Silent migraine, retina damage, or brain tumor? 10 POINTS!!?!


Question: Silent migraine, retina damage, or brain tumor? 10 POINTS!!?
For about the past 8 months, I've been getting odd flashes of light. Just like the little stars you see when you bump your head, but only one at a time, and it goes away in a second. They're usually white. I also have been seeing some odd purple dots in my vision sometimes. Some days have more than others. It's usually closer to the side of my vision, and I can sometimes see a bit of a cluster of them, and they're bigger than the white dots I sometimes see. I've also seen yellow and blue (in both the bigger dots and smaller flashes). In the earlier of the past few months I've gotten some headaches, but not bad. I haven't gotten one in about 2 months now. I've been concerned with this. Could it be a silent migraine, retina damage, or a brain tumor? I'm going to my doctor in a few days, and trying to make an appointment with the eye doctor too. I'm 16 years old, by the way.
Thanks so much!

Answers:

It's just an ocular migraine. Sometimes the eyes are under stress from too many signals going to the brain so it just shuts down. If it hasn't happened in 2 months then I wouldn't worry about it. Just like a headache, there's medicine for it, but you don't really need it unless it hurts.

My family has had it forever




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