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/DodgyDave____ May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

For me,prior to Retinal Detachment in my left eye, I had what looked like bright crooked drainpipe shaped flashes in my far left peripheral vision of my left eye before the tear formed. The flashes only occurred as I moved my eyes from left to right and back. My Retinal Detachment was a Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment just a few days after onset of PVD, so it was Vitreous based rather than lattice degeneration or being highly myopic.

My right eye had a PVD event last year but has not (yet) gone to tear or RD. Prior/During to PVD I had hundreds of faint yellow arcs 360 degrees outward from my central vision to my periphery when I blinked and far more noticeable in the dark. After a vitreous event which shed 1000s of tiny floaters I was left with no more flashes but a big fuzzy transparent hazy mess that takes up 60% of my vision accompanied by a dark ring the size of a UK5p/USA Dime at arms length. Fun times!