Floaters in the eye

[Rags105]

What causes floaters and what can be done to get rid of them?

[des900]

What should i say other than this for a person obsessed with floater's, normal floater's one which will not further pose any threat are normal part of life & serious treatments like vitrectomy & other surgeries to remove them at any cost can only make the situation worst than before.

[malog]

des900
  You are too young to be posting as an expert. You need a weiss ring to understand floaters.

[des900]

eyesight is not perfect, if we watch near objects close enough we'll find various macroscopic particles of various shapes & if we look at plane sky in sunlight we see numerous cell like particles in vision. these all shows limitations of our vision yet we used to live with it..... only reason we are comfortable with it is because we accepted this fact, in the same manner if we accept our floater's which are usually permanent & harmless we'll not get bothered anymore.

[KKinTX]

know what you mean.  i just figured everyone had them.  They weren't too bad when i was a kid.  I would just daydream and watch them float across the sky.  pretend they were snakes.  whatever. but now that i am getting older i am having more and more of them.  and i too have to shake them out of the way at times to get a clear view.  so much for genetics and my eyes!

[mmmmpppp]

Until I was 50, I assumed that everyone had floaters like I do and they never bothered me.  Now that I know that not everyone has them, I HATE mine!  I can't believe that I've spent a lifetime having to shake floaters out of the way every time I try to look at anything.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

use the search feature to read about them. There is no cure for floaters (common types)

JCH MD