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Anyone experienced “sparkling” or “kaleidoscope-like” dysphotopsia?
I’m about 5 months post cataract surgery with a tecnis IOL, and I’ve had a persistent issues with peripheral light:
• triggered when light comes from the temporal, ear side
• appears as shimmery / sparkling
• sometimes feels kaleidoscope-like (multiple tiny bright fragments rather than a single arc)
• the area expands as the light source moves further temporally
• most noticeable with point light sources (LEDs, reflections, headlights)
• relatively stable (not drifting like floaters)
• has shown slow improvement over ~5 months, but still present
Did anyone else experience something similar? Any advice / suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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Does the kaleidoscope feature you are discussing have like jagged edges?
@chrispie cannot detect jagged edges but that's an interesting question. does your question imply some capsule bag issue?
No I am sorry it does not. Mine is like a Kaleidoscope like you mentioned. It would begin at one place in my eye and slowly travel around the whole eye before it was done. While it is happening it is an array of all pastel colors moving like a kaleisdoscope, the shape like v's going in different directions, up and down, but remains uniform until it has finished the whole eye. It is like looking through crystal. I was told at Kelloge eye center near UofM in Michigan, that it was a type of migraine headaches without the pain.