often months or sometimes years apart, always in a cluster of events (several over a period of weeks). They always leave me feeling somewhat disoriented and weak.
Your question now has me wondering if there might be a connection. My left eye has always been the most impacted by iritis and also by my optical migraines. Must remember to ask my opthie this.
Thanks!
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