Eye Floater

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  1. Cody Fousnaugh

    Cody Fousnaugh Supreme Member
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    Do you have one? One showed up in my right eye yesterday. At first, I thought it was a Nat flying around me, then I realized it was my eye. This morning I started taking 60mg Ginko Biloba twice a day to possibly help get rid of the floater. I don't see it in darker conditions.

    If you have/had one, or more, what treatment do you do?
     
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    Had one years ago and it disappeared eventually on its own.
     
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    I have so many floaters I couldn't keep track of individual ones, but they are small. I don't know if they ever go away or not, but if they do, more just comes to replace them. I've learned to ignore them.

    My mother had a bunch of big floaters after that secondary cataract operation. I guess they were chunks of the sac they blasted away with a laser. She said those all disappeared in a few weeks, sank to the bottom, I guess.
     
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    Get checked for glaucoma. I had them in the left eye and now I'm on eye drops.
     
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    I have one in my right eye that I have had for years. Sometimes it looks like an eagle and sometimes it looks like a hummingbird. The only time I really see it is when I first wake up in the morning. I can look toward the ceiling and make it do tricks. :D I guess it settles to the bottom during the day.
     
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    I have had them, but never for long periods of time. I think I get them when I am really tired.
     
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    Yep I get them on a regular basis - eye tests at opticians were OK so I just put up with them
    Probably another 'age' thing :rolleyes:
     
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    It is very common among us older people.Or so all my doctors said. I have two and hardly notice them anymore.
     
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    What about the supplements, Ginkgo Biloba Extract and Bilberry Extract? My wife takes both of these. I read online, numerous websites, that both are very good for eye floaters as well as regular eye health. I'm seriously thinking about taking both. One Ginkgo in the AM and one Bilberry in the PM.

    Remember, I had laser cataract surgery in both eyes in Oct 2018 and my vision, after recovery of both surgeries, was 20/20. Both eyes have new lenses in.
     
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    Cody, has your eye floater disappeared?
     
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    No. I can still see it, but it doesn't bother me like it did when it first showed up. I'm now taking a Vitamin C Supplement daily. Have Vitamin C in my daily vitamin, but not nearly enough. Right now, can't do anything about it, like get a vision check, since we are under a "Stay At Home" Order. My wife will be due, in April, for her yearly vision exam, but as long as the virus threat is going on, neither of us want to schedule anything.
     
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    Hopefully, it will just disappear of its own accord.
     
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    Thanks!
     
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    I hope it goes away soon. A number of years ago I had some small and a few large flooters in left eye a few months after cataract surgery.
    A few weeks later I went into pomanary rehalibilitation and bgan to have these floaters. Shortly my vision began to deminish in that
    left eye. I thought it was probably related to the cataract surgery and something I coud take care of later. I walked on a treadmill,
    looking at a one armed clock on yonders far wall and went blind in that eye with a torn renta. If it persists you get checked, with--in a
    two week period. Not wanting to alarm, just saying what happened to me.
     
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