My son keeps having trouble with his vision and is very depressed over it especially when the eye dr. can't figure out his problem. He says he sees LOTS
of floaters, sees big solid lines (like veins he says) when he is in bright light,sees squiggly lines in dark, his night vision is getting worse and sees retinol after images (what dr. calls them) or trails when things move past him esp. in bright light. Hes afraid hes going blind and he is really depressed. He does wear glasses and in near sighted. Please help

i would recommend trying to locate an ocular immunologist for evaluation to rule out an ocular inflammatory disease. some floaters are harmless and just annoying. others can be of a more serious nature and require close monitoring and correct treatment. the description of floaters sounds like possibly a form of uveitis which can be ideopathic or link to autoimmune disease. hopefully it is just harmless floaters associated with being nearsighted. best of luck, S

Does he have any other symptoms like peripheral vision loss, fatigue, low exercise capacity, weight gain/loss, headaches, dry skin, frequent sinus/ear infections or just plain weird symptoms. If so, then he might have a pituitary tumor.

how old is he?

He actually has no symptoms as you describe although he has taken testosterone for hormone deficiency, but is not on this now. He is 18 years old. He has had these problems for about 6 months or so. thanks

I am 22 and am going through almost exactly the same thing. I just happened to be looking online for any help i could find. i have only been experiencing these problems since last December. I have seen my opthamologist and many "doctors" but now one seems to find anything wrong or is any help. they all just look at me like im weird. If you find out any info please let me know, im also looking for any answers i can find.

Floaters are a very common experience for many. The interior of the human fetus' eye contains a vein which eventually breaks up leaving cell particles behind to linger inside the vitreous fluid of the eyes. What one actually sees is not the particle itself, but a shadow which it casts on the retina. The vitreous humor of your eye contains a gel substance which these floaters are lodged in and this is why the strands move with your vision rather than against it. I too experience floaters, usually while looking at a bright white surface such as a white wall in a well lit room or through a microscope containing no specimen. In MOST cases these are completely harmless. If your son is experiencing flashes or trouble with his peripheral vision, these could be the beginning signs of other vascular abnormalities, or in the severe case, retinal detachment. If you have taken him to see a professional and if he has undergone a dilation examination (which would allow a doctor to view the entire interior of his eyes, all the way back to the optic nerve), and if nothing unusual has been discovered, I would say you have nothing to worry about. Wait it out and good luck!