ATOT medics: I need your input!

xboxist

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Since the 4th grade, I've had to wear glasses/contacts for being near-sighted. But nothing abnormal, ever. Until today. I'm 26.

I was sitting at my computer at work when my vision suddenly started to feel off, ever so slightly. Like just barely enough to notice it. Like an itch on your body somewhere.

So once I noticed it, naturally I focused on the problem further. It took me awhile to sort out what I was experiencing. And my best description is:

In my left-center field of vision, there was this blob of mass. But I couldn't focus on it. When I did that, it instantly went slightly more to the left side, near my peripheral edge. And then I'd try to refocus on it, and it'd go further left again. I'd get frustrated, close my eyes, and "reset." And then I'd start right back where it began. This mass held a constant shape. And it was flickering with radiance very quickly. It's "color" reminded me of one thing immediately... the Predator in its pseudo-invisible form. Like a translucent, white gummy bear...thing. The blob remained even when I closed my eyes, although it made it reset to it's starting position, as mentioned above.

I was freaking out! By the time I was done analyzing it, it was really starting to impair my vision. No way I could have been able to continue to work on my computer. So I went to the break room and forced myself to stop thinking about it and take a nap. When I awoke 2 hours later, everything was normal.

Normal blood pressure.

Am I dying? Is it foresight? -- a Predator death is in my future?

Sorry, no cliffs. Read it, or make your smartass comment and move on.
 

antyler

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wow, ive had those before, i read that wiki definition, very interesting....
 

xboxist

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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
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I've had floaters before. My problem today was unique compared to floaters in that:

-- Floaters have always been much smaller, like a tiny piece of thread. This blob took up nearly half my vision.

-- Floaters have always moved on their own, almost always to the edge of my vision. When I would blink, the floater would reset and begin floating away again. Today's blob would not move on it's own. It would stay, completely annoying me until I had to try to look at it. With a floater, I could go on. Today's blob completely impaired me.

-- Floaters would usually stay with me for a minute, at most. The occurence today lasted a full hour, until I napped.

Did I experience an extreme case of floater-hell?

Nice link by the way, I love reading random stuff on that site :)
 

Amplifier

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I notice that sometimes after a particularly hard game. It's nothing like the floaters in the wiki definition.
 

arcenite

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i must say i have never experienced a floater, and fear when I do... I can imagine myself freaking out
 

eits

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don't worry about it... it's just solidified puss from allergies. it'll go away. i bet if you stuck your finger in your eye (not on the iris-pupil complex, just the white part) and scooted the mass towards your lid, you could pull it out and it'd be a long, white string and your eye would feel wierd as you pulled it out.
 

imported_goku

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Originally posted by: xboxist
Since the 4th grade, I've had to wear glasses/contacts for being near-sighted. But nothing abnormal, ever. Until today. I'm 26.

I was sitting at my computer at work when my vision suddenly started to feel off, ever so slightly. Like just barely enough to notice it. Like an itch on your body somewhere.

So once I noticed it, naturally I focused on the problem further. It took me awhile to sort out what I was experiencing. And my best description is:

In my left-center field of vision, there was this blob of mass. But I couldn't focus on it. When I did that, it instantly went slightly more to the left side, near my peripheral edge. And then I'd try to refocus on it, and it'd go further left again. I'd get frustrated, close my eyes, and "reset." And then I'd start right back where it began. This mass held a constant shape. And it was flickering with radiance very quickly. It's "color" reminded me of one thing immediately... the Predator in its pseudo-invisible form. Like a translucent, white gummy bear...thing. The blob remained even when I closed my eyes, although it made it reset to it's starting position, as mentioned above.

I was freaking out! By the time I was done analyzing it, it was really starting to impair my vision. No way I could have been able to continue to work on my computer. So I went to the break room and forced myself to stop thinking about it and take a nap. When I awoke 2 hours later, everything was normal.

Normal blood pressure.

Am I dying? Is it foresight? -- a Predator death is in my future?

Sorry, no cliffs. Read it, or make your smartass comment and move on.

FLOATERS! I made a post about this a few months ago, definately floaters.. 1. It's no really big deal 2. They eventually fade and 3. Theres nothing you can do about it.
 

eits

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i can't believe that floaters are in icd-9... everyone gets them and they're a natural optic event.... it doesn't need to be corrected (even if it did, it couldn't, really).