Dear All,

I've been suffering from a big floater in my right eye for 3 weeks already.
Floaters are objects INSIDE the eyes, which may form shapes like clouds, dots, cobwebs, fibrous strings, ring etc. They comes in variety of sizes and shapes. If you stare long enough to a plain bright sky or wall, u may notice microscopic transluscent objects sticked to your eyes. Everytime you try to focus on it, it seems to follow the direction of your eyes. Those are floaters. Its not infront of the eye, its inside. What makes u see it because the floater has crossed into the line of sight.

I don't care much about the microscopic ones (as those found on my left eye), as they are negligible and my brain can adapt to ignore them easily. But I got a new big floater on my right eye, and the shape is like alphabet C, with cobwebs attached to it.

I went to see 2 eye specialists to check if there is any serious complication (retinal detachment), but I'm relieved that my eyes are healthy. The floater is a complete nuisance, which most eye specialists at hospitals usually advice the patient to adapt and live with it as there is no treatment here in Malaysia. But I know that my floater is big, and its visible during the daylight especially when working. I've got constant headache to, since its distractive to my eyes.

After spending weeks doing research, I discover that in the US, laser treatment is used (apart from the very risky virectomy eye operation) to obliterate the floaters. The laser (called YAG laser) is available in Malaysia, but it is used to treat retinal detachment instead of to treat floaters. I'm dissapointed to learn about that and thinking of forming some kind of an association, to urge the hospital authorities to implement the technology here (perhaps Association of Floaters Sufferers Malaysia). I'm sure there will be hundreds of floater sufferers in Malaysia whose voice are not heard out (and dissapointed after their doctors told them :you got no choice other than to live with it").

Does anybody else has the experience as mine?

Wow.. I seem to have these things too.. I always see these webs or lines in my vision. When I try to follow the movement then they move with my eye. After a while I found a tactic to look at them, which is to not move your eye and just stare at something else.. keep it in your peripheral vision I dunno, I just like looking at them Maybe I don't mind because they're small and only appear occasionally..

I wouldn't do any treatment unless it was very big (no idea how big your C thing is).. because it really doesn't distract me much but rather it's a good past-time

How long have you seen them? Do they come in and go away with time?
I'm seriousy hoping that mine will go away after few weeks. But from what I've read from other international forums, some people had annoying floaters during their entire lifetime, without anything done to treat them!

I've had this floater in my left eye for almost 7 years now. It used to be a bit bigger but after a while, it became really tiny, sometimes it's not even noticeable. I've seen a couple of eye specialists and My they told me not to worry about it. Hopefully one day it will go away!

I believe your floater is moving from inside area towards the outer area, further from the retina. Thats why it becomes more fader.
As for me, the floater is near the retina, and it looks sharp and big.

Hopefully there is a solution to this floater problem (other than the docs kept telling 'you can live with it').

This post has been edited by normal_user: Mar 7 2008, 05:11 PM

Since childhood, I have these floaters. Not visible unless I want to focus at it. I guess I'm adapted to it after so many years.

My vision was never perfect. I was diagnosed to be hyperopia(longsightedness) and astigmatism when I was in Standard 1. Now, one of my eye is hyperopia and one is myopia. Hyperopia+myopia+floaters.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Mar 7 2008, 05:52 PM

I've been seeing them for a few years.. just never knew what they were
I think they're there all the time, but I don't always notice them. Usually only if I look at bright lights or if I actually TRY to keep looking at them It doesn't really bug me though

I tot floaters are actually dust on our eyes ball's surface?

Appears in my eyes sometimes when I rub them. Gone in seconds.
Likely to occur as you age I heard.

p/s: TS, try staring at your avatar. It's so irritating (no offense ) it might just obliterate the floaters.

This post has been edited by meaj: Mar 7 2008, 06:30 PM

Also got one here,looks like 2 dots connected together!

If i stare long enough at something it comes into my line of sight!

If floaters are on the surface, we can just use eye-wash.
Floaters are deposits in the eyeball.

The last I found out from my doc, he told me that floaters are actually protein buildup on the cornea.

From this site, apparently there are product called tear film that can help to reduce floaters symptom. And their diagram shows that floaters are in the eye, not cornea. I think wikipedia says the same too.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Mar 7 2008, 09:58 PM

ermmm... not blind spot rite?

it would be nice to have a crosshair floater in my eye '+" then easier 2 play fps... hahahaa... its even better it can glow in the dark...

How much is your longsightedness power?
Mine is visible all the time. And I'm sick of it.
Does anybody knows if the laser treatment is available in our country?

About 150 (in layman's unit).

ahh, i have these as well.. but they seldom appear now.. rather annoying at times..

use to see those floaters when i was a kid..kept wondering what it was and thought it was kinda cool..lol..but it's gone now..try not to focus on it too much

Yours are not that bad, they're ok. Mine are 700+.

How do they look like?

My floater on the right eye is not small in size, and some more its not transparent as the others. When my eyeball moves, it moves as well and its noticable. I've tried hard not to focus, but since its big, its very hard to ignore. Just imagine a mosquito or a fly that always flying around in front of your eyes, and won't go away. The shape and position of the floater is exactly the same as when i discovered it last month. I doubt that it can go away soon. I also found some other sufferers worldwide who had 20-30 years of untreated floaters in their eyes, since their doctors dont have any possible safe treatment to offer.

Oh so that's what's it is. I have them too in both eyes but I don't see them unless if I focus on it. It'll go away once I drop my focus though. But yes, it's very annoying once it's visible in my view.