Eye Floaters and Flashes, Animation.
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- (USMLE topics) Overview of Eyes Floaters, Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD), and retina complications: retinal tears and retinal detachment.
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From the patient’s point of view, floaters are objects that drift around in the field of vision. They may look like blobs, little worms or cobwebs that move with the eye’s movement. They seem impossible to focus on and are most visible when looking against a bright plain background such as a blue sky or a blank computer screen. Floaters are in fact particles suspended inside the vitreous body - the gel-like structure that fills the space between the lens and the retina. What we see, however, are not the floaters themselves, but the shadows they cast on the retina. The closer they are to the retina, the larger and clearer they appear in the field of vision. Commonly, floaters develop as part of normal aging. With age, the gel-like vitreous body undergoes syneresis - a process in which water is separated from solid components, creating pockets of fluid that are perceived by the patient as blobs or little worms. The major structural protein of the vitreous - collagen fibrils - become denatured, clump together and can be seen as floating strings or cobwebs. The fluid pockets may collapse, causing the vitreous to shrink and pull away from the retina. This pulling exerts mechanical stimulations on the retina, producing "flashes of light" or photopsias in peripheral vision. Eventually, the vitreous is separated from the retina. This is known as posterior vitreous detachment or PVD. PVD is very common but is generally benign and does not require treatment. The floaters may be a nuisance to vision, but in most people, the brain will eventually learn to ignore them. Complications may happen, however, in a small number of cases. As the vitreous detaches, it may pull the retina with it, resulting in a retinal tear. Fluid from the vitreous may then sip through the tear and cause the retina to separate from the underlying tissue. This is known as retinal detachment and is a sight-threatening condition. Worrying signs to watch out for include: - A sudden increase in number of new floaters, especially tiny ones as these may represent pigments or blood cells released from the damaged retina or blood vessels. - A shade or curtain of vision - a sign of loss of vision from the detached part of the retina. People with high degree of myopia are at higher risks of having PVD. The longer shape of the eyeball in myopia increases the likelihood of PVD and also the risk of retinal complications. This is because the retina is stretched over a larger surface and becomes thinner and more vulnerable to tears. Other risk factors for PVD include intraocular inflammation, trauma, previous eye surgery, diabetes and family history.
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I'm 27 and had them my entire life. As a kid, I tried to explain my parents that I see some strange, transparent symbols looking at me. :D They are quite intense in my case, that's why I always wear polarized sunglasses during the day and generally prefer to live at night.
Anyway, for many years I believed that I'm totally alone with it, so I'm extremely glad to meet y'all. : - )
Same. I’m glad to know lots of people have them.
I am 27 also and I live with them, too.
Hi there
Sorry about that
same here they dont understand me i would like tto have your insta do youhave that?
I got rid of mine. I had it really bad, paired with migraines. Found out it was from pre-diabetes which causing retinal detachment. This is a symptom a big health problem. Think of it as a warning sign an organ is failing.
1. Stop eating sugar forever
2. Don’t eat processed foods & carbs
3. Intermittent fasting every day
4. Cold Shower (Adrenals & Vascular System)
5. Exercise and deep breathing
6. Eat high organic food.
There is no pill or instant cure. It took me 3 years to fully see clearly. It’s a long journey but worth it.
Thanks bud
Mine got extremely worse , if I have a torne retina, or in small handful of cases mine could be a bad case, I can’t see very well as certain floaters have seems to bunch up or gotten worse it makes my head hurt and it feels much worse then before.
@@mannyescobar9981 I'm going threw the same thing
Thank you for this video and the comments. I now realize that I am not alone with this problem. It is a relief.
No, yiu are definitely not alone. I’ve had them my entire life.
Bruh were all in this together
Fun fact alot of people actually end up getting them through the course of there life its almost a higher chance to not have them then to have them
Edit: hopefully this makes you feel a little bit better because I have them too
Cool thing to have from a very young age like me, but difficult for those who get them in adulthood.
@@alexsinclaire8894 Thank you bro me 2 and cheers
For everyone who has eye floaters and are currently in panic: keep on reading.
I first encountered floaters when I was about 19 but somehow they moved out of my field of vision, then at 27 I suddenly had a bunch of them. At that time I also had bad anxiety, stress etc and I couldn’t stop looking for the floaters that it became a daily obsession. But: I overcame it. It WILL get better! Try to find the core of where the anxiety comes from, maybe with a little more help like therapy or someone you trust to talk to. Strangely, I still have floaters but I barely notice them because I’m not scared of them anymore. The mind can be a powerful ally or your biggest enemy. If I can do it, you can do it too!
Thanks, I'm 27 and experiencing the very same thing. Very reassuring to hear others got through it okay.
@@flashbackodskankaHappy to help, I wish I had read some helpful comments last year but instead I only read comments of people who were freaking out. Doesn’t help at all haha!
Funny enough when I talked about it with some relatives or friends they also experienced floaters, seems like it’s more common than I thought, and most importantly: totally harmless.
@@SelinaUniverseHii thanks so much for your comment, I have been coming back to it a lot for the past few days. I had an episode of extreme health anxiety and suddenly developed floaters too. They just give me so much anxiety as I fear they will get worse, do you have any other tips on how to overcome them?
@@SelinaUniversedo you also see white spots?
@@samreen3881I have health and general anxiety as well. It’s just that it doesn’t affect my daily life anymore as I got therapy. What helped me is that I didn’t stop doing my hobby’s although I felt like staying inside to ‘avoid’ seeing the floaters. Some days were better than others and it really took me a while to get used to but in the end I kept on going outside, going to the gym and drawing, reading etc. Continue your life would be my number one advice :) stay strong you can do it!
I had eye floaters since I was a teen. Definitely go to the eye doctor annually to check the health of your eye/ cornea. You learn to live with them and they usually appear when you are looking at a solid bright color wall or outdoors when it’s super bright (ie looking at the sky).
I have them for 2 years it's so bad
I developed floaters right after developing dry eye. I barely even notice them anymore.
Wearing sunglasses helps
Yes if you watched the video you wouldn’t have to comment? Thank you for being useless doctor?
@@tatartonyjudenson7633 ive had them so long i dont know when i didnt have them
I remember my very first dark spot at age 19, followed by the clear wormy looking thing, it seemed like they all came on quickly. The most detailed cluster is like, I would call it a little tiny dot with a circle around it. I've had those float around all my life. But never a darker permanent multiple line of them. I spent a few days panicking thinking I was going blind or something.. But after educating myself on eye floaters, I pretty much adapted to the new normal quickly knowing it's no threat to my overall vision.. Now at 44 there isn't any anywhere in my line of sight where there is a void of eye floaters. my eyes are full of them, not to mention im getting near sighted now. And I'm like, meh..
oh, bless you.xx
i have this dot with circle around it too lol , and some those on the video floating like in snowglobe, i dont see them most of time but when i do its annoying
I'm 25 and have had them my whole life. A few years back, I found that staying highly hydrated solves the issue. In fact, on days when I drink less than usual, they come back.
100% right, everytime I'm tired/stressed or my eyes are strained the floaters tend to worsen and appear. I'm 25 aswell and I seemed to have gotten mine in my right eye 2/3years ago one day while working outside.
Staying hydrated really helps, also having to concentrate/focus on other things/tasks can lessen the visibility iv found aswell.
Still unsure if there's any cure to them but heard some people say that a change of diet such as broccoli and chicken with only water for 1-2 months has mitigated the amount of floaters substantially.
@@Kilo_23 nice information.. thanks a lot
@@Kilo_23 Bromelain capsules make them go away over time. I used to have a lot of floaters and they were really bothering me. After i took the capsules, they started to slowly disappear after 1-2 months. In the end i only noticed them 1-2 times a day. I can really recommend trying them out if you have a lot of floaters.
@@emil130h what type of capsules?
That's very helpful advice! I'll be sure to apply that to my life
Interesting. I have been having little flashes of light in my peripheral during night when I drive. Is annoying but this explanation was helpful. I have had floaters before as well. 64 yo male. Thanks for posting this.
So you should see a retina specialist, as indicated in this video this could cause problems with tears in the retina, and a complete detachment is absolutely something that needs to be treated immediately, as tears overtime can cause permanent damage to your vision, so my advice is see a retina specialist today, immediately schedule a visit to see your eye doctor, and tell them what you’re experiencing, and anyone over the age of 50, should be getting an annual eye exam by an ophthalmologist at least once a year! I had a young medical student at a teaching college catch my issue, and alerted his professor who told me that I needed to see a specialist, and I did, and the specialist told me that I had tiny tears in my retina, and that he needed to do surgery, and I was so shocked, because I’ve never heard anything like this happening to anyone, in fact I was so shocked, I put it off for a whole year, but luckily circumstances being what they were, got me the treatment I needed, and I went into surgery to repair my retina, looking back it probably saved my sight in that eye! Cheers!
Please visit a retina specialist inmmediately
See an ophthalmologist. Have yours eye pressures checked and a retinal exam. Sparkles can also be caused by a high IOP (internal optical pressure) which is glaucoma. Glaucoma can slowly wreck your eyesight permanently.
I had flashes of light as well.I went to my optician she said i needed emergency surgery straight a away.I actually had the laser surgery 2 days later. You need to go to an optician NOW.
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Floaters, debris, dense beautiful colour flashes and entopic phenomenon of tiny dots that look electrical that pop in and out of the blue. It’s crazy. I call these dots the grid.
I've had these my entire life, I was asked during an eye test about 8 years ago if I saw floaters. Up until that point I'd actually felt sort of shy and unsure of what was going on, as it made no negative effect on myself so just got on with life.
Same for me, but seems worse now in my early 50's. Only in my right eye though. Hopefully my brain will adjust, like this video says.
Sudden increase in floaters is serious. Ones since birth are not, its usually leftover embryonic material in the vitreous jelly. There are procedures to remove it but the risk is usually not worth it, the surgery can cause detatchment
Had my floater for a few years now. At first it was very noticeable and developed into the shape of a fish swinging back and forth. I named it Freddie the Floater. Don't notice it so much these days, it's still there but weeks go by without being aware of it.
You can tell people you have a fisheye lens....
@@yestfmf LMAO 🤣
@@yestfmf 😂😂😂😂
What color are they?
@@WinStonTRS I think what I'm seeing is shadows of filaments swinging around so they're black. Very much like at 0:16.
i always thought i could see atoms but just found out that they were just floaters
I went to the eye doctor after I woke up with them and noticed they never went away. She diagnosed me with posterior vitreous detachment and said the floaters would go away after a few weeks (by go away she said I’d learn to ignore them). That was over a year ago and they’re still here. The worst part is that the only cause for this seems to be old age but I’m still a minor
I can feel your situation. I am 20 now, having these shadows (1 or 2 dots) for about two years now. I've never been to a doctor since. Did you noticed anything that might help address the issue apart from surgery?
All this time I was searching for measures or behaviours to reduce the appearance of these shadows. It's not like they are disturbing me, I am just bothered if my eyes will stay healthy.
My eye doctor said the floaters are because I have thin spots in my retinas....its mostly because of nearsightedness
I have one on my left eye and for a long time would "see" it floating down in front or me and think it was little black spider dropping down in front of me.
@@YTistooannoying The day I woke up and realized them, I thought some sort of metal splitters damaged my eyes due to work actions the day before. By now I know that only me left eye is affected by these floaters.
Feeling the same way
Always had them. It’s extremely rare that I even notice them.
This is hands down the best explanation of floaters and retinal detachment I have ever seen. I have had both. My detachment required surgery, but it happened during covid lockdown and due to being unable to get an appointment I did lose some vision. If you see flashes, get to an eye doctor asap.
Thank you, just experienced this in my right eye
Other than that, I can see alright
thank God for this
No joke...sometimes I think they flies and I try to swat at them. Before I went to the optometrist to get checked out and he told me what was going on....I seriously thought I was going crazy or had some brain problem. Its terrifying when you dont know it's pretty common and usually harmless. Hopefully this video helps some people realize they are ok. Went a year without knowing.
What about flashes, are they harmless?
wowww thought I was the only one😳 didn’t no it was a video to explain what I could t
I only have floaters in one eye, strangely enough. It's been like that since i was younger, and honestly i've just come to terms that i can see lil friends in my eye
I've always had floaters, since I was a kid. Although there was a House episode that made me wonder, but my ophthalmologist told me years ago that it's ok.
I just got that flashing when I got up to go to the bathroom, I was terrified. I had never gotten it before
Today my floaters looked like three tiny snakes tangled together, i was scared, i wanted to have a good glance at them but they kept on moving. Oh God heal me
Same... I'm 17 and it's been a year since I see those eye floaters, and it got worse but doctors said everything is fine but I don't think so.. it depressed me so much but I hope we can deal with it together. Stay healthy!
It depressed me so much!!
@@johnmarkparaggua4173 chill man its alright. Dont focus on it u will learn to ignore them. I was very worried at first but its a nornal thing for many ppl including me
@Devin
I take every eye vitamin there is,for yrs,but still deal with these annoying things.The amazing thing is that I've learned is that so do millions of other people. It's more noticeable if your looking at anything white,esp snow! I always wear the darkest sunglasses I can find,it does make them less noticable.
I got a victrectomy and now a year later im good
Remember this, they can't see them on an exam, you have to tell them. I just had an exam and extensive exam didn't reveal anything. They show up overnight and I'm over 50.
Wow 😱
I wasn’t alone… !
Eye floaters are from damaged skin surface of the Eyes, cause by dust, dirt, not wearing protective eye wear, Also, from vitamin deficiency. Bright lights, eye strain.
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😂🤣😅😆
I get these flashes of lightning bolts out of the corner of my right eye frequently, but they ten to go away after a few minutes. Most of the time they're cause by to much blue light from my PC, and between them and the floaters - even the clear ones - I get a visual experience almost every day.
U need to check them, I get them once in a blue moon and I'm concerned
I just got these yesterday in my right eye. Spent 3 hrs in hospital. They are driving me nuts. I already have too much I’m living with…Ct scan shows problems in both eyes 😭
I had surgery on the macula in my right eye a few years ago; they had to perform a vitrectomy as part of the surgery, meaning that they squeezed out the vitreous body and replaced it with saline solution. All of my floaters on the right side disappeared, which much improved my vision. I wish I could get the same thing done to my left eye, which is clouded with floaters, but apparently the risk isn't worth it.
What risk is there if i may ask.
I swear i have -20 in both eyes and floaters dont help
I like how this was recommended to me😭
Eating Pineapple has actually improved it for me
Finally an explanation, my mom said I was crazy lmao
I have one. I can summon it by looking at the right really fast. I dint know how. I also can controll it a little letting it float into different directions
how there is people that found out about these when they were kinda old. i tought everybody has them and i found out them really young by just looking at the sky. back then i tought i was looking at bacterias in my eye.
It’s a floater😭
I have a floater dead center of my right eye, its driving me insane and my eyes are extremely sensitive to sunlight
Did you get it checked out?
@@robertb8629 no, im broke and I just started working so im kinda bummed for medical and cash.
For real, I have a bunch of DOTS and CLOUDS. I have a whole nail size of dots, and a finger size of cloud floaters. So fucking annoying and worrying.
If it’s not moving it could be macular degeneration which can be treated with prescription eye drops
I get them in my line if vision, but I can move them by looking all around really fast and blinking a lot.
I came here from a family guy short and it's exactly how Peter interpreted it.
I noticed these myself these past few years and started panicking because I thought it was an early sign of sight loss 😂😭
So, you saying I am old ? 😳
I see them everywhere when I go outside there are some directly in the center of my vision in both eyes. It's hard to ignore them if they're everywhere I look. I just want to get rid of them.
Wearing sunglasses helps
Vitrectomy is the only way to get rid of floaters. Find a doctor willing to do it for you
I've just learned to live with floaters and keep swatting at bugs that aren't there.
I can see mild floaters when looking at white surface or concentrate hard on my vision.
Though it is not a discomfort for me at this point of time (as mentioned in the video, the brain learns to ignore it), but I am curious to know if there is any way to melt the floaters or reduce it through medication ?
Same
Me too
I can’t remember being without floaters.
I know, me too
Same here. From my early teens till now.
I can see mine with my eyes closed is hard to follow because it's not right in the center. I can only see it in one eye because the other eye is blind so I guess that's a good thing
Me also,one retina did tear ,twice,one time it seemed to heal itself, second time,not so lucky,it had started to tear and had to have lazer surgery to repair it.freaked me out!
Seems like I must of inherited weaker blood vessels in my eyes,since I have no heath problems that would cause them, although Dr did mention that lighter eyes,mine are Green,let in more light that can cause more damage to the retina than darker eyes,also told me to always wear sunglasses,which I never did.
Same
Had them my entire 65 years. I can remember as a child trying to explain them to my parents. Saw a doctor that diagnosed exactly what they were. As a retired airline pilot I can tell you that you learn to live with them.
Been having them since 2007
I am 45 got a bad eye injury then these we buggers came in to my life.They are extremely difficult to live with nice to hear at 65 it never stopped you from living life as normal as you could.
@@pauli6794 been having them since I was turning grade seven when i look up in the sky suddenly lightning strike and what i see that tym was just a box of white and black background for 2-3 seconds atleast then these started to show as time goes by
@Raven wow. Did u see an eye Dr? I guess it's nothing to worry about since u have had it 65 yrs.
@@geraldramos629 if you see flashing lights, supposedly you have retina scarring which if untreated leads to blindness. Get it checked out buddy.
Man I have always wondered about these things my entire life. These animations are so helpful.
Is it really as prominent as that animation showed? Mine are pretty hard to see and not as many, but I want to gauge how serious it is
@@KresherBoy on sunny days I see them and I can track them weirdly enough. But everything else go blurry when I do. They look like clumped up blood cells under a microscope if you remember them in biology class. But most of the time they are ignored cuz I’m focusing on other things.
@@finesse1570 yea when i dont think abt them they seem to dissapear, but jj the summer its too hard... anywhere i look they r there
Did you get any treatment?
@@syedehsanarrafi8430 it doesnt require treatment, i have floaters all my life. Soon u will learn to ignore them. Dont think abt them too much they dont cause any harm
Haven’t met someone who doesn’t see floaters. I guarantee everyone has them to varying degrees, but not everyone notices or acknowledges them. The same applies to visual snow. Fatigue and stress have an effect on their intensity.
I’ve never had them and everyone always talks about them
So can psychedelic drugs, high usage of them can cause irreversible visual snow
Yeah, wish I knew that before my major panic attack thinking I was going blind... I've had floaters since I was a teenager so you don't necessarily get them because of aging, could be something in my diet or environment but man, that first time seeing them was scary for me. Another one is when I was looking up at the bright sky and seeing my blood flowing through my eye was another one that freaked me out. It's hard to describe if you've never noticed it but its like looking at a sky colored bowl of slightly transparent tiny worms going in all directions in tiny arcs and pulsing with your heart beat, I've had a lot of body related panic attacks in my life to the point I think I'm part chihuahua
@@Mikej1592 Mike, I can empathize. I started having floaters and visual snow in 6th grade and was convinced I was going blind. The ophthalmologist I saw said it was nothing and really did not explain what it was. I was not reassured and it was not until my teens that I really understood what was going on. Floaters exacerbate and improve in cycles. After a noticeably bad exacerbation, I saw another ophthalmologist. This new ophthalmologist took the time to explain what was going on and why it was not particularly concerning. So much of my childhood anxiety could have been relieved if the first doctor would have simply done his job better.
@@Mikej1592 haha ive seen the same, these days i mostly see it with certain sun light, it sucks to have it i get a nasty feeling over my body when i can see my heart pound trough my eyes, even sometimes had cramps in my eyes that hurt like hell but mostly felt nasty, seeing floaters is not that bad and doesnt give me a nasty feeling anymore it became normal, certain light makes the floaters very visible, next to that i also see stars when i exercise alot or are extremely angry, also sometimes the light flashes that can be a bit of a shock at night its like seeing a ghost but now i know its just a fata morgana
Floaters for me, can be almost blinding. Never “got used to them” and it can be very hard to read. Thanks for making this, I can now show people what my vision looks like, though mine is worse than the animation. I have to wear dark sunglasses all the time
My head ache while my vision gets worse.
I think it's different and better or worse for everyone like any sort of problem or dis-ease, some people have it worse than others.
They are more if you juse nicotine.
You might have two things..
Adina there are some operations you could try, search for it. I am considering a vitrectomy since my left eye has 2 black spots, one of them is very black.
For clarity of everybody watching this, do not confuse floaters with those little translucent dots moving in random directions when you look at the blue sky. This is called the "Blue field entoptic phenomenon" and is a normal condition of the eye caused by white cells moving with the blood stream in front on the retina. Everybody experiences this.
Floaters, on the other hand, are an abnormal condition of the eye with very different causes, as the video explained.
I get what looks almost like Sparks or fireflys when I look at the sky or a bright light. It's always bothered me
Huh thank u for this cause i saw them once and got scared but it was from laying down and looking at the sky
Huh thank u for this cause i saw them once and got scared but it was from laying down and looking at the sky
I thought it looked like a bunch of flying small bugs
what about when ur eyes are closed, and you push you eyeball and it projects like these fluro green and or red circles onto the dark background? or is it just me..
I deliberately focus on them sometimes when i'm board.
@@xxx.118 booooo 👎
@@xxx.118 Maybe he's saying he's a plank.
@@Nitecrow314
Don’t try to take the speck out of your brother’s eye when you have a plank in your own eye. 🤟🏻😎
😂🙂👍 notice how you can move them about to specific places too
This one time I was high and I was staring at my eye floaters and zooming in on it and seeing little words or Chinese symbols but I saw some letters that were golden
When I was a kid, I thought they were ghosts I thought I was gifted 🤣
🤣😭🤣🤣😭 me to only difference is I'm an adult😭😭😭
Not ghosts...spirits. God and his Angel's are watching everyone at every moment. Not everyone can see them...
@Fawaz Shaikh possibly, but I had my tribunal after concentrating on these for an hour. I didn't see faces, only bright light silhouettes, seemed like multitudes...God is very much watching us...
Some adults still.beleove in ghosts lol
@Fawaz Shaikh look up the science you will see how it came into existence and ensure wasn't a fantastic fantasy man who knows all and sees all
I just had a PVD in my left eye 3 weeks ago. Experienced all the symptoms in this video except the "vision loss". Went to two specialists and they confirmed a small tear at the retina as there was a small hemorrhage. Prognosis was "weeks to months" for it to clear up which is dependant on my immune system function and the settling of the "floaters. I'm happy to report I have no more "flashes" and the "floaters" for the most part have dissolved and settled.
So, it's been a few more week pos-PVD and so far, we're dong well. I do however still get the flashes of light (easiest to "see" at night) when I'm driving and doing quick shoulder checks. Otherwise, I'm pleased with my progress so far.
@@WaxMeister Did the doctor do anything about the small retinal tear?
I just had multiple flashes tonight and I’ve had PVD for 10 years. Mine still hasn’t complete. I see flashes every day. My doctor was telling me if I see flashes I need to come in because it might be a tear but they happen so often and I’ve been so many times they stopped taking me as a patient. I guess I’ll live with them for the rest of my life.
Thank you
@@peterpan238 it was not needed - I've been back to my eye doctor a half dozen visits since (because I just had cataract surgery) and everything is fine. Will have the eye with the detachment done in August - all's well so far!
I can't believe this appeared on my timeline by chance! I've had them since I was a young teen and I told an optometrist about it but wasn't taken seriously. They never increased or anything, so I'm fine but it's so good to finally know what they are.
Yeah it's relieving to finally know what they are and why they happen :D
I recently started experiencing these exact shapes in my vision... caused me to become dizzy and disoriented. Slowly, learning to live with them. It's tough being an automotive appraiser while dealing with these buggers but I manage. It is kinda funny this video randomly popped up while going through a nostalgic kick listening to some Linkin Park.. must know I'm old hahaha
I started seeing these after i took lsd i thought i was developing schizophrenia or something 😂
Same here
Same here! I was also not taken seriously. I have them since i was 12 and I've learned to ignore them.
This was extremely helpful! It’s great to see I’m not the only one with this. I thought my eyes were really bad and would have panic attacks due to overthinking
Wow, you are happy that other people are dealing with this shit, too
Bro same thing happening on me , what can I doo
Martha fear not!! I know at a young age they worry you. I was the same as you when i was 17 (i am 60 now). they are not a threat to your eyesight and you will eventually learn to ignore them as you get older. they are just annoying little buggers but not sinister. Fear not, you will go on to have a great life and your floaters will never cause you to lose your eyesight. please try not to get stressed over them.
Damn same, google did not help with that.
@@insertnamehere5146 thanks!!
For decades I have been wondering what these "floaters" are that I see from time to time. Thank you for this video!
Ha I have always like to play with my floaters, flick them about so I can clearly focus on one and try to keep it centred - but no off it goes, come back, there it... not it's gone again, here's a new one. Whenever I tried to explain this people would look at me if I am crazy... AS IF it is crazy to sit staring at the sky and flicking your eyes around!!
I had seen floating patterns since I was a child. A consultant neurologist diagnosed my 'floaters' a year or two ago as optical migraine. Having looked into it, I'm fairly confident he is right and it is something I have had all my life. A quick thought for you. These are medical matters which have a long term effect on your health and well being. It's a good idea not to do a self-diagnosis on the basis of one RUclips video. A lot of what is on social media is incorrect, over-simplified or just plain rubbish and if your floaters are a result of ageing, how come you have been seeing them for decades - have you been elderly for decades?
@@c2757 I noticed mine as a child, some kids said they could see them and most kids didn't have a clue what we were on about. I don't suffer regular head aches and these truly are within the eye, they react to the movement of the eye. My floaters haven't changed a bit since childhood and my vision is good but not what it was.
So you never brought it up to your eye doctor?
@@user-yw3cy8pn3b I fill these spots and sometimes I play with them too some people think I'm crazy, but this is something serious, my mom tells me it's because of Cell.Before my brother broke my glasses I remember they were gone now it came back with a little a but I just got used to it.
These were my childhood friends
Edit: They still are my only friends... 🥺
me tooo😭😭😭😭
@@nihaarikatatineni9779 how u got them off
Same here and they persist
how u get them off 😿
We Follow them 🤗 and lead it to earth.
Had floaters since I was a child and used to worry about them but just got used to them. They’ve increased a little over the years but don’t interfere with my vision. Great to see a visual representation of what I’ve been seeing !
@Ernesto Reyes 😐
@Ernesto Reyes Ur creepy
Same
@@thedstroyer0075 what did he say
@@rishitrivedi360 he said “Ur a cutie, where can i meet you”
I just named by biggest floater Jim and immediately accepted him as a part of me. I thought my retina had been permanently burned or something but now I know that Jim is a natural occurrence! Thank you!
Omg I thought I was the only one that named their floaters. As soon as the eye doctor told me they were permanent and I'd have to learn to live with them I was like "alright might as well give em names of they're here for the long haul. Left one's Helga, right one's Alberto." Not sure if my eye doctor laughed bc he thought I was funny or a weirdo lol
Haha naming your floaters sound funny!
Same mine's is just a little brown dot in my vision that moves around in my view everywhere I look...
@@SupahTrunks7 Well you should go back to your bogus doctor and give him the middle finger! You have floaters in you eyes because you are Vitamin D deficiency! It's NOT a natural nor permanent thing that anybody should lived with...
oh nice is jim doing good?
Four years ago I did a Vitrectomy to replace the gel inside my eyeball. There was so many floaties that they interfered with my vision a lot. Since the vitrectomy I see everything crystal clear. It is a painless and quick procedure. But I had a black eye for about three weeks.
Oof. Did it hurt after the procedure?
What did they do did it hurt?
Where did you have that done?? Was it in the uk?
Black eye? You mean completely blind?
I'm having a vitrectomy in a couple of months. I have clumps of floaters that interfere with my vision a lot too. I can't wait to see everything clearly! I can handle a black eye for clear vision!
Worked out what floaters were years ago, mainly by their motion. I often amuse myself in moments of indolence by playing with them. Nudging them this way and that by flicking my eye in various directions in order to control their movement, it's a bit like a free primitive video game!
Lol I would do that. People would catch me and ask me what on earth I was doing.
@@Latbirget Probably best to keep this activity in private! Heavy sedation or a straight jacket might otherwise result! At least keep your eyes shut😂
Me too do the same
I do the same thing! I try to catch one in my live if vision to get a good look at it. Sometimes I can ficus on them.
Haha, me too... It's like a good old game of Atari tennis.
I've had this one small floater for years and it's always passively worried me, good to know it's nothing serious 👌
Lucky, youre worrying about one when I have Jose and his entire bloodline flying across my fucking field of vision (I named all my floaters)
I never noticed it, because I thought they were temporary. Now I cant unsee it.
I have several but as time went by I never notice them anymore
@@Shkelqim95 it'll pass. Not the floaters but you noticing them and honestly caring about them😂
yeah because youtube is the best doctor in town
I had them for as long as I can remember, and I did research on them years ago. Thankfully mine are only truly visible when looking at a bright sky. It’s good to know what to look for if it gets worse though.
Same only see them in bright sky, sometimes I see them just outside but every small ones and barely see them
Lol same i literally see them only outside at night not at all
All i know is if u see flashes or shadow figure covering ur vision then u see a doctor but my doctor said eye floaters are no harm its normal to not worry comes within age
Thank God for this video! I thought I inherited worms growing in my eyeballs!
I had floaters for most of the days of my childhood it seemed. My sister and I learned to 'control' them by not following them directly with our eyes and instead seeing them from our peripheral visions. That childhood discovery also helped me to cope in situations mentally / emotionally by just being and noticing rather than by always seeking, grasping, and reacting. Strangely, I almost never notice floaters as an adult.
same same here
Why are floaters now the subject of conversation?? oh i see,,, its because others who do not have vision are looking for ways to discredit the people that do... you say yellow jacket i say sheep..lmfao... how easily you adopt the concepts of others,, to the point that your now vomiting it up yourself..
LMAO wtf
@@chrislecky710 What?? My man this a comment section on a video about "Eye Floaters", you think we gonna be talking about summersaulting cows or something??
@@chrislecky710 uhhh are you okay?
If you have a floaters, be optimistic.
I have had floaters for about 30 years. Initially, when I first started noticing them, they consumed my life and made me very depressed. I went to a number of ophthalmologists and they told me just to ignore them and that eventually they would be inconsequential. I didn't believe them.
However, it took about 10 years and now I don't even think about them.
This is just what I needed to read. I'm about 2 years into the depression bout and trying to ignore them. The snow is awful, the sky is awful, and everything on my pc is now in dark mode. But amazingly, when I play VR games, I almost never notice them. That's where my hope started coming from. It's the constant changing pictures and excitement that allows me to enjoy, without noticing the floaters. Last job I had: Standing in place, most of the day, in a kitchen with white walls. I will be avoiding this in the future.
thanks man, im an art student and i have a lot of floaters and they really bother me and it scares me that what if one day theres too many floaters and i cant see clearly enough to draw, reading these comments have let me realise that we are able to overcome them with time and have given me optimism on it.
Try Keto, the very low carb diet. My floaters disappeared completely.
@@christinerobinson9372 how
@@christinerobinson9372 If this is not cap, then please tell me more on how to make them dissapeare
I literately got them randomly at 19, I see clear lines and clear swiggily circles everytime i look at the sky or even look at something white outside like snow, its been scaring me. Anyone else have them like this?
This was extremely helpful. I’ve had floaters for as long as I can remember! I’m 13 now and they haven’t gone away. At least they help me entertain myself while I’m in 3rd period! Algebra sucks! When I’m bored I try and follow them around with my eyes but they always go away before I can focus on them!
Aye bruh do your Algebra lol. 8th Grade only gets harder m8 :/ speaking from experience
My floaters disappeared when I changed my diet to Keto, a very low carbohydrate diet.
I chase my floaters around my eyes for fun too. 🤟
@@Abby_1998 you monster
Yeah I try to catch them and see thru them b4 they go away lol
In Jesus Name..all floaters are gone!!
Amen
Amen
Amen!🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻✝️
Amen
Amen
so THAT's what those flashes of light were... I was always wondering about them but could never find anything about them. This was SUPER helpful.
Agreed! As a trucker crossing the Nebraska plains one night, I saw those 🌟flashes🌟 in one eye, and about 3 months later, it happened in the other eye. I went to an Ophthalmologist, and after recovering from an allergic reaction to his eye drops, he somewhat explained this process to me. But seeing this video explains it a hell of a lot better.👍
No, that's what they tell you, but they are something spirtual.
@@CristanioPeweyyy no
@@shanteriamusgrove2865 lol okay, you will have a rude awakening when the rapture happens and you see supernatural stuff happen infront of your eyes.
@@CristanioPeweyyy I swear the religous have to be some of the most pompous people on the planet. Even when presented with fact, you all are like "nope"..
I can focus on floaters and see them with great detail, but only when they are directly in the center of my vision. They usually look like a translucent hair under a microscope. The smaller floaters look like cells. They're easier to focus on in the winter when there's snow everywhere.
Mine look like little cells too, like circular cells layering over eachother randomly
@@chloek9029 they are another kind of floaters? those in a circle form, how are they called?
In bright light it’s easier to notice them. The effect is actually pretty similar to when you adjust the aperture of a camera. At large apertures, dust and other particles on the lens or sensor are out of focus and not visible. However, as you stop down the aperture, dust and other contaminants become more visible.
Likewise, when the Iris is wide open (such as a darkened room), floaters are out of focus and much blurrier, lending them to be less noticeable. When the iris is closed down in bright light, the floaters come into sharper focus.
@@user-xj2zj2vk6b I'm not too sure if I'm honest, people often refer to them as just eye floaters to me but there probably is a name for it
Just look at a white wall…
My brain does not ignore them after 6 years!
Bro
Same man. I've had them since I was in middle school and can recognize the same ones. Its annoying
Yea, it's the big ones that really get to me. I've had them coming on since age 13, and now at 70, they drive me crazy!
I'm 56 and had floaters as long as I can remember, and always visible,
makes reading awkward some times as they obscure letters or even whole words when reading subtitles
Me 2
Damn. This is why everyone laughed at me when I told them I could see air : (
You should send those people that laughed at you this video
I thought the exact same thing when I was a kid. I can see air!
I would never think thats air
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I can see Oxygen!"
I get them sometimes, always found them to be a very small group of circles that kinda look like bubbles but are more a circle than a sphere.
I have the exact same!
My doctor removed mine
@@Gfysimpletons surgery?
@@annoynmous1 So when you're not dizzy they go away?
My dad had retinal detachment. Luckily he went to doctor immediately and his vision returned to normal after operation. The key was quick reaction, and this video may help to raise awareness.
Oh
If I may ask, how much did cost for the operation?
@@MysteryS4869 Man, having to pay for a surgery must be so sad... How do you put a cost on a human life like that..
I had that op in my mid 20 but as I live in the UK we don't have to pay anything
Is your dad Tyler Ninja Blevins
I had one just like those black ones. I kept thinking my bangs were in my eyes but it was a very bad floater. The eye doctor said I would have to live with it the rest of my life. However, when I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia they also tested my Vitamin D levels which were very low.
When I started to supplement with that (high dose to start), K2 and Vitamin C. The floater went completely away. I wasn't taking it for that so that was happily surprise.
At the time, those are the only things I had added. I didn't even start the Fibro med the doctor prescribed and actually the Vitamin D took down my allover pain so much that I never started it--too many side effects.
I still am working on brain fog issues and fatigue but that's another diagnosis altogether. :(
I have floaters in one eye, sometimes it appears while I am reading on screen and some area that is next to the floater becomes dull, it takes me 4-5 seconds to understand that it is not a highlighted text, but a floater. Doctor said it goes away after sometime But it had been 5 months.
Please explain my condition and advise me
Thanks I needed the advice. So basically nutrients help. Also did u also use eye drops or liquid msm or anything like rhat
If you have a high carb and low animal based diet, try the carnivore diet as a low carb elimination diet to get rid of your fibromyalgia then, when you've got your health back, you can reintroduce different foods to see what you were reacting to. It was wheat products (especially pasta and bread) and sugar (including most fruit) causing my problems. Good luck.
Hey could you please tell that how did you away these black ones??
What is that k2?
As a kid I would tell myself these were "Souls" of people who just died, floating to heaven (Up) or hell (Down). Some times I would stand upside down so every one would go UP to Heaven. Guess I was a Goofy kid.
wtfffff souls lmao
You're on the weird side for sure. "souls"? Um, ok....
Imagine accidentally sending Hitler to heaven
@@idk19319 did my grandpa know him he has a lot of war metals that come up when i search hitler
So sweet
I'm 63 and have had floaters for as long as I can remember. If I tilt my head back and remain completely still I'm able to focus on them. They look like something you'd see under a microscope.
Yeah, like veins and cells
@@zanotellitb5457 When I was a kid I would push my eyebrow up and look down without moving my head. The white of the eye was then visible and I found that if I shined a flashlight at that eye, I could see all the veins inside the eye. Strange. I need glasses to read but I have crystal clear focus of things inside my eye.
@@garyloger9416 I never tried to spray a flashlight against my eyes attacked by these floaters, but when I look at any lighted surface I can see these things in that same level of detail. it terrifies me, but seeing that others can deal with it is relaxing. I think we are the chosen ones haha
@@garyloger9416 The same with me, when I am wearing sunglasses I can see in the reflection my whole iris magnified like under a microscope.
They look like bacteria
Damn, I believed I had super powers lol
Same here
I got these in my right eye about a year after cataract surgery. I went to the surgeon and he had me look into a lazer and he took aim at each and smacked them with the lazer (cost me about $400. I could actually see the strings of things falling like a little line of balls falling straight down, each time he zapped it, about 10 flashes.) Completely painless, and just odd to watch. When he finished, all the floaters were gone. The old way to deal with this (and they still do this if it's super bad), is to put you to sleep, suck all the fluid out of the eyeball and replace it. Thank god for lazers, which makes it a 10 minute fix as opposed to an overnight big deal.
Really? That's a thing you can have done?
@@growlith6969 Yes. My surgeon said that I could wait and maybe they would settle or maybe I would just get used to them. I told him that I am a writer and the things were a complete disaster. So he said it was no problem, took me to a room down the hall where I sat in a chair and looked through a thing that seemed like a regular eye exam facepiece. My eyes were dilated and numbed, so he put the scope right on the eye and located each strand (looked like pieces of DNA, from my point of view). He zapped them with a lazer, and they broke up and fell. I think the pieces just settle down in the eye and are no longer in the line of vision.
This video seems to be speaking about certain other conditions, I think. My doctor didn't act like what he was doing was unusual, though, as if he did this all the time.
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/eye-floaters/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20372350
I have floaters due to my stepfather punching me in the eye when I was young. I was so messed up, but I live with them. WOW, none around here do that. I wonder what is the chance something could happen? I know the sucking out method they will not do because it carries a high risk of blindness so unless you are going blind they will tell you to not do it (plus it is expensive).
Lasers, not lazers... Lazer isn't a word.
@@Lykapodium Yeah, but we knew what they meant.
I’m just here to tell everyone that you will get used to them, and that many people have them you aren’t alone, also they aren’t harmful they are just there 👌🏻
ARE THEY DANGEROUS
@@offic226 nope
@@lasso9457 i have 1 big eye floater in my right eye should i be worried
@@stefan7381 Well, It’s completely normal to have eye floaters cause it won’t harm we grew up with it. It’s not actually big deal. People with darker skin have more floaters thn usual. If you still worried about it just consult an eye doctor. Don’t worry you won’t loose your eye sight. It’d be trouble if you’ve gone through lasik or prk. People who have had lasik claims that they noticed more floaters after they got lasik done.
And if you’re planning to go through lasik thn it’s really bad idea. Back to the point floaters are not big deal at all you can get rid of it via surgery.
*Just do research before whatever you do*
And
*Take care of your precious eyes*
Peace🎈
😊
Perfect RUclips recommandation 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾I’m living with them since 7 years now
Ouhh
You hardly see info on "flashes of light" anywhere so this video was extra specially helpful!
Exactly. I thought I was the only one ever since I was a kid.
I'm suffering from eye floaters, very irritating in sunlight and white papers!
Tell me about it!
How u got them off?
@@johnmarkparaggua4173 u cant, u can have a surgery but it may cause losing eyesight later. U need to live with it just like me :(
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb I have them too, how did you get them?
Snow is the worst for these ❄️
I've already had retina detachment surgery! Not fun, I was at work staring at a wiring diagram and I sneezed, and proof I was totally blind in my right eye. I drove myself to my eye doctor and two hours later I was in the hospital having it repaired. Scared me have to death! It took several weeks before I could see anything in that eye, but it kept getting better and then it was gone THANK YOU JESUS!
I really can’t belive that this is the problem I am dealing with because of online schooling. Ever since i have started doing online school, I have had a HUGE increase in eye floaters. It’s so frustrating because idk what to do.
Go see an optometrist if you haven’t
Same! I’m gonna tell my parents.
Had the same problem
READ NY LONG COMMENT ABOVE.
I've noticed them since working from home
For some reason, when this happens to me, if I squint my eyes a bit then a little circle of light appears on the bottom right and it is the floaters except its VERY VERY zoomed in its like a microscope and I can see micro details and the exact shape and bumps on the floaters.
I thought this was a sign of me going blind😂 but thank god for this vid lol
Me too lol
Me too😃
ME TOO IVE BEEN CRYING THE WHOLE DAY
@@offic226 I had panic attacks
I had this since 6th grade I was so worried I always told my mom about it
It really feels great to know we’re on the same boat and eye floaters are more common than I thought.
Hands-down, one of the best-produced medical videos on RUclips today. From script to animation and voice talent. This should be the benchmark for all other consumer/patient video productions.
I wholeheartedly agree.
@@justdevorah7473 Need protein shake. comes when you workout too hard. sweat too much. Liver gets strained. Just put protein back into body.
Agreed
I agree
I was able to see them as a kid and showed my brother how to see them. We looked at the sky for a long time, not the sun, but on a sunny day, I think. I haven't tried in years but I'm sure anyone can see them.
That's not the same thing.
I can take my glasses off and see the floaters clear as day
Dude, they're a nightmare. Winter is evil.
There are multiple types of Floaters.
“These normally occur with normal aging”
7 year old me being confused on why i saw little bugs when i looked at the sky:
I wish human eyes could simply regenerate. 50% or more of our brain is used in visual information processing. Sight is kind of a big deal.
In heaven, inshaa allah
"The brain will eventually learn to ignore them." Until you watch a video like this and your brain remembers they're there. LOL
Quite interesting video. I can’t believe this appeared on my timeline today. I have seen floaters since many years but never knew what they are. But this morning out of the blue I was curious to know more. Funnily I was also trying to catch a floater!
I had both retinas detach last year. I always had the regular floaters but when they detached I had what I described as cracked black pepper floaters. Totally different than the regular floaters.
How did surgery go to treat the detached retina? Has your vision been restored and back to normal?
Yeah! We wan to know!!
@@Gelo_6trey went to Wills Eye hospital emergency room and they scheduled surgery the next day. Right eye detached in June. Was a severe detachment. I didn’t act fast enough when I saw the pepper floaters and the shade coming down. Waited close to 2 weeks. Doctor put the buckle on the eye and i have full vision back. Just as I was feeling normal from the right eye recovery , the left eye suddenly had a big floater that I described as a Winshield wiper. It didn’t float but it moved side to side like a wiper. Two days later I saw small pepper. Went to Wills Eye the next day and they said it was a small tear so they used the laser and welded it closed. 3 days later I saw a shade. Went back to hospital and they did the buckle that night. I still have a slight loss of vision at the top of my eye. They said it’s scar tissue that I will always see. Other than that good vision. The only downside to getting the buckle is my cataracts have increased extremely fast and I will need surgery for them in the next 6 months. They weren’t bad at all before surgery but they told me they would increase faster. Also my eyeglass prescription has doubled which they also said would happen. I was a -6.00 I’m now -13.00. I’m very fortunate to still have my vision. Also I’m 55 years old with no head trauma and no diabetes issues or blood pressure issues. Doctor said it’s just bad luck.
@@Gelo_6trey I wonder how he's able to watch the video an comment on it if can't see.
Please let us know how your surgery went 🙏🏻
WHAT?? I had my floaters removed 5-years ago. I'm near-sighted. The procedure was pretty simple: removed the vitreous ... and the floaters ... and replaced the whole thing. Except for one minuscule "dot" that is rarely visible in one eye ... the floaters are 99.99% gone ... from both eyes. And, they were "tankers." I can't believe that people aren't talking about this! My insurance paid for it too. Check with a retina surgeon ... that's who did mine.
@@debbiec4407 Hey Debbie ... it has been about 6 years and, so far, no side effects. I have had side-effect from other procedures; but not this one.
Interestingly, my own optometrist (for glasses) said the procedures was impossible and could not be done. I switched to a different optometrist ... she also gave me other misinformation "big time!" I had epi-retinal membrane surgery and she said the procedure was dangerous and would likely cause blindness. If your doctor doesn't keep up with current information ... it's time to switch providers ... pronto. I work in surgery and you must always get several opinions.
I see an eye doctor every 3 years, and they always say the same thing…there’s nothing that can be done to remove them because they’re in the back of the eye in the fluid.
I had cataract surgery, and during the procedure on my right eye, the vitreous fluid leaked out and the doctor had to fix the leak and then refill the fluid. I was unconscious the whole time, but I noticed 3 hrs had passed, so I knew something happened. Anyway, all floaters were gone from that eye! Was a wonderful bonus...after a couple years, the floaters eventually came back.
:0(
I’m also near sighted, and crossed eye’d so I’m highest at risk for this bullshlt, I saw like two floaters after staring at some bright light. It was gone after like 2 minutes, but I’m still worried it might come back to haunt me again. I’ll come back to this comment if it does unfortunately happen to me again, and I pray to god it doesn’t.
I also see flashes of light and "floater like" spots, that are caused by arteriosclerosis and mid grade Retinopathy, and I find it more important to also advise people on THAT being a possible cause of floaters and flashes.
Mine are more sophisticated and pinpointed though, as the Retina itself is being damaged or inhibited in bloodflow due to the long or short term microischemic events happening.
I do have blind spots due to microaneurisms/ischemia and subsequent death of nerve fibers in a microscopic area of the retina, and it is no fun.
That internet advice as well as doctors seem to first think of floaters and only think of floaters is obvious, because there is no underlying cause for something major identified yet. This is why people check their blood pressure and their blood sugar, to rule out that anything else can be affecting the eye, and of course, getting a full retinal exam with slit lamp and even contact glass, is a good idea to have done regularly.
I do also suffer from an insane amount of floaters, but they are unrelated to the ischemic events occuring, as those have been confirmed to be caused by hypertensive events over a long period of time.
99 % of the time ( not including medical issues ) is actually dust and the debris from epithelia ( cells ) wearing off the surface of the eye . Dust , pollen and other airborne debris sticks to the wet eye surface.
I use a natural tear ( saline solution) eye drops to flush my eyes and it works amazingly well.
Bye bye floaters .
Differential diagnosis would have been a great addition. Mine have been lifelong but suddenly getting much worse. Other concurrent symptoms of venous insufficiency are occuring and I'd have loved to hear more alternatives.
@@OG_Wonder_Woman The alternatives are usually of a grave systemic or tumorous nature, and thus, would only scare people due to the fact that floaters caused by simple aging, are the least worry. The medium worry would be tear of the jelly inside the eye on the retina due to slow detachment. The high worry would be systemic diseases or other potentially life threatening or at least life altering causes.
I said it already, and say it again, the focus needs to be laid on those causes as well, because not everyone who sees floaters, or a sudden influx of them should be like "oh, just floaters, okay". That's why everyone seeing floaters should make an immediate appointment with an eye doctor to clarify their nature.
Try eating Keto, very low carb. My floaters disappeared completely.
@plz shoot me Hahahaha you're a douche bag for saying that to him but probably correct🙄🤣 😭
So this Small White dots in my eyes...that are moving in the sky are good right..??
Like theres so many of them...just small dots...not those Black ones.
But white!
Fascinating to hear that the brain learns to ignore them. I always assumed that my floaters just dissolved or something.
A lot of people here are saying they don’t even go away
@@erronblack308 they don’t go away? That’s crazy. When mine “went away” (can’t think of better way to describe it lol) it seemed like my vision improved. Or at least got back to normal. Makes me wonder if my vision actually does improve or if that’s just my brain lying to me. I’m assuming that it’s the latter since the floaters don’t actually go away. It’s kind of disturbing to think you can’t even trust your own brain. If you can’t trust your own brain then who can you trust, eh? Lol!
Edit: still pretty damn fascinating, though
@@violatorut2003 After how much time they go way??? In your case??
@@SeattleMartin jeez, that’s terrible. I get the clouds and lines from time to time but pretty uncommon and benign. Do they give you headaches too or just solely the vision problem? Reason I ask is because I used to get them as a kid and I used to get terrible headaches as a kid. But when puberty hit, the floaters became much more uncommon and the headaches stopped entirely. Just wondering if there is a connection or not.
@@anishta1234 oh this was a long time ago. I used to get them a lot as a kid but they became much more uncommon after hitting puberty. As a kid they would last for weeks but only on the outer edges of my vision. I used to get terrible headaches as a kid too, so. However, I did have an episode like a year ago but that only lasted for about 2 days and during that time it was like in the middle of my vision, it was very noticeable and actually made me a little worried but I think I just was overreacting.
Had my floaters when I was about 13 or 14 years old. Was taken to a couple of opthalmologists with the 2nd one prescribing an eye ointment I applied at night before going to sleep with the assurance it would go away. Looking back now, I think it really was just to give me hope as a child, despite it being a false hope as the specialist would have very well known it could not be cured.
Maybe he just didn't understand what you had? Btw i had them since when i was 6 and now that I'm 15 i already started to ignore them. I see them only if i want to see them by focusing on the birght sky and moving my eyes around.
I didn’t even realize they didn’t go away I had them as a kid and I’ve done such a good job at ignoring them you mentioning them now I can actively look for them
It has no cure but if operation, there are two options, surgical or laser surgery
@@ricplays5905 sorry to break it to you… those actually are not floaters. Every single person has those little dots when you look at something bright and focus on your vision. Floaters are much worse. Floaters are non-stop and are always a nuisance. They never go away and develop later in life than you are. The more you know
@@charlie-qi4rh no they look like transparent worms
floaters irritating me alot. I just hit 16 this year but the floaters is frustrating me already. I don't know what'll happen in 5, or 10 years. May God bless us all who got floaters inside our eyes.
I’m 53 and I’ve had them since I was 12. I have a lot…a lot. Eye doctor says I have to live with them, so I do.
It’s a floater