My eye floater story
I want to share my floater story and see if anyone had a similar experience.
It started on **May 10** when my mom accidentally hit the back of my neck with her elbow. It wasn’t a hard hit—just a small one. Later that afternoon while we were at church, I noticed my vision was getting blurry. I brushed it off and thought it would go away.
But the next morning, the blurry vision was still there.
For about the next **10 days**, I had blurry vision along with headaches. Around **May 21–22**, I started feeling okay again—no more blurry vision or headaches. I searched online and thought maybe it was just a migraine.
Then on **May 23 and 24**, I played basketball. On May 23, I played for about an hour. On May 24, I was supposed to play for about an hour too, but I kept playing for around **3 hours**. During that day, I noticed slight blurry vision in my **right eye**, but I ignored it and kept playing (I really wish I had listened to my body).
On **May 25**, the blurry vision was still there. I thought rest and warm compresses on the back of my neck would help. A few days passed and I started feeling anxious about my eyes.
At first, I didn’t know anything about **eye floaters**. Once I learned what they were and how they worked, my anxiety got worse.
So on **May 30**, I got my eyes checked. I have mild nearsightedness, but thankfully the doctor said **no retinal tear**. He told me to just observe my eyes.
From **May 25 to around May 31**, I only noticed my black floater if I closed my left eye and specifically looked for it in my right eye.
But around **June 1**, something changed—I could now notice the floater even with both eyes open.
At first, under bright light like the sky, the floater looked like a simple black circle:
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But by **June 10**, I noticed it started looking more like this:
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Like a donut/ring. The hole in the middle was very small and somewhat transparent/grayish.
By **June 14**, I noticed the hole in the middle became bigger. It looked even more like a donut/ring.
(Also, on June 10, I started eating fresh pineapple for 3 days straight. I personally feel like it may have helped make the floater more transparent, though I know that could also be a coincidence.)
Throughout **June**, the floater mostly stayed the same.
Other things I noticed:
* If I put my hand very close to my right eye and look for the floater, it looks **tiny**, about the size of an ant, and appears **solid black with no hole**.
* But if I look far away, like at the end of my room, it looks more like this:
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The edges become grayish and blurry while the center still looks darker.
When I look at the bright sky, it still looks like a donut/ring with a transparent middle.
I asked AI about this, and it suggested that it might be related to how the floater casts a shadow depending on lighting and focus distance.
One thing I do feel changed:
At first, when looking at the sky, the floater was a **solid black circle**.
Now, it’s more like a **ring/donut with a transparent center**.
Right now I still eat pineapple because it gives me hope. Even if it’s placebo, believing something helps makes my brain overthink less.