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[Dawnie]

What's helped my floaters is taking Lessmans eye vitamins.  I feel the supplements have greatly reduced the floaters. 

[BLH]

A floater is when a piece of the vitreous (gel like substance) breaks loose and just floats around.  Sometimes they get better.  

[FrostyBabe1]

I had floaters in my right eye for a while after having a vitrectomy to repair a detached retina. Now I've got a floater the size of a small country running around in my that eye. It's little piece of film that they lasered off my posterior capsule (secondary cataract that sometimes develops after cataract surgery). Fortunately it'll go away in a couple of weeks, but right now it's making me nuts. I try to chase it away by moving my eye, but it keeps popping up. Kind of like my own private game of Whack-A-Mole!

[lulu2]

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@hoosieroriginal wrote:

Have had a few instances - mostly when I get stressed.  One sent me immediately to my dr then to an eye specialist - the floaters were all over my vision range.  Old age is what they tell you - deal with it.  They eventually went away.  I do still get flashes of light in my peripheral occasionally.  As long as there's not a tear, you are okay.

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@hoosieroriginal

The flashes bother me more than the floaters. I had my annual check-up yesterday and both seemed to have lessened this year.  Now the cataracts are crying out for surgery.

Getting old (er) is really not for sissies.

[2blonde]

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@candyagain wrote:

I've had three floaters, 2 in the left eye and one in the right for a few years now. Went for an eye exam when each showed up. They're free floating and not attached to the retina so they aren't dangerous.

Yes, I see gnats and flies and things in my home out of the corner of my eye(s) here and there.....I say that you're never alone when you have floaters!

An old wives tale is that if you go outside at night and look up at the moon for 16 minutes each day they will go away. I did that for awhile when I used to take my dog out in my front yard after dinner....didn't work for me but you never know...I did enjoy looking at the moon though.

I'm pretty much used to them by now but still have to check here and there if there's really a fly in my house or if it's just me and my floaters.

Candy

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@candyagain  That's interesting about the moon, but I don't think it would work here in NE Ohio........too many clouds!  

[2blonde]

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@FrostyBabe1 wrote:

I had floaters in my right eye for a while after having a vitrectomy to repair a detached retina. Now I've got a floater the size of a small country running around in my that eye. It's little piece of film that they lasered off my posterior capsule (secondary cataract that sometimes develops after cataract surgery). Fortunately it'll go away in a couple of weeks, but right now it's making me nuts. I try to chase it away by moving my eye, but it keeps popping up. Kind of like my own private game of Whack-A-Mole!

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@FrostyBabe1  You cracked me up with the Whack-A-Mole!  I had cataract surgery in June, and I got that film over one eye within days of the surgery.  I'm supposed to have it lasered off next month.......I hope I don't end up playing that game too!

[hoosieroriginal]

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@lulu2 wrote:

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@hoosieroriginal wrote:

Have had a few instances - mostly when I get stressed.  One sent me immediately to my dr then to an eye specialist - the floaters were all over my vision range.  Old age is what they tell you - deal with it.  They eventually went away.  I do still get flashes of light in my peripheral occasionally.  As long as there's not a tear, you are okay.

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@hoosieroriginal

The flashes bother me more than the floaters. I had my annual check-up yesterday and both seemed to have lessened this year.  Now the cataracts are crying out for surgery.

Getting old (er) is really not for sissies.

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@lulu2 - yeah, the flashers are a pain.  I only notice them once in awhile - for awhile it was all the time. 

[Shelbelle]

I had once has them in 2010. Went to eye doc immediately, he said they could last forever or very temporarily, lucky for me I only had them for a few days, never returned.

[Gardengal55]

It's good you saw an eye professional and had that checked out.  Most of the time floaters are nothing but if they get more numerous or larger that sometimes can be a signal of other issues.  And always watch out for flashes of light.  Sometimes they occur due to migraines, circulation issues or possible retina problems. 

[Vivian]

I noticed floaters in my left eye a few years ago. They really bothered me at first. Now, I hardly notice them. Once my ophthalmologist said they're not serious, I stopped worrying, They aren't there all the time so I just live with it, as I've learned to do with the many annoyances of my three-score-and-ten age,