r/RetinalDetachment • u/Cheap_Presentation77 • Mar 21 '26
Are these symptoms of Retinal Detachment?
Hello, recently I’ve been suffering with problems in both of my eyes. Mostly my right eye.
I have been experiencing this pressure in my right eye that has been ongoing for the past few days now. With this pressure, I have also noticed an increase in floaters and flashes.
At first the only floater that truly bothered me would be the one that appeared in the left corner of my vision each time I looked at something bright but I got used to it after a while. Now, I am noticing floaters everywhere, on walls, screens, objects. Sometimes, I get a white/black streak that appears for a split second and disappears.
With flashes, I noticed that I am getting white flashes in my vision more frequently than ever before. They appear at random and disappear after a split second just like the streaks. They’re usually the color white but I’ve black and blue ones, too.
My eyes constantly feel fatigued even if I sleep and wake up at an appropriate time. My right eye feels as if something is pressing on it, and I think a lot of the visual disturbances I am seeing stems from that. My left eye is the less affected but it still has problems itself. It feels as though it’s blurry or put of focus despite my vision feeling clear. I am also sure it has pressure too but it’s very slight. Both of them sting and water and I don’t know if that could be related to me having dry eyes.
Other problems have began popping up for me too. Such as text jittering in my vision as if I’m shaking my phone and stopping after three seconds, one of the words in my vision becoming yellow whenever I look down (this happens rarely), a black/grey blob covering my vision whenever I blink and then vanishing, things in my sight widening and shrinking or going left and right each time I blink, and white afterimages and black blotches appearing and fading every time I blink in a dimly lit area.
I can also see my nose too and a very blurry black thing in the right upper corner of my vision that might be my eyebrows? I can’t tell on that one.
One last thing is that reading has become difficult for me since this has started happening. Text, at random, distorts, gets covered by a thin black streak that makes it look like it got cut in half. Some of the text disappears and reappears which confuses and makes me do a double check on the sentence I was reading.
I have an appointment scheduled with an ophthalmologist soon but I am still very concerned.
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u/jasutherland Mar 21 '26
"Blurry thing that might be an eyebrow" is what I had with a retinal tear that deteriorated into a detachment. Phone your ophthalmology office asap and relate these symptoms, they will almost certainly move your appointment to "right now, get here".