Get the #%$ out of my eye!!!

.....OMG you are alone indeed. That's very wierd and frustrating I guess, the only advice that I can give you is doing like I do:

Doctor: "Hummm that's nothing, it's just XYZ"
Me: "Can you prove it?"
Doctor: "WTF?"
Me: "I said can you prove it? BTW I'm not leaving this chair until I'm convinced and cured."

Doctors are pure shit, you must treat them like the dogs they are.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by ElectricSheep

Does it look anything like this:



If so, you've got floaters, or a buildup of debris floating in the vitreous fluid of your eye. I've got them, and on some days they get a little distracting.

Where do they come from? Calcium deposits, a de-polymerization of the vitreous humor resulting in fibrils, posterior vitreous detachment (floaters accompanies by flashes of light, and sometimes the presence of a large ring-shaped floater), partial retinal detachment, retinal tear, or uveitis (inflammation of the middle layer of the eye).

Retinal tears release red blood vessels into the vitreous humor, and uveitis can cause a buildup of white blood vessels in the vitreous humor. Both will cause a sudden onset of numerous small black dot floaters. Uveitis can be caused by any number of systemic infections, including toxoplasmosis.

Once you have debris in the vitreous humor, there isn't any easy way of getting it out. There is a laser treatment in which the floater is vaporized, but it is expensive, time consuming, and not wholly effective.

I have that shit......
I can see it when I look at the sky, not annoying when doing anything else but still. As the wikipedia says the treament isn't that effective so I guess I have to live with it

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Agrias

Be glad you haven't gotten Loa loa (eyeworm).. those are real nasty. Wiki it if you wanna know.

O_o
Argh... are you one of those verm loving dudes? Irrgh just looking at those pics makes me sick.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by eriol

Wait a minute, sometimes I saw transparant things like that when I gazing. Do you think I suffer one too? how to test them?

Look at the blue sky in a clear day like today (at least here), it looks like semi transparent things floating in your eyes and they follow your eyes motion so wherever you look in the sky they are there. Thier shape is variable too, but let me quote wikipedia.

Quote:

Floaters are suspended in the vitreous humour, the thick fluid or gel that fills the eye. Thus, they generally follow the rapid motions of the eye, while drifting slowly within the fluid. Floaters located slightly to the side of one's direction of gaze can be particularly annoying. When they are first noticed, the natural reaction is to attempt to look directly at them. However, attempting to shift one's gaze toward them can be difficult since floaters follow the motion of the eye, remaining to the side of the direction of gaze. Floaters are, in fact, visible only because they do not remain perfectly fixed within the eye. Although the blood vessels of the eye also obstruct light, they are invisible under normal circumstances (and thus not annoying) because they are fixed in location relative to the retina, and the brain "tunes out" stabilized images (see neural adaptation). This does not occur with floaters and they remain visible, and, in some cases when large and numerous, very annoying.

Floaters are particularly noticeable when lying on one's back and gazing at blue sky. Despite the name "floaters", many of these specks have a tendency to sink toward the bottom of the eyeball, in whichever way the eyeball is oriented; the supine position tends to concentrate them near the fovea, which is the center of gaze, while the textureless and evenly lit sky forms an ideal background against which to view them.

EDIT: Original wiki article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters

How ya doing, buddy?

No thanks....... I...have to go, I need to do.... humm... something!

/me runs and hides in a far away place while says to himself: "There's no such things as verms... THERE IS NO SUCH THINGS AS VERMS!!!!! AHHHHH!"


^This was lame :P

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Free.User

I have floaters aswell, but not bad enough to annoy me. I think we all must have a few "floaters", even if they are very tiny.

I think not, we are a gamers community, a bunch of dudes who abuse their eyes, so expect consequencies of that abuse.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Zip

This can also be from blows to the head. Have you done some martial arts? Like boxing or muay-thai?

Nope but I've did some really stupid (but fun) stuff... but then again haven't we all? :biggrin:

FELIPE NO