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For 10 minutes i could 7 als8uo flashing lights. i could not focus on reading the words were unclear?

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Migraine: These symptoms are typical for benign occipital migraine in which a portion of the brain that is involved in sight, has a migraine. These rarely cause headache and they end with no problems.

Answered 2/25/2018

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