Eye Floaters

[Instrument 41]

Anyone have to deal with eye floaters? Friday they started with something that looked like and ink blob and then slowly changed into spider webbish designs. Would clear up, then another would reappear. Yesterday had another one in the same eye. Tried blinking quickly to see if it would clear up. Then rubbed the eye gently, now my entire vision is blurry in that eye and has not cleared up. Anyone have this before??

[boba]

I recently had this, it can be the result of torn retina. It would be a good idea to get it checked, they can do repair sometimes. The floater can take some time to clear up.

[jtfreels]

Yeah get to an eye dr ASAP. My wife had this was also torn retina, can become detached much worse.

[Reg]

I've had floaters for years. You only typically see them when looking up at the sky. For me it is sort of like a small piece of transparent dirt on your glasses and when you try to focus on it, it drifts across your vision field as you try to capture it and you never get it. Does that make sense to anyone? I have a few of them and you see them best when looking at light colored objects. It is annoying but managable. I asked an eye doctor about it once and he said it was nothing serious and not much they could do about it. I do not have the spider type floaters as you describe.

Anyone else?

[slodave]

Originally Posted by Reg

I've had floaters for years. You only typically see them when looking up at the sky. For me it is sort of like a small piece of transparent dirt on your glasses and when you try to focus on it, it drifts across your vision field as you try to capture it and you never get it. Does that make sense to anyone? I have a few of them and you see them best when looking at light colored objects. It is annoying but managable. I asked an eye doctor about it once and he said it was nothing serious and not much they could do about it. I do not have the spider type floaters as you describe.

Anyone else?

Yup.

[Reg]

It's annoying eh Dave? Luckily for me I do not have glasses and have otherwise good vision but at 41 this will probabaly soon change.

[slodave]

It's annoying when I am flying. I see this thing in my eye against the sky and start to chase it around. Then realize it's the floater.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Reg

I've had floaters for years. You only typically see them when looking up at the sky. For me it is sort of like a small piece of transparent dirt on your glasses and when you try to focus on it, it drifts across your vision field as you try to capture it and you never get it. Does that make sense to anyone? I have a few of them and you see them best when looking at light colored objects. It is annoying but managable. I asked an eye doctor about it once and he said it was nothing serious and not much they could do about it. I do not have the spider type floaters as you describe.

Anyone else?

Me too...have become used to them. Problematic when playing pool and trying to focus on the object ball's aiming point...sometimes a head shake will move the floater out of the way.

Opthamologist says no real cure other than a risky surgery entailing removing them from the eye fluid.

[Instrument 41]

Being a diabetic I'mm doubly nervous. Not having anything stationary, just like large ink blobs that slowly break up. But the vision in the left eye is as if someone smeared vasoline on my glasses.

[Reg]

That is just what the doc said to me Paul. Basically there is fluid inside the eyeball and if you try to get the bits inside the ball out you may damage something else. It's a bummer when you cannot just clean it off as you would with glasses, or windshield wipers.

I'd go see an eye doc pronto Instrument, asap.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Instrument 41

Being a diabetic I'mm doubly nervous. Not having anything stationary, just like large ink blobs that slowly break up. But the vision in the left eye is as if someone smeared vasoline on my glasses.

Diabetic here as well...on meds.

[Reg]

wow! Eye just noticed i've been coming here for 10 yrs. Now I am really starting to feel old!

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Reg

wow! Eye just noticed i've been coming here for 10 yrs. Now I am really starting to feel old!

Hoot...like the collection of PANO issues I used to have. Began in '67, ended in '07.

"60's and early 70's, a young crowd in the "from the regions" pics...by the 80's, the aging process had begun. Such is life. Nobody beats father time.

[mossguy]

I have also had floaters as described by Reg and Paul. Many years. Can be annoying, but often they will float to a part of the eye where they are not visible to me, and will stay there for awhile.

[Langers]

Get yourself to an optometrist or opthamologist asap. Could be retital hole / tear, or it could be nothing. Do you want to take the chance? If it is a tear, early treatment (laser or cryotherapy) is key.

[rick-l]

What Instrument 41 described is not an eye floater. Walk into any optomologist and they will see you immediately with these symptoms.

[jpd]

My eye doc told me not to worry about them, nothing they can really do. But, if you start to have bright flashes, then there is a problem.

[Crowbob]

Ditto what Rick said.

[Ronbo]

As a diabetic you're especially prone to detached or torn retinas, not to mention retinopathy. A symptom can be floaters. You should get to an opthomologist right away, and regularly visit a retina specialist at least twice a year.

[cantdrv55]

Is your diabetes under control? I did not know I had type 2 until I started experiencing eye floaties and getting very sleepy after meals. Now that I have my blood sugar under control, no more floaties.