Fleeting lights on my right eye

[Bridge958]

A few days ago I started to experience a vision of fleeting light (very fast, from left to right or from up to down) in my right eye.  I do not have any medical problem, I run four days a week 3 miles.  I am 55 years old.  That light is like a little tiny point of light that runs very fast before my right eye.  I do not have any other symptom related with this, no headache, not anything.  I use glasses, progressives lenses.

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

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[chrislav]

Use the search feature of this forum and the expert eye forum to search "flashing lights" or "PVD".  This may be nothing at all, due to aging and require no action (some PVD's), but delaying being checked is not worth the chance of losing your sight to a retinal detachment.  Be precautious and get yourself in immediately to an opthamologist (an M.D.) to be checked and make sure you have no retinal tears which can progress to a detachment.  Tell them when you call that you are seeing flashes and that you want to be seen immediately.  Time is of the essence.  If it progresses to a detachment and too much time lapses, it is even more difficult to successfully repair.