Is it a migraine or heart problem?

Posted By Lori on November 18, 1998 at 10:21:36:







About a year ago I began to have moments of extreme nausea and disorientation
when waking.  I often feel a tingling in the back off my throat and eye. Usually, my heart
rate is increase also.  My doctor diagnosed this as occular miagraines, and gave me
nausea and pain medication for it.  However, the nausea if very brief usually only ten to twenty minutes,
and there is no pain so I never bothered to take it because they only make me drowsy after the fact.
I have had migraines since the age of twelve and these episodes have no similar symptoms, i.e. Headache, sensitivty to sound
and light, pain on one side of head.  I have tried to link them to triggers like "regular"
migrains but have been unable to do so as of yet.  I only have them in the morning when waking
or soon after, or when I get very upset.  This lead me to believe it may have something to
do with my heart.  I had open heart surgery at 3yrs. and still have a septal defect.
Please give me any iformation, I feel like my doctor isn't listening.