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How to stop the new FLOATERS being formed. Please reply me .
How to stop the new FLOATERS being formed. Please reply me .
I feel like floaters are increasing in my eyes day to day. i attended retinal tests in 3 hospitals, everything was perfect
and i donyt have any retinal tears.
What to do to control the new floaters ??
I feel like floaters are increasing in my eyes day to day. i attended retinal tests in 3 hospitals, everything was perfect
and i donyt have any retinal tears.
What to do to control the new floaters ??
Thank you so much!!!! I have had floaters for years, but just this week developed much worse ones, to the point where it does affect daily life. Just found this site and am reading all of the posts. Horrible that we all have this condition, but reassuring in some way that we are not alone. Thank you so much for sharing.
I am super sensitive to every change in my body and I was gifted with perfect vision my whole life. So when one day I went outside to run my dogs like I do every day, and noticed that I couldn't look at the sky without seeing these floaters all over my vision, I was not only terrified but horrified that I couldn't see like I did before. I spent a lot of days crying, a lot of days wondering why it happened to me, and a lot of days stressing and worrying and reading and scouring the internet for possibilities and possible treatments.
I wasn't happy with the answer I kept finding: "It's normal, you'll get used to it, nothing you can do."
I didn't feel like it was normal for a 27 year old to one day wake up and have a bunch of crap in their eyes, I definitely didn't ever see myself getting used to them, and the one thing I can't do when I'm losing my vision is do nothing.
I went to an eye doctor who scoffed at some of my symptoms and scoffed at how severely "normal floaters" had effected my quality of life. So I went somewhere else.
I found a doctor who was smart and who cared, she looked at my eyes for what seemed like hours, discussed every possibility, and though she couldn't fix me, or take back what happened, she let me know that she was positive I wasn't going to go blind, that she didn't see any problems, and that yeah.. Though it's hard, I'd have to get used to them.
There were a few days when I would have rather died than to have these things in my eyes.. I would have rather laid down and just stopped living. I'm a gamer, a photographer, an artist, a hiker.. and these floaters effected everything I loved in my life. I know it's hard, I know it feels like one of the worst things that could happen to you, that's how it felt for me.. I felt like there was some answer, something I could do, something I did to cause it, some way out to go back to how I was before. But the only thing I could do was lay there and cry, and find some will power in my heart to live with it, and to not live with it in misery.
Luckily I have the best mom in the world.. and the best family in the world. I cried until I couldn't cry anymore, accepted the fact that my vision had changed and all the hoping in the world and wishing I could rewind time to back before I had these problems wasn't going to change anything. My mom was there to hug me every day, to tell me it would be okay.. to tell me I would find ways around it and that she'd never let me deal with it alone and that she'd give anything to take it for me and live with it instead..
It's hard, one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with. I felt like I had to grow up about 50 years in a day. You still go on, you still live, the world is still beautiful, even if you can't see it as well.. it cuts our quality of life in half, it makes things hard, hard to focus, hard to see, hard to look beyond it and keep going. It's a little hard to play games like I did before, but I still can, it's hard to look at paper to draw and paint on, but I still can. It's hard to read books or read on white backgrounds, and it's hard to go outside in the sunshine and see the flowers and the clouds and the trees and my beautiful dogs.. But I still do all of these things.
You have to get to a point where you accept it. Not to be happy with it, but just.. accept it.. Accept that this has changed for you, that you have to live with it for now, that smart people out in the world are working on medicines that can help, and we just have to wait, and keep trying to live life.
I have tons of floaters.. Long ones, black dots, bright ones.. They're in my eyes constantly, in everything that I look at. They're not the kind that will settle, they're all over my center field of vision. When I focus on them I get headaches, when I use my eyes too long I get headaches, it used to make me sick to my stomach - not so much anymore. I have after images that came with the floaters, bright lights hurt the hell out of my eyes and then I see negative images everywhere. My night vision is shot, everything looks a little pixely and weird like there's movement everywhere, like visual snow.
When I first had the floaters appear, my vision was so blurry I couldn't see more than a couple feet infront of me. I overfocused on everything since I thought I was losing my vision and wanted to make sure I could still see, and put so much strain on my eyes that they became inflamed, I gave myself false near-sightedness from all the focusing and overworking my eyes that I never used to do, and the inflammation caused a few more floaters.. Which was definitely the last thing I wanted to do.
We're all going through this together. We can't be happy about it, we won't ever be.. It's going to impact your life, you're going to feel like it's all a bad dream and you're going to wake up and everything will be back to normal. You're going to look for answers, you're going to think about your floaters constantly, look at them constantly, try to remember a time that they weren't there.. and when you finally get to the point where you accept that they're not going away, and that it's nothing you did wrong.. maybe you can learn to live beside them.
I wake up with a smile and I go to bed with one. Some mornings I open my eyes and hope that they'll be gone, but they're still there.. I don't think about them, I don't look for them, if my mind starts to get onto the subject of floaters I quickly find something else to think about. I smile at my mom when she's talking about how pretty the clouds are in the sky cause I know that they are, even if I can't look at them.. I laugh with my sister when she's talking and playing games cause my sense of humor isn't gone, and my love for life isn't gone.. I still take my dogs for a run, and they don't understand any difference in me, they still chase birds and have fun and run to me wagging their tails. My favorite cheesecake still tastes as good, my boyfriend still loves me, and I'm still alive.
Come to terms with it..make sure your eyes are healthy and then accept it.. Cry if you need to, take a deep breath, I promise you from the bottom of my heart that it will be okay. Live with it, find a way around it, don't look at them, don't think about them, don't let yourself read anything else online about what else could be wrong with you.. When your brain starts to go down that road, don't let it. When you're looking at the sky and staring at your dots and strands everywhere, it's okay.. they're there for me too.
Some day there will be a fix. People are so smart and although floaters don't get the attention that they deserve, there is going to be a fix.
We just have to wait and keep going, and do what little we can to make them better. Don't stress.. don't think about it, don't look at them, and find a way to smile.
I love all of you, I care for all of you, I understand everything that all of you are going through, I don't pray very often, but I pray for everyone going through this. My heart breaks for anyone who doesn't have someone close to them to give them the kind of support that I had, it got me through. You'll get through it, just like the rest of us. And it'll get a little better, I promise you. It's gotten better for me.
Here's lookin at you. :)
I wasn't happy with the answer I kept finding: "It's normal, you'll get used to it, nothing you can do."
I didn't feel like it was normal for a 27 year old to one day wake up and have a bunch of crap in their eyes, I definitely didn't ever see myself getting used to them, and the one thing I can't do when I'm losing my vision is do nothing.
I went to an eye doctor who scoffed at some of my symptoms and scoffed at how severely "normal floaters" had effected my quality of life. So I went somewhere else.
I found a doctor who was smart and who cared, she looked at my eyes for what seemed like hours, discussed every possibility, and though she couldn't fix me, or take back what happened, she let me know that she was positive I wasn't going to go blind, that she didn't see any problems, and that yeah.. Though it's hard, I'd have to get used to them.
There were a few days when I would have rather died than to have these things in my eyes.. I would have rather laid down and just stopped living. I'm a gamer, a photographer, an artist, a hiker.. and these floaters effected everything I loved in my life. I know it's hard, I know it feels like one of the worst things that could happen to you, that's how it felt for me.. I felt like there was some answer, something I could do, something I did to cause it, some way out to go back to how I was before. But the only thing I could do was lay there and cry, and find some will power in my heart to live with it, and to not live with it in misery.
Luckily I have the best mom in the world.. and the best family in the world. I cried until I couldn't cry anymore, accepted the fact that my vision had changed and all the hoping in the world and wishing I could rewind time to back before I had these problems wasn't going to change anything. My mom was there to hug me every day, to tell me it would be okay.. to tell me I would find ways around it and that she'd never let me deal with it alone and that she'd give anything to take it for me and live with it instead..
It's hard, one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with. I felt like I had to grow up about 50 years in a day. You still go on, you still live, the world is still beautiful, even if you can't see it as well.. it cuts our quality of life in half, it makes things hard, hard to focus, hard to see, hard to look beyond it and keep going. It's a little hard to play games like I did before, but I still can, it's hard to look at paper to draw and paint on, but I still can. It's hard to read books or read on white backgrounds, and it's hard to go outside in the sunshine and see the flowers and the clouds and the trees and my beautiful dogs.. But I still do all of these things.
You have to get to a point where you accept it. Not to be happy with it, but just.. accept it.. Accept that this has changed for you, that you have to live with it for now, that smart people out in the world are working on medicines that can help, and we just have to wait, and keep trying to live life.
I have tons of floaters.. Long ones, black dots, bright ones.. They're in my eyes constantly, in everything that I look at. They're not the kind that will settle, they're all over my center field of vision. When I focus on them I get headaches, when I use my eyes too long I get headaches, it used to make me sick to my stomach - not so much anymore. I have after images that came with the floaters, bright lights hurt the hell out of my eyes and then I see negative images everywhere. My night vision is shot, everything looks a little pixely and weird like there's movement everywhere, like visual snow.
When I first had the floaters appear, my vision was so blurry I couldn't see more than a couple feet infront of me. I overfocused on everything since I thought I was losing my vision and wanted to make sure I could still see, and put so much strain on my eyes that they became inflamed, I gave myself false near-sightedness from all the focusing and overworking my eyes that I never used to do, and the inflammation caused a few more floaters.. Which was definitely the last thing I wanted to do.
We're all going through this together. We can't be happy about it, we won't ever be.. It's going to impact your life, you're going to feel like it's all a bad dream and you're going to wake up and everything will be back to normal. You're going to look for answers, you're going to think about your floaters constantly, look at them constantly, try to remember a time that they weren't there.. and when you finally get to the point where you accept that they're not going away, and that it's nothing you did wrong.. maybe you can learn to live beside them.
I wake up with a smile and I go to bed with one. Some mornings I open my eyes and hope that they'll be gone, but they're still there.. I don't think about them, I don't look for them, if my mind starts to get onto the subject of floaters I quickly find something else to think about. I smile at my mom when she's talking about how pretty the clouds are in the sky cause I know that they are, even if I can't look at them.. I laugh with my sister when she's talking and playing games cause my sense of humor isn't gone, and my love for life isn't gone.. I still take my dogs for a run, and they don't understand any difference in me, they still chase birds and have fun and run to me wagging their tails. My favorite cheesecake still tastes as good, my boyfriend still loves me, and I'm still alive.
Come to terms with it..make sure your eyes are healthy and then accept it.. Cry if you need to, take a deep breath, I promise you from the bottom of my heart that it will be okay. Live with it, find a way around it, don't look at them, don't think about them, don't let yourself read anything else online about what else could be wrong with you.. When your brain starts to go down that road, don't let it. When you're looking at the sky and staring at your dots and strands everywhere, it's okay.. they're there for me too.
Some day there will be a fix. People are so smart and although floaters don't get the attention that they deserve, there is going to be a fix.
We just have to wait and keep going, and do what little we can to make them better. Don't stress.. don't think about it, don't look at them, and find a way to smile.
I love all of you, I care for all of you, I understand everything that all of you are going through, I don't pray very often, but I pray for everyone going through this. My heart breaks for anyone who doesn't have someone close to them to give them the kind of support that I had, it got me through. You'll get through it, just like the rest of us. And it'll get a little better, I promise you. It's gotten better for me.
Here's lookin at you. :)
sir,
I am 28 years old and having floughter problem in my right that make my job more complex while working in office on PC and one major think spot comes in front of my vision that moves after many tries to move eye from right to left then it disappear for sometime but appears again. so please let me know what should i do?
I am 28 years old and having floughter problem in my right that make my job more complex while working in office on PC and one major think spot comes in front of my vision that moves after many tries to move eye from right to left then it disappear for sometime but appears again. so please let me know what should i do?
hi i'm crystal i'm a 1 month post op lasik patient, i've got floaters after just 2 weeks of that lasik surgery, my lasik doctor just told me that it's a normal process of the eyes and nothing to do with that lasik surgery even my retinal specialist has the same explanation but i really don't believe them. now i got stressed and had anxiety bec. my floaters tend to worsen every week it started with one dot on the right eye and now it's two, with strings on it, even on the left eye floaters became visible i'm afraid what will happen to me after 6 months. i wish i don't undergo lasik surgery with that doctor and that place! i spend a lot of money just to have anxiety huhu....
hi i'm crystal i'm a 1 month post op lasik patient, i've got floaters after just 2 weeks of that lasik surgery, my lasik doctor just told me that it's a normal process of the eyes and nothing to do with that lasik surgery even my retinal specialist has the same explanation but i really don't believe them. now i got stressed and had anxiety bec. my floaters tend to worsen every week it started with one dot on the right eye and now it's two, with strings on it, even on the left eye floaters became visible i'm afraid what will happen to me after 6 months. i wish i don't undergo lasik surgery with that doctor and that place! i spend a lot of money just to have anxiety huhu....
Sir
I am 25 years old and had undergone ICL surgery in right eye 8 monhs back.I was feeling great 4 months after surgery as my vision was far more better than when i wore contact lenses in right eye.After 4 months, due to high stress level in life, suddenly i developed floaters in both eyes. and they have worsened day by day. I got my retina check several times. Doctors say there is no retinal holes and get your retina check after every 3-6months. As I was high myopic in right eye and moderate myopic in left eye, having floaters is common. But again, Now i think I was happy when i used to wear contacts. Atleast at that time , I hardly noticed any floaters......One more thing, when i remove my contact lens from left eye, floaters are more as compared to time when i wear contact lens.
Is it helpful to wear contact lens of no power in right eye (ICL eye) so that I see less number of floaters??
Please reply back.
Thanks
I am 25 years old and had undergone ICL surgery in right eye 8 monhs back.I was feeling great 4 months after surgery as my vision was far more better than when i wore contact lenses in right eye.After 4 months, due to high stress level in life, suddenly i developed floaters in both eyes. and they have worsened day by day. I got my retina check several times. Doctors say there is no retinal holes and get your retina check after every 3-6months. As I was high myopic in right eye and moderate myopic in left eye, having floaters is common. But again, Now i think I was happy when i used to wear contacts. Atleast at that time , I hardly noticed any floaters......One more thing, when i remove my contact lens from left eye, floaters are more as compared to time when i wear contact lens.
Is it helpful to wear contact lens of no power in right eye (ICL eye) so that I see less number of floaters??
Please reply back.
Thanks
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