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Post  Sara79 Thu 18 Nov 2010, 12:03 pm

Hello all-

I'm not sure if this was part of my predome/active migraine or a side effect of the cafergot, but I kept having visual hallucinations with my episode yesterday. I kept seeing 'someone' moving in my peripheral vision. I do typically get aura, as a halo around people and lights, but I've never had visual hallucinations prior to yesterday.

Does anyone else get these, and if so, is it just your migraine pattern or do you think its a side effect of a migraine med?
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Post  milo Thu 18 Nov 2010, 12:15 pm

There are others on this forum that gets hallucinations, but I'll let them speak to that if they wish.

I do not get any side effects from my cafergot, and I use this most frequently as it is my "go-to" medication when I have a migraine.
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Post  Sara79 Thu 18 Nov 2010, 12:19 pm

Thank you...I just know its easier and quicker to ask you all rather than call my neuro, and anytime I mention side effects they want to pull the med, even if I can handle the side effect if it makes the pain go away.

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Post  milo Thu 18 Nov 2010, 1:58 pm

From what I understand, quite a few people get this type of thing as part of their episode.

Must be a scary thing to encounter.
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Post  Sara79 Thu 18 Nov 2010, 3:57 pm

Since I knew some had visual hallucinations, it didn't scare me too much, but since I'd never had them before and it kept seeming like I was seeing someone out of the corner of my eye. It really threw me off driving home from work, but after I figured out what was going on, I stopped getting startled.

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Post  Paradox Thu 18 Nov 2010, 8:47 pm

I get auras and whereas I don't often get visual hallucinations often I have had them. It's a little freaky at first because you keep turning your head expecting someone to be there.

I've also had them (only when I was pregnant) where my visual perception was way off. I was trying to type and I'd pull out the paper and nothing would be there. Again and again. I could not get the typewriter to line up correctly with paper. I was typing 10" to the right. I literally thought I was going nuts.
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Post  Topix Fri 19 Nov 2010, 9:15 am

I regularly use cafergo, but I don't get visual side-effects.
Maybe it's part of the migraine symptoms themselves in your case.
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Post  VickiG Wed 23 Mar 2011, 11:44 pm

Cafergot is the same chemical used by the girls in the Salem witch trials to believe that they were flying and doing all these other things. It's called ergotism and the chemical was often used in the Caribbean to induce hallucinations, so that may very well have an effect on what is happening to you.

But let me offer you an important piece of advice. Cafergot can seriously affect the heart. In fact, it killed my grandfather. It also caused my grandmother to have to have her heart valve replaced. And my mom had to stop taking cafergot because it was hardening her heart valves. So if you are on cafergot, PLEASE be sure to have echocardiograms done regularly! This also applies to DHE, as it is a related medicine and does the same thing. My mom had been on that too, but she had to quit it when her valves were hardening.

So please be careful when using these drugs. They were a miracle for my grandparents and gave them a decent standard of living, but they also cost them their lives.
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Post  Cluelesskitty Thu 24 Mar 2011, 1:12 am

Wow, ergotamine is that strong, I had no idea.
I knew it had serious side effects bad not that bad.

Thanks for sharing that with us, Vicky, and sorry about your grandparents.

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Post  lentils Sun 27 Mar 2011, 3:10 pm

I take cafergot occasionally and although I have never had visual hallucinations, I have definitely felt "high" and I do wonder if it is because of the LSD similarities. The last time I took it I was watching the movie "The Unforgiven". I kept remarking to my husband that it was the best movie ever made, and I kept noticing a lot of symbolism which I hadn't noticed on previous viewings.
We were in a hotel room in Reno with a mirrored closet door and I preferred to watch the movie through the mirror because I was fascinated with the way the left and right were reversed in the mirror. My husband thought the whole thing was hilarious, but would not take me downstairs to the casino to gamble, because he thought I was too high and my judgment was impaired Sad!

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Post  milo Sun 27 Mar 2011, 11:00 pm

Weird, this is my only "abortive. I've been using it for years and I've never had any of those types of side effects. I don't get any side effects from it at all.

Vicki, can you please share more about the cardiac effects?
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