Flashes Of Light In Peripheral Vision After Cataract Surgery

Surgery can cause posterior vitreous detachment where the vitreous separates from the retina.

Flashes of light in peripheral vision after cataract surgery.

The retina sits way back in your eye sensing light and sending messages to the brain. It makes you see moving spider webs and clouds in your vision along with flashes of light. It clouds your vision also making you see flashes of light and spider webs moving. Light flashes and floaters there is a possibility of detachment of posterior vitreous after cataract surgery leaving the vitreous separated from the retina.

Dysphotopsia visual symptoms are divided into two broad categories. After surgery you have a slightly higher chance that it pulls away from the back of the eye a problem. Tiny fibers float in the vitreous fluid and are attached to the retina. I believe that s what i have after cataract surgery and will ask my surgeon about it at my next appointment.

Shimmering flickering of peripheral vision after cataract surgery with iols. What are symptoms of dysphotopsia. Flashes of light in the eye. Dysphotopsias are visual symptoms that some patients may notice in the first few weeks following cataract surgery.

6 weeks after surgery dilating drops were instilled and they lasted over 36 hours before i could see without dark glasses. Sometimes after cataract surgery with lens implants light might strike the lens implant at a certain angle that might cause a flash in the peripheral vision and sometimes light might strike a lens implant in such a way that it can appear reflective to another person looking at the pupil of the eye. It could be positive dysphotopsia.