look either like microorganisms, dust motes, or bits of thread/hair.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah yes Ive had an annoying floater in my right eye forever. I always notice it if im staring at a white wall - it'll skid back and fro on my vision. Doesnt obscure anything but can be annoying, in the same way my tinnitus is when I pay it mind.
― Connect Four Tet (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
This has all been very helpful, thanks. As long as it's not Stage 1 on the way to a detached retina, I can live with it. I'm at work today, going golfing tomorrow, nothing's changed. It's very annoying right now, but all the reading I did (and from what most people say here) indicated that you eventually adjust.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
To comfort you further, I've had them for approx ten years, and on my most recent trip to the optician was told I have extremely healthy (if quite myopic) eyes.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I would always see these little round things floating in front of my eyes in the bathtub when I was a kid, I thought they were blood vessels. I've always had really great vision and eye health.
― peacocks, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i always thought everyone had these? can't remember ever not having them - just that they're something you only notice if you're looking for instead of through them.
― Kim, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
omg i thght this was gonna be about bodies. lol
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Blue field entoptic phenomenon!
― hey it's (jel --), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
First really noticed mine when I was eight or so. I think some part of me thought I was looking at air molecules very very close to my eyeball.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
No retinal detachment. Prognosis: float on.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i only notice them when i'm either looking at the sky or on ilx (whitest site on the net)
― time for a chimmy changa run (kelpolaris), Thursday, 16 September 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The problem with explaining to a concerned patient what floaters are is that I become unpleasantly aware of my own floaters for the rest of the day.
― Plasmon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
I can imagine.
I ended up going in for a check when a particularly visible one came into my vision. Got a check-up and the diagnosis that everything was fine, followed by a week of noticing every floater in my vision.
― mh, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
I notice mine when I'm reaaaaalllly tired
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
^^^ (although I only have to be fairly tired)
― Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Mrs. Redd just had one looked at today but apparently it was nothing serious, as you seem to indicate.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
sometimes I see floaters when I eat a lot of kale or other similarly fibrous vegetables
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
i get the protozoa shaped ones
― am0n, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
I feel like I have this when I get stuff on my contact lenses but I don't think I've ever actually had them. Of course now I'm gonna start checking for the immediately and will probably notice 10 within the half hour.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
The ones in my right eye evidently wanted some company, so now I've got them in the left eye too. These are somewhat different--instead of the hanging-string effect (which I eventually got used to and never thought about anymore), it's more like a sudden flicker. I was worried that I was seeing flashes of light--more serious--but I went back to the eye doctor, and she says there's no pulling away from the retina that she can detect.
I am wondering if, before it ever gets to that stage, I should go and have preemptive laser surgery, which is supposed to be fairly mild. I dread to think I'll be driving along one day on the highway, and suddenly the one eye goes dark.
― clemenza, Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:47 (four years ago) link
I have them and have for years and unless someone points them out to me, I barely even notice them anymore.
that's scary with the flickers. good that there's no sign of detachment - might have been just a temporary anomaly.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:49 (four years ago) link
Thanks. Freaked me out a bit because of the difference from what I was used to, but I assume the optometrist would have taken action immediately if necessary.
― clemenza, Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:55 (four years ago) link
Hate these shitters
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:56 (four years ago) link
What’s to hate?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZklwTGZutc
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 13 February 2020 07:20 (four years ago) link