I was close to getting a vitrectomy given how much they use to bother me. Just give yourself time to get use to them and don't be too hard on yourself in the meantime.@@russiaboyz2256
Eye floaters were the cause of my health anxiety, I was constantly checking if there were new ones and it honestly spiked up the anxiety even more. But now it's been a year since I've had them and I don't really notice them that much anymore. Going to a therapist and accepting my floaters helped a lot. At first I was always in fear but for anyone who reads this and has been worrying over their eye floaters: It really gets better! Try to figure out the root of your anxiety, because that's what makes it worse. Apparently a lot of my friends have them as well and it seems this is a very common occurrence.
Omg! Been obsessing over mine. Like I haven’t had them for most of my life. I guess my brain wants to trick me thinking I may be going blind. Health anxiety sucks!😫😫😭
@@triggermeelmoI feel you .I"ve been very deppresssed because of this got them 2months ago It's so hard i have black dots hige transparent and gray strings.
Great video love you work always watching your videos you talk so much sense and you gone through it all yourself so you actually know what your talking about, great video ❤
Bizzare i had it suddenly when i was extremely worried about my BP for over 2 years and suddenly it went away one day because stress was reduced massively. Kill stress and see the differnece it makes. Goodluck to everyone God Bless
Stress don't cause floaters you neanderthal. They are caused by structural changes in the vitreous of the eye. Funny how in this day of advanced knowledge at the fingertips, people are even dumber than they were 30 years ago!
Thanks for your support Cherelle. Please don't let those trolls get to you. You are so generous with your time and you have got me through some really difficult times ❤
I developed macular degeneration with flashes and floaters after years of chronic stress looking after my ASD son. Last week I had my first cataract surgery and now the floaters have become much more obvious. I have been quite anxious thinking about having to live my life now with this flock of hundreds of flies. Your video helped me immensely and I'm so grateful that I found you this morning. I also have tinnitus and I've somehow got used to that and beyond the anxiety. It's actually the thoughts and imagination that cause the problem to be so exaggerated so that's the place to let go and get on with enjoying life. Again, thankyou so much for sharing your experience and making life easier.
This is EXACTLY what happened to me to a tee. Its the hyperstimulation that made them more obvious. They were likely always there for me. Once i started healing from anxiety they faded massively.
@@vadirajacsvadirajacs1360 one really sharp and dark in right eyes I would say size of a pea but a cobweb My left eye has small white and black ones I have around 3/4 al together hbu It’s horrible when you go out in the day time it’s all you can see but I have had them for 3 weeks now it’s driving me mad but watching all these videos with people who got there and don’t really notice them any more is helping me loads keep watching these videos to try and teach your mind these things can go unnoticed I keep telling my self every day I see them I’m panic but we will get through this together 👏
Idk how to stop. I’m like almost addicted to checking them every morning when I wake up. I have gross bacteria/ameoba looking ones that are more noticeable when I squint. It’s so hard letting go & I try to but will sometimes see one in the sky. My eye doc thinks I’ve always had them but are more prominent to me now bc I’m anxious. She said there’s no way u can wake up one day & have them
I have a lot. All kinds of knots and webs of small bubbles and strands, even a cloudy area that passes by. I can get lost looking at them on a clear day, but then I completely forget about them and don't notice them.
Hello! Thank you for your content, it helps a lot! Did you have other vision symptoms? Like vision is really weird, watching trough dirty window, out of focus, blurry, etc
Mine are pretty bad on a bright sunny day so i always wear sun glasses outside and that helps A LOT. My eyes are pretty sensitive so Im just learning to live with them! Im finally over the healthy anxiety they gave me last year. Plus your channel has really helped me get through that scary time in my life. Thank you for this video!
If your eyes are sensitive to light, it means you have dry eyes, I suffer with floaters and extreme dry eyes, intensive dry eye drops helps so so much, it's that wetness that acts as a shield to the light. U have to try it out
Oddly enough I have tinnitus and just noticed new eye floaters. Eye doctor said it’s just the aging and vitreous gel clumping and is normal with age. Went to 2 eye docs just to be doubly sure. Yes constantly googling and obsessing is bad! It just makes you hyper aware. A lady I used to work with said she has floaters too and that eventually the brain learns to ignore them. I can tell you from experience with tinnitus that obsessing ALWAYS makes it worse. At first it’s frightening but slowly they either fade or become less noticeable as you stop concentrating so much on them. It’s the anxiety that always makes things worse. I mostly see mine outside on sunny days. One sort of large one and a bunch of pinpoint black ones. Mostly in left eye. Anyone suffering needs to mitigate anxiety and you will stop worrying so much about them. Just be sure to get reassurance from your ophthalmologist or optometrist first. Then try to relax. Actually to me the tinnitus is more annoying but it’s lessened some.
4:00 I have been dealing with this exactly for a year now. I have floaters and astigmatism and it’s harder to see further away especially when driving. To the point where I have glasses now. It really was me drinking and smoking so much and eating junk food and staying up so late and stressing about life that caused me this problem. I’m changing my life but my eyes have been a problem for me. Every night I pray that they get better.
Same story, to a tee. Increase in floaters, flashes, sparkles, go to the eye doctor and she says my eyes are healthy, she sees the floaters there’s a lot so “let’s do another test to make sure it’s not something neurological like MS” triggered right away, had to wait a couple days for a field vision test, what’s worse is the results took like forever to come back so that whole time I kept checking my chart to see if the results came in. Came back fine but that amount of anxiety it caused thinking I had a horrible disease and the googling I did was insane. Thank you for these videos they help tremendously ❤❤❤
Thanks for the video, that was really helpful! But did I get that right that - you got more shortsighted because of the anxiety, and once you got better, your vision improved again?
How long did it take all of your symptoms to go. I have kicked the anxiety I think but I still have little shooting nerve pains on my entire left side. Nothing localised it changes all the time and I just want them to go away now I’m done
Lately words in books and windows with patterns on them sort of flicker snd move in my side vision. Should I be worried i have very bad health anxiety?
I do agree with all you say about health anxiety But if you are really worried and things are changing quickly you do need to get your health checked out by a doctor
this was my very first health anxiety trigger as a kid and i went to the eye doctor 3x with my mom in 6th grade panicking i was going blind etc etc i was convinced i was losing my vision tho and now my health anxiety is like sticky paper where it's a new thing i worry about every month or so. dbt and cbt help and my benzo when needed but health anxiety SUUUUUCKS
I wish I had this video 10 years ago when I was having similar problems with eye floaters and dry eyes. I just found your channel and your pep talks are really helping me.😊
I never had floaters until one morning, i woke up and my eyes where full of them i was 23 at the time. Had my eyes checked and they could see all the floaters and told me they do not see a lot of people of my age with such a large amount of floaters and when they do it are usually people who have had head injuries of some sort. Luckily my eyes where healthy but the floaters are still there. Most of the time i can ignore them but sometimes they get in the way when reading stuff. There are just so many of them... I have no clue what caused them for me i have never had any injuries or ever hit my head against anything, they just came from one day to another out of no where like 30 ish per eye large webs and small strings
I have numerous eye floaters that have never went away, I also have scintillation scotoma that creates a visual aura that blocks my central vision when they occur due to migraine condition. They look like cracked glass with a multi colored spectrum that last for 35 minutes. So cheer up!😄😃😀
Does anybody else finding themselves checking up on their floaters every single day? I have this thing where I turn my body/head rapidly to look & check for my floaters. Now I’m scared that I can suffer from brain damage bc of moving my head left to right rapidly too much 😔 health anxiety is so real. I have dark floaters that can’t be ignored with sunglasses
Thanks for the video. But how bad were your floaters? I have one big one, well I think it’s pretty large anyway, if I was a meter away from a wall it’d be like a 10 pence coin. And it swims round it my right eye all day, I’m even considering laser. So yeah how bad were yours so I know if I will get used to mine xxxx
Your videos make me think maybe I have proper health anxiety. I think my first real bout of anxiety was around tinnitus. My tinnitus is very mild, but when I noticed it, it felt crippling to me - devastating. I've gone through serious panic and anxiety over temporary hearing loss (like ear wax moving around in the ear - lasting a few seconds). I've had serious anxiety over eye floaters ("I'm going blind!"). My new worry has been my fingers twitching. The funny thing to me is that I can look back on my previous worries, and see how overblown they were. The eye floater thing is a great example - I don't give it a second thought now. My tinnitus is very mild (I almost never notice it). My hearing is great. But the damn fingers twitching... I'm having a ton of anxiety over that. And definitely the anxiety makes it worse. While the anxiety hasn't gone away... it's helpful knowing that other folks have these experiences. Until watching your videos, I didn't even know "health anxiety" was a thing. Been a couple weeks now. Helps a lot listening to your stuff. You are a blessing to a lot of anxiety sufferers. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
@@russiaboyz2256 They are fine. I saw my eye doc about them a couple years ago and she called them "birthday presents" and said I would get more of them as I age. (I'm 40). Basically it's just proteins forming into clumps inside your eye jelly. It's generally totally benign and not something to worry about. One thing that can help is to rapidly move your eye up and down. This can cause the floaters to float to a position that is less obviously in your visual field. Stuff like this is in the category of things that can bother you very much if you focus on it and worry about it. On the other hand, most people have floaters and don't notice or worry about it. I'm a fairly obsessive kind of person. I've obsessed over things like mild twitching/tremoring, eye floaters, mild tinnitus, etc. In all cases, my docs have told me I'm totally fine. My experience tells me that if I fixate on these sorts of issues, they seem far worse than they actually are. Basically, try not to worry about it. It's always good to get a regular eye checkup, but just know that eye floaters are very common and generally benign. Mine don't bother me anymore, nor does my mild tinnitus. I'm still working on getting at peace with my mild twitching/tremoring (I have very subtle finger shakes that worry me as a professional musician, but they do not hamper my ability to play music or type at 100+WPM). Even that last problem is getting better for me. Basically you just have to work on your mental state. The more you fight your symptoms, the worse they seem and the more upset you get. Work on trusting that you are OK (again, eye floaters are common and almost always benign). Best of luck to ya! I'm betting you are totally fine, and I think you will calm down about your eye floaters.
This!! Going through the same thing... which I went through before but for some reason I can't seem to remember how I tuned out from them. 2012... loads of floaters all of a sudden and somehow just got on with it. Had them on and off for years. Felt totally free of them for years too... then this August hit my left eye... got some flashes and started to worry... was checking for flashes and new floaters all the time in that eye... then all of a sudden loads of floaters in both eyes... i'm on all the supplements you can imagine but i'm starting to realise that i'm making it worse... i know they'll go away again... or that i'll forget about them as I have before... I just wanted them to go away too quickly and have made them last longer as a consequence. For anyone about to go down a crazy supplement, diet, detox rabbit hole... please STOP! I know they go away... either mentally or physically... Anytime in the past when I've got on about my life they disappear... and some days I remember I had' them and think "Yes they're gone and I didn't even realise" .. and when I get a flare up and try to make them go away.... they never do! Of-course, get them checked first and live a healthy active life! Don't stop doing the things you love because your floaters annoy you... do them anyway and in time (be patient and switch off) you'll forget you even had them. It's been 4 months of me torturing myself for a cure before Christmas... and it's done me no good! Time to forget about floater cures and get on with everything else we have in life! They're not forever... .STAY OFF REDIT... people on their are stuck in a harmful cycle and a few are definitely the exception to the rule of having daily bothersome floaters for 20 + years! Hope this helps someone!
Floaters don't just randomly go away, they're actual protein bits in ur eyes. They have to be surgically removed or u have to suffer with them, there's no in-between
I feel this, i feel like i'm trapped right now. I have persistent floaters, constantly checking on them. Consistently googling, reddit, fb. Always in an anxious state. This is hell.
Hey... sorry just posting the same answer I gave to someone else... I've made a larger comment too. I was the same at your age! I'm 35 now and totally tuned out from them for the last 10 years... but you do have to relax. I got a flare up recently because I hit my eye and started looking for flashes and new floaters... long behold... I now have 2 eyes full of floaters. I know it's hard but the best advice I can give you is be active and you'll tune out from them over time... I did and will again! If you try to rush it and keep checking for progress. (I've tried that too) there will be none! Be healthy and active! You'll be fine!
@@bigmouthaudio1211hello some days before i have floters just 4.5 and 1 is sentre in my eyes i am very stress what can I do now and i am doing job hole day computer uses can increase eye floters
I'm suddenly observing a floater,its like a fine hair,its so annoying. I'm distracting while reading or doing other works and its more prominent in bright and white objects. I'm so depressed now. I'm only 22 and it's on left eye i also have -ve 0.25 power in that eye when i last checked but I don't wear any glass for it.From past few months i was seeing blurring vision from lest eye and i noticed a floater fews days back but that went away now from tomorrow I'm seeing this floater that doesn't go.😢
@@kaifkamal6512 have you stopped worrying about them as I’m in panic mode at the moment I just like to hear they can get better from other people’s experiences to help me on my journey
Anyone feel like this? When ur looking at an image or object and then look away ,u see a shadow like outline of that object?.. i mean if u look at a gate with gaps in it and loon away then u see the gap lines like shadow?
@@whatheduck96 thank u so much man.. cos I m afraid i have some sort of psychosis.. my anxiety symptoms are always mental not physical.. I have racing thoughts and inner monologue and this eye problems.. before I go to sleep i have thoughts that are random and i could not control it feels scary
@@aravinthselvaraj7340 I feel exactly same as you! I've been pretty worried about my health for about 6 months. At first, I thought I had ALS. Then I was afraid of having facial paralysis. Now I have concerns about retinal detachment. I also lost my grandmother to a heart attack a week ago and I am afraid of the possibility of having a heart attack in the future. Sometimes I have panic attacks at night, I try to do my best to get rid of this situation...
Is there any chance there will be a treatment for eye floaters in the future? I'm asking because I've visited so many eye specialists, but none of them seem to care about floaters; they simply say you'll get used to them.
there are two treatments : 1. Yag vitrelosis it is a laser that shoots the floaters and makes them less prominent not really effective if not done by someone with an experience 2 . Floaters only vitrectomy it's an operation that is invasive that sucks the floaters out of your eye but it is guranteed that you will develop Cataract sooner or later that's why doctors aren't in a hurry to recommend those procedures even though Vitrectomy is "safe"
I am 47 and have suffered for 4 years now after an inflammation episode in 2019. My left eye has black floaters everywhere and right eye has a few also. Every second of the day when the eyes are open I am suffering. Non-stop anxiety. Life is not normal anymore. Please help.
Get a vitrectomy. It is a 100% cure. If you have had them for 4 years its doubtful you will get used to them. At 47 you would be a good candidate (It's more risky for young people) See a retinal specialist and that doctor can advise you.
O stress, ansiedade e depressão tem realmente um significado importante na condição ocular de moscas volantes, mas nao e causa delas, pelo fato de que se fosse apos tratar a ansiedade ou stress normalizaria totalmente a visão. E isto nao ocorre apenas reduz o panico pelo super foco que se dava as moscas volantes. Outra coisa que prova de ansiedade nao causa moscas volantes e que existem pessoas extremamente ansiosas, depremidas e nao tem nem sequer míope e nenhuma outra problema ocular, entao e relativo. Agora que o stress, ansiedade e depressão piora muito e fato, isto em qualquer problema de saúde devido estes estados psicológico baixar a imunidade. As causas sistêmicas das moscas volantes sao diversas e complexas, por istos os oftalmologistas nao dão a importância merecida as moscas volantes. Vou citar as principais causas virais, bactérianas e parasitária e também fugica e por intoxicações e deficiência nutricional. As principais causas sao Toxoplasmosis, lyme, Bartonella, Borrelia, Babesia, clamidias, sífilis, histoplasmosis, demodex, Toxocaríase, doenças do pombo, intoxicação com mercúrio, malária, zika, deficiência de b12 e vitamina A, desidratação grave, epstein barr, citomegalovirus... Trate as causas e nao os sintomas.
Wow, really been stressing about eye floaters and twitching, especially face twitching for past couple of years. Everything started after my close friend died of cancer and I've got Crohn's disease. Since then my health gone downhill. Now I really feel like caring more about my health anxiety which is especially hard since I've ADHD but I feel like there's no other way to make it.
I got a feeling that whenever I see the word of a disease that I’m already afraid of, I think that maybe it is a sign that I have this disease and that there is a reason which made this word appear to me. Is it just me ?
Ur not alone.. i thought i have depression and then i thought I had brain tumour and then it got me anxiety.. and i read anxiety symptoms and feel like i have everything.. then I was afraid psychosis, schizophrenia and bipolar.. whatever symptoms I read i feel like i have it and i keep checking if i have that symptoms My honest advice just put ur phone away. Live ur life with the symptoms and ur mind and body will get used to the symptoms and it will go away.. because anxiety is all about thinking that u have a danger when there is none.. so let ur mind no there is no danger
No you are not alone...I am a very big carcinophobic(afraid of getting cancer) and whenever there is a slightly change in my body I start googling if it can be a sing of cancer..and then end up convincing myself that I am suffering from a serious condition. Health anxiety is really very disturbing😒.
Diluted atropine dilates pupils just a tiny bit, in fight of flight response dilation is not the root cause of seeing floaters, in that case is the hyperawareness of the visual system that kicks in ;) that's biologically a smart way to call it a day, same applies for tinnitus, hearing system flares up as well. @@kyoli9847
I think screens caused me this problem (i'm 16), and i'm so scared they'll cause me detachment of vitreous and retina. I'm afraid to become blind... And I think it's all my fault
I am also of the same age, dealing with so many floaters in both eyes..and the worse thing is that when I googled it I came to know that they are not common in young age..😢
@@Priya_dubey207 According to my ophthalmologist, the main cause is dehydration (I drink VERY little), and within a month they remained the same. Now I'm noticing them a lot less, and I've actually discovered that a lot more people than I thought have them. Two of my friends suffer from floatets and like me they are short-sighted and also astigmatic (they are 17 and 19 years old). I was very happy to know that I wasn't the only one, and even happier when my doctor said that it was nothing dangerous. However, they were quite annoying for a while, and over time the doctor said that they tend to move out of the field of vision or to break and maybe also disintegrate, and that I can safely remove the largest and most annoying ones with the laser. Ps. Pineapple doesn't work.
Yes!! You're so tuned into everything eye /related that you notice very common phenomenons everywhere... don't be surprised if you start seeing anything else... just tune it out.
Sherelle,i seem to have a visual burnout after 3 years of anxiety/ stress. Last year my eyes are weird blurry and out of focus etc. The optometrist says it can only recover when i do brain/ eye training...but i am so in doubt....this all came from stress... so i would think it could recover itself when i feel relaxed again....what do you think...
Your are beautiful ❤ its not health Anxiety to have floaters i have had Them since I was 14 now 58 . Listen the only way out is laser Or surgery - remove the gel replace It with a water solution. THATs MY ADVISe TO YOU .
Hi since i had my floaters at the age of 13 and my doctor said it's because that i have dry eyes too. Since i'm panicking whenever i see my floaters what can you advise for it what did you when you had it.
Hi I still have them I notice them less But the more I want to see them they come Back into thousands . Leave them alone and carry on with Your life but a yearly check of your Eye by the eye doctor Period Don’t worry 😊
@@music_8450 don’t worry just see Your eye doctor yearly . In the early 80s I was alone with this problem And extremely frightened being 17 yrs Old in 1982 . Now in 2024 you have every medical Help on hand from surgery to laser And another thing floaters have became So common that every 5 people - 3 will Suffer with some kind of floaters even If it’s a tiny winy one .
Hi...i have started twiching in my right thigh which are persistent 24*7. Them i feel twitches all other almost every part of my body. My ncv test for LL is clean. I very scared that i might have als. Can u help me out this...
@@cherellethinkshello i am from India i like to ask you something past some days i also seen 7.8 transparent floters in my eyes and i also have anxiety issue what can I do now i am very stress please reply me
It's false and misleading to say that everyone can get used to them. Its a physical issue and changing your outlook, mental health, anxiety etc can not always make you forget about giant grotesque insects in your vision! I suffered for 2 years and they were constant torture. I saw mine every minute of every day except in the dark or when I was sleeping. Mine actually blocked my vision and were completely opaque blobs, making it hard to read, work on my computer, and drive. I had degenerative myopic vitreopathy which gets worse and worse. The ONLY thing that worked was vitrectomy surgery. I know many people on an online group who have had them for 10 years or more, and they are not able to get used to them either. Good for you if you can but that is not always possible. And NO, the social media groups helped me immensely and I found others who understood. I already had cataract surgery and natural posterior vitreous detachment, so I was a good candidate for surgery. Someone should NOT suffer from this horrible scourge and be told that your outlook will make you not notice them or they will go away naturally if you can't get used to them. Surgery is a 100% cure.
You are entirely too worked up about this. For the vast majority of people, you learn to deal with them. Obviously if yours were bad enough to require surgery, you are in the minority. For people with serious health anxiety who are otherwise healthy, your comments are counterproductive at best and actively harmful at worst as they are feeding into the worst fears that we have.
@@pixiwix I don't know the statistics regarding how many people who have floaters have mild vs. severe. I do know that debilitating floaters are NO JOKE. I've talked to many people on a facebook group who couldn't work, were seriously depressed, lived inside only with the curtains drawn, and have even been suicidal. I do not have health anxiety, but had a normal response to having giant insect like dark blobs constantly swirling around in my vision. I was "entirely worked up about this" because this nightmare dominated my life for nearly 2 years. It was impossible not to see them 24/7 except in the dark or when I was asleep. I am extremely grateful for vitrectomy because it saved my sanity and vision. Telling people who have severe floaters that they have health anxiety and they can stop noticing them by not focusing on them is harmful. When this doesn't happen, they become more depressed and helpless. People in this situation are in a position to seek surgery and be encouraged by hearing success stories from others who have. A study was done that determined that people who have severe floaters experience mental health issues equivalent to receiving a cancer or HIV diagnosis!
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You are 100% correct. I NEVER believed that I would get use to them, but now I couldn't care less about them.
Oh really that’s soooo good to here ☺️ I hope I can say the same one day
I was close to getting a vitrectomy given how much they use to bother me. Just give yourself time to get use to them and don't be too hard on yourself in the meantime.@@russiaboyz2256
What kind of floaters do u have? Are they clear, dark, etc
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Eye floaters were the cause of my health anxiety, I was constantly checking if there were new ones and it honestly spiked up the anxiety even more. But now it's been a year since I've had them and I don't really notice them that much anymore. Going to a therapist and accepting my floaters helped a lot. At first I was always in fear but for anyone who reads this and has been worrying over their eye floaters: It really gets better! Try to figure out the root of your anxiety, because that's what makes it worse. Apparently a lot of my friends have them as well and it seems this is a very common occurrence.
Omg! Been obsessing over mine. Like I haven’t had them for most of my life. I guess my brain wants to trick me thinking I may be going blind. Health anxiety sucks!😫😫😭
@@triggermeelmoI feel you .I"ve been very deppresssed because of this got them 2months ago
It's so hard i have black dots hige transparent and gray strings.
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You make me so happy to know I’m not alone. Your videos mean a lot to me. Thank you.
So shared suffering makes you feel better? Seems rather shitty and selfish.
Great video love you work always watching your videos you talk so much sense and you gone through it all yourself so you actually know what your talking about, great video ❤
Bizzare i had it suddenly when i was extremely worried about my BP for over 2 years and suddenly it went away one day because stress was reduced massively. Kill stress and see the differnece it makes. Goodluck to everyone God Bless
Stress don't cause floaters you neanderthal. They are caused by structural changes in the vitreous of the eye. Funny how in this day of advanced knowledge at the fingertips, people are even dumber than they were 30 years ago!
Thanks for your support Cherelle. Please don't let those trolls get to you. You are so generous with your time and you have got me through some really difficult times ❤
I developed macular degeneration with flashes and floaters after years of chronic stress looking after my ASD son. Last week I had my first cataract surgery and now the floaters have become much more obvious. I have been quite anxious thinking about having to live my life now with this flock of hundreds of flies. Your video helped me immensely and I'm so grateful that I found you this morning. I also have tinnitus and I've somehow got used to that and beyond the anxiety. It's actually the thoughts and imagination that cause the problem to be so exaggerated so that's the place to let go and get on with enjoying life. Again, thankyou so much for sharing your experience and making life easier.
Thanks for sharing! Was just looking for your previous video that helped me cope with my obsession with floaters
How to be happy with floters 😮😢
This is EXACTLY what happened to me to a tee. Its the hyperstimulation that made them more obvious. They were likely always there for me. Once i started healing from anxiety they faded massively.
So happy to see this comment I just got my floaters and I’m in the panic stage every morning waking up scared how did you start to chill out?
How are your floaters now
How big was your flooters
@@vadirajacsvadirajacs1360 one really sharp and dark in right eyes I would say size of a pea but a cobweb
My left eye has small white and black ones
I have around 3/4 al together hbu
It’s horrible when you go out in the day time it’s all you can see but I have had them for 3 weeks now it’s driving me mad but watching all these videos with people who got there and don’t really notice them any more is helping me loads keep watching these videos to try and teach your mind these things can go unnoticed I keep telling my self every day I see them I’m panic but we will get through this together 👏
Idk how to stop. I’m like almost addicted to checking them every morning when I wake up. I have gross bacteria/ameoba looking ones that are more noticeable when I squint. It’s so hard letting go & I try to but will sometimes see one in the sky. My eye doc thinks I’ve always had them but are more prominent to me now bc I’m anxious. She said there’s no way u can wake up one day & have them
Thanks for doing these videos that really help me with my anxiety
Really needed to hear this today. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for this. Needed to hear this a lot right now
Same
Exactly same!
I have a lot. All kinds of knots and webs of small bubbles and strands, even a cloudy area that passes by. I can get lost looking at them on a clear day, but then I completely forget about them and don't notice them.
Thanks for this video. I just got mine a couple of weeks ago. It's definitely been a challenge to get used to the "new normal".
Omg....it's like hearing me talking, so glad I've found you
Hello!
Thank you for your content, it helps a lot!
Did you have other vision symptoms? Like vision is really weird, watching trough dirty window, out of focus, blurry, etc
Mine are pretty bad on a bright sunny day so i always wear sun glasses outside and that helps A LOT. My eyes are pretty sensitive so Im just learning to live with them! Im finally over the healthy anxiety they gave me last year. Plus your channel has really helped me get through that scary time in my life. Thank you for this video!
If your eyes are sensitive to light, it means you have dry eyes, I suffer with floaters and extreme dry eyes, intensive dry eye drops helps so so much, it's that wetness that acts as a shield to the light. U have to try it out
@@Pikkinmink7 thank you! I will try it out!
@maydac.5077 you won't believe how much it helps, rubbing your eyes gets rid of that lubricant which then makes it sensitive
@@maydac.5077 how you doing now
which eye drops do you use @@Pikkinmink7
Thank YOU! This video was very helpful.
Oddly enough I have tinnitus and just noticed new eye floaters. Eye doctor said it’s just the aging and vitreous gel clumping and is normal with age. Went to 2 eye docs just to be doubly sure. Yes constantly googling and obsessing is bad! It just makes you hyper aware. A lady I used to work with said she has floaters too and that eventually the brain learns to ignore them. I can tell you from experience with tinnitus that obsessing ALWAYS makes it worse. At first it’s frightening but slowly they either fade or become less noticeable as you stop concentrating so much on them. It’s the anxiety that always makes things worse. I mostly see mine outside on sunny days. One sort of large one and a bunch of pinpoint black ones. Mostly in left eye. Anyone suffering needs to mitigate anxiety and you will stop worrying so much about them. Just be sure to get reassurance from your ophthalmologist or optometrist first. Then try to relax. Actually to me the tinnitus is more annoying but it’s lessened some.
4:00 I have been dealing with this exactly for a year now. I have floaters and astigmatism and it’s harder to see further away especially when driving. To the point where I have glasses now. It really was me drinking and smoking so much and eating junk food and staying up so late and stressing about life that caused me this problem. I’m changing my life but my eyes have been a problem for me. Every night I pray that they get better.
Same story, to a tee. Increase in floaters, flashes, sparkles, go to the eye doctor and she says my eyes are healthy, she sees the floaters there’s a lot so “let’s do another test to make sure it’s not something neurological like MS” triggered right away, had to wait a couple days for a field vision test, what’s worse is the results took like forever to come back so that whole time I kept checking my chart to see if the results came in. Came back fine but that amount of anxiety it caused thinking I had a horrible disease and the googling I did was insane. Thank you for these videos they help tremendously ❤❤❤
Thanks for the video, that was really helpful! But did I get that right that - you got more shortsighted because of the anxiety, and once you got better, your vision improved again?
Do sunglasses help? Which sunglass lenses would you recommend for floaters?
How long did it take all of your symptoms to go. I have kicked the anxiety I think but I still have little shooting nerve pains on my entire left side. Nothing localised it changes all the time and I just want them to go away now I’m done
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Lately words in books and windows with patterns on them sort of flicker snd move in my side vision. Should I be worried i have very bad health anxiety?
I do agree with all you say about health anxiety But if you are really worried and things are changing quickly you do need to get your health checked out by a doctor
this was my very first health anxiety trigger as a kid and i went to the eye doctor 3x with my mom in 6th grade panicking i was going blind etc etc i was convinced i was losing my vision tho and now my health anxiety is like sticky paper where it's a new thing i worry about every month or so. dbt and cbt help and my benzo when needed but health anxiety SUUUUUCKS
I wish I had this video 10 years ago when I was having similar problems with eye floaters and dry eyes. I just found your channel and your pep talks are really helping me.😊
How are you now
@@swatipandey8432 do you have flooters too?
Love this video!❤️
You have this too?
Hey!)
Is there a connection between functional vision loss and anxiety symptom? Or it’s different things?
Hi there...i was wondering if you have an emal in which i can converse with you about my floater problem..
We have identical body symptoms. Amazing
thank you
I never had floaters until one morning, i woke up and my eyes where full of them i was 23 at the time. Had my eyes checked and they could see all the floaters and told me they do not see a lot of people of my age with such a large amount of floaters and when they do it are usually people who have had head injuries of some sort. Luckily my eyes where healthy but the floaters are still there.
Most of the time i can ignore them but sometimes they get in the way when reading stuff. There are just so many of them... I have no clue what caused them for me i have never had any injuries or ever hit my head against anything, they just came from one day to another out of no where like 30 ish per eye large webs and small strings
Same but mine were after Lasik surgery
You can get a virectomy , with that many floaters they definitely won’t turn you down.
@@naughtydog9843 won't it be too risky?
yup same story! i didnt see a doctor tho. idk why. just been depressed over them.
@@dsrtsnwGet checked out to be on the safe side
I have numerous eye floaters that have never went away, I also have scintillation scotoma that creates a visual aura that blocks my central vision when they occur due to migraine condition. They look like cracked glass with a multi colored spectrum that last for 35 minutes. So cheer up!😄😃😀
Your hair looks so beautiful last time . Are you used Meg hair product?
Thank you that’s so nice! No I haven’t used any products. Just a bit of coconut oil! ❤😊
Does anybody else finding themselves checking up on their floaters every single day? I have this thing where I turn my body/head rapidly to look & check for my floaters. Now I’m scared that I can suffer from brain damage bc of moving my head left to right rapidly too much 😔 health anxiety is so real.
I have dark floaters that can’t be ignored with sunglasses
Thanks for the video. But how bad were your floaters? I have one big one, well I think it’s pretty large anyway, if I was a meter away from a wall it’d be like a 10 pence coin. And it swims round it my right eye all day, I’m even considering laser. So yeah how bad were yours so I know if I will get used to mine xxxx
Your videos make me think maybe I have proper health anxiety. I think my first real bout of anxiety was around tinnitus. My tinnitus is very mild, but when I noticed it, it felt crippling to me - devastating. I've gone through serious panic and anxiety over temporary hearing loss (like ear wax moving around in the ear - lasting a few seconds). I've had serious anxiety over eye floaters ("I'm going blind!"). My new worry has been my fingers twitching. The funny thing to me is that I can look back on my previous worries, and see how overblown they were. The eye floater thing is a great example - I don't give it a second thought now. My tinnitus is very mild (I almost never notice it). My hearing is great. But the damn fingers twitching... I'm having a ton of anxiety over that. And definitely the anxiety makes it worse.
While the anxiety hasn't gone away... it's helpful knowing that other folks have these experiences. Until watching your videos, I didn't even know "health anxiety" was a thing. Been a couple weeks now. Helps a lot listening to your stuff. You are a blessing to a lot of anxiety sufferers. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Hello how is your eye floaters now I got them around 2/3 days ago and I’m in a stage of panic atm 🫣
@@russiaboyz2256 They are fine. I saw my eye doc about them a couple years ago and she called them "birthday presents" and said I would get more of them as I age. (I'm 40). Basically it's just proteins forming into clumps inside your eye jelly. It's generally totally benign and not something to worry about.
One thing that can help is to rapidly move your eye up and down. This can cause the floaters to float to a position that is less obviously in your visual field.
Stuff like this is in the category of things that can bother you very much if you focus on it and worry about it. On the other hand, most people have floaters and don't notice or worry about it.
I'm a fairly obsessive kind of person. I've obsessed over things like mild twitching/tremoring, eye floaters, mild tinnitus, etc. In all cases, my docs have told me I'm totally fine. My experience tells me that if I fixate on these sorts of issues, they seem far worse than they actually are.
Basically, try not to worry about it. It's always good to get a regular eye checkup, but just know that eye floaters are very common and generally benign. Mine don't bother me anymore, nor does my mild tinnitus. I'm still working on getting at peace with my mild twitching/tremoring (I have very subtle finger shakes that worry me as a professional musician, but they do not hamper my ability to play music or type at 100+WPM). Even that last problem is getting better for me.
Basically you just have to work on your mental state. The more you fight your symptoms, the worse they seem and the more upset you get. Work on trusting that you are OK (again, eye floaters are common and almost always benign).
Best of luck to ya! I'm betting you are totally fine, and I think you will calm down about your eye floaters.
Has anyone had temporary hand tremors or their legs feel wobbly when suffering from daily anxiety?
Yes, I do sometimes I feel like I can't walk.
I’ve had floaters from 2 years and anxiety issue marking it worse day by day can you guys please me with it how to fix it ?
Always keep your mind fresh don’t panic it will go by time 👍👍👍
I hope your comment in true amen
Thank you because I was about to go panic cry at my work's bathroom
I had a time I could cope with them but not anymore now 😭
This!! Going through the same thing... which I went through before but for some reason I can't seem to remember how I tuned out from them. 2012... loads of floaters all of a sudden and somehow just got on with it. Had them on and off for years. Felt totally free of them for years too... then this August hit my left eye... got some flashes and started to worry... was checking for flashes and new floaters all the time in that eye... then all of a sudden loads of floaters in both eyes... i'm on all the supplements you can imagine but i'm starting to realise that i'm making it worse... i know they'll go away again... or that i'll forget about them as I have before... I just wanted them to go away too quickly and have made them last longer as a consequence.
For anyone about to go down a crazy supplement, diet, detox rabbit hole... please STOP! I know they go away... either mentally or physically... Anytime in the past when I've got on about my life they disappear... and some days I remember I had' them and think "Yes they're gone and I didn't even realise" .. and when I get a flare up and try to make them go away.... they never do!
Of-course, get them checked first and live a healthy active life! Don't stop doing the things you love because your floaters annoy you... do them anyway and in time (be patient and switch off) you'll forget you even had them. It's been 4 months of me torturing myself for a cure before Christmas... and it's done me no good!
Time to forget about floater cures and get on with everything else we have in life! They're not forever... .STAY OFF REDIT... people on their are stuck in a harmful cycle and a few are definitely the exception to the rule of having daily bothersome floaters for 20 + years!
Hope this helps someone!
Floaters don't just randomly go away, they're actual protein bits in ur eyes. They have to be surgically removed or u have to suffer with them, there's no in-between
Sorry for the reminder, but how are you dong now?
I feel this, i feel like i'm trapped right now. I have persistent floaters, constantly checking on them. Consistently googling, reddit, fb. Always in an anxious state. This is hell.
Hey... sorry just posting the same answer I gave to someone else... I've made a larger comment too. I was the same at your age! I'm 35 now and totally tuned out from them for the last 10 years... but you do have to relax. I got a flare up recently because I hit my eye and started looking for flashes and new floaters... long behold... I now have 2 eyes full of floaters.
I know it's hard but the best advice I can give you is be active and you'll tune out from them over time... I did and will again! If you try to rush it and keep checking for progress. (I've tried that too) there will be none! Be healthy and active!
You'll be fine!
@@bigmouthaudio1211hello some days before i have floters just 4.5 and 1 is sentre in my eyes i am very stress what can I do now and i am doing job hole day computer uses can increase eye floters
How you doing now Thomas 😳
@@russiaboyz2256 still as annoyed as first day. Not as anxious
@@Thomas-uy4vn so you don’t worry to much and go on with your day?
I'm suddenly observing a floater,its like a fine hair,its so annoying. I'm distracting while reading or doing other works and its more prominent in bright and white objects. I'm so depressed now. I'm only 22 and it's on left eye i also have -ve 0.25 power in that eye when i last checked but I don't wear any glass for it.From past few months i was seeing blurring vision from lest eye and i noticed a floater fews days back but that went away now from tomorrow I'm seeing this floater that doesn't go.😢
How are you now ?
@@russiaboyz2256 better than before but floaters are still present but little bit faded
@@kaifkamal6512 have you stopped worrying about them as I’m in panic mode at the moment I just like to hear they can get better from other people’s experiences to help me on my journey
@@kaifkamal6512same situation
I got floaters in my right eye which have .25 vision loss
Anyone feel like this? When ur looking at an image or object and then look away ,u see a shadow like outline of that object?.. i mean if u look at a gate with gaps in it and loon away then u see the gap lines like shadow?
Yes and it's totally normal.
@@whatheduck96 thank u so much man.. cos I m afraid i have some sort of psychosis.. my anxiety symptoms are always mental not physical.. I have racing thoughts and inner monologue and this eye problems.. before I go to sleep i have thoughts that are random and i could not control it feels scary
@@aravinthselvaraj7340 I feel exactly same as you! I've been pretty worried about my health for about 6 months. At first, I thought I had ALS. Then I was afraid of having facial paralysis. Now I have concerns about retinal detachment. I also lost my grandmother to a heart attack a week ago and I am afraid of the possibility of having a heart attack in the future. Sometimes I have panic attacks at night, I try to do my best to get rid of this situation...
I have bad health anxiety but bizzare as it sounds I never reacted to floaters and never will.
dr burge has ways to get rid of them with either fasting or a protocal of minerals
Is there any chance there will be a treatment for eye floaters in the future? I'm asking because I've visited so many eye specialists, but none of them seem to care about floaters; they simply say you'll get used to them.
there are two treatments :
1. Yag vitrelosis it is a laser that shoots the floaters and makes them less prominent
not really effective if not done by someone with an experience
2 . Floaters only vitrectomy
it's an operation that is invasive that sucks the floaters out of your eye
but it is guranteed that you will develop Cataract sooner or later
that's why doctors aren't in a hurry to recommend those procedures
even though Vitrectomy is "safe"
I am 47 and have suffered for 4 years now after an inflammation episode in 2019. My left eye has black floaters everywhere and right eye has a few also. Every second of the day when the eyes are open I am suffering. Non-stop anxiety. Life is not normal anymore.
Please help.
Try pineapple daily
I totally relate i had panic this morning horrible i just had my first floaters padt few days im stressing
Get a vitrectomy. It is a 100% cure. If you have had them for 4 years its doubtful you will get used to them. At 47 you would be a good candidate (It's more risky for young people) See a retinal specialist and that doctor can advise you.
You still need surgery vitrectomy for black floaters
Black floaters don't go away if eat pineapple it doesn't work
this same exact thing happened to me .
Did your floaters ever fade I’ve had mine for a very long time and I heard they fade over time but my has not
I also have a blurry vision but only when i look at light and look away and then look back at it I see a blurry line go by the light is that normal
It’s like a blurry line
O stress, ansiedade e depressão tem realmente um significado importante na condição ocular de moscas volantes, mas nao e causa delas, pelo fato de que se fosse apos tratar a ansiedade ou stress normalizaria totalmente a visão. E isto nao ocorre apenas reduz o panico pelo super foco que se dava as moscas volantes. Outra coisa que prova de ansiedade nao causa moscas volantes e que existem pessoas extremamente ansiosas, depremidas e nao tem nem sequer míope e nenhuma outra problema ocular, entao e relativo. Agora que o stress, ansiedade e depressão piora muito e fato, isto em qualquer problema de saúde devido estes estados psicológico baixar a imunidade. As causas sistêmicas das moscas volantes sao diversas e complexas, por istos os oftalmologistas nao dão a importância merecida as moscas volantes. Vou citar as principais causas virais, bactérianas e parasitária e também fugica e por intoxicações e deficiência nutricional.
As principais causas sao Toxoplasmosis, lyme, Bartonella, Borrelia, Babesia, clamidias, sífilis, histoplasmosis, demodex, Toxocaríase, doenças do pombo, intoxicação com mercúrio, malária, zika, deficiência de b12 e vitamina A, desidratação grave, epstein barr, citomegalovirus...
Trate as causas e nao os sintomas.
How do you know which one u have? Too much possible causes
When i got tinnitus i was in Deep attachment with anxiety and hyper tension. Which turned on to floters 😢.
Same with me... becoz of hypertension I got them 😢
@@CSe_IT_Guy you get used to it and always focus beyond them
Wow, really been stressing about eye floaters and twitching, especially face twitching for past couple of years. Everything started after my close friend died of cancer and I've got Crohn's disease. Since then my health gone downhill. Now I really feel like caring more about my health anxiety which is especially hard since I've ADHD but I feel like there's no other way to make it.
carnivore videos
It's a cure
Everything you say is right, high anxiety give me tinnitus, eye floaters, sexual Intrusive images, and music playing on a loop.
I got a feeling that whenever I see the word of a disease that I’m already afraid of, I think that maybe it is a sign that I have this disease and that there is a reason which made this word appear to me. Is it just me ?
Ur not alone.. i thought i have depression and then i thought I had brain tumour and then it got me anxiety.. and i read anxiety symptoms and feel like i have everything.. then I was afraid psychosis, schizophrenia and bipolar.. whatever symptoms I read i feel like i have it and i keep checking if i have that symptoms
My honest advice just put ur phone away. Live ur life with the symptoms and ur mind and body will get used to the symptoms and it will go away.. because anxiety is all about thinking that u have a danger when there is none.. so let ur mind no there is no danger
No you are not alone...I am a very big carcinophobic(afraid of getting cancer) and whenever there is a slightly change in my body I start googling if it can be a sing of cancer..and then end up convincing myself that I am suffering from a serious condition.
Health anxiety is really very disturbing😒.
I remember the panic... l would wash my eyes thinking l could wash them away. 3:02
But atropine drops dilute the pupils, why does it help with floaters tho?
If anxiety dilates the pupil too
Diluted atropine dilates pupils just a tiny bit, in fight of flight response dilation is not the root cause of seeing floaters, in that case is the hyperawareness of the visual system that kicks in ;) that's biologically a smart way to call it a day, same applies for tinnitus, hearing system flares up as well. @@kyoli9847
I think screens caused me this problem (i'm 16), and i'm so scared they'll cause me detachment of vitreous and retina. I'm afraid to become blind... And I think it's all my fault
How you doing now bud
@@russiaboyz2256 They became worse.... I have like 6-7 in my right eye and 4 in my left eye, but the doctor said everything is ok so...
I am also of the same age, dealing with so many floaters in both eyes..and the worse thing is that when I googled it I came to know that they are not common in young age..😢
@@Priya_dubey207 According to my ophthalmologist, the main cause is dehydration (I drink VERY little), and within a month they remained the same. Now I'm noticing them a lot less, and I've actually discovered that a lot more people than I thought have them. Two of my friends suffer from floatets and like me they are short-sighted and also astigmatic (they are 17 and 19 years old). I was very happy to know that I wasn't the only one, and even happier when my doctor said that it was nothing dangerous. However, they were quite annoying for a while, and over time the doctor said that they tend to move out of the field of vision or to break and maybe also disintegrate, and that I can safely remove the largest and most annoying ones with the laser. Ps. Pineapple doesn't work.
@@Priya_dubey207yes I’m 28 and I don’t see many people our age dealing with this
Did you just see "normal" floaters or also a Weiss-Ring? Because it´s hard to ignore the latter...
I’ve never been able to accept mine.
Ive had constant blurred vision floaters and light sensitivity for 2 straight years. My anxiety has been through the roof everyday since 😢
How you doing now bud
Anxiety cause afterimages also??
Yes!! You're so tuned into everything eye /related that you notice very common phenomenons everywhere...
don't be surprised if you start seeing anything else... just tune it out.
@@bigmouthaudio1211 thx bro..
Yes definitely normal, so please focus on beating that anxiety ☺️ we are not alone, let’s beat anxiety and this stress that comes with it!
Wait omg I think I have this also. What sort of after images do u see? I sometimes get after images if I’m on my phone a lot
Sherelle,i seem to have a visual burnout after 3 years of anxiety/ stress. Last year my eyes are weird blurry and out of focus etc. The optometrist says it can only recover when i do brain/ eye training...but i am so in doubt....this all came from stress... so i would think it could recover itself when i feel relaxed again....what do you think...
Se quedan de por vida ya
Your are beautiful ❤ its not health
Anxiety to have floaters i have had
Them since I was 14 now 58 .
Listen the only way out is laser
Or surgery - remove the gel replace
It with a water solution.
THATs MY ADVISe TO YOU .
Hi since i had my floaters at the age of 13 and my doctor said it's because that i have dry eyes too.
Since i'm panicking whenever i see my floaters what can you advise for it what did you when you had it.
@@music_8450 do you live local to me
Harlington middx
Hi I still have them I notice them less
But the more I want to see them they come
Back into thousands .
Leave them alone and carry on with
Your life but a yearly check of your
Eye by the eye doctor
Period
Don’t worry 😊
@@music_8450 don’t worry just see
Your eye doctor yearly . In the early
80s I was alone with this problem
And extremely frightened being 17 yrs
Old in 1982 .
Now in 2024 you have every medical
Help on hand from surgery to laser
And another thing floaters have became
So common that every 5 people - 3 will
Suffer with some kind of floaters even
If it’s a tiny winy one .
I developed eye floaters cause of stress and anxiety too😢Thanks a lot.
They are now less noticeable when I’m in a free mind mode😊
@@FootballWithJeffsame i am stress suddenly i have seen floters in my right eye what can I do please reply
@@FootballWithJeff how you doing
@@swatipandey8432 how you doing now
@@russiaboyz2256i am fine now
Hi...i have started twiching in my right thigh which are persistent 24*7. Them i feel twitches all other almost every part of my body. My ncv test for LL is clean. I very scared that i might have als. Can u help me out this...
We need help 😢
Oh boy reddit and Google. Never do that
did you have decreased or dim vision
I always have dim vision
@@Imatotalswiftie Since when? How old are you? Did you check with Opthomologist, what do they say?
What do you think triggered it
I feel like I'm going to blind or lights are dim
Thank u
I just completed seeing five eye specialists today and then came across your video 🙂
You nay not have so many there is people have a lot and is almost impossible to handle 😢
I was told by my ophthalmologist that I have the most floaters he’s ever seen in his entire career so I had loads lol
@@cherellethinkshello i am from India i like to ask you something past some days i also seen 7.8 transparent floters in my eyes and i also have anxiety issue what can I do now i am very stress please reply me
How you doing now
@@swatipandey8432hey! I am also an India...with the same problem..don't know how to deal with it.😔
I have eye floaters, trust me they are disgusting
Y como las has eliminado?
So disgusting. I have some that look like bacteria under microscope
It's false and misleading to say that everyone can get used to them. Its a physical issue and changing your outlook, mental health, anxiety etc can not always make you forget about giant grotesque insects in your vision! I suffered for 2 years and they were constant torture. I saw mine every minute of every day except in the dark or when I was sleeping. Mine actually blocked my vision and were completely opaque blobs, making it hard to read, work on my computer, and drive. I had degenerative myopic vitreopathy which gets worse and worse. The ONLY thing that worked was vitrectomy surgery. I know many people on an online group who have had them for 10 years or more, and they are not able to get used to them either. Good for you if you can but that is not always possible.
And NO, the social media groups helped me immensely and I found others who understood. I already had cataract surgery and natural posterior vitreous detachment, so I was a good candidate for surgery. Someone should NOT suffer from this horrible scourge and be told that your outlook will make you not notice them or they will go away naturally if you can't get used to them. Surgery is a 100% cure.
You are entirely too worked up about this. For the vast majority of people, you learn to deal with them. Obviously if yours were bad enough to require surgery, you are in the minority. For people with serious health anxiety who are otherwise healthy, your comments are counterproductive at best and actively harmful at worst as they are feeding into the worst fears that we have.
@@pixiwix I don't know the statistics regarding how many people who have floaters have mild vs. severe. I do know that debilitating floaters are NO JOKE. I've talked to many people on a facebook group who couldn't work, were seriously depressed, lived inside only with the curtains drawn, and have even been suicidal. I do not have health anxiety, but had a normal response to having giant insect like dark blobs constantly swirling around in my vision. I was "entirely worked up about this" because this nightmare dominated my life for nearly 2 years. It was impossible not to see them 24/7 except in the dark or when I was asleep. I am extremely grateful for vitrectomy because it saved my sanity and vision. Telling people who have severe floaters that they have health anxiety and they can stop noticing them by not focusing on them is harmful. When this doesn't happen, they become more depressed and helpless. People in this situation are in a position to seek surgery and be encouraged by hearing success stories from others who have. A study was done that determined that people who have severe floaters experience mental health issues equivalent to receiving a cancer or HIV diagnosis!