Occasional white light flash in my peripheral vision

[el_bubu]

I am seeing an intermittant flash of white light in my left peripheral vision that looks like a moving circle or C.  I can see it with my eye open or closed and it seems to be worse at times.  Sometimes I don't notice it, but if I am in a dark ambient environment, I can sometimes see it flash every few seconds.  Sometimes I don't notice it at all.  I am 47 y.o. and it just started a few months ago.  Any ideas?

[Michelle1983_]

I use to always have it in my right eye years ago. It always ment danger was coming. I never paid attention to the flash. The little sparkles would come first then hours later trouble. Now its in my left eye and I cant figure it out.Why?

[tdomine]

I'm 21 and for the last month or two I have had white flashes, blue flashes in my peripheral vision, headaches, eye strain, etc. I went to the eye doctor and he dilated my eyes and couldn't find anything. He made me come back in 2 weeks because he said usually it resolves in that time, but mine didn't. He checked again and didn't see anything. I have to go to a retina specialist next month because he wants to make sure he isn't missing anything like a tear or something. I'm really scared it's neurological, I'm going blind, or dying or something. :(

[AlanMcDougall]

I am 76 and have cataracts removed and lenses fitted my eyes to replace them.  

I had a huge lot of floaters, in both eyes, to the extent it affected my life negatively that I could not read of use my computer because they were always floating directly in my focal points.

The vitreous fluid was removed during the operation and I have been free of floaters for the last eight years or so.    

However, a few months ago i started noticing a bead of light that would move up or down in my peripheral vision.    

My vision is perfect but these beads of light in my right eye have really began to worry me and I am going to make an appointment with my eye doctor to make sure it is not something serious.  

I do not suffer from migraines.  

At night I sleep on my one side, with my eye pushed into my pillow this is the habit or way.  I have always sleep and maybe the pressure during the on my eye due to this might be the reason for these annoying beads?

Can anyone help?

Alan  

[AlanMcDougall]

I am 76 and have cataracts removed and lenses fitted my eyes to replace them.  

I had a huge lot of floaters, in both eyes, to the extent it affected my life negatively that I could not read of use my computer because they were always floating directly in my focal points.

The vitreous fluid was removed during the operation and I have been free of floaters for the last eight years or so.    

However, a few months ago I started noticing a bead of light that would move up or down , in a circular way in my peripheral vision.    

My vision is perfect but these beads of light in my right eye have really began to worry me and I am going to make an appointment with my eye doctor to make sure it is not something serious.  

I do not suffer from migraines.  

At night I sleep on my one side, with this eye pushed into my pillow this is the habit or way.  I have always sleep and maybe the pressure during the on my eye due to this might be the reason for these annoying beads?

Can anyone help?

Alan  

[Lori_Lu]

I am right handed and mostly have used my left hand to use my cell phone.  I am 59.  I have high blood pressure, controlled by meds. Do no have migraines, but I have glaucoma in both eyes.  With surgery and eye drops my pressure has been great for a year now.  But the doc has seen more floaters in my eyes than she's seen in anyone else's before.  I do not see more than 2 in my vision.  But my left peripheral sees a slow, sliding flash of light.  Not quite a '©' shape.  I mentioned it at my last eye visit.  I did not get a definitive answer on it.  I was told that one of my retinas didn't look good.  I have much trouble with my vision if I look too long at my phone, or iPad, or computer or a book or a newspaper.  All my vision becomes VERY blurry.  And takes much time to recover.  I know the glaucoma went on too long before I found the right dr.  I will be blind one day.  My worst fear is yet to come.

[patient4years]

i have had occular migraines and regular migraines for years. seeing shooting stars started a few years ago among other nondescriptive symptoms because i get confused and usually don't remember. i had to insist on a test for seizures. i have seizures. the shooting stars are not high blood pressure from everyone including dr that i asked. i do notice migraines shortly most of the time. it very well could be occular migraines from my experience. but what i wanted to post was i learned is the migraines can evolve to seizures i am told from neurologist. and shooting stars are one of the warnings one about to start.  ....but always get eyes checked asap first. could be retina damage issue. neuro will ask if eyes were checked.

[Martiniracing]

For the past few days I've been noticing these two squiggly lines on the right part of my left eye.  Only happens if I move my eye left and right.  

Before then I had some after shadow on the bottom right of the same eye and aura lines in that area when I goto sleep.

These all came since I've started doing neck stretches and have gotten pulled my a traction machine at physio.  I really hope it is just related to the neck.

Some back ground info about me, I've been having headaches, photophobia, and strange vision since July 2015 and its progressively changing and getting worse.  Lately I also have eye pain