Does Anyone Here Struggle with Eye Floaters?

[CrownVic95]

Originally Posted by VTsnowbird

I have them, both dark individual ones and the ones that look like a cloud of gnats. Been checked out and eyes are OK (age 62). What really bugs me is when I DO have tiny fruit flies in my field of vision, I get them mixed up with the floaters!!

Yep, 'cause they look exactly the same at first glimpse.

I always chuckle at myself when I realize it's a floater and feel like a cat who just pounced on his tail.

[oldgardener]

Sometimes I see what looks like a puff of smoke coming out of the wood stove, which startles me until I realize it's just my floaters.

[LesLucid]

I haven’t noticed them much lately but I don’t use my eyes the way I used to. I did a lot of work with microscopes over the years and looking through they eyepieces of those instruments could really try my patience. They were very clear and sharply defined. I would literally move my eyes around to try to get them out of my field of view. Extremely annoying. But now that I don’t do much of that any more, I hadn’t really thought about them until I read this.

[chiluvr1228]

Mine come and go. They are usually small and at first I think there is a tiny black bug flying around until I realize it is another floater. They can be annoying but my eye doctor told me they really are nothing to worry about.

[Townandcountrygal]

Old thread but floaters affect many of us. Some types of floaters should be examined by a retinal specialist. I had the spider web type in one eye and was told it was a vitreal issue in the retina but not a true detachment and did not require treatment. I have the little black dots from time to time but the floaters that really interfere daily with my vision are the big pale gray "bubbles" --so annoying and nothing can be done about them. It's part of getting old...

[tickyul]

Check your blood-pressure, it can cause floaters if high.