Ongoing migraine symptoms?

Hello, just wondering if anyone might relate to my migraine experience and perhaps any suggestions?

My previous experience has been that I had my first migraine when I was around 7y.o.. When I was around 10y.o. during another I was taken in to see the doctor who identified it as a migraine. I’m lucky only to have them only once every couple of years or so. I’ve found taking Panadol at the outset would nip it in the bud typically, so they’re perhaps even less frequent than they might be 🙌

A standard migraine involves an aura with visual disturbances (field of vision, spotted vision, ), weak ‘shooting’ pain and tension around temples, nausea, light and noise sensitivity and vomiting.

I’ve had a few experiences in recent years that I’ve only recognised recently as potentially being attributed to migraine in retrospect:

- Summer 2020 - I experienced a change in vision (blurry, occasional blind spots), checked by optometrist and given the all good, I also had an accompanying sense of numbness at the time (in an experiential way as opposed to in terms of any physical loss of sensation) and it lasted a few weeks or so all up.

- Then around Winter/Spring 2020 I experienced that similar sense of numbness yet to a greater noticeable extent, lasting a bit over a month.

- In early 2021 I experienced vision issues (blurriness) for a couple of weeks, optometrist checked and all fine, began at a similar time to having quite significant and painful period symptoms.

(My experience of numbness aligns very closely to what is described as dpdr (depersonalisation déréalisation) which from my understanding isn’t an uncommon migraine symptom. And vision changes I’ve suspected to be related to migraine in retrospect also.)

So that brings it to the present! From Jan 30th when I was working remotely and aligning with the tail end of my period, I had initial pain around my eye similar to what I’ve experienced with migraines previously. Sleep helped, but then noticed a subtle change in vision (blurry) which is constant and ongoing currently, but almost forgettable. It would become more noticeable in periods of high activity (at work, with exertion perhaps??). It would be fine and I wouldn’t notice it overly, but then every few days or couple of days I’d have more of an issue, then taking Panadol for tension headache around temples, nausea or dizziness/lightheadedness. Questioning whether it was all in my imagination, eventually I saw a doctor after 2 weeks who checked my eyes which were fine and she suggested i come back if it got worse and we could hesitantly try some migraine medications - however I just left it as could still go about my day to day and work by taking Panadol if it got really distracting/bad. I was provided some neurofen to accompany Panadol when needed.
At the end of February I noticed I had stopped having pain and nausea as frequently.
Start of March for a few days I noticed significant uncomfortable tension around my jaw, took Panadol at a point which helped relieved it somewhat.
Currently I’m experiencing persistent vision disruption (kind of blurryish) which is fine haha but sometimes worse but can still see!? And then almost when I think it might be going away, I get nausea or more of my typical migraine symptoms.

I know I’ve written a bit here, so thanks for reading right through 🙏 Thinking it might just be completely fine/resolved one day - but also it has been a while haha
Not sure if I should go to the doctor or to the local migraine clinic or just accept it as is, because although it can be quite distracting, it’s not overly impacting my life. And also don’t know if it would be dramatic or sensible going to the doctor for this.

Some unqualified thoughts…I know there’s a lot of unknowns about it migraines in general, but was wondering if it could be:

- a ‘persistent aura without infarction’?
- TMJ migraine? One orthodontist recommended having my jaw broken when I was younger, but chose not to…
- Diet?
- Hormones?
- Irregular sleep pattern and stress, now routine and relaxed

Thank you for sharing any suggestions or similar experiences 😊🙏