I'm not sure what else to call it ..it just went away, but while eating my right eye seemed to suddenly have this half circle obstructionwith floating colors in it. it started mild and progressed till I got up and went to lay down and I covered my eye. It eventually went away. My husband kept asking "are you alright " I'm trying to be brave when really I'm scared. He is such a trooper so caring and supportive, but I have to think what I must sound like and wonder what he really thinks.

I sit here while everyone is outside now doing yard work feeling hopeless and in tears. I am so tired ...this stage of my life just seems to be sucking the life out of me. I look at myself and think "man you sure complain alot", but I'm exhausted, confused and becoming so frustrated. I have always been a health concsious person ..how can so much be going wrong with me at one time. I wonder now if this new symptom is going to be added to the many already in place. To tell you the truth it may not even be a symptom of peri, the first thing I though is maybe I'm going blind or brain tumor. It would seem every system of my body has been effected by this peri thing I guess I'm not suprised anymore. I do have a bit of a headache now very mild, but didn't have it beforethe eye thing. Anyway anyone else get this would love to hear fron you.....mikki

sunflower,...yeah hun, I get those and floaters too..before a migrane sets in full force, normally. You stated that you have a mild headache too..? Then dont be alarmed it you end up with one...migrane...

HI SFK
That is called an Ocular Migraine..you can get it with a migraine or without one. I have had them about 4-5 times since my 30's. They are scary but they will not harm you.Sometimes they will go away in 15 min..sometimes they will hang around for an hour or more. I find its best to go in a dark room and lay down til it passes. If it makes you feel better call your eye doc and describe it to him and let him reassure you. But what your describing is exactly what I get.

Peace
AA

PS As a matter a fact there is a thread on the boards about it.

Asymptomatic migraines. My eye(s) would begin with a "party" consisting of strobe lighting. Lasted perhaps 15 minutes, than a slight stabbing pain over the brow and everything cleared up. That was it. Got that in my 40's for almost a couple of months, with no warning. I used to say - My eyes were having a party and I wasn't invited. It is disconcerting but "normal" given our stage in life.

Try not to fret; it just will compound all the other symptoms that MAY rear their "ugly heads." Your body is trying to hang on tenaciously to the estrogen just as strongly as the estrogen is bidding us farewell. Thanks ovaries for all the hard work, but couldn't you just "wean us off estrogen"? Someone had said that taking hormones of any kind just stalls the weaning process and once those hormones are not taken, than we have to face the "withdrawal symptoms" like a person not taking hormones. While young, I think I will face the withdrawals so I don't have to cope when I am older and have other bona-fide health issues. To me, that makes perfect sense.