Dear fellow eyeball fans:

I'm a 54 y/o male in South Carolina. I'm quite myopic, as in -8. Last  
April I had a posterior vitreous detachment in the left eye that resulted  
in 2 retinal holes at the 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock positions  
(non-inverted, physical locations from the perspective of looking out).  
The holes were at the sites of lattice generation and were sealed with  
cryopexy.

In September I had a retinal detachment at the 7 o'clock position  
(non-inverted, looking out) that was treated with cryopexy and a scleral  
buckle. Soon after the scleral buckle procedure I began noticing visual  
distortions (the famous wavy lines) and returned to the surgeon for a  
followup examination. He did an OCT exam and told me that I did have some  
scar tissue growing across the macula but that the macula looked healthy  
overall. He also pronounced me in good condition and gave me a new  
prescription for my glasses.

In the last few weeks I have begun seeing brilliant pinpoint flashes of  
blue light around the macula. They are usually scattered around the macula  
but occasionally occur right at the center of the macula, and when they do  
they are very intense and appear as a small circle of blue with a round  
central region that is black. These flashes occur regularly during the  
day, as in several per minute, and seem to be more frequent when I am  
active, as in the moments after climbing the stairs at work.

There's another thing that I'm curious about. In the mornings, immediately  
after awakening, I see something in the left that must be the result of  
the detached vitreous contacting the retina. I see an opaque region of  
bright red, to the immediate right of the macula, that is generally  
circular in shape but has an irregular edge. This area grows in size from  
a small spot to a large region and then diminishes to a spot again before  
disappearing. This happens in a period of about one minute. Around the  
edge of this region of opaque red there is a thin band of brilliant  
yellow. My naieve assumption is that while sleeping some portion of the  
vitreous is shifting and pressing against the retina. When I get up the  
vitreous reverses its direction - the bright yellow ring is the region  
where the vitreous is pushing against and then peeling away from the  
retina - the area of greatest mechanical stimulation.

I wonder if any of you have experienced these things or can suggest what  
they might be?

Thanks,

Harrison