brite yellow eye floaters!

[Mandaloo]

I'm only 21 and for about a year now I randomly see bright yellow circles in my vision, with my eyes open or closed that slowly float down and out of my sight within a matter of minutes.  I went to a doctor a few months ago and he said he couldn't see any problems and that it was probably my "jelly" being loose.  Is it true that it's very likely that it's nothing serious?  He didn't seem to confident or reassuring in his resulting diagnosis.  I'm always worried that every health problem I hace will lead to something serious.  Could these floaters be a sign of going blind?  Am I overreacting?

[Flavius G Pernoud III, MD]

Floaters are very common and usually benign. They are usually gray or shadowed dots or lines. Bright lights are usually not floaters. At your age in a healthy individual, they are most likely an ocular migraine. You have already done the right thing and had an eye exam. I had episodes of bright lights in my peripheral vision which I called "comets" which were bright balls of lights streaking down with curved tails. I blamed this on a medicine I was taking but I don't think it was because I have taken the same thing many times since and have never had them recur. I questioned my colleages about these and no one could give me an answer. They slowly disappeared over several months and I have never had them again. We don't have answers for everything. Watch your vision and if anything changes, get back to your ophthalmologist.

[prudent35]

hi there I have floaters, I was quite in a panic when I first noticed them, had eyes tested etc. found no eye disease at all, I was told it was eye jelly in my eyes and that the floaters were there for good, I notice it more looking at a white wall or looking out to the water, its a little strange but its not dangerous so I am happy with that, I wear dark glasses when I am out, i will learn to live with it. No you are not overreacting, I was the same, I felt I need to be reassurred all the time, now I have occular migraines, any thing with the eyes I panic, my eyes are dry. Hope it all works out for you and you are little more less worried. from prudent