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Occasionally See Flashes On Either Side Of Eyes Even After Closing Eyes, Shoulder Stiffness, Neck Ache. Cause?

Hi Doctors... I sometimes see flashes at either sides of my eyes. General practice Doctor suspected it was retinal detachment . But after got it checked by eye specialist it was not the case. He wasked me to check woth my gp again as I might be having a symtom of migrane . I realized that I can t tell if the flashes occurs to gejter with a headache. But sometomes I do get tension headaches-i was diagnosed years back by nuerologist. Was not having any issies after changing my lifestyle by sleepimg on time. I also noticed that i get the flashes even when eyes are closed. I also suffer from stiff shoulders, neckache and lower back aches due to minor slipdisc which I was asked to do only physiotherapy ... just wanted to know what is the cause of the flashes and how to recover if it is too dangerous.Also to note that I got tension headacjes due to stress and frequent nightmares .
Wed, 9 Jan 2013
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thank you.
flushing of light in front of the eye associated with headache is a classical feature of migraine. this type of eye problem is called aura.
is there any trigger factor of aura like sleep disturbance,coffee,alcohol etc.
you are living with stress & frequent nightmare. so it may be a feature of psychosis.
first of all consult a internal medicine specialist to exclude migraine.
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Occasionally See Flashes On Either Side Of Eyes Even After Closing Eyes, Shoulder Stiffness, Neck Ache. Cause?

thank you. flushing of light in front of the eye associated with headache is a classical feature of migraine. this type of eye problem is called aura. is there any trigger factor of aura like sleep disturbance,coffee,alcohol etc. you are living with stress & frequent nightmare. so it may be a feature of psychosis. first of all consult a internal medicine specialist to exclude migraine.