Eye floaters

[BrAinPaiNt]

Anyone have any problems with eye floaters.

I had cataract surgery on one of my eyes a few years ago.
This is not a cataract....it is a floater as it moves around.

Driving me crazy...like a small black blur that makes you think it is a little nat.

Got an appt with the eye next month. Hope there is some simple remedy for them. The eye surgery was not bad imo but rather it be some medication or something if possible.

 

[Hardline]

 

[nobody]

Anyone have any problems with eye floaters.

I had cataract surgery on one of my eyes a few years ago.
This is not a cataract....it is a floater as it moves around.

Driving me crazy...like a small black blur that makes you think it is a little nat.

Got an appt with the eye next month. Hope there is some simple remedy for them. The eye surgery was not bad imo but rather it be some medication or something if possible.

Let us know what they say. My eye doctor said nothing can be done about them and they're just a part of aging. I'd like to hear that the doc is wrong. haha

 

[rags747]

Only while doing LSD…

 

[Tabascocat]

My wife has had them for about 10 years now. It drives her crazy, like little gnats. She had LASIK about a year before those really started. It is common for them to become more pronounced after various eye surgeries. There is no cure for them, just have to live with it.

 

[YosemiteSam]

The only time I see them is if I close my eyes in front of a bright light.

I had LASIK in 2003.

My vision was good and stable up until recently. I've noticed small text on products (whatever it may be) can be hard to read. Especially if the text / background lack contrast.

 

[Khartun]

I see them, drives me crazy some times.

 

[DasTex]

I have quite a few according to the eye doctor but they never bother me.

 

[Runwildboys]

The only time I see them is if I close my eyes in front of a bright light.

I had LASIK in 2003.

My vision was good and stable up until recently. I've noticed small text on products (whatever it may be) can be hard to read. Especially if the text / background lack contrast.

I assume the LASIK was for your distance vision? I had it done a while back, and they told me it doesn't help with close up.

 

[Runwildboys]

Anyone have any problems with eye floaters.

I had cataract surgery on one of my eyes a few years ago.
This is not a cataract....it is a floater as it moves around.

Driving me crazy...like a small black blur that makes you think it is a little nat.

Got an appt with the eye next month. Hope there is some simple remedy for them. The eye surgery was not bad imo but rather it be some medication or something if possible.

I get them on rare occasions. I think I'd go crazy if they were permanent. Do eye drops help at all?

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I get them on rare occasions. I think I'd go crazy if they were permanent. Do eye drops help at all?

I have dry eyes at times so I use eye drops a good bit. But they have not helped. But it is just generic eye drops. Not sure if some kind of medicated ones would help. However from the responses in here, it sounds like it will not.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I assume the LASIK was for your distance vision? I had it done a while back, and they told me it doesn't help with close up.

Yeh...I had a cataract removed and they did that surgery. Said you close up vision will be worse. They gave me a pair of glasses that were basically readers. I use them for small print items. Only time I have had to use them outside the house is to see some menus.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

The only time I see them is if I close my eyes in front of a bright light.

I had LASIK in 2003.

My vision was good and stable up until recently. I've noticed small text on products (whatever it may be) can be hard to read. Especially if the text / background lack contrast.

When I had the cataract. At the start of it, it was only bright light that made it show up. I remember I kept trying to clean one lens of my sunglasses when I was driving. But at the very least that one always was stationary.

 

[Creeper]

I started getting them about 10 years ago. My first one scared the dickens out of me. I thought I was having a stroke or something. LOL. My eye doctor told me, as someone else said, they are part of the aging process and they are harmless. She also said they are just fibers in the vitreous humor that float around in the eye. She said they do not go away, but your brain will adjust to them so they are less noticeable. I don't know how many times I thought I was seeing a bug fly by my head when in reality it was a floater.

If you are suddenly getting lots of them you should get your eyes examined.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I've seen them all my life. I remember seeing them when I was only something like 8 years old. I still see them as an adult, though probably a few more than I saw when I was a kid.

 

[SlammedZero]

The only time I see them is if I close my eyes in front of a bright light.

I had LASIK in 2003.

My vision was good and stable up until recently. I've noticed small text on products (whatever it may be) can be hard to read. Especially if the text / background lack contrast.

The small text drives me crazy. I'm getting older, so definitely my vision isn't perfect anymore, but it seems to me companies feel the need to micro-print everything anymore. I had to bust out a magnifying glass to read some instructions that came with my wireless earbuds. Lol

 

[Catpappy]

Anyone have any problems with eye floaters.

I had cataract surgery on one of my eyes a few years ago.
This is not a cataract....it is a floater as it moves around.

Driving me crazy...like a small black blur that makes you think it is a little nat.

Got an appt with the eye next month. Hope there is some simple remedy for them. The eye surgery was not bad imo but rather it be some medication or something if possible.

Try pure Castor oil drops.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Had a long road trip the last couple days.
The first part of it was in night hours. I actually loved it as I did not see the floaters, but on the way back during the day, they are back.

oh well...guess I will just have to get used to it.

 

[speedkilz88]

Just saw on youtube, people are using 1 drop of castor oil as eye drops to treat cataract/floater issues. Here is a doctor trying it.

 

[Tabascocat]

Just saw on youtube, people are using 1 drop of castor oil as eye drops to treat cataract/floater issues. Here is a doctor trying it.

That is a very bad idea. Castor oil is not sterile and can lead to many severe problems, even blindness.