flashes of color

[Wijae]

Hi! I am asking this question on behalf of my wife, who has for more thaan a year now been complaining seeing of flashes of color in her eyes. She did have a laser correction for astigmatism a couple of years ago and possibly started seeing more of the flashes after the surgery.

She find it extremely frustrating and annoying, since nothing else seems wrong - no migraine, no stress and seemingly nothing neurological.

I remember seeing a post by another member with similar issues and I'm wondering if this has  so far been resolved?




This discussion is related to flashes of color in vision.

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

If its not vascular or neurological or retina and nothing changes then I wouldn't worry about it. If something changes then she needs a reevaluation. Sometimes isolated vitreous traction not enough to cause a tear can cause those symptoms.

JCH MD

[tracietrim]

I was searching for something else and came across that other post you referred to.  I guess I can't reply to it, so I came here.

I just wanted to say that I have insulin resistance and take Metformin for it.  Before I started the medication I had flashes all the time.  I can't say they were colorful.  More of a bunch of spots of light that would flash and then fade away.  I've been taking Metformin for about 3 years now and since I started it I haven't had a migraine and the only time I've had the flashes has been when I've failed to take the medicine for 2-3 days.  So, I'm confident it is sugar related for me.  Just wanted to throw that out there just as something else to look at.