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.