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Weird Covid Symptom: peripheral flashes of light
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Mar 30 7:38am | Replies (76)Comment receiving replies
@tennisgolf
Not to scare you but it could very well be a retina problem Mine was detached back in the late 1980s. Had a stationary floater…thought my contact was smudged. My Ophthalmologist opened his office on a Saturday and I had surgery that Tuesday after seeing a Retina specialist that Monday.. Flashing lights are a warning. If left too long you could actually have the fluid start to leak out of the eye. I went in time to avoid more serious complications.
Get an emergency appointment and mention the floaters and flashing lights.
Meantime don’t do any strenuous activities or unnecessary bending over. Go to an eye clinic if there is one near you where they have all the specialists. Let’s hope it is not the beginning of a detachment but why wait and face the possibility of vision loss.
Please keep us updated and don’t let anyone dismiss the symptoms.
Been there
FLMary
Replies to "@tennisgolf Not to scare you but it could very well be a retina problem Mine was..."
Thank you again. I did go to a retina specialist. He said my eye is ok (for now anyway). Come back in a month. He gave me an eye test to use everyday to determine if things get worse. It had to do with holding hand over my eye and noticing what I see by looking at the same thing daily and by keeping gaze straight ahead. If it changes the "perifiral" view, I should see him. Meanwhile my "big" floater (maybe half the size of pupil) it still there and still moves L and R, but it has faded a little after 2 months and is less obvious.
Once in a while I have new floaters (tiny dots - like a period). I get flashing light frequently in my side vision. Usually when I drive into garage and look hard to R and L when I am parking. That seems to be the only time.
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Well, thank you. The flashes are not too obvious - last only a second - happens maybe once a day.
Floater seems to be "permanent".
We have lots of local opthalmologists of courses in CT and NY. But I want a specialist.
But if I go to NYC everything gets more complicated in general (including COVID).
Was your episode sudden? Were the flashing lights constant?