I too have been afflicted with these pesky gnats of vision, for 12 years now. The combo name for what happened is called "Flashes and Floaters".
Usually, mine are not noticeable, though situated directly on center, one in each eye. I can see them best with either my eyes closed, or looking at a uniform light surface. Because they are in your vitreous humor (the jelly that squirts out when you step on an errant eyeball) they can be moved out of the way for a few with eye or head movement, only to return to approximately where they began, with a delay, of course. The pesky part is the frequent belief that something just flew by you left or right when you move your eyes suddenly, capturing your attention for a brief instant, even turning your head to see what it was in some instances. If you want to play with them, you can move your eyes around and pretend they are flies having a battle in front of you. Old age - there is only one way to avoid it. Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Kevan Olesen On Sep 9, 2012, at 00:10 , Bob W wrote: > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> mike wilson >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_vitreous_detachment >> > > I've never heard of that before. Sounds like one more shitty thing to look > forward to as my body crumbles under the weight of increasing years. > > Did she fix it? > > B > >> Just a heads-up for those who have to pay for treatment or who may >> suffer a premium increase for consulting. >> >> Stepping out of the house on Thursday, I saw a splash of white across >> my left eye. Thinking it was bird poop, I wiped the eye but there was >> nothing there. Then I noticed the huge (60-70% of my vision) field of >> floaters that had appeared. Clearly a cause for concern. Off to the >> local eye infirmary (a leftover from the local industrial past) for a >> checkup, where the above was diagnosed. >> >> A very common occurrence, apparently, and completely harmless in itself. >> Complications such as those mentioned in the wiki article are very rare >> - I was the third person that day to turn up with the problem and the >> opthamologist had seen no complications this year. She highlighted that >> it was only really necessary to come back if an occurrence caused a dark >> patch in my vision that I could not see through or my vision as a whole >> rapidly deteriorated. She also said that complications generally occur >> at the time, not later, unlike the wiki article. >> >> So there you go. >> >> >> -- >> No fixed Adobe >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Kevan Olesen -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
