NFT: Eye floaters...
 

How many people here have "eye floaters?" I've just recently noticed them in my peripheral vision. Little, tiny thread-like strands that float around. New to me, but apparently they're common as you get older.

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Not to alarm, but my brother had those right before being diagnosed with glaucoma. He was probably 44ish at the time. They were more towards the center of the eye though.

Worth checking out.

I used to have trouble falling asleep due to mind racing. I learned to find a squiggly line and just concentrate on it. Asleep in no time.

Oh squiggly line

Anyone else get fractals if you press your palms into your eye sockets while your lids are closed? Usually purple rotating fractal pattern like a mid 90s screensaver.

Oh, and no floaties here. Though I do notice that with OTC sleep meds [diphenhydramine], my ability to focus my eyes goes before I get drowsy. Not in a drowsy way, but in a farsighted way, utterly unable to focus on text, which sucks when I try to supplement the sleep aid with reading to bring on drowsiness.

Got them when I turned 40. Eight years later, they haven't gotten worse and I'm used to them.

I've had them for as long as i can remember. I only ever notice them in certain bright lighting.

Take 2 doses of antifreeze per day. Clears it right up.

I've had them for as long as I can remember.

I get tracers sometimes too...

I've had Glaucoma since I was 16 and got the floaters around that same time

I have an Africa shaped floater in my right eye, from an ice pick accident when I was a kid. I slipped with an icepick and jabbed myself in the eyeball, requiring internal and external stitches on the white part of my eye just below the pupil.

Last year I was diagnosed with glaucoma in that eye.

Have you always had it? If you also notice bright lightning flashes when you cough or sneeze real hard, or if you start getting tunnel vision, you might want to get it tested. That's evidence of your optic nerve detaching from your retina.

I have one in each eye.

Rarely notice them.

I have a few. Only notice them when looking at a white screen on the computer or a clear blue sky.

Yes. Never knew they had a name.

Since I've done research I've noticed a flash in my left eye when I do rigorous eye movement. It's kind of hard to see if it's different since that wasn't a routine test. My right eye has no symptoms. Back to the eye doctor.

I got one in each eye about a year and a half ago. Used to drive me crazy, but I've gotten used to them.

I've had one, a transparent dot in the left side of my vision for as long as I can remember. At 34yo now, a few more small ones have appeared. I somehow developed a small cataract in my left eye in my early 20s, but other than that my yearly eye exams turn out fine, so the floaters have never been an issue connected to anything.

Your are falling apart from the inside out.

I know! What the hell?

You should have never taken that trip to Bangkok.

I'm a little superstitious about my eyesight. I've abused the hell out of it, reading like a mofo every day since I was 8 or so, usually small type.

My day was born nearsighted and my mom has old lady farsightedness, but so far I plug along with no deficits, from near to far, low light, color blindness, etc.

That's what freaked me out about the sleep aid shit, until I realized it went away after I slept.

I started getting them then went to the eye doctor. Turns out a vein blew up in the back of my retina. Now I get ****ing eye shots every 6 weeks to try to fix it.

You need to make sure you are not suffering a retinal tear from detachment of your vitreous sac . I have suffered two that required emergency surgery. One tear in the right eye in June 2002 and two tears in the left eye in May 2004.

I have scleral buckles on both eyes.

I have a ton of floaters and left over vitreous :rolleyes:

I thought a floater was when you take a dump and check to see if it floats.

I have one that floats around on the right side of my left eye. Just figured it had something to do with getting knocked out a time or three.

Same

Same.

My tracers are worst when I'm right on the edge of being awake and being asleep. I don't have them very often beyond that.

Had them my whole life.

I get them from time to time. Usually with a heavy flow.

You menstruate?

Man. That's a bigger buzzkill than glaucoma.

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Been dealing with eye floaters for 15 years.

That hasn't been obvious?





:D

Maybe don't do that?

ROFL

Thats the equivalent of telling the Dr it hurts when I so this.

Can confirm

Hi Mr. Braille.

Never rubbed your eyes when you were tired?

Not like it's an hours long proposition. Give a little rub and fractals show up.

That's usually neural damage from drug use.

:toast:

Mine aren't triggered by being up for a week like most.

And I was never a tripper.

I've had them since I was a kid. Annoying little ****ers

What I see when at the beach:

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I've had those my entire life. Literally as long as I remember. Even without the pressure. But they aren't purple for me. They are yellow and black.