July 3, 2026 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I don't know, do you ever?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
I've never got like you know, sometimes you go to
the eye doctor and they'll go, do you have floaters
in your eyes? I've never had that. I got something
flashing in my left eye and it won't stop. Is
this like like whether my eyes open or closed? It
looks like a jagged rainbow.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You're reading Diane's qu cart the how she was supposed
to try to get out of here earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No, what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Like?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I've never had the cursor to a migraine.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I wonder why, Elliott the.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I don't think it is. I don't think it is.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
When's the last time you went to your head dog?
I did not go to my headache doctor this week.
I had to go to Pilate's.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The No.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I couldn't go last week, and so normally it's every
two weeks. So I didn't go last week, so I
couldn't go yesterday. Now I won't be able to go
next week.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's neither here nor there. I think Diane's onto something,
but the but I've never had a floater before. I
don't even know if I'm calling it the right thing.
But it's like it's it looks like this in my eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
To me, floaters look like little Amieva's and I'm all
and I'm always thinking at that point I should change
my contacts.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
This it looks like this, like that design.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You can't see straight.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, I could see. I'm like, I can see, but
it won't stop. Like that's what that's that's what it
looks like. But it's it's rainbow. It's like rainbow colored.
It's like bright and it just keeps like flashing and
it moves like if I move my head, it takes
a little bit and it gets there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
How bright is this light?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's very bright?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
No, no, like it is like like I'm like, I'm
looking at a monitor right in front of me and
it's in color, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's not color. Whatever's flashing in my eye? That's color?
What does it say?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Wait, that's it, except mine's turned this way.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, the orientation doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, flashes, floaters and retinal tear detach. I do not
have a retinal tear.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is what do I have?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm trying to see because a lot of the online.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Really distracted, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Don't mention the prism effect, but this one does. I'm
trying to read through this to find out what exactly. Maybe,
by the way, that's a good description the prism effect
going on for you.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
And I mean, it won't stop. And I thought maybe
it's only if my eyes open. But if I close
my eyes, like look, Diane, if I close my eyes
like now, it's bright, because it's not. It's just up
against a black background. And I think it's only in
my left eye.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Floaters are actually tiny clumps of cells of material inside
the vitreous So while these objects look like they're in
front of your eye, they're actually floating inside it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, well, I don't have a floater.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What you see are the shadows they cast on the retina.
Floaters can appear as dots, circles, lines, clouds, or cobwebs.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So I have lines.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
For most patients, the appearance of floaters and flashes is
a sign of a posterior vitreous detachment as we grow older.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Okay, well I'm older today than I was yesterday, are
we all?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
The clear gelatinous fluid that fills the inside your eye
changes and becomes more liquefied as it loses its structure,
it gradually pulls away from the inside surface of the eye.
When this occurs acutely, it's called a posterior vitreous detachment.
This is a normal part of the eyes getting older.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh so I have nothing to worry about. Why did
it just start?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
With time, the floater will settle due to gravity, and
the brain will adapt to seeing the drifting shapes as
they are always present.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh so I'm actually my vision.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Is so you'll always have that rainbow.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, it is, it is so like it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I went to the office during the commercial break, and
that's when I was like, what is going on with
my eye?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Why did it just start? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Some people experience light that appear here's as a jagged
or heat wave in the eye.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, it's definitely jagged.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
These types of flashes are usually caused by a spasm
of blood vessels in the brain, called a migraine.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
No, but like I do know from having I get migraines, right,
so I do know from that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They'll talk about like, do you have floaters?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
But I've never had floaters surrounding a migraine Like that's
never been like, it's never been like, what's.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Going on everything's different. I mean maybe, I'm sure people
pop up with new symptoms all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
This my head doesn't hurt migraine or a depiction that
they have. Yeah, but I don't exactly what you drew
and described.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, but I don't want a migraine.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You knew this was coming on the You're melted. No, no, no, no,
there was something that came up.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, I felt lightheaded earlier in the week. Because remember
the last time I felt lightheaded, I did get a migraine.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And I was very disappointed with you when I found
out you were skipping your appointment.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, but there was something that came up that day
where I couldn't go.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
No, no, I didn't have an appointment yesterday. It was
last week that I didn't have the appointment.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You didn't even though you're not going next week, try
to get into the doctor well, and that this is
the last time you had a migraine that ruined your
weekend was because you hadn't gone to your appointment.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, yeah, it was there vital, but I know, but
there was a reason I didn't go to the appointment.
It's not like I just blew it off. Diane, You've
got such like a jagged line of rainbow around you.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Though it's like a crown a halo.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Am I going to line one?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't want to get on sidetracked here, Hi, Elliot
in the morning, but it's very distracting.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Hello, Hey, I would suggest going to the doctor very
very soon. This happened to my dad Thanksgiving of two
years ago, and he had to have emergency surgery six
times over the weekend for a detaching retna six times.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Wait, what kind of surgery.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Laser surger because he's had cataract surgery but not any
of cataracts. But seriously, I would go to an eye
doctor immediately.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well immediately, I just it's not even eight o'clock yet.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
At the end of the day, I would call an
eye doctor because they told him he would have lost
his eyesight if he didn't go.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
At that. I could know that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Could you imagine? Oh no, I'm like blind John. I
got to sit in here, and I wouldn't even know
what to do. I can't touch any of the buttons.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
The doctor, he was like, I don't normally do this,
but I need you in right now because you're gonna
lose sight in your left eye if you don't do this.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And it is my left eye.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, he's had it on both He's had them reattached
on each eye, his left eye twice. We don't have
great eyesight in my family. But I wouldn't mess around
with it because I don't think you'll look good with
an eye patch.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
The well, no, I mean I would just you know what,
I'd get a glass one, I'd get a glasser.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, very good, Thank you sir, Thank you. So
should I need to text my eye doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I don't think you have a torn or detaching right now.
I do think it is a migraine coming on.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, but but I don't. I've never had this for
a migraine.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But okay then, and my head feels good.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Text your doctor. But your eyes are older than they
were yesterday.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well that is true and will be older again tomorrow. God,
Jackie's gonna be pissed at me if I get a migraine.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Good thing, all the offices are open today.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
No, that's why I would have to text my eye
doctor and see if I can just go to our house.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, that's a no. Why you're not going to your
eye doctor's house.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Well, if the if the office isn't open and I'm dying,
I'm going to the house. My lines have gotten bigger,
like this is the this is the area.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Now. Can you see where my hand is?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Quite a few people are saying, it's it's your migraine.
It's appearing.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So why have I never had this before?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The body is effort changing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, but this has never been a signal for a
migraine for me? Is it? Can I ask this though?
Is it a different kind of migraine? Is it?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Is it an I migraine versus like a like a
regular migraine.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Day.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
He's gonna hate me if I get a migraine today.
We're going out for an anniversary today.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There is migraine with aura or a retinal migraine
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But those are Igraine with aura is where you still
have a migraine but your eyes go That I don't
get yet.
Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I don't know, do you ever?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
I've never got like you know, sometimes you go to
the eye doctor and they'll go, do you have floaters
in your eyes? I've never had that. I got something
flashing in my left eye and it won't stop. Is
this like like whether my eyes open or closed? It
looks like a jagged rainbow.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You're reading Diane's qu cart the how she was supposed
to try to get out of here earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No, what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Like?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I've never had the cursor to a migraine.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I wonder why, Elliott the.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I don't think it is. I don't think it is.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
When's the last time you went to your head dog?
I did not go to my headache doctor this week.
I had to go to Pilate's.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The No.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I couldn't go last week, and so normally it's every
two weeks. So I didn't go last week, so I
couldn't go yesterday. Now I won't be able to go
next week.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's neither here nor there. I think Diane's onto something,
but the but I've never had a floater before. I
don't even know if I'm calling it the right thing.
But it's like it's it looks like this in my eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
To me, floaters look like little Amieva's and I'm all
and I'm always thinking at that point I should change
my contacts.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
This it looks like this, like that design.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You can't see straight.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, I could see. I'm like, I can see, but
it won't stop. Like that's what that's that's what it
looks like. But it's it's rainbow. It's like rainbow colored.
It's like bright and it just keeps like flashing and
it moves like if I move my head, it takes
a little bit and it gets there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
How bright is this light?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's very bright?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
No, no, like it is like like I'm like, I'm
looking at a monitor right in front of me and
it's in color, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's not color. Whatever's flashing in my eye? That's color?
What does it say?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Wait, that's it, except mine's turned this way.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, the orientation doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, flashes, floaters and retinal tear detach. I do not
have a retinal tear.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is what do I have?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm trying to see because a lot of the online.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Really distracted, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Don't mention the prism effect, but this one does. I'm
trying to read through this to find out what exactly. Maybe,
by the way, that's a good description the prism effect
going on for you.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
And I mean, it won't stop. And I thought maybe
it's only if my eyes open. But if I close
my eyes, like look, Diane, if I close my eyes
like now, it's bright, because it's not. It's just up
against a black background. And I think it's only in
my left eye.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Floaters are actually tiny clumps of cells of material inside
the vitreous So while these objects look like they're in
front of your eye, they're actually floating inside it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, well, I don't have a floater.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What you see are the shadows they cast on the retina.
Floaters can appear as dots, circles, lines, clouds, or cobwebs.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So I have lines.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
For most patients, the appearance of floaters and flashes is
a sign of a posterior vitreous detachment as we grow older.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Okay, well I'm older today than I was yesterday, are
we all?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
The clear gelatinous fluid that fills the inside your eye
changes and becomes more liquefied as it loses its structure,
it gradually pulls away from the inside surface of the eye.
When this occurs acutely, it's called a posterior vitreous detachment.
This is a normal part of the eyes getting older.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh so I have nothing to worry about. Why did
it just start?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
With time, the floater will settle due to gravity, and
the brain will adapt to seeing the drifting shapes as
they are always present.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh so I'm actually my vision.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Is so you'll always have that rainbow.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, it is, it is so like it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I went to the office during the commercial break, and
that's when I was like, what is going on with
my eye?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Why did it just start? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Some people experience light that appear here's as a jagged
or heat wave in the eye.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, it's definitely jagged.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
These types of flashes are usually caused by a spasm
of blood vessels in the brain, called a migraine.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
No, but like I do know from having I get migraines, right,
so I do know from that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They'll talk about like, do you have floaters?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
But I've never had floaters surrounding a migraine Like that's
never been like, it's never been like, what's.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Going on everything's different. I mean maybe, I'm sure people
pop up with new symptoms all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
This my head doesn't hurt migraine or a depiction that
they have. Yeah, but I don't exactly what you drew
and described.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, but I don't want a migraine.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You knew this was coming on the You're melted. No, no, no, no,
there was something that came up.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, I felt lightheaded earlier in the week. Because remember
the last time I felt lightheaded, I did get a migraine.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And I was very disappointed with you when I found
out you were skipping your appointment.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, but there was something that came up that day
where I couldn't go.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
No, no, I didn't have an appointment yesterday. It was
last week that I didn't have the appointment.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You didn't even though you're not going next week, try
to get into the doctor well, and that this is
the last time you had a migraine that ruined your
weekend was because you hadn't gone to your appointment.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, yeah, it was there vital, but I know, but
there was a reason I didn't go to the appointment.
It's not like I just blew it off. Diane, You've
got such like a jagged line of rainbow around you.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Though it's like a crown a halo.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Am I going to line one?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't want to get on sidetracked here, Hi, Elliot
in the morning, but it's very distracting.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Hello, Hey, I would suggest going to the doctor very
very soon. This happened to my dad Thanksgiving of two
years ago, and he had to have emergency surgery six
times over the weekend for a detaching retna six times.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Wait, what kind of surgery.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Laser surger because he's had cataract surgery but not any
of cataracts. But seriously, I would go to an eye
doctor immediately.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well immediately, I just it's not even eight o'clock yet.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
At the end of the day, I would call an
eye doctor because they told him he would have lost
his eyesight if he didn't go.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
At that. I could know that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Could you imagine? Oh no, I'm like blind John. I
got to sit in here, and I wouldn't even know
what to do. I can't touch any of the buttons.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
The doctor, he was like, I don't normally do this,
but I need you in right now because you're gonna
lose sight in your left eye if you don't do this.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And it is my left eye.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, he's had it on both He's had them reattached
on each eye, his left eye twice. We don't have
great eyesight in my family. But I wouldn't mess around
with it because I don't think you'll look good with
an eye patch.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
The well, no, I mean I would just you know what,
I'd get a glass one, I'd get a glasser.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, very good, Thank you sir, Thank you. So
should I need to text my eye doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I don't think you have a torn or detaching right now.
I do think it is a migraine coming on.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, but but I don't. I've never had this for
a migraine.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But okay then, and my head feels good.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Text your doctor. But your eyes are older than they
were yesterday.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well that is true and will be older again tomorrow. God,
Jackie's gonna be pissed at me if I get a migraine.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Good thing, all the offices are open today.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
No, that's why I would have to text my eye
doctor and see if I can just go to our house.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, that's a no. Why you're not going to your
eye doctor's house.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Well, if the if the office isn't open and I'm dying,
I'm going to the house. My lines have gotten bigger,
like this is the this is the area.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Now. Can you see where my hand is?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Quite a few people are saying, it's it's your migraine.
It's appearing.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So why have I never had this before?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The body is effort changing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, but this has never been a signal for a
migraine for me? Is it? Can I ask this though?
Is it a different kind of migraine? Is it?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Is it an I migraine versus like a like a
regular migraine.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Day.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
He's gonna hate me if I get a migraine today.
We're going out for an anniversary today.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There is migraine with aura or a retinal migraine
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But those are Igraine with aura is where you still
have a migraine but your eyes go That I don't
get yet.
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