Post by algdil on May 23, 2005 15:28:46 GMT -5
Hi. I've been reading posts in here for a little while, but this is my first post.
As a short history, I a 44 year old male who has had myopia and astigmatism since I was around 11 years old. My vision (uncorrected is about 20/300) in each eye. While I had one or two floaters most of my life, they weren't much of a concern until Oct. 2003, when I suddenly had many floaters appear. Since then, they've been increasing, and driving me up the wall. Like others in here, there are times when they are not so bad, and other times when I feel like reaching in and pulling them out with my fingers.
Anyhow, my question is about something I noticed during an opthamological exam about 18 months ago. During the part of the exam when someone examines your eyes for corrective lenses, they had me hold a black, plastic thing over one eye which had tiny holes punched in it. They had me read the eye chart while looking through the tiny holes.
In the multitude of times I've had eye exams, I've only done this particular type of exam on that one occasion. I noticed that while I was looking through the tiny holes, I did not notice the floaters. (I also saw fairly clearly without my corrective lenses)
Now, granted, I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking through the tiny holes -- and the room was dark, so I can't say with any degree of certainty how much they really helped. But if this actually helps one not to see the floaters, couldn't they be manufactured into glasses to help people afflicted with floaters see them much less than we normally do?
Perhaps the next time one of us has an eye exam with this sort of device, we can pay better attention to see if they help as much as I thought they did.
Anyone else have this experience?
Thanks.
Jim
As a short history, I a 44 year old male who has had myopia and astigmatism since I was around 11 years old. My vision (uncorrected is about 20/300) in each eye. While I had one or two floaters most of my life, they weren't much of a concern until Oct. 2003, when I suddenly had many floaters appear. Since then, they've been increasing, and driving me up the wall. Like others in here, there are times when they are not so bad, and other times when I feel like reaching in and pulling them out with my fingers.
Anyhow, my question is about something I noticed during an opthamological exam about 18 months ago. During the part of the exam when someone examines your eyes for corrective lenses, they had me hold a black, plastic thing over one eye which had tiny holes punched in it. They had me read the eye chart while looking through the tiny holes.
In the multitude of times I've had eye exams, I've only done this particular type of exam on that one occasion. I noticed that while I was looking through the tiny holes, I did not notice the floaters. (I also saw fairly clearly without my corrective lenses)
Now, granted, I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking through the tiny holes -- and the room was dark, so I can't say with any degree of certainty how much they really helped. But if this actually helps one not to see the floaters, couldn't they be manufactured into glasses to help people afflicted with floaters see them much less than we normally do?
Perhaps the next time one of us has an eye exam with this sort of device, we can pay better attention to see if they help as much as I thought they did.
Anyone else have this experience?
Thanks.
Jim