Eye Floaters?

Recently about 3 months ago, I started getting some floaters in both my eye, been to 3 eye doctors that said it was nothing. But I got them out of nowhere and started off with 1 but I have about 6 of them, some are dots some look like strands of string. Is it normal to get these just out of the blue?

What are eye floaters?

Everyone gets occasional specks in front of their eyes. These specks are known as floaters and they are especially common when looking directly at a light background, or when feeling light-headed.

What causes floaters?

Floaters are little specks of debris floating through the vitreous fluid in the eyeball. Sometimes people may momentarily confuse them with dust or tiny insects floating across in front of the eye. However, they are within the eyeball and are not eliminated by rubbing the front of the eye.



'Floaters occur within the vitreous fluid of the eyeball'.

Are they serious?

Under normal circumstances, eye floaters are absolutely nothing to worry about. Everyone experiences them from time to time and they cause no ill effects.

When should I start to get worried?

Specks in front of the eyes are normally clearly visible when looking into a light background. However, if they start becoming visible in every background, suddenly increase in number and are accompanied by any loss of vision, it is vital that immediate medical advice is sought. This could be an early sign of retinal detachment.

If the retina has become detached or has a hole in it, you will begin to experience flashing lights before your eyes and you will also be aware of numerous floaters. These two symptoms will be accompanied by a loss of vision, so urgent medical advice is necessary. Surgery is required to seal any holes in the retina, or to re-attach the retina to the back of the eyeball.

yes i got them after i had my son. they are really bothersome but there is nothing that you can do or them.

My mother has these and it's from her diabetes from the bleeding in her eyes.

Do you wear contacts? I sometimes think I have a floater and its just a tear or a bit of stuff stuck on my contact. I have a few floaters without my contacts too and I also have been told they aren't anything to be worried about. Floaters can indicate retinal detachment, if I remember, correctly, but I guess most of the time they aren't anything. Sorry, I'm not more helpful

my mother-in-law has had one for about 25 years. Never changed. She says it looks like a little spider out of the corner of her eye. My daughtor scratched her, my mother-in-laws, eye and she has had the spider thing ever since.

I have the same problem now you just made me realize how much there bothering me and saw an eye doctor to no avail.

Your doctor is right... they are a NOTHING issue... so don't worry about them... they are normal and, as you get older, they will become more numerous. They are just broken blood vessles and blood cells.

it's not out of the blue there's a reason. i get them too... mine's due to damage via malignant hypertension and macular degeneration.

why did the docs say it was nothing? did you go to a RETINAL specialist?

time to see a REAL eye doctor that person will tell you what's going on and if you need to take anything.. you may lose your sight if you don't start investigating this issue with the eyes.

find out why you're getting these occurances.

now!

retinal specialist - diseases of the eye specialist. you can find them online or in the yellow pages.

It's normal. I had an eye doctor explain it to me this way once: Just like everything else in your body, say your skin, it flakes off constantly. In this way it renews itself. This is all those floaters are. You may notice they aren't always the same, sometimes you have more, sometimes less. And they aren't always in the same spot.....if you try to focus on them they move with your eye. Mine are more prominent when I first wake up in the morning. But if I look closely I can see them all the time. Many people can't even see them, because they just don't notice them. But according to that eye doctor everybody has them.

I have those too my eye doc said there was nothing wrong that it was normal to have some sometimes.

You defiantly ought to pay attention to what *god knows and sees else Yahoo* wrote about floaters.

Over time the vitreous in the back of the eye ( it's like this clear jelly ) will contract and break away from the retina. It makes floaters when this happens. I don't know your age and this usually only happens to people who are in their 60s +. You do need to watch out for a piece of your vision going missing or something like a million little bugs flying everywhere. Another thing is did you go to an Optometrist or an Ophthalmologist? Ophthalmologists are M.D.s who have gone through medical school and will know more than an Optom. about this sort of thing.

Hope this helps