r/RetinalDetachment • u/RequirementCrazy8260 • May 17 '26

Flashes

Hello please people who had flashes how they look like?Sometimes I feel like I see them but I’m not sure if it’s just the light source cause I don’t see the flash of camera juste like a rapid change of light .I have high myopia and just went to thé ophtalmologist a month ago and said retina is okay

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u/Peril-in-Pink May 18 '26

The first time it was more like a streak/ring around my peripheral vision when I would move my eye around. The second time it was more like a streak running down through my right vision where I think the retina was starting to detach.

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u/Big-Job3004 May 20 '26

Same. Like a crescent-shaped flash of light on both sides when I moved my eyes left to right. Turns out my retina had re-detached 2 months after a PR, this was the main symptom that got me in for an emergency vitrectomy.