Serious question about eye sight

[Miho]

This has been puzzling me for a long time. OK, whenever I look around me, I can see what looks like a strand of hair when put under a microscope, floating around. I don't believe the 'thing' I'm seeing is physical. It looks to be an image displayed through my eyes via my brain ... or something like that.

Recently, I've seen them in greater numbers. Maybe because I've been sick. I wonder if a doctor would know what this is.

[TurdBerglar]

it's just dirt and shit

it floats around on the liquid on your eyeball

[Miho]

Oh really? Man, that's weird. I wonder why nobody else I've spoked to this about has seen it.

[TurdBerglar]

could be bacteria growing and embedding itself into your retinas and eating your eyeballs from the inside out as well

[Documad]

You probably have floaters. Look them up on wikipedia or wherever. Look up flashers too to see whether you're having them. If you are having flashers, you will notice them when you're lying in a dark room and you make your eyes dart around and it looks like a little electrical storm inside your eyes.

I've had floaters for most of my life. Mine recently got a lot worse in one eye because I was hit in that eye (at my last Beastie Boys show in September, oh yes). Floaters also get worse as you get older even without an eye injury. There is no cure, you just have to put up with them but you want to let your eye doctor know because if they suddenly get serious it can be a sign of something like a torn retina.

A strand or little blobs aren't bad. If you see lots of flashers or if you get a big change in the amount of floaters, you should see a doctor ASAP. But if it's just the occasional thread or blob it's probably nothing.

I've been seeing an eye specialist since I got socked in the eye. I have a giant smudgy blob in my left eye. The giant floater appeared when I started having tons of flashers. The flashers stopped and the blob didn't get bigger so they decided to just keep watching it. The doctor has been watching it for months but the short answer is that I have to live with it.

[Documad]

I'll restate that I've had floaters since I was a teenager. I check the "floaters" box on the chart every time I go to the eye doctor. You should mention it to your eye doctor but don't freak out.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

I was in a fight at the Wu-Tang show a couple months back, and got hit pretty hard. My floaters have gotten a bit worse also now that I think of it.

[Echewta]

The floaters in my eyes don't help me swim any better. I still have to wear Mr. HorseAFloat arount my waist.

[Miho]

That explains it then. I was trying to search for an explanation on Wikipedia, but no luck. Thanks Documad.

[Baseline]

floaters - love them!
when i was really young I thought i could see photons,
purposely moving when they're in focus, lol
which is not complete untrue.
the scientists today claim that is very hard to observe photons
'cause their behavior depend on a watcher (lb)

[kaiser soze]

Fucking floaters...I have em too in both eyes. My eye doctor said there was nothing to fix them. They are very distinct in brightly lit areas or when I'm reading a book.

It's so trippy when I try to look at it and it speeds off when I focus on them

I wish for unobstructed eyesight all the time

[cookiepuss]

floaters...yes quite normal...but I'll just tell you all when ever you have any change in your vision that you are unsure about seek professional advice right away.

I almost lost my sight in my right eye last year. in fact if I had waited just a few more weeks to see the doctor my condition would have become untreatable and I would have lost my sight in that eye. I was diagnosed with non-age related macular degeneration. your macula is the part of your eye that allows you to recognize faces, drive and read. there was a spot int he center of my vision that was not only blurry but distorted. when i was trying the read the eye chart...I could see the nurse standing next to the chart but the chart was completely distorted. it was like looking at a fun house mirror.

My condition was treated with injections of a drug called Avastin into my eye. yep shot in the eye. fun stuff.

there is no difinitive answer on what causes non-age related macular degeneration. there's a chance it could develope in my other eye or return..but the doc says it's unlikely. which is good.

but let that be a lesson to ya. don't fuck around with eye problems. get it looked at right way.

[TurdBerglar]

a shot in the eye????

[cookiepuss]

yep. big needle in the eye. they do num it with eye drops so you don't feel the shot. and they have you kinda look off somewhere else so you don't see a big needle coming at your eye. cause that would be freaky.

then they give you a cool eye patch and tons of eye drops. For the next day or so after it feels like...you got poked in the eye. cause you did.

[abcdefz]

*shivers*


Yeah, I've heard about a procedure, also, where they go in straight through the pupil. Fuck that, man -- knock me out for that shit.

[hpdrifter]

There's no way I could handle that. I had lasik and almost had a freak out while they were making the flap. And I'm not normally squeamish about medical procedures.

[abcdefz]

I probably have greater eye loss fears than castration fears.

I once woke up to my roomate's cat having taken a swipe at my eye. A little claw-sized chunk of my eyelid, gone. I wanted to
fucking kill that cat. That's too, too close.

[hpdrifter]

*faints*

[Loppfessor]

It's about time we had some serious questions bout eye site...I got tired of thread after thread of those joke eye site questions