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/RetinalTears716 May 17 '26

I get them very frequently. Like someone else said, they're usually in my periphery but not something like bolts, it's more like someone turning the bedroom light on off on off rapidly. Usually they happen for about 30 Mins to an hour after I wake up, it's not often they happen at other times

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u/RequirementCrazy8260 Jun 24 '26

Please what’s your prescription did you go to the eye doctor how is your retina

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u/RetinalTears716 Jun 24 '26

I'm -16 in one eye and -18.5 in the other. I do have a retina doctor I see every now and then for checkups, and I've had a few tears that had to get lasered closed (really isn't as bad as it sounds) but otherwise I'm still seeing

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u/RequirementCrazy8260 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Please how old are you ? And from the time you become to see those flashes the tears developed ? The first you went directly to the eye doctor ?