Floaters

[jkv44]

I'm sure that many of you deal with the floaters in the eyes from lyme.

Does anyone have any suggestions to get rid of them?

someone told me a while ago regarding natural way but have lost that info.

Thanks, JKV

[patsy10]

I am not aware of any way to get rid of them.  I have had them for many years.  This is one thing that has never improved with treatment.

[Hope75]

I definitely have them, sometimes more often and other times I forget I had them until it streaks across my field of vision.  I have no idea how to get rid of them, but I've just grown accustomed to them.

[JackieCalifornia]

I've read that after a while, the eye just compensates for the blocked vision and fools the brain into ignoring the floater.

Mine seem to come and go too, whether because my brain is ignoring them or not, I don't know.

Seeing an ophthalmologist (an MD who specializes in eyes) is I think I good idea, esp. one who understands about Lyme.  When I first went to see mine after I was diagnosed and was trying to explain that it's a serious disease blah blah, he was actually very up on the topic and was careful to check for any Lyme-related problems.

My vision also seems to change from time to time, so much so that I haven't gotten new glasses for quite a while because the prescription is bound to be 'off' somehow.  But I do get my eyes checked.  Which reminds me .... time to make an appointment.

[jkv44]

Jackie, Hope & Patsy,
thanks for the insight. Sometimes I barely notice them and other times, it seems like a sea of them. I noticed them more in my left eye and barely seem on my right. Not sure why that is.

I will make an appt for the floaters if they get worse.

JKV

[hv2laf]

I get floaters as well. Mine seem to be "more present" when my body is doing its heat flushing it likes to do.

so far the only diagnosis Ive gotten from a LLMD is "chronic lyme with bartonella co-infection" ..and possibly a babesia co-infection but we havent gotten a chance to run the lab for that one yet.

As for the rest of the doctors, they dont know." It just happens in people. "

[Hope75]

I think i recall somebody saying its stuff literally floating in your vitreous humour?? Totally pulled that out of you know where, so don't know about the validity.

hv2laf:  I am getting hot flashes sooo bad tonight.  I'm going to post on the subject.

[hv2laf]

lol!

i dont know I know my eye floaters I cant see them or catch them, they float by look like dots or squiggy lines but its not really a color its like a shade, maybe transparent but enough to block light to be shown. i dont know it moves and doesnt follow any certain direction I look.

Ill have to look into it too

[gorbybelle]

floaters - I seem to get more of them - or the same ones being more active - when I am feeling particularly 'yukkie' - mine are like transparent worms - not just lines - they have little fat bodies!!

[patsy10]

Mine look like worms too...

[hv2laf]

maybe we are all just related weirdos ;)

think the docs would go for that?

[JackieCalifornia]

When they called that Lyme movie 'Under Our Skin' maybe they were hinting at some other form of kinship.  Ha.

I get the floaters too -- it reminds me of transparent seaweed waving in the water.  If I cut my eyes to the side quickly, the 'seaweed' goes crazy.

When I hit middle age, my ophthalmologist told me the seaweed effect is the breakdown of the protein matrix inside the eye (that holds the jelly stuff Hope75 mentions above).  When a piece of the matrix crunches, it takes a while but the brain's visual center learns to filter it out for the most part.  I have more seaweed in one eye than the other, but no blind spots on the visual field test.  

(One of the first matrix collapses I had really scared me -- I was looking straight ahead, probably at a computer screen, and suddenly there was a zig zag effect in my field of vision, like taking a pair of scissors and making a couple of cuts across a photo, and then sliding the pieces so they didn't line up anymore.  It stopped quickly, but for that moment, the broken matrix was distorting the light going through my eye from cornea to retina.  Now I just get 'seaweed.')

For those of you not yet middle age, think of all the fun you'll have trying to figure out what the h*ck is going on!  Happy Friday everybody!  

[winfree]

Thank you for that question, and all the answers from others! I've had seaweed effect, and floater found first time by dr. last week. It crossed my mind that it could be from the lyme. Inow know others with lyme deal with it too, so probably my lyme too. Thanks

[lesnbek]

OMG i have wondered for like 15 years what is this stuff. Went to several eye Dr's they all said allergy. Ugh no they are there all the time and they bother me. They are sometimes so long it wraps around top and bottom of eye. I can get it out with wet cutip but it seems to aggravate it. I cant just ignore these big stringy floaters.

[hv2laf]

I dont know about all your symptoms lesnbek but alot of my problematic symptoms... such as high blood pressure, problems getting any sleep, or even "episodes" I had at random similar to that of some kind of stroke or panic attack is how it would be described has kind of vanished since Ive been getting treated for Lyme with different antibiotics. Have you started any antibiotics for treating your Lyme ?

Google Dr. Burrascanos "Advanced Topics In Lyme Disease: 16th Edition"

read through that itll give you a good idea whats going on with things and things Lyme affects, down to antibiotics to use, co-infections of Lyme and foods to stay away from.

Do LOTS of research on it. All you can do from this point is educate yourself and ask lots of questions on your diagnosis and decide if thats something you agree with or not. If you think something else may be involved MAKE them rule those things out as well.

[Chatterbox58]

yep...we are all lymie weirdos ...lol  Mine also looks like worms....they developed the same time I was diagnosed with lyme maybe a month after.

[kronos21]

I completely understand what your saying ive had mine now for years. They developed  when i was a kid but my opticians always said its normal they might go they might not. They never did go away and ever since have had on going visual problems such as white shooting spots of light and patterns and now suddenly this ghosting affect came on not so long ago. That i notice more at night. They told me i was perfectly fine i disagree.