Green Brown Blotches on photo taken of right eye during eye test

[jm1977]

Hi I am really worried. went for an eye test yesterday, vision found to be near perfect, but when the opthamologist looked in my right eye she said that she wanted to take a photo of my right eye as she spotted something. she took a photo on that machine that has a flashing green light. she showed me the photo and on the photo there were two greeny brown blotches on the photo of my eyeball. she said that it looked that it had been there a while as they were underneath a red vein, she said that she would need to refer me to my gp who could then refer on to opthamology at hospital. i suffer from anxiety and my first question to the tester was "could it be cancer" and he said that this was the "worst worst cade scenario". i am really worried now, as i have said i suffer from bad anxiety and have spent 24 hrs thinking that i have cancer that i am going to die. i will have to wait 5-6 weeks before i can get to see an opthalmic specialist and i really cannot face 5 weeks of worrying

[AnnaE]

That's a terrible wait. Any way you can get more information, and/or an appointment sooner?

Are you on medication for anxiety? You might need to see a psychiatrist to regulate your medication. That is what I did.

The doctor will answer you.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS]

Most of the blobs and spots on the back of the eye are not malignant so you have the odds in your favor. Worse case scanario it could be a malignant melanoma but in the eye a melanoma acts much less aggressively than melanomas on the skin.

Likely it is a choroidal nevus (freckle).

There would be less anxiety had you seen an ophthalmologist Eye MD in the first place instead of a non-MD optometrist.

JCH MD