Red Alert Posted 11 May, 2010 Share Posted 11 May, 2010 Bet someone thought only they had them What the feck are these things anyway, you can always see them but cannot look at them. Why can I not control them to go where I look? Someone needs to investigate the eye floaters and find out what their true motives are. :smt096 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 11 May, 2010 Share Posted 11 May, 2010 I don't understand this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 11 May, 2010 Share Posted 11 May, 2010 If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, then I have one. It's annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 11 May, 2010 Share Posted 11 May, 2010 Seriously (I know - it's the Muppet) you should get floaters checked out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohwhenthesaints Posted 11 May, 2010 Share Posted 11 May, 2010 I have loads of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 11 May, 2010 Share Posted 11 May, 2010 I did a floater this morning, I think it was due to dumplings & cider. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint boggy Posted 11 May, 2010 Share Posted 11 May, 2010 ive had them since i was a kid. not all the time, obviously, but it is quite weird. i used to think that i had REALLY good eyesight and that it was Germs that i was seeing (well, i was young!!!):cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 13 May, 2010 Share Posted 13 May, 2010 I've been getting them recently. Really annoying. Need to get to the eye doctor. Can develop into worse apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 13 May, 2010 Share Posted 13 May, 2010 This thread reminds me of a time when I was a kid, about 8 or 9, when, on a trip to Chessington, I somehow managed to get a bogey lodged behind my eyeball, and spent the whole day in the First Aid office getting drenched in water as the park employee vainly tried dislodging it. It did come out eventually, but I missed the whole day of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish fingers Posted 13 May, 2010 Share Posted 13 May, 2010 I've had these for as long as i can remember. Interesting to now know what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 13 May, 2010 Share Posted 13 May, 2010 What the hell are you all on about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish fingers Posted 13 May, 2010 Share Posted 13 May, 2010 This thread reminds me of a time when I was a kid, about 8 or 9, when, on a trip to Chessington, I somehow managed to get a bogey lodged behind my eyeball, and spent the whole day in the First Aid office getting drenched in water as the park employee vainly tried dislodging it. It did come out eventually, but I missed the whole day of fun. That is amazing, did you sniff really hard? or pick your nose and decide it would be best to poke your eye with the goods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVSaint Posted 13 May, 2010 Share Posted 13 May, 2010 My wife gets them. To change subject slightly. Anyone get ocular migraines? Imagine visuals of a CD spinning (flashing a rainbow of colours) in one eye and slowly makes it's way to the other eye in an arc. They're quite fun to watch when they're happening at the time (unless you're driving) but are usually followed by tiredness and and a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudders Posted 13 May, 2010 Share Posted 13 May, 2010 Why can I not control them to go where I look? Great thread, I was thinking about these the other day whilst in the garden, looking at the sun with my eyes slightly closed and trying to get mine to stay still. They are funny little buggers aren't they, you can kind of move them but they have a mind of their own and move back to where they were to start with. I kept trying to move one to the left and I could get it to move each time I moved my eye to the left, but then the floater moved itself back to the right again. This went on for a while until I tired of trying as I know they can't be controlled for more than a split second. And also, why are they see-through, but yet you can still see them? That's a bit odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 14 May, 2010 Share Posted 14 May, 2010 That is amazing, did you sniff really hard? or pick your nose and decide it would be best to poke your eye with the goods. If memory serves, my Hay Fever had been acting up, and I sleepily wiped my eyes (as you do first thing in the morning), and took a bogey to the eyeball. Not pleasant, it bloody hurt. They eventually fished it out with water and the corner of a tissue, but to this day I'm pleased I don't have to wear contact lenses, it would freak me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 14 May, 2010 Share Posted 14 May, 2010 What the hell are you all on about? Go Ogle Jill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint boggy Posted 14 May, 2010 Share Posted 14 May, 2010 (edited) My wife gets them. To change subject slightly. Anyone get ocular migraines? Imagine visuals of a CD spinning (flashing a rainbow of colours) in one eye and slowly makes it's way to the other eye in an arc. They're quite fun to watch when they're happening at the time (unless you're driving) but are usually followed by tiredness and and a headache. i started getting those when i was pregnant with my first child. quite scary when driving,i lost most of my most peripharal (sp) vision. never actually got the headache's afterwards though (thank god!) it went on sporadically for a year and a a half before i went to the Doctor about it. He said that it is closely linked with excessive amounts of oestrogen (sp) ,which linked in nicely to the pregnancy thing!. He also said that they can, in the worst case scenario,be a precursor to a stroke!, :shock: so was advised to come off the pill to see if they stopped then..... and they did stop! ..PHEW!!! Edited 14 May, 2010 by saint boggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVSaint Posted 17 May, 2010 Share Posted 17 May, 2010 so was advised to come off the pill to see if they stopped then..... and they did stop! ..PHEW!!! Sweet. I'll try that then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint boggy Posted 17 May, 2010 Share Posted 17 May, 2010 Sweet. I'll try that then. lol.......glad i could help :smt081 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbury Posted 17 May, 2010 Share Posted 17 May, 2010 I see glimpsing flashes like a mobile of spider webs in the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 17 May, 2010 Share Posted 17 May, 2010 I see dead people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyLass Posted 20 May, 2010 Share Posted 20 May, 2010 Anything to do with the eye you should get it checked out. I discovered a couple of months ago that I have macular degeneration, typically only old people get this but apparently it's hereditary. I noticed that I was gradually losing part of my central vision in my left eye, especially when focusing on something. Went to the optician on a Monday to have my sight checked & he picked up on a grey sac behind my eye (it's weird seeing a photo of the back of your eye !), he told me to go to my GP to be referred to the eye hospital within the week, got on the triage list at my doctors the next morning. She referred me there & then to the emergency eye dept at QA, got an appt the same afternoon, they couldn't decide on what it was so had to go back on the Wednesday for more tests, diagonised MD and was booked in the following day for the beginning of a course of injections in my eye ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 20 May, 2010 Share Posted 20 May, 2010 I see dead people. I see stupid people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miffy Posted 20 May, 2010 Share Posted 20 May, 2010 I was told that eye floaters are caused by small fibrous particles around the retina detaching and floating around in the fluid within the eyeball. Because they are located within the eye it is not possible to focus on them and hence they appear faint and blurred. It is quite normal as you get older to start seeing them apparently...I hope so, I have loads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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