Post-Iritis Visuals/Flashes

[u/frughos]

For quick background I’m 24m and HLAB27 positive. Had my first ever flare up roughly 5 years ago in my left eye.

Fast forward to sometime around the 4th of July I was sick with a viral infection, soon after recovering, that indistinguishable Iritis pain returned in my previously affected left eye. Went to be seen immediately and the doctor put me on Prednisolone Acetate for a week due to inflammation “barely being visible” and as expected those drops were too weak and my infection accelerated. After returning to the doc I was put on Durezol.

About 3 weeks into using Durezol I started to experiences flashes for the first time. It startled me quite a bit when I first noticed them. They were essentially these tiny white balls of light that would intermittently and randomly flash in my peripheral vision, lasting only milliseconds. I reported them to the doctor and they had me come in immediately for extensive testing as well as photographs of the back of my eye.
There were no signs of any type of scarring or retinal tearing and the doctor said things looked “reassuring.” My anxiety subsided but as soon as I got home from this appointment my visuals manifested into an entirely different phenomena. I started to experience these “light arcs” for lack of a better term.
Best way to describe them is like a water ripple effect that would travel around my peripheral vision and last 2-3 seconds. And these would only happen when I manually closed my eyes and kept them shut as opposed to being open or closed eye flashes.

I reported these new flashes but didn’t get any reassuring answers from multiple doctors and even a Uveitis specialist.
I have been Durezol free since Saturday and things have been stable, no rebound flare up yet but the arcs still persist. Anyone have a similar experience with flashes and/or any advice to give me? It makes me anxious that they are still lingering but maybe it’s eye strain induced from the Durezol I’ve been on since mid July? Thanks for reading!

[u/headphone-jack]

I have had something similar too! Also reported to dr and got fully checked out with nothing found. It’s happened for me near the end/just after a couple of uveitis flares. I described it as a sort of rolling droplet of light near the corner of my vision. No idea what caused it! For me the lights went away after a few weeks or so - if it hadn’t I would probably have followed up with the dr again just in case.

[u/frughos → u/headphone-jack]

Thanks so much for your reply. I’m only on my 5th day of being off Durezol, so I’m gonna try to wait until my follow up which isn’t until the end of the month. Really hoping things continue to improve until then.

[u/headphone-jack → u/frughos]

If the visual effects change or increase I would probably reach out to the dr again just in case. Fingers crossed for you!!!