When I first noticed I was having visual "somethings", it was while I was looking at my horizontal striped shirt (black and white) --it was hanging to dry on a hanger, at my eye level. As I was looking at it, the stripes started to "wiggle".

It was disturbing. The stripes on the shirt were maybe only 1/4" wide. As time went on, I would "test" myself and look at other horizontally striped objects, and sure enough, whenever I would stare at something that had any type of stripe, small ones, I would get the wiggles. They would wave, sideways, like they were dancing.

Hard to describe, but as time goes on, it has not dissapated. I seemed to notice that light had something to do with this-if I were under fluroscent lights, like out in my husbands workshop garage, the effect was immediate. But only when I looked at something long enough, not like glancing at it while looking around.

Sorry can't be of more help-my opthamologist found nothing wrong with the heatlh of my eyes, and my optometrist has also found nothing. My MRI of my brain was normal, but that was years ago.

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Originally posted by Coyotecrazy:
On several occassions, I have had "heat waves" around the edges of my vision and have lost vision in 1/2 of my visual field, for several minutes. Before I was diagnosed with Lyme, the docs said it sounded like I was having optic/visual migraines. Scary the first few times, until I was sure I wasn't having a stroke.

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Coyote--I too have the "optic migraines" I was diagnosed by an opthalmolgist, too. That was way before my Lyme diagnosis. I get the same description of them, as you do.

I also know of many of my friends who get these optic migraines who do not have Lyme.

the other optic problem-the stripes doing the wiggly side to side dancing, is different. It is a constant for me, and has been going on for at least a year. My LLMD was told about it, and he did not address this. Didn't know what it was.