IS there anything i can do about the floaters in my field of vision?!
Question: I have had them since i was 10, now they're getting worse and it is very annoying especially on a bright sunny day because they show up alot clearer.. any advice would be greatly received. thanks
Answers: I have had them since i was 10, now they're getting worse and it is very annoying especially on a bright sunny day because they show up alot clearer.. any advice would be greatly received. thanks
Unfortunately, no, there is nothing you can do.
If they are very serious they can operate but it is recommended not to. I don't know how old you are but they get worse with age usually so it's best to wait and see how they progress.
It is really annoying - as you said, especially on a sunny day or when you are trying to read! As far as I know, there is no cure....:(
i think its called glucoma and it means the pressure behind the eye you can get eye drops from the optometrist ,he will lookn in your eye with his special machine and x ray it and prescribe eye drops i know this because my mum has had it done..........................
I have a systemic yeast infection (candida albicans). I had the floaters before I knew I had the yeast infection. They started to ease while I was on the very strict anti-yeast diet, but they never have gone totally away (I didn't stay on the diet forever, either).
There is no medical test that can confirm if yeast is the problem causing your floaters, because yeast lives in our intestines and helps us digest food, unless it overgrows. My suggestion would be to buy the book "The Yeast Syndrome" by Dr. John Trowbridge, and read up.
The center of the eyeball is filled with a substance called the vitreous. This substance is sort of mucoid like. In children it is almost solid, in adults more and more liquedy as it slowly breaks down. Through the center of the vitreous is a canal where a blood vessel ran from the nerve head to the lens. This breaks down before birth, but the canal is still there. There are cells in the vitreous as well (hyalocytes). As the vitreous strands stay apart a certain distance by different molecular forces, any 'trauma' causes them to bang together and they'll stick, causing a thicker area. These may cast a shadow on the retina and are noted as floaters.
There are conditions where unusual substances get into the vitreous gel and are perceived as floaters such as blood, cholesterol (got to be a LOT of cholesterol to have crystals in the eye, but it's possible.... I have a photo of it), calcium salts such as calcium oxylate form and looks like it snowed in there. This asteroid hyalosis usually doesn't bother the people that have it. Sometimes it does.
You can have the vitreous removed (vitrectomy), but this isn't usually done except in certain conditions such as diabetics who have bled inside their eye, trauma, retinal detachments...etc.
Most people have lots of floaters and just live with it. You should too. but if you are going to jump off a bridge because you just "can't take this anymore!", let me know, we'll get the vitrectomy done.