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I lost vision in my right eye after failed retina detachment surgery damaged the optic nerve. I don’t see blobs of light like you describe, though I do see a di
by philiplu 2y ago
I lost vision in my right eye after failed retina detachment surgery damaged the optic nerve. I don’t see blobs of light like you describe, though I do see a dim pattern of swirling lines when I walk into a dark room. Also, weirdly, if there’s a sudden noise while I’m in the dark, I often see a flash of light go off, like an old flashbulb. I’m guessing that’s my visual system somehow rewiring itself to other sensory input.
- Fr0styMatt88 2y agoThe other thing I found insanely wild was that if I looked at a repeating pattern and held still (like say a tiled floor or carpet), the image from my good eye would slowly start expanding over and filling in the big blind spot in my bad eye. Also if lighting conditions were just right (mostly dim but bright enough to make out shapes like in the middle of the night with only some light coming through windows), my brain would ‘forget’ the other eye couldn’t see and it would look like I could see out of both eyes again. It was trippy as hell.
- bennyg 2y agoI have the same phenomena - loud sharp noise is like a flashbulb goes off. Reading another commenter mention EHS and looking it up, I don’t think that’s it either. Have had multiple RD surgeries myself. Hope your vision is otherwise stable!
- filoeleven 2y ago> Also, weirdly, if there’s a sudden noise while I’m in the dark, I often see a flash of light go off, like an old flashbulb. I get that same effect, and weirdly was just thinking about it earlier today. I don't have vision loss, but I do also get visual noise in low light. I never did find any good information about it. The closest I could find was exploding head syndrome, which I can't entirely rule out but seems highly unlikely.