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?

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 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

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?

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.

lol. I had those thoughts too when I was a teen. But when a big floater popped out more than a year ago, its totally distracting. It occupies around 15% of my eyesight, not too far from the center view.

eyefly, may I know where the laser treatment is available locally? I've been searching for more than a year, but the local doctors said no such technology existed here.

As far as Im concerned, there are only 2 American doctors who are specialists for eye floater laser surgery treatment (each in Virginia & Florida state). Its not a feasible option, since it'll costs me a bomb to go and have treatment there. Their websites are:
www.eyefloaters.com
www.vitreousfloaters.com

This post has been edited by normal_user: Apr 28 2009, 05:04 PM