Anyone got rid of eye floaters?

allexcosta · #1 06-09-2011, 04:50 AM

I have them since ever and it's a PITA sometimes.

No high blood pressure, no diabetes, heart condition or anything else. I've heard there's surgery, but I won't go through it.

Thanks.

Relic · #2 06-09-2011, 04:52 AM

Yeah, I have them bad. Normally they dont bother me too much but look at a white wall, or piece of paper or something...ugh...
'Aint much you could do about them though except get used to 'em.

allexcosta · #3 06-09-2011, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Relic

'Aint much you could do about them though except get used to 'em.

Really?

hover · #4 06-09-2011, 05:00 AM

Yep, really. It's a the interior lining of your eye peeling away...what would you suggest they do?

i_got_a_mohawk · #5 06-09-2011, 05:16 AM

I've heard of some techniques, that may come into use, where they basically blow up the floater using a focused laser pulse, but I don't know if that'll ever become viable.

I've got a load of them, pretty sure I blew a chunk of my inner eye lining into the vitreous with a laser as I only started noticing them after an issue with a student and a stray IR beam . . .

As Relic said tho, ain't much you can do, other than get used to it

Jimbob Jones · #6 06-09-2011, 06:46 AM

Yup, I've learned to ignore mine. My optician said it was nothing to worry about though...

DWBass · #7 06-09-2011, 06:49 AM

I have one in my left eye. Been there since I was a kid (52 now). I rarely see it unless I'm looking at a blue sky or a plain wall or something.

knumbskull · #8 06-09-2011, 06:50 AM

i think they are scratches on the surface, so probably not easy to get rid of... i'm learning to love mine, kind of

i_got_a_mohawk · #9 06-09-2011, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by knumbskull

i think they are scratches on the surface, so probably not easy to get rid of... i'm learning to love mine, kind of

It's lumps of dead cells and debris within the eye, which is why they tend to move. Scratches on the surface of the eye actually heal up pretty quickly

knumbskull · #10 06-09-2011, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

It's lumps of dead cells and debris within the eye, which is why they tend to move. Scratches on the surface of the eye actually heal up pretty quickly

thanks, that's my fact for the day

i_got_a_mohawk · #11 06-09-2011, 07:00 AM

Sadly doesn't make them any less annoying

DigMe · #12 06-09-2011, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

It's lumps of dead cells and debris within the eye, which is why they tend to move. Scratches on the surface of the eye actually heal up pretty quickly

It could be a number of things. Not all floaters are the same thing.

bc

allexcosta · #13 06-09-2011, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by DWBass

I have one in my left eye. Been there since I was a kid (52 now). I rarely see it unless I'm looking at a blue sky or a plain wall or something.

That I could live with.

I have about 20 or 25 in each eye...

etoncrow · #14 06-09-2011, 07:03 AM

essentially flotsam and jetsam; your brain will adjust to it but you cannot get rid of them

Dayman · #15 06-09-2011, 07:10 AM

I've got a bad one in my left eye. Compliments of a sucker punch that basically broke my face. Eye Doc said the inside of the eye is like jelly and trauma can shake it up and it may not settle the same way. I've lived with it for 8 years. Only bothers me when looking at something bright. Too bad i work on computers all day

i_got_a_mohawk · #16 06-09-2011, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by DigMe

It could be a number of things. Not all floaters are the same thing.

bc

I agree, hence 'debris', floaters (in regards to things in your eye), collectively, are things that float in the vitreous humour. Most commonly clumps of cells that have come off the eye, blood cells or the breakdown of components of the vitreous itself.