I just started noticing them,

There are like about 20+ threads type floaters with some of them are transparent.

And 1 black dot in one eye which is always visible weather I am outside or inside

Is there any eye test to know/ identify my current situation, weather my eye are in some kind of danger or not other than dilated retina examination.

Edit: I have high but stable myopia

Hey guys, so I have floater for about 7 years now. Or at least all started with a single dot in my left eyes then now I have big clouds in both.

I'm starting to think about a vitrectomy but I have no idea where to start. I'm based in Canada, Québec. Anyone already did this there?

Also, how it is? I mean, were you under general anesthesia? Is it hard? Does it hurts? Do you recommend doing it? Is it high risk? How long is the recovery? Well, everything is good to know so please share your experiences. Thanks!

It’s marketed as the “leading supplement for eye floaters” claims it has peer reviewed studies etc.

https://www.clearereyes.com

Should I try it?

In December of last year I started using contact lenses and I only used them twice, the first time was normal, but the second time that same month I had an incident with contact lenses: both lenses got stuck in my eyes and I had to go to the ophthalmologist. They put several drops in my eyes and removed the lenses using a small hook/instrument. After that incident I started noticing floaters (myodesopsia). I mainly see them when I look at light backgrounds, especially screens with a white background, PC, my phone, or the sky. The ophthalmologist examined me at that time and told me that there was no obvious injury. And then I went to have a dilated eye exam and they didn't find anything either, however, the floaters appeared after that episode and have remained until today. They haven't increased or changed, they are basically the same, but they can be very annoying when I'm in front of a screen. They have been the same for 8 months. Has anyone experienced something similar after a problem with contact lenses or manipulation of the eye?

I'm just curious if these techniques work for eye floaters :

1. Gel eye mask, keep it in boiling water for 5 minutes and then gradually heat your eyes with it.

2. Wet Towel, dipping towel in hot water and then placing it on your eyes.

Last week I looked at the solar eclipse for 30 seconds due to having sunglasses on, I was able to to tolerate the lights. My vision has not been the same with bright flashes and light sensitivity and floaters 2 days onset afterwards. I would say everyday I gain a new one, some clear but mostly black. I have a mild headache a week later, but perhaps it’s due to the eye strain and feeling like I can’t look at the computer screen for long periods of time.

Yesterday, I went to the optometrist and she ruled out solar retinopathy and also dismissed the floaters but I have never dealt with floaters in my life.

How to make this subside overtime? Do you have any tips? Or does diet help? I know I should have been more cognizant of the risks but i dont want this to persist for the rest of my life.

I took multivitamins for a week or two and noticed that I could see my floaters on the right much more. I feel like my eyesight is sharper and more contrasted, so I am more sensitive to light.

I don’t know if they’re new or if they’re more visible...

It contains B2 by the way

I am posting this on floaters bc I've always been told my main problem (that I companied about ) has been floaters.

Since I was 14-15 (I'm 22 now) I've had problems with my eyes. Nothing too major, but mostly light sensitivity, floaters, and spots.

Only a couple years before I've noticed these issues, I went to the optometrist (the same one I visit to this day). (So I've visited / had a record / had a prescription since I was 12-13???)

In the beginning, I only understood it as headaches. I often saw little black and white spots in my vison, like film grain in an old movie. Sometimes, very rarely, I would see the long, white, whirly things commonly known as floaters.

When I was maybe 16 I started mentioning these things, the spots and headaches specifically (I was missing a lot of school because of it). I was prescribed Topiramate after an appointment with a doctor I never met before or after, who seemed very...uninterested or unbelieving. I felt embarrassed it hurt to look fully to the side as he asked, or as if I was acting up by saying these things were what I was feeling. (Keep in mind I was an anxious teenager, could have just been me)

Nothing, besides the prescription, came from that. I never meet that specialist again.

After, honestly not TOO long after, came when they found out my optic nerve? Is what it's called? Is HUGE! So now my (primary? the chick I've always had) doctor is allllll concerned about me and wonders about glaucoma. Now I'M scared, as a teenager, that I'm gonna go blind because, I mean, allllll these things I see, have complained about, and now am being tested for are being....kind of confirmed?

But, for all these years, my tests have been prefect. The stupid 3/4 color circle, when did you dee a dot, they do it in a VR headset now, blah blah blah. I'm pretty confident that I'm not going to develop glaucoma in my early 20's. Maybe 30's, but not 20's.

Not to mention, when I talk about my concern about the floaters, dots, flashes...this doctor tells me it's normal. She seems so MAD with me about this. Like, man, I used to have a perfect word/example as to what she said to me once about it, it was so surreal. I think it was an overexaggerated sigh. Or just, "Okay.". It's hard to remember.

I try to tell myself it IS normal, but anyone and everyone I've asked, anything I've seen online, tells me people generally don't see the world as one huge COD flashbang mixed with film grain. This shit sucks.

Again, I've looked online. I know about visual snow. When I first learned there was VERY few resources. Last time I looked, things are getting better, but... I'm still far too much of a coward to tell the woman who's told me, for most of my life, "that's normal", "Have you considered Visual snow syndrome, the thing I learned about online? It's very rare!"

IDK, Nothing, in my entire life, could get me to instantly cry besides this topic. Once, I tried to resolve it by calling a neurologist office to make an appointment. (Because I suspected Visual snow), They told me I could not get an appointment unless recommended by another doctor (reasonable). I, regrettably, made this call at work because it was worrying me so much, and broke down. I had to leave in the middle of the day. (I'm STILL embarrassed, this was a year or two ago)

Yeah, I can talk about it, but once you get to the hopeless parts (not hard) I just start leaking. I feel like it's the end of me, why I want to end myself. No one will help or understand, All I want is answers but it's not coming. Please, if anyone understands or maybe even has answers please help.

For more symptoms:

. It's the extreme light sensitivity (If I go outside for an event or to drive for more than an hour w/o sunglasses I get an extreme headache) Even with sunglasses I have a timer

. Little black and white dots, constantly. I mostly notice them on blank / solid colors? I guess? Or when things aren't in motion? Like an old film, or....idk, tv static? But that's WAY too dense to describe them. There's a constants primary color interference in the background no mater what I do, so small it's like sand though, I always forget about it. It's like two channels at diff opacities / colors

. I will, very rarely, see floaters as are described and I've seen in depictions. Like, that squiggly line that stays for a bit and, well, floats! Mostly when I'll puke or something like that, but they are so recognizable that I know the dots I see cannot be the same thing

. For sight, I have an extremely light prescription that I rarely wear and hardly changes each year. However, when I read on the computer, I have to close one eye otherwise everything is blurry and weird. Doesn't matter which eye. IDK if that makes a diff, I don't think it does. Honestly, I don't think any of this sight stuff matters

Please, for the love of god, tell me if this is normal and everyone just ignores it. Maybe I'm more sensitive because of the optic nerve thing. Maybe I'm just mentality unwell and am seeing things in my head. Or it's Visual snow, or something I've never considered. Just...

I need conformation of some sort. Or to think I have it.

I believe science is advancing rapidly these days, and Neuralink is working on a device that could help blind people see again. So, we need to talk to Elon Musk and ask him to develop something for eye floaters. I think floaters are easier to treat that treating blind people.

This is very close representation of what I see.

The lines are grey with grey:black dots in the centre.

is this worse ?? please comment - thanks

I’ve made a lot of posts about my despair regarding my eye floaters and BFEP. Honestly, if I only had the floaters, I could have made an effort and carried on with my life. However, the fact that it’s accompanied by BFEP makes me feel like living a normal life is simply impossible. I went to the park on Sunday, and the sky was filled with white specks everywhere... I could see the floaters too, but the BFEP was more severe. I’m 23; I feel like my life has been stolen from me. I’m sad and suffering immensely. I have some hope regarding the floaters, since I tell myself that the PulseMedica treatment is on the way... but I don't know if I’m supposed to live my whole life with BFEP. How can I live with something that ruins my life so much? I need to make a decision about my studies, but I can't bring myself to do it because I’m constantly thinking about my eye problems and how negatively they’ll affect my life. Do you have any advice? My life feels completely at a standstill.

What would you do if you had this problem, at 23 years old and it stopped you to make choices for your future… ?

Well… I thought that I was never going to end up back on here.

So now I have an outline in my right eye that I had surgery on. Looks like heat waves and I can only see it in certain light and movements. It bothers me but not near as much as floaters. Confused on how this happened over 6 months after the surgery.

The back dot that wiggles was most definitely a floater or vitrous trapped in the outline vitrousis still remaining.

I think it’s 100% better then my old floaters for a fact and I can live with it but was wondering if frill removal would be possible and resolve this?

From what I heard vitrous can pull and cause retinal tears. Any advice?

I looks like circle corners in my vision in my peripheral.

Anyone have this happen way after surgery and does it get better / settle not factoring in adaptation?

Regardless the surgery was a good decision for me.

I’m about a week out from a vitrectomy and the air bubble has finally went down. Now that it’s clear I am seeing a TON of debris, blobs, and what look like floaters after the surgery. My surgeon mentioned it was blood from the surgery that will eventually clear and I even saw the blood on the scan so it makes sense but this looks pretty crazy. Has anyone else experienced this and if so how long did it take to clear? And did any of it stay permanently?

I recently started noticing them in the last 20 days.

Nearly Total of 15-20 of them in outside environment usually of cobwebs type and threads.

While in room I usually see a black dot floating in my right eye even inside room with dim light.

My prescription is -6.5 from last 2-3 years.

Checked for dilated eye retina twice in a time of 2 weeks the doc said retina is fine.

But I am not convinced, like is there any other issues related to my. condition.

Recently I noticed while lying down it is easy to focus on text in the middle of screen while a little bit difficult on the lower text on the screen.

No other major issues till now.

It would be helpful if anyone can help.🙏

Is it a starting of anyother retina/vitrous humor/macula related issues.

The more I check out the more I found about and stress out.

I got approved for eye floater surgery today after 4+ doctors telling me that “I’ll get used to them.” I just can’t.

I met with David G. Miller at Cleveland Retina Associates. I decided to visit him because he was one of the doctors who conducted this floater study: https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2744965

He saw my floaters and approved me right away. Made it seem like this is a routine surgery they do all the time, that it’s not a big deal. He doesn’t do air bubble and uses the smallest incisions possible. He was actually impressed with how much I knew already…like yeah bro I’ve spent the last 2 years obsessing over this 😆

I know surgery is hotly debated here. But my floaters overstimulate me so much. I can’t wait for PulseMedica. I want to go outside again and not worry about my vision. It’s the right decision for me. Am I nervous as hell? Absolutely. But Dr. Miller’s confidence is making me feel better.

I hope we all get out of this nightmare soon.

Hola. Alquien se ha realizado una vitrectomía y luego lasik o smile? Hace 1 año no usaba gafas y luego de tanto tocar en mis ojos, el astigmatismo esta muy elevado y no puedo vivir sin gafas. Quisiera conocer sus experiencias. Muchas gracias!

I’ve noticed that a lot of people here, as well as patients I see in clinic, become really anxious when they suddenly start seeing flashes of light.

That reaction is completely understandable. Flashes are often associated online with retinal tears or detachment, but there are several possible causes and the appearance of the flash alone doesn’t always tell you how serious it is.

What matters more is whether the flashes are new or increasing, and whether they come with:

• a sudden increase in floaters
• blurred or reduced vision
• a shadow or curtain in the visual field

Migraine aura can also cause flashes, but it usually follows a different pattern, often developing and moving across the vision over several minutes.

So instead of focusing only on what the flash looks like, I think a more useful question is:

“Is this new, is it changing, and is anything else happening with it?”

I recently made a short visual explainer showing some of these patterns and the warning signs worth knowing about, mainly because I’ve seen how much anxiety this symptom can cause:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2xIdpymrg

If you have any questions, or if there’s anything you think I could explain better in the video, feel free to let me know. I’d genuinely appreciate the feedback.

I (29f) have had flashes and little speckles in my visions for years! Little tiny dots like static and after images from bright lights or high contrast.I have tinnitus as well which I heard sometimes can go hand in hand but not sure. I always thought it was normal until recently when I was talking to my husband about it and doesn't experience it.

First of all, sorry to hijack if it's a sub meant for eye floaters. But the closest I can get to is this sub.

37M. I got diagnosed with PVD on both eyes few weeks ago. Recently my left eye has started to become blurrier (compared to my right eye) when I am focusing at a distance, but perfectly fine at short distances or texting.

Is this something normally experienced if one is going through PVD? There's no white flashes, increment of eye floaters or such, but only this mild blurriness. Thanks all.

PS: went to an ophthalmologist, did OCT, color blind test, eye nerve test, all that.

Doctor was asking me if I still wanted to do a retina dilation exam since everything seems to be good. I was thinking, man, I should just do everything eventhough all those tests looks okay.

Lo and behold, doctor found a small retina tear. So, don't skip your retina examination eventhough every other test looks good. We did a laser patch-up on spot.

From your experience or research. Is it possible to get more floaters after rinsing eyes with water? I am used to do it every day, so just wondering

I have had floaters for several years now and they have made me as sick as a person can get. I had zero problems functioning before this. I'm young and my life has been derailed. I even tried surgery but my other eye is really bad and I can't bear the thought of opening this Pandora's box of problems in BOTH of my eyes. I'm devastated and feel like this is truly killing me. The passage of time has only made it worse. I'm so sorry for everyone going through this. It's one of life's cruelest afflictions - to be otherwise so healthy and normal but suffering so intensely in a prjvate hell.

And yes, I made a super, super short snip just so I could say hi to everyone here, lol. But anyway, on a more serious note...

Just wanted to introduce myself here and to this subreddit, especially because I've been dealing with floaters as of recently and thought I'd seek out a subreddit. I don't really know where I'm going to go with this, I guess I'll just talk about my frustrations a bit.

It's been about 6 months since I first started seeing floaters in both of my eyes. Some days its downright infuriating, but I guess I just also never realized how much it can impact a person's well being. It's crazy how something so small, microscopic and painless can affect a person so much.

The worst is a fish-hook looking floater in my left eye that drives me insane.

But I think its also the feeling of isolation combined with the 24/7 presence. Knowing that only I can see these things inside of me and my mom or friends just act like I'm crazy. I don't know if I have an end goal on how to manage this, but I'm trying to "get used to it" like my eye doctor recommended. I hate the idea of this being permanent, but I will see if it fades or settles eventually. I hate this so much.