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- EYE FLOATERS explained (Cause, Risk and Treatment) | Optometrist Explains
Are eye floaters normal
Are eye floaters dangerous
Are eye floaters permanent
Are eye floaters common
Can eye floaters be removed
Can eye floaters be treated
Can eye floaters cause blindness
I have always seen the little transparent "glass noodles" floaters for as long as I can remember. Sometimes they're very noticeable, sometimes I can't see them at all. Interesting.
I usually notice them the most in bright light, usually if I look into a clear sky.
@@edwhatshisname3562 I also see them in bright light.
What do they mean ?
i see them more if i looked too long on a screen. when i spend a lot of time in nature i see less
I am able to ignore them, or see them when I want. Weirdly, I am near sighted, but the 'noodles' are in perfect focus. I can see them best when looking at a blank piece of paper or looking at the sky. They aren't shadows but refract the light just like glass would.
They show up better against a bright background.
They are really annoying when trying to catch a damn mosquito and losing it due to it merging with a floater's location and you end up tracking the floater instead for half a second and you lose it.
PLEASE do visual snow disorder, my eye doctor literally told me it was all in my head
Oh my! You too!!! It's a common actually but not recognized by a lot of optometrists cause it's a relatively new disease
Hmmm, I had to look it up. I guess I've always had visual snow, but I don't find it distracting often. It's just constant visual noise to filter out passively. I probably don't count among those with the "disorder" since it is usually very apparent to me the difference between the visual snow noise and what I'm actually looking at. Only if I am very tired or overheated does it get to be a distraction.
I hate my floaters. They're really starting to affect my vision.
I hope you aspire to teach at university. Your students would be lucky to have you as their professor. Your video about why new glasses feel strange helped me have the words to explain the adjustments that needed to be made to my new glasses, and now they work perfectly. And your video about Transitions Gen8 helped me make my decision for green grafite for my photosensitivity.
Those eye pictures are intense. You have some of the best edits with photos and diagrams. It really adds to the video.
Yes, I have glass noodles! Also not just noodles but also just circular glass things with a small "core" in a center: ( ° )
When I was small, I used to think those are a live bacteria I see on the top of my eye. Or some other single-cell organism.
The vitreous makes the most sense; especially with the presentation of gray/grey eyes since there's such an excess of collagen. It would be interesting to see if there's a possibility to do an age-related study on people of multiple age groups of different eye-colors for floaters, because I'd be willing to put money on blue-eye/lightest eyed individuals having a majority of them due to the collagen breaking down in sunlight exposure since it's.. literally what breaks down collagen in general, and what makes up the majority of the eye color in us lighter eyed folks. It would also make a lot more sense to explain those random flecks and flakes that appear and disappear in the iris on a nearly daily basis that just darken and then lighten up again
I am 27 now and I always had digital snow syndrome, not bothered me whatsoever. My eyes are grayish-blue, my vision is -1 and I got my floaters one year ago. Interesting that before I got my first floater, literally, I noticed blue entoptic phenomena. Later on I also noticed when, sometimes, I look into the sky I see grey vortex in the middle of my vision. And sometimes I might see flashes before I fall asleep. I check with retina specialist every 6 month and so far my retina is healthy, but it still baffles me why I see those. As a solution and protection for my eyes I wear sunglasses and they really help to filter out my floaters, pretty much not noticeable.
Hi I also seen the flashes It take a while to find the culprit, LED's or other high frequency lights. I changed the lights or add a normal non flashing light source to the mix and I stop seeing flashes. (low to mid quality screens also chause it)
I can also see the different flashing colors if I slightly move my head and a little close my Eyes, giving a sence of wrongness, extremely disturbing at night ride. Modern energy efficient lights are quiet uncomfortale to be around, for me at lest.
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I just found your channel and thoroughly enjoyed your style of instruction. I'll be a regular from now on!
Very informative video. I've had floaters since my 20's. I've got 'liquid noodles' and darker spots and objects. Very distracting. Dr can't tell me anything and it's getting worse. Especially when I look at a brighter background (sky, computer screen..). Cool to learn a little more about them!
I really love your videos, the animations and explanations included.
Thank you I appreciate it! 🙏
This is very interesting! Good experimental set up to explain
Thank you thank you
Had a retinal tear and laser a few months ago, your explanation helps me to understand the cause of the tear. thanks.
You are VERY GOOD at explaining to a lay person! Very informative and interesting ❤
Thanks for the interesting video! It really is good to keep an eye on them - for as long as I remember I had floaters. Recently, I had a lot of floaters appear and long story short, I have IRVAN syndrome. Mostly harmless, sometimes not.
How is now for you....I too have lot of floaters
I've had a couple floaters permanently since I was a kid and I got a reflected laser strike from an early optical disc player (pro tip -- don't get curious and bypass the safety on the cover). For the most part, I don't even notice it any more unless I'm looking for it. On the other hand (or eye), a few years ago I was in a minor auto accident and a day or two afterwards, I experienced a retinal tear. It took over a year for the floaters to subside from that one -- it was like looking through a piece of lace.
Really interesting :) love your videos. Thank you!
You’re welcome 👍
Thank so much Dr.
Your video is very helpful.
Mine constantly show up in the corner of my vision which always trick me into turning around to see if something is there.
This is absolutely fascinating
Hi Antonio, thanks for the video. I have had eight large "glass noodle"-like floaters in my right eye for the past two years after getting laser eye surgery. They are extremely annoying. While I can still technically see out of my right eye, it is very unreliable and I often have to rely completely on my left eye. I'm not sure if the treatments discussed in this video would be worthwhile for me.
The “glass noodles” are ALL I’ve ever seen my whole life. I’m glad I don’t have the dark ones, yet anyway…I’m 60 so who knows what’s ahead, besides cataracts! 👀
Sweet, now I know. I thought it was just me. I used to play around with it. You know, looking around to make it shift and end up in another spot. I could never understand what the hell it could possibly be that was "on" my eye that would never come off and move in such a fashion. The fact that it wasn't fixed at a certain spot was very odd to me, as it just lagged behind my eyes movements. I haven't seen it in a looong time, though. I don't know if it's disappeared for good or if it's just "floating away" in another area where it doesn't cause the shadow to register.
Hi doc. Is there anyway to get rid of this through diet? Thanks for the advice. Love that there’s no bs✌️🇨🇦
I had a couple of really bad uveitis flares this year and ended up with a large amount of floaters and several retinal tears. I get my eyes regularly monitored by an ophthalmologist to make sure they don't get worse, but my vision in my right eye is severely impaired now because of the floaters.
I was diagnosed with Posterior Uvietis around 2013. I woke and i notice i had black translucent spots in right eye. In my case it is really annoying because it renders the vision in my right eye very blurry. I was told it is normal and i was given prednisolone treatment. I have been living with this till date. Everytime i check it is the same story and treatment. I personally feel like it is worse coz my vision in my right eye is not the same after every prednisolone treatment. With my glasses it feels better. Just came across this video today. Great explanation. I should probably refer people when they ask me about my condition to this video coz i have to do a lot of explanation...lol
I use to have noodle floaters when I was 16 but now at 28 they are gone and I never thought of it and realized till I watched this video. I am surprised and thanks for this educational content.
How many you had?
I work with a high power, industrial Nd:YAG (10 kW peak) and am exposed to limited arc flash (assumed, even with PPE, some UV radiation) daily and have always suffered from heavy floaters.
I guess I should be worried that since becoming an incidental LASER technician I have noticed a marked reduction in floaters and acute myopia. Tack on a touch of ocular migraines, I think it's about time I find a good Ophthalmologist.
Wow! Thank you for that video - I asked my optometrist about the spots I see, she told me it is normal and not to be too concerned with them. I wonder what the floaters look like to my Optometrist when she is looking into my eye. I seem to only have them in my left eye (maybe I just don't notice them in my right).
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I got hit with a flip flop in my eye when i was a kid, playing around with my cousins throwing flip flops at each other (can't afford Nerf guns). Ever since then, i got a floater in my eye. Been decades, steadily still there, doesn't grow, just drifting about.
Very educational, thank you.
I don’t have the vitreous in my right eye, but I still have it in my left eye.
I had it removed, not because of floaters, but because it had to be done sis part of a clinical trial that’s going on for my eye condition.
In case you’re wondering my eye condition is called Achromatopsia. It is a genetic condition that affects many different parts of my vision. I have reduced visual acuity, I think it’s somewhere around 20/250. My eyes are extremely sensitive to light, to the point I avoid changing the light bulbs in my house for as long as possible because the fresh bulb hurts my eyes like being in the sun does. I am also color blind, so I can tell you if something is lighter or darker, but not the color, if there isn’t enough contrast between 2 different colors they will look exactly the same. I mix up black & brown, green & blue, green & yellow, blue & purple, red & orange & pink, yellow & orange.
Hi, An epiretinal membrane was discovered in my right eye at 28 years old and I was told that it was "probably the remnant of a primary vitreous". Last month, in the same eye, I had a PVD. I'm 35 years old now. Do you know if there is a connection between the two? I don't understand why my right eye has had both these things at a young age. My eye sight is 20/20 and I am long sighted. Thanks for your help.
The part of the eye liquifying and even part of it detaching internally sounds absolutely horrifying and gruesome to me. Makes me extremely uncomfortable, even if it may be a normal process.
Thank you for making a great and informative video anyway. I appreciate the time and effort. I now just need a Moment to digest that information..
The epi-retinal detachment of vitreous humor (of these "floaters) is also known as macular pucker. (Look it up). I am 69 yrs old, and this just occurred in one eye.... Nothing can be done and surgery is "IFFY" at best. Just be aware. Thank you for this video. Helps explain a lot.
I went for a walk the other day and I saw this beautiful view in the countryside with birds chirping and not a car to be heard.
All I could focus on is the floaters in my eye and the tinnitus in my ears. Sad :/
I developed floaters from a physically traumatic experience (notably nothing to do with my eye or upper body at all, but the pain was so intense my head felt like it was going to explode).
This happened when I was about 16 or 17 years old and it scared the living daylights out of me when I noticed them at first - which was several weeks later out in the sunshine.
Just thought that was worth mentioning as a possible cause.
I went to the optometrist and they basically said some kinda of tear had occurred, but unless the numbers of floaters dramatically increased (signifying a possible retina detachment) there was little to worry about. So I've had them now for around 15 years and most of the time I don't even notice them. When it's very bright and looking at white surfaces or the sky are ideal conditions for seeing them. Every time I do notice them I check them out, but thankfully they also seem to be basically the same. There's a chance this could change in the future which is frightening, but a reminder we need to stay vigilant with our health.
when it comes to eyes and all the problems with it, i feel like i was just born to early. i might be total wrong here, but ive always felt like in 100 years, all these problems would be cureable
Maybe at that point u can jst buy and replace eyes at affordable price. Now there kidney that they geneticly modified from pig kidney that can be use by human lol
i have what seems to be chronic floaters, both eyes, which often interfere with the ability to read text. onset was rapid, about 2 years ago. i'm 52 and have learned to live with it, as generally, with variable tone scenes such as driving, it's not too bad; that said, in the past 2 years i've authored 3 books and text on a flat tone screen poses a challenge. in the last year my right eye has occasional flashes, so i gather there's a modicum of retinal detachment happening there. thank you for your most informative and useful explanation
How are those flashes? Like tiny color specs or large flashes?
I have iritis and constantly see floaters. My floaters look like faded, small clusters of black spots that move around like sand moving around in water.
Hey doc, I went to few specialists in last 6 years but they don't detect anything abnormal but my floater count was rising rapidly and before last specialist it got so bad that in darkened room with only TV light I could see floaters everywhere, directly in line of sight and in peripheral vision. But specialist said it is fine. I helped myself with high dose of vitamin D (5000IU daily for 2 weeks) and I need to regularly take 1000-3000 IU daily so they don't come back. After maybe one month of not taking vit D they return but not as much as when it was worst. Few months ago I tried Euphrasia officinalis extract eyedrops and it got even better.
My question is how those two things "remove" floaters and what origin is of them if eye specialists can't see them but they were making my life practically unbearable? And why they return after I stop taking those two things?
Also in the past eye peptides Visoluten helped me but they are very expensive albeit they work fine for 4-5-6 months before floaters come back.
Please explain the cause(s) of scintillating scotoma.
If you have a floater that gets bigger over time, at any rate, get it checked out. Someone I know had that happen when he was nine. He had a retinal detachment and after three surgeries in a relatively short amount of time, he lost his vision in that eye
Love the channel 🤗
My first floater looked like a dead mosquito. I moved my eyes around for a long time while gazing up at my ceiling until i could get a good look at it. Yep, dead mosquito. 😬
Doctor good evening, is it possible the eye floaters would remove thru lacerization?
Elsie
I remember when I was in fifth grade I first started seeing them. You to get alarmed and depressed but had to learn to deal with them. I'm 33 now.
I was 3mos premature resulting in RLF from O2 damage in the incubator. I used to get my retina examined once a year when I was a kid but I haven't been for quite a while should I be doing that every year even now? I was recently diagnosed with diabetes a year ago, and glaucoma years before that. I'm now about 60 and I've never had a retinal detachment and have always hoped that I could do the vitreous replacement. Floaters have always been a huge problem for me, especially with driving. but I'm guessing all this means I'm probably not a candidate huh?
what could be the practice in order to avoid or minimize the occurrence of formation of floaters?
I have glass noodle floaters!! My doc says they're nothing to worry about and hopefully it stays that way😊
I have floaters and a glass noodle that’s always there in the same spot. And sometimes I have what I call wormhole vision where my vision looks swirly but still at the same time. Like there’s a swirly film over my regular vision. I got diagnosed with migraine with aura.
Thank you!
Great video, but when I watch these I keep hoping ill find some other advice apart from invasive treatments, like certain supplements and diet changes that could help, or maybe eye drops etc...But cant seem to find anything good that could help! Anyone have some suggestions?
I have branching filaments with dots inside that come out and then grow into more branches. I only had a couple 10 years ago and now they fill my entire vision. Also when I shine a CFL UVA light in my eyes the retinas both glow green which suggests fungus. What do you think?
I’ve had floaters for well over ten years, but the thought of anyone going anywhere near my eyes with anything is so disturbing that I have no intention of having them addressed. I don’t even like getting a macro-degeneration test freaks me out. I pull away every single time, and I’m sure it frustrates the hell out of my ophthalmologist because they have to repeat the test over and over.
Can you please do a video on a eye condition called BDUMP (Bilateral Diffuse Uveal Melanocytic Proliferation) I was diagnosed and can’t find any information about it
Do you have a video on visual snow?
I had cataract surgery and developed floaters. They are like a piece (I call it my little ameba) of dark tissue. When I go outside, I see the dark image and it looks like it's dragging a bag of circles behind it. This is more noticeable when I'm outside. The other eye popped up one while I was reading. It's been more of a problem. One night it was like type of film and I couldn't get it to move out of the way, so I put a couple drops of moisturizing eye drops in it and went to bed. It was better the next day. They are very annoying if I can't get them to move. My glasses don't do much for me either. They tell me it's the right prescription but I can't wear them much.
I am 57 and have recently developed 'tar drop' floaters. My Optthalmologist told me that is a normal thing in age.. The shapes I see are shadow like formations, that really can appear in shape as if a tar like substance is 'dripping' downwards. Some days I see them more than others. She seemed unconcerned and just recommended monitoring, i.e, regular eye exams. Can you say something of these 'tar drop' shapes? I could not get much of an explanation out of my doctor.
Semen also is jellylike and turns liquidy over time
What is a 'go-to' treatment? How is it different than a 'treatment'.
I thought I was the only one who had this lol 😂
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I've had one specific floater that looks like its moving into itself for a long time. Is that still a floater or something else? (I can only very rarely see it and for brief periods of time)
I have had two detached retinas that required surgery I have the same symptoms again in the same eye and have now developed dry eye which is very painful
I have a floater on my left eye. I'm not sure if I've gotten it during one of my birthdays back then, or it had always been there in the first place. I was waiting for the cake my parents promised and thought it was a good idea to stare at the sun for a little bit too long. I'm not bothered by it to this day, even, I find it more entertaining than the people around me. So, you guys need a pc to play Osu?
Hi, Could consume vitamin A or carrot routinely reduce some floaters ? Thank you🙏🏻
Really....I had lot of them
I told my optomologist about floaters and he immediately said, that is normal just ignore them, without any questions, details or looking at them,
I seen what looks like virus strands..moving around in my eye..that was past ...now I see shadows moving ..which make me crazy ...and I see fractals on occasion in my peripheral vision ..only happened a few times but that's really scary and frustrating since I deal with light and shadow in my work..it gets confusing and I have to stop.
I just recently had a black sort of like an ant shape floating around my vision. That's why I searched for this video and found out what Floaters are. It was scary to see such big floater like this, I haven't had anything like it in the past. I'm at mid 30s btw
Dude i jst have it 1 week ago. Im freaking out then the doc confirm its a floater. It pitch black like bug haha
@@pelitasenja7478 Yup! and I did the 2 Pineapple slices a day like another video said. now within 2 weeks, it actually got smaller. It says take the Pineapple slices daily for 60 days. But, it's not a guarantee. works on me though
I have always had a widely separated set of "floaters." After I contracted Covid19 and recovered they became much more numerous. I have had so many health problems since my three bouts of Covid19 that I have had little time to squeeze in a visit with an ophthalmologist. I suppose a visit to the eye doctor is much overdue.
The Covid is full sh*t in terms of different types of coplication. In these two years used to had heart problems i never felt in my whole life and 2 month of ingestion that i never felt either before.
I have VSS and constantly see these
I noticed i use to have more shadows like floaters as i do much work on computer, As i spend much time on dayly light, on air these floater go away. As for noodle like transparent floaters i remember them all my life. 😀 No any discomfort with them.
And no diet, additives or drugs can help the vitreous recover or improve?
I was believing that they were bacteria from my tears, and was proof I had great vision to see such tiny things without microscopes.
unrelated question - I opened a bathroom cleaner and it started spraying - it sprayed into my eye - I was wearing my Monthly Contacts (I removed the contacts right away, put them in the multipurpose solution and flushed my eyes with tap water followed by my eye drops).
Question is: Can I still wear same (one and only pair) monthly contacts? - Side note: These are my trial pair and need to wear for my appointment on July 31st.
It would be best to have it checked by your optometrist, it’ll be hard to know for sure without seeing it on the slit lamp ! 👍
@@AntonioTheOptom Thank you, my optometrist is 5 hours away and really don't want her to know how clumsy I was . . . I will her office tomorrow.😒😔😪
I want to know how to get rid of them. Please
I have a tumor on my retina, luckily it’s benign but still a weird thing. I’ve even got photos of it now
are rainbow floaters a thing? sometimes, my vision is partially obstructed by what looks like an enormous floater that has a rainbow effect similar to static on an old tube color TV. it floats in a general area and seems to be affecting both eyes to some degree, lasting as short as a few minutes to as long as 20 minutes. it's very disorienting as it affects my ability to focus my eyes to drive or read. i have no idea what brings them on. i have experienced 2 at once, but not more than that. it's very random. so much so, that i have not been able to determine an external or situational cause. any info would be helpful.
I get eye shots every month. I get air bubbles floating around. They look like black circles with yellow inside, turning red with eyelids closed. I can only look down for a few minutes, then have to look up to get them to float out of my vision.
Currently trying the Vitrocap pills, I hope they will help at least a bit...
I have for as long as l can remember seen what l now know to be a floater. But only when l open my eyes swimming underwater. I have never seen them out of water. Is this possibly something else cause l think it's quite weird. I am fascinated by your videos by the way.
I’m impressed you got all the bubbles out. 😂
What about floaters caused by fibromyalgia?
Hi! You seem like a nice fella!
Health shops recommend vitamin supplements containing Lutein from blueberries to help stop floaters getting worse. Is this any good or just a waste of money?
its normal to have them when youre young or when its hot
I had a large, spidery one. I named him Hyder the Spider.
Hi Antonio, is it true if you have floaters, you will have a good floater game in basketball? I heard steph curry has a million floaters.
Thank you. This video make me relieved. I got floaters recently. It just a blur dot and like fabric thread. My doctor said it not retina tear. More like lattice. I'm not very clear what is eye lattice.
Everyone always talks about these but I don’t have them
My entire life has been plagued by these. Only getting worse.
If you use terms like “photons that the eye draws in” some people may take it literally. Be careful how you express yourself.
When I was younger I would always try to explain this to my mother, that when I looked at the sky and at my papers I would see things floating around. When I got a little older I just assumed it was me seeing bactiria floating around on the surface of my eye.
You realize now that you can not see bacteria with the naked eye right? That would make them macroscopic rather than microscopic. I had these when I was about ten. I thought I had scratched my lens until I was a little older.
@@TruthWillFreeYou Yes, but at the time I didn’t understand.
@@RiverRiceRansom I understand you now. I likely didn't at a young age either.
I remember as a schoolkid my friends and I would lay and talk about the floaters we saw and I definitely thought they were bacteria.
It made perfect sense to see the microscopic bacteria like this because we have lenses in our eyes
I always thought a floater was something left behind in the toilet
So I never used to have floaters until I attempted to befriend a bully and got my head smashed into a brick wall when I was around 8 years old, (thanks Martina) I have had my eyes looked at several times since then and never has anyone noticed any issues, Im not 100% if this is what caused the floaters or if the panic of having my head smahed into a wall just made me notice them for the first time I just thought this was intersting enough to mention.
My vision is better than 20/20 by the way so it doesnt seem to have had any effect in that.
Svp traduction en français de vidéo merci
I see them also but the ones I see in the middle are a little lighter than the ones in the peripherals. Is it because is more light entering the middle ?
Yeah just because all of the light has been refracted to focus onto the middle
@@AntonioTheOptom oh ok thanks you 🙂
So basically everybody has it like that ? Also I only see it in one eye and not the other is that normal ? Sorry to bother is that I'm just so curious 😕
I thought is was bacteria due to how they move when I don't move my sight.
Im 66 and have had floaters since i was 40
you forgot about pigment dispersion syndrome, or did I just mss it