Floaters after eye dilation

[kukulski]

The day after getting an eye dilation exam, I noticed a large cobweb floater in one of my eyes.  I didn't connect the two at first until I realized it happened consistently.  I now have large cobweb floaters in both of my eyes that keep getting bigger with each exam ... it's been about 8 years since my first dilation exam and they are not getting any better.  Has anyone heard of this before?  My eye doctors recommend that I keep getting the exams but I'm worried.

[kvosb]

So glad to find others who find this COINCIDENCE hard to believe.  I think the drops make it easier for the exam, but I wonder how much damage is being done.  My vision hasn't changed in almost 20 years, but I broke my glasses, and since I hadn't had an exam in about 5 years, I had to have one to get a new pair.  Full dialation and extended time under the intense bright lights, and now I have a couple of floaters.  There is no question in my mind about this.  I think the Drs. refusal to acknowledge the connection is because they view it as a 'greater good', and if a few benign floaters pop up, well, that's too bad.   I would like to start a movement of sorts to find out really how often the post eye exam issues occur.  And I don't want anyone telling me it is because I am over 50!   A bit off topic but similar Dr reaction, I found the same attitude over the years re birth control pills (when I was younger, and then for my college age daughter).  Both of us were healthy, and neither of us had pms mood issues, but on BC we both became depressed.  Since BC pills actually seem to provide an emotional lift for some women and are sometimes  actually prescribed to smooth out the cyclical mood swings, the Drs. don't admit that, in a person whose moods are not a problem (don't have huge hormonal swings) that taking hormones could cause huge emotional upheaval.  

[Personaltrainer9]

Hi, I had these drops put in my eye for an eye check up for dilation, but after a week later I started to get eye brow pain that wouldn't go away, so I went back they check my eyes again and pressure said it was fine, but headaches got worse and into my forehead to top of head, so I went to doctor and go antibiotics and now im on the last day of my antibiotuics and got that same pain when I focus on the pc or look at brighter objects in that same right eye?  do you think it could have cause some damage or anything that could be possible to this.. since ive been on antibtiocs I have had no headaches, but today the last day I felt slight pain in that right eye where the eye brow bone is, also that eye see's not as sharp as the left eye. although in my test they were both the same in distant -2.00. can you advice me?>

[leo88]

In my case, the floats also appeared after a dilated eye exam. I had 5 exams in a year and in that year the floaters deteriorated massively. I am from Argentina, Sudamerica.

[1UniqueUserName]

Most Doctors tend to go along with whatever they are indoctrinated with, with during their many years of education. Those are the same doctors prescribing medications, many of which, do more harm than good, which is a clear violation of The Hippocratic Oath (First, do no harm). We live in an unnatural society today, with people pumped full of psychoactive drugs, it's no wonder so many are going nuts and becoming violent. Back to my point, most doctors and pharmacists go along with the brainwashing they receive in medical school, handing out pills for everything. At the same time, they frown on any natural approach to wellness on the part of the patient.
Getting back on topic...several weeks ago, I had my first dilated eye exam. As they were about to put drops in my eyes, and explained what the drops were for, I made it clear that I had never had a dilated eye exam. The technician acted like it was no big deal and I figured they are doing this to millions of patients around the world and I am just behind the times, so I went along with it. After the exam, I was about to leave, but despite having very dark sunglasses with me, I was totally blinded upon exiting the building and couldn't even focus on the cars for the sun beating down on them. I went back inside and they gave me reversal drops (which is a joke - because those drops take hours to reverse anything). My eyes felt heavy for the balance of the week. I can see about the same as before the drops, however, my eyes sometimes feel heavy and irritated like they did following that dilation procedure. I am not against scientific progress, but I think the general public is just too quick to trust the latest so-called advancements in medicine. I believe that the dilation procedure may be just fine for millions of people, but maybe there are millions more who's eyes don't fit into the box of their safety studies. Everyone is unique, so maybe this dilation procedure is not such a good idea for all of us. I have made a personal choice to never have it performed again, as I think it's dangerous to play around with our vision. Also, I understand those drops to be toxic and that they kill cells within the eye.

[Betonaster]

"As they were about to put drops in my eyes, and explained what the drops were for, I made it clear that I had never had a dilated eye exam."  And what good would it do to file a complaint with the Board of Licensure if they did not first check for a narrow angle, before inserting the mydriatic, which, as we have all now read, can cause narrow angle glaucoma.  I would join in any lawsuit.

[Betonaster]

I have had many disabling complications that can only be attributed to the eye exam.

[waitara]

Same happened to me. I never had floaters until I had an eye test. The dilation drops really hurt my eyes and I rinsed them copiously when I got home. My left eye recovered from being sore next day but my right eye was still sore and blurred. Then the floaters appeared in my right eye a week later. Three weeks later they were worse, blurring vision, this time accompanied by flashes of light. I'm going to the doctor's with the problem next week

[Betonaster]

I hope you had better luck than I did.

[jaideepg]

Also when you tell a doctor such as the guy in this forum in the above posts, they don't believe you but they don't know EVERYTHING.  

There are so many things people complain about and doctors think they know 100% but they don't.  Just because it doesn't happen to everyone it may happen to 2% of the population for example.  

Doctors should start taking these complaints into account and see if they can find a trend of it happening to people rather than bashing them.

[Betonaster]

But it's 'better' than that.  Rather than have even intellectual curiosity, and wanting to assist, the mantra is now, "we DON'T" know.