Flashes of Light Can Be a Sign of a Dangerous Eye Condition

Have you ever had black specks floating around in your vision? Patrick Muffler noticed some one day. “I saw funny V-shaped floaters in my eye,” he says. When he woke up the next day, a Friday, they were still there. “I started getting more – black dots, maybe 40 of them.” Over the weekend, Muffler, a retired geologist in Palo Alto, Calif., developed a cloudy area in his visual field. He went to his ophthalmologist Monday morning and learned that his retina was torn and detached. “If I hadn’t gone…

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