Thanks--good to have the perspective of a neurologist.
Retinal detachment was obviously my immediate concern but two ophthalmologists and an optometrist told me my eye is healthy and blindness usually occurs after 3 days, so think I'm okay.
What's weird is I have had about 4 aura migraines in my life before July. In July I was sedated for a basic hospital procedure, after which I had a series of migraines with aura. The first were typical for me, aura with no headache, the 3rd caused me to have awful left eye pain.
Usually I go to sleep after an aura and wake up feeling okay, albeit a little hungover. After this last one I woke up feeling extremely photosensitive with pain in my left eye--felt like pressure and blurriness. This lasted for over a week accompanied by dizziness/vertigo often triggered by white lights or glare.
Finally this started becoming milder, I felt like I had something in my eye as I saw a few black lines. I went into a white room and saw black debris everywhere and against the blue sky/sea I saw this and translucent worms/cobwebs plus visual snow.
Had this for 6 months now and obviously very stressed about it. Eye pain comes and goes but when it's there I notice the floaters more/they stress me out more. The pain radiates around my eye, upper cheek and left side of nose. Not sure whether this is a combination of migraine + physical floaters, or caused by something else.
Had a couple more migraines since the 3/4 I had in July, both with no head pain. My aura has changed with this last one I had last week; usually I am blinded by it as the wavy lights take up all my vision. This time I had the classic lightning bolt line that caused me to have a blind spot. This last one was triggered by tiredness, the others by eating/being dehydrated. One thing I notice about my eye pain and light sensitivity is my consciousness feels similar to how it feels when I have a migraine; weird sounds but usually I feel like my consciousness i.e. the place where thoughts and sensory perception take place is more to the centre of my brain. Right now it feels like it's pushing to get out through my eyes. Sounds mad but best way of explaining the odd sensation.