Post by ade on Aug 5, 2004 16:07:14 GMT -5
In terms of medical research, I just don't think there are enough younger (<40years?) people complaining of having floaters. Lots may ignore the odd tiny strand, as I did, since you never notice it, the lucky (few?) may never get anything worse than this. I certainly know that there are many people, particularly early 20's, wih floater problems, this needs to be more publicised. The other problem is the vast-ness of the world. From discussion boards I've been on it would be easy to reach the conclusion that
1 Americans are most likely to suffer
2.There are less Europeans with floaters
3. There are few and far between middle eastern sufferers.
Obviously this is complete twaddle! and merely represents population of countries and the number of subsequent internet users. There's also the people that have floaters and are really not bothered by them, perhaps they are not that bad and people are able to simply ignore them and not worry.
I kind of think the people in US are lucky, though this luck also appears to run the other way. Here in the UK my optician and the opthalmolowodgereedoobee seemed fairly concerned when I mentioned my floaters. Though they could offer no solution, they didn't give me the response that a lot of people in other countries seems to get "just get on with it! You're fine!". Being in the US there's a much more diverse population, with lots more specialists and, I expect, more research into such matters by smaller facilities, the type we do not tend to get over here in the UK.
I'm just really interested to know how many people, of varying ages, backgrounds etc. are affected. There are no published stats and I doubt you could learn anything from simply asking your optician how many people he typically gets asking about floaters!
I guess what I would really like to know is how common this is in the younger generation. I'm pretty resigned to the fact that most older people (retirement) will "probably" get them, if they don't they're just darned lucky. Sometimes I guess you just feel a little unfortunate and alone.
Thoughts??
Take care
Adrian
1 Americans are most likely to suffer
2.There are less Europeans with floaters
3. There are few and far between middle eastern sufferers.
Obviously this is complete twaddle! and merely represents population of countries and the number of subsequent internet users. There's also the people that have floaters and are really not bothered by them, perhaps they are not that bad and people are able to simply ignore them and not worry.
I kind of think the people in US are lucky, though this luck also appears to run the other way. Here in the UK my optician and the opthalmolowodgereedoobee seemed fairly concerned when I mentioned my floaters. Though they could offer no solution, they didn't give me the response that a lot of people in other countries seems to get "just get on with it! You're fine!". Being in the US there's a much more diverse population, with lots more specialists and, I expect, more research into such matters by smaller facilities, the type we do not tend to get over here in the UK.
I'm just really interested to know how many people, of varying ages, backgrounds etc. are affected. There are no published stats and I doubt you could learn anything from simply asking your optician how many people he typically gets asking about floaters!
I guess what I would really like to know is how common this is in the younger generation. I'm pretty resigned to the fact that most older people (retirement) will "probably" get them, if they don't they're just darned lucky. Sometimes I guess you just feel a little unfortunate and alone.
Thoughts??
Take care
Adrian
