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If one eye has weird flasher, but no loss of vision, is it a detached retina.. husband is seeing flasher in one eye & im concerned! would that be a symptom on its own? he has also suffered from bad migraines his whole life, is this from the headache?

Q: if one eye has weird flasher, but no loss of vision, is it a detached retina.. husband is seeing flasher in one eye & im concerned! would that be a symptom on its own? he has also suffered from bad migraines his whole life, is this from the headache?

: If this is truly focal and unilateral, involving but one eye and not the other, this is not caused by migraine. See an ophthalmologist and get this addressed ASAP.

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If this is truly focal and unilateral, involving but one eye and not the other, this is not caused by migraine. See an ophthalmologist and get this addressed ASAP.

Answered 5/23/2022

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A member asked:

If one eye has weird flasher, but no loss of vision, is it a detached retina.. husband is seeing flasher in one eye & im concerned! would that be a symptom on its own? he has also suffered from bad migraines his whole life, is this from the headache?

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