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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDamn, I got a floater!
Left eye--looks like a thin strand of black felt with itty-bitty strands of fluff hanging off of it. And it moves every time my eyeball moves to look somewhere else. Damn thing is gonna be at least as annoying as a day of Shitgibbon's tweets.
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elleng
(131,107 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)yonder
(9,674 posts)Usually not serious but annoying. 3 years ago I developed a translucent, ring-like floater at the center of my vision along with a bunch of spots at the edge of vision. The doc says there's a good chance the other eye will get it too.
Last year I was carefully getting rid of a hornet's nest and mistook the spots for a bunch of them coming after me. My wife says it was a riot watching me try to get away.
I've mostly gotten used to the ring floater but still mistake the spots for bugs flying at me sometimes.
It sometimes sucks getting old. Good luck.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Because I have had Migraines for decades, I thought it was just another headache side affect. Not so. I finally saw a specialist and was diagnosed with MEWDS (Multi-evanescent White Dot Syndrome), an auto-immune disorder. Further testing revealed Euthyroid Graves' Opthalmopathy, a worse auto-immune disorder. My eye-sight has deteriorated significantly in the last year. What I could read a year ago WITHOUT my glasses, I now struggle to read WITH my glasses. And the pain is excruciating. Feels like someone poured hot sand in my eyes. It wakes me up in the middle of the night.
This may not be you . . . but if you're like me, your eyesight is a precious gift. Don't second guess it. Go get it checked out.
Please.
lastlib
(23,287 posts)Transportation is a problem right now since I can't drive, and my opthamologist is 30 miles away.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Most cities have one and they can help you arrange transportation.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)You have my sympathies...
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)until I said something about them and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. So evidently everyone doesn't have them.
TomSlick
(11,109 posts)The interesting bit is that I mostly notice them when I think about it - like now.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)lastlib
(23,287 posts)sorry (not) to disappoint you.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)- a retinal detachment and only a physician--preferably an ophthalmologist--can do it. A retinal detachment is an emergency and if you don't receive treatment early you can lose vision in that eye.
I have PVDs in both eyes and you do eventually get used to them. Are you seeing flashes of light out of your periphery vision? That is a symptom of both PVDs and RDs, too.
https://www.healio.com/optometry/retina-vitreous/news/print/primary-care-optometry-news/%7B69288f55-625f-4e35-aa7a-605b13d265a2%7D/carefully-differentiate-pvd-from-retinal-breaks
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Typical vitreous detachment Im told. I can ignore it most of the time but its a pain. The optometrist tells me itll lessen and my brain will adjust, likely just in time for the other one to do it.
Looks like Im looking through a microscope at a virus...