Hi fellow floater sufferers

[Steve]

Hi all, im new to this site but it looks really good.

Ok so a bit about me - Im 26, suffered from floaters for about 7 years now and am so interested in one day finding a simple cure.

Floaters are in both my eyes and it really annoys me, especially on a lovely sunny day and also at work staring at a white pc screen. I wont bore you with the rest of the siutuations as I know you all experience the same.

Im really after peoples experiences in what helps ease the floaters and poss potential cures (if there ever is one!)

im trying to turn living with flotaers into a bearable experience and live in hope one day they will go away.

Im right behind all of you and understand the ignorance of doctors regarding this subject. One person I did find who understood was an optician from New Zealand who says he has them too, and this was a real comfort. Still doesnt stop the flaoters being a pest though.

Lets fight this and find a cure together!

[Moderator]

Hello Steve and welcome! I was just wondering how severe your optician's floaters are?

At miedosopsie.it or vitreo.it ( cant remember which one sorry), they have a doctor working between them, a doctor who also has eye floaters.

I reckon it'll be good if we can have word from doctors in writing that floaters is REALLY annoying and not something to be dismissed of that quickly.

[Mary]

Hi,

I've had floaters all my life (I'm 57) but they've recently gotten considerably worse. I've been to an ophthamologist who says I have a family proclivity for retinal tears, etc., but nothing is needed as of now..... like most docs he said there's nothing to do although laser surgery will certainly be needed if and when a tear develops.

Anyhow, knowing that I wasn't about to go blind overnight helped a lot in getting used to them, but they are still rather bothersome. I don't know if sunny days are worse (when the bright blue sky almost turns to liquid) than the overcast days (when lines and spots zig zag all around my field of vision) - or vice versa.

However, I do notice some lights and places are better than others. Flourescent lights are bad. Light coloured walls, too. Luckily, most of the walls in my house have wood grains or a good deal of texture to them. If and when I move I'll have to be cognizant of that. Maybe use wallpaper (which I really don't like otherwise) rather than nice off-white paint (which I do like). Sun glasses help when I'm outside and are necessary anyway. I also notice the floaters appear worse when I'm tired or stressed ... I guess that's quite typical.

Watching tv is (so far) never a serious problem, even a big screen tv. Maybe all the movement and varied colours are a distraction??

Looking at a computer screen is a bit of a problem and, of course, that's what I do for a living. However, I notice, again that web sites (like this one), with a good deal of visual variety and darkish tones are much less floater-friendly than white screens with lots of blank space.

Does anyone know if any computer screens have been developed with floater see-ers in mind? Any special glasses? I was wondering if lenses could be designed with a bit of nearly-hidden texture in the glass - something to cut the floaters off or deflect them??? Textured paints or spackles? Floater repelling wallpaper designs?

Anyone doing research on these things? Floaters apparently are more common among the aging and there are certainly lots more old people coming along in the next 20 or so years, so satisfying a market for floater unfriendly environments could be lucrative!

[bios]

Hi there, welcome to this board... it's true that many doctors tend to ignore it as they didn't suffer from it

I wonder why there's isn't any safe cure for it, but I would say thanks for those who are working on it and hopefully they success in finding the cure and end this annoying problem...