Bad Glare & Starbursting(Non Lasik Related)?

Question

I am suffering from severe glare, starbursting, and halos at night. I saw several eye doctors and they checked for glacoma, cateracts, eye dieses, etc and found nothing. They did state that my pupils are very large and that could be the problem. Then why is it, if I sqint or look through a pinhole the glare issues are reduced greatly. They gave me those yellow nighttime driving glasses and they do not correct the problem. It annoys me so much when I watch TV at night because the TV will have glare coming off of it. To fix that, I put 4 lamps with 42 watt, 150 watt equivalent compact fluorescent bulbs in all 4 corners of the room, just to make the room evenly lit so I don't see starbursting and glare coming off the TV. What is wrong with my eyes, I am 20 years old and it has been like this for about 2 years.

Answer 1

when you squint or look through a pinhole, the amount of light  entering the eye is reduced, thereby reducing the chance for glare/star-bursting.  If there is nothing physically wrong, i.e., cataract, spherical abberation, etc., and you simply have a large pupil, there is nothing you can do to make it go away.  You can wear a prosthetic contact lens with a black backing and smaller pupil aperture.  This reduces the glare for a patient of mine who has no iris at all to block the light.  Good luck to you.