Floaters in my eyes

It is like looking through a black lace curtain sometimes I don't know any way to reduce them. I just sort of try to look past them.

It is called PVD, posterior vitreous detachment its like looking through lace. In time you get used to looking through them. One gift of getting older.

Ilovecheese

It is like looking through a black lace curtain sometimes I don't know any way to reduce them. I just sort of try to look past them.

Yes I do the same but sometimes it gets me down. I know is not anything serious but it is infuriating at times.
They told me my brain would get used to the floaters and so recalibrate my vision to accommodate them. This hasn’t happened though I do just get on with it the majority of the time.

I feel like I’m looking through cobwebs.
I notice them most if I’m looking at something with a light background.
I often think I see something out of the corner of my eye and thinks it’s a fly or a bee, occasionally even my cat.

They can be very distracting, I was told that they would disappear but it’s 5 or 6 years since I saw a consultant and feel they’re worse than ever.

My first cataract removal surgery went horribly wrong, resulting in an injection in the centre of the eye to reduce the damage of jelly from the back of the eye. I was encouraged by friends to sue but hung back to see how following the Consultants instructions for recovery worked out. Thank goodness I was patient, as is my nature and somehow I found the strength to go for the operation on my left eye with the risk of going blind. This wasn’t some private practice but I was seen by about 10 ophthalmologist consultants as my case was so complicated. In the end I have 20/20 vision and I can see in the dark. I don’t know how I got through it.

LadieGracie In my personal opinion, if you have not been seen by a consultant for 5-6 years, I would make an appointment for your peace of mind.

I have dry AMD and recently finished a 5-year trial using the drug Syfovre. It was only after the injection I experienced floaters for a few hours. I cannot imagine how distressing that is if you have it permanently.

NICE decided it would be too expensive for the drug to be used.

Good luck LadieGracie.

After the operation I had roughly 50 floaters. Some the size of butterflies. At the time I thought I would never get my sight back but decided to believe in the specialists at the London Eye Hospital and followed their instructions to the T. One day at the supermarket, around three months later, my husband asked me what I thought of an item on the shelf, I picked it up and read every detail to him. He asked me where are your reading glasses. I told him in my glass case inside my handbag. That was the moment.

Charleygirl, sorry NICE made that decision but well done for trying.

They’re a nuisance, aren’t they? I’ve had PVD for years and have just got used to looking through them really. I find mine are worse when I’m tired or in bright light. I suddenly got a few extra 4 years ago - I was referred straight to the eye clinic and found I’d developed a lamellar hole in one eye. The consultant said he could operate to seal it, but as the operation is risky and it might never develop further he’d rather just monitor the situation. I’ve had annual check ups since and it hasn’t got any worse. If I have a sudden shower of floaters or lights I have to go straight in and they’ll operate then. Fingers crossed I won’t need to.

Since having both cataracts done I have to live with floaters and clouds in both eyes . I had laser treatment a year after but it's not changed my vision . The only way I can describe my vision is it's like I'm looking into a fish tank , everything looks gloopy and floaty. The floaters I can mostly ignore but the clouds move with my eye movement. I am grateful to be able to see but it has affected my quality of life .

They really are a nuisance and some people have it worse than others.I have a few in one eye, at first I thought they were tiny flies.Sort of got used to them now as the brain really does adjust.I don’t think there’s much that can be done.
Toetoe💐 that does sound bad.

@Toetoe I sympathise, I also get blurry bits that move with my eye, was told was just due to the viscous at the back of the eye coming away but doesn’t sound as bad as you have got it.
Like you am grateful I can see, but this is an impairment and can be depressing at times.
Take care 🌺🌺

I started having trouble with floaters when I was about fifty.

I found them very disruptive, especially when driving, as they could blur my vision at any moment.
Fortunately, one eye not being as bad as the other, I was at least still able to see clearly through one eye at any given moment, but I absolutely hated them.

These floaters troubled me for over ten years, but last year it suddenly dawned on me one day that I didnt have a problem any more! This must have happened gradually over the previous three or four years,, as I'm sure I would have noticed immediately otherwise.

I do still have many floaters, but the sort that had given me the problems (lets call them the more 'jelly-like' ones) seem to have actually disappeared.

I just wanted to share this with you Babs03 to give you some hope that sometimes this can get better even after many years.

I have this. It drives me mad. I have to wear dark glasses and a wide brimmed hat on sunny days. I feel like I’m in disguise.

Thanks Oldnproud. That is good news. Can only hope 🤞

Catterygirl I was offered free treatment for the rest of my life, but for me, the cons outweighed the pros, so I will take my chances. At least I am 81 and not 41 when the decision may have been different.

I have had a few floaters all my life but had a big download in 2012. The optician said that I should get in touch with him if it happens again, he is good, very thorough specsavers.

It was disappointing to realise that I would not ever have clear vision again but believe me you do get used to them and the brain adapts. At first for weeks and weeks I let my glasses get dirty, so the floaters would not be so annoying

They do get absorbed slightly but never disappear. People with myopia are prone to floaters but anyone can get them

Thankyou Oreo and Babs .

I have spectacles with lenses which automatically darken in the sun and I find that floaters have become less of a nuisance wearing these lenses. My brain doesn’t pick up on them so much but also the floaters are now smaller than in the beginning.

I think that darkening lenses or sunglasses definitely help. Light tends to make things worse.

It has been so comforting reading all the posts on this thread. I have a lot of floaters and at times I feel as if there is a thin film of water over my eyes and everything is floating.

I knew other people had floaters, and that I have been told I have a lot, but to recognise on this thread descriptions of the way they affect other people, and recognise that I have so many the same problems has been - yes - comforting.

M0nica

It has been so comforting reading all the posts on this thread. I have a lot of floaters and at times I feel as if there is a thin film of water over my eyes and everything is floating.

I knew other people had floaters, and that I have been told I have a lot, but to recognise on this thread descriptions of the way they affect other people, and recognise that I have so many the same problems has been - yes - comforting.

I agree.
When I posted this I didn’t expect many responses, have felt quite alone with it, so is comforting to know others feel the same, even though I really wouldn’t want anyone else to suffer with this.

Catterygirl

After the operation I had roughly 50 floaters. Some the size of butterflies. At the time I thought I would never get my sight back but decided to believe in the specialists at the London Eye Hospital and followed their instructions to the T. One day at the supermarket, around three months later, my husband asked me what I thought of an item on the shelf, I picked it up and read every detail to him. He asked me where are your reading glasses. I told him in my glass case inside my handbag. That was the moment.

What a brilliant outcome.

I have had floaters for years and they are so bad now the optician can actually point them out on the scan images. They are annoying, particularly when I am looking at something plain and pale in colour but otherwise I try to ignore them.