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Experiencing ghosting, and much worse in dimmed lights/darkness.

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I'm a 17 year old boy, I've been experiencing ghosting for about 8 months, and nobody knows what's wrong with my eyes. It came out of nowhere in the middle of the night. I thought my eyes were tired, and went to sleep hoping that it'll be gone when I wake up. It remained the same, so I went to an ophthalmologist. I changed my prescription but it didn't help. Since then, I've been to more than 8 ophthalmologists (I've even traveled for some), had 4 different glasses, and have done pretty much every exam there is, except for MRI which I'm planning to do in a few weeks. Every single one told me that my eyes were perfectly fine.

The ghosting is much, much worse if I'm sitting in a room with dimmed lights. It's also pretty bad if there are contrasting colors on a screen.

It isn't painful, but it's a major, major nuisance. I've honestly been extremely depressed for the past 8 months. I'm a pretty big gamer and a film buff, so this is affecting my life pretty badly. My grades have also dropped tremendously after this started happening.

Here's an interesting fact I discovered very recently; if I bring any sort of light source right next to my eyes, the ghosting completely goes away. For example, if I turn on the flashlight on my phone and hover it right next to either of my eyes, the ghosting disappears. I'm not sure if this is a widely known thing - which would make me look stupid - but yeah.
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FromSoft, do you think you could have dry eyes?
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If dry eyes blinking and artificial tears should eliminate the problem. Secondly dry eyes ultra rare young boys
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First of all given all the tests you've had and how long you've had it the problem is highly unlikely to be anything serious. Moreover your observation implicates a corneal problem, likely irregular astigmatism since the flashlight makes your pupil smaller which makes you look through a smaller area of the cornea and also creates a "pin-hole" focus mechanism. If you are determined to keep working on this see a cornea specialist, tell him/her of your observation, get a cornea topography and ask about soft or rigid contact lens which usually corrects the problem
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I actually have gotten multiple cornea topographies, and every single one of them turned out great.
Then have them try soft or rigid contacts if it really bothers you to see if that eliminates it. Or just move on if nothing else develops
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