wearing an eye patch to ease floater anxiety

[popey54]

For two weeks I have suffered with a variety of eye floaters in my right eye. I saw two eye doctors, one being a retinal specialist..my retina is fine so far. My quality of life is dropping fast. I no longer enjoy reading. My work as a respiratory therapist is being effected,as I do a lot of charting on white paper and every time my eye moves so moves the "grey cloud", threads and buglike spots that block the vision in my right eye.There are so many specks of "dust" in my right eye that the entire field of vision is darker than my left eye. This is much like looking through smoke or a veil. There is so much activity that I can't concentrate. It's like a constant aquarium in my head, (think, jellyfish) I'm exhausted  by the end of the day. The only time I feel normal is in the dark,or when I put on the eye patch I bought. Will wearing an eye patch 24/7 damage my eyes.
I so hate my right eye that I toy with the idea of just jabbing a knife into it. Does that seem extreme?
Why is there so little work being done on treating floaters. Why are the doctors who do the laser work on floaters being treated like quacks by the rest of the medical world.At least they are doing something. If laser treatment is so bad, why isn't some other treatment being worked on.Draining the vitreous out seems even worse of a treatment than laser.
If floaters can't be treated, at least give those suffering some tools to use to help help see them less.
Maybe some kind of vision training to help keep the eye from focusing on the floater every time the eye moves the slightest bit. I wouldn't mind having them if i didnt see them. I just read that If I just started seeing them in one eye, that within 18 months I will have them in the other eye too.That would literally kill me...I would have that laser surgery without hesitation if it meant there was a chance of seeing normally again. If another eye doctor says learn to live with I will scream. For some of us there is no living with it..only sadness, depression and tears.I am not the same person I was only two weeks ago . Unless these bits of cellular debris take a hike..I will be this way till I'm not anymore. I hate this. I hate what I have become because in the scheme of things, with all the pain in the world and serious illnesses . I should be thankful that floaters is all I have. BUT I can't be happy
I want my vision back the way it was. nearsighted and all. OK I'm done venting.

[Zhana86]

Hi, I'm wondering if your condition has improved? My dad is going through the same problem and he is having such a hard time. He has changed from a fun person into a person that just sits on his couch with his eyes closed..it breaks my heart..I'm wondering how long it took for your symptoms to improve? and if they have? hope you can get back to me

[civilwar1863]

i know how you feel . i go out side in the snow and it looks like things all over the place. its strange i nver realy noticedthem before this winter. eve nsitting here typing this there floating around. im 37 years old and i think my gosh ! the rest of my life with this? i wear sun glasses it helps alot. and i try to look  at somthing and consantrate on it .. and are floaters so common? is there somthing in ower drinking water? makes me wonder

[distracting]

if you are intersted in an online community dealing with floaters see floatertalk.yuku.com

[walkietalkie]

My retina was torn several months ago which has been lasered. Whats left is a huge cloud with strings attached. During recent exam, doc said the other eye has lots of things floating in there too (as if I haven’t notice them yet). I am constantly reminded  to come back should I see new floaters, curtain, etc, etc. I see so many things that my brain sometimes just tune them out (which may not be a good thing), which is why I am seen quite regularly. I am grateful my doc seemed more concerned than me. I guess I have many other things to do and worry about and just hope these floaters are nothing more than just annoying dots, strings and cobwebs. Maybe some day a genius will invent a drug that can dissolve all these floaters. But I reckon it will be a cold day in hell before that happens.