8:16 We dont want a diagnosis we want something so we know how to fix it, This quote drove me to tears, this is exactly how i feel, when i try to describe how i feel to anybody about the floaters and vss they all think i am just seeking attention and wanting a diagnosis, they think i WANT something to be wrong with my , but all i really want is to know whats wrong and how to fix it. Thank you, your video helped
This video could not have come at a better time. My floaters have been much more noticeable this week and I'm sure it's anxiety and stress. Thank you, your videos calm me so much!
I am 33. I have had eye floaters since I was a kid. Nothing ever wrong with my eyes. I am nearsighted. There are two times I experienced eye floaters being a bother and that was two times I went through a stressful, anxiety filled time. Anxiety opens the doors for hyper focus so anything that will cause you some distress such as eye floaters becomes a big ordeal for you. Once stress and anxiety is relieved your mind will go back to ignoring them. I promise. When your mind is at peace things such as floaters will not bother you. Polarized sunglasses do help but if you do things to ease your suffering your mind will keep the door open for floaters to be a thing that’s stresses you out.
Hi I suffer from floaters as well . Started about 7 months ago and just saw one tiny dot .. but i was getting of some anxiety medication at that moment and one of the side effects is you get scared really easy over just regular things. So I got scared of the floater and I got hyper focused on them . Now I have a lot in both my eyes and everywhere I look I see them. I can’t stop focusing.. I’m 35 years old and never had them before . Do you think I can calm over them or get used to them in time? So they may increase .. even for a little bit??
Exactly once the anxiety is treated you will start noticing them less to a point where they won’t be visible anymore ,try meditating for at least an hour in the morning !!and try some pranayama it will really help,even I see them ,I know it’s not to worry about but my hypersensitive mind makes me notice it and the more I notice the more I see them to a point where I cannot enjoy certain things ,it all happens because of our hypersensitive mind ,,so better work on your anxiety ,we all are in it
I am currently going through this unfortunately. At first I was so scared because I was noticing more floaters than usual and “stars” and I scheduled an emergency appointment with my optometrist and everything checked out. I am also experiencing headaches and this weird squeezing and gritty feeling in my eyes especially at nighttime. Although I know everything is fine logically it’s so scary and I pay extra attention to my eyes and anything that seems off freaks me out so much sometimes to the point of panic. Health anxiety is a beast I’ve struggled with it for years with varying levels of severity.
Thanks for your comment and for watching the video! You’re right. Health anxiety is a beast and it’s really tough! I also had terrible gritty eyes when my anxiety was bad and I remember one night I woke up at 3am and all my eyes were totally bloodshot. It was terrible and I panicked but my optometrist said it was stress. I couldn’t believe it! Eye symptoms are not fun at all!
I just got them, or just started noticing them, at 35. This is right at the time I got prescription glasses. I felt sad. But right now I'm doing my best to accept them, make the moves to be as healthy as I can, and focus on the things that are more important and valuable in my life. Thank you for sharing your experience! It is very helpful.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with floaters. They seemed to be so overlooked, yet can be so psychologically difficult at times. And especially for the younger people, who can feel so alone and hopeless about them combined with anxiety. Your words will surely, bring strength to many! :)
I have had eye floaters for a while, noticed they have got slightly worse to the point of severe anxiety, not sleeping and not eating, since watching this video i feel so much more at ease, cannot thank you enough x
Hello Cherelle! I want you to know that i watched every videos you did about health anxiety esp. Those lymph nodes bc i also do got mine and it all started with a sinus infection 6 months ago which lead to vertigo, ear infection, balance problems, random pain all over the body, fatigue and the list goes on and on. I've never stop googling and dig deeper and deeper and i was pretty unaware of the anxiety and depression that was with me everyday and now my body was fine i started doing exercise which helped and i had a lymph node like a weekend to my disease, its now the only thing that bothers me but with your videos, its like ive been aware of my mental state like maybe whats wrong with me is really the negativity in my head and now i finally overcome it 💗 Though i still have the tender part on the end line left side of my neck i know that it will finally shrink one day. Best of luck to you continue doing videos about health anxiety 😘😘
Thank you so much for making this video. I struggle with pretty SEVERE anxiety and your video helped me to not feel so alone. So, genuinely thank you from the bottom of my heart. I've been having floaters probably for quite some time but didn't notice them as much until I had a rough migraine. My health anxiety does cause me to pinpoint something within my body and become EXTREMELY hyperfixated on it. In turn, it makes me question if the problem I'm having is actually going on or if my anxiety is playing tricks on me. Lol it's a never-ending vicious cycle.
I've been experiencing floaters for awhile. They are most noticeable when i'm in a sunny room looking at a white wall. It's actually one of the symptoms I worry the least about because they were there before my BFS and health anxiety really kicked into full gear. Plus my Dad says he gets them so that calmed me down. Thanks very much for your videos. As someone who has just started to experience anxiety related symptoms such as persistent muscle twitching, it's helpful to hear from someone who has already experienced and dealt with a lot of these things.
Thank You so much for this video ! I was recently diagnosed with floaters 2 weeks ago in my right eye. I suffer from anxiety disorder to begin with and this just pushed me over the edge. Once the Dr. said "No Cure" I freaked out. I also suffer with Tinnitus (ringing in my ears) which I'm now used to. I've been looking up peoples stories about Floaters so I can learn from their experiences. I see the floaters all the time. I hope they fade or my brain makes them go away. I've been making myself fall asleep as soon as I can so I don't have to deal with them ! When I wake up their there, and I go into "Panic Mode". My Dr. says I'll get used to it. I have soreness,and dry feeling too, and occasional flashes on the side of my eye. It scares me. I know I'm not alone. Why don't people talk about this publicly...Famous People..News..Etc. Thank You and I wish you well .
Hey I have floaters and constant tinnitus aswell. There’s nothing wrong with my hearing it’s certainly just anxiety and stress that’s bought them both on. I now spend a lot of my free time using mindfulness to feel stress and learn about breaking the cycle of anxiety:)
Same here i have tinnitus which i accept and learn to deal with it i also have daily headaches due to my health anxiety. Im now pregnant and dealing with floaters. Very annoying, what i have figured out is i have to learn how to rewire my brain to not think about this symptoms. It is hard bec i see it all the time esp in bright places or white space. Im trying to deal with it and training my brain. I love to hear story too bec i know and it calms me down that i am not alone. Hope we all feel better and hoping that after I deliver my baby floaters are gone and or i got use to deal with them. Prayers for all of us
@@kimberlylactaoen3957 Kimberly, Congratulations on your pregnancy,don't let this cloud your happiness with the joy of motherhood. I have trained my brain to not see the floaters, it takes time..but trust me it will happen. We are not alone,but few people speak about it in public. I know how you feel though, especially when we already struggle with anxiety, and Tinnitus. Yes, prayers for all who struggle with these maladies. Happiness, Cindy
Thank you for sharing your experience. I totally panicked when I started having them in my right eye about a week ago. I was too scared to even look up what they are, fearing it could be something serious. I finally had the courage to google my symptoms last night. I'm relieved to learn that it's a common problem. So, I heard there's really no way to reverse this condition, which is disappointing but oh well... I'm gonna eat more veggies and continue taking supplements (bilberry, lutein, etc.) Sometimes if I'm not overly conscious of them, I don't see them (or my brain ignores them?!?). It's only when I remind myself of the floaters that they appear more pronounced.
More people should really talk about this i have had a ton of floaters since i was very young. But after a recent breakup they Came back after years of forgetting i even have them so im really stressed right now but im going to check my eyes and the end of the month just to know whats going on. Im trying to just relax but its not easy.
My eye floaters started after a panic attack and got worse everyday, along with shooting pain headaches which made my anxiety worse. Got my eyes checked and they were normal. Don’t notice floaters as much now .
Hey 👋 Great video. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with floaters. I have had anxiety issues since my early teens (I'm now 42), particularly around my health. At times it has truly been dreadful. In & out of the doctors surgery seeking reassurance for the many symptoms I was suffering with at that time. I starting noticing eye floaters 3 years ago and honestly thought I was going blind. No amount of opticians visits was convincing me otherwise 😥 I was certain that the opticians were lying to me. I know now that it was my health anxiety playing tricks with me. Because of my obsession with my floaters and my constant fear of them, I've had to give up work due to my severely high levels of anxiety this is causing. Although, is it my anxiety that's making the perception of them worse or are the floaters causing the anxiety? Will I ever stop noticing them? Any feedback would be fab. I'm desperate to get back to work but my focus is always on my eyes.
I too suffer from health related anxiety, and it is the worst. I've had floaters as long as I can remember but like you never really worried about them. Unfortunately I noticed a new floater recently and this one is quite prominent and dark and tends to wander directly into the field of vision in my right eye. Naturally I went to the internet and began to panic, certain I was having a retinal detachment. I got in to see an optometrist who said my retina looked fine and that this was mostly likely a product of aging (I'm 49). But my anxiety being what it is, I couldn't just accept that and now I've nearly convinced myself I have something else. I have my annual physical tomorrow and will bring it up with my physician. I'm thinking I need an ophthalmologist referral for further evaluation and maybe that will put my mind at ease. Of course, even if everything is "okay" I'm still severely depressed thinking this dark thing in the middle of my eye is something that is always going to be there.
Thank you for your story. I've spent the last 3 months going to all sort of doctors looking for a specific diagnosis for my "illness" and they never see anything. I would get so frustrated because my question was "why do i always feel Like this" I've noticed a huge increase in floaters to the point where it's aggravates me to go outside. Only shades or a darker room brings comfort. I've been experiencing a host of other life altering symptoms and thinking about it makes me realize that it just may be stuff I've already dealt with now coming to a head. Would you suggest going to doctor for some anxiety medication and a diagnosis?
Yesterday my anxiety was through the roof (had myself convinced I got tetanus even though that probably has a 0.0001% chance of happening) and I was over analyzing every little symptom. I went on a walk to try and calm down, but then I saw a bunch of black specks (they looked like gnats flying around) when I looked at the sky. Freaked me out so much!
@@foodandadventure6382 Wow, I actually forgot about this. Currently my health anxiety isn’t so bad. It comes and goes periodically. No rhyme or reason to it, unfortunately. Thanks for asking
@@russiaboyz2256 They’re still there, but I don’t really notice them so much. They’re more visible if I’m looking at the sky. I recently had an eye exam and apparently there was nothing wrong with my eyes. I think floaters are normal, but health anxiety can make even normal things seem like dangerous symptoms. I had it so bad in 2020 that I couldn’t think of anything but the next symptom/illness I thought I had. None of them ended up being real. I would suggest finding a hobby or podcast or something to distract you while your anxiety is really bad. Listening to other people’s stories of HA and how they got through it could help. That helped me through the worst of it. Good luck!
@@half-bakedpotato1078 thank you so much for the reply 🤍 means a lot to hear a positive story I hope one day I can go out the house and not notice them much love nd god bless 🤍
I have had severe health anxiety for a few months now. Burning sensations,myoclonic jerks,headaches,dizzyness,chest pains and the list goes on. Im 21 and have experienced floaters for a few years,but suddenly developed flashing lights in my vision a few weeks ago. I’m terrified I have retinal detachment or have a undiagnosed neurological issue. It is possible it could be anxiety related but it’s uncommon and my mind is convincing me otherwise🙁.
I have flashing lights about month ago and floaters too on my right eye . my doctor say is vetrous detachment he also say if flashing lights get worse call him I’m scared 😟
I do have flashing lights even more now and I got it briefly checked out but they didn’t find anything I know for sure it isn’t retinal detachment but I don’t know what else they checked for I also had my first smear test because I have been experiencing pelvic pain and I am terrified for those results
Anxiety & depression kills our body. It amplify small problems into big. I thought eye floaters are very dangerous. I searched in internal feared a lot. Mental health is so important. If we have good mindset we can manage every problem effectively. I was very stress during my school days. No one guide me in good ways. Most of the time our problem is very small or nothing but when we start to think it cause anxiety later depression.
Thanks so much for sharing! I started to see floaters last year and have been constantly anxious about them for more than a year now. I think anxiety definitely has impact on them. I'm getting better emotionally and hope will eventually get used to them!
Thanks so much for watching. And sorry you e also has to deal with this worry but yes you will definitely get used to them! I know I did and they honestly don’t even bother me anymore! You’ll get there.
@@Nyikitova maybe but the real question is does it affect your day to day activities? If so then it could be a problem and there are few solutions to minimise the problems cause by floaters.
Thank you for this video Chantelle. I am currently experiencing an onset of floaters and have had them for about 3 weeks. I suffered with them about 6 years ago and they seemed to go away and my brain became accustomed to them. I’ve recently attempted to come off an antidepressant and I think this has unfortunately heightened my anxiety bringing about the floaters again. I’ve had my eyes checked and they are healthy - but it’s very hard to convince yourself that when the floaters appear!
Haha I have floaters too. It made me worry so I booked an eye appointment and nothing bad. It’s normal when you age and anyone can get them. Apparently drinking pineapple juice can reduce them.
I have so many questions for you. So, I had eye floaters since August 2020 and just a couple of days before I detected the floaters, I was super anxious. Your explanation makes total sense. Can you please guide me as to how you reduced the floaters? I would like to learn a bit of history about your eyes and maybe I can get a tip or two from it to manage mine. Thanks.
Thanks for making this video. I've been through some personal life trauma recently, and it's caused me to obsess over my floaters, and constantly flick my eyes around to check if they're getting worse. For me it's not so much that I have them.. but that they were caused by LASIK eye surgery, so I blame myself.
When I was having terrible MS anxiety I started having eye pain, and then eventually started having vision issues. Even now when I look at stoplights at night one of my eyes sees a ghosted image of the stoplight above the stoplight. As you can imagine when this first began I it caused some extreme anxiety. Still in awe about how many physical symptoms health anxiety can cause.
I don't have M.S. I think it's possible I have something like a mild functional neurological disorder. Still working it out. Just have to stop fearing all these symptoms and learn to trust, then they stop being as destructive.
Omg I’ve been stressed out with them so I thought I would look on here and listening to your video has helped me so much thank you you explained all I have had looking at white walls and out in the sun looking at a bright sky the floaters are more prominent I am going to get my eyes examined in a week but I know I have had them for years but I just want to get my eyes checked out but I’ve had them when I had my eyes looked at 15 months ago and all was fine but I’ve started the menopause so my body is all over the place stress levels are high make me notice them more doing my head in atm anyway hopefully I will learn to deal with them as you have 😌
I am so hopeless.. I have convinced myself that i have a brain tumor for over a month now and i do not know what to do. I have floaters, feel like i am not balanced, feel like my arms/hands do not always know where they are going and the list keeps on growing. I have been to the docters for 4 times and they say nothings wrong. I got an mri done without insurance because of this and that also came out clear but i just cant believe it. I even emailed the radiologist if he is willing to look at it again and he will do that somewhere this week. But the fact that he did take my request seriously scared the shit out of me. I am now waiting for him to email me 24/7 and i can’t relax. I really feel like i dont have a future..
I got them a year ago ,at the age of nineteen. The first ten days were the worst ,but then i got used to it. My vision is perfect so i don't know why i have them 🤷♂️
Started noticing these about a month so and now can’t take my mind off them, I had a checkup at the hospital and nothing wrong, something have to deal with, hope they settle down or dissolve. Ruining my vision.
You are very cute. I think you have floaters, because they can't get enough of your beautiful eyes. Thank you for your story. Seriously, I hope I can meet someone as beautiful as you some day.
Unfortunately I see mine all the time, in my right eye I have big black dot that stays in the center field of my vision about 90% of the time. It started after huge anxiety problems related to laser eye surgery that left me with double vision :(.
When did you start having double vision? Right after laser surgery??? I've started having this two years after surgery and I'm wondering if it could be due to this. I'm very worried
@@albamadero7207 About a year after. My life is a nightmare every day, I regret this surgery every second of my life. For a while I thought that I'm just crazy but now I'm sure that everything (black floaters, double vision, dry eyes) is related to surgery.
@@6613Rafal i have exactly the same, only I got PKR. Floaters don't bother me as much, I can ignore them, but double vision and halos do. It's strange that this is happening so long after the surgery. Do you think anxiety might have something to do? Do you have it in both eyes? I'm sorry for so many questions, but this is the first time I read someone is having the same problem :)
Does anybody have any tips for health anxiety sufferers when someone you know gets seriously ill! I’m a teenager and I thought that if I got Covid it wouldn’t be too bad bc that’s what the news was saying (I’m obviously still being safe and social distancing and wearing a mask) *trigger warning: talking about illness for anyone with health anxiety* but then yesterday a classmate of mine with no underlying health conditions ended up in the ICU with heart failure and kidney failure because of COVID and now I’m really scared that If I get it, I’ll get it really bad too. Does anybody know how to deal with this kinda stuff
I was on holiday with my family when I was 18 (I'm 30 now) and I remember being in the car and looking at the sky and I saw one black dot floating in my vision. It honestly put the fear of God into me, I googled and fretted for months over it thinking I was having retinal detachment. I was in uni at the time and it affected my work and everything. I went to the opticians and they told me it was totally normal but my anxiety still convinced me I was going blind, I even emailed RNIB (blind institute) because I was that convinced. This is where my anxiety seemed to begin. About a year after that my anxiety moved to other things and I no longer worry about the floaters. I still have them, its gone from one to about 4 in both eyes but they don't bother me in the slightest. They did increase when I was pregnant but I didn't worry about them. I had an eye check 10 months ago and all was normal and I barely notice them. Thanks for your video 🙂
I think we need to unite in the vdm project. the doctors just ignore them says. Let's not accept this. Let's give support for a low-risk treatment option
I wonder how to know if floaters or flashers get worse cos im not good at noticing my visual very well quick im slow but scared if i tell wrong thing to person which that is problem 😭🤔
If u just don’t think about them they aren’t as bad but if u think omg I can see so many why am I swing them all of a sudden I will start seeing more it usually happens when u think its a symptom of a heath problem that ur anxious about or think u have
Well I am 16, I first have them in 14 like 2 yrs back, then i didn't sleep whole night in stress, thought i am having eye cancer 😂😂. Like yesterday i got my checked coz they increased again. And report is all fine. My vision is 6/6 with 0.25 d specs. I think they increase because i was taking a lot of stress lately due to exams and what to do after it!! So its normal. I can feel calm after watching this video 🎥
60 of population have floater all to do with steam cell .stress doesn't determine how they work .optision will dry eye and need glasses .factors eye hygiene, diet, light,rest in the dark ,and many more anxiety and stressed is physical factor lifes worrying were they say amd ,pvd,the brain get use to it thanks
You can try eating some pineapple everyday or taking Bromelain extract. There is one study out there where they showed it helped some people. Doesn't hurt to try.
It’s definitely tough! It took me a long while to get used to them but when my body became more relaxed and I wasn’t stuck in that high anxiety mode 24/7 they definitely massively reduced and now I don’t really notice them at all. You’ll get there!
I’m 31 weeks ans I feel like my dots just keep getting worse 😭 I did only see them outside now I see them anytime in in bright lights , I’m so afraid to go to the eye dr
The weird thing is that I got floaters at 32 years old when I had no stress and having fun in life…then they went away around the time I got heavy anxiety from work when I was 38….I quit my very stressful job at 43 and my anxiety has gone away a lot and now my floaters are back worst and with flashes in my right eye.Weird but true story….thanks for the video.
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The main reason for floaters is aging .. anxiety can contribute but it’s not the main cause. Apparently we start seeing them a lot in our 30s (i was first bothered by them at 32), then they subside a bit in the corners and our brain gets used to them, then we get new ones etc.
Hi i see loads of eye floaters and i got bad anxiety about it and this video helped allot i was also wondering if virtual reality might cause eye floaters because i got an oculus quest 2 last Christmas and thats when i started to see them
I first got floaters, then vss and then I noticed blue entoptic and now after 3months after I dealt with anxiety my vss is much better but the floaters are still there 🙂
@@bongdebjanikivines679 dude I thought I had vss yesterday and it was just my floaters -_- first time I ever tripped about it. Gave myself a weird headache smh.
I have flashing lights too and floaters on my right eye my doctor say I’ma be ok but I’m scared because some days the flashing lights get worse and I’m a very nervous person 😔
8:16 We dont want a diagnosis we want something so we know how to fix it, This quote drove me to tears, this is exactly how i feel, when i try to describe how i feel to anybody about the floaters and vss they all think i am just seeking attention and wanting a diagnosis, they think i WANT something to be wrong with my , but all i really want is to know whats wrong and how to fix it. Thank you, your video helped
This video could not have come at a better time. My floaters have been much more noticeable this week and I'm sure it's anxiety and stress. Thank you, your videos calm me so much!
You’re so welcome and I’m so glad my videos have helped you somewhat. Thanks for watching 💜
@@cherellethinks my start from 8 days i have lot of tension plz give me any tip reduce my eye floters i have fresh floters
@@jattblood9331 how are you bro
@@Mr.X898 not well bro face floters
@@jattblood9331 nd now
I am 33. I have had eye floaters since I was a kid. Nothing ever wrong with my eyes. I am nearsighted. There are two times I experienced eye floaters being a bother and that was two times I went through a stressful, anxiety filled time. Anxiety opens the doors for hyper focus so anything that will cause you some distress such as eye floaters becomes a big ordeal for you. Once stress and anxiety is relieved your mind will go back to ignoring them. I promise. When your mind is at peace things such as floaters will not bother you. Polarized sunglasses do help but if you do things to ease your suffering your mind will keep the door open for floaters to be a thing that’s stresses you out.
Hi I suffer from floaters as well . Started about 7 months ago and just saw one tiny dot .. but i was getting of some anxiety medication at that moment and one of the side effects is you get scared really easy over just regular things. So I got scared of the floater and I got hyper focused on them . Now I have a lot in both my eyes and everywhere I look I see them. I can’t stop focusing.. I’m 35 years old and never had them before . Do you think I can calm over them or get used to them in time? So they may increase .. even for a little bit??
@@biancastruijk9224 hi really want to know how is it going. Even my self have them. May I know how are you now❤
I could cry. U have no idea how much u help me...U calm me down and make me feel like I’m not crazy .. it’s very validating
You are not crazy. I am the same. There are a lot of people in the same boat. Reach out to medical help. The anxiety needs treated first.
Exactly once the anxiety is treated you will start noticing them less to a point where they won’t be visible anymore ,try meditating for at least an hour in the morning !!and try some pranayama it will really help,even I see them ,I know it’s not to worry about but my hypersensitive mind makes me notice it and the more I notice the more I see them to a point where I cannot enjoy certain things ,it all happens because of our hypersensitive mind ,,so better work on your anxiety ,we all are in it
@@jordan3786 bro How are you know
@@annecampbell2950 how are you bro
@@Mr.X898 was doing better then two weeks ago fell and hurt my back so am gone back a bit but will keep going forward.
I am currently going through this unfortunately. At first I was so scared because I was noticing more floaters than usual and “stars” and I scheduled an emergency appointment with my optometrist and everything checked out. I am also experiencing headaches and this weird squeezing and gritty feeling in my eyes especially at nighttime. Although I know everything is fine logically it’s so scary and I pay extra attention to my eyes and anything that seems off freaks me out so much sometimes to the point of panic. Health anxiety is a beast I’ve struggled with it for years with varying levels of severity.
Thanks for your comment and for watching the video! You’re right. Health anxiety is a beast and it’s really tough! I also had terrible gritty eyes when my anxiety was bad and I remember one night I woke up at 3am and all my eyes were totally bloodshot. It was terrible and I panicked but my optometrist said it was stress. I couldn’t believe it! Eye symptoms are not fun at all!
I have the same.. i knows how u feel♥️
I'm going through this right now. Optometrist gave me a clean bill, but my HA won't let it go.
Did anyone elses floaters appear with halos, starburst and double vision around lights??? I've been checked by 4 eye doctors now...
@@albamadero7207 yed
I just got them, or just started noticing them, at 35. This is right at the time I got prescription glasses. I felt sad. But right now I'm doing my best to accept them, make the moves to be as healthy as I can, and focus on the things that are more important and valuable in my life. Thank you for sharing your experience! It is very helpful.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with floaters. They seemed to be so overlooked, yet can be so psychologically difficult at times. And especially for the younger people, who can feel so alone and hopeless about them combined with anxiety. Your words will surely, bring strength to many! :)
So true. Happened to me when I was younger, thought I was possessed.
Thank you very much to talk about this, been struggling with eye floaters for 3+ years…
3 years here too
I have had eye floaters for a while, noticed they have got slightly worse to the point of severe anxiety, not sleeping and not eating, since watching this video i feel so much more at ease, cannot thank you enough x
Hello Cherelle! I want you to know that i watched every videos you did about health anxiety esp. Those lymph nodes bc i also do got mine and it all started with a sinus infection 6 months ago which lead to vertigo, ear infection, balance problems, random pain all over the body, fatigue and the list goes on and on. I've never stop googling and dig deeper and deeper and i was pretty unaware of the anxiety and depression that was with me everyday and now my body was fine i started doing exercise which helped and i had a lymph node like a weekend to my disease, its now the only thing that bothers me but with your videos, its like ive been aware of my mental state like maybe whats wrong with me is really the negativity in my head and now i finally overcome it 💗
Though i still have the tender part on the end line left side of my neck i know that it will finally shrink one day. Best of luck to you continue doing videos about health anxiety 😘😘
Thank you so much for making this video. I struggle with pretty SEVERE anxiety and your video helped me to not feel so alone. So, genuinely thank you from the bottom of my heart. I've been having floaters probably for quite some time but didn't notice them as much until I had a rough migraine. My health anxiety does cause me to pinpoint something within my body and become EXTREMELY hyperfixated on it. In turn, it makes me question if the problem I'm having is actually going on or if my anxiety is playing tricks on me. Lol it's a never-ending vicious cycle.
I've been experiencing floaters for awhile. They are most noticeable when i'm in a sunny room looking at a white wall. It's actually one of the symptoms I worry the least about because they were there before my BFS and health anxiety really kicked into full gear. Plus my Dad says he gets them so that calmed me down. Thanks very much for your videos. As someone who has just started to experience anxiety related symptoms such as persistent muscle twitching, it's helpful to hear from someone who has already experienced and dealt with a lot of these things.
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Thank You so much for this video ! I was recently diagnosed with floaters 2 weeks ago in my right eye. I suffer from anxiety disorder to begin with and this just pushed me over the edge. Once the Dr. said "No Cure" I freaked out. I also suffer with Tinnitus (ringing in my ears) which I'm now used to. I've been looking up peoples stories about Floaters so I can learn from their experiences. I see the floaters all the time. I hope they fade or my brain makes them go away. I've been making myself fall asleep as soon as I can so I don't have to deal with them ! When I wake up their there, and I go into "Panic Mode". My Dr. says I'll get used to it. I have soreness,and dry feeling too, and occasional flashes on the side of my eye. It scares me. I know I'm not alone. Why don't people talk about this publicly...Famous People..News..Etc. Thank You and I wish you well .
How are you feeling please help me
Hey
I have floaters and constant tinnitus aswell. There’s nothing wrong with my hearing it’s certainly just anxiety and stress that’s bought them both on. I now spend a lot of my free time using mindfulness to feel stress and learn about breaking the cycle of anxiety:)
Same here i have tinnitus which i accept and learn to deal with it i also have daily headaches due to my health anxiety. Im now pregnant and dealing with floaters. Very annoying, what i have figured out is i have to learn how to rewire my brain to not think about this symptoms. It is hard bec i see it all the time esp in bright places or white space. Im trying to deal with it and training my brain. I love to hear story too bec i know and it calms me down that i am not alone. Hope we all feel better and hoping that after I deliver my baby floaters are gone and or i got use to deal with them. Prayers for all of us
@@kimberlylactaoen3957 Kimberly, Congratulations on your pregnancy,don't let this cloud your happiness with the joy of motherhood. I have trained my brain to not see the floaters, it takes time..but trust me it will happen. We are not alone,but few people speak about it in public. I know how you feel though, especially when we already struggle with anxiety, and Tinnitus. Yes, prayers for all who struggle with these maladies. Happiness, Cindy
@@Mr.X898 It gets better with time.
This girl should be a film star
Thank you for sharing your experience. I totally panicked when I started having them in my right eye about a week ago. I was too scared to even look up what they are, fearing it could be something serious. I finally had the courage to google my symptoms last night. I'm relieved to learn that it's a common problem. So, I heard there's really no way to reverse this condition, which is disappointing but oh well... I'm gonna eat more veggies and continue taking supplements (bilberry, lutein, etc.) Sometimes if I'm not overly conscious of them, I don't see them (or my brain ignores them?!?). It's only when I remind myself of the floaters that they appear more pronounced.
More people should really talk about this i have had a ton of floaters since i was very young. But after a recent breakup they Came back after years of forgetting i even have them so im really stressed right now but im going to check my eyes and the end of the month just to know whats going on. Im trying to just relax but its not easy.
You got this 💖 we’re in this together
My eye floaters started after a panic attack and got worse everyday, along with shooting pain headaches which made my anxiety worse. Got my eyes checked and they were normal. Don’t notice floaters as much now .
How long did it take for u to not notice them? That’s so sweet!
Erin, you say you hardly notice them now please how long did that take?
@@annecampbell2950 it did take a few weeks once I got them checked and knew they were normal. I just didn’t pay attention after that x
Just don’t think about them I’ve had them since young and there worse when it’s sunny out
How much floaters you have?
Hey 👋 Great video. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with floaters. I have had anxiety issues since my early teens (I'm now 42), particularly around my health. At times it has truly been dreadful. In & out of the doctors surgery seeking reassurance for the many symptoms I was suffering with at that time. I starting noticing eye floaters 3 years ago and honestly thought I was going blind. No amount of opticians visits was convincing me otherwise 😥 I was certain that the opticians were lying to me. I know now that it was my health anxiety playing tricks with me. Because of my obsession with my floaters and my constant fear of them, I've had to give up work due to my severely high levels of anxiety this is causing. Although, is it my anxiety that's making the perception of them worse or are the floaters causing the anxiety? Will I ever stop noticing them? Any feedback would be fab. I'm desperate to get back to work but my focus is always on my eyes.
How are your floaters now?
Are you better now.
I too suffer from health related anxiety, and it is the worst. I've had floaters as long as I can remember but like you never really worried about them. Unfortunately I noticed a new floater recently and this one is quite prominent and dark and tends to wander directly into the field of vision in my right eye. Naturally I went to the internet and began to panic, certain I was having a retinal detachment. I got in to see an optometrist who said my retina looked fine and that this was mostly likely a product of aging (I'm 49). But my anxiety being what it is, I couldn't just accept that and now I've nearly convinced myself I have something else. I have my annual physical tomorrow and will bring it up with my physician. I'm thinking I need an ophthalmologist
referral for further evaluation and maybe that will put my mind at ease. Of course, even if everything is "okay" I'm still severely depressed thinking this dark thing in the middle of my eye is something that is always going to be there.
How are you now??
I have floaters for three years now I am 18 .I have more floaters in right eye and few in left eye.
Same problem i am also 18 .
Thank you for your story. I've spent the last 3 months going to all sort of doctors looking for a specific diagnosis for my "illness" and they never see anything. I would get so frustrated because my question was "why do i always feel
Like this" I've noticed a huge increase in floaters to the point where it's aggravates me to go outside. Only shades or a darker room brings comfort. I've been experiencing a host of other life altering symptoms and thinking about it makes me realize that it just may be stuff I've already dealt with now coming to a head. Would you suggest going to doctor for some anxiety medication and a diagnosis?
Yesterday my anxiety was through the roof (had myself convinced I got tetanus even though that probably has a 0.0001% chance of happening) and I was over analyzing every little symptom. I went on a walk to try and calm down, but then I saw a bunch of black specks (they looked like gnats flying around) when I looked at the sky. Freaked me out so much!
How you feeling now ?
@@foodandadventure6382 Wow, I actually forgot about this. Currently my health anxiety isn’t so bad. It comes and goes periodically. No rhyme or reason to it, unfortunately. Thanks for asking
@@half-bakedpotato1078how are your floaters now I am going through a stage where I see them every where I go and a panic any advice you could give me😞
@@russiaboyz2256 They’re still there, but I don’t really notice them so much. They’re more visible if I’m looking at the sky. I recently had an eye exam and apparently there was nothing wrong with my eyes. I think floaters are normal, but health anxiety can make even normal things seem like dangerous symptoms. I had it so bad in 2020 that I couldn’t think of anything but the next symptom/illness I thought I had. None of them ended up being real. I would suggest finding a hobby or podcast or something to distract you while your anxiety is really bad. Listening to other people’s stories of HA and how they got through it could help. That helped me through the worst of it. Good luck!
@@half-bakedpotato1078 thank you so much for the reply 🤍 means a lot to hear a positive story I hope one day I can go out the house and not notice them much love nd god bless 🤍
HOW DO YOU ALWAYS READ MY MIND
Because you are awesome
I suffer with hemiplegic migraines and have got eye floaters since I was around 11 or 12.
Now please tell me about u r floater position
Oh my God how do you manage 😢
I’m trying my best to stop checking for them. I’m always looking at the sky & always looking at white wall & turning my eyes & head
I have had severe health anxiety for a few months now.
Burning sensations,myoclonic jerks,headaches,dizzyness,chest pains and the list goes on.
Im 21 and have experienced floaters for a few years,but suddenly developed flashing lights in my vision a few weeks ago.
I’m terrified I have retinal detachment or have a undiagnosed neurological issue.
It is possible it could be anxiety related but it’s uncommon and my mind is convincing me otherwise🙁.
Do you still have the flashing lights ?
I have flashing lights about month ago and floaters too on my right eye . my doctor say is vetrous detachment he also say if flashing lights get worse call him I’m scared 😟
I do have flashing lights even more now and I got it briefly checked out but they didn’t find anything
I know for sure it isn’t retinal detachment but I don’t know what else they checked for
I also had my first smear test because I have been experiencing pelvic pain and I am terrified for those results
Try a plant diet. Miopia is reversible if you have it.
how are you now
Anxiety & depression kills our body. It amplify small problems into big. I thought eye floaters are very dangerous. I searched in internal feared a lot. Mental health is so important. If we have good mindset we can manage every problem effectively. I was very stress during my school days. No one guide me in good ways. Most of the time our problem is very small or nothing but when we start to think it cause anxiety later depression.
Please help me I'm 16 and don't know what to do please guide me
@@Mr.X898 how you feeling now bud
Thanks so much for sharing! I started to see floaters last year and have been constantly anxious about them for more than a year now. I think anxiety definitely has impact on them. I'm getting better emotionally and hope will eventually get used to them!
Thanks so much for watching. And sorry you e also has to deal with this worry but yes you will definitely get used to them! I know I did and they honestly don’t even bother me anymore! You’ll get there.
@@cherellethinks Do you think someone can get used to it as well if they see them all the time not just on sunny days? :/
@@Nyikitova maybe but the real question is does it affect your day to day activities? If so then it could be a problem and there are few solutions to minimise the problems cause by floaters.
How u fell now@@Nyikitova
Thank you for this video Chantelle. I am currently experiencing an onset of floaters and have had them for about 3 weeks. I suffered with them about 6 years ago and they seemed to go away and my brain became accustomed to them. I’ve recently attempted to come off an antidepressant and I think this has unfortunately heightened my anxiety bringing about the floaters again. I’ve had my eyes checked and they are healthy - but it’s very hard to convince yourself that when the floaters appear!
I came off of Effexor XR three months ago. This is when they formed. Same boat as you and it’s making my depression even worse
How many you had 6 years ago?
Haha I have floaters too. It made me worry so I booked an eye appointment and nothing bad. It’s normal when you age and anyone can get them. Apparently drinking pineapple juice can reduce them.
I have so many questions for you. So, I had eye floaters since August 2020 and just a couple of days before I detected the floaters, I was super anxious. Your explanation makes total sense. Can you please guide me as to how you reduced the floaters? I would like to learn a bit of history about your eyes and maybe I can get a tip or two from it to manage mine. Thanks.
What have helped you please help me. Suffering a lot
How many floaters you have bro?
Definitely found your video helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for making this video. I've been through some personal life trauma recently, and it's caused me to obsess over my floaters, and constantly flick my eyes around to check if they're getting worse. For me it's not so much that I have them.. but that they were caused by LASIK eye surgery, so I blame myself.
Same I got them after lasik and i wish i knew
How many you have?
When I was having terrible MS anxiety I started having eye pain, and then eventually started having vision issues. Even now when I look at stoplights at night one of my eyes sees a ghosted image of the stoplight above the stoplight. As you can imagine when this first began I it caused some extreme anxiety. Still in awe about how many physical symptoms health anxiety can cause.
im right there right now.
you ever stop having this problem?
@Viney Kamboj what do you mean
I don't have M.S. I think it's possible I have something like a mild functional neurological disorder. Still working it out. Just have to stop fearing all these symptoms and learn to trust, then they stop being as destructive.
Astigmatism
It helps to darken your eye(s) to give them some rest. When you close your eyes, you don't de them that clear.
Doesn anyone notice colours blindness?
Colours more darker than before
Omg I’ve been stressed out with them so I thought I would look on here and listening to your video has helped me so much thank you you explained all I have had looking at white walls and out in the sun looking at a bright sky the floaters are more prominent I am going to get my eyes examined in a week but I know I have had them for years but I just want to get my eyes checked out but I’ve had them when I had my eyes looked at 15 months ago and all was fine but I’ve started the menopause so my body is all over the place stress levels are high make me notice them more doing my head in atm anyway hopefully I will learn to deal with them as you have 😌
How are you feeling
I am so hopeless.. I have convinced myself that i have a brain tumor for over a month now and i do not know what to do. I have floaters, feel like i am not balanced, feel like my arms/hands do not always know where they are going and the list keeps on growing. I have been to the docters for 4 times and they say nothings wrong. I got an mri done without insurance because of this and that also came out clear but i just cant believe it. I even emailed the radiologist if he is willing to look at it again and he will do that somewhere this week. But the fact that he did take my request seriously scared the shit out of me. I am now waiting for him to email me 24/7 and i can’t relax. I really feel like i dont have a future..
Please read about Xfloater and especially about VDM project (we need to subscribe)
I got them a year ago ,at the age of nineteen.
The first ten days were the worst ,but then i got used to it. My vision is perfect so i don't know why i have them 🤷♂️
Medicine side effects
Started noticing these about a month so and now can’t take my mind off them, I had a checkup at the hospital and nothing wrong, something have to deal with, hope they settle down or dissolve. Ruining my vision.
Are they better now
I feel your pain.
Are they better now ?
@@maddimiller4540 do you have floaters? Are they better now ?
@@jhanelle4919 not really just learning to live with them
You are very cute. I think you have floaters, because they can't get enough of your beautiful eyes. Thank you for your story. Seriously, I hope I can meet someone as beautiful as you some day.
Unfortunately I see mine all the time, in my right eye I have big black dot that stays in the center field of my vision about 90% of the time. It started after huge anxiety problems related to laser eye surgery that left me with double vision :(.
When did you start having double vision? Right after laser surgery??? I've started having this two years after surgery and I'm wondering if it could be due to this. I'm very worried
@@albamadero7207 About a year after. My life is a nightmare every day, I regret this surgery every second of my life. For a while I thought that I'm just crazy but now I'm sure that everything (black floaters, double vision, dry eyes) is related to surgery.
@@6613Rafal may I ask you whether you have double vision of all objects, or especially around lights and whether you got LASIK or PKR?
@@albamadero7207 i have double vision on lights and white letters on black backgrounds. I've had relex smile.
@@6613Rafal i have exactly the same, only I got PKR. Floaters don't bother me as much, I can ignore them, but double vision and halos do. It's strange that this is happening so long after the surgery. Do you think anxiety might have something to do? Do you have it in both eyes? I'm sorry for so many questions, but this is the first time I read someone is having the same problem :)
I can notice them all time even at night on roads at any dim light
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Does anybody have any tips for health anxiety sufferers when someone you know gets seriously ill! I’m a teenager and I thought that if I got Covid it wouldn’t be too bad bc that’s what the news was saying (I’m obviously still being safe and social distancing and wearing a mask) *trigger warning: talking about illness for anyone with health anxiety* but then yesterday a classmate of mine with no underlying health conditions ended up in the ICU with heart failure and kidney failure because of COVID and now I’m really scared that If I get it, I’ll get it really bad too. Does anybody know how to deal with this kinda stuff
I was on holiday with my family when I was 18 (I'm 30 now) and I remember being in the car and looking at the sky and I saw one black dot floating in my vision. It honestly put the fear of God into me, I googled and fretted for months over it thinking I was having retinal detachment. I was in uni at the time and it affected my work and everything. I went to the opticians and they told me it was totally normal but my anxiety still convinced me I was going blind, I even emailed RNIB (blind institute) because I was that convinced. This is where my anxiety seemed to begin. About a year after that my anxiety moved to other things and I no longer worry about the floaters. I still have them, its gone from one to about 4 in both eyes but they don't bother me in the slightest. They did increase when I was pregnant but I didn't worry about them. I had an eye check 10 months ago and all was normal and I barely notice them. Thanks for your video 🙂
Try a plant diet.
I think we need to unite in the vdm project. the doctors just ignore them says. Let's not accept this. Let's give support for a low-risk treatment option
Great aggree with u
Agree
Thank you so much for your story , wisdom and ideas
See when you started see them how quick can you see optician etc? Just wonder
I wonder how to know if floaters or flashers get worse cos im not good at noticing my visual very well quick im slow but scared if i tell wrong thing to person which that is problem 😭🤔
How you now any improvement
You ever had phantom smells?
I used to wake up smelling smoke from time to time, only to find it wasn't there. I've talked to other anxiety sufferers who've had this too. So YES.
yes i smell campfires alot, its strange.
@@gregorypellerin1 I was going to write the same thing.
If u just don’t think about them they aren’t as bad but if u think omg I can see so many why am I swing them all of a sudden I will start seeing more it usually happens when u think its a symptom of a heath problem that ur anxious about or think u have
U also see eye floater
Thank you,you were a great help!!
My problem is muscle twitching and is progressing avery day
Same here how r u now brother
Well I am 16, I first have them in 14 like 2 yrs back, then i didn't sleep whole night in stress, thought i am having eye cancer 😂😂. Like yesterday i got my checked coz they increased again. And report is all fine. My vision is 6/6 with 0.25 d specs. I think they increase because i was taking a lot of stress lately due to exams and what to do after it!! So its normal. I can feel calm after watching this video 🎥
How are u now? Also what do ur floaters look like? Are they dark, clear worms, etc
Hello Doctor 🤩
60 of population have floater all to do with steam cell .stress doesn't determine how they work .optision will dry eye and need glasses .factors eye hygiene, diet, light,rest in the dark ,and many more anxiety and stressed is physical factor lifes worrying were they say amd ,pvd,the brain get use to it thanks
I have eye floaters. It's soo hard to deal with them. I don't know what to do
You can try eating some pineapple everyday or taking Bromelain extract. There is one study out there where they showed it helped some people. Doesn't hurt to try.
It’s definitely tough! It took me a long while to get used to them but when my body became more relaxed and I wasn’t stuck in that high anxiety mode 24/7 they definitely massively reduced and now I don’t really notice them at all. You’ll get there!
@@cherellethinks I have a small lump under my jaw but it’s unrecognizable. Should I worry? It’s doesn’t hurt and it moves around.
@@carlosdelgado4872 try a plant diet.
@@brenosantana1458 Have you had experience with floaters & this diet?
I'm 17 and they never go away and even increase a little is it because of anxiety?
Hey cherelle what kind of floaters do you have and from how much time?plz reply give me some motivation too
I’m 31 weeks ans I feel like my dots just keep getting worse 😭 I did only see them outside now I see them anytime in in bright lights , I’m so afraid to go to the eye dr
How are you now
Are they vanished now?
The weird thing is that I got floaters at 32 years old when I had no stress and having fun in life…then they went away around the time I got heavy anxiety from work when I was 38….I quit my very stressful job at 43 and my anxiety has gone away a lot and now my floaters are back worst and with flashes in my right eye.Weird but true story….thanks for the video.
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How many floatters you had when you were 32 years old and their shapes please reply
The main reason for floaters is aging .. anxiety can contribute but it’s not the main cause. Apparently we start seeing them a lot in our 30s (i was first bothered by them at 32), then they subside a bit in the corners and our brain gets used to them, then we get new ones etc.
Make a vitrectomy and then will deasappear just risk so you get better
Hi i see loads of eye floaters and i got bad anxiety about it and this video helped allot i was also wondering if virtual reality might cause eye floaters because i got an oculus quest 2 last Christmas and thats when i started to see them
How are you now?
I'm so afraid to even count them.
Thank you so much ma'am🙏
Thank you
Thinking girl!! Un saluto bellissima!
Are you considering laser treatment?
I first got floaters, then vss and then I noticed blue entoptic and now after 3months after I dealt with anxiety my vss is much better but the floaters are still there 🙂
How to do feel now
The anxiety comes and goes..sometimes I ignore them and these symptoms are much less and on hard days I notice them more when I am very anxious 😟
Blue entiotic ?
@@AccDeleted1 technically all these things are normal, but when we are anxious we focus these more.. I am better now 😌
@@bongdebjanikivines679 dude I thought I had vss yesterday and it was just my floaters -_- first time I ever tripped about it. Gave myself a weird headache smh.
New here. Great video 👍🏼
I’m 27 weeks, do they get better after birth
Did they get better for you? I am 29 weeks pregnant now and my floaters are bad
@@NDandTable yes, they seemed to move down and out of my vision , I see them sometimes but nowhere as bad. Feel better ❤️
@@Sunshine-vz2on thank you for replying!!!! So glad to hear they got better for you!
How much you have if before? And what type of shape?
i feel sciudal
Don't do it. It don't make matters better.
I get flashes of light along with floaters!! Is this normal??
go and visit doctor soon. You may have retinal problem
I have flashing lights too and floaters on my right eye my doctor say I’ma be ok but I’m scared because some days the flashing lights get worse and I’m a very nervous person 😔
@@Lizzy-ej6nt how old are you?
@@nofacehoncho5kid396 32
Try a plant diet. Miopia is reversible if one have it.
I can say these eye floaters made me that much depressed that i wanted to do suicide sometimes
Bullshit
My life was going very well
Untill last year😣
Don't do it. It don't make matters better.
Mine too until last two months
How can I contact me
This is horrible for me too.
So tired .. I want to know how to naturally cure
Try a plant diet dude.
Thanks you for the advice but you may not have too many otherwise you wouldn't say the same