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

IT WAS NOT USED IT WAS JUST STEPPED ON AND IT LOOKED GOOD AND I ONLY DID IT FOR LOL!!!!!!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by eriol

This thread warns me not too close to kittens. Sigh, I really love cats and kittens, but I guess I should be preventative rather than regret it later.

Btw, is this symptom pervasive in any way?

Like I said, other than mere discomfort (and what looks like skeet in the eye), only two harmful situations arise on a significant basis..

1. AIDS will reactivate these larva and let them kill you

2. if you get this for the first time while you're pregnant and in your 2nd/3rd trimester, you haven't ben able to encyst it yet so your baby's gonna get it with a high percentage of death associated.. it kills babies

other than that, I haven't heard of anything else.

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

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

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

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

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

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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?

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

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

Nah, just a self-proclaimed parasitologist. I loved taking those courses back in my college days, and even diagnosed several friends w/ certain parasites. Wanna know more?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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

There's nowhere I can't reach.

After I read this entire thread.. I feel like an alien has parasited in my eyes or something like that.... @_@ but thanks for the information devil. I guess must really take serious stance before this problem getting worse.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by ElectricSheep

Once in a while I can see these and I concentrate on them. The second I turn my eye to focus on them it looks like they are moving out of the way in the same direction but it is because they are in a fixed position in my eye.

Never had any serious eye problems as such but once I remember I was at some guy's house and I was to choose players in Championship Manager for someone, and then everything turned spotty and purple colours for five minutes and I lost my balance. This lasted like 5 minutes. I think it was because I was really tired.

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?

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

no homo

I've got those floaters too, but this is the first time I've seen a name put to them. I first noticed them a few years ago, floating in a pool looking up at the sky. It's very disconcerting to look up and see something "swimming" in your eyeball. I always assumed it was something everyone had to a certain degree, but I guess It's a smaller club than I thought.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

ok so I got back from the doctors who is a retinal specialist of some sort. He told me that I have some old scar tissue in the back of my eye that could have happened years ago. The concern is that the scar is now starting to inflame again which is most likely what is causing my floaters. They took some blood samples to see if I test positive for toxoplasmosis as they didn't appear to document it before when I did it (bastards) He also said that floaters can be kept to a minimum if I keep taking my pregnezone (sp?) but the spores given of from toxoplasmosis sheild themselves and become dormant often. The only thing to do is take a shit load of pills everytime they come out to multiply

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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:

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Do you mean Predinsone? If so, be careful about taking high doses (> 30mg per day) over long periods of time. Prednisone, while a potent anti-inflammatory drug, has some very nasty side effects. High sustained doses will bring an onset of Cushing's disease. You will gain weight in the face and torso, you will get acne breakouts all over your body, your skin will atrophy, and you will develop deep purple stretch marks on your body.

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

So what would you have if you sometimes spot a transparent like circle with a black dot in the middle? I always thought that maybe it was just a permanently burned scar or something from looking at the sun for a few seconds too many times as a little kid.. After reading this thread I'm not too sure about that. >_>

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by ElectricSheep

Do you mean Predinsone?

Thats the one, I have to take that with a huge antibiotic pill and some other random pill with a long name, the side effects are I now burn easily in the sun and get itchy.

I was speaking idiomatically.