I can see my own blind spot!!!

Hey Guys,
So here is the situation...For probably a year and a half now a brightish, flickering shimmering disk appears in more or less exactly the spot in my vision where the blind spot would naturally be. It's appearance is more or less constant and unchanging. Immediately after closing my eye, I white spot in my vision, which quickly fades away.

The onset of this visual change was accompanied by a dull throbbing pain in my eye, that comes and goes...its not particularly painful, but definitely noticeable...oh, and sometimes it feels like more of a burning sensation.


It has been, as for as I can tell, completely unchanged since it began, but I would like to know what it is, what it could be related to...

I've had an MRI, which came back negative for the tell-tale lesions of MS, visual field, the standard battery, but they all came back normal

I'd appreciate any thoughts?
-S

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

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