Drat. I had a posterior vitreous detachment in my right eye today, a year and two weeks after having one in my left eye. It just means I have gray and black polka dots across my field of vision that my brain will overcome, but also that I will have in my right eye a big ol' floater (that the brain can't seem to erase) which is twin to the one in my left eye. It's a little like looking through a lace curtain. No more night driving for me. :-( http://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/cole-eye/diseases-conditions/hic-posterior-vitreous-detachment
That's too bad. Hope the floaters gradually clear as the article says they will. (Thanks for the article.)
I was struck by what it said about most people having vitreous detachment by the time they are 70. I've never noticed any of those symptoms, although perhaps they are obscured by my retinal scarring.
Had both floaters and flashers in my early fifties. For several years. Nothing since, and no residuals either. Had a big gray blob in my left eye for two or three years before it left, or I got able to ignore it. Not visible now. Never saw a doc at the time, and no comment made at eye exams since. I have a cataract in my right eye, that I can't tell is there, so far. Doc's been aware of it for close to twenty years and "no progress". . . .
Well, Bill, somebody has to be the exception to the rule, and why shouldn't it be you? :-)
When this first happened last year, there were splashes of blood red dots all across my field of vision and it kind of freaked me out! It didn't help calm me down that my eye doc thought he saw an aneurysm at the back of my eye and sent me immediately over to the retina specialist. The dots "faded" to black and gray, and it all turned out okay in the end. This time the dots are gray and black from the start and smaller than last year's. Since I did not experience flashes of light with the event, I didn't even have to go get my eyes checked this time.
As with my left eye last year, its a matter of not making it worse in the next few weeks, then waiting for the brain to compensate. The brain is amazing! It sees all this material in your eye and figures out that it's not really a threat, so learns to ignore the dark spots and just pay attention to what can be seen. Since we have two eyes, the brain uses data from the angle of the good eye to fill in the blanks. I don't really see the spots that happened last year, anymore. But what I do still see is a circle (like the drawing of a circle, not all filled in) with two dark blobs on it. Now I see the same exact shape in the other eye, only upside-down and backwards. So I have mirror-image "twins." Those, the retina specialist said, will likely stay. I'm almost used to the one from last year, however, sometimes its movement catches my eye and I think there's something across the room, or in my field of vision while driving. Also, it seems to dim my night vision badly. Now with two, I will not be driving in the dark anymore!
Gosh, puddle! Every thing you said is an encouragement! It would be great if the retina specialist is proven wrong and the circle-blobbed floaters do finally dissipate!!
Gee! Sure hope it does get better, listener, soon and a lot! Insignificant cataracts here too, and it seems my astigmatism is a bit worse--I should get a new pair of glasses, but mean to put it off until after my next birthday. (The clue is the appearance of lights at night--kind of blurred out into a vertical band that moves as I tilt my head.)
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DeleteDrat. I had a posterior vitreous detachment in my right eye today, a year and two weeks after having one in my left eye. It just means I have gray and black polka dots across my field of vision that my brain will overcome, but also that I will have in my right eye a big ol' floater (that the brain can't seem to erase) which is twin to the one in my left eye. It's a little like looking through a lace curtain. No more night driving for me. :-(
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That's too bad. Hope the floaters gradually clear as the article says they will. (Thanks for the article.)
DeleteI was struck by what it said about most people having vitreous detachment by the time they are 70. I've never noticed any of those symptoms, although perhaps they are obscured by my retinal scarring.
Had both floaters and flashers in my early fifties. For several years. Nothing since, and no residuals either. Had a big gray blob in my left eye for two or three years before it left, or I got able to ignore it. Not visible now. Never saw a doc at the time, and no comment made at eye exams since. I have a cataract in my right eye, that I can't tell is there, so far. Doc's been aware of it for close to twenty years and "no progress". . . .
DeleteWell, Bill, somebody has to be the exception to the rule, and why shouldn't it be you? :-)
DeleteWhen this first happened last year, there were splashes of blood red dots all across my field of vision and it kind of freaked me out! It didn't help calm me down that my eye doc thought he saw an aneurysm at the back of my eye and sent me immediately over to the retina specialist. The dots "faded" to black and gray, and it all turned out okay in the end.
This time the dots are gray and black from the start and smaller than last year's. Since I did not experience flashes of light with the event, I didn't even have to go get my eyes checked this time.
As with my left eye last year, its a matter of not making it worse in the next few weeks, then waiting for the brain to compensate. The brain is amazing! It sees all this material in your eye and figures out that it's not really a threat, so learns to ignore the dark spots and just pay attention to what can be seen. Since we have two eyes, the brain uses data from the angle of the good eye to fill in the blanks. I don't really see the spots that happened last year, anymore. But what I do still see is a circle (like the drawing of a circle, not all filled in) with two dark blobs on it. Now I see the same exact shape in the other eye, only upside-down and backwards. So I have mirror-image "twins." Those, the retina specialist said, will likely stay. I'm almost used to the one from last year, however, sometimes its movement catches my eye and I think there's something across the room, or in my field of vision while driving. Also, it seems to dim my night vision badly. Now with two, I will not be driving in the dark anymore!
Gosh, puddle! Every thing you said is an encouragement! It would be great if the retina specialist is proven wrong and the circle-blobbed floaters do finally dissipate!!
DeleteGee! Sure hope it does get better, listener, soon and a lot! Insignificant cataracts here too, and it seems my astigmatism is a bit worse--I should get a new pair of glasses, but mean to put it off until after my next birthday. (The clue is the appearance of lights at night--kind of blurred out into a vertical band that moves as I tilt my head.)
ReplyDeleteWent to work today, still a little tired but OK.
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