EYES--floaters--age---blindness

[johnielvis]

getting on in years--my left eye--the focus eye that I use has always had this large floater right in the middle of my field of vision...seems to be darkening up over the years--everyone I talked to--eye doctors too--say that there ain't nothing to do but deal with it..it's particularly bothersome in low light....and I've always had ThOUSANDS of the things...even when I was a kid I remember seeing them when looking at a plain sky...bajillions of them floating around...when I was a kid in school I remember seeing this thing in my eye when looking in microscopes and such--it always looked like a hydra type cell IN my eye all the time floating around in there...now with time it's darker and bigger maybe. It cerainnly gets more attention and don't look the way I remember it. It used to be a clear outline that didn't obscure any vision...now it sometimes gets in the way and I have to dart my eye quickly to make it move away...then it moves back in again..

anyways--anybody heard of any non quack NON-medical ways to stop this thing from blinding me further? this has always been a concern but it is very noticable now with the computer screens at night--and in the daytime at work--it's like i can ALWAYS see it now with the white screens/close focus--the perfect background for this thing to show up.

or is this just something that everyone deals with quietly and I'm just a crybaby?

[Rudy Jones]

I have the exact, same thing. Left eye has a large, black floater.

My girlfriend suggested one cure - put my head in a centrifuge. I passed.

[Ari]

Go see a good ophthalmologist, post-haste.

[johnielvis]

like I said--the docs I've talked to don't have nothing solution wise thus far....and I do NOT want them poking around--they generally make things go from bad to worse--hell I know a guy that would still have his sight today if the docs didn't go a poking around to "fix" his problem--he used to be a photographer in the old days---now he can't even drive a limo anymore....just walks around the neighborhood with his cane now...usually drunk...sad.

perhaps head banging/centrifuge--but that will likely detach the retina

all things considered, I guess I'm lucky--a friend of mine DOES have a detached retina and I'm lucky I don't have two of them with all the crackups I've been in over the years....and the...BANG YOUR HEAD!!!! days...daze...

I suspected that others have the same problem...and was hoping for some kind of maybe coping mechanism---like eye exercises to make it stay to one side or something, at least temporarily---it's just that it's particularly troublesome because it''s the LEFT eye--the one I like to use for focus...it's like UNCOMFORTABLE to use my right eye for some reason...I can't explain it.

still lucky though I guess...all things considered...

[Alan Gales]

I'm very sorry to hear this. My Dad who is blind in one eye and legally blind in the other due to diabetes and old age sees a specialist who only works with the back of the eye. I don't know who you should see but I would want to see someone who is a specialist. It shouldn't be hard to find someone like this in Chicago. Like Aril said the sooner you get help may be the better!

[Alan Gales]

Sorry Ari. My eyes are not so good either and I didn't see the l that I accidently put in your name!

[Ari]

No problem, Allan!

[johnielvis]

the docs said nothing to be done---it's not completely debilitating, merely a pain and bother right now....considering it's been there since i can remember...I don't think I'm going to be blinded by it..unless I live a VERY long time.

docs I don't trust---another dude I know was a victim of the laser lens shaving....he had to have it fixed...when I told him to deal with glasses and be happy, he scoffed...got the laser treatment and spent a good 2 years lamenting it..."you were right"...he did get it "repaired" but he's still sorry about the whole affair-

I'm not going to mess with what works...perfect I don't want to try for....hell--I don't want to have the visual equivalent of what michael jackson did to himself trying to be "perfect"....yikes

[Alan Gales]

No problem, Allan!

I like your sense of humor!

[Jim C.]

I sympathize with your floater problem I have them too, and since I was a kid,
back then I always imagined I was seeing things from another dimension

But seriously, Rudy's girlfriend is sort of on the right track, fast movement of the eye
may shift the floater to a less annoying spot, or rather than a centrifuge maybe
take a few amusement park rides, like whatever they call the one that you sit
in a cup and it spins you as it rotates. It'll cost a lot less than Dr. visit and more fun.