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Floaters in Vision — What to do?

mousegunner

I just started getting floaters today. I kept thinking they were gnats flying around, not a lot but I could see them for a split second then nothing. Mostly when I move my head or eyes around. Called my brother who worked with his opthomologist father in law and said it happens and went over what his father in law used to treat

Gonna call my Dr tomorrow for an eye check up, I'm due for one anyway. I remember an old high master shooter blaming his floaters on the 9s he'd get now and then, don't know if he was telling the truth or not. Thanks for looking.
 
mousegunner said:
I just started getting floaters today. I kept thinking they were gnats flying around, not a lot but I could see them for a split second then nothing. Mostly when I move my head or eyes around. Called my brother who worked with his opthomologist father in law and said it happens and went over what his father in law used to treat

Gonna call my Dr tomorrow for an eye check up, I'm due for one anyway. I remember an old high master shooter blaming his floaters on the 9s he'd get now and then, don't know if he was telling the truth or not. Thanks for looking.
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Mousegunne -

Howdy !

You did not describe just how bad your floaters might be, such as..... have a lot of them.

If there are a bunch, you might be encountering a situation where you have some bleeding within the eye (s ), One cause for that is when the " vitreous humor " starts to degrade
w/ age; and the merge point where the " gel " becomes a thinner liquid can lead to the pulling away of the inner lining of the eye.... and this introduces loose blood inside the eye.

It has happened ( and occasionally still does ) to me, and I have had varying amounts of such bleeding take place. From seeing just a few " floaters ".... up to not being able to see out of the affected eye at all. When there is a lot of them, a " halo " appears around things like overhead round light fixtures. After the bleeding has stopped, the body clears out the eye over time. Hope this is not the situation you find yourself in.

IMHO - High " ocular pressure " couples unfavorably with the above condition, as does excess straining while performing certain bathroom functions, high blood pressure, doing lot of bending over or other head-down work; etc

Also, don't trust them when they say lasers in-use are eye safe. One of those gave me a small but permanent bullseye looking floater in my Lt eye, when I happened to accidently look up into the path of a ( supposedly " eye safe " ) beam, Can't undo that, readily.


With regards,
357Mag
 
My floaters are small black specs on the edge of my vision. Not a lot of them, like I said looked like gnats buzzing around. They don't linger, just pop in and out. I know my BP is good and an eye exam a couple weeks ago for a small twig that hit my eye didn't show high pressure in the eye. It's not bothersome but it's new to me.

I did used to have flashes of light about 5 years ago, went to a retina specialist and everything checked out and eventually went away.
 
My dad was an opthalmologist. Years ago when I asked him about these things in my eyes, he said "They're floaters, just part of aging." Over the years mine have gotten a bit worse, but slowly and not horribly. Just there and I ignore them, sort of.
 
Floaters are indeed a part of the aging process. I've had them for going on 10 years now. They can definitely interfere with using the scope during matches. I've learned that blinking my eyes a couple times and/or looking away from the scope for a second is usually enough to get them to move so I can make the shot. Although they can be quite annoying, I always try to remind myself that it could much worse. You are very wise to set up an appointment with your eye doctor. It's not something that should ever be put off, because the possible ramifications of allowing a vision problem to become worse are too terrible to even think about. Just do it.
 
Here's my story. I had a few floaters. Went in for my regular eye exam. The next day I had one that covered 60+% of my right eye. No floating to it. It stayed in one place. It was like looking through a vail. I went back back to the doctor for some help. The mass as I call it showed up on scans-pictures whatever they call it. She put me on a supplement. Said 50% of her patients showed improvement. I started out being able to clearly see it while driving down the road. In 5-6 weeks it had subsided to where it was like looking through a window screen. I'm 3 months in and it is still slowly fading as well as all the other floaters I had. She said to take it for 6 months. Doesn't cost much and worked for me.

 
DaveTooley said:
Here's my story. I had a few floaters. Went in for my regular eye exam. The next day I had one that covered 60+% of my right eye. No floating to it. It stayed in one place. It was like looking through a vail. I went back back to the doctor for some help. The mass as I call it showed up on scans-pictures whatever they call it. She put me on a supplement. Said 50% of her patients showed improvement. I started out being able to clearly see it while driving down the road. In 5-6 weeks it had subsided to where it was like looking through a window screen. I'm 3 months in and it is still slowly fading as well as all the other floaters I had. She said to take it for 6 months. Doesn't cost much and worked for me.

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Thank you I had no idea it was such a thing, In my cart now
 
Welcome to old age! I have them in both eyes. See ground hog where there are none. :(

My eye doctor says there is no treatment for them.

But don't freak out, you'll get use to them. Adapt and overcome.
 
Please, Please, don't pay attention to the 'doctors' on here, giving unqualified diagnoses(but I suppose that's what you were asking for). Don't panic, but get to an eye doctor(I am one). Floaters are commonly found in people over age 70. Almost all of the time they are benign and nothing to worry about. They are called posterior vitreous detachment. In very rare instances they can cause some bleeding, but this too is almost always benign. You may always be aware of them in your field of vision. They may settle somewhat out of the way. Let your eye doctor make the diagnosis, and hopefully allay your fears.
 
Obviously a bunch of us have had this. Flashes of light when I moved my eyes side-to-side in the dark. Retinal specialist will map your retina and call you back months later to compare to see if tearing has stopped (good) or not (bad). Dr. Dunraven (above) has the wise response.
 
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