Flashers in your eyes?!


Question: My optomitrist told me that the lights I've been seeing, even when my eyes are closed, are flashers. Do you know of anything that makes it worse? What advise and comments can you give me about this to help me learn from your experience? Thank you.


Answers: My optomitrist told me that the lights I've been seeing, even when my eyes are closed, are flashers. Do you know of anything that makes it worse? What advise and comments can you give me about this to help me learn from your experience? Thank you.

Flashing lights and floaters at the corner of the eye are a fairly common occurrence for aging adults. Flashers and floaters can be benign and relatively harmless, or they can herald a significant pathological process in the back of the eye, which left unchecked can lead to loss of vision or major surgery. The only way to know if flashing light or floaters in your field of vision are benign or significant is to have a doctor dilate your eyes and examine them thoroughly which you did. I'm assuming it's the harmless type. Welcome to old age Dear. Most go away on their own.

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I get something like that due to an ocular migraine. You might what to google information about that. I've just learned to put up with it.

Try staying away from bright screens and flash cameras for a while.
Don't go out into the sun (especially now since the sun reflection is stronger off of the white snow) when the sun is bright out, withouta pair of sunglasses.

i get these before a migrane i've found that cutting down on coffee and dairy products seems to keep them at bay.

go to an opthalmologist asap. your optometrist should have referred you immediately. bright light can sometimes make it worse. get a pair of sunglasses and wear them when it is sunny or bright. but call your optometrist and get a referral to an opthalmologist asap. good luck.

Flashes of light occur when the vitreous gel rubs up against or tugs on the retina, it can come from aging, migraines, or retinal issues. If your optomitrist said there weren't any problems with your retina - such as detachment or tear, then you are ok. Most of the time they will clear up on their own in a couple of weeks or so, though may reoccur just because the shape of the eye changes as you get older. So if he/she isn't worried, you shouldn't be. They are more of just a nuisance than anything.

Do you get a head ache along with them? my Dad was getting these all the time, they would last for about 15 minutes and he would get a head ache after, he described them as prisms of light that would patially block off his vision.
We finally forced him to go to the doctor and he told him that a major cause of these is dehydration and to up his intake of water, he lived on tea mostly and never took water along with him, this was a year ago and they have never returned, he now packs a water bottle along with him and makes sure he is taking drinks from it during the day. hope this helps :)

Yes, I had this too! It was extreme because; as I drove I thought cars were in my driveway or the intersection because of the flashing. He told me there was a little hole back in the eye and it was common but too small to need a laser closing. So after 6 months it almost stopped. Once in a while it comes back ever so slightly.
I noticed it most when I moved my eyes to the furthest point. With my eyes open it did not happen but when they were closed it was a light show.
Now it is supposed to be caused by an accident, genetic condition, aging, but in my case it was the optometrist's assistant in the Wal-Mart. She asked me if I wanted a picture of my eye. Why? Because we should know if something is going to happen she said. So she pointed the high beam in my eye to focus the camera and it seemed extreme at the time because my eyes were tearing up. After the second try with the bright laser light she got the picture. It started immediately that night and I went to the emergency "OPHTHALMOLOGIST" that agreed that she may have caused the problem with stress to the eye. So my thoughts are; any bright light or staring at the sun may cause this too! So see a professional ophthalmologist doctor immediately and not a lens tester/optometrist. I hope it is that simple for you and I hope I helped you.





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