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Glare, starbursting, floaters, perhaps loss of vision

Hello. I'm a normal, young person in my twenties. I'm overally very healthy, never had any major diseases or such.

However, last spring I started having some strange vision problems in both of my eyes.

Here's _ALL_ the symptoms I've had over the past 4 months or so... (Note that some of these MIGHT be normal effects and I realize that I do pay too much attention to my vision currently.)

I first realized that my eyes are having a lot more "photophobia" and sensitivity to light. The light often "floods" into all over my vision, causing "glare" -effect thus reducing my contrast of seeing some objects. Very annoying.

I've also noticed that there is a halo around lights, sometimes it is rainbow colored.

Also, to me lights appear to scatter as if they were stars, like starbursting which is worst at night. I can even see these starbursts at daytime. At first I could only see them at nights. I've noticed that blue, especially neon blue lights scatter more than normal light, especially if it is a LED light.

And then. About 1-2 months ago I suddenly started having a lot of floaters in my eyes, which have never been there before and I think they have increased by a lot now. At first I thought I had around 4-5 of them, over my vision, but now there is more like 15 or more of them, different shapes which move when I try to catch them with my eyes.

I also realized something strange, when I look at a very bright light, yeah, I can see the floaters more clearly then. However, I noticed that there is also something else there - it looks like there is like a whole FIELD of small tiny cells floating downwards in my vision, much like floaters, but a whole field of these tiny little bubbles.

Also, it kind of feels as if I can't see that clearly these days. It's hard to explain. When I look at a white wall, it somewhat feels like the wall isn't completely white and that there is some reducement in my whole field of vision. My nightvision feels like it has gone a lot worse than it used to be. Also, in dark when I move my head and eyes around, I can see some flashes of light, but I think this is a normal phenomeon.

I've visited 2 eye doctors over the last 3 months and they couldn't tell me what is wrong. I'm thinking tha maybe I have a vitreous detachment. but what can cause the other symptoms, glare, starbursting, halos and loss of vision, floaters? :/

i've got myopia, -4.5 diopers in both of my eyes.

I'm kind of getting depressed of this as it feels like I'm alone with this problem and nobody can tell me what is wrong. Of course, I'm also worried that I'm eventually get blind and nobody can help me with it. :( I am hoping that someone could give me some directions what might be wrong.
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Hi I'm 14 and I started to have the same symptoms u have since obctober after my visit to an optometrist who said I had eye strain. I just had my eyes checked up again 3 days ago and I had everything check pel and the optometrist said my eyes are healthy like even the retinas. And I have not idea but I think it's something to do with light sensitivity but the doctor said it's has to do maybe with the circulation. I'm confuse as well.i hope someone can clear this up
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Anyone managed to figure out the cause of this ?
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hey!how are you now?what has been your diagnosis?
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hey would like to know what has been your final diagnosis?
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Reference to all comments made: my son suffered for 4 years with many of the symptoms described here. Hospital made a mis-diagnosis of a vitreous detachment & also sent him for neurological tests... He has just been diagnosed finally with a rare condition called Azoor , flashing lights, sparks, floaters, bright light intolerance etc....  
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