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it is serious if you have flashes of light and a dark curtain affects your eye. Most people get them
and they go away. It is the jell in the eye that does cause them, I had them also. I thought
it was a hair in my eye. You could call your eye doctor or see him to be sure. The brain learns to ignore
them. You also see them more on a white background.
I have floaters in both eyes that I'm noticing right now as I stare at my PC.
The first one started when I was about 27. I noticed them while I was driving home facing into the setting sun. I went to an ophthalmologist who said while there was nothing wrong with me, there was also nothing he could do to help me. Had my eyes dilated and examined, but nothing turned up. For me, they have never gone away and about a year later, I developed a floater in my other eye. You do learn to live with it.
On a side note, I was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor in 2008 which had absolutely nothing to do with my floaters. I was curious to see if they disappeared after my brain surgery but no such luck.
Mine was repaired with a laser. I would say it more uncomfortable than really painful. It only took a few minutes and considering it saved my vision well worth any pain or discomfort. Any pain ended the second the laser stopped. It might not be anything serious but please do have it checked.
I wish I was more cognizant of how long I have had them. I know the Dr is going to ask me that tomorrow, the best I can do is stab and say between 4 months and 1 year.
Orangeish glad you are ok but please visit your eye doc every year. I got floaters also several years back and had it checked out and was told that is normal (i'm older than you). A few years later I started to see wavy things on my peripheal vision and seeing halos when staring at lights.
I was diagnosed with Glaucoma! Imagine my shock since I thought that was an "old" persons disease but here I was with it! I had laser surgery (YAG) and it saved my vision.
Anybody with any type of abnormalities in their vision needs to go see an eye doctor immediately!
Floaters are generally not harmful but if you see flashes of light, that could be a detached retina - or rather, one in the process of detaching. That calls for an immediate call to an opthalmologist! I have had flashes in both eyes but my retinas seem to have detached as a whole, not torn in 2 pieces. So i have never had any treatrment. But I get regular checkups w/an opthalmologist.
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