u/OhNoWetSock

Im in and around the 6 month period since I first got my floaters. I don’t really expect them to go away/adapt due to the glare that comes across the lights and the dark dot that keeps bouncing around my lower right eye like a pinball. (Better description in one of my earlier posts)

I’m going to try and start therapy soon to help me become more comfortable with living my new life. I definitely have a touch of medical anxiety which really doesn’t help my situation. But I haven’t cried in about a month or panicked so I guess that’s a win. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sometimes I think a vitrectomy sounds like a pretty good deal. Scoop out my eye, replace it and get a new lens in a couple of years. Sounds better than what I’m dealing with now. However, you never know what that kind of surgery is going to look like for yourself. Pulsemedica sounds nice but that’s not for a long while and it’s starting to sound like another YAG.

Looking forward to the winter time since it’s going to be darker more so hopefully some solace there. In the mean time going to focus on my health and my mind. Good luck everyone, we’re all rooting for each other!

Heyo, been dealing with floaters since April (I have a previous post about my experience 3 months in). Currently at 6 months and just wanted to see if people also deal with this symptom?

A lot of my central vision floaters are clusters of clear dots. I think because if that, if I look at a light bars or a bright light in general that is a bit long and my eyes trail across I see a glare run through the strip of light.

This is one of the reasons why I think my floaters are definitely new and not something that I just happened to notice in abundance. Does anyone else deal with this?

Hello! New to this community. I recently had an influx of floaters in my right eye about a month ago. No PVD, just my eye betraying me. I’ve been dealing with a good handful of dark floaters in my vision (I’ve named the most annoying one that bounces around the bottom of my eye like a fruit fly).

I know that I definitely have medical anxiety which doesn’t help in calming myself down about the situation. Since then I’ve noticed a ton more clear ones in my visions as well. (Absolutely loving the 30 clear dots in the center of my vision) And since this isn’t a conditional that others can see it also sucks that just because I act okay, my friends and family thinks that the issue has solved on its own. It definitely hasn’t and I’ve really had my fingers crossed that I learn to adapt. It also completely sucks that the only treatments are “a laser that makes it worse” and scooping out the inside of your eye leading to cataracts (which is way safer than the first surgery lmao).

One of the things that has helped me so far has to actually stay off of this Reddit page. The more I read about floaters and the helplessness of the condition has only grown my anxiety and made me think about them more. Instead I tried to read about success stories which seem very few. Of course if most people learn to adapt and don’t think about floaters, I wouldn’t make it my #1 priority to start posting about it, I’d want to start living my life again.

That being said I just wanted to document my experience from the start and try to follow up on this post in a couple of months to see where I’m at. For the success stories that I have read, I’m going to take a page out of their book and try to be outside in the sun as much as possible (with a hefty pair of sunglasses of course) and force my brain to adapt. The biggest part of that for me is either doing an activity that I need to focus on or be around people that calm me enough that I focus on them entirely.

I’m definitely going to struggle at work since I’m in a very bright office and staring at a white screen all day but here’s to trying I guess.

Best of luck to everyone else out there dealing with this. I hope one day a super rich billionaire gets a bunch of floaters and actually spends the money to figure out a full proof cure. In the mean time, either I adapt or wait to see how pulse medica shakes out.