Visual Static - any help please ?

[Renny36]

Hi , I am having a field of coloured lingering dots or currently known as visual static since i was a child. Although i thought it was entirely normal that i see coloured dots lingering in my entire field vision. Until i realised that it was not normal during secondary school. It is extremely prominent in the dark. Most of the time when i look at an object or person , he or she is not of the purest colour i see. Moreover , dots tend to cluster around the circumference / perimeter of the object or person, thus making an outline of it or him or her. It is some times less and some times more. It gets frustrating to see clearly when everyone is moving as they leave a trail of their shape (usually white) or when i turn my head away, the shapes of the stationary objects like buildings , tables, chairs tend to linger and slowly fade away . Focusing becomes terrible is when i am reading books like studying (currently at university) the colours get very prominent since its black fonts and white background not to mention, i tend to see reflective white yellow around the fonts, making it even harder to read, it strains my eyes a lot. Although im not sure if this is part of the symptom, looking at multiple stripes patterns ( especially black and white) i tend to see a form of reflective of white with the dots. I would like to know if there any coping strategy out there which i could take to overcome such problems and explanation to why i have this sort of thing ?   or rather what is wrong with me..

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

I would recommend that you see a neuro-ophthalmologist.

Dr. O.

[Renny36]

i forgot to mention that i have no migraines, only frequent tired eyes due to focusing through the colour dots.