Mar 7 2008, 09:35 AM
QUOTE(normal_user @ Mar 7 2008, 09:11 AM)
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'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?
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
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