eyeball floater

2x4 · Nov 3, 2013

Used the New Holland last evening to snake the big walnut stump/root up to the bottom. Some fine clay dust was involved but not much & felt nothing. Night came & I kept seeing a thin black strand, like a black piece of thread, moving in my left eye whenever my eyeball moved. No pain or feeling, just irritating to see all the time. Rubbing with my fingers doesn't help or hurt. It's just there all the time & distracting. Can't see anything in the mirror & wife sees nothing. Any experience with these things? Do they eventually go away or what's with them?

Zachary Hoyt · Nov 3, 2013

I've had them before, mine come and go. They are indeed annoying, but for me once I realize it is a floater and not a flying bug or something I can stop reacting to it.
Zach

Dean · Nov 3, 2013

I have had a floater in my left eye for over 20 years. It is visable only occassionally but has not gone away. My opthamologist tells me that it likely will never go away.

Dean

JMOR · Nov 3, 2013

(quoted from post at 15:04:19 11/03/13) Used the New Holland last evening to snake the big walnut stump/root up to the bottom. Some fine clay dust was involved but not much & felt nothing. Night came & I kept seeing a thin black strand, like a black piece of thread, moving in my left eye whenever my eyeball moved. No pain or feeling, just irritating to see all the time. Rubbing with my fingers doesn't help or hurt. It's just there all the time & distracting. Can't see anything in the mirror & wife sees nothing. Any experience with these things? Do they eventually go away or what's with them?

oly crp! You only have one? Have dozens. Have had some for 40 years & age seems to add more & larger.

ShadetreeRet · Nov 3, 2013

I have had one or two in each eye for quite some time, they are more of an aggravation than anything else. I had never done any research until just now. Google "eye floaters" and you will find a lot of information. I don't think your moving the stump had anything to do with it, though.

Jerry Coulter · Nov 3, 2013

I had one a few years ago. Doctor could see it during eye exam, said it would eventually dissolve. It did.

welled deers · Nov 3, 2013

have had them off and on for years. My eye doctor did tell me that if I saw light flashes that could be a sign of a detached retina and I should have that checked out.

Janicholson · Nov 3, 2013

Internal, not external. Thus rubbing is not where it is. Cells on the inside of the Eye grow in a string and at some point get into the path of the vision. If they are dramatically interfering with vision, they can be fixed. see if it will go away doing nothing special. I have had some (looking through them as I am typing) for 50 years. There is nothing you did that caused it, it was already there, but you may have moved your head in a specific way that allowed it to get repositioned. Jim

Jon Hagen · Nov 3, 2013

Any history of glaucoma in your family ?.

Even if not get that checked at your eye doctor, he can check eye pressure to detect glaucoma.

I had eye floaters most of my life, just ignored them, thinking everyone had them.
Well they were from glaucoma, as a result, at 65 I am totally blind in one eye and 80% blind in the other. Maybe too little done too late, inspite of two eye operations last year.
Take care of your eyes, You dont get a second chance.

rrlund · Nov 3, 2013

I read in Readers Digest years ago about them. The article said that when you're developing in the womb,blood vessels are attached to your eyes from the outside. When the eyeballs are fully developed,the vessels detach. It said that the floaters are just the parts of those vessels that are on the inside of the eyeball. They pretty much stay with you for life and just float around. Sounds like yours might have been settled or stuck to something and you just stirred things up. I wouldn't worry about it myself.

Straw Boss · Nov 3, 2013

I have one too. Only see it when looking at something with a white background. Thought it was funny I kept seeing a hair floating in my milk. Finally figured it out.

Dan in Ohio · Nov 3, 2013

I have experienced floaters too, here today gone tomorrow. At least that is how it was for me.

S.Crum · Nov 3, 2013

I've delt with them for almost 30 years. I was diagnosed with chronic iritis. Used steroid drops for enough years that I had cataracts in both eye by the time I was 50. Got the cataracts fixed and I'm seeing ok, but the iritis flares up occasionally just to be a nuisance and the floaters are ever present. No cure for the iritis and I'm screened for glaucoma and macular degeneration on a regular basis.
Put an end to my commercial welding, but I still enjoy welding from time to time on a "good see day". Doctors say that welding using proper eye protection is not a problem. For me welding while being able to see what I'm doing is a big problem!

JerryS · Nov 3, 2013

I've had one for more than ten years. It appeared a few days after a small tree branch whipped into my right eye as I was pushing through a thicket with my tractor. It looks like a small bug or worm, and it flits around over in my peripheral vision, and occasionally across my direct vision. It's always there. Sometimes it distracts me into thinking a mouse or a bug is running across the room, but I've pretty much got used to it.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2013

Don't take chances. Get to a retina specialist. Same think happened to me in Sept. 2011. My regular eye doctor was watching things. It started to get worse, ultimately had multiple surgeries but lost the vision in that eye anyway. Chances are it is no problem, but the downside is not worth the chance.

Rollie NE PA · Nov 3, 2013

My friend whom is a diabetic has problems with floaters, but it is from his eye bleeding on the inside. He has to go and have the blood vessel that are leaking, treated with a laser.

I have had floaters for years, with no problems.
I go to the eye doctor every two years.

37chief · Nov 3, 2013

I have had them also for years, they will sink and you will not see them in a short time. I went to the doctor the first that happened. Not much he could do except tell me to wait. A couple years ago I was picking up rocks on a new field I was going to mow. I got so many black streaks in my right eye, I couldn't see out of it by the time I got home. I was freeking out about that. The eye doctor said in a month my eye will clear up, and it did. I wouldn't worry much about. For your piece of mind go to the eye doctor. Stan

JMOR · Nov 3, 2013

(quoted from post at 16:09:14 11/03/13) Internal, not external. Thus rubbing is not where it is. Cells on the inside of the Eye grow in a string and at some point get into the path of the vision. If they are dramatically interfering with vision, they can be fixed. see if it will go away doing nothing special. I have had some (looking through them as I am typing) for 50 years. There is nothing you did that caused it, it was already there, but you may have moved your head in a specific way that allowed it to get repositioned. Jim

ell,..........that depends. Like many things in life, there are many causes for floaters. But, if particularly large, it can very well be caused by your rough activities, such as limb in the face, ball to the head, even falling on you butt if you are an older person, the shock can pull the fluid filled sack away from the interior of the eyeball & it becomes a large floater, but luckily it will eventually be absorbed into the body fluids & disappear, usually. BTDT. Better, but not all gone.

2x4 · Nov 3, 2013

no glaucoma in my family history that I can recall. Macular degeneration tho.

2x4 · Nov 3, 2013

Ho boy, now I'm scared. I did see what appeared to be strobe light flashes. Saw them several times in the side of my eye as a string of 4 to 6 lights. I thought it must be something outside but I live way out in the country & there was no traffic. Saw it 4 times in a few minutes but nothing after that.

Royse · Nov 3, 2013

I have floaters off and on.
Eye doctor asked if I also had flashers, which I don't.
I got the impression flashers were worse, as he sent
me home with no treatment for the floaters.
Sure wouldn't hurt to have them check though.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2013

I've had em for years, sometimes they aren't floaters, much simpler. Sometimes an eyelash hair gets stuck in the fluid of the eye. Then you grasp your eyelid, and pull down, sometimes it draws it out.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 4, 2013

I have them, too. Mine are from what is called a "vitreous separation." I won't try to explain it, google it, It can be serious. I get regular checkups to monitor mine

Anonymous-0 · Nov 4, 2013

The eyeball is full of a vitreous fluid about the consistency of white of an egg. changes in this fluid such as crystalizing, precipitation, may give you the floater problem. I had a huge floater that interfered with my vision and my work. Had a vitrectomy (sp) which involved breaking up the floater with ultrasound and remove the fluid and replace it with a saline solution. About a week later I had good vision. So there are solutions if it really is a problem. Joe

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