Halo Around Lights?

[mongchichi]

I am a 25 years old female that has never experienced any eyesight problems from day one I was born.  Always had 20/20 vision and never needed corrective lenses.  For the past year I have experienced a halo or haze around street lights, car front/tail lights, etc.  My visions is very clear other than the halo/haze.  When the halo/haze occurs I test my vision by reading text of every size and variance of distances on street signs, license plates, etc.  All text and objects are clear in color and focus, just as they should be.  I had gone to the eye doctor 2 months ago, because I have been experiencing the halo/haze more frequently within the past 6-8 months.  The doctor seemed to have given me a very extensive eye exam, because of my concerns of the halo/haze.  I have cataract as well as glaucoma the runs in my family in my Mothers Father and my Father's Father. The doctor was very much aware of this during my exam and he tested my eye with various methods for cataract/glaucoma, and found nothing wrong with my eyesight.  He recommended that I try "liquid tears," to test if that alleviated the symptoms.  I tried the drops and there is no success.  I work 8-10 hours 5 days a week in front of a computer, under regular office flood lighting.  During the exam the doctor was not able to make the symptoms happen with any of his tests and he felt I was young with no worries of cataract nor glaucoma.  The halo/haze is not painful at all, it's more of a major nu sense especially when I am driving with street lights, car lights, lit signs and skyscrapers.  Please help me!  This obviously is not normal, and I am very scarred that my eyes will be permanently damaged if what I am experiencing is not treated ASAP!  What should I do?  Who should I see?  Does anyone else have this problem?  

[margiejean]

Hey- - I have the same thing although I do were contacts.  Did you get any answers??  I am also young -- 29 -- and no eye doctors have found anything except a very slight astigmatism in my right eye.  But they don't think that would have anything to do with it.
Very interested to hear if you've found anything out.

Thanks,
Margie

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS]

You will need to continue to see ophthalmoliogists Eye MDs.  You need to have gonioscopy done to be sure you don't have angle closure glaucoma, a corneal topography to be sure you don't have keratoconus, the lens examined to be sure you don't have incipient cataract and the macula checked.

If you wear contactst they can cause these symptoms due to swelling of the cornea.

Get a second opnion from another ophthalmologist.

JCH MD

[CanFlygal]

I am also very young and having the same problems.  However, I have had eye problems since I was very young.  At the age of two I saw two of everything and was diagnosed with severe astigmatism and had to wear glasses.  Now, I am a 26 year old with severe astigmatism, gas permeable contact lenses (as they are the only way I can see 20/20, I can't with glasses) and severe eye allergies.  I often have halos around lights.  However, it seems that some days I have major problems with halos around lights and some days I have no halos whatsoever.  I have been to 3 optometrists, 1 GP and 1 opthamologist.  I am going to go to another opthamologist very soon and am very frustrated.  Any advice I could get would be very helpful, thanks!

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS]

See a corneal specialist ophtal mologist.   Go in to see them without wearing your contacts for 4-7 days. Ask for a corneal topography test. Be sure you don't have keratoconus. Find a corneal Eye MD at www.aao.org


JCH MD