edit data. Becky Chambers is the author of the award-nominated science fiction novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, as well as the upcoming stand-alone sequel, A Closed & Common Orbit. She also writes nonfiction essays and short stories, which can be found in various places around the internet.
Some rare types of migraines can cause temporary paralysis or blindness, and can even mimic some very serious medical conditions. More than 13 percent of Americans are affected by migraines, severe pain in the head that is sometimes accompanied by vision problems, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness.
The potential causes of vision changes with eye pain and/or head pain are numerous. Certain headache disorders such as migraine can cause vision changes followed by headache. If you are older than the age of 55, one potential cause of headache with vision changes is called giant cell arteritis or temporal arteritis.