My Daddy is seeing grid patterns and honeycomb patterns

[ridewine]

My Daddy has glaucoma which has been managed for 50 + years. He has had surgeries for cataracts, glaucoma, etc.
He is 83 years old.

He is now seeing grids when he looks at things. They go from grids to honeycombs shape. He has talked to his opthamologist, family doctor, neurologist, no ones has ever heard of this problem. They tell him they will do some research but they have no answer.
PLEASE has anyone ever had these symptons? PLEASE!!!

Thank you very much.       Joanne

[ennisat]

My fiancee is seeing the same thing. She is just 51. She just went to the Neurologist and they did an MRI/MRA. They want to do a Spinaltap to rule out MS. I have looked it up and it is a symptom of MS. I am not saying that this is what it is but I would get him checked out soon.

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

See a neuroophthalmologist. Find one a t www.aao.org

JCH MD

[Imgems]

I just had this visual experience for 3 days. Just before waking up, I see on white surfaces this beautiful honeycomb pattern in gold yellow. With a slight darker area in the middle of them like little nucleases of the cell.
After a couple of seconds it goes away. This is a new symptom but I suffer from oculair migraines and migraines. I have a lot of floaters in my left eye and went twice in two years to an eye surgeon/doctor. There I got some drops in my eye to make my pupil bigger and they couldn’t find anything wrong, only some floaters. These floaters are still not gone.
I had a MRI for my migraines and they couldn’t see anything wrong.

In the response read above from 2012 onward I can see a pattern in symptoms and no diseases at all but also some responses where attached to retina detachment. I know that if you see a lot of floaters all of a sudden it can be a retina detachment. If the eye doctor can’t see any detachment, what is this honeycomb visual symptom coming from?

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

There are many posts on this website like this where people wake up and for a very short period of time see spots, dots, patterns in their vision that fade quickly and who have had numerous normal eye exams.  Eye pathology does not usually act like that which causes dots, spots, patterns that persist or are permanent.  Most generallty the explanation, which has been reviewed numerous times before, is that the retina has three systems for ambient light   1. photopic for bright light  2. mesopic for twilight/low light and 3. scotopic for night vision.      The retina has many types of cells but the most important are the rods that are in the peripheral retina, are wired in networks and provide most of dark vision and the macula has cones which have color vision, fine reading vision, and do not see well in the dark.   After a long sleep both sets are in scotopic vision, when the eyes come open and light enters the rods and cones wake up at different rates accounting for the center of vision looking different.  The size, shape and conent of this central spot varies. The honecomb pattern can be due the vertical structure of the cones and the fact each cone is individually inervated. If you have had a full exam by an Eye MD including an macular OCT, Amsler grid test and visual field and nothing changes I would stop worrying about it unless something else develops.