BF2S Forums Floaters in your vision?

You do of course realize that floaters are pieces of turd that adamantly refuse to go down the toilet?
If so you Really need to go see a doctor..

First aid here!

Yup its your blood vessels.. happened to me also when i got jumped by 6 chavs, one of my blood vessels got suspended or something and had the same problems.. doctor just said it will sort it self out.

Ok, went to the doc 2 weeks ago and she used a torch and a red light and asked me to look down and up, is it for her to see my retina? She said something about dilated and said my eyes looked okay but told me to go to eye spec if more floaters come in

uber73 wrote:

nope... they are suspended blood vessels within your eyeball, in the jelly part of the eye, known as the vitreous humour.  everyone has them / will get them throughout the course of your life. 

worry not.

A small torch with a small bulb?

I think you need to see the nurse...

Yea I got them, Can be a annoying sometimes.  You young kids will get them too.  Just yea wait

Just another treat of getting old... er

Stealth42o wrote:

Yea I got them, Can be a annoying sometimes.  You young kids will get them too.  Just yea wait

Just another treat of getting old... er

i am 17:P

Floaters are annoying, but try having both those AND flashers at the same time.  Rather than being bits of "floating" matter in your vision, they are actually bright points of light that flare up for about a millisecond and then disappear.  Due to the amount of eye treatment I've had, I have almost the whole array of long-lasting persistent eye problems.

After cataract surgery, I had to have YAG laser treatment to remove a layer of skin off of the new intraocular lens.  I had horrible floaters in my vision for months afterwards while waiting for it all to get absorbed...you just have to get used to it.

Anytime you take serious blows to the head and your vision is affected or shows after effects, you should have your eyes checked.  You've got the privilege of 1 set of eyes.  No replacements there...

It's mostly precautionary, but more importantly, preventative.  It's good to hear that the Doc you saw did internals (the torch-look-around-thing) as this checks the health of the retina and nearby tissue and blood vessels.  Floaters are usually harmless and go away or are forgotten/adjusted to, but better safe than sorry.  The eyes are great for 1st sign indicators of something else wrong in the body.

I guess I should qualify myself here.  My other job title is "Optical Lab Manager".  I  currently work for a therapeutic Optometrist and Glaucoma specialist.  I'm Certified Optician by the ABOM and have been helping patients for 6 /12 years now.  I'm hitting the books again this Fall to pursue Optometry and hope to enroll at the U of Houston / Baylor school of Optometry.

My hats off to Specialist and Marconius, as they both have shown knowledge and history in the ocular dept.

KJ

{BMF}*Frank_The_Tank wrote:

Snipedya14 wrote:

Doctor maybe?

I wouldnt get medical advice from bf2s.

You have a point good sir.....

But, there are quite a few medics here yeah? Anyway, my floaters are nothing blocking my vision except that they seem to be irritating me *sigh* by flying around. They are transparent most of teh time.

They look like pieces of hair..

LT.Victim wrote:

I have those too... i'm 16.. and near-sighted.. Nothing to worry about.. Mine usually only bother me when its really sunny out..

They look exactly the same above?