I see rainbows!; Rainbow halos to be precise.

- I have been getting noticing them almost every day for over 20 months. On days when I don't notice, I may get them and not notice. So it may have been every day.
- They are 4 circles with white/orange/blue/pink (usually) tints around fluorescent white lights. Around coloured street lights, they are that colour with a transparent space and a ring of the same colour. On bad days, 2 and sometimes 3 rings are visible and the space separating the rings closes up. They also ellipse when they get severe (I'm going through an ellipsing phase now). Sometimes white street lights are white halos with an orange blend on the external of the main halo before a bluish ring.
- The first depiction is basically a mirror of accounts of closed-angle glaucoma halos, 4 rings of colour with those basic colours although the colours themselves may differ, eg. yellow/orange, red/pink. My eye guy who ruled out closed-angle glaucoma said they were depictions of closed-angle glaucoma halos.
- These halos occur during closed-angle glaucoma attacks, which in a matter of hours can render you permanently blind (commonly tunnel blindness with blindness to the peripheral vision, but sometimes also front vision). They can also occur with pigmemtary glaucoma, where the eyes shed their pigments and they restrict the ability for the eyes to vent which cause a build up of pressure. It is equally dangerous.
- Most of my halos come in the morning when I awake, which I have read can be a symptom of narrow-angle glaucoma. But some occur during the day. I had some major incidents that lasted around 6 or 7 hours where my eyesight was also hindered, massively for 1-2 hours. This hindrance transcended eye blur. I had to press my face against the monitor in a struggle to read and even then it would take me an hour to get through a page. If it struck me when I was driving, I would not have been able to finish the journey. Fortunately, I do not drive.
- But my eye guy ruled I have open angles. He changed topic when I tried to clarify that you can detect closed-angles when not going through an attack. He diverted it to the unlikelihood I would have closed-angles because I am near-sighted. I haven't been able to establish how uncommon it is for near-sighted people to get it. I don't know if it's 1 in a million or 1 in 3. I don't believe you can rule out closed angles if the person is not experiencing an attack, which gives me some degree of scepticism.
- I am in my 30s and it's more likely to hit Asians than caucasians so I am not a good candidate for closed-angle glaucoma. However, pigmentary glaucoma is more likely to effect male Caucasians in their 30s. But pigmentary glaucoma is rare. My eye guy also ruled it out, and I have a little more faith in that assessment as it causes a trail in the eye that seems to be visible at all times.
- I have had eye injury trauma and it is possible it could be some kind of traumatic glaucoma. I have permanent floaters and specks in my eyes for the last 15 or more years. The eye guy did pick up something, but said it was typical of eye trauma and nothing to worry about. It sounded like he was talking about angles, so could relate to glaucoma.
- The eye guy detected I have severe dry eyes (in my tests at that particular time, I scored 0 and 1 in my eyes when the norm is 20). This means I am stuck with the inconvenience for life.
- Rainbow halos are not typically a symptom of dry eyes, but a half dozen or so people online have the similar issue combined with dry eyes and no other diagnosis (one person found out they have closed-angle glaucoma).
- Getting halos, let alone the rainbow sort, in the morning when I awake (mostly sunlight) when my pupils are contracted does not match the alleged halos caused by dry eyes, which are known as night vision issues. When I get my insomnia or sleep deprivation halos, it is often in the day time that they hit (and if not, in lit up rooms). As lights are not turned on during the day, I most often see them courtesy of computer lights and computer monitors. Closed-angle glaucoma halos are also most often associated with night vision, but I have read a source that associates narrow angles with waking halos.
- I have tried a variety of artificial tears, only 2 work in getting rid of the awaking halos (may blur them and they may go naturally): Poly Tears (or Bion Tears) and Murine. The artificial tears have no effect on preventing the halos. One time I put them in without having the halos, went to sleep right away and was abruptly awoken 15 minutes later with strong rainbows. I also get the halos during my awake hours if I sleep deprive. These halos go away for increasingly short times with Poly Tears and Murine until they no longer have effect (20-15-10-5-1 minutes). I have to go to sleep then as I can't do much of anything else. And it aids me in feeling more tired and able to sleep than I probably would without them.

In the last 20 months, I have detected no definitive vision loss. My eyesight may be generally worsening (it is not easy to tell because I am so tired all the time and rarely have a wide eyed period), but I see nothing definitive. Eyesight naturally worsens with time anyway so it may just be the expected, I am not under the impression it is significant to be alarming. Even though peripheral vision loss is said to escape notice until it is too late, it is often because people do not pay attention to it. I have been paying attention and I don't think I have suffered any kind of peripheral vision loss. Despite the general impression that I am paranoid about my health, I do not have this paranoia of peripheral vision loss.

Even though both closed-angle glaucoma and pigmentary glaucoma are considered emergency conditions with permanent blindness occurring within hours of a sustained attack, I have heard of people sustaining over a year of closed-angle glaucoma attacks. You may be told that it is this emergency condition, but you have no way of knowing whether it is applicable in all or even most cases. That would be an assumption and potentially a very dangerous assumption. You don't know that they aren't talking about worst case scenarios, playing it cautiously. I have heard the attacks may actually need to be sustained over a day or more. It is possible the ability to resist attacks corresponds with age. There are any number of factors you don't know about and it is idiotic to assume that just because you hear it will get you within hours in some summarized article on the internet that it necessarily will get you in that time.

I also am not sure my eyes transitioned from no dry eyes to dry eyes in a credible way? I may have been getting worse over years, but the difference in the profoundness of the dry eyes was night and day. One moment not having it, the next having massive eye blur preventing me from seeing the large digits on my LCD clock, massive eye itch, non-existent stuff getting in my eye, red eyes, significant discomfort, explosions of tears, almost over 500 straight days of rainbow halos which I never once had before, etc. There is no doubt I have it, I am not questioning it at all, just wondering if it isn't secondary to something else. (At first I thought it was just conjunctivitus but it would never go.)

I may go in again in 2017 just in case, but even my doctor discourages me. I thought doctors would be supportive, but she just so happens to be a friend of the guys... I would have thought it would be good practice in cases where you may potentially suffer permanent blindness to advise your patients to get a second opinion, but not with her. She will give me the referral if I ask for it, but she makes me feel foolish for not accepting the guys opinion as the sacred truth. I am inclined to go into the same expert as they are the only place who now has a record of the changes in my eyesight (having never in my adult life gone to an eye expert before my assessment), rather than a new expert and a true second opinion.