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Pixelated Vision

I was reading a 2007 thread about this phenomena. I am experiencing this right now - so much so I can barely focus on the computer screen and what I am typing. I too have always been able to see the little white dots dancing in my vision always within the space between my eyes and the object I am looking at. Most easily seen when looking the the blude sky or a while sheet of paper. But I also see larger "pixels" similar to when watching an online video over a slow internet connection. Larger pixels or squares splattered across the video. No idea what the later is or why this has started within just the past year. I've heard the former (the little white dancing dots) as some of us having the ability to see Chi, or life force energy. Some of us being more empathic to the energy in our environments. No way to verify if there is any truth to this explaination. It's the larger pixels that seem to be more problematic. Does anyone have any other ideas?


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HHmm nice to know also that I am not alone in this as well.  When I close my eyes and am in a dark room, I see them, but smaller in number / density than with my eyes open.  After images as well.  My pixels are red, blue, and yellow, 'colored' snow, that is like looking through some kind of 'film',  not "moving", against a "black screen" when my eyes are closed. .I also have astigmatism in both eyes, opposite angles, so when I was young I was still able to see pretty good. I also have floaters as well, they tend to come and go.  New ones are nearly black, while older ones are "fuzzy" and not so pronounced, typically look like thin wires, with some curl or twist to them.  When looking up into a clear blue sky, I thought could see atoms moving, on my cornea, not atoms really, but something that had "Brownian Motion" to them, random movement of outlined little swirls.  Looking at a white screen, I get black dots as well.
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Read the section on Wikipedia.com on entoptic phenomena. I'll post the link to follow. Many posts here are due to people becoming aware of them:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon
Yah, I have had most of those symptoms.  I think the colored pixels are leftovers from when I took to much aspirin when I was 12, just before I went into the hospital with a Staff Infection in my left ankle, same with tinnitus, of about 17 kilohertz in frequency, that also is constant, that I hear even more so when I use ear plugs.  For me, I have discovered what has been causing my Migraine symptoms, and how to treat it.  The rainbow vision, Foggy vision which is truly blinding night vision, Snowflake patterns, depending on the level of irritation, some times a fever, always seems to start with a pain near either corner of my transverse colon, or small intestinal area just below.  Strangely enough Benadryl, an anti-histamine reduces and eliminates all vision symptoms related to the Migraine, about 50mg., and about an hour later, I can see to work at my computer and be able to read text.

Doesn't work for my colored pixels or my  tinnitus.  
colored pixels that last 10-30 minutes are a well known description of a migraine aura.
So, are you saying I have been having a 'Migraine Aura', since I was 12?
I can't make a Dx from the internet but that would be the most common cause if they last longer than 5-10 minutes.  There is something called 'childhood migraine"   I'm a co-investigator on migraines at one of the local medical schools so I see a lot of "kaleidoscope" or "rick-rack" or "neon sign" visual symptoms.  Typical of migraine if you see these and close your eyes migraine aura is still visible.  
The left eye is usually the one that gets the migraine vision effects.  As stated above, there is always a discomfort at the belly button waistline, on the left side below the T-colon transition to the descending colon. Then a light bright fog-like condition appears, which coincides with 'rainbow vison', which is seeing a circular rainbow around white point light sources.  While 'after-images' bright with my eyes closed, they are dark areas, after turning off the lights, which truly tend to obscure what I am walking towards.  After the peak, and the fog is clearing, is when the radial bright snowflake patterns show when looking at a white point light source. And still, the anti-histamines are more effective at treating it, while the 'Aleve' doesn't seem to do much for the pain, when it gets that bad.  
As you know migraine is a group of diseases not a single entity. There is an entity called 'abdominal" migraine in which the pain is centered in the abdomen  with or without headaches or visual aura. Hopefully you are under the care of a neurologist.
Definitely some kind of nerve connections.  On the same area of my abdomen, where the pain starts, when I was about 20yrs. old, I has a small patch of shingles, which I got treated for the next day or so after they appeared.  I didn't want to wait to see if they got worse.  I understand that they are some kind of nerve disease, that come with the chicken-pox virus.  So maybe there might be some kind of connection between the shingles and the 'abdominal' migraine entity.
I think not. Shingles or Herpes Zoster is a neuropathy and the virus damages the nerves but it would be rare for the post Shingles pain to last this long and it would not cause visual symptoms.  I have a patient that has problems like you describe and after much work up and testing his neurologist diagnosed abdominal migraine.
It is not post shingles pain, that I am aware of.  The neuropathy, considering the location, is not at the surface, rather, when pain is present, feels deeper, and is within my abdominal region.  I feel lucky when I have 3 to 4 days of no symptoms.  From what I understand, all nerve cell bodies are located in the brain, except for a small cluster near the base of the spine, that does reflex impulses, speeding up the response.  I am given to understand that there is nearly 1 axon per cell in the body outside of the brain, however, typically, only sensory nerve ends reside within the epidermis.  It often feels like the smooth muscle in that area, is in near constant contraction, leading to lactic acid build up, and thus pain, in that area, and that the virus caused unorganized growth and cross linking, over time, that has worked its way up to my head.  Other symptoms during a bad 'attack' also have included: a slight fever,  left side eye fog and rainbows around point light sources, watery irritation, left sinus is also attacked, runny clogged and swollen, light is painful, some nausea, and when it was really bad. like the first time, it felt like rats were running back and forth in the left side of my head, with waves of pain rolling back and forth front to back.  
I'm sorry but given the limitations of 'telemedicine" I can't give you any more information.
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Never fear, I've been experiencing this for 40+ years now with no adverse effects (other than the strange looks people give me as I try to describe it.)  I don't have issues seeing at night, migraines, or any other eye conditions like glaucoma.    I would be curious to correlate the various RX strengths of those of us who suffer (silently or not).  

I actually am an optician and have a fairly high myopic RX (between -4.00 and -5.00 for both eyes) and wonder if that could be a contributing factor.   NOT being a doctor, I've always figured my optic nerve was either hyper active or like my home computer just has a loose cable connection.
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Money is on pure ophthalmic migraine without headache and nothing to do with myopia
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The first time I experienced this I was in the ER and they had just given me dilauded. And larazapam in my IV so I really don't think it was rim a migraine.  I have had plenty of them in my life with and with out pain but with all the other markers.  It happened again at the eye specialist when he put numbing drops in my eyes.  Best of luck getting answers.
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mine seems to start just after I quit doing meth after a 6 month binge. I also take Hydrocodone. So I actually think this is a drug realated thing.
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1. You need an eye exam by an Eye MD ophthalmologist.
2. The most common cause would be a form of eye migraine or ophthalmic migraine (may or may not have headache).

JCH MD
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