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Originally Posted by AJ Starr
Boy, this group can really get their money's worth out of any topic!!
Here's a new one. Anyone out there have Eye Floaters.
My floaters are so bad I have trouble focusing on words because the floaters wander by. That one of the main reason's I'm transitioning to audio books.
I've had floater's all my life, but they do increase over time. I think from high blood pressure which I had for a long time.
However, just to show the fallability of doctors, I had an optomistrist/opthamalogist (I don't remember which one I saw that day) tell me that there was NO SUCH THING AS FLOATERS. Needless to say, I didn't go back to him.
FYI, if any of you do have severe floaters, there is one doctor who is experimenting with a laser treatment to "burn up" the floaters. I've been tempted.
What say you crazy guys and gals.................
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That doctor is an idiot. I also have floaters, but not so many and not of a size that they bother me.
What I thought was a floater, I found out many years later, was actually an "aura" that come before my migraines. It was (is) sort of a crescent shape with lines in it that vibrate.
I later saw a picture of it in a science mag ... and thought the article was going to be one floaters ... then read the caption that said it was a very common aura of "classic migraine."
In any event ... when I would see that, it was almost impossible to work at my microscope because of my inability to see. Then I thought I was getting a headache from the eye strain. When I found out it was really migraine, a lot of things started to make more sense.
The cool thing was, after my major cancer surgery ... and after they removed just a whole host of organs ... the migraines pretty much stopped. I know there's probably no logical connection .... but they still did. I now get maybe one a year ... if that. Still with the same aura.