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Thank you, this is wonderful!

The vast majority of migraines are not related to high blood pressure.
Mhm. Maybe I misunderstood what my optician said; perhaps he only meant that high blood pressure is a possible cause, rather than a probable one. In any case getting my blood pressure checked doesn't exactly hurt (turns out it's "mildly elevated", or high side of normal, in other words).

Visual migraines involve the visual disturbance and some of the peripheral neurological symptoms, without the throbbing pain.
Yeah, that's my situation, I seem to get these weird attacks where I can't see properly, but otherwise feel completely normal. I'm not entirely clear whether visual migraine is a description or a diagnosis, actually.

I've been exploring this for almost 30 years, and the terminology is the only part I'm happy to share
Do you mean that you don't want to discuss your personal medical history (I wasn't planning to pry anyway, but it seems a reasonable stipulation), or do you mean that you hope others don't have to put up with the misery you've been through?

I'm telling you this because I think you have an abstract interest in almost everything
Thank you. *smile* I'm really pleased that that aspect of my character is obvious, and I am indeed interested to know that blood pressure and depression medication can help with migraines.

If this is a warning sign for you, I don't want to seem dismissive of it.
I didn't think you were being dismissive, just informative and to some extent reassuring. Actually even if you'd told me that it might be far worse than I'm imagining I'd probably have found it reassuring, I like to have more information.

May I LJ-friend you? I've seen a few comments of yours that I really like and I think enough of them have been addressed to me that I can reasonably ask, at this point.