dry eyes and eye floaters

[ginak]

Plateletgal,

Approximately 3 weeks ago, I began having floaters in my right eye. I went to the opthamologist 2 weeks ago and he told me that my eyes looked fine and there was no sign of optic neuritis. Since I have been dx with EBV, my eyes are dry and the left one, which is the eye that contains the floaters does have some mild pain. Is this a part of the viral process? Since I am having other neurological symptoms, should I get a second opinion about this? I am getting getting concerned about it.

Thanks

[ginak]

It is interesting that you bring up Celiac. My doctor just put me on a gluten free diet last week. I was doing fairly well on it until I was told that I had to have an EGD and in order for the gastro doctor to see if I was actually a Celiac, I have to eat gluten today since the test is on tomorrow. I know have to retrain my mind to eat a little bread today. I have the test tomorrow and will let you know how it goes. I have certainly started to feel better on the diet, but still having some small neuro symptoms.

[shoty]

I gogled to find this post as my sis is experiencing eye floaters.  I think all of you should go to the celiac.com forum page and read for a couple hours.  My feelings are that gluten is the underlying cause of almost all auto-immune disease.  In other words gluten comes first, then the immune system attacks itself.  Gluten tests/ celiac testing isn't real accurate and it takes months to get the gluten out of your system, but voice of experience speaking, after 5 months of gluten free eating, all my weird symtoms are slowly dissappearing.  I didn't have the eye floaters, so am tryng to find why sis is having them, but I suspect it is related to gluten.

[rmv80]

Hi ginak,

I have other symptoms (tinnitus, parestheia, headaches, palinopsia, sensitivity to lights). Floaters are getting worse on a day to day basis. I've been to a few retina specialists and they all say the retina is OK, but the floaters are increasing. Not sure what the cause is, but something is causing my vitreous to contract and creating all these floaters. Very annoying knowing that the only real solution is a floater only vitrectomy. Mine started in the both eyes at the same time and have been progressing together, not in just one eye. As the last retinaologist I just saw said "if it's in both eyes simultaneously, then the source is most likely coming from something other than your eyes"

I checked my Rx, i am on 1.25mg of Vitamin D 2x a week for 4 months.

[ginak]

Hello, I certainly don't mind your questions. I am glad that the muscle twitching has gotten better. Yes, I would mention this to my doctor. You should have your vitamin d and vitamin b levels checked. An LLMD is a lyme literate physician. The Vitamin d has helped some, but I guess I won't be able to really tell until I go off of the vitamin d and see if things go back downhill. Right now, I will continue to take the Vitamin D for the next month.

[ginak]

Hello,

Mine have not gotten worse, but just showed up one day and stayed around. When I go out in the sun, I tend to see them even more. I keep hearing that thyroid disease and vitamin deficiency can or may cause floaters. Is this the only symptom you are having?

[rmv80]

About your floaters... have they gotten worse, stabilized? I know that they probably won't ever go away but have you noticed them getting worse over a period of time or did you just get them one day and they've stayed that way since you experienced them originally? Mine continue to get worse, and it's very concerning for me since no eye dr or retinologist can seem to help.