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    Common visual symptoms include floaters, flashes, blurry or hazy vision, sensitivity to light, pain, and changes in vision like distortions or curtaining over the field of vision. These symptoms can have various underlying causes like wet age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment, uveitis, glaucoma, or a transient ischemic attack and require evaluation by an eye care professional for diagnosis and treatment. The chart provides information on potential causes of different symptoms to aid in determining when to seek medical attention.

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    Common visual symptoms include floaters, flashes, blurry or hazy vision, sensitivity to light, pain, and changes in vision like distortions or curtaining over the field of vision. These symptoms can have various underlying causes like wet age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment, uveitis, glaucoma, or a transient ischemic attack and require evaluation by an eye care professional for diagnosis and treatment. The chart provides information on potential causes of different symptoms to aid in determining when to seek medical attention.

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    Chart of Eye Symptoms

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    Raghunandan Ramanathan
    Common visual symptoms include floaters, flashes, blurry or hazy vision, sensitivity to light, pain, and changes in vision like distortions or curtaining over the field of vision. These symptoms can have various underlying causes like wet age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment, uveitis, glaucoma, or a transient ischemic attack and require evaluation by an eye care professional for diagnosis and treatment. The chart provides information on potential causes of different symptoms to aid in determining when to seek medical attention.

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    Common Visual Symptoms

    Blurry or Vision loss or Glare or Sensitive to


    Floaters Flashes Distortions Pain Double vision Night blindness
    hazy curtain over vision halos light

    New sudden Quick flashes New sudden New sudden New sudden Monocular
    Large in size New sudden onset Severe new onset Gradual onset
    onset in periphery onset onset onset (one eye open)

    Anterior
    Wet AMD PVD PVD Wet AMD CRVO or CRAO Uveitis/scleritis Anterior uveitis Cataract RP
    uveitis

    Wet myopic Acute angle


    High blood sugar Vitreous Acute angle
    Retinal tear macular Vitreous hemorrhage closure Cataracts AMD Cataracts
    level in diabetics syneresis closure glaucoma
    degeneration glaucoma

    Vitreous Very small in Retinal CRVO or New progressive Gradual


    Endophthalmitis Ocular migraine Macular edema Advanced glaucoma
    hemorrhage size detachment CRAO onset onset

    Red dots: Foreign body


    Uncontrolled Auras and
    blood pressure
    Vitreous Gradual onset Retinal detachment sensation or itchy Cataracts Meningitis Macular pucker Rod-Cone dystrophy
    hemorrhage Scintillas
    eyes

    Use of certain medications


    Black dots: Temporary loss or
    Gradual onset Anterior uveitis
    Ocular migraine Dry AMD Dry eyes Macular hole like phenothiazene or
    graying of vision plaquenel

    Black or Grey Dry myopic Lasting seconds:


    Seeing stars or Binocular Congenital
    Refractive error dots: macular 1. Dry eye Corneal abrasion
    black areas (both eyes open) stationary night blindness
    Retinal tear degeneration 2. Papillaedema

    Lasting minutes:
    Strabismus
    Dry eyes Hypoglycemia Macular pucker Transient ischemic Blepharitis Vitamin A deficiency
    (muscle imbalance)
    attack

    Lasting more than 20


    Cataracts Hypotension Macular hole minutes:
    Ocular migraine

    Dry AMD

    Acronyms used: AMD-Age related Macular Degeneration, CRAO-Central Retinal Artery Occlusion, CRVO-Central Retinal Vein Occlusion, PVD-Posterior Vitreous Detachment, RP- Retinits
    Pigmentosa
    Disclaimer: The information within the chart is intended solely for the general information of the reader. The information presented here is neither intended to diagnose health
    problems or to take the place of professional medical care. If you have any questions, call us at (626) 202-2446 to make an appointment with our doctor.

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