10 days ago I got a dark spot, Im not sure if its an scotoma or if its growing.

[hhelp2015]

Hi, ten days ago  I suddenly noticed a dark fixed spot, very dark, on the bottom side of my sight on my right eye, over the course of a week it changed to a way bigger triangled shape but not as bold as before, more translucent, its not a floater. I went to two retinologist and they found nothing so Ill go to a neuro but Im worried because I think its growing bigger day by day and Im not sure if Im losing vision in that area, is there some kind of scotoma that grows bigger that way and can make you go blind over the course of a month or something?, what could it be based on the clinic?

Thanks a lot for your answer, Im worried, Ill go to a field vision test next week but so far Ive been doing them on my on and I think I dont see where the spot is. Im not sure if its growing when it was a circle it was way smaller.

[JohnHaganMD]

The symptom is disturbing. Since it was not a retina tear or detachment or blockage of a retinal artery or vein the next most common thing would be optic neuritis. So seeing a neuro-ophthalmologist and having a visual field is the next step.

[hhelp2015]

Hi Doctor Hagan, I'm updating, I went to a visual field test, it didnt detect any scotoma but I still have the dark spot.

But my question is related to something I found, when I squeeze the eye upwards the spot changes a lot and becomes more prominent for some time to the point that it becomes more intense and light shaped around it and it feels like exploding in every blink for some secondss. It reacts a lot to squeezing of the eye specially with the down muscles of the lid.

I wish I could explain myself better.

[hhelp2015]

For example, I see to the monitor screen, the spot is almost non visible but when I squeeze it starts growing like pushed by something in the same direction of the squeezing, the top of the spot is a black line that arcs bigger when I do that and when I stop squeezing it comes back to normal.

[JohnHaganMD]

Quit squeezing on your eye. Just pushing on the eye will create a "pressure phosphene"  This is generally 180 degrees from where you press on the eye.  Follow up as planned with the neuro-ophthalmologist

[hhelp2015]

Hi again doctor  I'm sorry I didn't explain myself better, what becomes bigger is the same spot, not a new one, and I'm not squeezing it with the finger but pushing the upper lid up with my face muscles. But

Before reading your message I already realized that by lowering the lower lid with the finger, the spot almost dissapears if not dissapears at all, no matter what when I pull down the lower eyelid the spot reduces itself drastically. Could it be an inward eyelash touching the eyeball or something?

[JohnHaganMD]

an inwardly directed lid should be easy to feel and spot and typically just causes pain, redness, sensitivity to light, watering and foreign body sensation.

[JohnHaganMD]

lid eye lash should have been typed in

[hhelp2015]

I see thanks, I also checked in the mirror and found nothing, I already have the appointment with the neuro, I wonder why it goes away, almost no symptoms when pull my eyelid down.

[JohnHaganMD]

I have told you all I can tell you. Sorry