Black spot in vision

[JDBK]

Continuing my earlier thread, that is now closed.  I am seeing the eye specialist tomorrow (the optomerist took a month to book it and only then when I followed up).  


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[JDBK]

Had the MRI today.  They saw nothing to explain my symptoms, so injected some dye to get a better look and did a few more minutes of scanning.  It's looking like the scan won't show anything, but will have to wait for the doctor to examine the scans and report to the specialist.  

[AnnaE]

Sounds something like migraine to me, but I do not know that much in this area. Your questions will be more visible to the doctor if you start a new thread/question, either here or on the ask an expert forum. Sometimes if a question has gone around 5 or 6 times, he gets the new questions first.


I see jagged white lights sometimes, with both eyes. I told my retinologist about them and he was not familiar with this. I read about it, and I was satisfied that they were migraine related.. But you see them more often, I think. I have has a lot of eye surgeries, also.

[JDBK]

MRI is booked for 1 August.

[JDBK]

I thought the threads are closed if there are no new entries for some time.  I was unable to add to my earlier thread on this, and I thought that was why.

I went to the eye specialist again yesterday.  He tried some different lenses in front of my eyes and said he could correct my left eye stigmatism, but not my right.  He then did a retinal scan(?) of my right eye and said that was all fine.  He has no idea what is causing my vision problem and I was dismayed when he started talking about floaters again.  I had to remind him the spot I see is with BOTH eyes, so it can't be a floater.  Doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in his diagnostic abilities.

I now have a referral for an MRI.  The doc says he would be very surprised if it shows anything, but I don't know how he can say that when he has no idea what is going on.  So I'll get onto booking that on Monday.

I'm seeing a spot in front of my eyes, very central.  Looks the same with both eyes. I can only see it in low light, like first thing in the morning.  And it's only visible in the instant that I blink.  So any ideas on why this might be, I'd be very interested. It is dark grey, rather than black, slightly fuzzy-edged.  If I blink rapidly, it looks white.

[AnnaE]

Hi,

I don't think anyone would close your thread.

Good luck.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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