Health Eye Floaters

[callas]

"Eye floaters are those tiny spots, specks, flecks and "cobwebs" that drift aimlessly around in your field of vision. While annoying, ordinary eye floaters and spots are very common and usually aren't cause for alarm.
Floaters and spots typically appear when tiny pieces of the eye's gel-like vitreous break loose within the inner back portion of the eye."

I have a lot come on recently and had a full eye examination (which is highly recommended one must do to see if there is more damage). Nothing was damaged and was told that a lot of people have them - some more or less than others.

They are annoying especially when you looking at a screen all day at work (the glare of the white brings a whole swarm out!).

Would like to know if anyone else here has a lot of eye floaters and how they deal with them.

 

[rayven]

I thought this thread was going to be about the impending season summer and the lack of clothes people (women) wear and the sheer pleasure that brings to the eye..

 

[Poetic Justice]

Yep I get them.. I've also got this permanant little black dot in my right eye.., so I decided to have a test done on it once and turned out all okay. A couple of 'imperfections' in the eyes but nothing to worry about.

Weird too having that test and getting the local anaestethic(sp?) eye drops which make the eyes completely numb... felt very weird!

 

[Papa Juggs]

Luckily all Aussie sunglasses have a standard rating of protection.

Get polarised for even better protection.

When I first heard about eye floaters many years ago from some random TV show I've been paranoid ever since. I hate going out in the sun without my sunnies.

Also squinting gives you crows feet.

 

[Quivorir]

 

[callas]

thanks for the link Quivorir - reading those youtube comments are somehow quite helpful

 

[Tulip]

Did you watch the same Family Guy episode as I did at about 7:30 this morning on Fox 8?

"Oh squiggly line".

 

[Munga]

Yeah I've had them for about 15 years. From memory they all arrived pretty quickly but haven't got any worse since. It was damn annoying during school, staring at whiteboards all day I'd just get distracted by these floaters and start following them around the room hahaha. Don't really notice them as much now, maybe I'm just ignoring them more.
It's pretty fun trying to 'balance' a floater right in your focus point, weird looking things.

 

[callas]

thats right Munga - they are always there but I find the less you focus on them they tend to become less bothersome.

 

[JuddsABlue]

Recently had them come on in a noticeable fashion

Most annoying when driving, just one of those annoying things that won't go away once you see them

 

[dumb]

more noticeably in the morning after waking up, maybe through the specks resting at the back of the eye.
i could be wrong but the way to tell the difference between floaters and something more serious (ie detached retina) is whether or not they move. go to the optometrist anyway though.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Have heaps. I like to watch them and try to control their floating.

Only notice them if I choose to though, so no problem.

 

[GoTheSwannies]

^^ same here, although when I initially noticed them I couldn't help noticing them (particularly against a bright/white backdrop. Don't have a problem with them now but also try controlling them as well. Good way to kill some time but must look crazy to anyone who sees you

 

[woopedazz]

Cancer.

 

[Jimmybob]

Haha! I feel sorry for people that can't help noticing them on a day to day basis.

 

[Rooz90]

I get them too, but i usually think my eyes are strained from working infront of a computer for the day.

 

[SugarShane]

Have had them pretty much all my life. Only notice them when i think about it though.

 

[mick06]

stupid thread.

I'm now trying to follow and control my floaters instead of working.

Another story, when i was younger and watched the movie Outbreak i somehow got it in my head that if you could see these floaters you needed to check the shape as if they were the same shape as the 'string' you were going to die.

 

[NSWCROW]

Yep had the tiny black dot and the " worms " in my eyes since i was kid

 

[TriX78]

The family guy take on floaters gets me every single time.

Floaters were fun back in the day under the influence of LSD.

 

[JD-Roo]

I have a lot, mostly in my left eye. Had a handful of sand chucked in my eyes at kindergarten.

Kill time trying to look directly at them and they move away.

That mine anyway..... not sure if other people's act the same way.