So Whats The Deal With Floaters In My Eye?

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: funboy42
For as long as I can remember I have had floaters but recently I been getting some what I can only call as a fire flies. Bright white spots that seem to go all over the place, and a whole bunch. Not one or two but enough to effect what I am looking at. LAst about half a minute then fades off.
Along with that get some flashing flights in the corner of just one eye that gets bigger and bigger then fades away. I can see perfect in the non effect parts of the vision but where it is lit up and wiggling around I cant see jack but a bright light that is moving in its place. Whats up with that??

See a specialist. If not, plan on not having your vision in a few years.

Not really.
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Wikipedia

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: psteng19

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: funboy42
For as long as I can remember I have had floaters but recently I been getting some what I can only call as a fire flies. Bright white spots that seem to go all over the place, and a whole bunch. Not one or two but enough to effect what I am looking at. LAst about half a minute then fades off.
Along with that get some flashing flights in the corner of just one eye that gets bigger and bigger then fades away. I can see perfect in the non effect parts of the vision but where it is lit up and wiggling around I cant see jack but a bright light that is moving in its place. Whats up with that??

See a specialist. If not, plan on not having your vision in a few years.

Not really.
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I'm going off of what my Doctor told me. Bursts of light and color disorientation due to flashes are extremely common signs of retinal tearing, which can cause partial and complete blindness.

EDIT: I can use Wikipedia too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinal_detachment
Look under symptoms.

 

[The Stigenator]

okay first off.. you got two 'humors' in your eye.. the aqueous and the viterous. Aqueous is before your lense and viterous is after.

So basiclly the floaters are particles in your viterous humor which normally a clear gel like thing that is between your lense and your retina. In certain conditions the muscles in your eye relax and that makes it fluid and your floaters start to show up because it moves. It happens in light backgrounds like white, yellow, blue, pink. Basically when your eye relaxes. Its irritating as fsck.

Now if you happent o have it with flashes your retina is tearing. Or if the thing seems to be around all the time. IN that case you got to get checked. I had a scare a over a year back when i thought i had a retina detachment, maybe not a detachment but after a whole lot of tests including an ultrasound they found that i dont have a tear. But just careful.

 

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: BigJ
I'm going off of what my Doctor told me. Bursts of light and color disorientation due to flashes are extremely common signs of retinal tearing, which can cause partial and complete blindness.

EDIT: I can use Wikipedia too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinal_detachment
Look under symptoms.

I know, but what he describes sounds more like what I posted in my link.

Retinal detachment also presents flashes but you'll begin to see what's like a curtain falling over your eyes (vision becomes dim), and complete loss of vision happens relatively quick; in days, not years.

 

[enyce2k9]

wow thats some scary stuff, i dont see the "snow effects" as in a static vision just some simple floaters sometimes, but just curiousity are us the computer users at the biggest risks of these things?

 

[skim milk]

I have those too

I just close my eyes and chase them when I'm bored

 

[akubi]

keep fwapping and it'll get worse

 

[robphelan]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: HumblePie
Sigh... okay infomation about your eyes.

Your eyes are fully formed from birth. They never grow or regenerate. If anything happens to them as you age, you are screwed. This is why kids and babies seem to have HUGE eyes compared to adults.

Eyes only grow during a certain period in the womb. While growing, there is a major artery that runs through the middle and out the back of the eye to give blood to the growing cells. As soon as the eye is finished growing and forming; the eye "seals" itself and cuts through the artery. The artyer piece that is left inside the eye breaks up and apart. Everyone see's "floaties" because these are the left over pieces of the artery that grew the eye. The lack of blood in the left over pieces is what makes the remnants of the artery mostly clear. Some bits aren't always.

As you age, the liquid in your eye does change as well. This was noted up above.


If you ever want to see floaties, look at a clear sky on a bright sunny day. You'll see all sorts of crap moving around, which is all the crap left over in your eye.

some of that is false.

your eyes are one of the last parts of your body to stop growing. around age 21.

that is why they do not like people getting lasik prior to age 23 or so.

wrong... your eyes don't get any bigger as you grow up... people dont get lasik til later because they wait for their eyesight to stabilize... not because your eyeballs are still growing.

 

[wfbberzerker]

they look like virus strands to me.

 

[enyce2k9]

well ive been eatn alot of vegetables lately+more sleep and feel more awake and i think less floaters(i barely had any just was concerned).
anyways i recommend taking brakes while usin a pc, i heard thats not good to stay lookin at a monitor for long ( heh logn time ago i use to spend bout 12+ hours a day jus usin my pc always findn things to do, ive improvd prob max is 9 now.

 

[Raiden256]

Power lines have floaters so the airplanes don't get smashed

 

[Giscardo]

Originally posted by: edro
Strange...

This morning I had some spots in my vision... they were the type you get when you look at a birght light, like the sun. I hadn't looked into any bright light, so I was a little worried. I think I was just real hot, because after I left for lunch and walked around, I was fine.

Did you drink coffee this morning?