New floaters in eye driving me crazy and anxious

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A week ago I noticed some floaters in my right eye. No light flashes, pain or redness. I saw an emergency optician last Thursday who found that I have a tiny hole on the periphery of my retina. No detachment and no PVD. She said my retinas are ok as is my vision.
She contacted the eye clinic at the local hospital and I am waiting for an appointment.

I have calmed down a bit as I have been feeling stressed and worried. However, I don't know how I can get used to one floater. It's like a transparent blob which shoots across the bottom of my eye when I look left to right. I feel like it's making my vision slightly blurry when I look at it but I can see normally to read etc. It is worse in bright light and white backgrounds - great as I work on a laptop quite a bit 🙄

I feel really anxious at times thinking I will have to endure this for the rest of my life. It is depressing. I am fully aware that there are many people with far worse eye problems, but I have always had great vision apart from being mildly short sighted and so this is distressing. I am aware there are operations to cure floaters but these are risky. It is driving me crazy and I don't see how I can ignore it.

I have floaters. Had a lot of flashes initially but now just the odd one.
Eye hospital said entirely normal with ageing. I had eye scans done, all fine.
It was hugely scary at first but now I am used to it.
Floaters are more annoying initially but in time you honestly don’t notice them as much. I only really notice mine if I am looking into bright light or white background so I altered the screen setting on my ipad to default dark instead of light which helps.

I had them since I was a teenager and have since had PVD in both eyes.

You really do get used to them. I don’t see mine now or at least very rarely but they were horrible to start with and I was very upset by them.

I have lots (and I'm an optometrist).

You do get used to them. I have a particularly annoying one which I call Bob and I have tried to learn to get along with him.

I was told it takes about a year for the brain to largely ignore them

I have loads of floaters. Sometimes it’s like looking through pond water. I had one big one about 6 months ago that I’m slowly learning to ignore.

They are common BUT if at any point you get a black patch, even tiny, go to eye a&e because it could be retinal detachment, which often can be fully repaired as long as you seek help straight away. Note its worth calling 111 for advice as eye a&e's are typically only in major cities and isn't open overnight, they can advise outside of mon-fri daytime where is best to go.

They will break up or your brain will ignore them or i think they can sink to the bottom of your eye. I had one massive one appear suddenly, I thought a wasp had flown in my face. It was that size and fuzzy it looked like a mascara brush it was the same size as if I was holding a mascara brush in front of my eye. I can't remember when it went or I didn't notice it anymore but not too long.

OH I must name mine.

I have had six operations on my eyes for malignant glaucoma. After one of them I noticed a spider descending from the ceiling. I swatted at it. Finally realised that it was a floater.

Now to think of a name.

Several years ago I had some floaters and it turned out to be the beginning of a detached retina. I went to hospital and they repaired it with a laser. Didn't take long and it's been fine ever since.

Peter? (After Spider-Man)

Brilliant thanks 😊

Thanks all for the supportive comments. I can see there is a knack to learning to ignore them which I haven't yet found as it's early days.
When I focus or obsess about them they seem to be much worse. I did forget about them last weekend after a few G & Ts but I don't think drinking every night is a good strategy to deal With the situation 😂
I've tried the laptop in dark mode but it doesn't work for many websites.

I find rapidly rolling my eyes or flicking my eyeballs up and down for a few seconds sometimes makes them float out of my field of vision for a bit.

Some sites have individual settings which you can adjust.

I have quite a few floaters.

There's not really a knack to ignoring them IME, you just get used to them naturally.

Oh they're so annoying! I had a new big one a few weeks ago and thought "there's no way I'll ever be able to live with this" but now I hardly ever notice it, even though it's still there.

I definitely become more aware of them when I'm stressed, so I reckon the more you can relax about the annoying buggers the better!

That sinking feeling combined with mild rage when the optician says "it's your age,you just have to get used to it".

Thanks for nothing!

I have a lot of floaters but only in my right eye. It's like looking through a cobweb sometimes and I find it can make me really anxious too even though I've had it all checked out. Having them only in one eye makes it feel like my eyes are seeing different things or not focusing the same. I've had a few episodes of vertigo and think this might be the cause. It's hard to be told to ignore them when they're literally in front of you all day long! Wearing sunglasses really helps in the summer.

My first floater was like a little money spider 😁

I do have lots of floaters, but got seen at a glaucoma clinic for high opthalmic pressure for over 20 years, the doctors are not bothered by them.