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

[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.

It is really difficult to find anything about this on the internet and these conversations where the only more “defined” information I could find.

In the responses read above from 2012 onward I can see a pattern in symptoms and no diseases/diagnosis  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?

[realtywayne]

My 80 yr mother has the exact same thing! She was commenting on seeing
grid patterns  and chicken wire like patterns (honeycomb) on surfaces.  She has low-tension glaucoma and macular degeneration and has a condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome. You need to ask you father's ophthalmologist about it for diagnosis. They need to run tests to rule out other causes such as Alzheimer's.

Charles Bonnet Syndrome occurs when there has been rapid loss of sight. The hallucinations are the brain compensating for a lack of information from the eyes. There isn't any cure yet but there are ways to cope with the hallucinations caused by it. I was very relieved to find out this is NOT dementia nor mental illness.